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PD: AI

Looking for some professional development related to AI? Look no further!

This comes from our Blackboard Customer Service Rep, Heidi:

Our FREE virtual event includes three 45-minute online sessions:

Session 1: Understanding AI and Core Ethical Implications - March 13, 2025  

Session 2: Seneca Polytechnic – Our AI Journey… so far - March 20, 2025  

Session 3: Pedagogical Approach and Future Innovations  - March 27, 2025  

 
Register Now  

After attending, you’ll leave with:    

  

Plus, to further your understanding and professional development around AI, we’re offering a FREE AI course to all attendees.  

REGISTER NOW!  

  
Read our blog to learn more about the transformative journey of Ethical AI in Action.  

Discover more insights and success stories from our pioneering journey with generative AI. Read our white paper: Twelve Months of the AI Design Assistant.  

Encouraging Article

Need a shot in the arm for online teaching?

Read this.

Eleven Ways to Shine Online

PD: Accessibility

Need some professional development hours? And want a digital badge to go with it? Here you go!

To earn the digital badge for this professional development, you must do the following:

  1. Participate in the training sessions, either synchronously or asynchronously.
  2. Score 85% or better on the scored questions of the assessment by March 10, 2025. (The assessment may be taken more than once.) 
  3. Set a goal in the last question of the assessment.

*Regardless of whether you attend the faculty or staff session, a single assessment will be used, and successful completion will grant you one badge.

OKLIS: Preparing for the ADA Compliance Deadline 
What is Accessibility, Anyway? by Adam Thiel, AbleTechRecording (Faculty Session)SlidesDOJ Fact Sheet
Section 504/508
Recording (Staff Session)Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)
STEM Resources from DO-IT
The Legislation as Applied to You (UDL) by Cristina Colquhoun, OSURecording (Faculty Session)SlidesDescribing Complex Images
Maps & Geospatial: ArcGIS Online
Recording (Staff Session)Maps for All – Building Accessible Maps
Usability & Web Accessibility: Social Media
Retrofitting Basics with UDL in Mind by Natasha Brand, NEORecordingSlidesADA Title II Accessibility Roadmap
Accessible Social
5 Myths About Social Media Accessibility
First Steps Toward Complying with…
Accessibility Panel (Adam Thiel, Ally Sharp, Cristina Colquhoun, Clarissa Anderson)Recording (Staff Session)—Langston Accesibility Course
Information and Communication Technology Standards
Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit Hackpad
Office for Digital Accessibility (ODA): Social Media
Preparing the Student to Create Accessible Content by Ally Sharp, LURecording (Faculty Session)SlidesCustomize the ribbon in Office
Microsoft Disability Desk
Best Practies in Email Accessibility by Ally Sharp, LURecording (Staff Session)SlidesGoogle Disability Support
Accessibility Guides for Microsoft
Google Products Accessibility
Resource Document
How To Session on Accessible Documents by Natasha Brand, NEORecordingSlidesPractice Document
PDF Accessibility
Tips for Making Microsoft Word Documents Accessible
Creating Accesible Content
How To Session on Accessible Media by Clarissa Anderson, OURecording (Faculty Session)SlidesSelf-Paced Courses for Educators
FigurA11y: AI Assistance for Writing Scientific Alt Text
Recording (Staff Session)VisText: A Benchmark for Semantically Rich Chart Captioning

Faculty Focus

If you haven’t yet discovered articles from Faculty Focus, let me tell you – they’ve been killing it lately! The articles are usually everything you want: short, quick read, single topic, applicable to teaching, delivered to your inbox…but lately I feel like they’ve just been really good.

Here’s an example from today’s email/article, about AI for educators and free courses to learn about it: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/earning-our-ai-literacy-license/

Check it out.

PD Opportunities!

Looking for some easy ways to get your Professional Development hours? Here’s a couple links! Also, a paper for all you reading nerds out there. 🙂

Faculty Session for ADA/UDL/Accessible Content: TOMORROW, Friday, 2/7, 1pm. (If you can’t attend, register anyway and get the recording on Monday!) Register Here

Teaching Strategies for Using AI: Friday, April 25, 1pm. Register Here

QM White Paper: Beyond Video – Harnessing Multimedia for Engaging Online Courses Read Here

New Year, New Resources

Happy Spring Semester, Vikings! Here are some resources for you and your students.

Student Tutorials

How to save and submit a Google Doc to Blackboard assignment:

How to Install Free Version of Microsoft Office365:

Navigating Blackboard Ultra:

Doing It!

Sometimes, it’s really nice to run across things that “research shows” contributes to student success – and realize that we’re already doing it.

Check out this article that will encourage you and give you some small, actionable things to make your online classes even better.

Why Online Courses Should Have Less Students

Missed the Content Day Hype?

No worries! This is what we were doing on Thursday – come join us any time!

Remember, the mission of CASC is to provide affordable, ACCESSIBLE, and exceptional education that fosters student success. We’re definitely focusing on the accessible part!

Check out this resource for more info on how to use the embedded tools in Blackboard to see and raise your accessibility score for your course and for your students.

https://help.blackboard.com/Ally/Ally_for_LMS/Instructor

Content Day Competition!!

On October 3, 2024, Anthology will host its annual Fix Your Content Day contest. As part of our campus-wide commitment to inclusive education, we will be participating using Anthology® Ally capabilities. For 24 hours, we’ll be on a mission to fix as many accessibility issues in course files as we can. At the end of the day, the campus with the most files improved will be recognized and awarded a prize.

How can you help? Begin reviewing your courses and identifying those with red and orange indicators. Then, on October 3, start improving as many files as possible using those indicators as a guide. Focus on images that need a description and Microsoft® Word documents to start. Aim for 100%, but improvement is what counts!

For more information on how to fix files using Anthology Ally, check out this video. 

Anthology will be keeping track of the institution with the most fixes – let’s show them what CASC Online can do!!

Professional Development Opportunity

As I’m sure you’re aware, CASC Online Instructors are required to complete 4 hours of online-related professional development hours per calendar year. Here’s a great way to knock out most of them at once!

Be sure to register for the OKLIS workshops on Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) September 13! You can attend live OR request the recording via the form below. This is a great opportunity to get in-depth training on RSI! We strongly encourage faculty, instructional designers, and administrators to take advantage of this professional development opportunity! Those who register for either the synchronous or asynchronous option will have the opportunity to complete a follow-up assessment and earn a digital badge!

Please register using one of the following links:

Live Attendee Registration (will receive a Zoom link AND the recording)

Asynchronous Registration (will receive the recording, not a Zoom link)

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