Flipping Faculty DevelopmentWhat would you do with $1000?

Rebecca Chandler Ashley Chelonis

Ventura County is above Los Angeles, California

3 college district: Ventura, Oxnard, and Moorpark

Hispanic-serving institutions

Ventura has 400 courses in D2L

Moorpark College

Instructional Technologist

Introduction

Ventura Community College District

Ventura College

Instructional Technologist

SITE: Summer Institute of Teaching Excellence

Title V Grant - Awarded in 2010

- 5 million dollar grant

- Reduce or eliminate inequalities in education

- Included SITE • Goal: Reignite the instructors’ desire to

teach • Week-long conference led by Ventura and

Oxnard Colleges• $1000 Mini-grants awarded to attendees

Event Preparation• Planning meetings year-around

• Funds allow it to be a professional event

• Tracking SpendingFood SuppliesBrochuresVideosSpeakersTechReservations for field trips

Original Format

• Learning Communities

• Tech Day

• Active Learning

• Keynote speakers

• Tech integration into all activities

• Social media

• Polling

• iPads (paid for by grant and set-up ahead of time with specific apps)

Year 4: Time for Something New

But how…….• Permission from Federal Government

• Prior year had 43 attendees (diminishing)

• Change in the way funding could be used

• Prior attendees wanted to come back

• Eliminate outside speakers

Conference: Flipped!

• UnConference Model: Attendees decide

• Field trips

• Topic of interest

• Final Keynote presentations

• What’s YOUR Big Idea?

• Get OUT of the classroom!

• We needed the glue to hold this together……..

SITE 2.0Make a class in D2L• Prefaced the event with info prior to event

• Login 2 weeks prior

• Build Community before they come

• Setting up Access back end: video notes

• User Friendly

• Social Media widgets

• Testing that things ahead of time

• Made others test, too

• Calendar of events: make sure

• Menus: So people can see ahead what they’ll be eating and can plan ahead

Reduce negative perceptions of D2L

GOALSof using Desire2Learn in SITE

Building Community

Tools:

• Discussion Board

• Video Note

• Social Media Widgets

Navigation

Tools:• Check list

• Simplified Navigation bar

• Daily Modules

• Calendar

Tools: • Dropbox

• Widgets with Links

Submitting Forms

Herding Cats: Field Trips

Tools:

•Content

•Quizzes

Evaluations

Tools:

• Surveys

• Links/Navigation Bar

Tools:Calendar

Menus

Unconference

Tools:

• Discussion Board

• Ratings

Outcomes

• 75 attendees, up from 43 the year before

• Had 10-15 people wanted training right after

• Survey results

• Big Ideas!

Feedback

Feedback

Feedback

Feedback

Lessons Learned/For Next Time

• DON’T TAKE 75 PEOPLE ON A FIELD TRIP!!!!

• Hire someone else to print the posters?

• Change is Good

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin