Dear 3CSN Community,

We hope you are doing well. See below for this week’s offerings. Please share with colleagues. We look forward to seeing you in the sessions!

In community,

The 3CSN Team

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Tuesdays – Centering Equity

Looking for ways to center equity in all learning spaces? Tuesday Centering Equity sessions invite you to be the change. In these sessions we will explore ways we can center equity across roles. Join us on Tuesdays for Equity in Action: Praxis Sessions. See below for more information and to register. Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional Centering Equity offerings.

Equity in Action: Praxis Sessions

Advancing the Dialogue with Intentionally Designed Equity 101 Learning Communities
Tuesday, April 27th, 10 AM – 11:30 AM

Join Kiara Koenig and Katie Oesau (Yuba College) for this praxis session that will showcase examples and walk participants through creating Equity 101 style communities of practice tailored to the needs of a particular department, service area or college.

These tailored Communities of Practice (CoPs) make equity real and relevant to participants, while maintaining rigorous inquiry and building brave relationships.
Register

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Wednesdays – Practitioners in Community

Looking for ways to broaden your network and learn with others across the state? Wednesday Practitioners in Community sessions invite you to be connected with others around specific areas of focus. Join us on alternating Wednesdays for Mindfulness for Educators, Text Talk, and Virtual Community Hour for Classified Professionals. See below for more information and to register. Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional Practitioners in Community offerings.

Text Talk: Approaches to Reading and Discussion
Wednesday, April 28th, 2 PM – 3 PM

Looking for ways to enrich text-based reading and discussions online? Join 3CSN coordinators Sarah Sullivan (Mission College) and Nicole Bryant Lescher (College of the Redwoods) for an hour of text-centered engagement with readings selected to support educators and students alike.
Register

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Thursdays – Learn and Practice

Looking for ways to make Canvas and Zoom more student-centered? Seeking tools to engage students and colleagues online? Thursday Learn and Practice sessions invite you to be intentional as you learn and practice using online tools to support student success. Join us weekly for Canvas 102: Student-Centered Design sessions Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional Learn and Practice offerings.

Canvas Gradebook & Feedback: Peer Review
Thursday, 4/29, 10 AM – 11:30 AM

Join 3CSN Coordinator Nicole Bryant Lescher (College of the Redwoods) for this Learn & Practice session focused on peer review.
Register

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Fridays – What’s Happening?: Colleges in Action

Wondering how other campuses in your region and across the state are addressing challenges? Craving opportunities to make broader change at the classroom level or college-wide? Friday What’s Happening?: Colleges in Action sessions invite you to be supported and be engaged. Join us for the Learning Assistance Hour, regional meet-ups, civic engagement, and college spotlights. Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional What’s Happening?: Colleges in Action offerings.

Humanizing Online Learning & Teaching
Friday, April 30th, 1 PM – 2 PM

Join Jessica Drawbond (LACCD Distance Education Coordinator and Associate Professor of English, Los Angeles Southwest College), for this workshop exploring why humanizing our online courses is important, especially from an equity standpoint. We’ll also hear directly from students about why personalizing the online learning experience and making human connections in online courses is important in helping them learn and feel motivated. Finally, we’ll discuss practical strategies for humanizing online teaching and learning.
Register

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Learning Assistance Hour

Peer Educator Power, Pt VI – Growth Mindset & Learning Strategies
Friday, April 30th, 3 PM – 4 PM

Join 3CSN interns Fatima Mamdani and Grace Lewis as well as Roni Haj Hussein (Los Angeles Pierce College tutor) to explore how Carol Dweck’s “Growth Mindset” framework can be applied in peer-led learning to shift the focus from “getting answers” to strengthening study skills and learning strategies. This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! 

