About Michelle

Michelle Pacansky-Brock

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I am available for keynote speaking engagements. I welcome inquiries through the Contact Michelle form in the right column of my blog. They come straight to me!


A little about me:

I've been known to be referred to as one who is a bit passionate about learning. :) I really did fall in love with teaching the moment I first stepped in front of a group of students in grad school. I will never forget that day.  I will also never forget the turn my life took when I started teaching online.  Online learning has taught me so much about teaching and about learning. It has opened my eyes to the rich, collaborative, human-centered environments we can create for our students.
  • More than 10 years' higher education experience including online course design and instruction
  • Specialization in online learning using web 2.0 and social media tools to foster active, collaborative, humanized learning environments
  • Consulting experience includes corporate and higher education. Past projects include:
  • Action research interests: how faculty-authored eBooks improve the traditional professional development process for supporting faculty with technology training, as well as how learning out loud through asynchronous voice communications affects cognition and social presence in online classes

Publications:

Awards and Recognitions:

  • Member of the 2014 Horizon Project Higher Ed Advisory Board 
  • Chair Elect &; Chair of The Launch Pad, 2014 Sloan-C International Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium (ET4Online)
  • 2011-2014: Capella Educator Advancement Scholarship
  • 2010: Sloan-C Effective Practice Award for Use of VoiceThread to Buildg Online Community and Increase Social Presence
  • 2007: Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching Award
  • 1997-1999: UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography History of Photography Fellowship
Current Employment:

  • Academic Technologist, California State University, Channel Islands
  • Associate Faculty, Mt. San Jacinto College
  • Community Coordinator for The Center, an @ONE professsional development program. The Center is an online community that connects California's 112 community colleges through Google+ Hangouts and Twitter chats

Future Presentations:

Past Presentations:

  • SUNY Learning Network (SNL) SOLSummit, The SUNY Global Center, New York, NY, February 26, 2014.
  • Technology Innovations & Pedagogy Conference (Keynote), Fresno State, Fresno, CA, January 13, 2014. 
  • Focus on Teaching & Technology: a St. Louis Regional Conference (Keynote), University of St. Louis, Missouri, October 2013. View the archive of the Twitter backchannel from my keynote here!
  • Provost Guest Speaker Series, Nevada State College, February 2013.
  • Learning & Teaching with Technology Expo (Keynote), Mohave Community College, December 2012.
  • Learning 2.0 (Keynote), Why Can't You Just Lecture To Me?, August 2012 
  • Sloan-C/MERLOT International Symposium for Emerging Technologies in Online Learning, Invited Speaker; VoiceThread: Small and Large-Scale Adoption Perspectives (collaboration with Matt Meyer from Penn State, July 2012.
  • The Online Teaching Conference,  Learning Out Loud: How Voice Discussions Change the Online Learning Experience, San Jose City College, June 2012.
  • Annual CUE Conference, Spotlight Speaker, How and Why I Flipped My Classroom; The Human Touch: Teaching with Video; Warm, Asynchronous Online Discussions with VoiceThread, Palm Springs, March 2012.
  • Innovate (Keynote), Ohio State University, April 2011.
  • Sloan-C International Conference for Asynchronous Learning Networks, panel member: Ask the Experts: Effective Online Teaching Strategies, Orlando, FL, October 2011.
  • The Online Teaching Conference (Plenary), Teaching in the Era of Participation, Orange Coast College, June 2010.
  • EduSoCal (Keynote), Painting, Power, & Pedagogy, Loyola Marymount University, May 2010.

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