Past Events and Programs

Using Sketchnotes in Your Classroom

Sketchnotes are rich visual notes created from a mix of handwriting, drawings, shapes, and visual elements like arrows, boxes, and lines. Sketchnoting combines traditional handwritten notes with drawings, symbols, and other creative elements. With sketchnotes, you can provide students with an engaging map of ideas with clear visual cues. Visual cues will foster long-term recall, conceptual understanding and developing ideas more comprehensively ...

Virtual Reality 101 for Experimenters

The future is here! Come to explore the tools and possibilities of VR in education. The focus of this workshop is to introduce Bellevue College faculty to virtual reality devices and applications with a view to determining how this technology can be used for teaching in a chosen academic discipline. This short course includes demos with a variety of VR equipment ...

Virtual Teaching Talks

Join us for these Virtual Teaching Talks this summer to engage with and learn from each other. In each 2-hour session, there will be two presentations by experienced and inspiring instructors, designed for faculty to share teaching concerns and discuss techniques and strategies. This is open to all faculty. Grab your coffee/tea and join us! ...

Virtual Teaching Talks: All about Assessment

Join us for these Virtual Teaching Talks this fall to engage with and learn from each other. In this 2-hour session, there will be three presentations by experienced and inspiring instructors, designed for faculty to share teaching concerns and discuss techniques and strategies. This is open to all faculty. Grab your coffee/tea and join us! ...

Wake Your Body Up! (New!)

Dance a ½ hour of Nia – a fun fusion of dance, martial arts, and healing arts for every fitness level! Thirty minutes is just enough time to move every muscle in your body and set yourself up for a more creative and comfortable day at work.               Tuesdays, ...

Wellness

Xpress Fitness with Michelle McRae Tuesday and Thursday, 7:30-8:10 AM, G-111 Fitness Center (Zoom Available) Join BC Fitness Center Instructor Michelle for this 40-minute group training session. Participants will meet at the BC Fitness Center for a regularly scheduled workout hosted by Michelle. You will work through various body weight and simple equipment exercises. No equipment is ...

What is Critical Environmental Justice? – FULL

Have you ever wondered how the Black Lives Matter movement relates to environmental issues? Or, what prisons and jails have to do with environmental justice? Are you interested in learning more about environmental justice scholarship and activism? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” this book discussion group is for you! Climate ...

What is Writing across the Curriculum (WAC)? (New)

What is WAC and why might you want to learn more? Last year, Jun Xu, English, and Tonya Estes, Faculty Commons, started the process of building a Writing Across the Curriculum program at Bellevue College. We worked with 27 faculty representing all divisions to learn about their experiences of integrating writing into their instruction. This ...

Which Rights Should Be Universal?

There is a growing movement to incorporate diverse perspectives into the content of our courses. This is a good thing, overall. But, there are some perspectives which are intolerant and hostile to equity and inclusion; perspectives which should not be given equal footing with others in our classrooms. So, the question becomes "how do we ...

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Facilitated by Christina Sciabarra (Center for Career Connections and Social Science) and Rachel Wellman (Title IX), this book club is designed to allow faculty to read about, reflect on and discuss the concept of "white fragility.” Faculty from all disciplines are welcome as we will discuss the different ways in which the discomfort of talking ...