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The article compares marigolds and walnuts
to the types of coworkers we have in education folks counting down days to retirement, bragging about never giving out an “A”, or having an abundance of snarky things to say at every meeting. In our students, these would be the ones who show up and manage to suck the air out of the room with drama the students who won’t do group work and have an excuse for everything. Gonzales encourages people to seek out the marigolds, the people who help you and cheer you on and try to remain positive. These are the people who ask how your class went, ask you to collaborate on things or observe their classes, who speak positively about students and the growth they are seeing. We can’t all be marigolds all the time but being around a walnut for too long can make a thriving environment
The Marigold Effect Redux
Source: Gonzales, J. (August 29, 2013). Find Your Marigold: The One Essential Rule for New Teachers. Cult of Pedagogy. Retrieved August 24, 2022, from https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/ marigolds/
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Every year our new faculty read an article called The Marigold Effect by Jennifer Gonzales which compares being a teacher to planting a garden. This analogy can be used in our interactions with other faculty and staff, with our students, and in our community when we talk about Mid State. One of our seasoned faculty thought it would be a good idea to bring the Marigold Effect forward to everyone to enjoy.
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’ suggestion is to seek out the marigolds on your campus. Get yourself a ‘companion plant’ to help you grow professionally. Ask your students to be marigolds for each other and for you. This is living the I Care model from the roots up.
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In a nutshell, the article postulates that planting marigolds next to your vegetables will provide nutrients, repel bugs, and ward off any diseases. Marigolds are considered
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‘companion plants’. Companion plants protect those around them and cause the whole flowerbed or garden to flourish. The opposite of a marigold, the author states, is a walnut tree because it chokes off the rich soil and sucks nutrients away from other plants. The problem with walnut trees is that they aren’t always aware of their toxicity; they leach toxins and drop nuts that can be harmful to people and pets (if you aren’t aware, Google black walnut trees—yikes!).
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helpful. Use the following tips to help the recipients of your email prioritize, organize, and search effectively.
These small changes can make a big difference for those receiving your email.
5. Select (unlisted)OrganizationYour to share anyonewithwith a Mid accountStateor (unlisted)Public to share theanyonewithwithlink.
Use logical keywords for searching and filtering. If
Be clear and specific about the topic of the email. With all of the emails we get daily, this helps the reader prioritize and respond in a timely way to the important emails.
To set permissions so any of your students can
t use the subject line as the body of your email. The subject line should be the summary of what is in the email, do not make the reader go back to the subject line to get the information they need to complete your request. While it may save you a few keystrokes, it is frustrating to your recipient.
One of the most common issues students have with Panopto is not having access to view an instructors videos. This often happens when videos are created in a folder for a specific Blackboard course and then are copied to another course. Updating the permissions on a video or folder can easily be adjusted by following the directions below:
If it is a priority email that needs done within 24 hours, put a response time expectation on it. For Example: “By 3:00 PM Today Sign Up for Meeting Time”
PANOPTO PERMISSIONS IN BLACKBOARD
Too often we get emails with a subject line that is not
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR EMAIL SUBJECT LINE
2. Once logged in, click on the Browse button on the left menu and find the folder that the videos are in.
TECH TIPS
1. Go to https://mstc.hosted.panopto.com. Make sure Mid State Login is selected and click Sign in.
What would school team in the APEX Center? Contact Lea Ann, Trea, or Todd to plan your team building or professional
Schools and programs within schools have been taking advantage of our new space in the APEX center to meet for professional development and creative problem solving this semester and we have had a great time working with them.
BUILDING TEAM IDENTITY AND USING CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
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development event. Next month we want to highlight some inclusive practices. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN YOUR COURSE TO MAKE IT MORE INCLUSIVE? Click Here to join the conversation on Padlet
Nursing our Nursing program is working on continuous improvement based on their end of program survey on which students said they would like a different style feedback from instructors. The APEX Center hosted a workshop for Nursing faculty learned their own feedback style, then looked at feedback style preferences of younger generations and different personality types. It is always eye opening to look at how someone else might misinterpret or see differently the feedback we give based on style.
