Speaker: Fabiola Torres, Glendale Community College
Fabiola will share examples of brief, imperfect, captioned videos that break down the instructor-student hierarchy and encourage students to lean in. We will also consider the important topic of managing your public digital identity when using instructional videos. You’ll see videos recorded with a smartphone using Clips (for Apple iOS devices only) and photomontages using Adobe Spark. Introverts and extroverts welcomed. This session will prepare you to create your own welcome video by the day’s end!
This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more info, go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizingchallenge
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Speaker: Michelle Pacansky-Brock
The weeks and days leading up to the start of a new term are filled with anxiety and nerves for many students. This term, your students will have even more questions about what to expect and how to get started. An equity-minded strategy to improve these barriers is to transform your syllabus into a Liquid Syllabus! A Liquid Syllabus is a mobile-friendly, public website with a friendly welcome video that is written with welcoming, validating language. This session will prepare you to create your own Liquid Syllabus with Google Sites!
This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more info, please go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizingchallenge
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Speakers: Dayamudra Dennehy, City College of San Francisco, Gayathri Manikandan, Compton College, and Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI/@ONE
Join us for a heart-to-heart conversation about teaching online for the first time. Dayamudra and Gayathri will share their successes and candidly reflect on how leaning into vulnerability resulted in professional growth in their teaching.
This event is part of a 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more information, please go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizingchallenge
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Speaker: Michelle Pacansky-Brock
To navigate through these unknown and traumatic times, educators must be knowledgeable about how learning happens (and why it often does not). Recognizing the affective and cognitive dimensions of learning illuminates the need to understand our students as humans with rich, complicated stories and foster positive instructor-student relationships at a distance to ensure all students are poised for success. This session will illuminate how humanized online teaching provides a foundation of trust you can build upon in your course and foster rigor through empathy.
This event is part of a 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more information, please go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizingchallenge
Register here.

Humanized online teaching practices support the non-cognitive or affective dimensions of student learning. Many students who enroll in online courses, particularly those from minoritized backgrounds, do not successfully log in and complete the first week successfully. Weeks 0-1 comprise a high opportunity zone for increasing the percentage of students who succeed online.
In this session, Fabiola and Michelle will share examples of humanized practices from their online courses that use Google Sites to create a Liquid Syllabus and a Welcome Package for students. Sent before day one, (or embedded in online campus directories) students tap the link and are instantly taken to an accessible webpage that renders beautifully on their phone. By embedding a brief video of yourself at the top of the page, your students will be greeted by your warm, smiling face and feel supported to log-in and be successful in week one.
Presenters:
Fabiola Torres, Ethnic Studies Faculty at Glendale College and CVC-OEI/@ONE facilitator
Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty Mentor, Online Teaching & Learning for CVC-OEI

Humanized online teaching practices support the non-cognitive or affective dimensions of student learning. Many students who enroll in online courses, particularly those from minoritized backgrounds, do not successfully log in and complete the first week successfully. Weeks 0-1 comprise a high opportunity zone for increasing the percentage of students who succeed online.
In this session, Fabiola and Michelle will share examples of humanized practices from their online courses that use Google Sites to create a Liquid Syllabus and a Welcome Package for students. Sent before day one, (or embedded in online campus directories) students tap the link and are instantly taken to an accessible webpage that renders beautifully on their phone. By embedding a brief video of yourself at the top of the page, your students will be greeted by your warm, smiling face and feel supported to log-in and be successful in week one.
Presenters:
Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty Mentor, Online Teaching & Learning for CVC-OEI
Fabiola Torres, Ethnic Studies Faculty at Glendale College and CVC-OEI/@ONE facilitator
Presenters: Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI; Melody Bucker, University of Arizona; University of Michigan, Dearborn; Maha Bali, American University in Cairo
“To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.” bell hooks - Teaching to Transgress
As more students learn online in a time of uncertainty and peril, educators must intentionally craft learning experiences at a distance that foster trust, belonging, and a sense of care. In this OLC Ideate panel session, you will engage in a mindful consideration of several humanizing strategies to ensure students feel a sense of care in online courses, including ways in which care can enhance agency, promote social justice and critique weaponization of care.
This event is part of the virtual OLC Ideate program. Free registration is required. Archives will be made available to OLC members.
Presenters: Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI; Mike Smedshammer, Modesto Junior College; Kim-Vincent-Layton, Humboldt State University
In this OLC Ideate Discussion Salon, participants will be introduced to the principles (and some examples) of Humanizing Online Teaching, a theoretical framework that fosters equity and inclusion by bringing together Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Social Presence, Validation Theory and more. Participants will have an opportunity to break into small groups and discuss/share ideas to integrate into their own practice as a way to build empathy and connection with students.
This event is part of the virtual OLC Ideate program. Free registration is required. Archives will be made available to OLC members.
Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock for a mindful consideration about why presence, empathy, and awareness matter even more in times of disruption. And pick up some tips for minimizing stress through human connections in your course.
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Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock for a mindful consideration about why presence, empathy, and awareness matter even more in times of disruption. And pick up some tips for minimizing stress through human connections in your course.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/495977303
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833,495977303# or +13462487799,495977303#
Or Telephone:
Dial:
+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)
+1 346 248 7799 (US Toll)
+1 301 715 8592 (US Toll)
+1 312 626 6799 (US Toll)
+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)
+1 253 215 8782 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 495 977 303
International numbers available: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/u/acB0tyqtBN
Or Skype for Business (Lync):
SIP:495977303@lync.zoom.us