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Monday

10:30 AM | Who Has the Key to My Classroom?

This session is designed to give participants a big-picture overview of the Canvas environment.

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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10:30 AM | What Does It Mean to Have an Equity Mindset?

Based on the webinar from Drs. J Luke Wood and Frank Harris III, both new and seasoned virtual and online instructors will come away with fresh, concrete ideas for infusing an equity mindset in their own classes this quarter and beyond.

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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11:30 AM | Virtual Tour: Geography & GIS Classes

Allison Lenkeit Meezan will share her Online Physical Geography with Lab class and Introduction to Geospatial Technology with Lab class.

Presenter: K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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11:30 AM | Virtual Tour: Student Community with Zoom Study Groups

Math Professor Nicole Gray will discuss how she supported synchronous group work in her Fall 2019 fully online course.

Presenter: Nicole Gray

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Noon | Going Virtual in One Week!

Jessy Polzer, a learning specialist from Construct--an affiliate of Canvas specializing in instructional design--will walk us through building a course map to ensure our virtual classes are as effective as our in-person ones!

Presenter: Jessy Polzer

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Noon | Getting Started with Zoom

This session we will share our best tips for Zoom in your virtual classroom.

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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1:00 PM | Dear Student, Welcome to Our Virtual Class

In this workshop, we'll discuss the right tone for your welcome message, some important details to include, sample text to get you started!

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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1:30 PM | Get Oriented!

We have some tips and tricks to help you and your students make the most of your first week, including ideas for getting to know each other, creating community, and getting to know Canvas!

Presenters: Sarah Williams & K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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2:00 PM | Lights, Camera, Action!

Jerry Robredo will share tips to make you camera ready for recording videos or Zooming.

Presenter: Jerry Robredo

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2:30 PM | Virtual Tour: Psychology & Asynchronous Video Content

Ben Stefonik, Professor of Psychology, will share how he has created asynchronous video lecture content that both humanizes and guides students through research and course content.

Presenter: Ben Stefonik

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2:30 PM | Virtual Tour: Canvas Template

Learn how to import one of the many useful templates that are available in Canvas Commons and take a quick tour of the template!

Presenters: K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan & Sarah Williams

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3:00 PM | Virtual Tour: Economics of Excellent Syllabi

Brian Evans, Professor of Economics, will share his Canvas syllabus and how it has helped to guide the structure and flow of his course.

Presenter: Brian Evans

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3:00 | Canvas Commons: Import a Template

In this session, we'll provide an overview of importing the Quick Start Template from Commons into a Canvas course.

Presenter: Paula Schales

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3:00 | What Does It Mean to Have an Equity Mindset?

Encore Presentation! Based on the webinar from Drs. J Luke Wood and Frank Harris III, both new and seasoned virtual and online instructors will come away with fresh, concrete ideas for infusing an equity mindset in their own classes this quarter and beyond.

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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Tuesday

10:00 AM | Virtual Learning $LaTeX: \ne$ Distance Learning

In this webinar, we'll show you a whole host of tools in Canvas that will help you and your students build a virtual community that is robust, supportive, and maybe even a little fun!

Presenters: K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan, Sarah Williams & Lené Whitley-Putz

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10:00 AM | Student Services in a Virtual World

Join us to hear from Student Service leadership on how we will continue to provide our services virtually.

Presenters: Laurie Scolari & the Whole Student Services Team

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11:00 AM | Who Are You? Using Surveys to Support Students

Learn about survey timing and sample survey questions that will help to build an equitable learning environment by creating just-in-time support for struggling students.

Presenter: Sarah Williams

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11:00 AM | Video Capture Your Content

In this presentation, we discuss how to set up a home recording studio, video capture your course content, upload your videos onto YouTube, and embed these videos into your courses.

Presenter: Jeff Anderson

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Noon | Zoom Teaching, Beyond the Lecture

Join Kim Hunter for a wonderful exploration of connecting with Zoom.

Presenter: Kim Hunter

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Noon | Setting Norms

Participants will leave with strategies for using classroom norms effectively in their Spring quarter classes.

