Connections That Count: How CoPs Are Advancing AI Conversations

Duration: 60 minutes

Faculty, staff, and administrators, join us for an illuminating webinar as three California community college practitioners share their journeys in developing Communities of Practice (CoPs) focused on responding to GenAI. Discover why CoPs are powerful vehicles for tackling complex challenges like GenAI in teaching and learning. Our panelists will provide candid insights into their CoP design processes, implementation strategies, as well as struggles and successes.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from your peers and gain valuable insights for your own institution's AI journey.

Presenters: Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty Mentor, CVC@ONE; Christy Davis Roza, Instructional Technology Coordinator, Chabot College; Don Button, Design Professor & Co-Chair, AI Task Force, Sacramento City College; Jim Julius, Faculty Director, Online Education, MiraCosta College

Should Educators Be Using AI? Addressing Ethics as We Explore AI Assistance

Duration: 90 minutes

Many educators have significant, well-founded concerns about AI, including energy use, bias, intellectual property rights, privacy, labor, and more. And yet, given AI’s omnipresence and growing role in society, teachers need to build AI literacy in order to better guide our students. We need to experience the usefulness and versatility of these systems to understand the choices students confront.

We’ll look at ways we can reduce AI harms by checking for bias, hallucination, and copyright violations, making choices to reduce energy use, and modeling transparency for students. We’ll discuss ethics-related differences between Khanmigo Teacher Tools in Canvas and common chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The workshop will emphasize how a skeptical approach to AI can help us navigate this moment and maintain a sense of our own agency.

Presenter: Anna Mills

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

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

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

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