Live Workshop Calendar | Distance Education

The workshops listed below are offered by SRJC's Distance Education, the Online Network of Educators, and by EdTech providers. Topics include:

Various Canvas Features
Effective Online Teaching Practices
EdTech Tools to Enhance Course Interaction
Equity in Online Learning

If you or your department has a need for a workshop on a particular topic, please reach out Matt Pearson (mpearson@santarosa.edu) or Lauren Mitchell (Nahas) (lnahas@santarosa.edu). We'd love to design a workshop to fit your needs!

Review the current list of workshop offerings below and click the "Register" link to sign-up. Once you submit the form, you will receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link.

FLEX code: FF:33 Distance Education Trainings

Advanced AI Assistance with Course Materials

Duration: 90 minutes

If you’ve tried using AI in your teaching practice but want new approaches, please come and explore with us! We’ll discuss the following ways to extend AI use beyond basic task completion:

New ideas for AI teaching assistance from Khanmigo Teacher Tools in Canvas
Creating personalized AI teaching assistance workspaces with custom bots, Claude Projects, and Google’s NotebookLM
Getting feedback on how we can improve our pedagogical approaches
Practicing assertiveness with AI: articulate what you want and don’t settle for mediocrity
Prompting AI to take tasks step by step
Metaprompting: asking AI to help us use it better
Asking for multiple, contradictory responses to get ourselves to decide what’s most important
Generating podcasts about course materials in NotebookLM
Voice mode: Chatting out loud with AI about course planning.

You’ll leave with new ideas for creative experimentation with AI assistance to build advanced AI literacy and pursue your own teaching goals.

Presenter: Anna Mills

Thursday, May 1st

10 - 11:30 am

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Using VoiceThread in Canvas

Duration: 60 min

In this workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Canvas course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hand-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules.

Presenter: VoiceThread

Tuesday, May 6th

10 - 11 am

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Pope Tech: Video Accessibility

Duration: 90 min

An introduction to accessible videos including tips for captions, transcripts and audio descriptions. Last 30 minutes are open office hours with time to ask questions.

Presenter: Pope Tech

Wednesday, May 14th

10 - 11:30 am

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Humanizing Your Course with VoiceThread

Duration: 60 min

In this session, we will explore the ways that VoiceThread can help your students develop an AI-aware skillset and avoid the academic pitfalls of having a homework-completing co-pilot available 24/7/365. Understanding the human advantage is a critical component of AI readiness curriculum, and VoiceThread is the perfect platform to showcase, preserve, and develop these human-advantaged skills.

Presenter: VoiceThread

Tuesday, July 1st

10 0 11 am

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