Final Grades Due
2024-12-19 11:00 - 11:15 (America/New_York)

January Professional Development Workshop
2025-01-08 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Osterlin Building — lunch in old library area, sessions in O203 and O205
Join us on Jan. 8 for an exciting professional development program featuring leading experts in the areas of authentic assessment and language-based literacy disabilities.

Dr. Robert Talbert of GVSU will share strategies for shifting assessment practices to better engage learners. Drs. Lauren Katz and Joanne Pierson of the Literacy, Language, and Learning Institute (3LI) in Ann Arbor will bring us up-to-date on new understandings around dyslexia and related learning disorders, including tips on how to better support our students. Information on presentations and speakers is linked here.

Our program starts with lunch in the former library area in the Osterlin Building followed by presentations upstairs in O203 and O205. Participants will split into two groups to attend both presentations.

Our schedule is a departure from the usual practice of holding professional development after the president’s January Conference. We shifted the time because of an orientation session scheduled for the afternoon of Jan. 7. However, because faculty will already be on campus for departmental meetings, we decided that Wednesday afternoon was the best possible alternative.

CIE professional development programming is required for full-time faculty, but we hope that adjunct faculty and staff will join us. Adjunct faculty receive a stipend for attending.

Moodle & Canvas Kick-Off!
2025-01-09 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Innovation Center Lab 123
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Ed Tech Canvas/Moodle Support Office Hours
2025-01-14 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Detroit), 2025-01-21 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-01-28 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-11 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-18 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-25 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-03-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Scholars Hall, 4000 College Ave, Manistee, MI, United States
Join Ed Tech in the second floor faculty lounge for 1-on-1 support for all of your Canvas, Moodle, and Panopto needs.

Ed Tech Canvas/Moodle Support Office Hours
2025-01-16 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Detroit), 2025-01-23 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-01-30 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-06 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-13 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-02-27 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York), 2025-03-06 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Science & Math Offices
Join Ed Tech in the Science& Math common room for assistance on all of your Canvas, Moodle, and Panopto needs.

CIE Coffee Club: A.I. Basic Training
2025-01-17 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Scholars Hall 206
This hands-on AI workshop will help you get started using AI and suggest appropriate AI policies for students. We hope to draw a cadre of experienced AI users to help less-experienced users learn how to work with AI prompts and develop appropriate syllabus statements. (Yes, you can change your syllabus after the semester begins as long as you notify students.) If you are willing to coach a beginner or if you are a beginner, please count on attending. You can use a desktop computer or bring your laptop. Coffee and donuts? Of course!

Grading for Growth: How AI is changing my grading approach — for now
AI’s Not a Genie in a Lamp: It’s a Space to Think
To Use AI or Not to Use AI? A Student’s Burden

Spring Canvas Cohort Monthly Check-In
2025-01-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-28 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Detroit) | https://nmc.zoom.us/j/97469334078?pwd=[REDACTED]
This optional monthly meeting is for instructors using Canvas during the Spring 2025 semester. Each session will start with a brief Canvas update from the NMC Ed Tech department, followed by ample time for instructors to share their ongoing experiences teaching in Canvas and ask questions to the cohort and Canvas support team.──────────
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Friday Forum: A.I. Special Edition
2025-02-07 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | TJNIC 104/05
Our February Friday Forum program will explore ways that you can use AI to assist with curriculum prep and other professional work. We’ll hear briefly from faculty who use AI extensively and experiment with ways to use it in your own work. Please bring your laptop. As always, we’ll begin with a Hawk Owl lunch.

Friday Forum: A.I. Pro Tips
2025-02-07 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | TJNIC 104/05
Our February Friday Forum program will explore ways that you can use AI to assist with curriculum prep and other professional work. We’ll hear briefly from faculty who use AI extensively and experiment with ways to use it in your own work. Please bring your laptop. As always, we’ll begin with a Hawk Owl lunch. Here’s some reading while you wait for the FFF!

Post-apocalyptic education
Instructors as Innovators: a Future-focused Approach to New AI Learning Opportunities, With Prompts

NMC: Opening Canvas (Instructors)
2025-02-12 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | https://instructure.zoom.us/j/5039209940?omn=92736440894
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Google Sheets – Basic
2025-02-13 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit)
Covering the basics of Google Sheets, this course will advance your skills in naming, saving, formatting rows/columns/cells, printing, importing/exporting, basic formulas and functions, notifications, sheet management, chart creation, and sharing.

Click here for the link to the Zoom session

Early Grade Alert Survey Due
2025-02-14 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York)

Google Sheets – Advanced
2025-02-20 03:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit)
Learn the basics of formulas and functions, a few specific formulas and functions, and data visualization with timelines, charts, and pivot tables.

Click here for a link to the Zoom session.

CIE Coffee Club: Supporting Native American Students
2025-02-21 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Library Reading Room
Supporting Native American students in their academic journey requires a thoughtful, culturally responsive approach that acknowledges their unique backgrounds, challenges, and strengths, states Nathan Bootz, NMC’s Native American Student Success Coach. CIE is pleased to welcome Nathan to our February Coffee Club to discuss how faculty can better support our Native American population.

Canva Graphic Design Basics
2025-02-27 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit)
A graphic layout program for flyers, newsletters, presentations, infographics, mind maps, and more. With thousands and thousands of templates, Canva is a great resource for design. Learn how to manipulate text, edit images, and work with templates. Learn how to use AI in Canva to quickly generate ideas and get started! Take this course, if you want to take the next course where you will learn about the incredible possibilities of Canva Presentations!

Click here for a link to the Zoom session.
