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Professional Development Opportunties: August 12–19, 2020

**Please note that the following opportunities are available to all faculty and staff.**

LinkedIn Learning — Recommended Course of the Week 


Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences

Discuss the impact of our cultural lens on our daily relations and how to counter bias in our words and actions.


Get started with LinkedIn Learning: SLCC Learn or https://lnkd.in/gE9RCNW 


We would appreciate your feedback on the LinkedIn Learning platform! Please consider taking a short survey.

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IT Training Online

Check out the IT Training site for many virtual resources, from Banner Basics to Teams training.

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Hiring, Onboarding & Orientation Tips for a Virtual 
previously recorded on Thursday, April 9, 2020

Duration: 48 min 27 sec

Play Recording

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Online Service-Learning & civic engagement webinar 

This webinar addresses strategies for moving service-learning and community engagement efforts online. The COVID-19 global pandemic caused many community partners to shift focus resulting in the cancelation of direct service. Participate in a discussion focused on online service and alternative ways to help students meet the SLCC civic literacy student learning outcome. Discover the Stanford Haas Center Pathways to Public Service and brainstorm ways to incorporate civic literacy, engagement and social impact in a remote environment. Register via employee training, you will receive the log-in info after registration. Facilitators: Lucy Smith and Rebecca Van Maren. 

  • August 21, 10:30–11:30 a.m.  
  • August 31, 12–1 p.m.  

Register for these events in your MySLCC page, Employee Tab, under Office of Learning Advancement.

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Utah State is hosting the following no-cost conference. All faculty are invited to attend.


7th Annual Empowering Teaching Excellence (Virtual) Conference 

August 19, 2020

“The theme of our conference is Empowering Accessible and Inclusive Learning. We will start off the conference with a keynote from Dr. Idalis Villanueva from the University of Florida. After the keynote, our conference schedule moves to 16 morning breakout sessions that will be hosted synchronously on Zoom, and then pre-recorded sessions will be available in the afternoon along with hands-on synchronous workshops. We have compiled a virtual participation guide for attendees to get familiarized with Zoom and our ETE Conference app as well.”


Register for the ETE conference for free.

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Faculty Development invites you to take advantage of the following free webinar series.  There will be no compensation for this series, but all faculty are invited to participate.


Black Minds Matter

announcing more of our confirmed guest speakers:
Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings
Professor Chance Lewis
Brookings Fellow Andre Perry 
hosted by J. Luke Wood & Donna Y. Ford

This important 5-part series happens Thursdays at 11 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. MDT). You can register for one or all of the remaining sessions here.


Remaining session:

Part 5: Thursday, August 13, at 12 p.m. MDT

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ACUE: Inclusive Teaching Practices Toolkit

ACUE is excited to introduce a set of free resources—including videos and downloadable planning guides—that can be immediately put to use to benefit both faculty and their students. These practices are tailored for online teaching but are also relevant to the physical classroom.

https://acue.org/inclusive-teaching-practices-toolkit/

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Meditative Pause at SLCC 

Join SLCC faculty Heidi O’Donoghue and Andrea Malouf each week for Meditative Pause for People in Higher Education. Each week we will take a break from doing and problem-solving to come together for half-hour sessions to connect, relax and center via WebEx. We’ll explore breathing and relaxation techniques, as well as best practices for mindful communication and well-being. Each session will include an introduction to the weekly topic, a guided meditation and then a group reflection.


No prior experience or registration required. Just join when you can. If you’d like to receive weekly web-ex reminders, please send your email and your department name to Andrea (andrea.malouf@slcc.edu) or Heidi (heidi.o’donoghue@slcc.edu). Or just email with questions.

Summer Session 2020: Tuesdays from 1–1:30 p.m. June 16–August 10

Fall Session 2020: Thursdays from 1–1:30 p.m., August 27–December 10

Spring Session 2021: TBA from 1–1:30 p.m.  January 13–April 28


To Join: Click on the WebEx link (Andrea’s WebEx room). It may ask you to download the WebEx app, which takes a few seconds and is free. Be sure you have access to your computer or smart phone’s audio (video also preferred, but not completely necessary). 


We will also have a Canvas site up soon, with resources from each week’s session, so you can better incorporate this work into your daily life. 

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Wellness Program


There will be no Drop-in Yoga classes the week of August 6–14.


Employee Wellness: Personal Training

To ensure your safety and the safety of our Personal Trainers, all personal training sessions will be conducted remotely via WebEx. Your trainer will communicate your schedule and WebEx link during your initial meeting.


The Wellness Program is designed with your wellbeing in mind. There are many ways to engage with the Wellness Program as an employee. Visit the Employee Wellness Personal Training website for additional information. 


The Employee Wellness Personal Training team would like to invite you to participate in a special introductory session called “Session Zero” to help you learn more about personal training.


The aim of this introductory session is to: 

  • Explain the functionality of the program 
  • Participant selection process 
  • Expectations of Personal Trainers 
  • Expectations of Clients


A recorded version of Session Zero can be viewed in the online Personal Training intake form.

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Registration is now open for these fall eLearning professional development offerings:

 

Canvas User Credential Course
The Canvas User Credential is a 12-hour, fully online course. Registration is currently open for the fall course. The course will open on August 10. The last day to register is November 10, and the course must be completed by December 10, 2020. The course is self-paced, so you can jump in then and still finish the course before fall semester begins if you’d like. Look for course code DCUC in SLCC’s training registration system. 


Online Teacher Credential Course
The Online Teacher Credential is a 16-hour, fully online course. Registration is currently open for the fall course that starts September 14 and ends November 2. The last day to register is September 9. Faculty must be proficient in Canvas or earn the Canvas User Credential prior to taking the Online Teacher Credential course. Look for course code DOTC in SLCC’s training registration system.


Teach Anywhere Webinar

  • August 20, 5–6 p.m.
  • August 21, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.

The Teach Anywhere webinar introduces SLCC faculty to the many resources available, helping you transition from teaching on campus to teaching remotely. In this one-hour webinar, you will:

  • Learn how to access eLearning's Teach Anywhere Guide
  • Learn where to get help with Canvas
  • Explore videoconferencing tools that you can use to create a virtual classroom, including WebEx, Microsoft Teams and BigBlueButton, and discuss the pros and cons of each tool

Specifically, you'll learn how to:

  • Add WebEx to Canvas
  • Schedule a training session in WebEx
  • Start a training session in WebEx
  • Monitor chat and hand raising from participants
  • Create breakout sessions for student groups
  • Add Microsoft Teams to Canvas
  • Schedule a meeting and invite your students to the meeting

The facilitators will also leave some time at the end of the session to answer questions from participants.


Look for code DTA1 in SLCC’s training registration system.

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