INSPIRED TEACHING
Business & Technology in order to stimulate some new ideas for active learning both in the classroom and online, the faculty from business and technology came to the APEX center for a fun two hour technology session. After a brief overview of some “new to them” technology tools, they were given 25 minutes to build a lesson activity with a tool they have never used before. After building the lesson activity, everyone else in the training got to engage with the lesson they built. It was a fun way to discover new technology, see the content that is being taught in other programs (who knew cosmetology was so hard?), and have fun together Bonus faculty left with a developed lesson that they could immediately put into a class.
Treenewables Joe Hoffman, as faculty team lead of a team with three new/almost new faculty, has led his team of arborist technician and renewable energy/construction faculty to identify as the “Treenewable” team. Their big focus this semester is “When course competencies grow up . . . “ They are using time in the APEX to look at all things “competency”. Medical Assistant The MA program, led by program director, Sarah Chojnacki, has an accreditation visit this year and needed a time to build cohesiveness with full/part time faculty, do some creative problem solving, and plan for their accreditation visit. We held an MA Team Building and Accreditation Problem Solving evening in the APEX Center and included food, laughter, team building, and a new solutions to old problems. My favorite part of the evening was how involved the part time faculty got in the planning and many of their ideas and solutions are going to be implemented.
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APEX CENTER TECHNOLOGY CHECKOUT
You can find a portable monitor on the shelf in the copy machine area in the hub of the APEX Center. Check out the monitor with a laptop or separately by using the QR code above the shelf. Check it back in by clicking on the edit link in the checkout confirmation email you receive. Monitors may be checked out for travel purposes, special projects, work in the APEX Center, or APEX training.
2. Scan the QR code on the wall above the laptop cart or bookshelf in the copy machine area and follow the instructions 3. A confirmation email will be sent to you. Use the edit link in the email to check the equipment back in.
• A portable dual monitor for each laptop or your work laptop
1. Bring your phone to the APEX Center
LAPTOPS
PORTABLE MOUSE
Our new technology is available in the APEX Center. We have the following:
The laptops are back by the copy machine at the back of the hub in the APEX Center. Laptops may be checked out for daily use or APEX Center training activities. (They can be checked out for overnight on a very limited basis approved through an APEX Center team member they are not set up for long term check out.)
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Checkout Process
To check out a laptop bring your phone and use the QR code above the laptop cart. This will provide you with a digital checkout form and the lock code and record your check out of the laptop.
• A portable mouse for each laptop or your work laptop
• 15 laptops
EXTRA PORTABLE MONITOR
Once it is connected to your computer, right click on your desktop and choose Display settings to extend the display.
To check the laptop back in check your email. The checkout confirmation you receive has a link on it that will ask you to enter the date and time the laptop was returned. Please be sure to plug in and reconnect the laptop when you put it back in the cart.
You can find a portable mouse on the shelf in the copy machine area in the hub of the APEX Center. Check out the mouse with a laptop or separately by using the QR code above the shelf. Check it back in by clicking on the edit link in the checkout confirmation email you receive. A portable mouse may be checked out for travel purposes, special projects, work in the APEX Center, or APEX training.
Teaching with Teams in the Classroom
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All of the web cams have been officially moved over to the computer, so when using Teams in a classroom, log into the computer and open Teams.
2. Close any open windows you have on the Cynap Screen so you can see the information at the top, find the second IP address
We spent a year teaching with Teams through the Cynap to take advantage of being able to use the Cynap tools, but the Teams app on the Cynap was difficult to log into and a little clunky. We found a better way.
Faculty and staff on a Teams meeting during Governor Evers visit to campus.
Does this mean I can’t use the annotation tools or document camera when teaching via Teams?
TEAMS/COLLABORATE IN THE CLASSROOM HAS CHANGED
YOU CAN STILL USE CYNAP TOOLS ON TEAMS
1. Open Chrome
3. Open a new tab in the Chrome Browser and type in the second IP address Cynap screen in the address bar, hit enter and then the Cynap should appear on your tab. This is what you will share with your students on Teams.
4. In your open Teams meeting, click on the up arrow next to the microphone icon to share content.
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Teaching with Teams in the Classroom
6. Choose Window
7. Select the WolfVision Cynap Google Chrome window option
5. IF you are going to be playing a video for your students, make sure you toggle the Include Computer Sound to the On position.
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Hint 2: You can cover this tab with other content, but do not minimize it or it will pause the sharing.
Hint 1: You can separate this tab from your other websites to make it easy to see what students are seeing.
