Sustainability, the challenge of meeting “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland Report, 1987), is a multi-faceted concept that impacts our daily lives, engages our students, and can enrich any classroom curriculum. On the last day of Valencia College’s annual professional development program Destination, […]
Posts Categorized: Faculty Development
Service Learning Across the Curriculum
Special thanks to Christie Miller for leading another successful Service Learning Across the Curriculum Course! In this course, faculty develop lesson plans that integrate meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Below is a sample of lesson plans from participants of the course: Jamie […]
Tablets in the Classroom
Hello and welcome! This page was designed as the outsourced memory for the Teaching with Tablets Face-to-Face session given May 25th, 2016. Below you will find the different links and activities we discussed and used in the session. Enjoy! This face to face session was unique in that we virtually connected the East Campus with […]
Power Presentations
Thanks for coming to the Face-to-Face session of Power Presentations. Today we discussed a variety of tools and tricks for enhancing classroom presentations. As promised, this page is your outsourced memory for the session. Everything we covered is here. If you would like to learn more about any of these tools, please click on the […]
Let’s Hangout
Like Apple’s Facetime & Microsoft’s Lynk (Now called Skype for Business) Google Hangouts allow teachers and students to get together virtually, to chat, text, videoconference and more. Students can easily install Hangouts on their devices or run Hangouts right from inside of their web browsers. Since many students already have Youtube or Gmail accounts (Remember Google owns Youtube), […]
Digital Learning Strategies: PCCUA STEM Summit
Thank you for coming to our session at the STEM Summit. If you would like to contact us to ask any follow up questions, you can email us here. As promised, here is your outsourced memory. In the fall of 2013, a new course was piloted on the East Campus of Valencia College in Orlando, […]
Destination 2015: Flipped Learning – Week 3
Week 1: Overview of Flipped Learning Week 2: Curated Content Week 3: Created Content—online lesson/activities and assessments Week 4: Created Content—in class activities and assessments Week 5: Final Project Presentations [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V0pfOQ6E_o] Day 3 Agenda Sign in Room 11-106 and then meet in your assigned room on your name tag: Schedule for James and Mandy’s group 1:00pm-1:50pm […]
Course Copy Assistance is Available to You
So you’ve taught a course using Blackboard, and are getting ready to copy it over for the next term. Have you ever had problems with this in the past? Or maybe you’ve never done this before and want some help? Remember, the Centers for Teaching / Learning Innovation are here to support your teaching. If […]
Updating Your Lync Profile Picture
The other day I had a request from Neil Phillips asking how to update our Lync Profile pictures. In other words, how do we put our pictures so that our smiling faces show up when we send email or use our new Lync communicators. When I realized that the technique that I had used years […]
Math App that does the math: Good or Evil??
Hello friends, I just downloaded a new app called PhotoMath that I found on yahoo news (click on link Math App below to check on the latest updates for your device): Math App This app, as you can read, will solve math problems by just putting your phone over it. I am assuming many math […]
