National Health Education Week The University System of Maryland institutions are coming together to participate in National Health Education Week (NHEW) 10/19-10/23 by providing opportunities for employees to attend webinars, meet-ups, and other online events focused on providing health and wellness education. 
NHEW's aim is to increase awareness of major public health issues and their role in the overall health of society. Through health education, we can learn ways to prevent chronic illness, increase mental and physical strength and resilience, and enhance the overall quality of life in our communities. 
Classes are free to join. Please register for individual events using the links provided in the attached flyer.
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Ultra adoption continues to grow as UMBC faculty shifted to online learning in response to COVID-19 safety precautions. More than 40% of all active Blackboard courses are now using Ultra in the fall semester. The number of Ultra courses increased to 670 in FA2020 from 145 the previous year.

With the overwhelming majority of UMBC courses offered online this semester, Ultra offered faculty an easy way to set up and organize their courses, especially for the online format. Effective course design was demonstrated and reinforced through the PIVOT program and faculty cohort mentors. A deeply integrated web conferencing tool, Collaborate, supports synchronous engagement, while a wide range of third-party tools, such as Panopto, VoiceThread, and CourseArc, enhance the Ultra course environment. 

When surveyed, faculty participants in the PIVOT program observed Ultra was “more intuitive” and “better adapted for online teaching.” Across all three colleges, Ultra adoption expanded to 51% of all CAHSS courses while CNMS and COEIT also saw a nearly 25% increase in Ultra course adoption.

While the new course interface expands its functionality to support assessment, engagement, and content creation, DoIT continues to share UMBC priorities with Ultra developers and track faculty feedback regarding tool availability and configurable options. As a result, a recent enhancement is the new batch group enrollment tool available in both Ultra and original courses, which is especially helpful for large enrollment courses.

For more information about Ultra, visit umbc.edu/go/ultra.

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:

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Want help selecting a child care facility?
Wondering how to survive distance learning?
Navigating Child Care During a Pandemic
Where:Online via Zoom
When:Thursday, October 8th
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
What:UMD's Learning and Talent Development Team has partnered with representatives from University Human Resources, the Maryland Family Network, and Prince George's County Public Schools to bring you the latest information regarding child care resources and distance learning support for working parents.

Registrants will be emailed a link to join the Zoom Webinar before the session starts.

Register here. 
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Today's talk is How to make work-life balance work by Nigel Marsh. Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity -- and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen.


After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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  USM OnTrack  will be offering two additional free professional development workshops this month that will explore the ways adaptive learning tools can support online learning, particularly in high-enrollment (large lecture, multi-section) courses.

As described below, the first workshop is geared towards course coordinators and other decision makers who oversee these high-enrollment courses and the second is primarily for faculty teaching these courses.  Both workshops, hosted with partners at Lumen Learning, are designed to provide these audiences with practical solutions to immediate problems while also exposing them to the tools, services, and support that are freely available through OnTrack.



Virtual Seminar: Equipping Faculty for Success in Gateway Courses through Adaptive Technology 

Friday, October 16, 2020 from 10:30 AM to 12 Noon Eastern

Join USM peers seeking ways to use teaching and learning innovation to achieve a “new normal” that better supports the success of all students and faculty. Explore learning tools and strategies that help faculty engage students at scale and work smarter to identify and support struggling students. Discuss learning interventions that make a difference in critical gateway courses and share models for improving education quality and consistency across large enrollment and/or multi-section courses. 


REGISTER TODAY! : https://lumenlearning.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcO6vrD0uHN1-pTKbhCG2JP9B-Yx1xR9c


Faculty Peer-to-Peer Workshop: Supporting Online Learners through Adaptive Technology

Friday, October 23, 2020 from 10:30 AM to 12 Noon Eastern

This virtual event brings together USM faculty in a facilitated peer-to-peer discussion about how to effectively engage students in online learning, identify and support struggling students, and balance synchronous and asynchronous learning. Attend this event to hear from peers, share ideas, workshop problems, and explore evidence-based teaching practices and adaptive learning tools that can support student success.


REGISTER TODAY! : https://lumenlearning.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtc-yqrDIoHdVsA5VD49SIXyPOBtU2Qb8Q


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VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – text, voice, audio file, or webcam. VoiceThread is available to any instructor who would like to incorporate this engagement tool into their digital toolkit for academic continuity. With VoiceThread, faculty and students can:
  • Demonstrate procedures to help students prepare for a practical exam
  • Explain decisions when selecting subjects for a painting’s composition
  • Foster greater community in large, lecture-based classes 
  • Debate the pros and cons of a controversial issue
  • Practice foreign language skills during role-play
  • Critique a classmate’s composition

Attend these upcoming live workshops:

VoiceThread Basics 1: Upload, Comment, and Share

When: October 6, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7127945176831894799

Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free accounts.

VoiceThread Basics 2 - Groups and Secure Sharing

When: October 13, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/9176960961494845967

We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.

VoiceThread Basics 3- Moderating comments, private and threaded replies, and copying

When: October 20, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5605066596780837647

In our third workshop in the series, participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work.

Using VoiceThread in Blackboard

When: November 10, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6367244758620656396

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons or assessments.
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Or Visit the VoiceThread Workshop Archive: https://voicethread.com/workshop-categories/workshop-archive

Sample Workshop Recordings include:




As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:
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As a reminder, the USM OnTrack initiative is covering the costs of using Labster this year as part of their commitment to supporting faculty. There is no cost to UMBC or to students to use Labster. The agreement lasts this full calendar year (fall, winter, spring, and summer terms).


If you are interested in learning more for winter or spring semester, please attend one of the upcoming Labster live demo sessions:  


You can also find these trainings and registration links on the USM OnTrack Labster website: https://www.labster.com/usm/

 

Nursing and Allied Health Faculty may have interest in joining a Biology-specific session, or can view a previously-recorded session focused on simulations for healthcare faculty.  

 

Visit https://www.labster.com/usm/  for access to the simulations, how-to videos, research and data on effectiveness, and recordings of past webinars.  

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Today's talk is The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. There is no such thing as being "not racist," says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world -- and replace it with love. (This virtual interview, hosted by TED's current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and speaker development curator Cloe Shasha, was recorded June 9, 2020.)


After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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The beta release of a new Chromebook extension for Respondus LockDown Browser is currently available for assessments in Original Blackboard courses. This version of the Chromebook extension also supports Respondus Monitor. 

Please note: This is a beta extension, which means it will have some limitations.

The how-to instructions for faculty and for students are posted to the FAQs. To report a bug/issue with the Chromebook beta, please open a support ticket with Respondus directly so your feedback is escalated with their developers. Be sure to indicate you are using LockDown Browser for Chromebook. 

At this time, the Chromebook extension does not support Ultra tests. UMBC continues to monitor development of this functionality.

As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:

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Today's talk is The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.  

After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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