By following these instructions, anything you show on the Cynap screen will show up to your students in Teams, including the etc.documentwhiteboard,computer,camera,
Oct 12—Assessment Committee meeting @ noon
Jan 2 ALL PLA courses are due to be live on website and in Blackboard. Plan accordingly!
Autumn! It’s the season of new school supplies, the smell of decaying leaves, and the frenetic pace of curriculum modifications, all signifying Trea’s ‘most wonderful time of the year’. In the rush to fill your closets with flannel or blaze orange and sip on your favorite pumpkin spice flavored beverage, please take note of the following important curriculum & assessment dates:
Archive syllabi in WIDS for 1st 8 weeks
Nov 9—Assessment Committee meeting @ noon
Curriculum Corner
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Nov 30 All major curriculum modifications due to Trea (credit value, course title, course number, add or delete courses and all other changes requiring advisory support)
Dec 1—Start reviewing program guides and making changes to guides for next academic year
Dec 14 Assessment Committee meeting @ noon
Dec 16—Data Day
Oct 31 All minor curriculum modifications due to Trea (course descriptions, term changes, pre/coreqs etc.)
Nov 15 Archive syllabi in WIDS for 2nd 8 weeks
1. Type your course number or name into WIDS and DOUBLE CLICK to choose it
Did you know…textbooks are not automatically updated in your syllabi? You have the ability to update them yourself in 3 easy steps:
(Hint: Doing this in the syllabus will cause frustration. Please do this within the actual course)
CurMod sounds like a cheese curd sculpture that has been melted over a good campfire, doesn’t it? In reality it is our way of saying, “Anything involving the way your courses and programs are offered is up for review/modification during this window”. From October 1 to November 30, programs and courses are open for you to suggest edits to your Advisory Committees and ALT members. You can make changes (within reason) to course descriptions, pre/corequisites, lecture/lab hours, which courses are in each program, the terms each course is offered, and any changes to course title, number, and credit value. This changes will go into effect for the 2023 24 academic year.
TEXTBOOKS IN WIDS
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WHAT IS CURMOD SEASON?
Before you get all excited about cleaning house, please realize that HLC gets notified (through a lengthy application) when a certain number of changes are made, and we need to validate those changes with data! Data from program review, student surveys, assessment tracking, comparisons with other colleges, and industry requests may all play a part in why something needs to be modified. Over the last 4 significant changes to many courses and programs and we should be in a period of minor maintenance and fewer changes right now. But if you notice that a course description doesn’t really match the course content, or you are concerned about a semester that is too heavy in lecture/research classes and you need to spread courses out for student success, you should feel empowered to make those suggestions. If our ultimate goal is student success through completion and retention, then any CurMod suggestions should lend themselves to that goal.
The best way to know what is currently in your classes is to review the program guide on the website. This will give you most of the information you need. If the data shows changes are needed, then work with your ALT member to suggest those changes. Sometimes, due to staffing or budget or logistics, a change isn’t possible this time around. Once the CurMod window closes for this year, there are a lot of moving parts behind the scenes that have to fall into place before students start registering in March for next year.
Curriculum Corner
2. Click on the textbook tab on the left
3. Edit the textbooks as necessary and save
Friday, October 7
Monday, October 19
Online enrollment)(continuous
Monday, October 10, 9:00—9:30
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TOPICS: Tricks & Treats of Rubrics and Assessment
TOPIC: Looking at our online discussions and making them better
2ND YEAR FACULTY SCHOLARS:
Wednesday, October 26 5:00 8:00
FQAS 911
UPCOMING SCHEDULED TRAINING
Training: New Course Evaluation and Survey Tool (This will also be repeated in Part Time faculty check in)
9:00—10:00
Virtual or in the APEX Center
Remember, you don’t have to wait for scheduled training. If you want to learn something, just schedule a time with a Team Apex member.
EVENT TIME LOCATION AND/OR LINK TO EVENT
Monday, October 10, 1:00 2:00 Recorded
NEW FACULTY MONTHYLY MEETING
Click Here to Join Option 2
Tuesday, October 11 12:00 12:30
FQAS for faculty who teach in our law enforcement or emergency services area and have completed state/federal teaching certification in their area of expertise.
