Professional Development

PROF DEV WORK-GROUP, Summer 2015 to Summer 2016 GOALS ...

(scroll down to find WACC 2016 work!)

Finding, developing and sharing professional development workshops that happen for both sides of the state

• Workshop examples, Outcomes, New mastery gradebook, Hybrid course pedagogy and best practices, etc.

• Reach out to Alyssa and Jen (newsletter)

• Develop tracks supporting Building Bridges, ATL, and NWeLearning

• Accessibility retreat on Eastside -- Tom G and Kathleen C are our accessibility conduits between our two work groups)

• Open Educational Resources (OER) -- Kelley M is our OER conduit between our two work groups

• Professional Development Opportunities (for all) -- Communicating, encouraging, helping people attend (for example adjuncts need funds to travel)

• Identity how to best to communicate Prof Dev information. Should we use a website to house all Prof Dev resources, links, announcements, categorize how to best communicate? First steps in this research ...

  • Identify our audiences and goals

  • Sara is providing playlists from Lynda.com to work group members for study and review

  • Stephanie is reaching out to marketing professionals for recommendations

2016 WACC (Washington's Annual Canvas Conference)

• Venue = Tacoma Community College

• Date = (Poll chosen) March 24th and 25th 2016

• http://tinyurl.com/CanvasCon2016-Proposals

• Additional polls will follow to select popular topics and enlist presenters (via proposals)

• Website = http://wa-cc.com

• Kaitlin (our Washington state rep) has already agreed to attend!

• SWAG? Invite LTI vendors to have tables?

• Renee and Scott — get some big Instructure wigs to come

• Marc Carbon is our University contact

• Possibly inviting Oregon - co promote(?)

  • Coordinate around the same time .. share speakers … find ways to work together ..

• Look to NW eLearning participation has been increasing - investigate further

• Who are our Oregon state pals? Who do we reach out to for collaboration?

• Broadcast all WACC sessions with Panopto — Jerry (?)

• Find, convert, and post for access all previous WACUG sessions (originally in Tegrity)

• Student voice panel — Kelly volunteered to investigate. Talk to Shoreline’s embedded student support person, Ellen(?) - Talk to Tina and Tim about Edmonds START

• Accessibility, presenting to faculty, processes, capacity building institute

• Suggested Class Activities while faculty are at WACC - Tom Gibbons has offered to pull that together. Organize by discipline(?)