Salisbury University |  Instructional Design & Delivery Newsletter | April 13, 2021

Faculty Resource: National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) 

Salisbury University has institutional membership to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) network that helps faculty achieve extraordinary writing and research productivity while maintaining a full and healthy life off campus. The NCFDD also has a Toolkit for teaching in tough times that includes strategies for classroom incivility, preparing for controversial conversations, finding joy as an academic and an informative dialogue about "Managing Stress in Stressful Times."

As of April 12, there have been 90 unique uses at SU and 534 active sessions utilized by SU faculty independently and through Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) such as those in the Writing FLC.  All faculty have access NCFDD resources – so how do you participate?

First go to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) website and click on Services, then select Institutional Members from the drop-down menu.

Then select Salisbury University from the list of institutional members.

You will then be asked to fill out profile information, such as adding your SU email to confirm your membership, and selecting a password to access your NCFDD account. Once you have finished establishing your account, you will be taken to a dashboard where you can start exploring NCFDD resources.

TurningPoint Workshop

Salisbury University utilizes TurningPoint applications for active learning and student response, which can be used both in face-to-face and virtual teaching environments to engage students with classroom activities such as quizzes, surveys and polls. Turning’s products can be used with response clickers, a smart devices app and/or a web browser!

Join Instructional Design and Delivery's Safaa Said and guests from Turning, Inc. on Friday, April 16, at 10 a.m. to find out about all the new changes and features for TurningPoint classroom response system (formerly known as Clickers). The Turning representatives discuss Turning's new branding and how you can use TurningPoint Solutions products to enhance classroom interaction.  

To view more details and to register for this workshop, please go to the Faculty Development Calendar.

Soaring with Online Learning – Summer 2021 Cohort

Instructional Design and Delivery is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of the Soaring with Online Learning program to be held from May 17-June 21, 2021. Soaring with Online Learning (Soaring) is a multi-week faculty development program to prepare faculty to develop and deliver courses in a fully online or hybrid environment through the campus learning management system, MyClasses. The summer 2021 cohort focuses on faculty designing online or hybrid courses for winter and spring 2022 sessions. 

Program details and application can be accessed from the Soaring with Online Learning webpage. The application deadline is Friday, April 16.

April Workshops

ID&D April workshops cover pedagogical topics and look ahead for summer and fall course planning and design. Upcoming offerings include planning for interactions using Turning technology sessions and learning the basics of MyClasses if the platform is new or intimidating for you. These sessions are meant to help you plan and implement effective online content, whether you are fully online, hybrid, remote or supplementing a face-to-face class with online submissions and resource sharing.

ID&D will not be holding a workshop on Friday, April 23; instead, we will be supporting the Annual SU Student Research Conference (SUSRC).

To view more details about each session and to register for one or more workshops, please go to the Faculty Development Calendar.

 New Changes for TurningPoint (Now Called Turning)

Friday, April 16 ● 10-11 a.m. (EST)

Baby Steps to MyClasses

Friday, April 30 ● 1-2 p.m. (EST)

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