National Health Education Week Launches Today!

National Health Education Week was created in 1995 by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) to focus on increasing national awareness on major public health issues and promoting a better understanding of the role of health education.

Register Now!

What can I expect?

Inspired by SOPHE, the USM Training Committee came together last year in partnership with GuidanceResources® Online to provide all USM employees at no cost health education workshops to address the physical, emotional, and mental health challenges we all face today. This year the committee met and discussed managing stress and anxiety as the most important topics for their employees. So they got together with GuidanceResources® Online to put together the following line-up of workshops for this year’s National Health Education Week:

Tuesday, October 19

10 am: Tools to Handle Stress

2 pm: Managing Worry and Anxiety

Wednesday, October 20

10 am: Healthy Food Choices on the Go

2 pm: Living With Change

Thursday, October 21

10 am: Running on “E:” Adding Energy and Fun to Your Life

2 pm: Mindfulness: Being Present in Your Work and Life

Additional launch activities and dialogues will take place on Monday and Friday. Visit our site to register on Hopin for more details. Remember to choose University of Maryland, Baltimore Count under 'Select Tickets' and click on the button on the right to complete your order. You will be taken into Hopin so you can peruse the platform but no content will be posted until the week of the event. 

Please add the above workshops to your calendar and include the link to log-in.

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Today's talk is The secret to giving great feedback by LeeAnn Renninger. Humans have been coming up with ways to give constructive criticism for centuries, but somehow we're still pretty terrible at it. Cognitive psychologist LeeAnn Renninger shares a scientifically proven method for giving effective feedback.


After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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Today's talk is The benefits of expressing your emotions (constructively) by Artūrs Miksons. Every culture assigns stigma or value to different styles and levels of emotional expression, creating an instinct to repress or reject feelings associated with discomfort. Psychotherapist Artūrs Miksons lays out the benefits of discarding unhelpful social stigma and explains why expressing our emotions constructively can help build resilience to endure trying times.


After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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Shifting to teaching in online and hybrid formats has created opportunities to identify how students can share multimedia projects and receive feedback through peer critique. While various tools support multimedia, faculty often wonder what tools can enhance asynchronous peer engagement for multimedia projects and how to use these tools with Blackboard.

UMBC community members have used asynchronous tools like VoiceThread for multimedia engagement. VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence. With VoiceThread, instructors and students can create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents, and PDFs, using text, a microphone, webcam, phone, and audio-file upload. 

The VoiceThread platform supported communication between presenters and visitors at conferences like URCAD, USM LSAMP, and SURF. In addition, faculty incorporate VoiceThread in Blackboard to share lectures, presentations, and student work. The most recent feature for VoiceThread in Blackboard, VoiceThread Assignments, creates a new level of integration between student work, collaboration, and Blackboard.

Kristen Anchor, Lecturer, Media and Communication Studies (MCS), uses VoiceThread Assignments in her MCS courses. She devised several innovative approaches to manage and facilitate media project assignments, peer learning, and peer critique. For Anchor, peer critique is an integral part of the learning and creative process. She explains to students, "Critique is helpful for two reasons: (1) Getting feedback on your work, and (2) practicing your visual and communication skills about media (as the critic)." How can instructors design online courses with asynchronous components to support this essential student interaction? Anchor finds VoiceThread helps students achieve course goals and meets the instructional need to support multimedia projects and peer engagement.

Anchor thoughtfully delivers VoiceThread assignments by providing students with assignment instructions and reference guides for using VoiceThread. She presents students with assignment instructions within Blackboard and again after they launch the VoiceThread Assignment. Students receive project examples as references with their assignment instructions. Anchor uses the VoiceThread Student Gallery for each project, an optional feature that faculty can select when creating a VoiceThread Assignment, to support peer critique.



The Student Gallery feature makes peer critique in VoiceThread possible; it allows students to see submissions from their peers and add audio, video, and text-based comments, allowing for asynchronous peer feedback sessions.

