October 2022
Workshops
October
10/1/22
For the Love of Teaching Conference
10/3/22
Co-create with Me! Inviting Students to Collaborate and Innovate
Helping Students Become College Level Learners
Introduction to the Pecha Kucha Method: Create Brief Presentations with Pop and Style.
10/4/22
Hypothesis: Creating Assignments That Require Social Annotation in Blackboard
Establish Instructor Presence by Creating Course Materials with Microsoft Sway
10/5/22
Exploring Decolonization: Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Engaging Students
10/7/22
Activate Your Creative Superpowers
Creating an Inclusive Classroom
10/10/22
Avoiding Plagiarism with SafeAssign for Bb
Writing Great Learning Outcomes
10/11/22
Hypothesis: Creating Assignments That Require Social Annotation in Blackboard
10/12/22
The Seven Principles for Good Practice for Undergraduate Education
Unpacking TPACK: Connecting Pedagogy, Content Knowledge, and Technology in a Digital Age
10/18/22
Discover the Intelligent features of PowerPoint 365
10/20/22
Bloom’s Taxonomy
10/26/22
Using the Notion App to Enhance Productivity in the Classroom and Beyond
10/27/22
Engaging Students with MS Teams
10/28/22
Tech it Out- October_ Wheel of Names, Bb Retention Center, Hypothes.is
Academy Fall 2022 – Achieving your Teaching Goals through Action Research – (Session 2 of 3)
Academy Fall 2022 – Collaborative and Active Learning Techniques for Equity and Diversity – (Session 2 of 3)
Academy Fall 2022 – Datafication: Incorporating Data Science in Every MC Classroom – (Sessions 2 of 3)
Academy Fall 2022 – Realistic Rubrics to Facilitate the Evaluation – (Sessions 2 of 3)
10/1/22
10-12:30 p.m.
For the Love of Teaching Conference
Instructor: Gloria Barron
Many of today’s students have grown up with technology, and studies show that their learning preferences differ from previous generations.
Our students’ worlds move rapidly. They are surrounded by endless information, often at odds with society’s traditional view of teaching and learning. As they enter the workforce, students are being met with greater demands than ever before. The next generation of workers and thinkers is preparing today for their future. Through dynamic teaching and learning frameworks, students are active and involved. Their focus shifts away from the instructor and onto the students, naturally moving the emphasis from teaching to learning.
Fall in love with teaching again as you discuss the role we play in preparing our students for a world that is yet to exist.
Come and listen to Dr. Paul Miller speak on this powerful topic and discuss these ideas with your colleagues at the 2022 Love of Teaching Conference.
Outcomes:
- Explain the competencies of dynamic teaching and learning skills
- Identify your role in supporting the development of today’s learners.
- Explore your current use of dynamic teaching and learning skills.
- Commit to building/growing/refining your use of dynamic teaching and learning skills.
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10/3/22
2-3 p.m.
Co-create with Me! Inviting Students to Collaborate and Innovate
Instructor: Angela Lanier
Description: Whether hard copy or digital, the textbook has long been a primary resource for teaching and learning in higher education. Recent movements toward Open Pedagogy and Decolonizing the Curriculum challenge educators to think differently about the role of the textbook and identify alternatives that value students’ voices, experiences, and contributions to the curriculum and assessment. This workshop will define what it means to have students co-create, give examples of what that looks like in practice, and highlight the benefit for both students and others.
Outcomes:
- Explain the different ways students can co-create
- Identify the benefits of co-creating with students and strategies to address challenges
- Review an existing assignment for opportunities for student co-creation
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10/3/22
7-8 p.m.
Helping Students Become College Level Learners
Instructors: Tom Cantu
The session provides an opportunity to discuss the college-level learning skills students need to succeed in your courses. Professors will identify the areas where students are typically weak and select strategies to remediate those weak areas helping students to become college-level learners who can succeed not only at MC but also in 300 and 400-level coursework at a transfer institution.
Outcomes
- Identify the college-level learning skills students need to succeed in your courses.
- Select strategies to implement to teach students those skills.
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10/3/22
Blackboard, Self-Paced
Introduction to the Pecha Kucha Method: Create Brief Presentations with Pop and Style.
