Workshops and Events

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Center for Online Learning Workshops

Did you participate in one of the many Module-making or Week-zero camps held during summer 2020? Have your students gone through the modules that you carefully designed? How did everything go? Unqualified success? Some parts in need of tweaking? Somewhere in-between?

Come to one of the three camp reunions we are hosting and share your insights from the first weeks of the fall semester as well as get a refresher on the tech tools you started experimenting with. The camp facilitators will be there to hear about experiences and answer your questions.

If you were not able to attend one of the camps this past summer, you are also warmly invited to join, participate, and learn at one of the reunions.

In order to attend, please register for one or more of the reunions at the links below.

We are about half way through a challenging semester. Do you need new ideas for activities in your synchronous and asynchronous class sessions? Are you ready to learn and use a new tool? Or perhaps you need a refresher on tools you currently use? Join us for a two-day camp on revising and improving your courses.

We will meet on two consecutive Saturdays in October to discuss ways to make adjustments and to grade more efficiently. Like in previous module-making camps, there will be a mixture of presentations, time for individualized support and hands-on work with tools such as Hypothes.is and Padlet.

Participants will plan changes, design new activities, create course materials, or set up their Blackboard Grade Center. During the last session, participants will share their work and get feedback from colleagues. We ask that you commit to both days of camp and complete a component of a class that you will implement in the near future.

Dates

Please register for the camp that you wish to attend. After registration, you will receive details about how to join us.

Times and Presentations

In this adaptation of module-making camp, participants will build an orientation or welcome module for their students. With these “week-zero” materials and activities, students can learn course information or begin to introduce themselves to each other and the instructor before the first day of class. This allows the instructor to begin the first day of class with a focus on course content and helps students better understand the goals and structure of the course. The camp is 3 days long and includes time for individualized support and for hands-on work with tools such as VoiceThread and Padlet and skills such as preparing students for hybrid/online courses, recording a welcome video, designing ice-break activities and creating plans to communicate and interact with students. At the end of the camp, participants will be required to create and present the materials and activities in the week-zero module for an online course that they may teach in the future.

Dates

Please register to receive details about how to join us.

Times and Presentations

During the Fall 2020 semester, ACERT’s Lunchtime Seminars will still be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but sessions will only last from 12-1pm. Tech Tuesdays will introduce one or two tech tools during a short 15-20 minute presentation followed by Q&A and discussion. Thoughtful Thursdays will provide space for instructors to reflect on a range of topics related to distance learning and our experiences teaching during the COVID pandemic. There will also be a short 15-20 minute presentation followed by an open discussion on Thoughtful Thursdays. The opening presentations during Tech Tuesdays and some Thoughtful Thursdays will be recorded and posted on ACERT’s webpage. No part of the Q&A or discussion will be recorded.

Lunchtime Seminars (Tech Tuesdays) Fall 2020

Lunchtime Seminars (Thoughtful Thursdays) Fall 2020