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Jcctl Mailer – September 12, 2023, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on September 12, 2023.

Contents: Wed 9/13 sessions, mid-semester pilot, and more

Upcoming Events:

• Toward GenAI resistant assignments
• Mid-semester feedback pilot program

Jcctl Mailer – August 22, 2023, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on August 22, 2023.

Contents:

• Syllabus and first day of class resources

Jcctl Mailer – August 3, 2023, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on August 3, 2023.

Contents: : Fri 8/4 & next week's sessions

Upcoming Events:

• When does genAI tool use become “cheating”?
• Drafting your genAI class policy
• Open genAI discussion sessions

Jcctl Mailer – July 31, 2023, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on July 31, 2023.

Contents: Programming this week, new website, etc.

Upcoming Events:

• Open genAI discussion sessions
• When does genAI tool use become "cheating"? discussion

Jcctl Mailer – July 27, 2023, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on July 27, 2023.

Contents: Ongoing generative AI support

The Dialectic Transformation Of Teaching And Learning In Community Colleges Through Ungrading., Grace Pai, Jennifer Corby, Nicole Kras, Dusana Podlucká, Midori Yamamura

Publications and Research

As five Andrew J. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Hu-manities Faculty Fellows in the City University of New York, we capture in this essay the dialectical experience of ungrading our community college courses with our students. Drawing on case examples of implementing un-grading in a range of courses and a thematic analysis of our students’ reflec-tion submissions of being ungraded, we argue that ungrading is an effective pedagogical tool for debunking a deficits-based, outcomes-focused perspec-tive that is pervasive in studies on and of community college students. Through various ways of building student agency, self-reflection, and feed-back into our courses, we …

Jcctl Mailer – January 20, 2023, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on January 20, 2023.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• ChatGPT 101
• Summer course info session

Jcctl Mailer – January 7, 2023, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on January 7, 2023.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• Working in an age of Artificial-Intelligence text generators
• Generating rubrics
• Discussing challenging topics
• Strategies for an effective first day of class
• Moodle Basics Setup
• Moodle Gradebook Setup
• Introduction to Office/Microsoft 365

Jcctl Mailer - August 19, 2022, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on August 19, 2022.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• Strategies for an Effective First Day of Class

Resource Guides:

• Practical Ideas for Creating Effective Syllabi (attached)
• Setting Up Your Moodle Gradebook (attached)

Jcctl Mailer - August 10, 2022, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on August 10, 2022.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• 30 minutes with Kelli Murphy – Effective and Efficient Moodle Course Design Strategies
• Supporting International and Multilingual Student Writers
• Practical Ideas for Creating Effective Syllabi
• Trauma-Informed Approaches in Teaching

Other Recommended Resources:

• Creating Videos from PowerPoint
• Panopto Video Tutorials

Exploring Wikipedia As A Tool For Community Building And Teaching And Learning, Timothy R. Dewysockie, Andrea Baer

Libraries Scholarship

Wikipedia has become a widely accepted information source. Wikipedia is also by its very nature centered on community and on building and growing knowledge collectively. However, many are still understandably skeptical of how credible Wikipedia content is, and a gap remains between how frequently we use Wikipedia and how well we understand it. Wikipedia creates an opening for exploring how information is created and circulated, how the information creation process is often negotiated collectively, and how to critically evaluate online information. This session will explore how Wikipedia can be a rich tool for both teaching information literacy and building community …

Student Understanding Of Kinematics: A Qualitative Assessment, Andrew Cashman, Tom O'Mahony

Publications

In engineering, kinematics is widely regarded as a fundamental topic with the literature agreeing that students possess a wide range in understanding of the topic. This study aims to take a second-order approach by understanding and exploring the qualitatively different ways in which students approach solving kinematics problems. Phenomenography was used to collect data through ten semi-structured interviews with early-stage mechanical engineering students. Following data analysis, four distinct categories of students’ approaches were identified; unstructured, framing the problem, strategic, and conceptual. It was found that these categories could be arranged in a hierarchy and were also supported by secondary epistemic …

Jcctl Mailer – February 21, 2022, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on February 21, 2022.

• Effective and efficient feedback on Moodle assignments (with Kelli Murphy)
• Real Talk about OER – JCCTL OER Grantee Experience (Friday Forum)
• The Who, When, and Why of University Student Well-Being and Mental Health: Dept of Psychology Kenneth L. Smoke Colloquium Series Lecture
• How to Have Difficult Conversations: Spring Spotlight Series (Professional Development Committee)
• Helpful Moodle links
• Spring 2022 JCCTL Grants
• Mellon Travel Grant 2021-2022

Jcctl Mailer – February 7, 2022, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on February 7, 2022.

