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Highlights of this week’s Bulletin include: 

• Upcoming trainings and CTL Events Calendar  
• Editing Zoom Recordings with Camtasia 
• Innovative Teaching Fellowships 
• New TILT Course in D2L Brightspace 
• Minnesota State Spring Educational Development 

Other opportunities:

• Minnesota State highlight: Universal Design for Learning: Quick Tips to Enhance Learning Experiences – January 25 
• Vendor highlight: VoiceThread Basics Workshop – January 11 

Upcoming Trainings and CTL Events Calendar 

Our events calendar is updated for spring semester! Visit and subscribe to our online calendar to see information and get updates on all our trainings on D2L and academic technology, as well as CTL Open Lab and DCTC Faculty Teaching Online sessions.  

Here are our scheduled January training sessions: 

• January 24: D2L Brightspace Rubrics 
• January 26: Flipgrid 
• January 31: Kaltura Capture 
• February 2: D2L Brightspace Exporting and Importing a Course 

Editing Zoom Recordings with Camtasia 

You may already know that your Zoom cloud recordings are automatically backed up in MediaSpace, where you can access them indefinitely. This is extremely helpful for sharing your Zoom recordings – especially if you want them to accessible beyond the 365-day limit Zoom enforces on its cloud storage. There is just one limitation: you can’t edit your Zoom recordings using the editing tool in MediaSpace. (You can go through the steps of editing there, but you will not be able to save the edited recording.) You can edit your Zoom recordings in Camtasia, however. This video from TechSmith explains how.    

Note: you’ll need to start with an Mp4 file, which you can get by: 

1. Allowing downloads of your Zoom recording from MediaSpace in all formats. 
2. Then downloading the Mp4 format of your video. 

Need some assistance? Schedule a consultation! 

Innovative Teaching Fellowships 

The Center for Teaching and Learning awards Innovative Teaching Fellowships to faculty who are interested in exploring the use of academic technology in their teaching practice. Fellows will work with CTL staff and colleagues on a sustained project over two semesters. They will also be able to take full advantage of our Digital Learning Lab to learn and experiment with new technology. Faculty are encouraged to apply for fellowships at the beginning of fall and spring semesters. Stipends of $1,000 are associated with all fellowships and are awarded upon project completion. Visit the Faculty Resources site for more information.  

New TILT Course in D2L Brightspace 

Transparency in Learning in Teaching was first offered as a topic of CTL Communities of Practice at both DCTC and IHCC. Mary-Ann Winkelmes, author of Transparent Design in Higher Education Teaching and Leadership, then gave a workshop for IHCC and DCTC faculty in January of 2020.  

A short, self-paced course in D2L Brightspace now offers a guide to understanding the TILT Framework and how to use it to revise course assignments. In this short course you will be learning to apply transparent methods that focus on three concepts:  

1. Purpose 
2. Task 
3. Criteria 

There are a number of suggested methods you can use to build transparency into the purpose, tasks, and criteria in your course learning activities. Most faculty choose to apply just one method per an assignment. (Small changes, big difference!) CTL staff will monitor the course and offer feedback to all participants.  

You can self-register for this course and others, such as the 2021 Course Design Institute Archive, from IHCC and DCTC D2L homepages under the Academic menu, Self Registration. 

Minnesota State Spring Educational Development  

The Network for Educational Development (NED) is pleased to offer a series of short courses and faculty learning communities on the NED events calendar for the spring 2022 term.   

These opportunities are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff and help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.  

Review and register for spring 2022 opportunities to plan your educational development for spring. Registration for each course will close the Friday before the course start date. Space is limited!  

More Events and Development Opportunities 

From Minnesota State 

See https://asanewsletter.org/events for a full list of upcoming webinars and other opportunities! Also see resources on the NED Resource Site focused on course design, assessment, and instructional strategies. 

In addition, the Minnesota State Educational Innovations Office maintains a page of resources for students at www.asanewsletter.org/academic-continuity-students. 

The Minnesota State Learning Technologies Team offers a variety of faculty resources (opens in new window) on their SharePoint site. Navigate to the IMS opens in new window SharePoint site (https://mnscu.sharepoint.com/sites/IMS), and use YourStarID@minnstate.edu as your username and your StarID password.   

 

National and Vendor-Sponsored 

VoiceThread Workshops 

Access VoiceThread’s full workshop archive and schedule. These workshops are completely free. The sessions are led by our instructional designer and online educator George Haines. George will share his expertise to help you get the most from VoiceThread. 

Respondus Instructor Training Series 

Join Respondus trainers for a free webinar and learn how to use LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor to address the integrity of final exams. Or see how Respondus 4.0 and StudyMate Campus allow you to easily create online tests, flash cards, or learning games.  

Register for individual sessions here: https://web.respondus.com/webinars/  

Quality Matters 

Elements of Quality Matters: Deliver on Your Online Promise — discover QM’s tools and resources in this one-hour, self-paced course 

Online Learning Consortium 

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime. OLC inspires innovation and quality through an extensive set of resources, including best-practice publications, quality benchmarking, leading-edge instruction, community-driven conferences, practitioner-based and empirical research, and expert guidance. The growing OLC community includes faculty members, administrators, trainers, instructional designers, and other learning professionals, as well as educational institutions, professional societies, and corporate enterprises.  

OLC resources are available to all Minnesota State faculty. Learn more here.  

Turnitin 

Whether you’re a new user or need a refresh, join our training sessions to learn how to get started with Feedback Studio and Originality Check Plus, or how to enable remote learning and assessment with Gradescope. We have expanded our training calendar to provide recurring training throughout the rest of the academic year. 

More information and registration at https://www.turnitin.com/resources/training-webinars. 

 

 

The Faculty Resource Bulletin is one of many steps we’re taking to improve communication about local and statewide faculty professional development information and opportunities. Please visit our Faculty Resources sites (see links in the header of this blog) for more information and resources to support teaching and learning!