Instructor: Michele Knight
Pecha Kucha is a method for developing brief, crisp, lively, and engaging presentations. The owners of a Japanese architectural firm developed this presentation style. The format consists of twenty PowerPoint slides, and the presenter spends twenty seconds talking about each slide. Designed properly, this creates a succinct, well-crafted presentation of 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
College professors in the US and abroad are also using this presentation to revamp how they present PowerPoints to their students. Students can also learn this technique to enliven individual and group presentations they deliver to their peers. During this workshop, participants will review a series of Pecha Kucha videos and explanatory videos that provide inspiration about using this presentation style with students. Faculty must contribute a few ideas to a Pecha Kucha idea gallery (discussion) regarding ways this method can be used with students. Faculty must also contribute a completed Pecha Kucha storyboard consisting of twenty slides and share these slides with their colleagues.
Outcomes:
- Describe the Pecha Kucha format and how it is employed in developing presentations
- Compare and contrast the Pecha Kucha format with traditional Presentation styles
- Discuss ways that Pecha Kucha can be used with students
- Review tips on developing a Pecha Kucha
- Develop part of a storyboard for a Pecha Kucha Presentation
- Post your Pecha Kucha storyboard for your peers
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10/4/22
3-4 p.m.
Hypothesis: Creating Assignments That Require Social Annotation in Blackboard
Instructor: Gloria Barron
Adding hypothesis as an external tool to readings in Blackboard supports student success by placing active discussion on course readings, enabling students and instructors to add comments and start conversations in the margins of digital texts. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to learn about the potential of social annotation as a learning tool and discuss creative ways to increase engagement in your courses.
Attend this session to get everything you need to begin your implementation of hypothesis assignments. Create engaging and interactive reading assignments in Blackboard or expand your knowledge with the new ability to access Blackboard files and create student groups.
Outcomes:
- Describe how to get started with hypothesis and feel comfortable creating a graded assignment.
- Create assignments that require students to read socially and make annotations or replies to other contributors.
- Gather some fun ideas for expanding the use of collaborative annotation to improve student success.
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10/4/22
7-8 p.m.
Establish Instructor Presence by Creating Course Materials with Microsoft Sway
Instructor: Michele Knight
Please note that this course is a part of the Moving Beyond Cool Tools Establishing and Maintaining Instructor Presence Pathway. Faculty are welcome to attend any course in the pathway that piques their interest and are not required to complete the pathway to receive credit for completing individual courses. You asked, and we listened! Previously, we presented a workshop titled Establishing and Maintaining Instructor Presence. In this workshop, we discussed tools and Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Instructor presence. While the tools and strategies were useful, we received feedback that our MC faculty wanted a deeper look at some of the tools showcased during the presence series. This workshop will allow you to take a deeper dive and a look at one tool that can be used to create course materials. Creating attractively designed course materials can increase student engagement. Most importantly, course materials created with a focus on instructor presence can help students grasp difficult concepts.
Microsoft Sway is a free tool, part of Montgomery College’s Office 365 subscription service. Sway allows you to create interactive presentations with text, images, and videos. Sway contains several presentation themes that can be applied to your presentation instantly, and you can easily swap between themes. This tool can help you evolve the way you establish a sense of instructor presence with your course materials. There will be open lab time provided via zoom at the end of the workshop for faculty who want to begin developing their course materials and want a forum to ask questions.
Outcomes:
- Preview Microsoft Sway a free tool that will allow you to create course materials via interactive presentations that can include text, images, and videos.
- Review the process to add a Microsoft Sway presentation to your Blackboard Course.
- Examine the recommended checklist for Establishing Instructor Presence with course materials.
- Observe one item of Course Material that demonstrates Instructor Presence.
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10/5/22
4:30-6 p.m.
Exploring Decolonization: Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Engaging Students (for PT Faculty)
Instructor: Angela Lanier
Decolonization is the practice of dismantling the structures and practices that oppressed and robbed indigenous people of their freedom. But what does decolonization look like in Higher Education? What could it look like at Montgomery College. In this workshop, we will discuss the influence of colonization on past and existing instructional practices. In addition, we will explore strategies that promote understanding of decolonization and engage students’ voices in learning.
Outcomes:
- Identify elements of colonization that influence current pedagogical practices
- Adapt instructional practices that promote awareness of decolonization and encourage students to think critically about the content
- Reflect on student feedback to identify ways to empower and engage students
- Identify ways students can take an active role in decolonizing higher education at MC
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10/7/22
1-2:30 p.m.