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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1:00 PM | Humanizing Temporary Remote Teaching in Support of Equity

CVC-OEI Webinar with Michelle Pacansky-Brock about humanized online teaching and how it is essential to providing an equitable learning experience.

Presenter: Michelle Pacansky-Brock

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1:00 PM | Proactive Communication

Learn how to leverage Canvas technologies to provide positive intrusive communication with your students.

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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1:00 PM | Fun with FlipGrid

Learn how to use FlipGrid to liven up your class discussions!

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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1:00 PM | Virtual Tour: Kinesiology

Katy Ripp, Professor of Kinesiology, will focus on how to effectively organize due dates to maximize student success.

Presenter: Katy Ripp

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1:30 PM | Virtual Tour: American Literature & Organized Modules

Professor Amber La Piana will share her English 45B, American Literature course with a focus on the organization of her modules and how they guide her students through the course materials.

Presenter: Amber La Piana

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2:00 PM | Connecting Students, Pronto

Join the support team from Pronto as they walk us through the basics of this easy to use communication tool that has been integrated into Canvas.

Presenter: Porter Rappleye

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2:00 PM | Where and How do I Report a Student of Concern? Everything You Need to Know About Maxient

This brief, but highly useful session, will provide staff and faculty with an overview of how and when to submit an Incident Report through Maxient, who receives it, things to consider as you write a report, and what happens after a report is submitted.

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2:00 | Canvas Studio

Join us to learn about the features of Studio, a built-in video capture tool in Canvas, and brainstorm how this tool can break down barriers in your virtual classroom!

Presenter: Paula Schales

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3:00 PM | Introducing Modules

Join us in this session where we'll show you how modules help you organize your course content, and how they can help your students better understand how to navigate the asynchronous (and maybe even synchronous!) elements of your virtual classroom.

Presenter: K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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3:00 |VoiceThread

Join Alexis Aguilar, Professor of Geography, for an overview of VoiceThread, a tool that allows instructors and students to post in and comment on discussion threads using multimedia content including images, sound recordings, and video.

Presenter: Alexis Aguilar

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3:00 PM | Outreach is Now Virtual!

Outreach has made changes to workshops, orientations, events, and enrollment processes with particular attention paid to our new Smartsheet electronic form for dual enrollment students and to coordinating Zoom sessions with high school partners.

Presenter: Josh Pelletier

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4:00 | How Will I Communicate This in My Syllabus

This quick session will review a few things you can do in your syllabus to ensure students know what is expected of them, and of you!

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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Wednesday

10:00 AM | Equity and Assessment

In this session, we'll explore notions of assessment and equity that help us examine our assumptions about testing and grading with the ultimate goal of developing virtual assessments and grading policies that support our students in this time of need.

Presenters: Collegial Discussion

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10:00 AM | Student/Teacher Relationship Building & Maintenance via Emotional Intelligence

Join Ché Meneses, Professor of Communication Studies, for a discussion of how to best support students in the virtual environment.

Presenter: Ché Meneses

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10:00 AM | Options for Integrating Library Instruction into Online Classrooms

During this informational session, faculty will be introduced to the different options for integrating library instruction into their online classrooms.

Presenters: Micaela Agyare & Mary Thomas

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11:00 AM | Canvas Quizzes

This is an intro-level session for those new to Canvas! Quizzes in Canvas can be low-stakes or high-stakes; multiple-choice, essay-based, video-based, you name it.

Presenter: Sarah Williams

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11:00 AM | Assessment with Multimedia

In this session, explore tools available for capturing multimedia student works and multimedia expression of knowledge, in Foothill's virtual space.

Presenters: Carolyn Holcroft & Lené Whitley-Putz

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11:00 AM: Project-Based Learning: A Multimedia Semester Class Project for CS55A

Join computer science faculty Bob Sandor as he explains a semester class project given to the hybrid class for CS55A winter quarter. The project was based upon an AWS published project and was intended to tie in all learned subject matter from the class and more.

Presenter: Bob Sandor

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Noon | Virtual Tour: Political Science and Building Community

Kerri Ryer, Professor of Political Science will share how she engages students through multiple avenues of communication and builds community with tools such as Pronto.