For a deeper dive, participants are also invited to stay for an optional discussion session from 4:00 to 4:30 to continue exploring these tools and their application.
For more detailed information about the sessions, visit our website.
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REGISTER NOW! OUR SUMMER CLASS SCHEDULE IS OPEN The CVC’s summer course schedule is open for registration! Several courses are being offered, including: Creating Accessible Course Content Humanizing Online Teaching & Learning Introduction to Asynchronous Online Teaching & Learning Introduction to Course Design Online Teaching & Design Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching To register, visit the Online Network of Educator’s catalog. Course registration fees vary and many are eligible for continuing education credits by dual-enrolling in TEC 1821 at Fresno Pacific University.

Please join us in welcoming our newest CVC Consortium colleges:

• San Jose City College
• Skyline College
• San Diego College of Continuing Education

If your college is interested in joining, you can find additional information on the CVC website.

NOW ADOPTABLE! INTRO TO LIVE ONLINE TEACHING & LEARNING AND EQUITY & CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING The CVC recently made released adoptable versions of two courses – Intro to Live Online Teaching & Learning and Equity & Culturally Responsive Teaching.  Adoptable courses allow colleges to adopt or adapt them for use in a local professional development program.  Several of the CVC-OEI/@ONE’s courses are available via  Canvas Commons, To find these adoptable courses: Go the the Canvas Commons In the search box at the top, enter “CVC-OEI Adoptable”

Search Canvas Commons for adoptable courses

STAR-CA TUTOR AND STUDENT PANEL: WHAT’S ON OUR MINDS? PREPARING TO RETURN TO CAMPUS Tuesday, May 4 / 11 AM – 12:30 PM Before the pandemic, one in four community college students sought academic support from a tutoring center, and less than 15% of those tutoring sessions happened online. In the past 14 months, we have all put our tutoring programs online and trained our tutors to collaborate effectively and compassionately with online students. Most programs have experienced significantly higher volume of students seeking help online simply because there were no in-person options available to them. When campuses reopen, will students continue to seek online tutoring support now that they have more experience with it? Have they become accustomed to the convenience and comfortable with the technology? Join our tutor and student panel to hear what they say about the differences between online tutoring and in-person tutoring and how they feel about continued support of online tutoring.

Register here for Tutor and Student Panel

CAPTURE STUDENTS’ ATTENTION WITH POWERFUL VIDEOS Friday, May 14 / 2 PM – 1 PM Video can be a powerful medium for creating engagement and connection with your students. It can also backfire with the opposite effect when done poorly. (Hint: Just presenting content won’t do the trick.) Come learn five dynamic—and actually quite simple—tips for creating effective educational videos.

Register here for Capture Students’ Attention with Videos

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT … The pandemic has caused many faculty members to question if traditional exams are a valid measure of student knowledge and whether or not they actually help develop the skills necessary to be successful beyond the classroom. Biology instructor Holly Schiefelbein chronicled her journey from traditional exams to authentic assessment in the CVC/@ONE article Time for a Change: Authentic Assessment in STEM. In spring 2018, Long Beach City College (LBCC) was ranked 113th out of 114 California Community Colleges for course-level student success. Students of color experienced the greatest obligation gaps in terms of course-level success, retention, and transfer; these gaps were exacerbated in our online classes. Clearly a change was in order. Learn more from Michael Robertson in his CVC/@ONE article, Conducting an Online Course Cultural Curriculum Audit: Steps Toward Student Equity and Success.

CVC’s Online Network of Educators (@ONE) has several upcoming courses to benefit both beginning and advanced online faculty, including: Introduction to Course Design, May 3 – May 30 The full course schedule is available at catalog.onlinenetworkofeducators.org. Colleges can purchase bulk enrollments in the form of coupon codes. This special feature supports the growing need for professional development across the CCC system.

 

Tuesday, April 13th

10 AM – 11 AM

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Inquiry-based, active, and culturally responsive instruction are all dependent upon learners sharing their ideas, questions, opinions, reactions, and confusions. Yet how do we set the stage, especially online, for the learning to be truly driven by participants’ talk? How are we inviting, and how are we listening to, student voice?