Activate Your Creative Superpowers
Instructor: Angela Lanier
Everyone has creative potential, but how do we bring it to the surface? Whether you are searching for ways to be more creative in your work and personal life, or you are stalled in your creative pursuits, this workshop is designed to help you jumpstart your creativity. We will explore what it means to be creative and try out strategies to get creatively “unstuck.” BEFORE THE WORKSHOP, please take five minutes to complete the Creative Pursuits Survey: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/uzzi/ftp/page176.html and watch this seven-minute video “Unleash Your Creative Instincts” (https://youtu.be/ZEGWorKBl_E?t=620) by Gary Goodwin (start at the 10:20 mark).
Outcomes:
- Define creativity
- Identify barriers to creativity
- Apply strategies that foster creative work
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10/7/22
2-3 pm
Creating an Inclusive Classroom
Instructor: Laurent Ndeze
When preparing a course or lesson, every educator hopes to maximize learning or impress the learner. The challenge is how to satisfy the broad range of expectations or needs that the learner will bring. There is abundant literature to show that most people learn best from an inclusive classroom, whether online or in-person. In this workshop, we will discuss evidence-based steps for creating an inclusive learning environment.
Outcomes:
- Promote interactivity and collaborative learning
- Apply Universal Learning Design principles
- Use multiple assessment tools and techniques
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10/10/22
Self-paced via Blackboard
Avoiding Plagiarism with SafeAssign for Bb
Instructor: Gloria Barron
SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service offered by Blackboard and used primarily to detect unoriginal content in electronically submitted papers. It compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers using a text matching algorithm capable of detecting matching material between a paper and source material from the Internet, ProQuest ABI/Inform database, Institutional Documents Archives, and a Global Reference Database. This training covers how to create an Assignment in Blackboard Learn and utilize the SafeAssign originality review tool within the Assignment to determine the level and source of plagiarized content. By the completion of this online course, you will be able to create Safe Assignments in a Blackboard course as a means to collect written work from students while at the same time checking for plagiarized content.
Outcomes:
- Define SafeAssign for Blackboard
- Identify reasons why students may plagiarize
- Understand how SafeAssign works
- Create a Safe Assignment in a Blackboard course
- Describe how students upload work to a SafeAssignment
- Identify the purpose for using the Direct Submit feature of SafeAssign
- Analyze and interpret Originality Reports
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10/10/22
Self-paced via Blackboard
Writing Great Learning Outcomes
Instructor: Gloria Barron
In this workshop, instructors will have the opportunity to review information about writing great student learning outcomes. Well-defined student learning outcomes will help explain what the student should take away from an instructional experience. We will also practice using good student learning outcome language.
Outcomes:
- Define student learning outcomes
- Explain the pedagogical importance of having clear, measurable, learner-centered outcomes.
- Differentiate among levels of student outcomes.
- Write clear, measurable, learner-centered outcomes that align with the course and/or program outcomes.
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10/11/22
4-5 p.m.
Hypothesis: Creating Assignments That Require Social Annotation in Blackboard
Instructor: Gloria Barron
Adding hypothesis as an external tool to readings in Blackboard supports student success by placing active discussion on course readings, enabling students and instructors to add comments and start conversations in the margins of digital texts. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to learn about the potential of social annotation as a learning tool and discuss creative ways to increase engagement in your courses.
Attend this session to get everything you need to begin your implementation of hypothesis assignments. Create engaging and interactive reading assignments in Blackboard or expand your knowledge with the new ability to access Blackboard files and create student groups.
Outcomes:
- Describe how to get started with hypothesis and feel comfortable creating a graded assignment.
- Create assignments that require students to read socially and make annotations or replies to other contributors.
- Gather some fun ideas for expanding the use of collaborative annotation to improve student success.
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10/12/22
2-3 pm
The Seven Principles for Good Practice for Undergraduate Education
Instructor: Carolien Annink
Description: In this workshop, participants will discuss the principles as first articulated by Chickering and Gamson in 1987. We will examine if and how these research-based principles still apply in current day college teaching and how they manifest themselves in the MC classroom. We will discuss how inclusivity and technology must be incorporated to make the principles meaningful for 21st-century undergraduate teaching and learning.
Outcomes:
- List the Seven Principles of good undergraduate education
- Discuss an interpretation of these principles as reflected in their teaching
- Describe how inclusivity and technology are interwoven in the principles
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10/12/22
10-11 a.m.