Presenter: Kerri Ryer

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Noon | Canvas SpeedGrader

Promote student engagement by quickly returning work with rich and targeted feedback. Learn how to leverage SpeedGrader with free form comments on student work that can be saved and reused.

Presenter: K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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Noon | Virtual Tour: Responsive Teaching in Online Statistics

Jennifer Sinclair, Professor of Mathematics, will demonstrate how she has used student feedback to create the kind of demos and overviews that her Statistics students want.

Presenter: Jennifer Sinclair

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12:30 PM | Virtual Tour: English

In this presentation, Brian Lewis discusses some of what he's learned teaching online when it comes to course design (backward design and designing around themes and major authentic projects), but he'll primarily explore how I use the discussion forum as a student portfolio.

Presenter: Brian Lewis

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12:30 PM| Keeping Track of Files

Canvas Files help you keep your virtual classroom organized, so you don't have to look under the bed to find the item you're looking for! Join us for a few quick tips on keeping things tidy, so you can find them when you need them!

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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Thursday

10:00 | Virtual Tour: Encouraging Students to Use the Canvas Mobile App

Professor Carolyn Brown will share simple ideas from an equity-minded phone-friendly Fine Arts course that gives students voice and choice and is humanized.

Presenter: Carolyn Brown

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10:00 | Making the Most of Modules: Intertwining Synchronous and Asynchronous Delivery

This session will help you make the most of the modules to group your content and guide students through your content pages and formative learning exercises, as well as helping them (and you!) keep track of synchronous activities.

Presenters: Sarah Williams & K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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10:00 AM | Canvas Studio

Studio is a built-in video capture tool in Canvas accessible to students and instructors. Join us to learn about the features of Studio and brainstorm how this tool can break down barriers in your virtual classroom!

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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10:00 | CORA: Equity-Minded Student Services in the Online Environment

The much anticipated second session of CORA's webinar series focused on equity in California Community Colleges. The unanticipated transition from face-to-face to online student services in response to COVID-19 presents a substantial challenge for most postsecondary institutions. Student affairs professionals must be intentional about ensuring that the needs of historically underrepresented and underserved students are adequately addressed, especially during this time of crisis. This webinar will focus on discussing equity-minded student services strategies and practices that can be employed by community college professionals in the online environment. The conversation will be facilitated by Drs. Luke Wood and Frank Harris III. This is an outside event; register here.

10:30 | Virtual Tour: Assessing Critical Thinking in Anthropology

Kathryn Maurer, Professor of Anthropology, will share how she builds opportunities for engagement (faculty to student and student to student) in a fully asynchronous class, and how she approaches the challenge of teaching and assessing critical thinking skills.

Presenter: Kathryn Maurer

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11:00 | Advanced Features in Modules

Learn about how the prerequisite feature of Modules can help to increase success by directing students to approach course material in a specific order.

Presenters: K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan & Sarah Williams

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11:00 | Virtual Tour: Communication

Oli Mohammadi, Professor of Fine Arts and Communication will discuss how form follows function in her class. Intentional number and labeling of pages and modules build a pattern to reduce cognitive load, facilitates editing and development and assists in managing course map alignment.

Presenter: Oli Mohammadi

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11:00 | Getting Through the Twilight Zone: Supporting Students (and Yourselves!) During the Pandemic

Psych Services presents some tips to help us through the twilight zone of COVID-19 in this webinar.

Presenters: Alexis Donato & Lisa Slede

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Noon | Creating Impactful Canvas Pages

This workshop will share strategies for building student-centered pages that are visually engaging and easy to build.

Presenters: Paula Schales & Jamie Lopez

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Noon | Formative Assessment Fun

Assessments do not have to be boring busy work! This workshop will give you ideas for ways to make your formative assessments a fun and engaging experience for you and your students.

Presenters: Laurence Lew & Lené Whitley-Putz

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Noon | Disability Resource Center Drop-In Session

The DRC team is hosting an hour-long drop-in session for faculty who have questions related to supporting students with disabilities.