Please join us for this thought-provoking session presented by 3CSN coordinator Nika Hogan (Pasadena City College). The presentation will be followed by discussion.

This event is part of our Tuesday Equity in Action: Praxis Sessions lineup. The schedule for upcoming sessions, past sessions, and recordings may be found here.

Looking for a deeper dive into equity work? Register for our Summer Equity 101 course, June 7-August 1, 2021

Looking for more professional learning opportunities?Check out 3CSN’s Wayfinding Online Schedule

Questions? Email us at ask@3csn.org

Tuesdays – Centering Equity

Looking for ways to center equity in all learning spaces? Tuesday Centering Equity sessions invite you to be the change. In these sessions we will explore ways we can center equity across roles. Join us on Tuesdays for Equity in Action: Praxis Sessions. See below for more information and to register. Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional Centering Equity offerings.

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Equity in Action: Praxis Sessions

Tuesdays, 10 AM – 11:30 AM

These sessions feature the work of equity practitioners across the state. Community hours will be provided periodically to offer more informal opportunities for dialogue.
Register

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Wednesdays – Practitioners in Community

Looking for ways to broaden your network and learn with others across the state? Wednesday Practitioners in Community sessions invite you to be connected with others around specific areas of focus. Join us on alternating Wednesdays for Mindfulness for Educators, Text Talk, and Virtual Community Hour for Classified Professionals. See below for more information and to register. Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional Practitioners in Community offerings.

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Mindfulness for Educators

Alternating Wednesdays (April 7 & 21), 2 PM – 3 PM

Looking for ways to be more centered, resilient, peaceful, kind, and present for your students and yourself? Join 3CSN coordinator Sarah Sullivan and educators across the state in this intentional space to practice mindful breathing, reflective journaling, and heart sharing.
Register

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Text Talk: Approaches to Reading and Discussion

Alternating Wednesdays (April 14 & 28), 2 PM – 3 PM

Looking for ways to enrich text-based reading and discussions online? Join 3CSN coordinators Sarah Sullivan (Mission College) and Nicole Bryant Lescher (College of the Redwoods) for an hour of text-centered engagement with readings selected to support educators and students alike.
Register

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Virtual Community Hour for Classified Professionals

Alternating Wednesdays (April 7 & 21), 3 PM – 4 PM

Join 3CSN classified professionals Betina Vallin and Estela Miranda for this space specifically designed to support classified professionals as we navigate this virtual work environment together.
Register

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Thursdays – Learn and Practice

Looking for ways to make Canvas and Zoom more student-centered? Seeking tools to engage students and colleagues online? Thursday Learn and Practice sessions invite you to be intentional as you learn and practice using online tools to support student success. Join us weekly for Canvas 102: Student-Centered Design sessions Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional Learn and Practice offerings

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Canvas 102: Student-Centered Design Sessions – Canvas Gradebook & Feedback

Thursdays 10 AM – 11:30 AM

Join 3CSN Coordinator Nicole Bryant Lescher (College of the Redwoods) for these Learn & Practice sessions focused on Canvas Gradebook and Feedback.

• 4/1 – Gradebook Setup
• 4/8 – Feedback Features
• 4/15 – Rubrics
• 4/22 – Annotations and Comments
• 4/29 – Peer Review

Register

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Fridays – What’s Happening?: Colleges in Action

Wondering how other campuses in your region and across the state are addressing challenges? Craving opportunities to make broader change at the classroom level or college-wide? Friday What’s Happening?: Colleges in Action sessions invite you to be supported and be engaged. Join us for the Learning Assistance Hour, regional meet-ups, civic engagement, and college spotlights. Learn more and register below. Check our website regularly for additional What’s Happening?: Colleges in Action offerings.

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Join us for the last Civic Dialogue of Spring 2021!
Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education: Reclaiming Our Civic Purpose

Friday, April 2nd, 12 PM – 2 PM

Dr. William Flores, Former President of University of Houston- Downtown and Professor of Political Science & Dr. Noel Bezette-Flores, Chief Student Engagement Officer and Associate Dean, Global Campus, San Diego State University

During the first hour our guest speaker will share their topic and address your questions. This will be followed with a facilitated lunchtime discussion designed to help you consider how these ideas or models could be practiced on your campus or in your classrooms.
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Learning Assistance Hour

Fridays 3 PM – 4 PM

We invite you to join us for the Learning Assistance Hour each Friday at 3 PM to learn more about how colleges across the state are leveraging the power of peer educators to support student success.

• 4/2: Peer Educator Power, Pt II – Setting Norms, Expectations, and Agreements – Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, LAPC, 3CSN
• 4/9: Peer Educator Power, Pt III– Text Set Activity: Boundaries and Netiquette – Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, LAPC, 3CSN
• 4/16: Peer Educator Power, Pt IV- Text Set Activity: Collaborative Engagement – Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, LAPC, 3CSN
• 4/23: Peer Educator Power, Pt V – Embedding Metacognition into Your Session – the “KWL” – Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, LAPC, 3CSN
• 4/30: Peer Educator Power, Pt VI – Growth Mindset and Learning Strategies – Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, LAPC, 3CSN

For more detailed information about the sessions, visit our website.
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Learning Assistance Hour: “Peer Educator Power”

Spring 2021 Workshop Schedule

Registration link for all sessions

Date	Title	Descriptions	Presenter(s)
2/26	Lesson Planning for Tutors and SI Leaders	Some of the best peer learning sessions follow a plan with a distinct beginning, middle, and end. Come learn about one way to structure your sessions to increase effectiveness! This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Timurhan Vengco, CSULB & ACTLA
3/5	Kahoot and Quizlet for Peer Educators	In this one-hour session, tutors will discuss how they engage students in a tutoring session by using two of their favorite online tools: Kahoot and Quizlet. Participants will see these platforms in action and think about how they can incorporate them into their peer educator sessions. This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Valeria Carrillo, Roni Haj Hussein, LAPC Tutors
3/12	Building Collaboration between Peer Educators and Faculty	Peer educators and faculty members will work together to explore strategies for building stronger connections so that peer educators can provide more specific, direct support to students. Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Eddie Tchertchian, Marra Kraemer, LAPC Faculty
3/19	The Privilege of Being Understood: Disrupting Linguistic Profiling	There is a need for the interrogation and unpacking of assumptions that might be widely held about the quality of a person whose question, request, comment, suggestion, or opinion may not constitute what we call “Standard English.”  Can our tutoring, teaching, and counseling goals be separated from the chauvinism of what constitutes “good English”?	Jamie Ray, LAPC Faculty
3/26	Peer Educator Power, Pt I: Openers and Ice Breakers for Peer Educators	The first five minutes of a peer educator’s session are the most important for setting tone and direction. Come learn about and share openers and icebreakers that establish a highly supportive and highly structured learning environment. This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Fatima Mamdani, Crystal Kiekel, 3CSN
4/2	Peer Educator Power, Pt II – Setting Norms, Expectations	Articulating community agreements or “norms” is an important part of setting the tone, establishing expectations, and managing the session in peer led learning. Come learn about different ways to set community agreements between peer educators and students.  This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, 3CSN; Cameron Brenner Canchian, LAPC Tutor
4/9	Peer Educator Power, Pt III- Text Set Activity: Boundaries and Netiquette	Learn about and engage in a routine called a “text set,” and discuss strategies for setting boundaries and standards for good netiquette in peer led learning.  This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, 3CSN; Cameron Brenner Canchian, LAPC Tutor
4/16	Peer Educator Power, Pt IV- Text Set Activity: Collaborative Engagement	Learn about and engage in a routine called a “text set,” and discuss strategies for encouraging collaborative learning in peer led learning.  This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, 3CSN
4/23	Peer Educator Power, Pt V – Embedding Metacognition into Your Session – the “KWL”	Learn about and engage in a routine called a “KWL” chart, and discuss what “metacognition” means and looks like in peer led learning. This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, 3CSN; Valeria Carrillo, LAPC Tutor
4/30	Peer Educator Power, Pt VI – Growth Mindset and Learning Strategies	Explore how Carol Dweck’s “Growth Mindset” framework can be applied in peer led learning to shift the focus from “getting answers” to strengthening study skills and learning strategies. This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Fatima Mamdani, Grace Lewis, 3CSN; Roni Haj Hussein, LAPC Tutor
5/7	Successful Practices in Online Peer Learning: West Los Angeles College Spotlight	This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Chase Selby, WLAC; Giselle Miralles, PCC
5/14	The “Think aloud and Paired Problem Solving” technique (TAPPS) for Peer Educators	Come learn and practice one technique for putting the students in charge of their own learning and problem solving. This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Crystal Kiekel, LAPC, 3CSN
5/21	Stress Management and Self Care for Peer Educators	Finals are coming! Peer educators and students are stressed out and stretched thin. Come explore self care strategies for ourselves and for students! This workshop is designed for peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders), but all are welcome! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Maria Barrientos, PCC
5/28	Writing Center Roundtable: Reflecting on a Year of Online Writing Support	Writing support has been fully online for a whole year?! What have we learned? What dreams do we have for the future? This roundtable discussion is designed for all writing support professionals, including peer educators (tutors, mentors, coaches, and SI leaders)! Attend from 3-4pm, or stay from 4-4:30 for more practice and discussion time.	Crystal Kiekel, Kelan Koning, Rebecca Moon-Stone, 3CSN

