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The goal of this space is to foster peer-to-peer idea-sharing and conversation around equity-minded teaching practices at Mesa College. All Mesa faculty are invited to join. This Canvas course is maintained by a subgroup if the Faculty Professional Learning Committee (FPLC). Interested in joining FPLC to participate in planning professional learning offerings for faculty? Please reach out to a member of the committee.

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Your Own Personal Recording Studio: Using the Studio Tool in Canvas

Flex# 16290
Date: Monday, February 6, 2023 3:00-4:30 PM PT
Zoom Registration Link
Presenters: @ONE Presenters:
- Cynthia Brannvall, Art Instructor, Foothill College
- Nicole Gray, Math Instructor, Foothill College
- Rosa Nguyen, Chemistry Instructor, Foothill College
- Lené Whitley-Putz, Dean, Online Learning, Foothill College
Description: From Art History to STEM, video is an important way to connect to your students and provide humanized instruction. Studio is the video tool embedded within Canvas* that allows you to record, edit, annotate, and caption a video all within Canvas. More importantly, your students have access to Studio, too! And you can engage them with embedded questions, discussion prompts and opportunities for collaboration. Come hear how faculty from across our campus are using Studio to support their in-person, hybrid, and online courses.
More information is available on the @ONE Website for Going the Distance with Video.

Digital Storytelling to Center Student Voices

Flex# 16291
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023, 3:00 - 4:15 PM
Zoom Registration Link
Presenters: @ONE Presenters:
- Maritez Apigo, DE Coordinator, OER Coordinator, and English Professor, Contra Costa College
- Denise Maduli-Williams, English/ESOL Professor, San Diego Miramar College
Description: Student-created videos are an essential element of the online learning experience that invites students to tell their stories, build community, and deepen connections with each other. Digital storytelling is an equity-minded, asset-based, humanizing practice centers student voices. The presenters, Maritez and Denise, will introduce you to asynchronous technology tools and share their example assignments and student videos.
More information is available on the @ONE Website for Going the Distance with Video.

What Do We Well Students about ChatGPT? Finding and Building English Open Educational Resources (OER) about Artificial Intelligence (AI) Writing Assistance

Flex#16174
Date: Friday, February 24, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
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Presenters: OER Initiative
Description: Students need guidance about the uses and perils of AI text generators like ChatGPT that can auto-produce plausible academic writing. What OER materials are already available on the subject? Can writing teachers work together to create more materials that are openly licensed so they can be adapted as the software evolves? Can collaborating on such OER facilitate essential discussions of the place of AI tools in the teaching of writing? Join us for a discussion of how OER can help us form our responses to this new, rapidly evolving technology.

Mesa Online Success Team (MOST): Open Most Coaching Support

- - Flex# 16300
  - Date: Friday, March 3, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  - In-person, at the LOFT
  - Presenters: MOST Team
  - Description: MOST will be available to answer Canvas questions in person. See how we are humanizing our online courses and join our community of practice. We will have handouts and humans to support your online teaching questions. Bring your own laptop or borrow one from LOFT. First come, first served!

Open Educational Resources (OER) Webinars:

H5P & ADAPT Overview with Maddie Button

- - College Flex# 16350
  - CE Flex# 26411
  - Date: Monday, March 6, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  - Zoom Registration Link
  - Facilitators: Kelly Spoon, Sarah Hawkins and Philippe Patto
  - Description: TBA

Common Misconceptions About Switching to OER: Are You Ready to Ditch the Textbook?

