Past Events: Spring 2021
Succeeding in Times of Disruption
A Five-Part Series on Lessons Learned from Fall 2020
Join your colleagues and contribute to a series of robust discussions on the lessons learned from our fall 2020 teaching experiences. Each of the moderated open-forums will allow participants to share their fall teaching trials and triumphs so that we may all learn from one another as we prepare for the spring semester. Grab a cup of coffee, turn on your webcam, think of a few examples of what worked and did not work for you this fall, and join the conversation. All sessions are virtual through Microsoft Teams.
Forum 1: Keeping Students Engaged in the Pandemic Classroom: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Moderator: Karlie Johnson
Monday, January 4, 2021
1:00 p.m.
This session will focus on best practices and lessons learned in keeping students motivated to engage in the classroom in these unpredicted times. The session format is designed to be an open dialogue amongst colleagues to share student engagement stories and strategies that could work in a variety of instructional delivery modes. To help start our conversation on student engagement, panelists will share their experiences of what has and has not worked during the pandemic.
View Video Archive of Karlie Johnson's presentation
Forum 2: Sometimes Deep Breathing Is Not Enough
Moderator: Dr. Lori Hill and Dr. Stacy Mikel
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
10:00 a.m.
This session will focus on protecting your mental health by implementing strategies to save your sanity in these unprecedented times. A crisis develops when coping strategies that were once effective fail. Stress becomes a destructive force that impacts your mental and physical health when not relieved. What are some strategies you can implement in the new year to save your sanity?
View Video Archive of Dr. Hill and Dr. Mikel's presentation
Forum 3: Best Practices for Classroom Communication when We Are Not in the Classroom
Moderator: Dr. Teresa Reed
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
3:00 p.m.
This Faculty Commons session will focus on communication in the many new ways we have been teaching recently. What are some ways we communicate with students when we're not seeing them as often as we would in a typical semester? When we were in class, we’re more likely to remind them of assignments or expectations or other sorts of things that might just come up in conversation. This session is designed to focus on how we're communicating all of those little moving pieces to students in alternate ways and staying in touch to help students stay on track.
The session is designed as a conversation amongst all who attend to discuss and share best practices and ask questions. We will begin with a few faculty briefly discussing their strategies before moving on to general discussion organized around several key questions and issues focused on useful ways to keep in touch with students.
View Video Archive of Dr. Reed's presentation
Forum 4: Managing your hybrid, virtual, and traditional classroom in challenging times
Moderator: Dr. Erin Rider, Dr. Ben Gross, & Sean Creech
Thursday, January 7, 2021
1:00 p.m.
This session will offer guidance and strategies for student participation and learning
while faced with an unpredictable learning environment. Panelists will discuss what has worked for them in the various teaching modes. This session also includes opportunities for participant discussion and sharing of what has worked and what hasn't across campus.
Goal: Improved student learning
Goal: Improved student participation
View Video Archive of Dr. Erin Rider, Dr. Ben Gross, & Sean Creech's presentation
Forum 5: Apps that work with Canvas
Moderator: Dr. Teresa Gardner
Friday, January 8, 2021
1:00 p.m.
Make your Canvas classroom experience better with Apps and websites that integrate easily into your classroom
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Time |
Presenter(s) |
Presentation Title & Blurb |
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February 3
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11:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Kim Westbrooks, Jodi Poe, and Allison Boswell |
Your Online Library & More! Make your life easier and connect with your library's online information resources! Your library has a number of services to support your online classes. Learn more about library and what we can do to make all of your research dreams come true! View Video Archive of Kim Westbrooks, Jodi Poe, and Allison Boswell's presentation |
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February 10 |
2 – 3 pm |
Brittany Cammack |
Safe Zone Training JSU Safe Zone is a campus-wide program that works to ensure a welcoming environment for all gender identities and sexual orientations. By establishing an identifiable network of trained individuals committed to fostering an atmosphere of respect and inclusion, the program provides a safe space for members of the LGBTQ community and their Allies on campus. |
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February 18 |
2 - 3 pm |
Dr. Emily Sims |
Using Journals to Promote Understanding, Cultivate Connection, and Stimulate Learning We continue to face unprecedented times in our country, states, communities, and schools. As faculty, we have no palatable answers to what the future holds; we have no power over physical time; and we have no power over the actions and behaviors of others. However, we do have control of our reactions to our circumstances; we do have control of our attitudes toward others; and we do have control over our students’ learning experiences. Undoubtedly, students experience a multitude of personal, academic, and financial challenges as they navigate such unknown terrain. Our faculty were genuinely concerned about how our students were processing what was happening in their lives, families, communities, and schools. As aspiring secondary classroom teachers, our students will inevitably be faced with crises – in their communities, in their schools, and in their classrooms. A teacher’s response to a crisis is critical to how his or her students will subsequently process the crisis. We were positioned to create a practical, informative, and reflective opportunity as we explored students’ lived experiences through their intentional daily journaling. What we learned from our students was pedagogically altering! They were changed; we were changed. View video archive of Dr. Sims' presentation |
