• Lessons From the Fall: What Worked/What Didn’t?

    This open discussion offers faculty the opportunity to connect with colleagues to share successes and challenges from teaching online in Fall 2020. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to share their experiences, ideas, tips and techniques! Session Handout (PDF) Event recording:

  • Exploring Storytelling Tools

    Digital storytelling is the use of digital media to tell a narrative. The use of digital storytelling tools can help us to enhance stories, help to present data or illustrate relationships more effectively.The Knight Lab provides a collection of open-source tools that enable anyone to produce highly interactive data visualization without the need for extensive ... Read more

  • Zoom Basics

    This introductory session will provide an overview to help you get started, including claiming your Pomona Zoom account, logging in, reviewing the desktop client vs web interface, scheduling meetings and the basic meeting controls. Event recording from 12/07/2020:

  • Zoom Basics

    This introductory session will provide an overview to help you get started, including claiming your Pomona Zoom account, logging in, reviewing the desktop client vs web interface, scheduling meetings and the basic meeting controls. Event recording from 12/07/2020:

  • Slack Basics

    This introductory session will provide an overview to help you get started, including logging in, choosing a workspace, setting up your profile, reviewing Slack vocabulary, and begin writing messages. Event recording from 12/07/2020:

  • Slack Basics

    This introductory session will provide an overview to help you get started, including logging in, choosing a workspace, setting up your profile, reviewing Slack vocabulary, and begin writing messages. Event recording from 12/07/2020:

  • Online Teaching with Technology: The Basics

    This session can be thought of as a companion to the session, Online Curriculum--the Basics. We will provide an overview of effective practices and strategies for applying various technologies in online teaching and learning. We will highlight tools for synchronous and asynchronous learning modalities, including options for assessments.  Event recording from 12/11/2020:

  • Online Teaching with Technology: The Basics

    This session can be thought of as a companion to the session, Online Curriculum--the Basics. We will provide an overview of effective practices and strategies for applying various technologies in online teaching and learning. We will highlight tools for synchronous and asynchronous learning modalities, including options for assessments.  Event recording from 12/11/2020:

  • Digital Whiteboards: Using Explain Everything

    Explain Everything is a digital whiteboard for Remote Learning. It enables you to display, annotate, record and animate digital content such as Powerpoint, videos, websites and pdfs.Explain Everything also has more advanced features such as 1-1 and group collaboration or livecasting your whiteboard when lecturing. In this session, we will cover best practices for using ... Read more

  • Community Building Strategies

    How do you build and maintain community with students at a distance? Join us to hear two panelists share their strategies and experiences on creating a sense of community and belonging: Nicholas Ball (Chemistry) will talk about his use of Slack for student connections.Jessica Tinklenberg (Program Director, CTL) will talk about the power of weekly ... Read more

  • Community Building Strategies

    How do you build and maintain community with students at a distance? Join us to hear two panelists share their strategies and experiences on creating a sense of community and belonging: Nicholas Ball (Chemistry) will talk about his use of Slack for student connections.Jessica Tinklenberg (Program Director, CTL) will talk about the power of weekly ... Read more

  • Zoom: Pre-Assigned Breakout Rooms

    This session covers an in-depth overview of pre-assigned breakout rooms and what it takes to make them work. Specific topics include host and participant requirements, potential quirks and pitfalls, reasons why issues may occur (and how to avoid them!) and a "good enough" scenario. Event recording from 12/08/2020: