DE Workshops

DE Workshops​ 

• April
  • Title: AI Breakout Room Challenges (Registration Link)
    • Date: 4/2/2025
      
    • Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm 
    • Org: CVC@ONE
    • Description: In this hands-on workshop, participants will engage in a series of increasingly challenging collaborative AI tasks, structured as breakout room challenges. Each task will explore the use of AI tools to enhance teaching practices and student learning. Topics will include effective prompt writing, designing assignments that reduce the likelihood of AI misuse, and facilitating comprehension of complex texts.
  • Title: Authentic Presence & Digital Doubles: Navigating Synthetic Media in Equitable Online Teaching (Registration Link) 
    • Date: 4/10/2025
      
    • Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    • Org: CVC@ONE
    • Description: Are you curious about using AI-generated videos in your online teaching? Video content helps humanize the online learning experience and supports diverse learning needs through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). However, creating and maintaining quality videos requires significant time investment.
  • Title: Quickly preparing Word Documents for large print, braille, and TTS (Join Link)
    • Date: 4/13/2025
      
    • Time: 2 pm - 3 pm
    • Org: CCC Accessibility Center: Monthly Accessibility Training Series
    • Description: You have an accessible Microsoft Word document. Now what does that mean for students who need the alternative formats of audio, large print and braille? The California Community College (CCC) Accessibility Center offers training for free to all CCC employees in making Microsoft Word documents more accessible in partnership with WebAIM.  Join us as we demonstrate how an accessible word document can easily be converted into specialized formats for students with disabilities, including audio, large print and braille.
  • Title: Connections That Count: How CoPs Are Advancing AI Conversations (Registration Link) 
    • Date: 4/14/2025
      
    • Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 
    • Org: CVC@ONE
    • Description: Faculty, staff, and administrators, join us for an illuminating webinar as three California community college practitioners share their journeys in developing Communities of Practice (CoPs) focused on responding to GenAI. Discover why CoPs are powerful vehicles for tackling complex challenges like GenAI in teaching and learning. Our panelists will provide candid insights into their CoP design processes, implementation strategies, as well as struggles and successes.
  • Title: Should Educators Be Using AI? Addressing Ethics as We Explore AI Assistance (Registration Link) 
    • Date: 4/22/2025
      
    • Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 
    • Org: CVC@ONE
    • Description: Many educators have significant, well-founded concerns about AI, including energy use, bias, intellectual property rights, privacy, labor, and more. And yet, given AI’s omnipresence and growing role in society, teachers need to build AI literacy in order to better guide our students. We need to experience the usefulness and versatility of these systems to understand the choices students confront.
  • Title: The Power of Connection: ASU, Zoom, and Transforming Communication for Learning for Student Success (Registration Link) 
    • Date: 4/24/2025
      
    • Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 pm 
    • Org: EDUCAUSE
    • Description: Learn how ASU expands digital access, elevates student voices, and reimagines teaching and learning through thoughtful design and collaboration. This webinar will delve into ASU's overall integration of UCaaS solutions and the lessons learned that can guide other institutions that are transforming their campus communications.
  • Title: How to Create Accessible Canvas Courses with Pope Tech (Join Link) 
    • Date: 4/24/2025
      
    • Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm 
    • Org: CCC Accessibility Center
    • Description: Provide an overview of the process for enabling and accessing the Canvas Dashboards LTI, and will include how to fix common issues and how to use the dashboard to find and prioritize issues. We will also review the layout and features of the Dashboards, including Course Dashboards, My Dashboard, and exportable reports.
  • Title: Think You Know Zoom for Education? Discover How Whiteboards and AI are Changing the Classroom (Registration Link) 
    • Date: 4/29/2025
      
    • Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 pm 
    • Org: Zoom
    • Description: Be our student for the day in this informative, practical session where we’ll dig into some of the surprisingly powerful ways Zoom Whiteboard is being used to spark creativity, boost engagement, and make collaborative learning smoother—whether you're in a physical classroom, a Zoom Room, your LMS, or somewhere in between.
  • Title: Distance Education Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) Webinar (Registration Link)
    • Date: 4/29/2025
      
    • Time: 12:00 am - 1:00 pm 
    • Org: CCCCO
    • Description: Delve into the core of Regular Substantive Interaction (RSI), understanding what it is and why it matters. This webinar will offer RSI engagement strategies, tools to enhance RSI, and how RSI fosters equity and inclusion. Participants will learn how to elevate their engagement with students to cultivate a culture of meaningful connection and interaction.

• May
  • Title: Advanced AI Assistance with Course Materials (Registration Link) 
    • Date: 5/01/2025
      
    • Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am 
    • Org: CVC@ONE
    • Description: If you’ve tried using AI in your teaching practice but want new approaches, please come and explore with us!
  • Title: Annual CCCAC Workshop: Topics TBD
    • Date: 5/15/2025
      
    • Time: 8 am - 5 pm
    • Org: CCC Accessibility Center: Monthly Accessibility Training Series
    • Description: TBD