3nd Annual NISOD Virtual Conference [CLICK TO REGISTER]
Make plans now to attend NISOD's 3rd Annual Virtual Conference with your Daytona State College colleagues, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 on the Daytona Beach campus. Virtual Conference participants will be able to see and hear high-quality, handpicked sessions chosen from outstanding presentations made at NISOD's annual International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence. The virtual conference will be streamed online and participants will have the opportunity to virtually attend any or all of the sessions offered while discussing concepts and strategies with other Daytona State College faculty and staff in a collegial and supportive environment. Participants are welcome to come and go throughout the day as their schedule allows.
2019 Virtual Conference Schedule:
All times in EDT
Session 1 (9:00 – 9:50 AM)
Faculty Onboarding: Celebrating Successes and Lessons Learned While Creating a Program
From Scratch
In 2016, Calhoun Community College created a three-year faculty onboarding program.
Come learn more about the program, the rationale behind it, and the framework used
to support new faculty. Hear about our successes and lessons learned and generate
ideas for starting your own program or improving an existing one.
Jennie Walts, Director, Faculty Development, Calhoun Community College
Session 2 (10:00 - 10:50 AM)
Increasing Adjunct Faculty Satisfaction and Effectiveness
The topic of adjunct faculty satisfaction and effectiveness is an important area of
concern for higher education institutions nationwide, and particularly for community
colleges, since they are more dependent on adjunct faculty to deliver academic content.
This session focuses on ways colleges can increase the teaching effectiveness and
satisfaction of adjunct faculty by providing specific institutional supports and resources.
Melodie Hunnicutt, Adjunct Faculty, Psychology, Midlands Technical College
Session 3 (11:00 - 11:50 AM)
Get Them Involved! The Key to Keeping Your Students Focused
This session involves participants in fun and easy activities that keep you focused
and provide classroom-tested examples of ways to keep your students focused in your
classes. Activities lend themselves well to music appreciation classes, but can be
adapted for any discipline. Use them to make your classes more engaging, enjoyable,
and effective.
Allen Webber, Professor, Music, Palm Beach State College
Session 4 (12:00 - 12:50 PM)
Covert Quizzes: Quizzing in Generation Z
Explore what is meant by the term "quiz," the essential purposes quizzes serve, and
a few methods of quizzing that don't necessarily need to be called a quiz. Technologies
such as Kahoot, Plickers, and Poll Everywhere are discussed, along with concrete examples
of how and why such technology should be used in the classroom to specifically address
Generation Z students.
Nathan Swink, Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences, Butler Community College
Session 5 (2:00 - 2:50 PM)
Helping Students "Fail Forward"
What is failure? Why do students fail? How can we help students overcome failure?
Participants identify and discuss strategies to help students reframe their failures
and continue on to achieve academic success.
Barbara LeBranch, Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Seminole State
College of Florida
Session 6 (3:00 - 3:50 PM)
New Technologies That Help Improve Outcomes in Distance Courses
Discover less-familiar, inexpensive technologies you can use to create interactive
and action-oriented activities and presentations for students in distance courses.
Kathrynn Hollis-Buchanan, Associate Professor, Business and Accounting, Kodiak College
Session 7 (4:00 - 4:50 PM)
Looking for Apps to Engage Your Students? Join Us as We Share 50 Tools
Looking for apps to engage students in today's modern classroom? This session is for
you! Join the presenter as he shares 50 tools in 50 minutes that help incorporate
technology into your workflow.
Robert McWilliams, Coordinator, Instructional Design, Bishop State Community College
Session 8 (5:00 - 5:50 PM)
Smartphones, Brain Science, and Gamification: Engaging and Retaining Underprepared
Learners Through an OER Design
What lessons for building persistence can mobile-friendly online gaming and retail
teach higher education? They can help students understand "cognitive load" and how
to shift knowledge into long-term memory. Learn how Bossier Parish Community College's
(BPCC) open educational resources (OER) refresher courses, built upon cognitive applications
for learning, online engagement, and deep-game structure, help power at-risk students
toward completion. You'll learn cognitive, science-based strategies for teaching underprepared
students and get access to BPCC's free website to take back to your students.
Allison Martin, Director, Institutional Effectiveness Initiatives, Bossier Parish
Community College
* Sessions are subject to change.
All sessions will be recorded and available to stream as archived sessions.
2018 Virtual Conference Schedule:
Archived recordings of the 2018 Virtual Conference are available here.
Best Practices for Engaging 21st-Century Learners
This fun and interactive session is designed for educators who want to connect with
the next wave of 21st-century students. We examine the struggles our students face
moving from an interactive culture to a one-size-fits-all classroom, after which participants
learn about best practices for promoting active learning. Because the classroom is
always evolving, the remainder of the presentation focuses on predicting the dynamics
of the future classroom.
Linda Schmidt, Chair, Mathematics; Amy Moore, Professor, Mathematics, Spartanburg
Community College
Using The Five Languages of Appreciation to Strengthen Student Engagement
"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." Discover
secrets for tapping into your students' motivation in the classroom. Learn how to
use The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace in a classroom setting. Session
participants leave with concrete strategies and techniques that use the languages
of appreciation and motivational theory in and out of the classroom to enhance student
engagement and success.
Jeff Johannigman, Coordinator, Faculty Development; Chelsea Biggerstaff, Coordinator,
Faculty Development, Austin Community College
The Power of Hope
Hope is the belief that tomorrow will be better than today and that you have the power
to make it so. Research has concluded that increasing hope in students leads to a
12 percent gain in academic performance. During this session, participants explore
how to help students develop the core competencies of hope, goals, agency, and pathways.
Best practices for developing hope in others are shared.
Scott Geddis, Faculty, Health Professions and Wellness, Phoenix College
New Wine in Old Wine Skins: The Impact of Mobile Devices in the Classroom
Mobile devices can detract from the traditional lecture format, but they also present
opportunities for greater student engagement. Participants examine the lessons one
instructor, accustomed to the traditional lecture format, acquired as a result of
a mobile devices initiative at his college. These lessons include using online tools
and apps to assess in-class student learning of course content, collaborative learning
to foster student engagement, and empirical observation of best practices.
David Toye, Professor, History, Northeast State Community College
Get on Up! Increasing Student Movement and Engagement in Class
Do you want to get students more engaged in your lectures? Following a quick review of Multiple Intelligence Theory, participants explore collaborative-learning exercises that increase your classroom's energy level. Be more student-centered in your approach to teaching. Attend this session to learn easy-to-execute college teaching techniques!Sean Glassberg, Director, Faculty Development, Horry Georgetown Technical College
Invisible Man: How to Effectively Deal With Mental Health Issues in the Classroom
This session helps identify triggers and healthy de-escalation models that can be
used in the classroom. Discussed are students' psychological well-being and how to
effectively deal with crisis in the classroom. Participants gain knowledge that can
be used to provide support and aid in removing the stigma of mental illness in the
classroom.
Kamara Taylor, Faculty Lecturer, Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Michigan Technological
University
Using Socratic Teaching: Engaging Adult Students to Think Critically
Traditional methods of teaching are mainly centered on the foundational underpinnings
of pedagogical theory. Socratic teaching is the most powerful teaching tactic for
fostering critical thinking when teaching adults; student engagement is paramount
in andragogy. The focus of this session is on simple progressive methods used to teach
adult students how to think instead of what to think, which increases students' ability
to apply subject matter and enhances their overall learning experience.
Preston Rich, Associate Professor, Business, Collin College
Engaging Teaching Strategies 101
Have you ever sat through an endless faculty meeting that seemed to have no real purpose?
Don't put your students through the same suffering! Engaging students in the learning
process increases their focus, improves their critical-thinking skills, and helps
them become invested in their learning. They (and you) will also have a lot more fun.
Join this session to build your arsenal of engaging teaching strategies.
Farrell Jenab, Coordinator, Faculty Development, Johnson County Community College
Innovation Abstracts
This Week’s Issue
In this week's Innovation Abstracts, "Hands-On Scientific Method in an Introductory Psychology Course," Randy Simonson, Professor, Psychology, College of Southern Idaho, explains a method of giving students hands-on experience using the scientific method and performing research.
Access the article here. Username: daytonastate.edu | Password: nisod102.
NISOD maintains an open call for Innovation Abstracts authors. Share your best programs, projects, and strategies that improve students' higher education experiences as you build your own professional development profile. Innovation Abstracts authors receive a $50 discount to NISOD’s annual International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence! Review the author guidelines today.
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