Volume 1, Issue 7 | ELITE Digest | April 2022
We invite you to explore this month’s Digest to learn about all of the exciting things available to you from the Office of E-Learning, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence.
April features multiple ways to reflect, connect, and grow together as one MC community, from the annual Love of Teaching Conference to the NEW Universal Design Center Summit.
As you return to more campus-based operations, we would like to remind you of the One Button Studio located in the Mannakee Building in Rockville. The One Button Studio allows users to quickly and easily create high-quality videos without experience or technical knowledge. The One Button Studio is set up for you with a microphone, studio light, and camera. The One Button Studio must be reserved online in advance.
Compete in our monthly H5P challenge! To enter, all you must do is:
- complete this month’s ELITE Interactive Game (see below); and
2. send us a copyof your answers by 5 pm on Friday, April 8, 2022.
Winners will be selected at random and contacted via email on April 11, 2022. For an extra chance to win, “like” the April ELITE Digest post on the Montgomery Employees Facebook page by 5 pm on April 8, 2022.
Winners will be selected at random and contacted via email on March 14, 2022. For an extra chance to win, “like” the March ELITE Digest post on the Montgomery Employees Facebook page by 5 pm on March 11, 2022.
Thank you for taking a moment to read this month’s Digest. The ELITE team is grateful to you for choosing us to support your professional development needs and grow together to support our students’ success.
If you have any questions or feedback about our latest edition of the ELITE Digest, please let us know or contact us through the various ASK ELITE channels.
Inaugural Inclusion by Design Summit
This Spring 2022, MC’s Universal Design Center (UDC) is thrilled to host its inaugural Inclusion by Design Summit. This half-day virtual conference on April 29, 2022, will offer multiple workshops, speed sessions, and a virtual Happy Hour!
Learn more about the Universal Design Center Summit.
Data Asset Management Training
Montgomery College has launched basic asset management data training effective immediately. This online training focuses on privacy and compliance. The targeted audience is all administrators, faculty, and staff. All are strongly encouraged to participate. Data Asset Management Training is the first of many offerings being developed through collaboration and partnership between Analytics and Insights (A&I), Workforce Development and Continuing Education (WDCE), and E-Learning, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence (ELITE). You can access and complete this course in Workday.
Love of Teaching Half-Day Conference: Teaching Today for Tomorrow
The Love of Teaching conference celebrates our work, your love of teaching, and the power of being an unforgettable and impactful instructor. During this year’s conference, faculty will come together to network, share, discuss, learn, and celebrate their profession and remember the reasons for becoming an educator as we continue to Teaching Today for Tomorrow. The conference will be held virtually on Saturday, April 30, 2022, from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm.
Learn more about the Love of Teaching Half-Day Conference: Teaching Today for Tomorrow.
Spring Professional Week – Sneak Peak
Spring Professional Week offers faculty and staff a variety of professional development opportunities provided by the College and ELITE and a chance to celebrate our graduates. Professional Week begins on Monday, May 16, and kicks off with a day of ELITE professional development opportunities. All ELITE-sponsored events are scheduled on Monday, May 16, and held via Zoom.
A sneak peek of ELITE’s professional development day can be found here.
Practical Resilience
Join your colleagues to experience two impactful workshops with Nathalie Thompson to help us develop Practical Resilience.
The workshops take the perspective that human beings are naturally resourceful and resilient; but in today’s rapidly changing world we need mental toughness which is something that we can learn. Resilience is not a trait that people either have or do not have. It involves behaviors thoughts, and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone. Resilience is a mindset and skillset that is essential for success and happiness.
Learn more about Practical Resilience.
Virtual Campus Lounge Hours
As the Virtual Campus begins to take shape, ELITE would like to invite you to our Virtual Campus Lounge hours for February.
Study Abroad
Studying abroad offers students and others the opportunity to immerse themselves in other cultures to build cultural competence and intercultural skills. This issue of Multicultural Moments will present some benefits of studying abroad, highlight Montgomery College’s (MC) study abroad program, and explain study abroad alternatives in light of the pandemic.
Learn More about Multicultural Moment.
Tips for Earth Day Integrative Learning Activities
Tip 1: iNaturalist App
This year we celebrate Earth Day 2022 amidst serious challenges to global biodiversity and species loss. By connecting student learning in our classrooms to key contemporary crises like this, we can advance more meaningful and impactful outcomes for students in a variety of subjects.
Learn More about Teaching Tip of the Month.
Start Creating Edpuzzle Video Assignments from Your Blackboard Courses
What is Edpuzzle?
Edpuzzle is an online video tool that creates interactive lectures with previously recorded or pre-existing videos from other web sources such as YouTube.
Feeling Comfortable with Failing
We have all experienced the frustration and sometimes embarrassment of failing. What happens after? We often abandon the effort personally and on an organizational level; we tell others, “we tried that before, and it didn’t work” (even if the attempt was made years—or decades—ago).
Learn More about Return to Work Tip of the Month.
MC Forward
Dr. Michael Mills hosts a weekly podcast that focuses on Montgomery College individuals who are leading from where they are.
