Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting January 21

January 20, 2021

This week @ Baruch…

Thursday, January 21

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Academic Integrity: Baruch Policies and Procedures speakers, Dennis Slavin, Associate Provost, and Annie Virkus-Estrada, Associate Dean of Students and Academic Integrity Officer.

Join a session designed to review Baruch’s policies and procedures on Academic Integrity and to answer your questions. Highly recommended for people in their first year of teaching.

Zoom: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/8683869982

Passcode: 345678

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Baruch College VoiceThread Training, hosted by the VoiceThread Training Staff

BCTC, in collaboration with CUNY Central, has added a new asynchronous discussion tool to Blackboard called VoiceThread. While Blackboard already has a tool for asynchronous discussion, VoiceThread adds robust functionality that enables instructors and students to contribute recorded or uploaded digital media (e.g., images, audio files, videos) to a conversation within a course. VoiceThread trainers are offering online workshops for Baruch faculty. After registering you will automatically be sent the login information for the session. Questions?: helpdesk@baruch.cuny.

Friday, January 22

9:00 AM-10:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Zoom Boot Camp II: Online Class Management Essentials, hosted by Catherine Kawalek

Learn about key settings, security, sharing your screen, recording, attendance, participant management. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

10:00 AM-11:00 AM (repeat of 1/21 at 2 PM)

Baruch College VoiceThread Training, hosted by the VoiceThread Training Staff

11:00 AM-12:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Zoom Boot Camp III: Student Engagement Tools for Improving Online Class Participation, hosted by Catherine Kawalek

Learn ways to increase engagement and interaction among your students. We’ll cover the topics of using polling, breakout rooms, and discuss strategies for holding office hours and student presentations. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Next week at Baruch…

Monday, January 25

9:00 AM-10:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Getting Ready for Spring 2021: Zoom Class Planning, hosted by Catherine Kawalek

Learn key tips for using Zoom as you start the Spring 2021. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Tuesday, January 26

11:00 AM-12:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Resources to Manage your Workload, hosted by the CTL Staff

Learn about ideas and options to help you balance your workload. Learn what’s available on Teach Hybrid, Teach OER, Teaching in the Time of COVID + other CTL and external resources.

For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

12:00 PM-1:15 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Readying Your First Day of Class (Spring 2021 Workshop), hosted by the CTL Staff

Having trouble finalizing plans for your course’s first “meet-up” this spring semester? Or perhaps your plans are ready, but you need some feedback or a chance to play-test an idea or two. Join this workshop for an opportunity to hear about and experience what others are doing on their first day, and to further solidify plans of your own. Throughout this interactive workshop, we’ll also dedicate some time to helping you think through how to communicate well with students, both leading up to and during your first class period. We’ll also welcome questions on how to: create a warm and welcoming environment, pace the day out well, and iron out possible technical kinks in advance of your class time. Come work with us and “ready” your first day of class! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Pre-registration is required for this workshop, click HERE to register.

5:00 PM-6:00 PM (repeat of 1/21 at 12 PM)

Academic Integrity: Baruch Policies and Procedures speakers, Dennis Slavin, Associate Provost, and Annie Virkus-Estrada, Associate Dean of Students and Academic Integrity Officer.

Join a session designed to review Baruch’s policies and procedures on Academic Integrity and to answer your questions. Highly recommended for people in their first year of teaching.

Zoom: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/8683869982

Passcode: 345678

Wednesday, January 27 – (previously scheduled for 1/20)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

(Re)design One “Unit” Workshop Series: Session III, hosted by Allison Lehr Samuels and Pamela Thielman, Center for Teaching and Learning

Join us for Revision and Refinement, Session III of this hands-on workshop series that gives you the chance to explore, build and reflect on (re)designing a unit in your course. Participants will be asked to complete some asynchronous pre-work (designed to take less than 30 minutes) so that you are ready to maximize the time you spend in the 90-minute synchronous workshop sessions. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Thursday, January 28

3:00 PM-4:30 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Course Prep Working Session Week 4, hosted by the CTL Staff

Do you need dedicated time and a supportive environment to work on your course? Based on the successful model of our Writing Retreat, this is a dedicated time for you to focus on your course, whether it’s polishing up your syllabus, thinking through an assignment or making a draft of your opening day PowerPoint. During the session you’ll be assigned to a virtual breakout room in which you can work quietly on your course materials. If a question pops up, you can consult with a member of the CTL. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Friday, January 29

12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

New to Teaching @ Baruch, hosted by the CTL Staff

Are you new to Baruch? Teaching for the first time? Unsure about what kind of first impression you want to make on your class? Do you have questions about creating your syllabus? Join us the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Adjunct Faculty Services in an informal discussion of these and other teaching issues pertinent to the beginning of the new semester. Feel free to bring your syllabus, introductory assignments and other materials. This is an excellent opportunity to meet other adjunct faculty and to learn about resources available to you as a faculty member. While the focus of the event is on those teaching at Baruch for the first time, all faculty are welcome. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Looking Forward…

Wednesday, February 3

3:00 PM-4:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

When You Can’t Require the Web Camera: Exploring alternative options for student engagement, hosted by the CTL Staff

You may have seen or heard about guidance from the university about having students on camera during live class sessions. Simply summarized, faculty may not require students to turn on their cameras, they must obtain consent from students to be recorded, and they must inform students of these things both in the syllabus and in person. In this session, we will briefly review communications from CUNY central and Baruch about holding class meetings on Zoom (or Blackboard Collaborate Ultra). The bulk of our time will be spent in open discussion about how to meet the requirements in a way that aligns with your course goals. We welcome individual questions, and there will be time for brainstorming ideas to make your live class sessions active and student-centered, with or without cameras on. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Thursday, February 11

12:30 PM-1:45 PM

Public and Private Sector Uses of Criminal Justice System Data: Perspectives on Digital Punishment, Privacy, and Stigma, speakers, Professors Yafit Lev-Aretz, Baruch College, and Sarah Lageson, Rutgers University-Newark School of Criminal Justice

Similar to other systems of recordkeeping, criminal recordkeeping has been significantly transformed in the digital age. Collecting and publishing mugshots and booking details of individuals arrested by law enforcement agencies has become a highly profitable enterprise for many businesses. Some of those companies not only engage in criminal recordkeeping for profit, but also offer reputation management services for individuals wishing to pay for the removal of their mugshots from the cataloging websites. Social networks have also proven to be a popular venue for criminal recordkeeping by businesses and individuals. Mugshots posted by police departments on Facebook are often shared and reposted widely by users, local newsrooms, and predatory extortion websites. The deep involvement of private sector actors in what used to be the exclusive domain of the criminal justice system raises fascinating questions about legal boundaries and ethical choices around private criminal recordkeeping. This event is sponsored by The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. For more information on this event and others click visit: https://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty-research/centers-institutes/zicklin-center-corporate-integrity/programs-services/

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