Personalized Teaching Support

Supporting Technology in Instruction

The Faculty Center for Learning Technology offers several types of support for instructors who wish to use technology for teaching purposes.

Arrange department-specific workshops with FCLT to expand teaching technology use in your department.
Have an idea for an online activity you want to develop? Looking for the right tools to use? The FCLT can help you identify best practices and tools to accomplish your goals.
Contact us for consultation to create or redesign the use of online course materials.
Find out about copyright, accessibility, and accreditation standards to design classes that meet all college, state, and federal rules and regulations.
Come by the FCLT office or website to learn cool ways you can save time, simplify administrative tasks, engage students in fresh ways, and gain new skills through the use of digital teaching tools!

Useful Resources

Here are some useful resources for teaching online. Most of these are free or low cost. Some require you to create an account.

- Open Educational Resources
  - MERLOT free open education resources rated and reviewed by California professors. https://www.merlot.org
  - Free Online Education Initiative (OEI) Faculty Resources: http://ccconlineed.org/faculty-resources/
  - Free Web Conferencing or Online Office Hours Software: Confer Now (available to all community college instructors in California for free):http://confernow.org/
  - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/
- Multimedia Resources
  - Screencastomatic http://screencast-o-matic.com/home
- Image Resources
  - Pixabay This site offers free images and vectors to visually enhance your teaching materials. https://pixabay.com/
  - Creative Commons search Creative commons licenses are an alternative to copyright and allow people to share their materials. Search materials that are available for use.
  - Pixlr This program is a web-based free photo editor that has received good reviews in educational emedia.
  - New York Public Library Collection free photos from the public domain collection. http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain
  - More free photos! a list of many more sites can be found here. http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/06/01/social-media-and-presentations-free-image-sources/
- Audio Resources
  If you wish to find royalty free music to use in videos or for similar purposes.
  - Open Music Library: http://openmusiclibrary.org/
  - Free Sound: https://freesound.org/
  - Juke Deck: https://www.jukedeck.com/
  - Dexter Britain: http://dexterbritain.co.uk/
  - CASH music: http://creativecommons.cashmusic.org/
  - Libre music sharing community: https://libre.fm/
  - Incompetech royalty free music: http://incompetech.com/
  - CCMixter: http://ccmixter.org/
  - Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/
  - Jamendo: https://www.jamendo.com/?language=en&p=tags
  - Creative Commons has a list of additional suggestions https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos/
- Accessibility/Universal Design Info
  - Accessify tools and wizards to help with accessibility issues http://www.accessify.com/
  - Section 508 Guidelines to comply with Accessibility Law (GSA 508) and create many different types of accessible documents. http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/103565
  - Guide to captioning videos for enhanced accessibility: https://blogs.tees.ac.uk/teltees/2014/06/11/captioning-video-to-enhance-accessibility/
  - Amara: free captioning tool to caption your own video content http://amara.org/
  - Web Accessibility Initiative: how to make your web materials more accessiblehttps://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
  - WAVE accessibility checker http://wave.webaim.org/
  - UDL-Universe: A Comprehensive Universal Design for Learning Faculty Development Guide http://enact.sonoma.edu/udl
  - The National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/
  - Index of ICDRI Disability Resources: http://www.icdri.org
- Using Copyrighted Materials
  - Interactive guide to using copyrighted materials in your courses: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/tutorials/copyright/
  - Stanford's Copyright and Fair Use Center http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
  - Fair Use Best Practices http://cmsimpact.org/codes-of-best-practices/

Instructional Design Consultation

Set one-on-one consultation time to review your courses with Mt. SAC's instructional designer, Dr. Michelle Newhart. To set an appointment, contact Michelle Newhart at x5016 or email mnewhartAT_mtsac.edu.