Unpacking TPACK: Connecting Pedagogy, Content Knowledge, and Technology in a Digital Age
Instructor: Phil Bonner
The TPACK framework describes the intersections of the three knowledge areas needed by college instructors to integrate technology into classroom instruction successfully. The areas of knowledge are technological, pedagogical, and content and effective instruction in the twenty-first century requires expertise in all three. In this one-hour class, participants will learn how to use the TPACK model as a guide to enhance the students’ learning experience.
Outcomes:
- Identify the TPACK model
- Explain how the model can be used to guide instructors in integrating technology into lesson and course design.
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10/18/22
4-5 p.m.
Discover the Intelligent features of PowerPoint 365
Instructor: Gloria Barron
Whether we realize it or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around us and playing an active role in our daily lives. Every time we open our Facebook newsfeed or do a Google search, AI works in the background. AI technology allows us to work smarter and more efficiently.
Using Office 365’s AI technology, you will see how PowerPoint inserts design elements and visualizes data while still allowing you to maintain control of your slides. With the tedious design process automated, you can spend more time focusing on your content. This session will familiarize you with PowerPoint’s AI technology and give you tips for creating professionally designed presentations.
Outcomes:
- Define artificial intelligence and how it benefits you for creating beautiful slides.
- Explain how PowerPoint 365 enables you to create slideshows more efficiently with Designer.
- List 2-3 intelligent design features that you will integrate into your future PowerPoint presentations.
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10/20/22
3-4 pm
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Instructor: Laurent Ndeze
In short, Bloom’s Taxonomy refers to a series of cognitive skills and learning objectives arranged in a hierarchical order, forming a pyramid shape. It was initially developed by Bloom, an educational psychologist, in the 1940s and later revised by David Krathwohl and Lorin Anderson in 2001. In this workshop, we will use a revised version to examine how you can apply the Taxonomy during the planning process of your course or lesson. The taxonomy provides a clear and precise framework for mapping out your course, whether introductory or other levels within the curriculum, including course revisions.
Outcomes:
- Align content according to hierarchical levels of cognitive learning
- Design effective learning objectives
- Design activities that enhance diverse ways of learning
- Construct relevant assessment questions
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10/26/22
3-4 p.m.
Using the Notion App to Enhance Productivity in the Classroom and Beyond
Instructor: Michele Knight
Using the Notion App to Enhance Productivity in the Classroom and Beyond
Notion is a flexible, customizable workspace you can design to suit your personal needs as an educator. The program allows you to quickly build webpages, wiki spaces, galleries, to-do lists, databases, and other media to support planning lessons, personal research, and instruction of students.
Notion allows you to create templates and use templates others have created to speed up workflows as you create pages. The pages you create in Notion can be shared as a simple link or exported as a PDF file. Others can provide comments on the pages you create via Notion, or you can invite collaborators to share in Page creation.
During this workshop, I will show you how I have been using Notion for over two years as a part of my workflow, including knowledge curation, resource creation, and organizing my work tasks. I will also allow time for questions and exploration of the app.
Objectives:
- Participate in a guided tour of the Notion App.
- Describe the Notion app.
- Define Notion’s potential benefits to enhance productivity.
- Review the process of signing up for a notion account.
- Review the process for creating and sharing notion pages.
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10/27/22
2-3 p.m.
Engaging Students with MS Teams
Instructor: Phil Bonner
MS Teams is a communication and collaboration application designed as part of the Microsoft 365 suite of products. Originally designed for business, Teams can be used as a learning platform to support student success. In this one-hour class, participants will explore this technology and see how it can be used to promote learning.
Outcomes:
- Explain how Teams can be used to support student learning.
- Create a team for their class.
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10/28/22
2-2:45 p.m.
Tech it Out- October_ Wheel of Names, Bb Retention Center, Hypothes.is
Instructor: Michele Knight
Tech it out is your opportunity to learn about new technology with a vibrant community of practitioners. During this 45-minute tech-it-out, participants can choose from the following brief ten-minute awareness sessions for a quick overview of a technical topic.
Wheel of Names: Easy to Use Spinner for faculty to pick a student, random winner, etc.
Blackboard Retention Center: Built-in Blackboard tool that can help you discover which students are struggling and take action for improvement.
Hypothesis: Annotation tool that allows faculty and students to create annotations online and comment on the annotations of others.
