Moraine Valley Center for Teaching & Learning

FERPA TRAINING
2019-11-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2019-10-31 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
This workshop will be an overview of FERPA regulations and how they impact everyone’s daily interactions with students.

MVLA: College 101 Beyond the Basics - Meeting 4
2019-11-06 15:45 - 16:35 | G110A
Delivering pedagogical strategies and insight for instructors seeking to learn how to teach College Introduction (COL-101) classes at Moraine Valley. The course will provide both new and seasoned instructors with ideas and guidance for facilitating assignments and class discussions related to the COL-101 course objectives.

Teaching and Learning Community (TLC) Event
2019-11-06 12:00 - 13:00
The Teaching and Learning Community (TLC) is a public event organized and hosted during the fall semester by the CTL and the Library, which features short talks from staff, administrators, and faculty highlighting ideas and innovations. TLC seeks to fulfill the CTL’s mission to create a culture of learning by providing various professional development opportunities for all faculty and staff as well as the Library’s mission of supporting the curriculum through providing information resources.

Making Your Online Course Accessible: How To Meet ADA Guidelines - Part 2 of 3
2019-11-05 12:00 - 13:00 | L244

COL-101 Canvas Shell & New Textbook
2019-11-05 11:00 - 12:00
This training is designed to help COL101 move smoothly into the new textbook while incorporating one of the courses new objectives, MVCC Technology. A course shell has been created to allow easy adoption of the material and get students and instructors comfortable with the online tools through the introduction of college life, success skills, and transitions.
All COL101 instructors will be provided a course shell to copy into their own master course shell.

Collaborative International Online Learning (COIL)
2019-11-04 - 2019-11-11 | A280
Virtual exchange, also known as Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), Globally Networked Learning, or Telecollaboration, is a way for faculty and students to work collaboratively with students in foreign colleges and universities on projects and assignments. During this session, examples of virtual exchanges as well as opportunities for transnational learning will be presented.

Outlook Calendar
2019-11-01 11:00 - 11:45 | L243
This workshop will demonstrate how to use the Outlook Web App to create calendar items and use the scheduler to invite others to meetings.

Excel Filters
2019-11-01 10:00 - 10:45 | L243
This workshops will demonstrate how to use custom sort and how to convert Excel data to tables to apply filters.

MVLA: College 101 Beyond the Basics - Meeting 3
2019-10-30 15:45 - 16:35 | G270

COL-101 Canvas Shell and New Textbook
2019-10-30 14:00 - 15:00

Making Your Online Course Accessible: How To Meet ADA Guidelines - Part 1 of 3
2019-10-29 12:00 - 13:00 | L244

Best Practices For Faculty & Staff-Working With Students With Disabilities
2019-10-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 | L244
Participants will learn about creating an inclusive classroom , an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), gain an increased understanding of accommodations in higher education and ways to collaborate with campus resources to best support students.

MVLA: College 101 Beyond the Basics - Meeting 2
2019-10-23 15:45 - 16:35 | G270

Creative Assessments
2019-10-22 11:00 - 11:50 | L243
Have you ever wanted to have students create visual responses to asignments and projects? With a popular tool from Adobe, anything is possible.

Graphic Design For The Rest Of Us
2019-10-22 10:00 - 10:50 | L243
Have you ever wanted to create some fun graphics, like an infographic? With a little creativity, some tools make it relatively easy to do!

Canvas Rubrics, Outcomes, And Grading
2019-10-18 11:00 - 23:50 | L243
This workshop will demonstrate how to create and attach rubrics and outcomes to course activities.

Instructional Technology Unconference
2019-10-17 15:00 - 17:00
The Instructional Technology Unconference will take place on October 17, 2019, from 3:00p to 5:00p, starting in A141.
Unlike a traditional conference, an unconference is designed to have short, quick paced sessions that get right to the point. In our case, the Instructional Technology Unconference will have two 45-minute sessions. Each presenter is asked to demonstrate their content three times over one of the sessions, with each demonstration lasting only 12 minutes. Attendees are able to cycle around to three different presentations over the 45 minute period. The presentations will be spread out across 6 rooms on the first floor of the A building.
For more information, please refer to the CTL’s post about the Instructional Technology Unconference.

MVLA: College 101 Beyond the Basics - Meeting 1
2019-10-16 15:45 - 16:35 | G270

Online Travel Authorization Forms
2019-10-09 10:00 - 11:00 | L244
The travel authorization process is fully automated and online. Come to training and learn how to create and enter information into the new form. Approving travel authorization forms will be covered in the second half of the class.

Creating And Approving Online Travel Authorization Forms
2019-10-09 10:00 - 11:00 | L244
The travel authorization process is fully automated and online. Come to training to learn how to create and enter information into the new form. Approving travel authorization forms will be covered in the second half of the class.

Well, Almost "Everything" Recycling
2019-10-08 12:00 - 13:00 | D116, United States
Learn how to properly recycle on campus. Also, access resources to understand proper procedures at home. Finally, learn about how recycling happens; where does it go; what does it become; how much waste is actually recycled; and is it really that important to practice.

FERPA Training
2019-10-08 10:00 - 11:00 | S117B, United States

Brain-Based Methods Improve Engagement, Motivation And Performance!
2019-10-08 - 2019-10-10 | A280
If you would like to improve student engagement, motivation and performance, this is the ‘online’ workshop for you! Thanks to strides in technology, 12 principles of student-centered, active brain-based methods founded in neuroscience are proven to trigger learning in engaging and exciting ways. Create memorable lessons in any area or subject! Explore brain-based: movement, five senses, patterning, collaboration/secure environment, parallel processing and peripheral perception; music, down-time: mid-line breaks, celebrations, energizers; visualization, imagery/relaxed alertness, and emotions. Your students will benefit from great rewards of engaged, energized, on-task, and active learning. A recent study at Moraine Valley resulted in 13.46 percent performance improvement, and 71 percent of students preferred brain-based learning. Workbook, resources, and ‘how to’ with examples are included.Participants may work at their own pace and complete the workshop at any point during the three day time-frame.

Canvas: Getting Started
2019-10-07 10:30 - 11:20 | L243
This workshop will provide an introduction to the Canvas learning management system from an instructor perspective. In this session, participants will learn how to navigate Canvas, post a course syllabus, create a simple module, edit the course menu, post announcements, and make the course and its resources available to students.

Honors Course Development Workshop Begins
2019-10-01 | TBD, United States
This hybrid workshop is a component of the honors course development process. Faculty interested in teaching in honors need to complete the workshop as a part of their course development. It includes web instruction and a final meeting where faculty share sample assignments to use in their courses.

Engaging Students With Twitter
2019-09-25 12:00 - 12:30 | L243
Have you ever considered ways to keep your students engaged inside and outside of the classroom? Twitter can be a great way of engaging students through a medium they use.

Live Brainstorming And Word Clouds
2019-09-25 11:00 - 11:50 | L243
Have you ever wanted a way for students to quickly brainstorm a topic, or make a collaborative decision? With a little preparation, brainstorming and word clouds can be a great way of visually representing knowledge in a class.

Informal Assessment With Polling Tools
2019-09-25 10:00 - 10:50 | L243
Have you ever wanted a quick way to check student knowledge using quick & informal ways? With a little preparation, polling tools can provide a great way to informally assessing students in an engaged manner.
