Inservice Schedule – Fall 2021

Workshops that count as one professional development hour toward the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices Certificate are indicated as CRTP. Attendance at the workshop is required for credit towards the certificate.

Thursday, August 12

  • New Adjunct Workshop
  • 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
  • Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
  • Registration Link: https://forms.gle/tpUySMVoiBPo2J9e8

Friday, August 13

  • Introduction to TILT: Transparency in Teaching and Learning
  • 9:45 – 10:45 am
  • This workshop is for faculty who have not yet attended a TILT workshop or need an introductory refresher on the TILT process. Research indicates that transparent assignment design significantly enhances students’ success, with even greater gains for historically underserved students. This presentation will cover the key principles underlying the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework and provide evidence for its efficacy. Participants will discuss examples of what transparent teaching and learning looks like in practice and will discuss how to scale this approach across the disciplines.
  • Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/89107890391?pwd=Z204TmhHY1Rud2RiM0NWR0M3eW9CUT09
  • CRTP
  • I’m TILTing: Now What?
  • 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
  • Join your colleagues who are TILTing in their classes to discuss the impact of TILTing on their students and on their teaching and to consider ways to improve our TILTing for future students.
  • Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/86867189943?pwd=WUU2VndUdCtRdVBpZ0FDa3Fsc0p3Zz09
  • Meeting ID: 868 6718 9943
  • Passcode: 849458
  • CRTP
  • Dos and Don’ts for Post-Pandemic Teaching
  • 1:00 – 2:00 pm
  • What do we do now? Just ask students! During the pandemic, we learned many valuable technology skills that assisted us in our virtual classrooms. This session will review research regarding what students hope we will continue to do and what they hope we will not.
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/89804513204?pwd=NjBTc25oMVFNZEJLUUtXYWcyVnh2dz09
  • Meeting ID: 898 0451 3204
  • Passcode: 126722
  • CRTP

Monday, August 16

  • ACUE Kick-off
  • 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
  • Facilitators: Tammy Ruff, Senior Affiliate Faculty, Psychology; Valerie Belew, Associate Professor, English; Fellow, The Teaching Center; Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
  • Zoom Link has been provided via Outlook Calendar Invite to all ACUE participants.
  • Open Education: Creating Local and Equitable Curriculum (Session 1 of 2)
  • 1:00 – 2:00 pm
  • Nashville State now has multiple faculty members involved in two different OER grant initiatives. Please join your fellow faculty members (and a guest speaker from STEM!), as well as some select guest speakers in a two-part series on Open Education. In the first session, hear from faculty on their experience with OER, each team on where we are in the grant, and how the OER process has improved and personalized our courses. The EHCT grant team will also display our Universally Designed for Learning course shell, which will be available for all faculty through the Teaching Center!
  • Presenters: Robert Ladd, Eleni Reid, Mike Kiggins, Michael Anderson
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/89461347541?pwd=R0U5SE9UeU9LSlYzTVdaMTVGWVgvUT09
  • Meeting ID: 894 6134 7541
  • Passcode: 474078
  • CRTP
  • Student Driven Assessment of Student Belonging at Nashville State
  • 2:00 – 3:00 pm
  • The Student Voices Initiative was a 2020-21 grant from TBR to assess Nashville State students’ sense of belonging. What made this project unique was the focus groups were led by Nashville State students. Discussion will include the process of training the student focus group facilitators, recruiting students to participate in focus groups, ultimately with the most success in PSYC 1030 Introduction to Psychology classes, and the data from over 100 students.  You will then go through the paces of a focus group to assess faculty sense of belonging at Nashville State. (If the workshop is in person, faculty should bring a pen to complete a survey; if virtual, faculty will complete an online survey.)
  • Presenters: Jessica Rabb, Professor of Biology
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/87316063235?pwd=ZDZ4R2VVYmxhUDlvUlBCR01BeExkUT09
  • Meeting ID: 873 1606 3235
  • Passcode: 730268
  • CRTP

