Faculty Development

Faculty Development takes place in person, via Zoom, through an LMS, or through web-based materials.

Additional Faculty Development Programs I have created and delivered include:

• “Blackboard Bytes” – weekly workshop for GCC faculty, Academic Year 2018-2019, GCC Batavia.
• “Growing Class Communities” – for SUNY English ALP Training held at Genesee Community College, May, 2018.
• Created online asynchronous orientations for faculty (Online Instructor Orientation) and students (Online Student Success Orientation) including SCORM objects utilizing Respondus StudyMate, Adobe Captivate, and Camtasia.
• Weekly Instructional Strategies Program (WISP) series, Genesee Community College, lead presenter, program developer, Fall 2016 and Spring 2017:
  • Formative Assessment
  • Aligning Learning Activities with Learning Outcomes
  • Peer Review
  • Differences between Teaching Online & Teaching Face-to-Face
  • Module Architecture, Navigation, and Overview
  • Creating Content – Readings, Videos, Learning Materials
  • Web-based Assessments
  • Embedding Instructional Support
  • Choosing and Using OERs
  • Accessibility “Top 10” Fixes (facilitated)
  • Creating Videos for Your Students
  • Rubrics – How to Develop and Use Them
  • Bb Blogs and Journals – Which to Use When & Why
  • Metacognition – Help Your Students Learn How to Learn
  • Setting Defaults in MS Word for Accessibility (facilitated)
  • Bb Gradebook (co-presented)
  • “Library 101: Faculty Edition” (facilitated)
  • Resources Roundtable (facilitated discussion)
  • Best Practices in Online Teaching (co-presented)
  • Improving: Course Navigation
  • Improving: Instructor Presence
  • Improving: Course Learning Outcome Alignment
  • Improving: Peer-to-Peer Engagement

Synchronous and Asynchronous training opportunities for faculty – from Technology to Pedagogy.

Responsive Course Design:

This workshop, developed after face-to-face instruction was replaced by remote instruction in Spring 2020, is offered synchronously in Zoom, asynchronously in Blackboard, and publicly. Take a look:

Workshops and Guides

• Additional Faculty Development Resources I’ve created include:
• “Keep on Teaching” step-by-step guide to setting up a course in Blackboard
• Various Blackboard “How-to” guides
• Start of Term checklists to ensure courses are ready for students
• Instructor’s Course Reflection Form to track what changes we’d like to make before a course is taught again
• Various Course Mapping and Alignment Mapping charts
• Many PDFs of Best Practices guides

I also pitch in to help with SUNY’s Quality By Design course periodically:

Webinars