Authentic Assessment: Introducing Puma Portfolios

Felicia Ramirez, Leonard Macias, Pablo Avila (LaGuardia Community College)

The Assessment for Learning Team (ALT) and the PVCC ePortfolio Institute Team are proud to introduce Puma Portfolios, an ePortfolio template in Google sites. This assessment session will feature a presentation by Pablo Avila, Associate Director of ePortfolio and Digital Learning, The Center for Teaching and Learning, LaGuardia Community College. Then the PVCC team will demo the Puma Portfolio template, and provide strategies for integrating ePortfolios in learning experiences.

AGEC

Felicia Ramirez, Abby Rusu, Annapurnah Ganesh, Rose Rojas

The AZTransfer Steering Committee is leading an effort to reimagine the structure and requirements of the Arizona General Education Curriculum (AGEC), which was created in the mid-1990s, and has not substantially evolved since their creation nearly 30 years ago. Come learn about the project and newly proposed revisions. The project is currently in the "open comment period." This session is intended as an opportunity for us to discuss the AGEC across disciplines and gather feedback at the college level. The two-part session will include a presentation by Dr. Annapurna Ganesh, General Studies Faculty Representative - District, Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation and Rose Rojas, District Director, Curriculum and Transfer; followed by a open discussion and feedback session moderated by Dr. Felicia Ramirez, Communication Faculty, Co-Chair ALT, PVCC.

Welcome to Spring Celebration!

Hosted by PVCC President, Dr. Tiffany E. Hunter

Creative Technology Ideas for Connecting Students to Course Objectives, and to Others Around the World!

Stacy Moreno, Social Work Faculty/Community Resource Specialist | Counseling

Over 6 weeks, 41 participants from around the world engaged in a comparative analysis of social issues. Gain ideas on how to internationalize your curriculum, even in an online course! Explore various online tools and applications that can support interactive and collaborative global classroom projects. Learn about the power of making global connections for students, and the positive impacts of global immersive learning and how social issues can bring students together-assessing the issues and sharing solutions.

Online tools enhance service learning experiences, promote global awareness and connection, and provide interesting methods to share and collaborate.

Using Social Annotation to Enhance Student Engagement in Psychology Courses

Julie Lazzara, Division Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences

Increasing engagement in asynchronous online courses is a goal for many college instructors. While discussion boards have been used in the past, social annotation is an alternative that may have multiple benefits for instructors and students. In a recent study, students from an introductory psychology course (two sections) and a developmental psychology course (one section) used Perusall for social annotation with open educational resources. Over the semester, on average, students submitted quality annotations and more than what was required. Students also reported predominantly favorable perceptions of social annotation via a survey using both Likert scale and open-ended items. In this session, participants will see how to set up Perusall in a mock Canvas course as an instructor. They will also try out social annotation in real-time to replicate the student experience.

Using Design Thinking and the Makerspace in Curriculum to Improve Student Engagement

Dr. Jim Sizemore, Engineering Faculty

We desire students to be creative, continually learn, think critically, and work well in teams. Project based learning is a well-established and good method to accomplish these goals but often students aren't engaged in the project. Also, teams are often formed without explicit instruction about how to be a good team member. This presentation presents the design process to better manage projects and enhance creativity. Also presented are group decision making and problem solving techniques to work well in teams. Finally, using makerspace tools, students are engaged in creating unique works that they can be proud of therefore engaging students. An example is a recent student proposal that crosses disciplines. The student proposed using an IR camera to study temperatures of vaping to understand the quantity of toxic chemicals generated and use this information in an anti vaping campaign. Using the information in this talk students come before and after class, work on their own time on projects, become excited, better engage in learning.

Creating a Safe Learning and Working Environment

Scott Meek, PVCC Police Commander and Bootsie Martinez

Learn about how the PVCC Public Safety Office creates a safe environment for our students and employees along with some strategies how to respond in an Active Shooter situation.