Thank you for reading! I have received a lot of positive feedback and some great suggestions; I appreciate it all and keep it coming! For those of you who have sent me articles, this week’s digest is all thanks to you! We have two events and a few articles of note. As always, any and all suggestions, feedback, interesting articles and high fives can be sent to me at malmbergsm@sunybroome.edu or to Professional Development at professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu!
First, I want to pass along a Save the Date we received from SUNY this week.
Put on your calendars!
MAY 4-6, 2022 for the
2022 Student Success Summit:
Holistic Approaches to Student Success!
The conference is free and will be held virtually.
As SUNY is building capacity and best practices for supporting all students during these challenging times with evidence- and results-based campus and student leadership/models/methods, our communities of practice have again joined together in order to facilitate collaboration, networking, and sharing of ideas to improve offerings for all students across the state.
This summit brings together three SUNY communities of practice; Student Success, Applied Learning and Advising.
Call for Proposals coming early December.
Please bookmark the 2022 SUNY Student Success Summit website for more information regarding registration, speakers and event details.
Another great opportunity that I want to share is from our partners at Innovative Educators! On Friday, 10/8, they are hosting what they call a Friday 5 Live discussion, this one on envisioning the future of higher education where they will discuss the key takeaways from the last 18 months of instability and change, how this academic year is shaping up, and the latest in EdTech to help us meet the needs of who are learners are now. Want to register? We can do that for you for free; please email professionaldevelopment@sunybroome.edu and we will do this with you!
Also, this article, Zapier – Don’t text the word Hi, is about how to communicate with your direct reports in a way that minimizes anxiety and frustration. The premise of the article is to never text the word “Hi,” and doing so means that your text recipients will immediately think the worst. I have tested this theory as a parent, and can confirm that this type of text is the worst to send; immediately my kids are thinking what happened and who passed.
Article, TheVerge – File Not Found, is very interesting to me as someone who is firmly Gen X and socialized to be a file organizer who also has to traverse the murky depths known as the Google Drive (these are the jokes.). I have a personal policy where I do not want students to share a Google Doc with me; I ask them to download it out of Google Docs, label it, and send it to me as an attachment. One student came to me in a heap of confusion; what I said wasn’t making a lot of sense to them and they wanted me to clarify. Clarify I did, but it still wasn’t making sense to the student. I then demo’d the request on my own computer and it was a eureka moment for the student, but a real headscratcher for me, and according to the article, I am not alone! Gen Z students, much more modern than I may ever be, simply haven’t needed to have a file management system in the way that we needed to in the “before times” and therefore may not know what we mean when we refer to simple actions related to file management. I am curious to know your thoughts on this. What have you seen with your students?
Thank you for reading! Have a great week!
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