Humanizing Online STEM Academy
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Cohort 2 begins on Monday, July 5, 2021.
This site is provided as a resource to prepare you for a successful start. It is not intended to be a comprehensive syllabus – you'll find more resources in the course itself.
WELCOME
WELCOME
Thank you for taking time to explore our Liquid Syllabus. We will serve as your course facilitators and ... we are not robots! We are California higher education educators, just like you, with a commitment to improving the inclusivity in online STEM courses to support the success of more students.
You'll get to know us in our course. For now, please take a few moments to view our video so we can extend a warm greeting to you. See you soon!
Michelle, Kim, and Maritez
COURSE OUTCOMES
COURSE OUTCOMES
The activities you complete in this course are designed to scaffold your learning to support your professional growth and achieve our course goals. This will be done through hands-on course design, content creation, discussions with your peers, and critical self-reflections.
Through the successful completion of this course, you will:
Through the successful completion of this course, you will:
Support the affective dimensions of learning in online STEM courses.
Examine the potential of culturally responsive teaching to support more students through the STEM academic pathway.
Critically reflect on your teaching practices as you evaluate culturally responsive teaching pedagogy.
Apply online teaching strategies that minimize stereotype threat and belongingness uncertainty.
Use digital technologies to foster trust and community at a distance.
Reconfigure an existing online STEM course with eight humanized elements that support the affective dimensions of learning, foster an inclusive course climate, and provide a more equitable learning experience for all students.
Contribute to fostering a culture of learning in STEM teaching by openly sharing a Humanizing Showcase with a CC-BY-NC license.
HOW THIS COURSE WORKS
HOW THIS COURSE WORKS
Our course begins on Monday, July 5, 2021. We will publish the course early, on Friday, July 2, in case you'd like to get a jumpstart on your week. We hope you take time to enjoy the holiday weekend.
This is a fully online course. You will log into CVC/@ONE's instance of Canvas complete the course content. The log-in link is in the footer.
This 6-week course is organized into six 1-week modules, preceded by a Getting Started module.
Each module will officially begin on Monday. However, we will open each new module on the preceding Saturday to accommodate those of you who wish to work during the weekend.
This is not a self-paced course. You will interact with your peers regularly in Flipgrid and VoiceThread activities (using video), Canvas discussions, and a peer review activity.
Each module has activities with due dates on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday.
OUR PACT
OUR PACT
The successful completion of this professional development course involves a partnership between you and us. As we enter this course together, we must be mindful of the expectations that each of us will uphold. Please take a moment to read them now and mentally commit to them as you begin this course.
What you can expect of us:
What you can expect of us:
As your facilitators, we will be actively present in your professional learning experience.
While all three of us will be present in the course, you will receive feedback from one lead facilitator.
Your lead facilitator will respond to your questions within 24-hours and provide individualized support in response to your needs.
We will provide feedback on your assignments within 72 hours.
We will create a positive and supportive environment where you will feel safe to experiment.
We will recognize the privileges and blindspots we bring to our course and strive to grow, while acknowledging that being human – not perfect – is our goal.
As educators ourselves, we understand that you are busy and that you have many competing priorities. When needed, we will be flexible to support your successful completion of this course.
What we will expect of you:
What we will expect of you:
You will log into our course each week no later than Monday evening to evaluate the work and due dates in the current module.
Each week, you will invest about 10 hours of time to the coursework and assignments.
You will aim to submit all assignments on time. If you identify a concern with meeting a due date, you will contact us directly early in the week to discuss your concern and come to an agreement about an extension if needed.
If necessary, you will apply feedback to assignments and resubmit them to earn a completion.
You will be brave and challenge yourself to lean into discomfort. This is the space where growth occurs.
You will challenge yourself to try new things, keep an open mind, and recognize that mistakes are a vital part of the learning process. We all make them and we will celebrate them together.
You will be thoughtful in your interactions with peers while taking extra care to respect diverse perspectives and support the professional growth of educators with varying years of experience.
OUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
OUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
This class is a community. You are not in this alone. To be a successful community, each member must be regularly present in this course, be curious, be willing to lean into discomfort, have a positive attitude, and a willingness to help one another. Each member of this community is different and those differences will strengthen your learning by yielding unique insights drawn from diverse experiences. We acknowledge the tremendous amount of expertise in our community and encourage you to support and help one another as challenges and questions are shared.
