MERCED COLLEGE

FLEX Workshops

SPRING 2018 January 11th, 9am-4pm

January 12th, 8am-11am

Come Join Your Colleagues for Some Great Workshops!

SPRING FLEX SPECIAL FEATURE

DISTANCE EDUCATION Summit January 11, 2018, 9-4PM

Distance Education: Focusing on Student Success

9 AM – 12 PM: Lene Whitley Putz, California Community Colleges’ Online Education Initiative 10 Minutes, 10 Hours, 10 Days: Scaffolding Student Success from Day One

Sometimes it’s hard to remember how it felt to be a student, but your students’ success depends on it. To

design better courses and support student success, we need strategies for helping us look at our courses

from our students’ perspectives. Designing your course to help students in those key first moments – the

first 10 minutes, the first 10 hours, and the first 10- days – allows you to build in support and engagement

for every student. There are many design tips and Canvas tools, from homepage and syllabus design, to

Canvas communication tools, that will help you create a welcoming, supportive, learning-focused

environment for your students.

1 PM – 2 PM: Jon Stocker, Educational Technology Specialist, Merced College Making Moving Pictures Easy: Zoom, Camtasia, Spark, and Your Online Course

Give your students a moving experience: Grab your lecture with Zoom, give it a quick edit in Camtasia,

turn it into a learning experience with EdPuzzle and have results populate the Canvas gradebook

automatically. Will also demonstrate a new use for Zoom in the classroom, and how to build existing

video into an Adobe Spark Video.

2 PM – 3 PM: Michael Smedshammer, Instructional Designer, MJC Five Ways to Leverage Canvas to Improve Student Equity

Gaps between online and on-campus retention and success tend to be wider when we look at

disadvantaged socio-economic groups. Unfortunately, research primarily targets on-campus strategies for

improving retention and success as they relate to student equity. Modern LMS’s now offer easy-to-use

tools for applying some of what research tells us about helping disadvantaged students become more

successful. This session will highlight the top five ways of using a learning management system to

improve retention and success, particularly among students from disadvantaged groups.

3 PM – 4 PM Joanne Glantz, Instructional Technology Coach Driving Student Engagement through Educational Technology

A session to provide instructors with activities and tips and tricks to actively engage online students in

order to increase student retention and success. This session is focused on engaging millennial students through technology.

See next page for registration details. See event flier attached at the end of the brochure for additional details!

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 11TH

1. Distance Education Summit: Focusing on Student Success, Library Instruction Room

Lene Whitley Putz, Michael Smedshammer, Jon Stocker, and Joanne Glantz TH 9:00am-4:00pm

Join us for the Merced College Distance Education Summit! FLEX credit or $100 stipend available for those who attend. Lunch will be provided. Speakers will present on the following topics:

a. 10 Minutes, 10 Hours, 10 Days: Scaffolding Student Success from Day One Lene Whitley-Putz, California Community Colleges' Online Education Initiative

b. Making Moving Pictures Easy: Zoom, Camtasia, Spark and Your Online Course Jon Stocker, Merced College Educational Technology Specialist & Faculty Canvas Trainer

c. Five Ways to Leverage Canvas to Improve Student Equity Michael Smedshammer, instructional Designer at MJC

d. Driving Student Engagement through Educational Technology Joanne Glantz, Instructional Technology Coach

NOTE: Make your choice of FLEX credit or stipend during the online registration process.

To earn 6 FLEX hours for a full-day attendance, register for Workshop 1A. To receive $100 stipend for a full-day attendance, register for Workshop 1B.

Seating is limited!

2. How to Improve Student Writing in Your Discipline, room SCI-202

Candace Taylor

TH 9:00-10:00am

Are you frustrated with the writing assignments your students produce? Do you frequently wonder how to get them to transfer what they learned in their English composition classes to your class? This FLEX activity will go over ways to scaffold the writing process in the context of your course (including methodology that helps students recall prior learning), and how to design assignment prompts in order to elicit the academic work you expect. In order to participate fully in this FLEX activity, please bring with you a copy of a writing assignment from one of your current courses.

3. Healthy Snacks and Meals on the Go! VOC-142 (Kitchen Lab)

Jennifer Hobbs, M.S., R.D. and Michelle Pecchenino, M.A., R.D. TH 9:00-11:00am Fee: $5.00* This workshop will provide information on how to make healthy foods for you to take on the go! With extremely busy schedules, sometimes we have to grab something to eat, and usually it isn’t healthy! You will learn tips and strategies to keep healthy options on hand to keep you going all through the work day. From energizing snacks to quick lunch ideas, we will taste recipes that are easy to make ahead and take with you. We will make several recipes in class that you can eat and copies of the recipes will be provided. Your $5.00 supply money is paid directly to the instructor on the day of the workshop (will pay for the cost of the foods we will be using in the workshop).

