A camper has proposed doing a session about online teaching and gender bias. To what extent does technology morph identity? If students who are teenagers now get into social media, how does the visual media they distribute alter and define their identity?
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Session Idea: Supporting EOF & First Generation College Students With Technology
A camper has proposed an idea for a session: How do we support EOF and first generation students with technology? Let’s brainstorm ideas for supporting these populations!
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Service Learning Scholars
We are proud to announce that RCBC’s Service Learning Scholars will be returning to moderate a session at THATCampCC 2019 in May. More information about their session will be forthcoming, but check out our notes from their 2016 session about the possibilities of interactive student handbooks.
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Registration Is Open!
Registration for THATCamp Community College 2019 is now open! Please register here. We will see you on May 24th. As session ideas come in, we will post them here for others to see.
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THATCamp Community College 2019
We are thrilled to announce that THATCamp Community College 2019 will be taking place on Friday May 24th at Rowan College at Burlington County in Mount Laurel, NJ. This will be our fifth unconference here at RCBC. With this anniversary comes a few changes…
After THATCampCC 2019, William will be stepping down as coordinator of THATCampCC. Chris and Gina (and William!) will remain on the committee, but our colleagues Allison and Malik are also joining the team. Information about a new coordinator for 2020 and beyond will be coming soon. Flyers are also coming soon.
Please join us in May for THATCampCC 2019!
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Session Notes: Using Twine & Other Games In The Classroom
- During this session, a number of games were discussed including…
- Twine
- Grand Theft Persephone
- Depression Quest
- Some discussion of how to build a world within a game.
- Some discussion of sandbox video games like Dragon Quest Builders
- DHSI 2018
- Infinite Ulysses
- During this session, a number of games were discussed including…
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Session Notes: Flipped Classroom and Technology
- Time management is huge issue in flipped classroom
- Make student notes the topic of classroom discussion
- Some discussion of how to teach hypertext fiction in the classroom
- could “flip” only one class per week…ask students what they want to “flip”
- How can flipped classrooms help to “unlearn”?
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Session Notes: Accessibility & Design Issues In Distance Learning Courses
Our first session at THATCampCC 2017 was about Accessibility & Design Issues In Distance Learning Courses.
- Simplicity is important…keep things on one page…
- Need to have specific directions…click here first…
- Could create video tutorials
- Perhaps a Blackboard shell to discuss various CMS issues for faculty?
- Colleges need to have a list for students of what they need to ACCESS (skills wise) a distance learning course
- Which is also an ADA/504 accessibility issue…for example, making sure you have a script for videos
- Weekly versus modular scheduling
- Discussion of making sure distance students get the same “first five minutes” info
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Session Proposal #3: Flipped Classrooms
A camper would like to have a session on creating a flipped classroom and how to incorporate technology into it.
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