Presenters: Jackie Lauese & Team

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1:00 PM | Accommodated Testing

Join a conversation with our testing team, led by Kennedy Bui, to hear updates about how our campus will support students with accommodations due to disability, in the virtual space!

Presenter: Kennedy Bui

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1:00 PM | Creating Graphics with Canva

We'll walk you through setting up your free Canva account, and show you some of the basics of building a custom graphic for your course.

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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1:00 PM | When a Student Submits a Grievance--What Faculty Should Know

In this brief, but informative session given by the Grievance Officer, Leticia Maldonado, faculty will walk away with a thorough understanding of how the Grievance Process works, the steps involved, and what to expect in a Grievance Hearing.

Presenter: Leticia Maldonado

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2:00 PM | Canvas Commons and OER

In this session, we'll show you how to use the Canvas Commons to share course material with one another, find shared resources, and import OER.

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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2:00 PM | Capturing and Captioning Lectures with Google Slides and Screencastify

Join Gabriel Glickman, Professor of History, who will show you a workflow for creating asynchronous content.

Presenter: Gabriel Glickman

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2:00 PM | Using Zoom for Synchronous Class Meetings

Learn about how to leverage zoom technology to maximize student engagement including building polls, breakout groups, and techniques to monitor the chat room.

Presenters: Sarah Williams & K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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3:00 PM | Using My Smart Phone to Capture Bite-Size Lab Videos

Hilary Gomes, Professor of Studio Art, will share how she is starting to create bite-sized 6 minute or less video Watercolor lab demonstrations using her smartphone.

Presenter: Hilary Gomes

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3:00 PM | Academic Integrity in the Virtual Campus Environment

Join us for a thoughtful discussion about helping our students grow as scholars.

Presenters: Carolyn Holcroft & Lené Whitley-Putz

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Friday

10:00 AM | Creating a Student-Centered Syllabus

This workshop will focus on how to enhance equity in your course by building a student centered-syllabus.

Presenters: Carolyn Holcroft and K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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10:00 AM | Using Groups in Canvas

In this session, we'll discuss how you can use groups to create better discussions, and how students can use the group spaces in Canvas.

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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10:00 AM | How the Counseling Department Supports Your Students/Q&A

Join us to learn how our counseling department supports students’ success, and have an opportunity to ask us questions about the work we do, and how instructors and counselors could best collaborate to help our students reach their goals!

Presenters: Isaac Escoto and Fatima Jinnah

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11:00 AM | Home is Where the START Is

Presenters will provide examples of engaging home pages and strategies for implementing them.

Presenters: Paula Schales & Jolie Theall

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11:00 AM | Career Planning: 5-15-30 Model

Join Mike Mohebbi, Foothill's Program Coordinator for Workforce and CTE, to discuss career planning in the "new normal."

Presenter: Mike Mohebbi

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11:00 AM | Did You Say Virus? | Making Sure You Have a Back-Up Plan

It is always good to have a Plan B. In these uncertain times your internet may go down just as you are preparing to Zoom with your class, or your student may not be able to join you? What is your backup plan? This workshop will help you build out a backup plan for your synchronous class activities.

Presenter: Sarah Williams

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Noon | 10-10-10: Communication that Matters

This workshop will focus on tools and techniques you can use to ensure the first 10 minutes, 10 hours, and 10 days of your virtual class support student success. We'll look at how your home page, orientation, syllabus, announcements, and activities in the first two weeks of your course build a net of communication around your students.

Presenter: Lené Whitley-Putz

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Noon | Extra, Extra Read All About It! Announcements in Canvas

This presentation will focus on building out a plan for creating a connected and engaged classroom starting with weekly summary Announcements and leveraging the delayed send feature to create just in time support and engender classroom community.

Presenter: K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan

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Noon | Nudge, Nudge: Using "Message Student Who" in Canvas

Sometimes all it takes to keep a student who is at risk of dropping out is a little personal attention or a nudge! Learn how to leverage the Gradebook and Analytics tools in Canvas to deliver targeted just-in-time messaging.

Presenter: Carolyn Holcroft

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4:00 PM | Did You Publish That?

In Canvas, if you did not publish it, your students won't know it's there! Join us for one last, very short session on Publishing.

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