This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can Online Instructors Make Themselves More Visible to Students?

Presentation date: April 11, 2022 and on-demand for one week
Link to presentation: https://mondaymorningmentors.com

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Academic Innovation and eLearning for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

Please note: Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

Registration is open for the FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Conference, “Back to the Future: 25 Years of FSI,” which will be held May 17-18, 2022 in Champaign.

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Join LLCC Academic Innovation and eLearning today, 2-3 p.m. for a Canvas Open Lab via Zoom. Presenters are Andy Mitkos, director, academic technology systems and support, and Gary Bach, instructional technology specialist.

Zoom link for April 6 Canvas Open Lab

Attend the open lab to ask the AIeL team your Canvas questions and to get any additional help with Canvas you may need.

Registration is not required for open labs.

“No More YouTube With Canvas Studio” today, 2:30 p.m.

Join LLCC Academic Innovation and eLearning today, 2:30-3:30 p.m. for “No More YouTube With Canvas Studio” via Zoom. Presenters are Andy Mitkos, director, academic technology systems and support; Barry Lamb, instructional designer; and Gary Bach, instructional technology specialist.

Register for today’s workshop.

This session will provide an overview of Canvas Studio, the video learning platform integrated into the LLCC’s Canvas system. Canvas Studio allows you and your students to record, close caption and store videos within the Canvas system. Studio videos can be embedded directly into your course(s) through announcements, assignments, discussion posts and pages. Join this session to learn how Canvas Studio can easily support your courses through student use analytics, embedded quizzing and timeline comment functions.

Note: Current online faculty participating in the Online Proficiency Program can receive one point for successful completion of this workshop.

Monday Morning Mentor

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning Strategies?

Presentation date: April 4, 2022 and on-demand for one week
Link to presentation: https://mondaymorningmentors.com

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Academic Innovation and eLearning for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

Please note: Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?

Presentation date: March 28, 2022 and on-demand for one week
Link to presentation: https://mondaymorningmentors.com

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Academic Innovation and eLearning for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

Please note: Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
What Are Active Strategies for Structuring a Synchronous Class?

Presentation date: March 21, 2022 and on-demand for one week
Link to presentation: https://mondaymorningmentors.com

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Academic Innovation and eLearning for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

Please note: Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

Barry Lamb, instructional designer; Karen Sisk, assistant professor of English and humanities; Sarah Laurent, instructor of nursing; and Stacey Olson, associate professor of biology​​​​​​, will present “Simple Technology — Big Impact” today, March 21, 3:30-4:30 p.m. via Zoom.

The workshop covers how two instructional tools, which are easy to use, make a powerful impact on student learning! Participants will see a quick overview of both Padlet and Microsoft Sway (available with your LLCC login credentials), followed by a discussion (with demonstrations) with current faculty who use these tools for instruction and assignment creation. Hear how to easily get started with one or both of these instructional tools and see how other faculty are putting them to use in their classes, online and in person.

Note: Current online faculty participating in the Online Proficiency Program can receive one point for successful completion of this workshop.

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Karen Sisk, assistant professor of English and humanities​​​​​​​, will present “Promoting Mindfulness and Focus on Students With Short Writing Assignments” today, March 16, 3:30-4:30 p.m. via Zoom.

To promote mindfulness and focus in our courses, we can incorporate short writing assignments such as letters and reflections done as homework or in class in which students set their course goals and how they will go about achieving them, reflect on their performance at various stages in the course and reflect on what they did well in the course. This workshop will give you ideas on how to design these types of assignments as well as discuss the benefits of incorporating these assignments both for students and instructors.

Note: Current online faculty participating in the Online Proficiency Program can receive one point for successful completion of this workshop.

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This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?

Presentation date: March 14, 2022 and on-demand for one week
Link to presentation: https://mondaymorningmentors.com

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Academic Innovation and eLearning for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

Please note: Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.