Kristen Anchor will share her excellent ideas about using VoiceThread to support student projects and engagement, along with tips, tricks, and thoughts for faculty considering adopting VoiceThread for their instruction moving forward. Please register and join us Thursday, October 21st, at Noon to learn more.

~ By Josh Abrams

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All webinars will be recorded and emailed to you after the session. Even if you can't attend live, please register so you can receive the recording. 
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To continue to support your ability to be productive during this time of hybrid work, we in HR partnered up with our colleagues in the Division of Information Technology to offer 2 virtual boot camp programs available to you now asynchronously- a basic Foundations of The Hybrid Workplace series for individual contributors and a more advanced Strategic Planning series for those who plan and/or coordinate the work of others. 

See the attached program flyer with the courses listed under each series. 

Get  access to the training in Panopto HERE.

Participants who attend 5 of the 6 sessions in a series will receive a digital badge that can be shared on various social media platforms. For more information email hrtraining@umbc.edu.

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Today's talk is What kids can teach adults about asking for help by YeYoon Kim. Do you need some help? It's OK to ask, says YeYoon Kim, a former kindergarten teacher who learned from her students how powerful and courageous it can be to reach out for support. Sharing the story of one of the most difficult periods in her life, Kim explores the happiness and joy that can come from leaning on those you love in times of need -- and encourages the rest of us to start asking for help more often.


After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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Breakout groups are a powerful engagement tool for active learning in a synchronous session, providing private audio, video, whiteboard, application sharing, and chat for small group collaboration. Instructors can distribute files with breakout groups, and pull those files back into the main room for sharing with the entire class. 

In Collaborate, breakout groups were typically created with random student placements to the groups or manual placements by the instructor with an optional setting to allow students to switch groups. With this new integration, however, instructors will be able to use their existing groups in their Blackboard courses to quickly create and launch breakout groups in Collaborate. As needed, instructors can adjust groups while maintaining the original placements.

Synchronize your Bb groups with Collaborate breakout groups

The Collaborate and Blackboard Learn groups integration applies to both Original and Ultra courses, but will require the use of group sets rather than individually created groups in the course.
The Collaborate and Blackboard Learn groups integration is scheduled for gradual release in mid-September. As soon we have additional information, we will update the FAQs with how-to documentation and related resources. UPDATE: New FAQ is available.

Additionally, with this release, Collaborate will proactively inform users about outdated browser use and encourage them to upgrade to a supported browser. Users will still be allowed to join a session, but the experience may not be the same. 

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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Today's talk is How to turn off work thoughts during your free time by Guy Winch. Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow's tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work.


After you watch, we invite you to reflect on the following:
  • What resonated for you in the video?
  • What lived experiences do you have, either personally or professionally that align with the core message of the talk?
  •  As you think of your role as a student, employee, or manager what feels relevant and useful to remember?
  • What are you taking away that feels meaningful - either a new perspective, a potential action, etc.
  • How might we take better care of ourselves and each other during this time?
If you're a supervisor, consider using this talk for team building purposes! You might send the video ahead of your meeting with several reflection questions on which you'd like your staff to come prepared to speak.
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Join an upcoming training webinar from Respondus to see the latest features and integrations for LockDown Browser and Monitor. Learn how these applications are used with a range of online testing environments, virtual proctoring and Blackboard. 

Instructor Training: LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor
This comprehensive 45-minute training is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor to protect academic integrity and ensure student identity during online testing. The training will cover:
  • How to use LockDown Browser to prevent digital cheating in proctored testing environments
  • How to use Respondus Monitor in non-proctored environments, to protect exam integrity and confirm student identity
  • The student perspective using each application
  • Efficient review of the assessment data collected, including the Review Priority system, timeline, and milestone features
  • Best practices and tips for success with both applications
Pick your date/time and register directly with Respondus:
All attendees will receive a link to a recording after the session.

About Respondus Lockdown Browser

RLDB is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. Students are unable to copy, print, access other applications, or visit other websites during an online exam. For additional information, please review our FAQ collection.

NOTE: Students should not register for any instructor training session but instead, contact use the Respondus support tools embedded in RLDB, or review this FAQ for further help.

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