Almost everyone in America is familiar with the cafeteria. Hungry people move down the line, sliding their plastic tray and choosing from the various offerings what they want on their plate. Green beans or carrots? Potatoes or rice? Chicken? Lasagna? None of these dishes represents a nutritionally balanced meal. However, by the time one loads […]
As we become more sensitive to the high prices of textbooks and other course materials, using the Library’s collection via the eReserves service is a great way for faculty to create a no-cost experience for students! The Library’s electronic resources (both e-books and articles from our databases) are available from off-campus and on any device, […]
Everyone knows: “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” But starting this Fall, there will be such a thing as textbook-free majors at CSU Channel Islands (CI). And it couldn’t come at a better time for CI’s student body. Over the past three decades, textbook prices have outpaced inflation 3-to-1. During this same […]
Our first Online & Blended Faculty Gathering of 2018 took place last Friday. What a great reunion of new and familiar faces. We shared the challenges of communicating effectively with students online but also in our face to face classes. Fortunately, a lot of good ideas were shared and we left with some quick easy […]
I have been immersed in online course development for almost a year. My primary role is that of an Instructional Designer for the Collaborative Online Doctorate in Educational Leadership or CODEL, a fully online Ed.D. program facilitated by both Fresno State and CSUCI. I work closely with each faculty member in the planning, design, creation, […]
Remember View-Masters? That was as close as I got to Virtual or Augmented reality as a kid. Have you checked out a View-Master lately? It’s come a long way from cardboard disks. The 2018 model allows viewers to explore the Statue of Liberty or fight crime with the Nija Turtles, all from the comfort of […]
Fall 2017 was my first semester teaching at CI. Prior to joining the faculty here, my teaching experience was mostly in the online environment with graduate students. I thought that I was well prepared to teach an online upper division Health Science program course. I was wrong. Though the class was online, it was different […]
This week, I was honored when one of my CI colleagues, Safa Khan, gave a fabulous little book, “Together is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration” by Simon Sinek. This book is about teams, leadership, goals, and innovation. The following quotes helped me get up and get going today. They helped me go back to […]
At CSU Channel Islands, the California Institute of Social Business (CISB) in collaboration with Muhammad Yunus, the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Institute (ESBI), and the STEMe program[1] have been teaching students entrepreneurial skills and inspiring them to think about using their lives to address global and local challenges. Core to this mission has been high-impact […]
I can hear the groans already: “Not another rubric pusher! Enough with this cockamamie writing-instructor stuff!” But I am neither a traditional rubric pusher nor a writing instructor. Instead, I am an art historian who had never graded successfully with rubrics before trying them out in Canvas—and now I absolutely swear by them for Canvas […]