• Chavella Pittman and Thomas Tobin: Inclusive Pedagogy
• Café Symposium
• Defining Success: Creating Fffective Moodle Gradebooks With Kelli Murphy
• Spring 2022 JCCTL Grants
• Mellon Travel Grant 2021-2022 Application

Jcctl Mailer – January 7, 2022, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on January 7, 2022.

• Resource guide: skills in online teaching

• Kelly Murphy: Effective and Efficient Moodle Course Design Strategies

• First Day of Class Resource Guide

• Resource Guide: Finding Balance while Supporting Mental Health Needs

• Grant Opportunities: Mellon Travel Grants

• Spring 2022 Grants

Capturing More Voice In Entrepreneurial Education, Ziene Mottiar

Conference papers

A key element in Entrepreneurship education is exposing learners to real life entrepreneurial experiences. This is most often done via guest lectures who provide insightful presentations on their journeys, activities and strategies. This is often an element that students enjoy and report on positively in quality assurance forms. However, there are limitations to this approach as usually it is limited to one entrepreneur per module/semester, the type of entrepreneur who provides the guest lecture may be related to proximity, convenience or current networks of the lecturer, and diverse interests of students, and entrepreneurial representation, may not be met in this …

Teaching And Learning Under Covid-19 Public Health Edicts: The Role Of Household Lockdowns And Prior Technology Usage, Neil Guppy, David Boud, Tania Heap, Dominique Verpoorten, Uwe Matzat, Joanna Tai, Louise Lutze-Mann, Mary Roth, Patsie Polly, Jamie-Lee Burgess, Jenilyn L. Agapito, Silvia K. Bartolic

Department of Information Systems & Computer Science Faculty Publications

Public health edicts necessitated by COVID-19 prompted a rapid pivot to remote online teaching and learning. Two major consequences followed: households became students' main learning space, and technology became the sole medium of instructional delivery. We use the ideas of "digital disconnect" and "digital divide" to examine, for students and faculty, their prior experience with, and proficiency in using, learning technology. We also explore, for students, how household lockdowns and digital capacity impacted learning. Our findings are drawn from 3806 students and 283 faculty instructors from nine higher education institutions across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For instructors, we …

Jcctl Mailer – September 28, 2021, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on September 28, 2021.

• Finding Balance while Supporting Student Mental Health Needs, by Becky Colgan and Michele Montenegro

• Resource: How to Publish Your First Book

• Campus Working Group Grant

• Mellon Travel Grants

• Online resource: Help Your ADHD Learners Land the Plane, Karen Costa

Jcctl Mailer – August 25, 2021, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on August 25, 2021

• Updates on JCCTL Teaching and Mentoring resource page
• Brent Talbot and Josh Eyler's talks
• About "Teaching Square"

Jcctl Mailer – July 12, 2021, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on July 12, 2021

• JCCTL Teaching and Mentoring resources page
• Featured resource guide from Josh Eyler's talk
• Data Visualization for Social Justice: The Case of Torn Apart/Separados, Dr. Roopika Risam, Associate Professor of Secondary and higher Education and English at Salem State University
• Jennifer Gonzalez interview with Peter Brown, author of "Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning"

Jcctl Mailer – February 26, 2021, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on February 26, 2021.

Contents:

Moodle-related PSA: Formatting PDF files in Apple Preview

Readings & Resources

• Three things that the workload dilemma might really be about
• How to use student feedback to improve your online course
• Teaching and mentoring resources from the JCCTL

Upcoming Events:

• Friday Forum: Faculty and Student Perspectives on Open Education at Gettysburg College

Grants and other Funding Opportunities

• Johnson Creative Teaching Summer Grant
• Johnson Teaching Grant
• Digital Literacy Assignment Grant
• The Johnson Center Teaching with Special Collections Grant
• Mellon Grant Opportunity …

Jcctl Mailer – January 28, 2021, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on January 28, 2021.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• An effective first day of class

Readings & Resources

• Are we assigning too much work to our students?
• Resource guides: Rethinking the syllabus and "derailment prevention"

Grants and other Funding Opportunities

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants
• Faculty-Created Working Group

Jcctl Mailer – January 19, 2021, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on January 19, 2021.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• What you say and how you say it: The Syllabus as a guiding document
• Derailment prevention: Course design strategies for fostering respectful dialogue
• Understanding our students’ lives outside the classroom
• An effective first day of class

