{"id":17069,"date":"2025-07-01T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/?p=17069"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:43:36","slug":"may-2025-qep-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/may-2025-qep-update\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2025 QEP Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"17069\" class=\"elementor elementor-17069\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-147eaefa e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"147eaefa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-267cce99 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"267cce99\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e11b7be elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7e11b7be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Monthly Summary<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fd48af3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7fd48af3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DFI team had a busy month with several key activities. They met with Kara Buckner to discuss future animation projects for Digital Fluency. Linda Smarzik planned a presentation for Central New Mexico\u2019s Summer Innovation Institute with Christine Goshorn and coordinated a co-presentation with El Paso Community College. Collaborations with the Curriculum and Programs team advanced the build-out of Blackboard Ultra micro-credential sections for summer. Work on the AI Micro-certificate continued in a planning session with Mary Kohls. Linda participated in the monthly Digital Badging Subcommittee meeting and attended the ACC GROW End-of-Year Celebration. Karina Hernandez attended the AVANCE to College End-of-Year Celebration. Additionally, Linda presented a proposed paid delivery model for micro-credentials to Central New Mexico College.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the area of micro-credentials, a marketing request was submitted to promote DFI program awareness and registration for Fall micro-credentials. The migration from Brightspace Leap to Blackboard Ultra continued, with ongoing development of the Systems Thinking and Project Management micro-credentials. Data highlights include six students earning the Web Presence Fundamentals Micro-certificate, 185 digital badges awarded to students who completed Spring #2 micro-credentials, and the completion of two new micro-credentials offered as pilots for Summer 2025. Additionally, six new Co-Curricular Digital Navigators joined the program through targeted outreach and word-of-mouth recruitment.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e9396f0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1e9396f0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-425fb5e5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"425fb5e5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Highlights<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2053ad40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2053ad40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Outreach<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DFI team met with <\/span><b>Kara Buckner<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to discuss future animation projects in support of Digital Fluency.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linda Smarzik met with <\/span><b>Christine Goshorn<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to plan a presentation for <\/span><b>Central New Mexico\u2019s Summer Innovation Institute<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Erasmus Addae, Linda Smarzik, and Karina Hernandez collaborated with the <\/span><b>Curriculum and Programs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team, <\/span><b>Georgia Branch, Sammy Alvanipour, Stephanie Benetti, Sara Petty, and Seth Wilkerson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to plan the build-out of <\/span><b>Blackboard Ultra micro-credential sections<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for summer implementation.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linda Smarzik and Karina Hernandez continued work on the <\/span><b>AI Micro-certificate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a planning session with <\/span><b>Mary Kohls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linda Smarzik met with <\/span><b>Christine Goshorn<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>Carla Love<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>Fernando Mata<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><b>Myshie Pagel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to coordinate a <\/span><b>co-presentation with El Paso Community College<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for CNM\u2019s Summer Institute.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linda Smarzik participated in the <\/span><b>monthly Digital Badging Subcommittee meeting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, focused on cross-college alignment and updates.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linda Smarzik attended the <\/span><b>ACC GROW, End-of-Year Celebration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, recognizing student achievements and contributions.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Karina Hernandez attended the <\/span><b>AVANCE to College, End-of-Year Celebration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to honor students who successfully completed micro-credentials.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linda Smarzik presented a proposed <\/span><b>paid delivery model for micro-credentials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to <\/span><b>Judith Tomasson, Erica Reed, and Olivia Padilla-Jackson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Central New Mexico College.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Micro-Credentials\u00a0<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An ACC Marketing request was submitted and planning began for a marketing campaign to promote both the DFI program awareness and registration for Fall micro-credentials.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The migration of the micro-credentials from Brightspace Leap to Blackboard Ultra continued this month with the conversion of assignments and quizzes.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Development continued on the Systems Thinking micro-credential.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Development continued on the Project Management micro-credential.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Data<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six students earned the Web Presence Fundamentals Micro-certificate after completing four micro-credentials: Web Builder, Photoshop for Web, HTML\/CSS, and Web Analytics. Eligible students were awarded credit for ITNW-1337 for the completion of the micro-certificate.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">185<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">digital badges were awarded to students who completed Spring #2 micro-credentials.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two new micro-credentials were completed and offered as pilots for the Summer 2025 &#8211; Systems Thinking and Project Management.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six new Co-Curricular Digital Navigators joined the program, recruited through targeted outreach at the adjunct faculty association meeting and informal word-of-mouth.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70736f9f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"70736f9f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63a8473d elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"63a8473d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Implementation Committee Meetings<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61d78433 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61d78433\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Add meeting date and link to Google Drive<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e6684ce elementor-post-navigation-borders-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-navigation\" data-id=\"7e6684ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-navigation.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__prev elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/april-2025-qep-update\/\" rel=\"prev\"><span class=\"post-navigation__arrow-wrapper post-navigation__arrow-prev\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Prev<\/span><\/span><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__prev\"><span class=\"post-navigation__prev--title\">April 2025 QEP Update<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__separator-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__separator\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__next elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/june-2025-qep-update\/\" rel=\"next\"><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__next\"><span class=\"post-navigation__next--title\">June 2025 QEP Update<\/span><\/span><span class=\"post-navigation__arrow-wrapper post-navigation__arrow-next\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Next<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFI team had a busy month with several key activities. They met with Kara Buckner to discuss future animation projects for Digital Fluency. Linda Smarzik planned a presentation for Central New Mexico\u2019s Summer Innovation Institute with Christine Goshorn and coordinated a co-presentation with El Paso Community College. Collaborations with the Curriculum and Programs team advanced the build-out of Blackboard Ultra micro-credential sections for summer. Work on the AI Micro-certificate continued in a planning session with Mary Kohls. Linda participated in the monthly Digital Badging Subcommittee meeting and attended the ACC GROW End-of-Year Celebration. Karina Hernandez attended the AVANCE to College End-of-Year Celebration. Additionally, Linda presented a proposed paid delivery model for micro-credentials to Central New Mexico College.<br \/>\nIn the area of micro-credentials, a marketing request was submitted to promote DFI program awareness and registration for Fall micro-credentials. The migration from Brightspace Leap to Blackboard Ultra continued, with ongoing development of the Systems Thinking and Project Management micro-credentials. Data highlights include six students earning the Web Presence Fundamentals Micro-certificate, 185 digital badges awarded to students who completed Spring #2 micro-credentials, and the completion of two new micro-credentials offered as pilots for Summer 2025. 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