Conference Program

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DAY 1 Thursday 3/24/16
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Thursday 3/24/2016 Room assignments subject to change.
11 Student Center 8:30 AM 11:00 AM Registration Open
11 Student Center 8:30 AM 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
11 Student Center 9:00 AM 9:45 AM Keynote Canvas Commons Kate McGee & Christie Fierro
9:45 AM 10:00 AM Break
Student Center 10:00 AM 10:45 AM How the State Board is Supporting Accessibility In this session members of the State Board's eLearning and Open Education department will discuss the efforts underway to address accessibility in online, hybrid, and web-enhanced courses. Topics include video captioning, the recently approved Accessible Technology Policy, and accessibility in Open Ed. Jess Thompson, Boyoung Chae, Steve Gance, & Alissa Sells - State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
16 106 10:00 AM 10:45 AM Using Gamification to Increase Faculty Engagement - Myth, Magic and Reality Gamification is a popular topic right now, but that's just for students, right? Nope. This session will explore the possibilities of gamification with faculty, staff or students, including a research study where gamification was added to an inservice workshop for faculty and its results on engagement. Erin Baker - Centralia College
15 203 10:00 AM 10:45 AM Canvas Beyond the Classroom Canvas is used by most institutions as a way to deliver academic content. However, Student Services Professionals at Bellingham Technical College have developed Canvas "Courses" to provide greater student access, community, as well as student learning and development opportunities. Come learn how Canvas can reach Beyond the Classroom! Mary Gerard - Bellingham Technical College
15 303 10:00 AM 10:45 AM Make the best of your online class: tips to engage fully online and hybrid online students In this session I will share my personal experience in teaching online and hybrid-online classes, and the ways (at times the "tricks") and tools I use to keep the students involved and engaged in the class. The second half of the session would be a brainstorming of the participants, who, with my help, will discuss ways they can apply new technology and tips to their own disciplines and classes. Alice Di Certo - Tacoma Community College
10:45 AM 11:00 AM Break
11 Student Center 11:00 AM 11:45 AM First Generation College Students - How Do We Help Them Succeed? Many of our students are 1st Generation college students - the very first member in their families, and sometimes friends, to go to college. They have no one who has "Been There - Done That." This session will be a learning and sharing session on how RTC and other college campuses faculty can help their 1st Generation college students better understand college, and how to be successful college students. Albert Bodero - Renton Technical College
16 106 11:00 PM 11:45 PM Panopto and Canvas: Enhancing Student Learning with Video Panopto's video platform makes it easy for SBCTC colleges to capture and manage recorded lectures, student-generated video, and more. In this presentation, you'll learn about Panopto's integration with Canvas, including:Course provisioning in Canvas, Rolling synchronization of users, Automatic publishing of Panopto recordings, Single sign on, and Canvas course copy Jordan Prickett - Panopto
16 110 11:00 AM 11:45 AM Canvas Commons: Up Close and Personal Ready to learn more about Open Educational Resources? You heard about Canvas Commons in the keynote. Join us in the computer lab for an interactive hands on demonstration of sharing to and from Canvas Commons. Christie Fierro - Tacoma Community College & Kate McGee - Instructure Canvas
15 203 11:00 AM 11:45 AM Using the "UDOIT" Accessibility Diagnostic Tool in Canvas Looking for a way to test your Canvas classrooms for screen reader accessibility?
The first half of this 2-part session offers an introduction to the "Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool (UDOIT)" and an overview of the features of this helpful diagnostic tool.
Stick around for the second half of the session if you would like to see how to fix some of the accessibility problems identified by the UDOIT app.		 Carrie Powell - Centralia College
Student Center 11:45 AM 1:00 PM LUNCH
11 Student Center 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Rock out with Groups Do you do Group projects in your courses? With Groups in Canvas, your students will have their own instances of Canvas to work in so their final presentation will really Rock! Shannon Hight & Christine Cerny -Tacoma Community College
16 106 1:00 PM 1:30 PM API: What's the Function? Canvas boasts an open, well-documented API that gives system administrators and faculty access to many features of the LMS... some which don't appear in the user interface. This session will cover the basics of API: what is it, what you can do with it, and why you might want to learn more. Marc Lentini & Phil Wilson - Highline College
15 203 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Everything is big in Texas. Why convert a course to OER when you could convert a whole department? Hear from OER zealot and Department Chair of Fine and Performing Arts and Speech Communication at Palo Alto College, Carolyn DeLecour, and TCC OER Coordinator and Communication Professor, Christie Fierro, as they share tips for faculty buy-in to help OER spread like wildfire on your campus. Carolyn DeLecour - Palo Alto College & Christie Fierro - Tacoma Community College
15 303 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Shot in the Arm: Boosting Student Engagement LWTech's Nursing Program has improved student engagement through the use of technology: Canvas common course layout, Padlet virtual walls, and Kahoot polls. In this session, we will demonstrate tools that have been used to engage students and increase program satisfaction. Vicki Chew & Antwinett Lee, Lake Washington Institute of Technology
1:30 PM 1:45 PM BREAK
11 Student Center 1:45 PM 2:15 PM Open Educational Resources and Open Policy: Case Studies Everyone talks about OER Policy, but what does it mean? What do OER policies look like in practice? How do they impact OER initiatives? How does our government and our world perceive Open policy? SBCTC invites you on a journey, one where you will explore different paths, each one reflecting on these questions through interviews with experts in various areas of OER. These interviews are woven into a series of multimedia presentations that allow viewers to not only listen to important conversations, but interact with additional resources on Open Education policy strategy, implementation, and vision. (http://www.openwa.org/about-policy-video/). Boyoung Chae & Mark Jenkins - State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
16 106 1:45 PM 2:15 PM Taking a Byte Out of API Are you (newly) familiar with what the Canvas API can do for you? This session will build on the basics covered in API: What's the Function with a brief tutorial using the Live API web site to hack Canvas. We'll demonstrate a few examples that can help you, the Canvas admin or instructor, bend the system to your will. Marc Lentini & Phil Wilson - Highline College
15 203 1:45 PM 2:15 PM The Perfect Storm: Merging OER & ePortfolios Do you want to learn more about experiential learning? How to incorporate OER (Open Education Resources) in your QM course? Learn how to integrate ePortfolios to teach the importance of career readiness and development. Learn how to transform creativity in the classroom. Education is sharing. Let me share positive learning strategies and experiences from Palo Alto College in San Antonio. Suzel Molina - Palo Alto College
15 303 1:45 PM 2:15 PM Managing accessibility initiatives Because the goal of accessibility applies to so much our mission, it can be overwhelming to try think about planning, executing, and measuring the success of our efforts to improve accessibility. You will come away from this conference with new ideas and understanding. In this session, we will apply some basic principles of Project Management to implementing accessibility goals, large and small, in a systematic and effective way. Kate Schwarz - Edmonds Community College
2:15 PM 2:30 PM BREAK
11 Student Center 2:30 PM 3:15 PM IYOC: Improving Your Online Course Come and find out about the newest addition to SBCTC online trainings: Improving Your Online Course, which has been licensed through Quality Matters. These workshops started to be offered on a regular basis in 2016, and are free to faculty. Participants use the essential standards of the QM Rubric to review their own courses and develop a course improvement plan. This session features IYOC facilitators, who will outline the format, how it differs from APPQMR, and how it ties to student success. Liz Falconer - Renton Technical College; Alissa Sells, asells@sbctc.edu; Brandy Long, blong@cascadia.edu; Kathy Bright, kbright@olympic.edu; Stephanie Delaney, Stephanie.Delaney@seattlecolleges.edu
16 106 2:30 PM 3:15 PM Knock, knock - Who's there? - Quizzes - Quizzes who? - QUIZZES (dot) 2! What's going on with the testing engine in Canvas? Come learn about the evolution of testing inside the Canvas platform in a roadmap presentation Jason Philip Sparks - Instructure Canvas
15 203 2:30 PM 3:15 PM Beyond SPLAT! Microsoft and other eLearing tools are accessible. Do you or your students need to use screen readers? Is the keyboard difficult to use? Can’t use the mouse? Learn how to create fully accessible files in Microsoft Office and other eLearning tools so that documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can be seen, heard, and used easily. We’ll cover reviewing tools such as Microsoft Office's accessibility checker, keyboard shortcuts, customizing the Ribbon, adding alt text to pictures, styles, tables, and other great tips. Deb Padden - Tacoma Community College
15 303 2:30 AM 3:15 AM Using Canvas to Engage and Inform Faculty With the complexities of state-mandated policies and procedures, a tri-leadership model with a rotating department faculty coordinator, 70+ part-time faculty and 11 full-time faculty, how do you support faculty who have multiple commitments and still be engaged in professional learning? In this session you will see how Highline's ABE faculty created a department website on Canvas to inform, engage with others, and provide professional development, while increasing the use of Canvas department wide. Maurea Maya and Christie Knighton - Highline College
13 Lobby 3:15 PM 4:00 PM SOCIAL HOUR
Friday 3/25/16
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Friday 3/25/2016 Room assignments subject to change.
