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Welcome to Keep Teaching

CR Keep Teaching is a Canvas site that began in March 2020 to help all faculty transition their classes to emergency remote delivery due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. When we learned we'd be running our classes almost exclusively online for the Fall semester, we decided to leverage this existing site to support faculty in getting certified to teach online, as well as building and running high quality online classes. We're using Canvas to leverage our knowledge and creativity and share resources with each other.

Keep Teaching is a hub for professional development and support for our amazing college community. We're glad you're here.

What's new?

Share our new Student Technical Support and Help page with your students!
This new page on our website is run by Matthew Shell, our Student Technology Assistant. Spread the word- this is an incredible resource!
Explore our new Canvas site: CR ELL Support.
This site was built by Laurel Jean and Jonny Maiullo to help support your work with English Language Learners. You can explore the site by following the link, but if you want to participate in the conversations Laurel and Jonny have created, you'll need to click the "+ join this course" button (top right corner) when you're on the home page. Please email Laurel Jean and Jonny Maiullo for more information.

Professional development

Future of Distance Education Symposium (FACCC)
Register to reserve your spot for Friday, October 23, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Faculty have many concerns about what a “new normal” might look like in terms of college and system wide continued use of the Distance Education modality post COVID-19. This event is designed specifically to offer a platform for not only voicing concerns, but imagining and perhaps planning how faculty could shape that future. Join us for a two hour virtual event with a diverse panel who will provide their thoughts about this future and the role of faculty in shaping it followed by Q&A.
Webinar - Challenges and Opportunities Regarding Camera Use and Synchronous Online Instruction (ASCCC)
Register to reserve your spot for Thursday, October 29, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
In the nation-wide shift to remote instruction this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of synchronous instruction using Zoom is common within distance education courses. Practices around requiring students to be in class at a designated time and possibly on camera during examination or assessment, lecture or instruction, and other class activities vary widely. Join this webinar to explore the pros and cons of synchronous instruction and camera use during classes. The discussion will cover potential impacts on students and effective practices that may differ from one discipline to another.
CanvasCon Online Conference (Instructure Canvas)
While this event already happened, you can still register and access the recorded sessions!
LeVar Burton gave one of the keynote talks at this online conference. Definitely worth a watch.

We're all just holding on, yes? Halfway through this semester, exhaustedly trying to think about next semester, working hard to keep our students at the center while ensuring our own oxygen masks functional...keep going.

Important deadlines

Keenan COVID-19 and Sexual Harassment training due: 10/18/20
(From Riggs: I've been receiving email reminders to do this, weekly. Looks like reminders have been coming out on Mondays.)
Spring 21 book orders due: 11/11/20
Complete instructions were emailed to all faculty on 10/12/20 from Ashley Mitchell. We also have instructions here: Submitting Textbook Adoptions
Spring 21 course packet orders due: 10/11/20 (new) or 11/15/20 (same as last time)
Complete instructions were emailed to all faculty on 9/14/20 from Ashley Mitchell. We also have instructions here: Submitting Textbook Adoptions (toward the bottom of the page).

Ongoing (Asynchronous) Discussions

Discussion forums provide the chance to share ideas about important topics related to online teaching in a time and place that works for you. Take a look at some of the conversations we've been having since summer- and please chime in. The more contributing voices, the more we learn. (Note- we will eventually archive the discussions as we start new ones, but we're keeping these alive for now.)