Saturday, Feb 4 9:00—12:00
TOPIC: New End of Course Evaluations and Surveys Tool
PART-TIME FACULTY CHECK IN
Virtual or in the APEX Center
Click Here to Join Option 2 Click Here to Join Option 3
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Click Here to Join Option 1 Click Here to Join Option 2
Friday, October 14, 9:30—11:30 Virtual Click here to join the meeting
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Friday, October 14 8:30—9:00
Option 1: 12:00-1:00 Option 2: 5:00—6:00 Virtual Click Here to Join Option 1
Friday, October 7 1:00—2:30 Virtual Click here to join the meeting
Click Here to Sign Up
TOPIC OF THE MONTH : Brainstorm Topics to Innovate with this Year (see page about this in the newsletter)
Civitas
Option 1: 12:00 – 1:00
Date Times
End of Course Evaluations
Blackboard/Classroom Tech
Spring Term
FebruaryMonday, 20
Equity & Inclusion
Reflecting on Teaching
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
When you sign up you will receive an email with a calendar invite and automatic reminders a day or two before the event. Closer to the event time, you will also receive a link for the virtual meeting.
Option 1: 12:00 1:00
Option 2: 5:00 6:00
All meetings are optional, but highly encouraged. Meetings will be recorded if for those unable to attend due to work/teaching schedules in any given month.
Option 1: 12:00 1:00
Option 1: 12:00 1:00
Wednesday, October 19
Option 2: 5:00 6:00
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Option 2: 5:00 6:00
Option 1: 12:00 1:00
Option 1: 12:00 1:00
AprilWednesday,19
MarchTuesday,14
MayThursday,11
Option 1: 12:00 1:00
Cognitive Strategies
FQAS
We recognize that you may be teaching during some of the meetings, so we have planned the meetings for multiple days and times throughout the semester.
Option 2: 5:00 – 6:00 Assessment
New Ways to Facilitate Discussion
Option 2: 5:00 6:00
Option 1: 12:00 1:00
DecemberTuesday, 6
Option 2: 5:00 6:00
Fall Term
NovemberThursday, 17
Note: You MUST sign up to attend so that we can track attendance and prepare based on the number of faculty participating. Sign up now, you can always cancel later if you need to.
SeptemberMonday, 19
Topic
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Option 2: 5:00 6:00 FinalWatermarkGrades
Option 2: 5:00 – 6:00
Binge: Downton Abbey
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Candy: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
2 Weeks/$20,000: Travel through Europe with my family (adult children and hubby)
Mark Haferman
Candy: Carmel Apple Suckers
MEET OUR NEW FACULTY
Candy: Candy Corn
What is your favorite Halloween candy?
Angela HospitalitySteinhauerManagement
CarolynNursingSchneebeli
SarahNursingLynch
Candy: Twix
Binge: YouTube course related topics or self improvement
Candy: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Emergency Management Services
Renewable Energy & Construction
2 Weeks/$20,000: Travel
Team Apex has had a great time getting to know our new full time faculty members. We want to give you a little “Fall flavor” from each of them so you can get to know them too. They each answered the following questions for us.
Alyssa Larsen
Binge: I like Mike Rowe . . . Don’t watch much TV though
Candy: Carmel Apple Suckers
HVAC Installer & Construction Trades
Binge: Grey’s Anatomy
2 Weeks/$20,000: Vacation to Greece to trace my heritage
2 Weeks/$20,000: Head to Florida for some waterskiing!
If you had 2 weeks and $20,000, what would you do?
Binge: Office or Friends
Greg Engen
What is your current or favorite binge watch?
2 Weeks/$20,000: Travel through Europe, eat all the great food, and drink all the wonderful wine!
2 Weeks/$20,000: Travel to see one or two of the Wonders of the World
Binge: Virgin River
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Binge: Chopped
(We would like to thank Jim Henson and the Muppets for providing a stand in picture of Ryan in the absence of his image! This was so much more fun than sending a reminder email.)
Candy: Snickers
Candy: Candy corn but only when it first hits the store.
Binge: I'm in the middle of my annual Breaking Bad re watch, but I am also constantly rotating between The Office and FRIENDS as lighthearted before bed watches as a good way to end my day. My favorite current watch would have to be House of the Dragon. Give me fantasy and mix in political intrigue I love it!
Candy: Anything fruit flavored and sour! Sour Patch Kids, Sour Punch Straws, Sour Skittles, etc.
