10/11/2023 Amanda Jacob, NTCC's Director of Online Learning, demonstrates new Canvas accessibility tools & Screen Pal captioning.
Rubrics 201 - Let's Make a Rubric! 9/23/2021 Join Amanda Jacob and Christopher Chandler for the 2nd session of our Fall 21, rubrics-themed Faculty Brown Bag series. This session will provide an overview of the different types of rubrics (holistic, value, and analytic) and will outline how to set criteria and expectations for students. Further discussions will explore how to tweak a rubric if you find that the first draft has failed.
Digital Measures Part 2: Rank & Promotion, 3/31/2021 Rank and promotion is in the air! Join Director of Accreditation and Reporting, Dr. Melandie McGee, as she walks you through tracking your professional development, committee engagement, and any other relevant experience in Digital Measures.
Designing for Student Success 3/30/22 Amanda Jacob, Director of Online Learning, demonstrates best practices for designing and organizing material in Canvas for face-to-face courses, hybrid courses, and on-line courses. The session will also offer suggestions for leveraging the built-in tools in Canvas to encourage student participation and enhance student learning.
Degree Works for Advising Week 3/16/2021
[Brown Bag] Creating your Faculty Profile on Digital Measures 2/19/2021 Join Director of Accreditation and Reporting, Dr. Melandie McGee, as she introduces Digital Measures—an online tool that will alleviate stress for compiling information during Rank and Promotion! This is an interactive session that walks you through how to navigate the Digital Measures platform and how to access your Faculty Profile. Digital Measures Login Link: https://login.watermarkinsights.com/saml-initiate/northshore
[Brown Bag] Copyright & Fair Use: The Essentials It’s easy to lose sight of fair use and copyright in today’s rapidly changing world of online learning and streaming media. We ask ourselves: Can I show videos from my personal Hulu account? Can I show bootleg DVDs of old VHS tapes to my class? How do I decide which Creative Commons license to use? For answers, watch this session of TLC’s Faculty Brown Bag series titled Copyright & Fair Use: The Essentials, presented by Jeanne Pavy from the University of New Orleans. Pavy is the Scholarly Communication & Collection Development Librarian at UNO, where she manages the institutional repository and provides copyright support for students and faculty. She has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Loyola University in New Orleans, a Ph.D. in English from Emory University, and a master’s in library science from the University of Alabama.
TLC's Faculty Brown Bag -- New Quizzes & a Discussion Board Facelift Amanda Jacob, Director of Online Learning, demonstrates new Quiz features in Canvas and shows how to leverage new question types and scoring options to maximize assessments.
[Brown Bag] Authentic Learning and Alternative Assessments Alternative assessments help determine what students can and cannot do, not just what they know or do not know. Active engagement using freeware (or paid) allows students and teachers to approach learning through a new lens; using unique assessments allows students to showcase their abilities, not just knowledge. Dr. Amanda Rosenzweig of Delgado Community College is the presenter. 11/2/2022
In this presentation, Paul Donaldson (Associate Provost of Planning and Academic Initiatives) will introduce and discuss standardized rubrics developed by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) known as VALUE rubrics. We will review the different parts of a well-developed rubric, the approach taken through VALUE, and the various different rubric templates. The presentation will conclude with a Q&A and request to further develop one VALUE rubric template and adopt at NTCC for the Spring 2022 semester. More About VALUE Rubrics: “VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) is a campus-based assessment approach developed and led by AAC&U. VALUE rubrics provide needed tools to assess students’ own authentic work, produced across students’ diverse learning pathways, fields of study and institutions, to determine whether and how well students are meeting graduation level achievement in learning outcomes that both employers and faculty consider essential. Teams of faculty and other educational professionals from institutions across the country—two- and four-year, private and public, research and liberal arts, large and small—developed rubrics for sixteen Essential Learning Outcomes that all students need for success in work, citizenship, and life. The VALUE rubrics are being used to help institutions demonstrate, share, and assess student accomplishment of progressively more advanced and integrative learning.” … “The VALUE rubrics include Inquiry and Analysis, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Written Communication, Oral Communication, Quantitative Literacy, Information Literacy, Reading, Teamwork, Problem Solving, Civic Knowledge and Engagement—Local and Global, Intercultural Knowledge and Competence, Ethical Reasoning and Action, Global Learning, Foundations and Skills for Lifelong Learning, and Integrative Learning.” More information is available at https://www.aacu.org/value.
