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Be "in the know" about Base Camp!

4/28/2020

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How'd your Spring 2020 semester "All Remote Instruction, All the Time" go? Was it the BEST EVER? Mine wasn't - I mean, it was okay, and I'm proud of getting my students and myself across the finish line, but I'm not confident that they got the learning experience that I would have liked them to have from my class.

Help is on its way for me (and, ultimately, for my students!) - the CGCC Office of the President has tasked the newly established Office of Online Learning, in conjunction with the CTLA, with offering a 4-day, 16-hour training that will provide ALL CGCC faculty with the essential tools and skills for teaching in ANY modality. Watch this brief intro video!

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KEEP STUDENTS INFORMED & CONFIDENT!

4/21/2020

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Students are starting to register for Fall 2020 - with all of the current uncertainty, they need YOUR guidance more than ever! What if we need to re-implement social distancing at some point during the Fall? What contingency plans are in place for this course if we once again need to switch over to a fully distance-delivered model?

Wouldn’t it be great if we could set their expectations about course structure and content in a more detailed way, so that we could increase their probability for success, and to give students confidence that you have a contingency plan to guide them through the course material, regardless of the circumstance?


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Follow-up to "pass/fail, or letter grade?"

4/19/2020

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I received the following question earlier today about one of last week's posts ("Pass/Fail, or Letter Grade?"), and I thought that it was a really important concern to address:
"Quick question about this if you don't mind. I followed the instructions for the Google sheet no problem. Once I made it fit my classes, I clicked send and did that for each of my five class sections. I did it this way instead of a copy and paste into my Canvas classes because my daughter looked at it and questioned whether or not students would see each other's responses if I put it on my Canvas classes. Not sure what made her think this for Canvas and not for an email. Is that a concern?"
The answer, as with most things, is that there is a setting for this, as long as you know where to look!

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Pass/Fail, or letter grade? (How to let students opt in/out)

4/14/2020

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I don't know about your students, but I do know that a lot of mine are going to want to OPT OUT of the "Pass/Fail" (P/Z) grade option that is the current default for most of our classes for Spring 2020, and OPT IN to the "earned letter grade" (A/B/C) option. I'll be using my old friend, Google Form, to collect that data from my students.


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Canvas Guides - Your New Best Friend!

4/14/2020

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Did you know that you can find pretty much anything about using Canvas in the Canvas Guides? The Canvas Guides will always have the most up-to-date instructions to help you unlock ALL the features of Canvas, and truly make the most of the learning experience for your students.

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EASTER EGGS!!

4/7/2020

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Do you ever wonder if your students are paying attention to your Announcements? Are they reading through an entire assignment, or just skimming it? Do you have some items in your course modules that you suspect they skip altogether? One way to check, to reward students who are thorough, or to give all students the incentive to pay stricter attention to the course material, is the idea of using Easter eggs.

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Wait... isn't it wednesday?

4/1/2020

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So normally you wouldn't hear from me for a few more days, but I received a question from an adjunct faculty member that (if I'm not mistaken) is of interest to a lot of you out there:
"What do those folks who put up videos showing how to work problems (like a Khan Academy math video) use to make their writing look so easy and fluid? [My challenge is] writing on the screen with the mouse!  It is sloppy and difficult.  It is time consuming and finger, hand and wrist fatiguing.  Short of buying an expensive touch screen computer system or device, is there anything in your tool box of technology tips that could help me?

I've tried screencast-o-matic on an iPad (maybe mine is too old to run the software) and on my tablet, but they don't seem to be compatible.  I did enjoy using the LadyBug document camera that was in the classroom I was using.  I had the tech people load the software properly so that it would capture the work I did via that device.  It was easy to save the video and audio to a .mp4 file that I could upload to YouTube.  However, that option is not available currently."


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