Best Practices in Teaching, Learning, and Advising Forum

BGTC faculty members will be offering sessions on teaching, learning, and advising in the KATI Conference Room on Friday, November 2, 2012 from 9 am to Noon. There are 7 different sessions covering such topics as using Prezis in the classroom and incorporating  SafeAssign as a teaching tool. Each session runs 20 minutes.

Drum Roll Please: Introducing KOLTS!

What is KOLTS?
KOLTS is the KCTCS Online Learning & Teaching Support. Its mission is to support KCTCS faculty in teaching and learning by providing resources on eLearning technologies. Check out this great new resource created just for you. The website contains information on teaching and learning resources as well as professional development opportunties. Check it out and let us know what you think!

KCTCS Online Blackboard Training Sessions

KCTCS eLearning Services offer many training opportunities throughout the semester on best practices using Blackboard. Don't forget you can earn PD by attending these sessions. When logging in, enter your first and last name to verify your attendance. Then, after the session (or watching the archive) email Paige Brooks-Jeffiers for a certificate of participation. View the training schedule. 

Become Better at What You Do Best - Teaching!

Attend a Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS) Webinar

What is My Role in the Online Classroom?  Ways to Engage and Interact with Your Online Students
Date and Time: September 24th, 1 – 2pm ET

Led by Katherine Dowdell of Des Moines Area Community College, this complimentary webinar is designed for faculty members by faculty – regardless of your know-how or experience using Blackboard or other learning management systems. Register to learn more about how you can encourage active participation and peer-to-peer learning among your online students.

Open Course:  Designing an Exemplary CourseNext Open Course: Designing An Exemplary Course

Duration: September 26 - October 17

Using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Rubric as a guide, this open course will provide both theoretical concepts and practical tools for instructors to recognize, organize, and build online courses for both blended learners and online learners. Who Should Sign Up?  Educators in K-12, higher education and continuing education environments who teach web-enhanced, blended, or fully online courses.

Blackboard Collaborate: Are You Ready?

New to Bb Collaborate? You can check your system requirements here and you can go through an online orientation for BbCollaborate here.

Article about KCTCS Online High-Tech High-Touch Academic Advising

KCTCS Learn On Demand program is in the news! Read what Eric Stoller, the Learn on Demand Student Success Coaches’ NACADA recommended consultant, wrote for Inside Higher Ed about dedicated Student Success Coaches entitled “High-Tech, High-Touch Academic Advising.” (click on title to view article.)

Blackboard app will soon be available for ALL iOS and Android users!

Great news! The Blackboard app will soon be available for ALL iOS and Android users! Starting September 10th, you and your students can use your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, and Android® devices on any carrier or network to access and update announcements, discussions, content, and much more with the Blackboard Mobile Learn app.

To use Blackboard Mobile Learn, you will be prompted to subscribe to the app via one of two options:

• $1.99* for 1 year of access
• $5.99* for unlimited access

You can find the app by searching for “Blackboard Mobile Learn” in the App Store or Google Play store, or by scanning the codes below: 

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