Session Description
Art and other visually-oriented disciplines have unique needs when teaching and learning occur online. In this share showcase session, Hilary and Michelle will describe strategies for facilitating group critiques and image curation assignments with VoiceThread, an asynchronous voice or video discussion tool with a free mobile app to support students that rely on a phone for connectivity.
About VoiceThread
VoiceThread is an external tool that is not provided in Canvas (or any other LMS), nor is it provided or support by CVC-OEI. It can be integrated into Canvas (or any other major LMS) if your institution has a site license. With a site license, VoiceThread integrates into the Canvas gradebook, auto-generates student and instructor accounts, and (if purchased with the license) includes auto-captions.
Seventeen colleges and three districts in the California Community College system have independently purchased a site license for VoiceThread. This session is of particular interest to faculty who teach at one of these institutions: Citrus College, City College of San Francisco, College of the Desert, College of Marin, Cuesta College, Foothill College, Ohlone College, Lake Tahoe Community College, Mt. San Antonio College, Merced CCD, Modesto Junior College, Ohlone College, Peralta CCD, Saddleback Community College, Santa Monica College, Santa Rosa Junior College, Sierra College, Southwestern Community College, West Valley-Mission CCD
Speakers
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Michelle Pacansky-Brock @brocansky is faculty mentor for online teaching and learning with CVC-OEI/@ONE, a statewide project of the California Community College system, the author of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies, an an associate faculty at Mt. San Jacinto College. Michelle is leading a California Education Learning Lab grant that explores the impact of humanized online teaching on equity gaps in online STEM courses. Learn more about Michelle at brocansky.com.
Hilary Gomes
Hilary Gomes has been a full-time Art Professor at Foothill College in Los Altos, CA from 2001 to the present. Learn more about Hilary's art at www.hilary-gomes.com. Hilary Gomes has been teaching online studio art courses since 2009. She earned her B.F.A. from The School of Art and Art History from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science in New York City. She also earned a K-12 teaching certificate from Parsons School of Design as well as her MA and MFA in Painting from The University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History in Iowa City, Iowa.