Summary of PD Priorities for EET - 2011/12

We have a PD committee that meets bi-weekly on Tuesdays and it's this group that has helped to establish guiding principles and prioritize initiatives for the next year. Here they are:

Guiding Principles

• Achieving the overriding goal of the DL Strategy, that all instructors will have a blended component in their courses by June 2013.

• Balancing PD on teaching and technology
• Reaching out to programs and responding to their requests to better meet their specific needs
• Providing PD for all instructors on campus
• Developing sustainable resources. Presentations and resources can be reused and /or re-purposed.
• Designing all PD sessions for maximum accessibility: Consider the geographic distribution of LC instructors - rural campuses, DL instructors, classroom instructors
• Blended delivery wherever possible. This could include pre-session materials, interactive / well-planned sessions and workshops, follow up materials and / or activities.
• Designing the facilitation so face-to-face sessions will, wherever possible, be accompanied by a web conference option (Elluminate or other web conferencing tool) and posting the recordings on the EET (or alternate) website

Priority Projects:

Continue on with

• We Connect monthly sessions: Panel discussions on topics relevant to instructors and staff
• Book Club: Monthly discussions on “What the Best College Teachers Do”
• Technology support (Angel, Smartboard, VC, etc.) ongoing

Collect and showcase instructor stories. These will be short presentations that could be still photos or video, podcasts or vodcasts. Priority is on capturing the story and posting it to the website.

Develop three digital stories that demonstrate instructors’ experiences blending a course

Reach out to programs and respond to requests. Karen will be encouraging programs to request PD that meets their specific needs as well as sharing with the Chairs a list of potential presentations we could do at program or centre meetings, or with individual instructors or groups of instructors. Examples of topics include the following:

• Examples - 5 to 10 minute demo of an advanced Angel feature
• Presentation or workshop on authentic assessment
• Short presentation on making effective presentations - followed by workshops where instructors work on their own presentations
• Attending a program meeting and working with instructors on integrating technology into their lessons (ie Clickers or Smartboards)
• etc

Complete four blended learning projects with instructors

Complete an “Orientation to Teaching at Lethbridge College” blended course

Re-work Learning Connections website, including resources, so we have somewhere to host all resources