Registration is available for ILCCO’s “Breaking Down Barriers” accessibility conference, which is free to all. Register for the conference.

“Breaking Down Barriers” provides an opportunity to engage in best practices in moving your instruction and your campus to a more inclusive culture. Each Friday in May, you will have the opportunity to engage with expert presenters that highlight and celebrate being accessible, designing with educational technologies that work for everyone, working toward institutional compliance and designing your course to have a focus on inclusive course design. Not only will you be engaged and hear from experts, you’ll also hear from peers and students. Each Friday begins with a keynote presentation followed by the option of selecting one of three tracks during the Zoom session. Choose to attend a lightning round with four, 15-minute presentations, a panel presentation track or hear more from the keynote presenter. Afterward, engage with participants all month long in the back-channel chat.

Each week, Academic Innovation and eLearning is sending out a link to a different Monday Morning Mentor program by MAGNA Publications. Each topic is presented by respected academic peers and covers timely and relevant topics in only 20 minutes — brief enough to fit busy schedules, but long enough to deliver valuable, actionable content.

This week’s topic: How Can Faculty Advocates Promote Online Education on Campus?

https://www.magnapubs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-Spring-MMM-04-26.pdf
Presentation date: April 26, 2021 and on-demand for one week
Link to the presentation: mondaymorningmentors.com

From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material. These materials are only available for the week of the presentation.

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

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.

LLCC Academic Innovation & eLearning spring 2021 professional development workshops are being offered in three different formats: online, live via Zoom and on-demand. Workshops cover both teaching topics and instructional technology tools. There are also many opportunities, both live and on-demand, to learn to use the new Canvas learning management system. Access links and view the spring 2021 AIeL workshop schedule.

In addition to the workshop schedule you will also find additional offerings from the Faculty-to-Faculty Support Team, including the new Virtual Faculty Break Room, offered twice a month, and Trivia Night – Pandemic Style.

This week the following are being offered:

• Monday, April 19, 3:30-4:30 p.m. – The Virtual Faculty Break Room
• Monday, April 19-Wednesday, April 21 – Advanced SoftChalk: Take Your Interactive Lessons to a New Level – Delivery: Online via Canvas
• Thursday, April 22, 3-4 p.m. – Building Course Content in the Canvas Course Template
• Friday, April 23, 3 p.m. – Seinfeld Trivia Game

This year’s annual FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Conference, “Rebooting Students’ Experiences,” will be held Wednesday, May 19. The event will once again be held virtually through Zoom. There will be presentations, networking and hands-on training on the use of modern communication and information technologies in education. Registrants may choose to focus on one track or participate in any session in any track: Post-Pandemic Strategies, Inclusive Teaching, Care and Community, and Teaching Tools. More information is available at http://conferences.illinois.edu/fsi/program.html.

The conference brings educators and instructional-technology professionals together from across Illinois and as far away as Canada. This year’s conference features a presentation, “Ch-Ch-Changes: Innovation, Flipping, Empathy and Community,” from LLCC’s very own Laurie Lewis-Fritz, instructor of music.

University of Michigan’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is hosting a free virtual teacher training workshop, “Teaching Water and Environmental Justice: From the Great Lakes to Latin America.” This event will include a series of asynchronous modules and lesson plans for instructors, available to registered attendees beginning on April 17. The live seminar will take place via Zoom on Saturday, April 24 from 1-6 p.m. EST.

Each week, Academic Innovation and eLearning is sending out a link to a different Monday Morning Mentor program by MAGNA Publications. Each topic is presented by respected academic peers and covers timely and relevant topics in only 20 minutes — brief enough to fit busy schedules, but long enough to deliver valuable, actionable content.

This week’s topic: What Are Five Easy-to-use Technologies That Have a Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?

https://www.magnapubs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-Spring-MMM-04-12.pdf
Presentation date: April 12, 2021 and on-demand for one week
Link to the presentation: mondaymorningmentors.com

From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material. These materials are only available for the week of the presentation.

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

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.

LLCC Academic Innovation & eLearning spring 2021 professional development workshops are being offered in three different formats: online, live via Zoom and on-demand. Workshops cover both teaching topics and instructional technology tools. There are also many opportunities, both live and on-demand, to learn to use the new Canvas learning management system. Access links and view the spring 2021 AIeL workshop schedule.

In addition to the workshop schedule you will also find additional offerings from the Faculty-to-Faculty Support Team, including the new Virtual Faculty Break Room, offered twice a month, and Trivia Night – Pandemic Style.

This week the following are being offered:

• Tuesday, April 13, 3-4 p.m. – Migrating Course Content from Blackboard to Canvas
• Wednesday, April 14, 3:30-4:30 p.m. – AIeL Virtual Open Lab
• Thursday, April 15, 2-3 p.m. – Assessing Information Literacy: Creating Assignments to Address Student Needs

This year’s FSI Conference will be held Wednesday, May 19. The event will once again be held virtually through Zoom. More information is available at http://conferences.illinois.edu/fsi/index.html.

FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology is an annual conference that brings educators and instructional-technology professionals together each May. Attendees come from across Illinois and as far away as Canada. The conference will feature LLCC’s very own Laurie Lewis-Fritz, instructor of music, presenting “Ch-Ch-Changes: Innovation, Flipping, Empathy and Community” as well as other presentations, networking, and hands-on training on the use of modern communication and information technologies in education.