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4. Basic Parliamentary Procedure, room SCI-202 Steven E. Gomes, Ed.D. TH 10:00-11:00am

During his 45 years as an educator, Steven E. Gomes, Ed.D. has delivered presentations on the use of parliamentary procedure to school boards, parent councils, and agriculture leaders. Participants in this session will discuss the basic principles, the level of parliamentary procedure as it pertains to the size of a meeting, the ranking of motions, the most misused motion, and other points pertinent to conducting efficient meetings. Dr. Gomes coached high school students in highly competitive parliamentary procedure and was a Registered Parliamentarian. Faculty and staff currently serving on committees or planning to serve on a committee are encouraged to register for this workshop!

5. Field Trips, Simply Done, room SCI-204 Paul Baxter TH 10:00-11:00am Participants will become familiar with the requirements of BP/AP 4300 Field Trips and Excursions and BP/AP 7400 Travel; liability issues associated with student travel and the forms required. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss specific situations during the Q&A time.

6. Disruptive or Violent Behavior (active shooter), room SCI-204 Paul Baxter and Matt Williams TH 11:00-12:00noon Participants will be able to explain current response procedures per the Department of Homeland Security and Merced College. Additionally they will understand the importance of being prepared for violent incidents at work, shopping, and recreation. We will discuss a change of mindset in identifying preparedness steps for self-defense.

7. Merced College Redesigned Math Pathways, room SCI-203 Lisa Diaz, Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, John Montoya Mai Meidinger, Maria Albert, & Mark Sutterfield TH 11:00-12:00noon Have you heard about the exciting new changes to the math curriculum? If you are curious what those changes are and how they will affect students in your programs then this workshop is for you. Come learn about these new math courses and how to guide your students into their correct pathway.

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8. SLO Assessment and eLumen, room VOC-113

Valerie Albano, Ph.D.

TH 12:00-2:00pm

SLO assessment will become much easier as we transition the eLumen assessment software. This workshop will cover three topics:

a. How to design an SLO assessment. b. How to analyze and report your SLO data. c. Preview the eLumen SLO site that we will be using later in the spring to report our SLO assessments.

During our two hours together I hope that we will be able to complete and submit an SLO assessment report for one of your recently taught courses. To do this please bring the following:

a. Your course SLOs. b. Grades sheets for the assignments done in the class that you are assessing. c. A calculator.

9. Get to Know Your NEW Contract, room SCI-203

Charlie Schlinger, Joey Merritt, Megan Igo, Patrick Mitchell, and Richard Randall

TH 12:00-2:00pm

A salary increase or two, maternity and paternity leave, catastrophic leave, new evaluation forms and procedures, and part-time seniority are a few of the features of the new MCFA contract. Come learn about all the changes from our panel of contract experts!

10. Canvas for Beginners, room VOC-113

Jon Stocker

TH 2:00-4:00pm

Prerequisites: A Merced College Canvas account with a minimum of two sandbox courses shell within the account. If unsure, check with Tom Canepa or Jon Stocker at least two days in advance. A working knowledge of the Windows operating system; Windows File Explorer; and keyboard shortcuts for select all, copy, and paste. We will cover the following topics:

Logging into Canvas Exploring the Canvas user interface Set up your account Understanding the file system Organizing your course with Canvas tools Where to get more training and how to get your questions answered Working with the OEI Rubric. Taking a look at a Rubric aligned course Introduction to online accessibility Steps to building your course Getting started with communication tools Finding content

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11. Intermediate Canvas, Library Instruction Room

Jon Stocker

F 8:00-10:00am

Prerequisites: A Merced College Canvas account with a minimum of two sandbox courses shell within the account. If unsure, check with Tom Canepa or Jon Stocker at least two days in advance. A working knowledge of the Windows operating system; Windows File Explorer; and keyboard shortcuts for select all, copy, and paste. Topics we will cover during this workshop: Working with content pages, assignments, discussions and quizzes. Building modules. Using grading tools. How to make graphic elements, finding and using images and videos. Creating course navigation with links. Working with apps and publisher content. Pearson, Office 365, Turnitin, Smarthinking, Google, Diigo, Adobe Spark.

12. Open Education Resources 101, room VOC-113

Julie Clark

F 10:00-11:00am

Did you know what OER stands for Open Educational Resources? Ever wonder what OER items are available? Ever thought of using OER in your classes? Come to this workshop to see what resources are available in addition to Library resources! Active Learning Conference 2018 Are you interested in learning more about active learning and how to get your students engaged and focused in your classes? Breakout sessions will be lead by active learning practitioners from our campus and UC Merced. Register for ALC2018 at Merced College. There are no fees for this conference. This conference will take place all-day on January 12, 2018. Breakfast, coffee breaks, and lunch will be provided. To register, go to: www.mccd.edu/faculty-staff/alc. Registration will close mid-December, or when all seats are filled. Register soon, space is limited. If you have questions, contact Brandon Tenn at brandon.tenn@mccd.edu. See flier attached at the end of the brochure for additional details!