Moving outside of your comfort zone is necessary to learn and grow. Keep in mind that when you feel struggle, it is a sign that you are learning. We will celebrate that feeling. When mistakes happen (and they will!), we will recognize them as learning moments that contribute to our growth.
Let’s work together to make this a positive learning experience for everyone!
WEEK 1 SUCCESS KIT
WEEK 1 SUCCESS KIT
We want you to be successful in week one so you feel motivated to keep going! This section lays out your week one success plan.
In week one you will complete two modules: Getting Started and Module 1: Why is Humanizing Important in STEM?
What you will need for week one
What you will need for week one
A Humanizing Sandbox - This is course shell hosted on your institution's instance of Canvas or iLearn (Moodle) for our SF State colleagues. This will be a copy of the online course you will be humanizing during the Academy. If permitted by your institution, please set the course visibility to Public so you can submit links to course pages for our review. If you can't set it to public, no worries. We'll provide instructions about how to use screenshots and screencasts to document and share your humanizing work,
Access to a computer with a webcam,
A free Google account* You will use this for YouTube and Google Sites. If you prefer not to use Google, you are welcome to use an alternative video hosting site and website authoring tool in which you are proficient, and
A free Canva account*
*If you don't have one, you may create one now or wait until prompted to do so in week one.
Due dates for week one
Academy due dates will regularly fall on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.Due dates for week one
By Wednesday, 7/7 at 11:59pm:
Submit the Getting to Know You Survey
Submit the Getting Started Quiz
Submit the Module 1 Quiz
By Friday, 7/9 at 11:59pm:
Participate in the Ice Breaker (VoiceThread)
Create & share your humanized homepage
By Sunday, 7/9 at 11:59pm:
Post one reply to a peer in the Ice Breaker
Post two replies in the Create & share your humanizing homepage discussion,
Submit the assignment, Create an Inclusive "Course Card"
OUR TIPS FOR SUCCESS
OUR TIPS FOR SUCCESS
We have supported hundreds of faculty through successful online professional development experiences. Based on these experiences, we've learned a few things about how to be successful. We hope these tips are helpful.
Use Chrome as your browser. Canvas works best on Chrome and so do various other technologies you'll be using in our course. We recommend you download Chrome now if you don't have it installed already.
Log in to our course each Monday to orient yourself to the new module. Take notes of the assignments and their due dates. Mark them on your digital calendar to help track them.
Log-in multiple times during the week and start on our course homepage (click Home in the course menu). It will change each week and provide you with a helpful marker about where we are in the course.
Be sure your Canvas notifications are enabled appropriately so you are alerted about new announcements. You'll learn how to do this in our Getting Started module. We will post announcements during the week with helpful reminders and notes about changes that may arise.
If you sense that you might not be able to meet a due date, contact your lead facilitator. We'll work out an extension that will support you but also keep you on track for success.
If something isn't working or you just can't figure something out, post a message in our Q&A Discussion. There's a lot of knowledge among our group – let's tap into it! We know technology can be frustrating at times so step away if you feel tension rising. :)
HAVE A QUESTION?
HAVE A QUESTION?
CONTACT YOUR LEAD FACILITATOR THROUGH THE CANVAS INBOX
CONTACT YOUR LEAD FACILITATOR THROUGH THE CANVAS INBOX
If you contact some support Monday-Friday, your lead facilitator will respond within 24 hours. We do our best to reply on weekends but we are human too and have been known to take breaks. :)
ASK A PEER IN THE Q&A DISCUSSION
ASK A PEER IN THE Q&A DISCUSSION
If you have a general question about the course, please ask it in the Q&A Discussion. Your question will be seen by your peers and if anyone has the answer -- by all means, answer it!
HOW TO LOG IN
HOW TO LOG IN
On Saturday, you will receive an email notification when the course is available. Follow the steps below to log-in:
Go to the CVC/@ONE Canvas portal: https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/
If you have taken courses with @ONE before, use the login you created for that account. If you are new to CVC/@ONE, follow this process:
Select Forgot Password?
Enter your college email address
Select Request Password
Check your college email for a password reset link
Once your password is reset, you will continue to go to the CVC/@ONE Canvas portal to log in to our course.
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