Past Events and Programs

Nuts and Bolts of Equitable College Instruction (Updated!)

Are you new to teaching? Or do you want to revisit some of the foundations of college instruction related to teaching and learning? The Nuts and Bolts workshop engages faculty in learning and discussions about the fundamentals of being a college instructor, while making practical applications to your courses.  Throughout these sessions we introduce evidence-based ...

Nuts and Bolts Strand

So what are the basics of being a college instructor? What do we need to know and do to fulfill our job with our students? We’ve brought together the elements of effective teaching into one strand of sessions. Throughout these sessions, we introduce and intertwine equity and growth mindsets as we do hands-on activities with ...

OETA:05 – High 5 for Online Instruction

High 5 for Online Instruction is a required part of Phase II of the OETA. This course, facilitated by Jen Anderson and Tonya Estes, leads faculty through 5 equity-creating practices that help online instructors build community, connect with our students, create clear assignments, and stay flexible within a well-structured Canvas course. This workshop helps you ...

Office 365 for Faculty

Would you like to know where to find important information and documents on MyBC/SharePoint? How about being able to create a “dashboard” of locations so that you can get to them quickly and easily? Office 365 for Faculty will show you how.  Cliff Hanks, BC adjunct faculty for over 25 years in Continuing Education, will lead us through the ins and outs ...

Office 365: OneDrive, Groups, SharePoint, and OneNote for Faculty

Office 365 is our cloud-based collection of applications to do our work as faculty at BC.  Knowing how to use some of the applications can make our job here more efficient and effective. Get a top-level overview of Office 365 and what it has to offer, but then get a short, hands-on practice of how faculty ...

Online Teaching Best Practices

Discover how to be a more effective online educator. This pedagogy workshop focuses on investigating current best practices in teaching online/hybrid courses. Discussions and exercises center on topics such as effective course navigation, universal design, accessible content, copyright and fair use, effective discussions and assessments, diversity and equity in online learning, and the future of online ...

Online Teaching Squares- Canceled

This workshop is for instructors who have recently taught an online course. Online Teaching Squares allows faculty to gain new perspectives and insights through observing the online courses of colleagues in their square. To start, we will review basic online teaching best practices. Based on those shared practices, each participant then finds positive attributes in ...

Our Climate Future: To Fear or Not to Fear?

Facilitated by Wendy Pickering (English Language Institute) and Jim Ellinger (Biology), this book club is designed to allow faculty to read about, reflect on, and discuss how we should teach climate justice and climate change in our classrooms: Is fear of a dystopian future the right emotion to play on to get people to sit ...

Outlook: Email and Calendar for Faculty

Do you wonder if you could use Outlook email and calendar more efficiently and be more productive? We’ll walk through some core features and functionality in the Outlook Application: Composing Email, Using Folders (New Folders, Clutter, Junk), Setting Out of Office Reply, Adding Your Signature, Using the Calendar, Making Meetings, and more! Location: A109B | ...

Parable of the Sower

Holding onto our humanity in the face of what may be coming as a result of the climate crisis will be a never-ending challenge, but also a determining factor in whether this crisis turns us toward one another or pits us against each other. The Parable of the Sower, set in California in the 2020s, ...