Greetings WLAC community! As the Open Educational Resources Liaison, it is my role to share communications from the ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) with you. Please read on to learn about upcoming events that are open to all and an opportunity for faculty to play a role in increasing OER consideration and adoption by others in their discipline.

If I can assist you in your considering OER– or answer any OER-related questions, please let me know.

• ASCCC OERI Wants You •

The ASCCC OERI is still seeking faculty for various roles. While faculty with OER experience are preferred, we are prepared to support faculty who are new to OER and interested in playing a leadership role.

 

The OERI is currently seeking faculty to review OER in a number of disciplines and Discipline Leads for Spring 2021. If you are interested in any of these opportunities – or in OER work more generally – please submit an application. If your discipline is one that we are not currently focusing on, your application lets us know not only that you are interested, but that faculty in your discipline are interested.

 

Additional information about the Discipline Lead role is available on the application page.

 

• OER for Your Consideration •

Each month the OERI plans to highlight OER for your consideration. Presently, the products from RFP II are under review, but many of the ASCCC OERI RFP 2020 – Draft Products are available for faculty to access and consider. If you have any feedback or questions about any of the resources, please let us know.

This month, we’d like to highlight two of the resources from RFP 2020 that are currently under review. Both are housed in LibreTexts, a platform that is designed to facilitate faculty customization of a resource.

Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach – this OER is intended to an appropriate text for C-ID SOCI 150 (Introduction to Race and Ethnicity) and C-ID SJS 110 (Introduction to Social Justice). The authors describe the resource as follows:

This open text was compiled by six diverse, community college sociology faculty from Long Beach City College, Cerritos College, and Rancho Santiago College. With an eye on social justice and intersectionality, the text provides a sociological analysis of the history, demographics, and contemporary experiences of the following race-ethnic groups: African Americans, Asian American Pacific Islanders, Euro Americans, Latinx, Native Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, and immigrants. This text is suitable for a sociology course on race and ethnic relations or a social justice studies introductory course.

