Summer Exploration: Creating Media Content with New Technologies
Summer can be a great time to try something new and explore the various technologies available to Harper faculty. The Academy offers two recording studios equipped with technology for creating engaging media content. The studios include a Lightboard for creating interactive videos, a podcast microphone for recording audio, a green screen, and Camtasia editing software. The Panopto video platform is also available for instructors to record and edit videos, with features like automatic captioning, quizzes, and analytics.
Continue reading to see how faculty have used some of these technologies, learn how to reserve the recording studios and how to get started creating, and more!
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Summer On-Demand Opportunities
The Academy is offering on-demand professional development opportunities again for summer.
- Become an Ally Advocate
- Four Connections and You
- Incorporating Trauma Informed Principles in the College Classroom
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Small Group Instructional Feedback (SGIF) (Note: The deadline to submit an interest form to participate in this opportunity for summer courses is June 9.)
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Calling Ally Advocates!
Become an Ally Advocate Coach and help empower your fellow faculty members to enhance the accessibility of their course content through Blackboard Ally. As an Ally Coach, you will guide and support your peers through the process of using Blackboard Ally to make their course materials more accessible. Not only will you have the satisfaction of making a positive impact, but you'll also receive a stipend.
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Get Started with Panopto - Basic Training Webinars in June & July
Panopto is a cloud-based video platform available to Harper faculty. Panopto provides an all-in-one solution for recording, editing, captioning, and sharing videos! Panopto is integrated with Blackboard and Webex, which provides easy access and a streamlined workflow for faculty and students.
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Library Instruction Doesn't Stop in Summer
Shared by Jennifer Lau-Bond, Coordinator of Library Instruction
Yes, we DO offer library instruction in the summer! Don’t let your summer students miss out on the chance to learn valuable research and information literacy skills. Library faculty are available to work with your classes on campus or online, or we can share asynchronous materials that will help your students with their research and citing.
Don’t have much time in your summer courses? The Library still offers all our in-person and online support as well as our 25-minute online research appointments. Encourage your summer students to take advantage of these important services!
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Check out the Summer Issue of Harper Happenings
Harper Happenings is filled with information and links to many Harper events, activities, programs, resources, and services for our students and community.
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Introducing ReadSpeaker: A Text-to-Speech Tool for Students in Blackboard
ReadSpeaker, a text-to-speech technology, is now available as a new tool in Blackboard. The ReadSpeaker Suite of Learning Tools instantly creates an audio version of course content in line with Universal Design for Learning concepts. This means that students will have the option to listen to their course materials (including tests!) instead of reading them, which can be especially helpful for those who have reading or learning difficulties. Additionally, any student can benefit from using this tool.
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Academy & Blackboard Support for Faculty: How to Get Help
The Academy team is available on campus for drop-in support in Building F, Room F317, as well as available for remote support.
Not sure what to ask or where to start? We’re here for you! Just fill out the Academy Request Form, and an Academy team member will follow-up with you.
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The Academy team has developed some resources to help you as you prepare for the summer semester, including a Blackboard Course Template. Learn more and view resources using the link above.
Please save the date for the annual fall Adjunct Faculty Teaching & Learning Conference: September 14, 4:30-8 p.m. Learn more using the link above.
If you are looking for short, simply worded, Blackboard how-to videos to share with your students then please scan this collection for options that may be applicable. The videos reside in the "Blackboard Student Resources" folder within Panopto. You can give the students the link to the whole folder or the links to specific videos that you would like them to review. View the collection using the link above.
Through Harper’s Innovation Accelerator and the Intel® AI for Workforce program, Artificial Intelligence (AI) training and education is now available to faculty and Harper community. Keep current on AI developments and learn more by registering for an upcoming Artificial Intelligence course: Introduction to AI, Integrating AI Into Your Classroom, and more. Learn more using the link above.
Use the links below to view important deadline and due dates from the Registrar's Office:
If you need access to your Harper email, Office 365, HIP and other college systems, please submit a Service Desk request from your Harper account. When submitting your request, please include your travel dates and countries where you will be traveling. Requests should be made at least five days prior to travel to ensure that you have the access you need.
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Attention Chairs, Coordinators, and Faculty Members! Outcomes Assessment - Upcoming Due Dates
Shared by the Learning Assessment Committee
The chair or coordinator of the department is customarily responsible for ensuring the annual assessment process is followed. In some cases, the dean may approve a faculty designee other than the chair or coordinator to oversee the assessment process within the department. All faculty members within a department are expected to participate in the assessment process as defined by the department’s assessment plan.
Summer is a great time to compile FY2023 assessment results and enter them into Nuventive!
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Kathryn Powell Selected for Highest Faculty Honor
Kathryn Powell has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Motorola Solutions Foundation Endowed Award for Teaching Excellence, the highest faculty honor at Harper. This recognition comes with a $3,880 cash award, funded through the Motorola Solutions Endowed Award for Teaching Excellence. As noted by her colleagues:
"Kathryn is a generous mentor, critical thinker, courageous leader and innovative faculty member who consistently thinks outside the box to better serve learners and the Adult Educational Development Department. She has given a lifetime of service and dedication to Harper College and the field of adult education. She has earned the recognition embodied in this award."
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Brian Cremins Reflects on Diversity, Activism, Comics, and Baseball
You’ll find a familiar voice in Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics by Qiana Whitted. Among the acclaimed book’s collection of essays is “This Business of White and Black: Captain Marvel's Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett's Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero,” by one of Harper’s own, Professor Brian Cremins.
Brian based his essay on research from his first book, Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia. In the 1940s, a racist caricature named Steamboat appeared in the Captain Marvel stories. A group of Black middle school students, members of a program called Youthbuilders, visited Fawcett Publications to protest the use of this character. They succeeded in having Steamboat removed and Fawcett eventually began publishing comics with Black heroes including legendary baseball players like Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, and Roy Campanella.
“I decided to focus on the comic book featuring Campanella since he's such a fascinating but relatively little-known figure outside of baseball circles,“ Brian explained. “He was also an important symbol in the disability rights world after losing the use of his legs in a car accident. I wanted to honor his important legacy, along with that of those middle school students, in my essay.”
Brian and his ADS colleagues used his essay as the basis for their Professional Development Day session, "Everything I Know About an Accessible Classroom I Learned From the Brooklyn Dodgers."
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Magna Summer Enrichment Courses
If you are looking for online enrichment opportunities, you may be interested in Magna summer courses! Magna offers quality courses during two different sessions.
Session 1 runs June 12 - July 28 and Session 2 runs July 31 - September 15. Click the link below to see the different topics offered this summer.
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Upcoming Professional Development Credit Opportunities |
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June 12 - June 25 (GECs: 1) registration now closed
July 10 - July 23 (GECs: 1) register by: June 26
July 24 - August 6 (GECs: 1) register by: July 10
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Academy for Teaching Excellence | 847.925.6174 | Building F, Room F317
Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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The mission of the Academy for Teaching Excellence is to create a vibrant teaching and learning culture for full-time and adjunct faculty that cultivates professional development in support of student success. |
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Accessibility: Individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation or who have questions about physical access may contact the event host or Access and Disability Services at ads@harpercollege.edu, 847.925.6266, at least two weeks in advance of the event date.
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Harper College enriches its diverse communities by providing quality, affordable, and accessible education. Harper College, in collaboration with its partners, inspires the transformation of individual lives, the workforce, and society. |
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