Tuesday, August 17

  • Shame, Empathy, Emotional Literacy, and Operationalizing BRAVING in the Classroom
  • 8:00 – 9:00 am
  • How does our empathy, emotional literacy, and willingness to acknowledge possible triggers for shame make a difference in the classroom? How do we create more empathy and understanding? Join us as we discuss operational strategies that can create trust in the classroom. We suggest that you download 03. “read along resources” at this site https://brenebrown.com/daringclassrooms/ since we are using Brene Brown’s document as a framework for the sessions.
  • Presenters: Yvonne Simerman, Assistant Professor, Sociology; and Valerie Belew, Associate Professor, English; Fellow, The Teaching Center
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/86133610198?pwd=Njl1anVMVmg5TSt6bFhJWGtFQlhwUT09
  • Meeting ID: 861 3361 0198
  • Passcode: 439566
  • CRTP
  • Helping Multilingual Students Succeed in Content Area Courses
  • 9:15 – 10:15 am
  • Multilingual students often face a variety of challenges as they work with content in their major courses. This workshop will provide faculty with an overview of these challenges and give concrete strategies for making course content more accessible, thereby promoting student retention and success.
  • Presenters: Leda Longwood, Devora Manier, Connie Mathews, Elizabeth Stein, and Mary Elizabeth Wilson-Patton, ESL Faculty
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/81760560304?pwd=YWc3ZWplSFlmcEdCYmx1SFkxRzJzZz09
  • Meeting ID: 817 6056 0304
  • Passcode: 042367
  • CRTP
  • Building Assessments to Measure Student Growth and Combat Cheating
  • 10:30 – 11:30 am
  • Join The Teaching Center and Online Learning as we examine building assessments to measure student growth while also helping to prevent cheating.
  • Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center; Jamie Edwards, Director of Online Learning
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/87013269429?pwd=SmhtY2h2UU45NzFDTDZlM0FYbEQ1Zz09
  • Meeting ID: 870 1326 9429
  • Passcode: 134989
  • IR and You: Overview of data and how you can use it
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm
  • Rescheduled to Friday, September 22, 2021 @ 11:00 am
  • Presenters: Charles Clark, AVP of Planning and Research; and Derrick Dupois, Director of IR
  • Implementation and Impact of a Values Reflection in NSCC 1010B
  • 1:45 – 2:45 pm
  • We collaborated with the University of Virginia’s Motivate Lab to implement a value affirmation intervention in NSCC 1010 in fall 2019. We reached over 600 students in over 60 sections of the on-ground course. We continued our collaboration in 2020-21, by developing a virtual version of the intervention. Session participants will role-play a shortened version of the intervention and then see the qualitative data (pre- and post-mindset surveys) and qualitative data (reflection coding results) from our fall 2019 study. We hope our experience will help you consider value interventions in your courses.
  • Presenters: Jessica Rabb, Professor of Biology; and Marla Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/85765943574?pwd=TmczL3AwMmNuUmdOaG52WUNicmdPQT09
  • Meeting ID: 857 6594 3574
  • Passcode: 809430

Wednesday, August 18

  • Down the Rabbit Hole Part II
  • 8:00 – 9:00 am
  • Join us as we facilitate a workshop of our greatest hits. In 5-10 minute sessions, faculty from across campus will share teaching innovations, student engagement tools, teaching tips, and technological tidbits. These brief sessions will offer overviews rather than comprehensive information.
  • Presenters: Robert Ladd, Assistant Professor, English; Fellow, The Teaching Center; and Valerie Belew, Associate Professor, English; Fellow, The Teaching Cente
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/87192918210?pwd=bmpGQ1JBMFBpY1BRTktVVjh6Vit6dz09
  • Meeting ID: 871 9291 8210
  • Passcode: 032074
  • Perception and the Impact of Self on Students
  • 9:15 – 10:15 am
  • Join us as we analyze perception and the impact of perception on how students view themselves, faculty, college, and our courses.  Strategies for analyzing perceptions and for shifting perceptions to consider new perceptions and develop stronger growth mindsets will be shared.
  • Presenters: Neely Ann Sheucraft, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Director, The Teaching Center; and Amy Bryant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies; Fellow, The Teaching Center
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/88355385558?pwd=N00zWlUyVjNqNDE3NVlRNzdPV2Y1QT09
  • CRTP
  • Discover your innovation style through the Basadur Profile
  • 10:30 am – 11:30 am
  • ** Pre-registration required by Friday, Aug. 13 at 1:00 pm
  • The Basadur Innovation Profile Inventory measures your unique blend of preferences for the four stages of the innovation process: generating, conceptualizing, optimizing, implementing. Over the next year, NSCC Faculty, Staff, and Administrators will begin to use this learning tool as we work to discover how we best work together towards the goals of the college. (Session does require pre-registration and completion of profile before workshop. Link to complete profile will be sent to participants prior to workshop.)
  • Presenter: Donna Whitehouse, MHA, OTR
  • Registration Link: https://forms.gle/cZA746GKYkP9jH9p7
  • (Registration closes on Friday, August 13, at 1:00 pm.)
  • First-Year Student Degree Plans in the First-Weeks
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm
  • We will show participants the value of degree planning in NSCC 1010. Students save their degree plan in Degree Works so it may be accessed, edited, and audited by not only the student but also their advisor once the five-week course ends. Students learn how to use the degree planning tools at their disposal but also the value of their degree and the courses. At the end of the workshop, you will make a Degree Works plan as if you were a student. Attendees will need access to a computer for this workshop to use Degree Works (Google Chrome browser works best.)
  • Presenters: Jessica Rabb, Professor of Biology, and Marla Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/89170126165?pwd=L0FVRit1V25mSVg3MUxZV2FsbFRIZz09
  • Meeting ID: 891 7012 6165 
  • Passcode: 964619
  • Open Education: Creating Local and Equitable Curriculum (Session 2 of 2)
  • 1:45 – 2:45 pm
  • Nashville State now has multiple faculty members involved in two different OER grant initiatives. Please join your fellow faculty members (and a guest speaker from STEM!), as well as some select guest speakers in a two-part series on Open Education. In this follow up session, representatives from our partners, Lumen, Ecotext, and PanOpen, will show examples of their materials and supplementary systems. Please join us to see what OER has to offer, and how you can become a part of the OER movements within your field.
  • Presenters: Robert Ladd, Eleni Reid, Mike Kiggins, Michael Anderson
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/87056636052?pwd=TmRWY2JSMU9Ma2RtZzB0RGdUWGoxUT09
  • Meeting ID: 870 5663 6052
  • Passcode: 211085
  • CRTP