For the last thirty-five minutes of tech-it-out, we will have open discussion and sharing of things that the group is already using or that look interesting in educational technology.
Outcomes:
- Develop an awareness of a technical topic
- Participate in a “free-form” technical community of practice discussion
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10/28/22
2-4 p.m.
Academy Fall 2022 – Achieving your Teaching Goals through Action Research – (Session 2 of 3)
Instructors: Levena De La Rosa and Bonita Parker
Action research is “a disciplined process of inquiry conducted by and for those taking the action” (The Institute for the Study of Inquiry in Education). In this workshop series, participants will identify a pedagogical goal and implement an action research plan (ARP) to enhance student success. As part of ARP creation, participants will explore the benefits and challenges of using data analysis in action research as a consistent part of their instruction. Participants will apply relevant, current data to their work and will develop procedures for enhancing their own data collection for ongoing action research.
Online via Zoom
Fridays from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
- September 30, 2022
- October 28, 2022
- December 2, 2022
PARTICIPANTS MUST COMPLETE ALL THREE SESSIONS TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE WORKSHOP SERIES
Outcomes:
- Define an action research plan (ARP) and articulate the purpose of action research in their courses
- Explore the types of data that could support action research relevant to their courses
- Articulate their own ARP, and design an appropriate strategy for implementing their own ARPs
- Effectively communicate the results of their research
- Use data to refine an ARP to continue the assessment cycle
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10/28/22
2-4 pm
Academy Fall 2022 – Collaborative and Active Learning Techniques for Equity and Diversity – (Session 2 of 3)
Instructors: Sara Kalifa & Carolien Annink
Increasingly, studies show that lecturing as the only instructional technique is not the most effective teaching method in higher education, and that students’ learning experience is much more meaningful and lasting when exposed to collaborative and active learning techniques. This is valid for all college students, and especially for students from underrepresented communities. This 3-workshop series is designed for faculty in all disciplines who are interested in learning about other ways to teach in addition to lecturing. Participants will experience, examine, and design a multitude of collaborative and active learning techniques for immediate use in their current classes.
Online via Zoom
Fridays from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
- September 30, 2022
- October 28, 2022
- December 2, 2022
PARTICIPANTS MUST COMPLETE ALL THREE SESSIONS TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE WORKSHOP SERIES.
Outcomes:
• List several reasons why teaching with CoAlts results in higher levels of learning and longer knowledge retention.
• Describe 8-10 techniques discussed in the three-workshop series.
• Design, develop and implement 3-5 classroom activities using the discussed collaborative and active learning techniques.
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10/28/22
2-4 pm
Academy Fall 2022 – Datafication: Incorporating Data Science in Every MC Classroom – (Sessions 2 of 3)
Instructor: Rachel Saidi
As societies move to datafication, data literacy is important for all. This workshop series will introduce participants to concepts in data science. We will use tools such as R and R Studio and Tableau Public to learn how to load, explore, and analyze various datasets. The goal is to explore how data science techniques might be incorporated in classrooms across all disciplines at Montgomery College. No prior skills are required.
IN PERSON – SC 350
Fridays from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
- September 30, 2022
- October 28, 2022
- December 2, 2022
PARTICIPANTS MUST COMPLETE ALL THREE SESSIONS TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE WORKSHOP SERIES.
Outcomes:
- Identify uses of data science real-world applications for the MC classroom
- Identify and define forms of data visualizations
- Publish and share data exploration code and visualizations
- Incorporate accessibility elements into visualizations
- Create and publish a data project that enhances teaching
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10/28/22
2-4 pm
Academy Fall 2022 – Realistic Rubrics to Facilitate the Evaluation – (Sessions 2 of 3)
Facilitator: Joan Naake
Rubrics facilitate evaluation, enhance fairness in grading, and can be applied to a variety of disciplines and assignments. During this 3-session workshop, participants will learn about a variety of rubric styles and develop course and assignment-specific rubrics that will help instructors to evaluate a wide variety of assessments and assignments more effectively.
Online via Zoom
Fridays from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
- September 30, 2022
- October 28, 2022
- December 2, 2022
PARTICIPANTS MUST COMPLETE ALL THREE SESSIONS TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE WORKSHOP SERIES.
Outcomes:
- Describe how rubrics facilitate evaluation and enhance equality in grading
- Evaluate the effectiveness of rubrics
- Develop and implement a rubric for an assignment in their discipline
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