Teaching Through Change

• Trauma-Informed Teaching is centered on safety in the learning environment; trust and transparency; supportive peers, creation of a collaborative space for everyone; empowerment and choice; and supporting all students by interrogating your own privilege to continue to dismantle privilege.
  • Trauma-Aware Teaching
  • Small Steps to Start Implementing a Trauma-Informed Practice in Your Course
  • What is Trauma-Informed Pedagogy?

• Strategies to Support Challenging Conversations in the Classroom
• Inquiry Discourse Toolkit (Georgetown)
• Facilitating Challenging Conversations in the Classroom
• Teaching in Difficult Times (Vassar)
• Teaching in Turbulent Times
• Teaching Through Disruption
• Teaching Around Election
• Teaching During Times of Global Tension: Violence in Gaza and Israel
   
• OTFD (Open The Front Door - Dialogue Framework

Educator course: Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change (focused on flexible pedagogy that adapts to change) (4 week free course to audit)

• Modifying Assessment Strategy for Online Teaching (University of Florida)
• Authentic Assessments

Considerations

• Require only common software. 
  Students may not have access to specialty software located in on-campus computer labs. Unless students have the necessary permissions to load software onto a computer they can access, they may be unable to use these tools. Be ready with a backup plan for such students.
• Avoid emailed attachments. 
  It may be easy to collect assignments in small classes via email, but larger classes might swamp your email inbox. Consider using the tools below instead. Balance what is simplest for students with what is easiest for you to manage.
• State expectations, but be ready to allow extensions. 
  In the case of a campus closure or other crisis, some students will undoubtedly have difficulties meeting deadlines. Make expectations clear, but be ready to provide more flexibility than you normally would in your class.
• Require specific filenames. It may sound trivial, but anyone who collects papers electronically knows the pain of getting 20 files named Essay1.docx. Give your students a simple file naming convention, for example, FirstnameLastname-Essay1.docx.
• Facilitating exams and quizzes.
  You can use the Canvas Quiz feature to set up exams and quizzes, however, this can take some time depending on the type of exam you are wanting to produce online. You might consider frequent, low-stakes exams rather than one high-stakes exam.
• Providing grading and feedback. 
  The Canvas gradebook is a central location to easily provide grades and feedback to students. See the Resources section for more details on using this feature.

AI Pedagogy Project 
Guide for navigating AI, including assignments, classroom policies, tutorials, and much more.

CTL Instructional Development Hub

With Design Tools, Humboldt educators have developed academic, training and cohort-building Canvas courses. They use various colors, themes, structures, and images to connect with students and prepare them for successful learning. What appeals to you? Contact a CTL instructional designer and get started enhancing your course today!

Meet DesignPLUS

CidiLABS OLD DesignPLUS (Design Tools) User Guide
 

CidiLABS NEW DesignPLUS User Guide

Guide to copying course content

• Canvas Community
  Searchable guides, Q&A, training, and discussions on everything Canvas
• Canvas Commons
  A repository of educational materials that educators can find, import and share.
• Guide to copying course content
  Starting a course from scratch every semester is time-consuming; that's why Canvas makes it easy to import course content and copy courses.
• Adobe Stock
  Explore your one-stop shop for stock videos, images, templates, and more
• Unsplash
  Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photo.
• Canva 
  Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

VoiceThread Engagement Tool - self-enroll in the CTL Hub for more details

TidyUP provides a quick way to view all of the content in your course and clean out files and content that are no longer needed.

Panopto is available for faculty, staff and student use and is an easy way to record and share videos at Cal Poly Humboldt. 

Zoom offers modern video calling with live messaging and content sharing for desktop and mobile. Record meetings, make annotations, engage attendees with polls, and more!

Zoom for the Classroom

How to Automatically Share Zoom Lectures to your Canvas Course Using Panopto

Camtasia is a software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating and recording video tutorials and presentations via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Adobe Premiere Pro is free to Cal Poly Humboldt students, staff, and faculty and is an industry standard for film making. To access Premiere Pro off campus, take a look at the Cal Poly Humboldt ITS page: Home/Personal Use Software. Premiere Pro is available on most campus Windows and Mac computers, including Library laptops available for checkout.

• Panopto Media Library (available to faculty and staff from Humboldt Google Share Drive) is a searchable video database that includes a collection of captioned films and documentaries that have been digitized for use in coursework.
• Kanopy Streaming Titles streamed by Kanopy are available either directly from the library catalog or from the Humboldt Kanopy interface linked above. 
• Humboldt Digital Scholar Campus lectures by Humboldt faculty and visiting speakers are available through CSU Scholarworks. Campus/Community Dialogue on Race keynote speakers, Kieval Lectures, and many others are available from this archival repository. New Sustainable Futures Speaker Series lectures are housed at Schatz Energy Resource Center website and on their YouTube page.
• PBS The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a multi-station archive of a lot of PBS material from years back. It's a good place to start if you are looking for a streaming option for something you have on VHS.
• PBS Learning Media is a free streaming platform specifically for educators. There are many clips from a ton of programs. You might not find that full episode of NOVA but you might find the clip that you actually want to use.

See more on the Library website.

Canva
Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

Adobe Express
Adobe Express is a cloud-based design platform where users can create videos, PDF documents, web pages, graphics and other digital assets.
 

Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. 
 

Adobe Stock
High-quality, free stock images built right inside your Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
 

Flickr
An online photo management and sharing application.

CSU Webinar Series: Teaching and Thinking with A.I.
Facilitated by José Antonio Bowen, webinars explore:

• Introduction to Teaching and Thinking with A.I.
• AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering
• AI Grading, Detection and Policies
• AI Assignments and Assessments

AI Syllabus Statements

CTL Learning 101 - Thnking and AI
You're in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly intertwined with education. AI tools and technologies are rapidly transforming the way we learn, research, and problem-solve. However, it's crucial to approach these tools with a balanced perspective, understanding both their potential benefits and limitations.

Academic Applications of AI (AAAI) Micro-Credential
San Diego State University’s Academic Applications of AI (AAAI) Micro-Credential is available to the CSU community and prepares you to apply generative AI (gAI) technology efficiently, effectively, and ethically to level up learning in the classes you teach. Topics include; how gAI works, ethics & responsible use, what AI can do, finding apps, prompt engineering activities and more!

AI in Education is a resource for students, built by students, to provide ways you can use generative artificial intelligence productively and responsibly as part of your learning journey in university.

Our Cal Poly Humboldt University AI Resources Hub is a dedicated platform designed to empower faculty with the latest tools, research, and best practices in artificial intelligence. Whether you're looking to integrate AI into your curriculum, advance your research, or stay updated on the latest developments in the field, our comprehensive resource list has you covered. 

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