DL Tip of the Week - Personalizing Communications

This week’s tip is about personalizing communications through utilizing Outlook, Blackboard, and Starfish. In online courses, interaction is high on the list as a challenge. One way is to add personalization where you can to help connect students to students, students to instructors, and instructors to students. The DL Tip of the Week provides you with some thoughts about personalization and one strategy to add personalization to your class.

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If for any reason the links appear broken, or if you have an idea for a DL Tip of the Week, please email us at HCTC-DL@kctcs.edu.

Remember if you need assistance; please let a member of the DL Team know.

• Brad Roberts, DL Specialist (Faculty/Student Support) – Lees
• Paul Currie, DL Specialist (Faculty Support) – Hazard, Knott, Leslie, Tech
• Wendy Davidson, LoD Program Coordinator (LoD support and Student Support)

Teaching & Learning with Technology Institutes! 

The Institute will be held at 3 locations across the state and will offer the same tracks and sessions to ensure consistent information is shared among all faculty and staff. During lunch you'll be able to participate in round table discussions and visit with partners and vendors of educational technology and products. Whether you teach online, on-campus, or a combination, you are sure to find sessions that will spark creative ideas for your courses.

The 4 Teaching and Learning tracks are:

• Pedagogy - sessions on pedagogy include topics like Engaging Students, Learning Styles and modes of instruction
• Assessments - these sessions will give you ideas and tools for improving course assessments and managing grading tools such as rubrics and online grade centers
• Instructional Resources: Creating and Curating Content - sessions in this track include tools, technology and ideas to spice up your current course content
• Best Practices: Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts - this track has a variety of topics to help you manage your courses, use engaging content and go further with web 2.0 and social tools

The event is free for all KCTCS faculty and staff, but you will need to get approval from your local college for travel reimbursement.

Register now as space is limited! (click the link below to the institute you would like to attend)

April 4 @ Henderson
April 11 @ Jefferson (Southwest Campus)
April 25 @ Ashland (Technology Campus)

Partners and vendors will be set up during lunch for you to visit with!

(Partners and vendors vary at each location.)