Volume 2, Issue 28 | April 16, 2020
Our Mission

We champion excellent teaching and build connected community to promote meaningful learning.
Center for Teaching and Learning
Greetings, fellow faculty. The CTL and the Summer Institute Planning Committee have been working hard to set up the DCCC 2020 Summer Institute. The theme for the summer institute is Fostering Resilience and Growth Mindset. The current plan is to hold the summer institute for four days from August 3 rd to August 6 th. Participants will then be members of a Faculty Learning Community for the fall semester of 2020. To earn the stipend provided by the Title III grant, participants must attend the summer institute and participate in the faculty learning community.

On Monday, April 20 th, the CTL will be releasing the tentative agenda for the summer institute along with an application form. Please read the description and agenda and consider applying to participate. We look forward to hearing from many of you.
Take care, everyone.

CTL Advisory Board:
Faculty Chair:   Julie Dillon
ASE:  Joey Cook
BETS:  Ricky Swing
Davie:  Dee Edwards
Office of Learning Design:  David Whitehead
Faculty Cafe
Chad Skudlarick, Instructional Designer
Chad Skudlarick, Instructional Designer
Chad Skudlarick, Instructional Designer in the Office of Learning Design, “… was born in Nashville, Tennessee. When I was around three, my dad accepted a job and moved the family to Rutherford County, in western North Carolina. It was in the foothills of Rutherford County, that I grew up with my older brother and younger sister. After high school, my first college experience was at Isothermal Community College."
 
“Thankfully, my parents continually fostered, a love of reading and learning. That love of reading and learning was reignited as a student at Isothermal Community College (ICC). There was just something about the special people and place of ICC that really was impactful and positively memorable. What a journey of learning it’s been since taking those first college classes at ICC. 

Notes from the CTL Chair
Julie Dillon
Julie Dillon, Chair for the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Dear Colleagues:

As I'm sure you are aware, there are lots of online webinars designed to help and support faculty with online teaching. I thought it might be helpful to collect those webinars in a shareable calendar. Here is the link for the  CTL calendar*, which has several free webinars listed. (For ease of viewing, I recommend displaying only the CTL calendar** and using the "schedule" view*** to see the webinars in a list format.)

Coming up soon and of note: the NC Community College System continues their  series on transitioning to distance learning this Friday at 11 and 2.  

Beyond the ones already listed, please share any webinars you think might be useful for others. You can email those to  ctl@davidsonccc.edu, and they will be added to the calendar. Please be sure to include a link or other pertinent information about the webinar.  

Thanks,
Julie



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Julie Dillon's cat walks away from a virtual meeting.
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