It is time to prepare yourself, your campus, and your courses for a major outbreak of the seasonal and H1N1 flu.  You can keep up to date with these resources to track the disease, follow the tips to keep healthly, and plan for your course in the event that many of your students, or you, become ill. Download this page of resources as a PDF.

Preventing the Flu:  What YOU Need To Do Too!

Track the Flu!

This site allows you to track this year's flu and compare it flu outbreaks in the past.  You can also watch the level of flu activity in the 50 states. (Web site)

Faculty & Student Toolkit:  What should you be doing to personally prepare?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends 4 main ways you may keep from getting sick with the flu and other tips for staying healthy. (Web site)

Flu Widget for Higher Education with Tips for Fighting the Flu from the CDC

Post this Widget on your course shell to bring provide healthful awareness to your students. (Widget)

Surviving the Flu: Keeping YOUR CLASS Meeting with You!

Use a D2L shell or wiki for your course to present content, run discussions, assess student learning and communicate with your students.  You and your students can post researched sources of content and share their thoughts about them as they relate to your course.

Web Conferencing:  Consider meeting with your class online using Adobe Connect, WebEx, Elluminate, or Skype.  There are many ways to see and talk with one another without being together in the same classroom.

New to teaching online?  Consider using these CTL resources. 

Readings

Go to the CTL annotated bibliography of resources of articles on online and e-learning articles.

Online Learning Articles    E-Learning Articles

Tutorials

Active Learning Online 
This self-paced tutorial is designed for system faculty who are interested in learning more about using teaching strategies that promote active learning in the virtual classroom.

Getting Started Online
This self-paced tutorial is designed for system faculty who are interested in learning more about teaching in an online environment.

Instructional Design for eLearning
Welcome to Instructional Design Support for eLearning by Patricia L. Rogers, Ph.D. from Bemidji State University. This tutorial is based on her book: Designing Instruction for Technology-Enhanced Learning.

Webinars

Using Technology to Enhance Your Teaching of World Cultures, Social Studies, and Languages
Join the Revolution in Foreign/Second Languages and World Cultures Teaching & Learning! This presentation will demonstrate pedagogically exploiting video in Spanish on the Internet. The session will focus on how a foreign news agency short video in Spanish can be a teaching tool either as a core lesson or as supplementary material in a variety of disciplines.

Second Life - A Journey to MnSCU Island!
In this presentation you will be introduced to MnSCU Island which is a series of production sites and learning experiences. You won't have to have an avatar to join. The presentation will take you through the island and showcase an area for teaching and learning experiences for yourself and your students. Here's your chance to learn more about this virtual world and its educational opportunities.

Wikis, Blogs, and Podcasts - Motivating Students Online
This workshop is designed for faculty who want to explore using cool Web tools to motivate students to connect, collaborate and converse online. It takes a quick look at how the new interactive Web is weaving many far-reaching changes in the world of work and how these changes are also impacting education and our students.

Preventing the Flu:  What the CAMPUS Can Do!

Higher Education Toolkit:  What should your institution be doing to prepare?

The purpose of “Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for Institutions of Higher Education” is to provide information and communication resources to help students, faculty, and staff implement recommendations from CDC’s Guidance for Responses to Influenza for Institutions of Higher Education during the 2009-2010 Academic Year. (PDF)

Responses to Influenza for Institutions of Higher Education

This document provides guidance to help decrease the spread of flu among students, faculty, and staff of institutions of higher education (IHE) and post-secondary educational institutions during the 2009-2010 academic year. (Web site)

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Coming to grips with the uncertainty about the spread of a novel flu virus and the potential risk it could pose is a challenge for college and university administrators. In 2006, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities completed planning for a system response to a flu pandemic or severe flu outbreak in a Minnesota community. Each college and university also is expected to have a plan in place.
(Web site)

Colleges and Universities Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed the following checklist as a framework to assist colleges and universities to develop and/or improve plans to prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic. (Web site)

Flu Widget for Higher Education with Tips for Fighting the Flu from the CDC

Post this Widget on your institution’s Web site to provide healthful awareness to your students, staff, and faculty. (Widget)