Professional Learning Resources
Catalyst
Our favorite Flex Week tradition returns! Catalyst, Mesa's two-day teaching conference, will beCatalyst Blurb celebrating its 8th year of sharing ideas and connecting colleagues in teaching conversations. Share your best teaching tips, course design elements, or aha moments with colleagues.
Fall 2026 details coming soon!
Never Stop Learning Newsletter
We're excited to share with you the upcoming professional learning opportunities designed to inspire, connect, and support your success this semester. Please be in touch with us if you need any support with Flex or Professional Learning. Learn more in the the Never Stop Learning Newsletter.
ProMesa
Our ProMesa cohort has been designed for part time faculty who are new to teaching at Mesa. Enroll in Asynchronous ProMesa.
Mesa Teaching Tree
There are awesome teaching ideas out there, but faculty often find it difficult to find teaching ideas and connect with colleagues. The FPLC has created the Mesa Teaching Tree to make it easier for Mesa College faculty to share and find good teaching ideas and resources.
Vision Resource Center
The Vision Resource Center is an online learning and collaboration platform Free for all California Community College employees. The content provided will support every individual and college as we work together toward the Vision for Success goals.
@ONE
The @ONE Project makes it easy for California Community College faculty and staff to learn about technology that will enhance student learning and success.
SDCCD Resources
Training Resources - Microsoft Office & Windows training courses from San Diego Community College District Office of Information Technology.
SD Mesa College Inactive Enrollments
We've seen an increase in fraudulent enrollments in our online classes, so it's essential that we do our best to identify and remove these as early as possible. In the following document you'll find additional information and instructional strategies from MOST designed to help you identify and address potential fraud.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resources
Mesa Library
We recommend starting with the ebook, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, which is available as an ebook at our library.
ASCCC
Institutional Innovation and Effectiveness
The District offers a series of AI workshops. Visit the SDCCD (AI) Resource Page.
Webinars with CCC colleagues
CVC@ONE offers professional learning opportunities online across the state. Visit the CVC@ONE Webinars page to learn more.
Video Resources
- ConferZOOM - An online meeting tool that can also serve as a screencasting tool, recording your screen and audio simultaneously. ConferZoom offers cloud hosting and automatically generates captions that can be edited.
- AdobeSpark - A free browser-based video creation tool with a very quick learning curve. AdobeSpark feels similar to PowerPoint, allowing users to build one slide of audio/video at a time.
- Clips (iPhone or iPad) - Mobile app for iOS devices that transcribes your talking head videos and sends them to YouTube for sharing.
Editing Videos
YouTube and Zoom allow for minimal video edits, mostly trimming the start and end of recordings.
Paid Options
Free Options
Hosting Videos
YouTube is recommended for hosting videos outside of Canvas. Canvas has limited storage; video files are large. YouTube supports embedding, linking, and editable auto-captions. If you have a Google or Gmail account, you already have a YouTube account.
YouTube Resources
The Finish Line
ATD’s Finish Line Game helps increase awareness of the barriers to student success. Community college faculty, administration, and trustees will have a richer understanding of the journey of today’s college student, particularly low-income students and students of color. Reserve the Finish Line Game.