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February 24 |
10 - 11 am |
Andrew Higgins |
Breakout Sessions, Spotlight, and Microsoft's Newest Features We will learn more about Breakout Sessions, Spotlight, and Microsoft's latest features that will be helpful in the classroom. |
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February 24 |
2 - 3 pm |
Rodney Bailey |
Pandemic Pedagogy Details for session will be posted later. |
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February 25
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2 – 3 pm |
Dr. Chris Clark & Dr. Jennifer Savage |
Don’t Hesitate to Communicate This workshop will examine the benefits of developing communication skills in our classrooms. We will incorporate student perspectives, faculty viewpoints, and current best practices that are valuable in creating effective environmental conditions within today’s classrooms. This collaborative session will examine practical applications for both undergraduate and graduate students. View video archive of Dr. Clarks & Dr. Savage's presentation |
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March 3 |
2 – 3 pm |
Dr. Wendy Stephens |
Try a Little Tenderness: Building Resilience Into the Curriculum How are you checking in on students' mental health in the virtual environment and adjusting expectations based on emergency conditions? We will share strategies for promoting mindfulness and sustaining concentration and connection in difficult times. |
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March 4 |
2 – 3 pm |
Allison Boswell |
Learn More about Digital Commons JSU Digital Commons houses the Library’s digitized archival collections, and will also serve as an openly-accessible repository for JSU faculty and student scholarship. Through this resource, the Library can help you showcase your scholarly output, greatly increasing the reach of your work. We can provide an online conference presence, host open access journals, and much more. Digital Commons gives users permanent, open links to their work and offers a variety of metrics. Users can schedule monthly, customized emails to see how many times their scholarship has been downloaded and the geographic distribution of their users, worldwide. Scholarly articles, presentations, theses/dissertations, artwork, lectures, journals, posters, and creative writing are just a few of the types of content in Digital Commons, and the Library is actively seeking your contributions! |
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March 10 |
10 - 11 am |
Dr. Jason Cleveland |
Stats War: A Spurious Space Opera about Statistics We will talk about the secret, fictitious, war between statisticians. While the presentation will be a satirical play on events, it should be noted that we will trace the historical journey of a particular branch of statistical philosophy that was discovered and discarded numerous times over the past two centuries. We will track how this philosophy helped create the mathematical theory of errors (eventually statistics), was discarded in favor of frequency, helped solve problems in the World Wars, was kept secret, and only recently resurged thanks to computational ease. The talk will end with a, personal, call for where statistics should go. |
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March 10 |
1 - 2 pm |
Dr. Lori Hill & Dr. Stacy Mikel |
What is our Role? Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults. Young adulthood is a time of transition for many. Leaving home for the first time, the stress, change, and pressure of college classes may be overwhelming. These transitions may lead to mental health issues. Treatment options for mental health are available, but often there is a delay between the emergence of symptoms and when the person reaches out for help. It has been reported that 76% of young adults will turn to a trusted individual during a crisis for support. We, as faculty, need to be open to having conversations about mental health with our students. Seize the Awkward is an initiative designed to help faculty become more comfortable with those awkward conversations. |
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April 7 |
1 – 2 pm |
Dr. Serena Gramling & Wendy Key |
Unique Teaching. Learning, and Connection Strategies in Higher Education During a Pandemic This presentation includes content delivery tips (asynchronous vs. synchronous), Q/A sessions, evaluation strategies, revisiting difficult content, connecting through social media, and promoting strategies for success with students. View video archive of Dr. Gramling and Ms. Key's presentation |
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April 14 |
2 - 3 pm |
Nathan Jackson |
Utilizing Success Markers in JSU Navigate Topics that will be covered in this session will be: How to access and view student profiles in Navigate How to locate Success Markers in student profiles How to leverage Success Markers for advisement |
| April 2, 2021 |
Promotion & Tenure Portfolio Requirements 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting Panel session led by Deans |
| April 5, 2021 |
Teaching, Advising, & Professional Effectiveness 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting Panel session led by Deans View video archive of this session 3:30-4:30 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting School-Specific Sessions *Some schools may not have a school specific session because they have scheduled their own P&T workshops. |
| April 12, 2021 |
Digital Measures 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting Presented by Dr. Tseng, Online@JSU *Requires pre-registration |
| April 16, 2021 |
Scholarly Activites & Creative Work 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting Panel session led by Deans View video archive of this session 3:30-4:30 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting School-Specific Sessions *Some schools may not have a school specific session because they have scheduled their own P&T workshops. |
| April 23, 2021 |
Community Engagement & Collegiality and Promotion & Tenure Portfolio 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting Panel session led by Deans View video archive of this session 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Microsoft Teams Meeting Session led by Provost Shelton on tenure & promotion portfolio requirements |