What is The Center?
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The document outlines the objectives and activities of a center designed to connect California's 112 community colleges through communication, collaboration, and professional development. It emphasizes the importance of building an online presence for both educators and students to enhance their connectivity and opportunities. The center facilitates hangouts and discussions to share best practices and innovations in teaching, significantly impacting the experiences and teaching methods of participants.
What is The Center?
- 1. brought to you by Image by Jim Bumgardner CC-BY-NC-SA The Center Michelle Pacansky-‐Brock The Center, Community Coordinator
- 2. In California, there are 112 community colleges.
- 3. They come together in The Center to: share inquire reflect
- 4. brought to you by What is The Center? A next-‐generation learning community designed to improve communication and increase innovation throughout California’s 112 community colleges.
- 5. The Center Fosters community throughout the state, across campuses Builds relationships between faculty/administrators/ staff Improves collaboration across institutions Reduces sense of alienation for part-time instructors brought to you by
- 6. Join the community at: gplus.to/TheCenter Follow The Center on Twitter @Center_Ed # Join the Conversation with hashtag #CCCLEARN http://tiny.cc/TheCenter brought to you by The Center creating more connected educators
- 7. Why do you need an online presence? Recognition Showcase the value of your scholarly activity Build connections Providing opportunities for collaboration and shared learning Lead by example Our students also need to build an online presence to stand out from the crowd Slide Credit: Sue Beckingham @suebecks
- 8. Share Engage Learn A professional online presence gives you wider reach AND bridges to new opportunities Slide Credit: Sue Beckingham @suebecks
- 9. Building your online presence is an ongoing iterative process Slide Credit: Sue Beckingham @suebecks
- 10. brought to you by The New Social Era By 2016 20% of large organizations are anticipated to replace phones/email with Facebook-like social networks (Gartner) 92% of executives are on LinkedIn In 2012, 92% of U.S. companies used social media to recruit talent.
- 11. brought to you by Connectedness People need to learn how to connect to new people on a regular basis. No person has all the knowledge needed to work alone in our connected society. Neither does any company. Neither does any government. ! ! We are all connected AND dependent on each other. Howard Jarche
- 12. Hangouts on Air Live Streaming Video Conversations Submitted questions load here in a feed. The moderator addresses questions and Hangout participants respond verbally. • Click and view.! • Ask questions using Google+ or Twitter (#CCCLEARN).
- 13. Hangouts on Air Live Streaming Video Conversations Hangout archives are also shared on @ONE’s YouTube channel.
- 14. How The Center Can Support You! Personal, continuous professional development Build your personal learning network (PLN) Learn from anywhere Participatory! Ask questions, volunteer to share in a Hangout! Refresh your instructional technology skills Build relationships at campuses across the state and beyond! Stay current on best practices at institutions beyond your own without traveling
- 15. How The Center Can Support You! Institutional professional development View live Hangouts with a group of colleagues, follow with discussion, share back by summarizing your conversation with our G+ community Improve the institutional awareness and value of social media as a learning tool “Flip” PD sessions on campus by having faculty view the archive of a Hangout and attend a discussion/demo of a relevant tool Leverage Hangout archives as open educational resources in online PD offerings
- 16. Spring 2014 Community Survey The Center 50 Respondents ~22% response rate
- 17. How do you follow The Center? 2% 44% 2% 52% Google+ Twitter Google+ and Twitter Neither
- 18. Are you employed at a CCC? 6% 18% 76% Yes No Other
- 19. Which describes your role? 8% 2% 6% 10% 4% 18% 52% CCC Faculty CCC Staff CCC Admin Faculty Other Staff Other Admin Other Other
- 20. The Center improves awareness of innovations occurring on other campuses. 80% Strongly Agreed/ Agreed
- 21. The Center improves sharing of ideas across campuses. 78% Strongly Agreed/ Agreed
- 22. What is a barrier to your participation in The Center’s activities? Not interested in the topics Don't know when live events occur Don't know how to use Twitter but I want to learn Don't know how to use Twitter & and I don't want to learn Don't know where to find the Hangout archives My schedule Other 0 10 20 30 40
- 23. Share a specific improvement/benefit that has been an outcome of your experiences with The Center. I have changed the way I respond to student work (using video) as a result of several hangouts and the resulting discussions. I love the way ideas build on each other in the hangouts, live questions, and later comments in Google+ and on Twitter. Having a topic active for several days has led me to spend enough time thinking about it to feel comfortable trying something new in my classes. Also, having a channel to share how it went with others encourages me to do it and improve upon it. With my new awareness of what colleagues at other colleges are doing, I am helping my college to revise our Distance Education policies and training programs. I could go on and on-‐-‐ The Center has had a huge impact on my teaching life! I've been inspired to do more videos and screencasts with my online classes for more instructor presence.
- 24. Share a specific improvement/benefit that has been an outcome of your experiences with The Center. Gained many ideas for my online & hybrid classes from the presentations. It has also confirmed that online teaching can be as interactive if not more than a traditional F2F class. Additionally, these presentations reaffirmed desire to pursue more online opportunities. Thank you. I have created a personal faculty web page. I have started using new programs like Haiku Deck and introduced new programs to colleagues. Have found the thoughts of other faculty very helpful to my online teaching and my work with our Committee for Online Learning at Foothill College. Started a Google Hangout for a campus club meeting. Planning to use for online office hours as well.
- 25. http://tiny.cc/centerguide Get The Center Guide… and share it widely!