- - College Flex# 16300
  - CE Flex# 26412
  - Date: Tuesday, March 7, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  - Zoom Registration Link
  - Facilitators: Kelly Spoon
  - Description: TBA

Using OER to Improve the Student's Experience and Success in My Classes

- - College Flex# 16353
  - CE Flex# 26414
  - Date: Wednesday, March 8, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  - Zoom Registration Link
  - Facilitators: Melanie Nakaji
  - Description: TBA

Where to Find OER and Grants. Get Some Help, Too

- - Flex# 16354
  - CE Flex# 26414
  - Date: Thursday, March 9, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  - Zoom Registration Link
  - Facilitators: Angela Boyd & Anne Gloag
  - Description: TBA

SDCCE Canvas OER Resources

- - College Flex# 16355
  - CE Flex# 26415
  - Date: Friday, March 10, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  - Zoom Registration Link
  - Facilitators: Diana Vera-Alba
  - Description: TBA

Leveraging Video for Instruction and Assessment in Math

- - Flex# 16292
  - Date: Friday, March 17, 2023, 2:00-3:00 PM PT
  - Zoom Registration Link
  - Presenters: @ONE Presenters:
    - Juan U Bernal, Math Faculty, San Diego Mesa College
    - Kelly Spoon, Math Faculty, San Diego Mesa College
  - Description: In this session, Professor Juan U Bernal and Professor Kelly Spoon will be showing how they use video in their asynchronous math courses. This includes embedding of lecture videos, video projects, video assessments, and more. Juan will focus on an asynchronous Statistics course and Kelly will focus on a Precalculus and Calculus course.
  - More information is available on the @ONE Website for Going the Distance with Video.

Brand Identity: How to Be The Brand Students Remember

Flex# 16293
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023, 8:30 - 10:00 AM PT
Zoom Registration Link
Presenters: @ONE Presenters:
- LaTonya Washington, Social Media Marketing Faculty, Mt. San Jacinto College
Description: Are you an educator who values creativity in teaching, networking within your field, and empowering students through effective communication? Then this session is for you! LaTonya Washington will demystify what personal branding is, how it can work for you, and provide techniques and resources to support your goals.
More information is available on the @ONE Website for Going the Distance with Video.

Spark Curiosity and Build Learner Autonomy with Interactive Video

Flex# 16294
Date: Friday, April 21, 2023, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM PT
Zoom Registration Link
Presenters: @ONE Presenters:
- Julie Gamberg, English/Humanities Faculty, Glendale College
Description: Research supports the importance of student autonomy and intrinsic motivation to deep and transferable learning. Although many of us post videos in our online courses, we may be missing a valuable opportunity to engage students’ sense of wonder, curiosity, and autonomy through interactive video with an emphasis on ungraded interactions. In this session, I will show you how to take videos that are already in your courses such as instructor-created videos or OER content/videos you find on YouTube (Ted Talks, etc.), and add interactive elements, such as “Easter Egg” surprises, ungraded optional pop-ups, and inquiry-based pauses to increase learner engagement and spark inquiry. We will use PlayPosit, a tool embedded in Canvas that all California community college (CCC) faculty have access to via a grant from CCC TechConnect. We will end the session with a goody bag from PlayPosit instructional designer Brady Venables, of easy-to-use step-by-step demonstrations to implement these ideas! All of the recommendations are available free of cost to CCC faculty.
More information is available on the @ONE Website for Going the Distance with Video.

Finding Balance in the Force: A Jedi’s Guide to Humanizing Academia for Padawans (A Jedi student)

Flex# 16295
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2023, 12:30-1:30 PM PT
Zoom Registration Link
Presenters: @ONE Presenters:
- Jedi Gabriel Rivas Gomez, English Instructor, Glendale Community College, The Jedi Order
- Jedi Fabiola Torres, Ethnic Studies Instructor, Glendale Community College, The Rebel Alliance
Description: Even though a Jedi (the teacher) is one with The Force and an advocate for justice, a Jedi aims to leverage the power of the Padawans (the student). In honor of Star Wars Day, we will share video creation tools to showcase the balance of humanizing online teaching and humanizing student learning (teacher and student) with a Star Wars twist. Humanize, you will [insert Yoda’s voice].
More information is available on the @ONE Website for Going the Distance with Video.

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