2016-2017 Professional Development
IC Outcomes:
3.2 Support & improve quality eLearning for students, including online, hybrid and enhanced
courses, that improves teaching & learning.
3.2a Increase use & effectiveness of OER and instructional technology tools.
3.2b Examine disaggregated data with regard to use & success in eLearning.
3.2c Assure accessibility of eLearning and other online resources.
Notes from May 12, 2017 eLC meeting:
The Washington Annual Canvas Conference (WACC) supported the IC Outcomes by providing professional development to faculty across the state on how to improve quality eLearning for students, including online, hybrid and enhanced courses. There were sessions on OER and instructional technology tools.
Overall Conference Evaluation Results
WACC Conference in numbers:
247 registered attendees (we had roughly 270 in attendance including volunteers and some who snuck in without registering)
47 Sessions
41 colleges and businesses represented by attendees
6 session tracks (Canvas tips, OER, Accessibility, Outcomes, Student Services, Multimedia)
4 Two hour workshops
WACC reflection and lessons learned for next year:
Reviewed conference evaluations(not many respondents though). Next year, place the evaluations in the lanyards so folks will remember to fill out when they turn in their lanyard.
Popularity of sessions: #1 Canvas tips, #2 OER, #3 pedagogy/androgyny, #4 accessibility #5 multimedia #5 outcomes #6 student services.
Ending early on the second day was good, repeat that next year
Require presenters to share slides, etc. on a shared Google doc, add presenter's email/phone #
Publish wifi information on conference program and posted in each room
Label each session with the level of audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Send out a form to solicit dietary restrictions to all attendees directly and post on EventBrite, as well
Recommend that presenters post sample Canvas courses to Canvas Commons, as appropriate
Conference organizers should create a WACC 2018 Conference site on Canvas Commons with all conference session slides in there
No boxed lunches on second day, but still portable food that
Give 100 word space limit on session description because the program.
Budget: we have a lot of excess revenue (ahem $17,000 extra), so we charged too much, food was a lot cheaper than last year, we also got 3-4 sponsors. Ideas to use the money: fund scholarships for attendees for next year (maybe one per college and colleges with funds could pass on it so another college could use it), presenters don't have to pay for registration, lapel microphones for multi-presenter sessions, live caption more of the sessions (not just the 2 keynotes)-we could pick a room and live caption all sessions in that room. Swag for attendees.
Set up hospitality suite with refreshments in the Senate Room to connect with colleagues.
247 registered, likely many more attended. 215 of those were early-bird, 32 were general admissions.
Do more un-conference sessions-these are not planned until participants come and say what they want to talk about. Have one for each track. We will pick the presenters for those.
Have a track in each session block.
2 hour workshop-make those distinctive visually in the program.
The theme was fun. We could create one earlier so session proposals could reflect it.
100% respondents said they were satisfied with conference overall and that they would recommend it to a colleague.
Session tracks were: Canvas tips, OER, accessibility, multimedia, pedagogy/androgogy, student services, outcomes.
Get everyone back together at the end of the conference and encourage them to fill out evaluation.
Feb. 10, 2017 notes from our meeting
October 28th, 2016
The Washington Annual Canvas conference will meet outcome 3.2 by providing sessions for faculty and staff that will provide ways to improve the quality of their online, hybrid and enhanced courses.
The Prof Dev and OER groups have combined forces to meet 3.2a by providing OER sessions at WACC in 2017.
Highlights from the meeting today.
1. We now have a massive "To Do" list
2. Emphasis on OER, Accessibility, and outcomes for our session tracks
3. four two-hour sessions that focus on OER, Accessibility, Outcomes, and improving your online course through coding.
August 9th, 2016
Our two goals:
1 and 2. WACC-planning and implementation
3. Lunch and Learns at eLC meetings (let us know your thoughts here)
Intrepid Members:
Sarah Griffith-Lower Columbia-Chair
Tina Torres-Edmonds
Dawn Hawley-Bellingham Technical
Vicki Chew-Lake Washington Technical
Jerry Troupe-Olympic
Cindy Overton-Clover Park Technical
Jackie Staley-Yakima Valley
JJ Johnson-Pierce
Ann Garnsey-Shoreline
Sara Newman-South Seattle
Tim Trussler-Bates
Action Items:
Ann-Create survey about lunch and learn to gauge interest. DONE
Sarah-Politely ask Chris if we can use TCC for WACC again, pretty please? Verify dates that work
Tina-Get survey results from last WACC
Vicki-Review Prof Dev calendar
Dawn-Doodle poll to schedule online meeting next week