
AM Sessions
Presenters	Session Title	Session Description	Time	Notes
Mari Abril	Zoom to Adobe Rush Workshop	Sharing an easy to use media workflow for bringing videos into online and face-to-face classes. Participants will learn strategies for integrating video into one's pedagogy and then offer a set of guides for pairing Zoom (video conferencing tool) with Adobe Rush (video editing tool) to make videos.	9:00-9:50 am




Carl Chrisman	Humor in the Classroom	Learn how to be funny... or at least funnier than you are now. Research shows that humor in the classroom improves student engagement, retention, and success. By incorporating more humor in our classes, the students will most certainly benefit. In this session we will cover the keys to comedy, character development, creating humorous content for the classroom, and delivery.	9:00-9:50 am
Chris Jones-Cage Christine Schaefer	Classroom Management of Disruptive Behavior	Angry outbursts, disrespect of the opinions of others, grade grubbing, bullying are only a few examples of student behavior that can be disruptive to the learning environment in your face to face classroom but they present in different ways in the online environment. This interactive workshop will provide you with practical strategies and useful tools to prepare for and respond to disruptive behaviors in your online classroom.	9:30-10:50 am


Kim Dozier	Compassion & Grace in an Online Course Environment	How can we best meet student need AND stay sane when teaching virtually? How can we engage students in this two-dimensional world we now find ourselves inhabiting? How can we have standards and still be flexible? Come talk about ideas and solutions for being compassionate while still holding students accountable and engaging your students without being online 24/7.	10:00-10:50 am
Jorge A. Pérez	Exploring Rocket Science	In this presentation we will explore the history, Mathematics and development in rocketry. From its beginnings in Rome and China, to Sputnik, NASA and Elon Musk, we will explore different stages of history of rockets along with the Physics and Math behind them. We will discover the theory behind how rockets work and take a deep dive on the Mathematics of rocketry.	10:00 - 10:50 am
John Learned	Building Effective Course Outlines	Planning on creating a new course or significantly modifying a course? This session is designed to help you build a course outline that will effectively communicate your vision for the course.	10:00-10:50 am

Keynote Speaker: Live Stream 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. Engaging & Empowering Learners through Zoom Jonathan Brennan, PhD, EdD; Chair On Course National Conference

PM Sessions
Presenters	Session Title	Session Description	Time	Sign up Link
Jonathan Brennan	Still More Active Learning in the Online Environment	Dr. Brennan will offer educators more opportunities to experience the use of active, synchronous Zoom learning structures that promote engagement and more effective learning, including Breakout Rooms, Chat and Polls. He will also answer questions about Zoom Fatigue research and tools to minimize this common challenge faced by both educators and students.	1:00-1:50 pm
Maureen Meehan, Franklin Covey	Building your Remote Work Muscle	Introducing Building Your Remote Work Muscle: Lessons and Tools from the 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity. This fast paced and interactive work session is not just for the newly minted remote team member, but for anyone who wants a few more tips and tools to drive an even more productive remote environment, which definitely includes having fun!	1:00 - 2:30 pm	Session is limited to 40 participants
Denise Ferraccioli	Digital Creativity in Online Classes Using Adobe Spark Workshop	As classes in higher education move online, one of the things likely to suffer is the level of creative engagement available to students. Much of the engagement in every class is primarily (if not exclusively) text-based. In this workshop, you will learn to bring more digital creativity into your online class. Specifically, using Adobe Spark Page for creating (asynchronous) course content and for student assignments, Adobe Spark Post for student activities, and Spark Video for video-based engagements (instructor and student).	1:00-1:50 pm
Craig Donahue Marvin Gabut	Camp Canvas for Beginners	Uneasy or not familiar with Canvas? This session starts with logging into Canvas, and continues the lesson for the beginner on "how to" navigate, view, and have basic knowledge about one's Canvas Account, and what Canvas can do for their course(s).	1:00-1:50 pm
Kurt Leuschner	The Birds of College of the Desert	In this narrated (one hour with questions) powerpoint presentation you will see and learn about the birds that call the College of the Desert campus home.	2:00 - 2:50 pm
Donna Greene	Zooming for Equity and Inclusion	Using ConferZoom for your class meetings is easy to set up and can be used to help ensure equity and inclusion. This session will focus on how to set up your virtual meetings in Canvas; how to help students to ensure their privacy needs are met when you are recording; how to save and upload your recordings with transcripts and captions so that all students can view after your session ends.	2:00-2:50 pm
Geoff Hagopian	Some Algorithmic Gems	Introductory computer science offers a plethora of opportunities to crossbreed areas of math and science. We'll explore a potpourri of these.	2:00-2:50 pm
Daniel Mayo	The Biochemistry of Covid-19	This interactive talk will present the basics of what a virus is, a summary of what we know about COVID-19, and what tools are at our disposal to combat this foe.	3:00-3:50 pm
Marvin Gabut Donna Greene	Keeping Students Engaged in Video Viewing: Canvas Studio Tool	There is a new tool in Canvas to help you keep your students engaged in videos! Canvas Studio will allow you to record, upload and edit your videos using an easy video editing program. Then you can embed interactive quizzes and discussions right into the video. Join us for a demonstration of what you can do with this new tool!	3:00-3:50 pm
Amber Black Nicole Tortoris	Data literacy	This presentation will teach faculty how to read data appropriately. We will focus on how you should present data correctly and how to teach students how to interpret data. We are bombarded with data everyday, this presentation will help faculty to interpret the data and not be manipulated by it.	3:00-3:50 pm
Jorge A. Perez Melissa Flora	Mathematics behind COVID-19	In this activity we will explore the Mathematics and models behind the COVID-19 pandemic. From reviewing the data, understanding what is meant by “flattening the curve” to exploring different possible scenarios for the pandemic at national and state level. We will also compare and contrast how different populations are affected by the virus and how the Coachella Valley has been affected by the pandemic.	4:00-4:50 pm
John Learned	Curriculum Training	This is mandatory annual training for Curriculum Committee representatives, Technical Review Committee representatives, Deans and Department Chairs. There are three sessions scheduled throughout the FLEX days, you just need to go to one.	4:00-4:50 pm