11 Student Center 8:30 AM 11:00 AM Registration Open
11 Student Center 8:30 AM 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
11 Student Center 9:00 AM 9:45 AM How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Canvas Community Canvas Community Renee Carney
9:45 AM 10:00 AM BREAK
11 Student Center 10:00 AM 10:45 AM Pathways to Success: Engaging the New Traditionals This workshop session explores the diverse feature set and related practices for turning Canvas into a more engaging learner experience. Strategies covered will include exploration of deep feature that allows for self-paced deliverables, motivation and outcomes. Topics will include Canvas prerequisites, multiple attempt quizzing, new uses of the Discussion Board and better rubrics.

Ways of achieving "gamification" of learning will be collected via group breakouts and digital reporting. Participants should come prepared to think, work, share, create new practices and innovative use of Canvas for learning.

Darcy Janzen and Colleen Carmean - UW Tacoma
16 106 10:00 AM 10:45 AM Universal Design and OER for mere mortals This session will provide simple methods for making OER materials accessible in online and downloaded materials. Topics of discussion will include Word, PowerPoint, and Web Based authoring tools like those in Canvas and other LMSs. Thomas Jacobs, Wholly Chao
15 203 10:00 AM 10:45 AM Creating Effective Canvas Collaboration with Librarians: Successes and Pitfalls Are you wondering how to integrate library instruction into your Canvas courses? Do you want to collaborate with your librarian liaison but haven’t figured out how? In this session, attendees will learn about opportunities for success along with potential challenges when partnering with librarians for information literacy instruction in Canvas. Chelsea Nesvig and Alyssa Berger - University of Washington
10:45 AM 11:00 AM BREAK
11 Student Center 11:00 AM 11:45 AM Opening Up: Launching an Open Textbook in Your Course The increasing costs of commercial textbooks is making it difficult for students to keep on track with their coursework in higher education. Faculty Librarian Heath Davis will give you the tools to make OER easy to adopt and adapt to your course objectives, and provide you with some easy and accessible tools to consider as you dip your toes into the OER pool. Chemistry Faculty Priyanka Pant will talk about her experience of integrating an open textbook in a chemistry class and the librarian/faculty collaboration that made this possible through a Librarian as Open Education Leader (LOEL) grant. Heath Davis and Priyanka - Lake Washington Intitute of Technology
16 106 11:00 AM 11:45 AM Introduction to Accessibility To comply with accessibility standards, Bellevue College’s eLearning team created a workshop for faculty to help them learn the basics of accessible course design.
You will hear how we used high level pedagogical and design principles when creating this course. We will share challenges in delivering appropriate content to our faculty audience as well as speaking about our decision to present the workshop in an online modality. 		Jim Dicus and Ekaterina Stoops - Bellevue College
16 110 11:00 AM 11:45 AM Do Not Fear the Code Learn simple, easy to execute techniques to enhance your Canvas classroom's appearance and effectiveness using HTML Code. This hands-on course is specifically intended for non-coders, but coders are welcome. This course includes enrollment in a Canvas classroom with many examples and tips and tricks for making everything work. Kelley Meeusen - Clover Park Technical College
16 108 11:00 AM 11:45 AM Canvas - You can do it! Would you like time to try some of the cool things you have been hearing about? Now is the time. Drop by this open lab, ask me anything, and try it out in your courses. Shannon Hight - Tacoma Community College
11 Student Center 11:45 AM 1:00:00 PM Lunch
11 Student Center 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Authentic and Painless Program Assessment Up your "n-value" by using what you've already got: link course and program assessments to outcomes and the Mastery Learning Gradebook. TCC Written and Oral Communications shares its learning outcomes project from start to finish. We leveraged Canvas; we more than doubled meaningful data. This is a follow-up presentation to a work in progress shared last year. Kristina Young - Tacoma Community College
16 106 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Improving Communication with Students LWTech has multiple programs using Canvas for communication with students: Trio, WorkForce Development, BFET, Phi Beta Kappa, Nursing Forum, Accounting Advising, ITAD Advising, etc. This session will provide details on how we set up the Canvas sites, information housed on the sites, and methods to populate students. Vicki Chew - Lake Washington Institute of Technology
15 203 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Redeveloping Online Courses with Students in Mind Examination of a professional development course designed to support faculty in the process of redesigning their online courses. Information on the rationale behind the course and its development, as well as an examination of faculty impressions of the efficacy of the course will be shared. Tom Gibbons - South Seattle College
15 303 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Hybrid Exchange FLC: Exploring the Hybrid Format Our faculty learning community has been meeting in a hybrid format to familiarize members with the format and its tools. This year-long Faculty Learning Community is the recipient of an SBCTC grant, which requested that we find a way to allow people from various institutions to participate in our live meetings as well as online activities. Find out what we have been doing to learn more about teaching in the hybrid format, and how we are providing virtual attendance. Liz Falconer - Renton Technical College