Readings & Resources

• 8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout, Flower Darby
• What do we do and say on the all-important first day of class

Grants and other Funding Opportunities

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants
• Faculty-Created Working Group

Jcctl Mailer – January 14, 2021, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on January 14, 2021.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• What you say and how you say it: The Syllabus as a guiding document
• Derailment prevention: Course design strategies for fostering respectful dialogue

Grant and other Funding Opportunities

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants
• Faculty-Created Working Group

Other Recommended Resources

• How to Teach a Good First Day of Class, James M. Lang
• First Day of Class, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching
• Leading Lines podcast
• National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity, Spring Webinar Schedule

Jcctl Mailer – November 17, 2020, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on November 17, 2020.

Contents:

Recommended Resources:

• Pedagogies of Care
• Leading Lines (Podcast)

Upcoming Events

• Promoting academic integrity in remote learning environments

Jcctl Mailer – October 7, 2020, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on October 7, 2020.

Contents:

Recommended Readings:

• The Science of Learning vs. Proctoring Software, Joshua R. Eyler ’00
• 7 Ways to Assess Students Online and Minimize Cheating, Flower Darby,

Upcoming Events and Due Dates

• Intentional Planning for Advising First Year and Sophomore Students
• Hypothes.is Demo
• Information Literacy Grant
• Resources from recent JCCTL programming
• Virtual Faculty Development Group Chat and Office Hour

Upcoming Friday Forums

• The future of Innovation and Creativity at Gettysburg College, Josh Wagner

Jcctl Mailer – September 29, 2020, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on September 29, 2020.

Contents:

Recommended Readings:

• What Students Want Their Professors to Know, Beth McMurtrie
• Note-taking Frameworks

Upcoming JCCTL Events

• 30 minutes with Charmaine T. Cruise and Sahana Mukherjee: Engaging in proactive advising during the new normal.
• Johnson Teaching Grant

Resources from Transition Week (“JPI Booster”) Events

• International Student Support Do’s and Don’ts
• Mindful Learning in a Digital Space
• Discussion Forums
• Building Better Breakout Rooms
• Tool Time (Effective Tools and Apps)
• Creating Effective Video Content
• Assessment in remote learning environments
• Supporting Student Mental Health …

Jcctl Mailer – September 22, 2020, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on September 22, 2020.

Contents:

Upcoming JCCTL Events:

• 30 minutes with… Charmaine T. Cruise and Sahana Mukherjee: Engaging in proactive advising during the new normal.
• Student Targeted Messaging

Resources from Transition Week

• International Student Support Do’s and Don’ts
• Mindful Learning in a Digital Space
• Discussion Forum Check-in
• Building Better Breakout Rooms
• Tool Time
• Creating Effective Video Content
• Assessment in remote learning environments'
• Supporting Student Mental Health at Gettysburg College
• Supporting first-year students during a de-densified semester

Other Events

• Virtual Faculty Development Group Chat and Office …

Jcctl Mailer – September 7, 2020, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on September 7, 2020.

Contents:

Discussion on the Decision to De-densify Campus

Zoom Meetings

• Supporting First-year Students During a De-densified Semester, Kathy Cain (Psychology) and Ian Isherwood (War and Memory Studies)

• Supporting Student Mental Health at Gettysburg, Kathy Bradley

• Assessment in Remote Learning Environments, Sharon Birch and Josef Brandauer

• Creating Effective Video Content, Carrie Szarko
  
• Tool Time, Kevin Moore and Melissa Forbes
• Building Better Breakout Rooms, Kevin Moore and Melissa Forbes
• Discussion Forum Check-in, Kevin Moore and Melissa Forbes
• Mindful Learning in a Digital Space, …

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Jcctl Mailer – September 4, 2020, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on September 4, 2020.

Contents:

Zoom with us!

• June Pedagogy Institute Team is hosting ‘Zoom-in’ hours
• Dr. Kathy Bradley, Director of Counseling Services will be the next featured guest in the "30 min with..." series.

Other Pedagogy Resources

• Mussleman Library Information Literacy Concepts and Skills
• Effective Student Outreach
• Podcast: How to Create Social SPaces in your Courses, Dr. Melissa Wehler.
• Universal Design of Learning (UDL Resources)
• Williams College Strategies and Tips for Teaching Hybrid and Remote Courses

Grant Opportunities

• Faculty Created working Groups
• Resilient …