Resources for Botany/Plant Diversity and Ecology (C-ID BIOL 155) –

Botany (Ha, Morrow, and Algiers)

A Photographic Atlas for Botany (Morrow)

• OERI Weekly Webinars – March 2021 •

 

OERI Weekly Webinars are scheduled for Fridays at 10:30 am.The ASCCC OERI will provide automated captioning for all webinars. If you would like to request live human closed-captioning for any of our offerings, please contact us by e-mail at least 10 business days in advance.

OERI Webinars are intended for a diverse audience. We hope you will all join us! Please share with your colleagues.

Friday, March 5, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

New OER Resource Showcase

New OER! The ASCCC OERI is pleased to share openly licensed texts developed by teams of California Community College faculty in 2020. Join us to learn about new OER in Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice, Botany, and Information Literacy.

Register for New OER Resource Showcase

Friday, March 12, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Clearing Up Confusion: OER, ZTC, and Fair Use

Understanding how you can use resources based on their copyright is important when selecting sources of course content. This webinar will illustrate the differences between Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) and OER and describe how Fair Use factors into both ZTC and OER.

Register for Clearing Up Confusion: OER, ZTC, and Fair Use

Friday, March 19, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

OER and Computer Science

What OER are available for the computer science discipline – and other related fields. Join the OERI’s Computer Science Discipline Lead for an overview of the available OER – and a discussion of your OER needs.

Register for OER and Computer Science

Friday, March 26, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Open Forum

Questions? Ideas? Join us in this Open Forum where you direct the conversation.

Register for Open Forum —
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges One Capitol Mall, Suite 230, Sacramento, CA 95814
phone: 916.445.4753  fax: 916.323.9867 

February 26 – April 2
Fridays, 12pm to 2pm

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Dear colleagues,

3CSN invites you to join us for another exciting series of Civic Dialogues, sponsored by Bringing Theory to Practice, designed to focus greater attention on civic engagement in higher education.

The 6-part series features national experts, scholars, and practitioners sharing and discussing the critical importance of civic engagement along with educational practices and models for increasing meaningful engagement on campuses.

By participating in this series, you will:

1. Advance your understanding of the intersectionality between equity and civic engagement for promoting the public good.
2. Recognize civic, community and democratic engagement as a high impact practice for student success.
3. Build capacity to leverage your current position, experience and knowledge for impacting positive local and global change.

Each weekly session of the series is two hours in length, from 12pm to 2pm. During the first hour our guest speaker will share their topic and address your questions. This will be followed with a facilitated lunchtime discussion designed to help you consider how these ideas or models could be practiced on your campus or in your classrooms.

Our schedule of Civic Dialogues, topics, and speakers includes:

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February 26

Democracy “With” the People
Dr. David Mathews, President and CEO, Kettering Foundation and former U.S. Secretary of Education, Health, and Welfare, Ford Administration

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March 5

Reclaiming the Democratic Purpose of California’s Public Schools
Dr. John Rogers, Director, Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA), University of California, Los Angeles & Dr. Joseph Kahne, Ted and Jo Dutton Presidential Chair in Education Policy and Politics, University of California, Riverside

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March 12

Awakening Democracy through Public Work 
Dr. Harry Boyte, Co-founder of the Institute of Public Life and Work, Augsburg University and Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy

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March 19

Teaching Hope and Reviving Democracy
Dr. Sarah Stitlzein, Professor of Education and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati  

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March 26

How to Promote Democratic Engagement on College Campuses
Dr. Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, Executive Director, All In Campus Democracy Challenge at Civic Nation 

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April 2

Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education: Reclaiming Our Civic Purpose
Dr. William Flores, Former President of University of Houston- Downtown and Professor of Political Science & Dr. Noel Bezette-Flores, Chief Student Engagement Officer and Associate Dean, Global Campus, San Diego State University

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To register for one or more of the sessions, please click on the “Register” button above. At the time of your registration you will select the sessions you plan to attend.
Looking for more professional learning opportunities? Check out 3CSN’s Wayfinding Online Schedule

