Research Guides: Professional Development: Past & Upcoming Webinars

Archive of LSC Recorded Webinar Sessions

Keys to Effective Planning
Session 1: The Toxic Relationship Between Fuzzy Plans and Clear Goals.
Session Date: Tuesday, June 2
Keys to Effective Planning(2)
Session 2: Planning by Personality: How to Stay Out of Your Own Way
Session Date: Tuesday, June 9
Keys to Effective Planning(3)
Session 3: Work the Plan: Productivity Tools & Techniques
Session Date: Tuesday, June 16
Keys to Effective Planning(4)
Session 4: Level-Up Your Collaboration Game: Project Management Deep-Dive & GradUP Focus
Session Date: Tuesday, June 23
Self-Management While Working from Home
Join Donyelle Clark-Kennedy as she discusses self management tips while working at home.
Session Date: Tuesday, March 30
Up Thriving in Uncertainty
Session Date: Tuesday, April 28
Engaging Exchanges
Join us in a demonstration of how to engage your audience during an online session and share engagement ideas.
Session Date; Thursday, April 23
Unparalleled Customer Service During Unprecedented Times
Join Amanda in the fifth session of this multi-part series that will explore how we can provide excellent service to our students, our colleagues, ourselves, and others during this unprecedented time. All are welcome!
Session Date: Thursday, April 30

Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness
Join Lisa for a one hour session designed to help tackle stress, become stronger and more flexible. Put on your comfortable clothes, grab your yoga mat and join us for a WebEx Workout!
Session Date: Wednesday, April 29
Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness(2)
Session Date: Wednesday, May 13
Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness(3)
Session Date: Wednesday, May 20
Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness(4)
Session Date: Wednesday, June 3
Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness(5)
Session Date: Wednesday, June 10
Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness(6)
Session Date: Wednesday, June 17
Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness(7)
Session Date: Wednesday, June 24
Yoga, A Pathway to Wellness(8)
Session Date: Wednesday, July 8
Coping with COVID-19
Discuss some of the difficulties that people may be experiencing mentally and emotionally during this quarantine period and certain strategies and resources that could be used to help.
Setting up a Healthy Home Workspace
Session Date: Friday, March 27

E-Books: Find & Use in Your Classes
This session will introduce the library e-book collections, focused on EBSCO eBook Collection and ProQuest Ebook Central. It will cover how to access and search each, identify the license applied to the book, and how to link or embed content in D2L.
Session Date: Wednesday, June 17
Videos: Find & Use Legal Content for D2L
This session will introduce the library video databases with a focus on embedding and linking videos. Recommendations for pulling from YouTube (or similar) will also be covered.
Session Date: Tuesday, June 16
IS Designation Workshop
This workshop will provide an overview of making your course international studies ready. Internationalizing your course is a process that will democratize information and globalize your course in a unique way.
Session Date: Tuesday, May 12
Targeted D2L sessions: Working with Checklists in D2L (Announcements & D2L Calendar as related to Checklist)
Join this session to learn all about D2L checklists. Jennifer will cover how to use this feature, available options, and best practices. Kristie will provide some examples of how she uses D2L checklists in her online classes.
Session Date: Thursday, May 7
Targeted D2L sessions: The D2L Rubric
Join this session to learn all about D2L Rubric. Jennifer will cover how to use this feature, available options, and best practices. Kristie will provide some examples of how she uses D2L Rubrics in her online classes.
Session Date: Wednesday, May 6
Targeted D2L sessions: Using Groups in D2L
In this session, participants will:
Learn how to use D2L groups, understand the available options, and best practices.
See how one faculty member uses D2L groups in an online class.
Session Date: Thursday, April 30
Targeted D2L sessions: Creating Quizzes in D2L
In this session, participants will:
Learn how to use the Quiz tool in D2L, available options, and best practices for creating quizzes & exams in D2L.
See examples of how one faculty member uses D2L quizzes in the online classroom.
Session Date: Wednesday, April 29
Targeted D2L Sessions: Discussion Forums
Join this session to learn all about D2L discussion forums. Jennifer will cover how to use this feature, available options, and best practices. Kristie will provide some examples of how she uses D2L forums in her online classes.
Session Date: Thursday, April 23
Final Touches - Review foundational online practices and ask your questions with experienced online faculty
1. Present the five most critical elements for student success:
a. Post communication policy – how can students can get a hold of you. State your response time.
b. Simple Course Structure – easy to follow, easy to navigate
c. Provide a checklist – let students know what is due and when
d. Use the Announcement section – state focus for week and where to find and submit material
e. Gradebook –populated and cumulative average visible
2. Review the Online Checklist
3. Present an example of a course D2L shell – showing the elements discussed above.
Session Date: Wednesday, April 8
LSC Online Webinar Archive

