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Summertime: Week 10 (8/3 - 8/7)

This week we're being quiet in Keep Teaching (mostly because Riggs is going camping and she's really loud). So take this opportunity to engage with the stuff we've been building here.

Just joining us?

If you're just hopping into this Keep Teaching scene, we're glad you're here, so don't be shy! Here are some things that might be helpful:

Start by learning the rules, and then get certified to teach online by completing the Online Education Legal Requirements Quiz. You must pass this quiz with 100% to be certified to teach online for CR.
See what we've been doing this summer by visiting the archives.
Take a peek into some online classes to get ideas for your own course design.
Check out the modules, where you will find gobs of resources to help you get started.
Look at our new page F20: Are you ready? A checklist and let us know if there is anything missing!
Consider participating in the CVC-OEI Humanizing Challenge next week (8/11 - 8/13). This activity sounds really cool.

Ongoing (Asynchronous) Discussions (in Canvas)

Each week this summer, we started a new discussion forum to share ideas about important topics related to online teaching (and I actually added 2 this week instead of one). Take a look at what we've been talking about! And please chime in. The more voices contributing to the conversations, the more we learn. (Note- the oldest discussions are at the bottom!)

Th 8/6 special event (11am): Black Minds Matter Webinar Series

The Chancellor’s Office is sharing a webinar series that will allow all of us to continue learn and connect anti-racism, student success and equity. Please join the Black Minds Matter webinar series beginning July 16 for a free five-part series hosted by Dr. J. Luke Wood and Dr. Donna Y. Ford. The series will include members from all education segments throughout the country (e.g. K-12, community colleges, four-year universities) and address the experiences and realities of Black students in education. Black Minds Matter is a national movement that draws parallels between the policing of Black lives and schooling of Black minds. The webinar series will balance a discussion of issues facing Black students as well as offer research-based strategies for improving their success. Register at this link.

Next week: Th 8/13 11am- Equity discussion

Our equity discussions with Alia Dunphy have been very inspiring. Alia will be facilitating a discussion about one of the six webinars in a series presented last spring through the Center for Urban Education (CUE) entitled "Racial Equity in Online Environments." Here's how to participate in this activity:

By 8/13 at 1pm, watch Webinar V: Equity-Minded Mathematics Instruction. (Note- Alia assures us this is relevant to ALL instructors, not just Math ones!)
Description: This webinar will include one or more math instructors from California and Colorado who have worked with CUE on developing pedagogical practices that are critically race conscious. This session will address: (1) traditional vs equity-minded conceptions of the ways in which math is done and thought about, (2) how to draw upon student’s knowledge, (3) noticing racialized patterns in data close to practice (gradebook and attendance mapping, designing homework problems), (4) engaging students conversations that focus on how they are experiencing the online environment.
Attend the Zoom discussion on Thursday 8/13 at 1pm. Here are all your connection deets:

Zoom info:
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/97009370157
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833,97009370157# or +13462487799,97009370157#
Or Telephone:
    Dial:
    +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)
    +1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)
    Meeting ID: 970 0937 0157

Already past

Discussion happened 7/30 at 1pm, but you can still watch Webinar IV: Online Support as an Anti-Racist Practice.
Description: The immediate and unforeseen transition to exclusively online courses and administrative services in the wake of COVID-19 can make it difficult for administrative and students. In this webinar, panelists will: 1) discuss how administrators can proactively engage students with the goal of building and sustaining authentic relationships with minoritized students and 2) share strategies for doing so in online teaching and virtual support.
Discussion happened 7/23 at 1pm, but you can still watch Webinar III – Being Aware of Learning Opportunities and Constraints Posed by Online Teaching and Moving Towards Anti-Racist Practices. Description: This webinar will address the “taken-for-granted” practices and assumptions that shape the online learning environment and ways in which they can be detrimental to the success of minoritized students. For example, many students only have access to a cellular phone and instructors are not considering how the materials they upload may become distorted on a phone. The current circumstances are overwhelming and it is easy for instructors to default to the students who have the know-how to navigate technology.
Discussion happened 7/9, but you can still watch Webinar II – Equity-Minded Online Teaching: Using Canvas as a Model.
Description: Professor Jennifer Ortiz will illustrate how to use Canvas with an equity mindset. She will provide examples of techniques and strategies which can be easily applied in any course. For example, she will show participants the video message she uses to welcome students into her class. This session will also have a focus on the implementation of AB705. Professor Ortiz is the Chair of English at LA Trade Tech and a Fellow at the Center for Urban Education. She has collaborated with CUE’s staff on the development of equity-minded teaching materials.
Discussion happened 7/2, but you can still watch Webinar I: The Importance of Equity-Minded Virtual Practices During COVID19: A Conversation with Students.
Description: Introduction to CUE and webinar series by Chancellor Eloy Oakley and Dr. Estela Bensimon. This webinar session will provide a foundation of understanding to Equity-Mindedness. This webinar will introduce key terms and principles which will guide every webinar in this series. In addition, five student panelists will join to engage in a discussion about their experiences transitioning into online learning in the midst of COVID-19.
Discussion happened 6/25, but you can still watch Webinar VI: How to Express Care with a focus on Racial Equity.
Description: This session is informed by common assumptions that racially minoritized students are deficient. Often times instructor’s and administrators’ responses imply that “racial equity” means to provide interventions that “fix students.” This session will critically address how to provide authentic care to students with a focus on racial equity.

Summer PD topics...subject to change!

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