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Questions? Email us at ask@3csn.org

From the Council of California Community Colleges Chief Librarians

By Ryan Edwards, West Los Angeles College

Introduction

As West Los Angeles College’s Systems Librarian and new Open Educational Resources (OER) liaison, I want to increase the visibility and use of OER in both our library systems as well as the Canvas online learning management system. Our library systems, Ex Libris’s Alma, a cloud-based library services platform and Primo, ExLibris’s discovery solution are used by more than 2,000 libraries across the United States and around the world. To increase the visibility and use of OER resources, I saw the opportunities to activate OER resources in Alma and exploit them Primo’s Resource Recommender service, which allows one to recommend resources based on searchable tags that are configured in Alma to expose databases, websites, people, library information, and library guides in Primo.

Collections and Resource Recommender

Upon performing a search on Google for “OER and Primo”, I discovered via the SUNY Libraries Consortium Alma Discovery/Primo VE website an open access training video and PowerPoint presentation, “Making OER Discoverable in Primo.” The presentation described what Open Educational Resources are, how to identify and evaluate OER in Alma and Primo VE, and how to increase the discoverability of OER in Primo. I learned that I could activate some OER collections in the ExLibris CDI (Central Discovery Index), including the Open Textbook Catalog, OpenStax College, and Open SUNY Textbooks collections. I also discovered that I could use Primo’s built-in Resource Recommender to highlight OER collections and content not included in Alma or CDI, boost OER content, promote my library’s OER libguide with a custom search box to search just open-access content, as well as promote myself as West’s new OER librarian. I could also tag content with keywords to make finding OER in OneSearch easier. Ultimately, as a district, we decided not to activate Unpaywall as Unpaywall’s linking was a bit spotty.

Resource Recommender Tutorial by Ryan Edwards

OER Webinar

I was asked by Eric Ichon, WLAC Dean of Distance Learning, to co-lead an OER webinar for the LACCD Distance Education Committee. Cyrus Helf, Multimedia Specialist and I developed and co-delivered an Open Educational Resources (OER) Zoom webinar on December 4, 2020.

OER-Webinar from Ryan Edwards on Vimeo.

As you know, many of our students struggle to afford required textbooks for their classes. In the future West hopes to be able to offer some degrees and certificates without any required textbook costs. The webinar covered what OER is, the benefits of using OER, and how to search for OER resources via OneSearch as well as West’s OER Resources page. In addition, the webinar covered finding OER course sites in the Canvas Commons, previewing OER course sites before import and importing as well as what to do after importing, including adjusting dates, choosing/creating assignments, editing content, scanning and fixing links, deleting content, and structuring content in the modules.

LibreTexts

Recently one of West’s Mathematics professors, Henri Feiner, shared his digital textbook Beginning/Intermediate Algebra that he authored with a Creative Commons license. West’s Multimedia Specialist helped him upload his book to the Canvas Commons. In addition, Professor Feiner shared his “Beginning/Intermediate Algebra” book with LibreTexts.

History of LibreTexts by Delmar Larsen

I discovered that LibreTexts, home to the largest collection of open educational resources online, was not indexed in the CDI nor listed in the Alma Community Zone (CZ) as a collection to activate.  So, I decided to submit a new idea to ExLibris’s Content Idea Exchange to add LibreTexts vast collection to Ex Libris’s CDI.

Jeffrey Karlsen, from Sacramento City College suggested that it might be more useful to have LibreTexts added to the Alma CZ as bibliographic records.  That way libraries could add LibreTexts ebooks and course materials to course reserve lists in Alma and Primo.  So, I submitted this other new idea to the ExLibris Content Idea Exchange.