Office of Online Learning Inservice Schedule

Thursday, August 19

  • New Online Faculty Orientation
  • 8:30 – 9:30 am
  • If you are new to Nashville State Community College or just new to Online Learning and D2L, we would like to welcome you and introduce you to our online faculty support team. This workshop will cover the on-boarding process to lead you to the right people in getting accounts setup, access to software and hardware, and introducing you to D2L resources, and training materials.  It will also provide an opportunity to meet our team in the Office of Online Learning.
  • Presenter: Dr. Jamie Edwards, Office of Online Learning
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/83455328685?pwd=QS9TdUYzMEZCSzhWZ0N6MXhHbExtUT09
  • Simplifying Grading: Optimizing your D2L Gradebook
  • 9:45 – 10:45 am
  • This workshop will offer tools for simplifying and expediting the grading process for D2L assessments. Learn how to navigate the D2L gradebook, set up a gradebook that reflects course requirements, create grade categories and items, and enter and manage grades.
  • Presenter: Diana Blackburn, Office of Online Learning
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/81769417178?pwd=OXNDWUZ1SVFBNDNhMVljcm9Id1Z2QT09
  • New Tool Preview: Honorlock, Respondus Monitor + Virtual Proctoring
  • 1:30 – 2:30 pm
  • This workshop will serve as a preview and introduction to the new D2L integrations being adopted by NSCC in Fall 2021: Honorlock and Respondus Monitor. Learn about the function of Honorlock and Respondus Monitor in providing alternative online proctoring solutions.
  • Presenter: Diana Blackburn, Office of Online Learning
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/86368549201?pwd=WG1kOEIxVzlGZ29hcmJXbW42QzVnUT09
  • D2L’s Assessment Toolbox: Crafting Meaningful Assessments
  • 2:45 – 3:45 pm
  • This workshop will center on D2L’s assessment tools: Assignment Dropbox, Quizzes, and Discussions. Learn how each tool can contribute to meaningful student assessment, how to navigate assessment settings to customize the student submission process, and evaluate student performance.
  • Presenter: Anna Young, Office of Online Learning
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/85035483953?pwd=d0hpVU9Pa3R3eHN5dXFnZ0crMnpVdz09

Friday, August 20

  • Video Lectures + Instructor Content: Introduction to Kaltura
  • 9:00 – 10:00 am
  • This workshop serves as an introduction to Kaltura tools available in NS Online/D2L.  Learn to create and share videos and interactive media with students to enhance learning and retention.  This workshop will also explore tools for ensuring accessibility in instructor-created videos and content.
  • Presenter: Heather Rippetoe, Office of Online Learning
  • Zoom Link: https://nscc-edu.zoom.us/j/81509049392?pwd=UlhUUyt0anNwUnBmWEpBWnd4bWJzUT09

Office of Online Learning Open Office Hours

These free-format virtual office hours, available through the beginning of the Fall 2021 semester, are opportunities for faculty to meet with a member of the Online Learning Staff to ask questions and problem-solve individualized D2L issues.