Dear Colleagues,
Oh my gosh, I have some great resources to share with you to help be awesome next week.
Collaborate orientation
I will host an orientation of Collaborate on Wed. Aug 19 at 1 pm. You can join as a guest via this link or in the *CTC Faculty Resources Blackboard shell. If you cannot attend this session and are interested in attending a session, let me know.
If you have not used Collaborate before, the directions for downloading the launcher (first time only) are in any of your Fall Blackboard shells under Student Help > Technology.
Syllabus
Here is the current version of the syllabus template that I developed for use at CTC. It is not required to use and it includes most, if not all, of the standard language for syllabi. Take a look, use it, copy language from it, and edit any of it to suit your needs.
The syllabus is your plan for the semester. Here's Prof Hacker Anastasia Salter on Teaching a Class Again and what she does to prepare for a new semester with a course she's taught before.
First day of class
Carnegie Mellon University has good ideas for the first day of class. Plan to introduce yourself, set the ground rules for the class and engage your students. You set the tone of your class on the first day.
Become a Blackboard Ninja
There was a great turnout for the Become a Blackboard Ninja workshop at the CTC Inservice last Thursday. Everyone came away with at least one tidbit to make working in Blackboard easier.
For those who attended the and for those who didn't, you can find and review the information in the *CTC Resources shell. If you are not in the shell, you can enroll as a student.
CTC adjunct website
There are some great resources on the Adjunct Orientation website. Take a look. Use it. It was built for adjunct faculty, but everyone can use it.
And, in case you haven't noticed, Labor Day falls in the third week of the semester this year.
Warm regards,
Lee
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