Since I’m on both the CCC Discovery and UX Work Group and the ELUNA Primo Product Working Group, I decided to promote the two ideas to add LibreTexts to the CDI and Alma CZ. I emailed both the Alma-L and Primo-L listservs to promote the ideas to ExLibris’s Alma and Primo customer base. After Lauren Saslow, Los Angeles Community College District’s ILS Administrator, helped me email all the 56 librarians across the District, I also decided to email the California Community College’s LSP-ALL listserv to promote the ideas to all of the community colleges in California’s Community College system. My strategies worked! My idea to add LibreTexts to the CDI received 186 votes and the other idea to add LibreTexts to the Alma CZ received 89 votes. Ex Libris is now investigating adding the LibreTexts content alongside the inquiry to ingest the content in their Discovery products. In addition, to make sure that Ex Libris reviews adding LibreTexts to their products, I submitted a new content request to the New Enhancement Request System (NERS).

Conclusion

Hopefully, my efforts activating certain Alma open-access collections, implementing Resource Recommender, and delivering and co-delivering Resource Recommender and OER webinars should help promote OER visibility and usage in Primo (OneSearch) and Canvas. I discovered that collaborating with other librarians across the LACCD district and the California Community College system along with emailing both the Alma-L and Primo-L listservs helped to get Ex Libris to review LibreTexts OER content for possible ingestion into both the CDI and across Ex Libris’s discovery products. These collaborative efforts could be particularly useful in the future for introducing and promoting new ideas for Ex Libris’s review.Library Technology

• February 2021
  • Letter from the President
  • CCL-EAR Committee Chair’s Report
  • Library Consortium Director’s Report
  • OER and the College Bookstore: A Librarian’s Observations
  • Making OER Discoverable in OneSearch
  • ExLibris Blog Features Laney Library Staff
  • Mt. SAC Library Associate Dean Has Key Role at ALA Midwinter
  • Elizabeth Horan earns tenure at Coastline College
  • Conferences and Events

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1. February 2021
2. Making OER Discoverable in OneSearch

We have an exciting lineup of distance education workshops available this spring! 

Please see the Spring 2021 Webinar Schedule for more information.

Topics include:

• How to use tools such as PlayPosit and VoiceThread
• Effective use of Zoom in online teaching and online office hours
• Creating authentic online assessments
• Equity in online teaching and learning
• Two series of workshops on using the CVC-OEI Course Review Prep Form to improve your online courses
• Effective online teaching in STEM
• Advanced course design: HTML
• …and many more!

LACCD Faculty Canvas Resource Shell

For many more faculty DE resources, including webinar recordings, join the LACCD Faculty Canvas Resource Shell!

Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning Four-Week Course

Also, we’re offering a four-week Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning Course from February 22 – March 22! Please register in the Vision Resource Center if you are interested!

Although CCC TechConnect had hoped to be able to offer some in-person components to OTC’21, the decision has been made not to be a hybrid event but to be a fully virtual conference in 2021. We thank you for your support as we continue with the commitment to health and safety first.   Conference Registration Virtual Event via CCC TechConnect Virtual Registration: $150 (through April 14th, 2021) Registration includes keynotes and breakout sessions. Pre-conference workshops available for purchase at an additional fee (coming soon!). Register

Free February Webinar CCC TechConnect Presents: CCC TechConnect Cloud’s Streaming & Video Production Services: A Hidden Gem Date & Time: February 19th, 2021 at 12:00pm PST Learn about CCC TechConnect Cloud’s streaming and video productions services available to the California Community Colleges system.  Register to reserve a seat for this 45 minute webinar. By registering, you will also receive a link to the recordings afterwards to share with your colleagues. Webinar Registration TechConnect products are available at no cost to all California Community College faculty, staff, and administrators. CCC TechConnect projects, (TechConnect Cloud/3C Media Solutions, TechConnect Zoom/ConferZoom, TechConnect Online Teaching Conference), serve the 116 California Community Colleges and are funded by a grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. email: support@ccctechconnect.org | website: http://www.ccctechconnect.org © 2021 CCC TechConnect. All rights reserved. | Accessibility | Privacy