Antiracism: From Understanding to Action - Session 1
Based on the book, "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi, these sessions are designed to help participants understand the negative impact of systemic racism and learn strategies to uproot racism and inequality in our organization, society and ourselves.
Session Date: Thursday, July 16
Antiracism: From Understanding to Action - Session 2
Session Date: Wednesday, July 22
Antiracism: From Understanding to Action - Session 3
Session Date: Thursday, July 30
Antiracism: From Understanding to Action - Session 4
Session Date: Thursday, August 6
Safe Zone: Pride Month & Supporting LGBTQ+ Students During Covid-19
Ever wonder what the colors on the LGBTQ+ pride flag stand for, or why June is designated as Pride month? Join us as we celebrate Pride month by examining the rich national and local history associated with the Gay Rights Movement.
Session Date: Thursday, June 11

General Session
Faculty Development Day is an event designed for faculty to network and learn the latest on teaching strategies.
Accessibility and Accommodations
Creating universally accessible content and providing disability accommodations can be challenging in the online classroom environment. But it doesn’t have to be a stressful experience! This session will go over the various resources and support tools that LSC has available.

Facilitator: Alicia Guevara
Student Engagement
Tweeting IS Writing: Using Twitter in the Classroom to Promote Writing Skills—This session provides examples of using Twitter in English course classrooms to facilitate student engagement with the practices of academic writing and discourse.

Facilitators: Rhonda Jackson-Joseph Garcia and Mike Elder
New Faculty Welcome
The purpose of this session is to orient individuals to our campus and our culture.

Convocation - Spring 2021

Day 1
Start your day off with a live guided meditation from meditator and LSC-University Park professor Jaelle Dragomir. Meditation will be offered every day of Roar Week, Jan. 19 - 23!
Day 2
Day 3

Upcoming Webinars

During the Troubled Times of COVID-19
Due to coronavirus COVID-19, schools are asking teachers to continue the learning — with little professional development in distance or online education. The pressures on family dynamics in these troubled times reminds us that we must recognize and address Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in creating an online learning environment.
Transitioning Students into Higher Education Virtual Forum
The transition from high-school to higher-ed already presents a challenge to many of our students and we struggle to prevent summer melt every year. The loss of the spring semester creates an expanded opportunity for summer melt to occur. We anticipate this challenge will be further magnified by the economic and health implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

External Webinar Recordings

Welcoming Students to Your Online Environment
Learn practices to effectively welcome students to your online course in ways that support them and let them know that you are committed to their continued success, including the usage of specific methods like video, Q&A and social forums, as well as effective online communication techniques.
ORGANIZING YOUR ONLINE COURSE
Students can become confused, frustrated, or disengaged if they find it challenging to simply navigate a course learning environment. Learn how to organize your course from the students’ point of view—using tools like creating a module roadmap, creating a predictable rhythm, and more.
Effective Online Instruction Webinars
Higher education has made an astonishing national transition to online learning. Yet moving a course online—like being assigned to a classroom—is just the start.
Join nationally recognized experts in online teaching and learning for a series of virtual discussions on best practices in online teaching to ensure quality online instruction for student success.
Acue's Online Teaching Toolkit
To support instructors needing to make a quick transition to utilizing an online environment, we’re offering resources and recommendations that can be immediately put to use by instructors, to benefit both faculty and their students.
Surviving and Thriving Online with Active Learning
The Covid19 pandemic has presented educators with an unprecedented challenge to move face-to-face classes online. While this situation is challenging, it also provides us an opportunity to accelerate the paradigm shift in teaching and learning from the Transmission of Knowledge approach to an Active Learning framework.
Culturally Responsive Instruction in HSIs: Specific Instructional Strategies that Work
In this webinar, Dr. Melissa L. Salazar, CEO of ESCALA Educational Services, familiarizes faculty and administrators with the concept of culturally responsive instruction as applied to the specific context of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs).
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