Thursday, July 26th at 1 PM, Pacific, Kelley L. Meeusen of Clover Park Technical College will give a presentation on using Softchalk content in Canvas.  This is a hot topic here in Washington as many colleges and universities begin their migration.

Anyone is welcome to attend.

Kelley’s session description:
Learn how to upload SoftChalk lessons into Canvas. The PC-based versions of SoftChalk are a bit trickier to upload into Canvas than they were in Angel, and SCORM packages will not work at all. However, the newly released SoftChalk Cloud provides for easy uploading of both scored and unscored SoftChalk lessons, easy linking to the Canvas Gradebook, and other convenient features. Learn how to upload SoftChalk lessons from both the PC-based and Cloud versions during this week’s session.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/11r7h1sA3UfoOZZMU2ao_5FJWSRBXeOY0ebz_-n5rUN8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

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http://elearninginwa.blogspot.com

Please forward this message and invite anyone interested to attend or view the recording later.

 

Tomorrow, Thursday, July 19th at 1 PM, Pacific, Curtis Phillips of Walla Walla and Mickey Richardson of Seattle Central will give a presentation on best practices and lessons learned (so far) in migrating courses from ANGEL to Canvas.  This is a hot topic here in Washington as many colleges and universities begin their migration.

Anyone is welcome to attend.

Log into Collaborate:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

View a Schedule of Upcoming Sessions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11r7h1sA3UfoOZZMU2ao_5FJWSRBXeOY0ebz_-n5rUN8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

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eLearning Community will meet today, as most Thursdays at 1 Pacific, via Collaborate.  The topic today will be strategies for managing communication in Canvas.  I will do a short presentation and demo and then we can discuss that and anything else people are interested although I’m guessing the topic will mainly be Canvas focused as that has been the recent trend. Topics will include setting communication channels and preferences, managing the course activity stream, chat, and conferencing.

There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.

Log into Collaborate:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

View a Schedule of Upcoming Sessions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11r7h1sA3UfoOZZMU2ao_5FJWSRBXeOY0ebz_-n5rUN8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

View Recordings of Previous Sessions:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/meeting?suid=M.1286F0C21FA258F7D83EE80B8FA025&sid=2008170

Quizzes in Canvas

Today a small group of us met in Collaborate for a mini-presentation on quizzes in Canvas. View the recording in Collaborate

To me, today's session felt a lot like they used to back in abut 2007 when group of us would meet regular to ask each other questions and share what we'd learned about the ANGEL LMS, which was still very new to a lot of people at that time.

Like in the past, several people agreed today to come back in upcoming sessions to lead more mini-presentations as we all are trying to learn as much as we can about Canvas.  Click here to see the upcoming sessions.


I love learning tips and tricks from my colleagues.  When I agree to prepare for and present on a topic this further forces me to sharpen my knowledge ahead of time. 

Anyone is welcome to join us!

Assessment: What has it done for you (and your students) lately?

Tomorrow, Thursday, June 21^st, at 1 PM, Noreen Light of the State Board will present on Assessment: What has it done for you (and your students) lately?.  This meeting will utilize the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing system.  There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.

The presentation will cover:

• A short-and-sweet overview of classroom assessment basics
• How assessment improves teaching and learning
• Thinking in terms of cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains of learning
• Choosing appropriate assessments
• Providing feedback after exams, also known as “less whining, more learning”
• Please have a copy of your course outcomes handy during the webinar.

Articulating and Aligning Learning Outcomes - Workshop Opportunity

If instructional/course design is your cup of tea, you may find the follow message from the Saylor Foundation interesting:

We are pleased to announce the second installment of our course design workshop series: Articulating and Aligning Learning Outcomes.  In this workshop, you will hear from Ellen Bremen, Emily Wood, Andy Williams, and Stephanie Delaney, expert instructional designers from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, as they share best practices and guidelines for articulating strong and testable learning outcomes and then aligning them with course content. 

Date: Wednesday, June 27th, at 1 PM EST

Location: http://saylorfoundation.adobeconnect.com/cdw2/

Thursday, June 7th, Strategies for Promoting Academic Integrity Presentation

Thursday, June 7th, at 1 PM, Stephanie Delaney of Seattle Central Community College, Renee Carney of Lower Columbia College and Connie Broughton of the State Board will present on Strategies for Promoting Academic Integrity.  This meeting will utilize the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing system.  There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.

The presentation will cover the concept of Academic Integrity as it pertains to setting expectations, assessment design and strategies, and strategies for redirection and remediation when academic dishonesty has occurred.

To view the recording, click the link below:

View the Blackboard Collaborate recording

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