Workshops

Pre-registration is required for this workshop. This session will cover all Canvas topics in one day. In this session you’ll learn the basic features of Canvas including: Global Navigation, Preferences, and creating content to include: Modules, Files, Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, Grades, and Incorporating Rubrics. This is the mandatory training faculty need to complete to teach online.

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Learn how to use this super easy Google Sites platform to build and maintain a faculty website quickly, without knowing HTML or installing software! Google Sites is an online website publishing tool that allows faculty to create a template-driven web page from scratch for classroom purposes. Post information about yourself, your contact info and office hours, your teaching philosophy, course syllabi, links to Canvas, etc. You’ll definitely want a public facing faculty web page for students to check out while they’re shopping around for classes!

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Pre-registration is required for this workshop. This two-week workshop will explore the significance of developing a clear communication plan for your online classroom. Levels of student engagement and success can stem from clearly expressing expectations for student and instructor interaction throughout the course. Learning activities and assignments provide ideal opportunities for interaction and relationship building, which is critical to creating a sense of community in an online course. This workshop will also share tips and tricks for stepping away from mundane discussion boards and anticlimactic online assignments in the online classroom. The facilitator will contact registrants with access information.

A $150 stipend will be issued upon successful completion. Please register by January 15, 2021.

Bring to the online environment the best part of in-person classes: a wonderful class environment, open discussions, group activities, student presentations and collaborative experiences. Learn a new medium for class curriculum, structure, delivery and engagement using “Conferences” in Canvas, which is facilitated using Big Blue Button. Tools used in this live-interactive environment include Public Chat for communication, PowerPoint, Whiteboard, Shared Notes, Poll Questions, Break-out rooms for group work and YouTube Videos. Receive an invitation and experience the course from the students’ perspective.

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Pre-registration is not required for this workshop. Invite student collaboration into your assignments with Peer Reviews. Peer review assignments enable communication between students and can help students master the concepts of a course and learn from each other through peer feedback.

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An introduction to the Packback discussion platform. Packback is an AI supported discussion platform that encourages genuine curiosity, improves critical thinking, and writing skills. The digital T.A. frees up professors to spend less time moderating discussions and more time interacting with students in meaningful ways. In this workshop I will share my experiences, you will review my course platform from Fall 2020 and we will brainstorm ideas to fit Packback into your spring classes.

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Join our presentation to learn how you can become a Nevada Promise mentor. You will also hear from current Nevada Promise Scholars about their experience with the mentoring program. Now, more than ever, students are in need of support!

The Nevada Promise Scholarship gives students the opportunity to attend college almost debt-free! To earn a Nevada Promise Scholarship students complete requirements such as community service, submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and meet with a mentor.

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New and returning part-time faculty are invited to the virtual open house to hear from President Karin Hilgersom as well as learn important information regarding teaching in the current climate. You will hear from our student conduct officer as well as from the health and safety director on important matters for you and your students. Part-time faculty instructors will share information in virtual breakout sessions.

For those of you needing Canvas Training, please register separately on the Professional Development website for the Canvas Assist Training that will take place from 6–7:30 p.m. and follows the open house. 

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This session will review research-based practices to accommodate the needs of and support the success of students with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and other neurologically impacting disabilities.

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Zoom 101: Zoom Basics will cover Videoconferencing best practices, Setting up your Zoom profile, Account Settings (we will take an in-depth look at account settings so that you establish a set of default settings that work best for your needs), Scheduling Meetings, Zoom Roles (host, cohost, alternate host), In-meeting options (reactions, emojis, chimes, muting, security, etc.).

This will be the first of three related proposed Zoom workshops: Zoom 101, Zoom 201, and Zoom 911.

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Pre-registration is not required for this workshop. This workshop will go over using Canvas Conferences. You will learn how to create a conference, how to share a link to invite outside users, and how to enable recording. You will also learn how to create breakout rooms. This is a great tool if you wish to host synchronous lectures/conferences during the Spring term.

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Pre-registration is not required for this workshop. This workshop will go over the conference solutions that are offered at TMCC and what Transcript/Captioning tools are available for each. This workshop can help you determine which virtual conference tool would be best when it comes to live captioning and transcripts of post conference recordings.

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The purpose of this presentation is to share a tool for analyzing and reflecting on our communication with and among students in our courses. Participants will be introduced to a practical tool for analyzing and reflecting on current communication strategies as instructors. Learn new strategies for course design that will enhance communication in courses. Interact with colleagues who are also working to engage students in new modes of teaching this year (WEB, WEBLIVE, HYBRID, etc.).

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Pre-registration is not required for this workshop. 

What is the Rich Content Editor?! Well, if you use Canvas, it's your primary toolbar for changing your fonts, embedding videos, inserting tables and adding in those complex math equations, just to name a few. You'll definitely want to stop into this workshop to see how this highly used feature is changing and what cool new tools are coming your way!

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This will be a virtual interactive presentation that focuses on the following objectives: Define and demonstrate elements of privilege, Debrief what privilege means to different constituents (the participants), Identify usable interpretations and impacts of privilege on interpersonal relationships, classroom or workplace interactions, and on society as a whole.

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Safe Zone II is an interactive workshop designed to provide practical information and activities associated with meaningfully interacting with LGBTQ related topics. The workshop requires a willingness to participate and former participation in Safe Zone I.

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Your department depends on student workers for so much already... what if there was a way to help students succeed in their area of study and provide training in an actual “real world” work environment to gain industry experience based on their chosen area of study. The Career Hub will be introducing the Resident Lizard Intern Program (either virtual or on-campus).

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Zoom 201: Using Zoom for Tutoring and Instruction will cover Shared Screen, Shared Whiteboard, Screen Annotation, Polling, Taking Attendance, Breakout Rooms (how to get the most out of breakout rooms, and their limitations as well), Additional Equipment (low-tech to high-tech options for tutoring and instruction with Zoom), Scheduling Zoom from within Canvas.

This is the second of three related proposed Zoom workshops: Zoom 101, Zoom 201, and Zoom 911.

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Pre-registration is not required for this workshop. Have a specific question? Stop by and get one on one help. Something just isn't working the way you think it should? Let's figure it out. Grades? If there always seems to be a glitch, have you seen the speed grader? Come stop by and stump me with a question or we can work with the collaboration tools, it's up to you.

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The use of virtual dissection technology ANATOMAGE has a positive role in educational training. This technology is a beneficial and effective tool in preparing students to enter a health care profession.

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Pre-registration is not required for this workshop. This will be a collaborative, interactive session with open dialogue about the delivery of synchronous online instruction, using Zoom and Big Blue Button. Please come prepared to share some of your personal experiences and lessons learned! Additionally, we will look at tips and best practices which will help to deliver a well-prepared and engaging synchronous session to your online students. The tips provided will focus on three aspects of teaching a synchronous session via Zoom or Big Blue Button: preparation, engaging students, and assessing participation. 

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A panel of faculty/staff answering questions on what it means is to be multi-racial in the changing landscape of America. You are invited to join us and learn from peoples' stories, or if you are multi-racial you can share your own personal experiences and perspectives about navigating life as a person who is multi-racial. This is an opportunity to learn from one another, appreciate different cultures and discover all that we have in common. Everyone is welcome to stop by and hang out or share something from your own experience.

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In this session, we will discuss a diverse range of websites and apps that help educators increase the students' interaction and engagement. The following will be reviewed: Flipgrade, Edpuzzle, Padlet, Peardeck, Notability (iPad), and Gimkit.

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