Ryan Petrouski Culinary Arts
Abby Ferrell Communication
MEET OUR NEW FACULTY
Maggie Leonhardt Math
2 Weeks/$20,000: Travel to Italy. Eat pizza in Naples. Sample Limoncello on the Amalfi Coast. View art in Florence. Shop in Milan. Visit the Colosseum in Rome. Eat more pizza.
Binge: Only Murders in the Building
2 Weeks/$20,000: Two weeks with my family and most of that money would go into their accounts for their future use.
2 Weeks/$20,000: Take my family to the ultimate Disney World and Universal Studios vacation
• Reports and Response Rates are easy to find. Click on tools in the left menu and choose Course Evaluations and Surveys.
• This is a Watermark tool and will eventually integrate with our planning and self study tool.
• 3 days before the end of class, they will be required to complete the eval before they can get into their course.
ROLL OUT OF NEW TOOL IN OCTOBER
• Faculty can work with Lea Ann or Todd to add other surveys that will deploy in courses, we are not limited to end of course evals.
• We do have the option of adding surveys that are not connected to classes and can be sent easily to internship supervisors, clinical sites or other outside stakeholders.
• Reports will be permanently stored and accessible through a link in Blackboard for ease of searchability for accreditation and record keeping purposes.
Faculty
• ALT will be able to monitor response results for their schools.
In the month of October Mid State will be rolling out the new end of course evaluations and surveys tool. This new tool has the following amazing features: Students
• They can click on the Tools in Blackboard and Click on Course Evaluations and Surveys to manage their surveys all in one place.
• All reports have been mapped to roll up to ALT automatically. Reports for ALT will be available after the last day of the semester.
• Faculty can add up to 5 custom questions to the survey if they choose.
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NEW COURSE EVALUATIONS & SURVEYS TOOL
• When the student has an open course eval, it will slide out when they click on the course or on their activity stream as well as an email alert.
Administrators
Check the Upcoming Trainings page or your calendar invites for trainings the week of October 10, especially for those who have first 8 week courses ending. Trainings will be repeated in November/December.
• Reports will be available the day after class is over.
• DO NOT use it for Blackboard issues. The Emergency Line staff do not have access to Blackboard.
• DO NOT use it if the issue will not directly affect the class right now if it can wait, put in a ticket.
• DO NOT use it for training purposes. It is your responsibility to set up training with Lea Ann or Todd prior to teaching in the classroom or to request further training on features you would like to use.
RESERVE OFFICE SPACE FOR TRAVELING FACULTY & STAFF
The APEX Center has an office specifically designed for traveling faculty and staff. Guarantee the office is available for you by reserving it on 25Live, otherwise it is available on a first come, first serve basis.
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What is the Classroom Technology Emergency Line Number?
From the classroom, you may use the emergency classroom technology number for the following reasons: You are in a classroom full of students (or soon to be full of students) and
• The Cynap won't display
• Go online and put in a ticket Go through MyCampus
• TelePresence won't work or does not come up when it is supposed to (4 minutes prior to the start of class)
REMINDER: WHEN SHOULD I USE THE HELPDESK? WHEN SHOULD I USE THE EMERGENCY TECHNOLOGY LINE?
• Call from a campus phone x5555
If you understand the criteria above and it is truly a classroom emergency, dial x5670 from any campus phone.
• The camera is not working and students are joining remotely.
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Helpdesk
TECHNOLOGY & APEX SUPPORT
How Do I Contact the Help Desk?
When should I not use the emergency line?
• Call from a non campus phone 877.469.6782
The helpdesk is a great system that allows tickets to be developed, tracked, given the right personnel, and resolved in a timely manner. The helpdesk should always be used for classroom technology issues that do not immediately affect students.
Classroom Technology Emergencies
ASK APEX
Advice columns are fun and an anonymous way to ask a questions that will probably benefit more than just you. Team APEX wants to answer your questions. Click Here to Ask Your Question
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and apply critical and creative thinking skills.
Click Here to view Problem Solvers Toolkit that includes 13 different problem solving models that can be applied to most situations. Whether in the classroom or in meetings with your team, give yourselves time to creative innovative solutions to real problems with one or more of these problem solving models.
Dear APEX,
I have students and/or coworkers that don’t think critically and creatively. I want more from them. What should I Answer:do?
Critical and creative thinking is an employability skill and it must be taught and assessed. Not all students will come to us with a natural ability to think this way, but there are models that you can use to help them learn