1:30 PM 1:45 PM BREAK
11 Student Center 1:45 PM 2:15 PM Culturally Responsive Canvas: 5 Things You Can Do Students from different cultures and different backgrounds experience our colleges, our classes, and the learning technology we use in many different ways. Research has shown that a mis-match between the culture of our campuses and that of our students has a material impact on the ability of those students to succeed. This session will describe five things that faculty and instructional designers can do to make a course more culturally responsive. Marc Lentini - Highline College
16 106 1:45 PM 2:15 PM Canvas and OER - Everything I didn't anticipate This session will describe some of the real world hurdles, obstacles, and surprises I encountered when I developed Open Educational Resources (OER) for one of my classes at Everett Community College. I developed OER for Chem 140 (Chemistry Prep for Majors) and delivered it using Canvas. I would like to share my insight and experience with other adopters of OER. Valerie Mosser - Everett Community College
15 203 1:45 PM 2:15 PM Facilitating Collaboration Using Canvas and Google Docs This presentation will examine how students can use Canvas collaboration tools to facilitate team editing. The presenter will share insights gained through creating a challenging collaborative assignment in a fully online technical-writing course. Wes Mantooth - Lake Washington Institute of Technology
15 303 1:45 PM 2:15 PM Open-Ended Assignments: Harnessing the Vast Internet "n this session, we’ll explore an example of weekly open-ended assignments that
• Make room for students to guide their own learning
• Help students summarize a unit of learning
• Crowdsource learning materials for your classroom
• Give students a place to continue their discussions
There will be some examples of the work that comes out of these assignments, as well as tips for implementing this kind of assignment into your course.		 Sean Marushia - Renton Technical College
2:15 PM 2:30 PM BREAK
11 Student Center 2:30 PM 3:15 PM Using Data to Tell Compelling Stories In the information age we are inundated with data, but the data by itself doesn't do anything for us. However data can be a powerful tool for people who can analyze and interpret it, and (more importantly) know how to use data to influence people and decisions. By using data to tell a compelling story, administrators can implement strategies more effectively; instructors can illustrate concepts more effectively; and support staff can provide more effective overall support. Chato Hazelbaker - Clark College and Brandon Ray - Lower Columbia College
16 106 2:30 PM 3:15 PM Creating Classroom Community with the Canvas App Learn how introductions to the class came alive when students used the Canvas app to post videos using iPads in the classroom. That led to digital campus scavenger hunts and other innovations in course design. There were a lot of potholes on our journey. We want to share how we navigated the barriers and give you tips and tricks for success. Christopher Betz, Shannon Hight, and Christie Fierro - Tacoma Community College
15 303 2:30 PM 3:15 PM Using Templates for Effective Course Development Bellevue College has initiated a project designed to lower barriers to student success in online learning. The goal of the project is to build online courses in Canvas using a template that incorporates a “common look and feel” or “common navigation” concept based on UDL, accessibility, and QM principles. C. Blaise Mitsutama and Ekaterina Stoops - Bellevue College
3:15 AM 3:30 PM BREAK
11 Student Center 3:30 PM 4:15 PM A faculty peer support model: CanvAssistance, Potty Picayune, and More! You successfully trained 400+ faculty to use Canvas. What’s next? Scalable and sustainable ongoing professional development with Canvas, OER, and more. This isn’t a scary, large-scale project. One full-time instructional designer and four faculty share how they help their peers with everything from accessibility to proper settings for copying courses. Deborah Moore and Sue Frantz - Highline College
16 106 3:30 PM 4:15 PM iPad-ucation: Using iPads in the Classroom Using iPads in the classroom can be a bang or a bust. We'll share the challenges we faced and how we overcame them. This will be a group discussion. We would love to hear your list of favorite apps. Attendees will leave with a list of tips and fun apps to try. Chris Betz, Shannon Hight, Christohper Soran, Brady Friedrich, and Christie Fierro - Tacoma Community College
15 203 3:30 PM 4:15 PM Closed Captioning: McGyver Style Learn how we closed captioned our videos with a rubber band, gum, a paperclip, and no budget...Well, it was actually with Panopto, YouTube, student help and still no budget. This is the story of two secret agents combining limited resources from eLearning and the BTEC Co-Op program to combat the ADA noncompliance of videos. We'll go over how we utilized students in the Co-Op program, the process, what we've learned from it all, and some feedback from our Co-Op students. Sara Griffith and Mark Gaither - Lower Columbia College
15 303 3:30 PM 4:15 PM Asynchronous In-Service via Canvas Does your campus have difficulties holding events that everyone can attend? This fall, we offered our usual one day of faculty in-service with a new twist: It was followed by a year-long exploration with your colleagues on the topic of your choice.
Six topic strand options were designed and created in Canvas, with strand leaders and asynchcronous activities to be done each quarter. Come and get inspired by how Canvas can be used for professional development that everyone can attend, no matter what their schedule.		 Liz Falconer - Renton Technical College