Badge of Completion 

Hooray!! I completed another online workshop for CANVAS STUDIO to be a better instructor for my wonderful CSUN students who work very hard on Zoom despite having Zoom fatigue after almost 16 weeks of this semester.

Hooray,👍 I completed another ONLINE Boot Camp brought to you by CSUN's  IT Academic Technology department-one of the hardest working departments currently.

CANVAS QUIZ Bootcamp Certificate of Completion 

Thank you Andreea Kosa, Instructional Technologist in IT Academic Technology. You were an amazing interlocutor--all three weeks! 

Linda Rader Overman is very proud of her son's amazing work

 Linda Rader Overman is very proud of her son's brilliant work as an artist and creative director. 

All those art classes were definitely worth it!!

MICHAEL OVERMAN'S WORK

QLT Q1 Introduction to Teaching Online 

I did it!! HOORAY!!

CSU Q1 Introduction to Teaching Online using QLT

Awarded to Linda Overman • loverman@csun.edu

Issued on Jun 28, 2020

Q1 introduces faculty in the CSU System to tools and teaching strategies for designing a fully online course. Faculty become familiar with the 10 sections of the Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) Instrument, developing a conceptual theoretical framework guide, UDL, engagement tools/strategies, developing content, and assessment in online courses across 7 modules.

I voted for this amazing book!

Cursed

Author: Karol Ruth Silverstein

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing, Chasbridge Teen

Language(s): English

Book Trailer

Synopsis:

An #ownvoices contemporary/realistic YA debut. and winner of the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award for the teen category. 14 year Erica "Ricky" Bloom, is newly diagnosed with a painful chronic illness and seriously pissed off about it. Her body hurts constantly, her family’s a mess and the boy she’s crushing on seems completely clueless. The best coping mechanisms she can come up with are cursing and cutting school. But when her truancy is discovered she must struggle to catch up in school to avoid a far worse horror: repeating ninth grade. 

Check out--O MAN OF CLAY by Eliza Mood -- A debut climate change novel set in near future Hartlepool, UK

“O Man of Clay’ by Eliza Mood  is published by Stairwell Books. It's founder, Rose Drew, is from Connecticut

O Man of Clay is a CLI-Fi novel
 (Climate Fiction or Cli-Fi, is a growing branch of science-fiction literature that deals with the effects of climate change on human society.)

In a fable about climate change set in Hartlepool, most of the world’s major cities have been inundated by rising seas, with a tsunami wiping out the houses, shops and school along Hartlepool shoreline. Seventeen-year-old Zoe, knocked unconscious during the sudden flood, cannot recall her actual name and can only summon flashes of her immediate past. She meets Alma, another young female with a mysterious link to global entrepreneur and opportunist Volk Volkov, himself a refugee: from his past and from a Soviet prison colony. The story, set over only a handful of days, flashes between Volk and Alma’s past and the near-future present. A clever, lighting-fast read about past actions coming back to haunt, and humanity’s imperative to listen to those closest to the earth and the ancestors. (Words by Rose Drew of Stairwell Books)

Info:

 A debut climate change novel set in near future Hartlepool, UK. Available from Stairwell Books. An accessible and quirky literary/speculative read on the issue impacting all of us.

Dr. Eliza Mood was my PhD supervisor at University of Cumbria-Lancaster and a wonderful writer in her own right. Congratulations Eliza. Well done!!
Read her interview on Mundos Em Chamas, Worlds on Fire CLI_Fi blog 

Check out
Books Change Direction, a new initiative of the campaign, educates about the importance of responsibly representing mental health and illness in stories, identifies and promotes books and authors that contribute to the culture of mental health, and helps people in need access these books.

Purpose

The Change Direction initiative is a collection of concerned citizens, nonprofit leaders, and leaders from the private sector who have come together to change the culture about mental health, mental illness, and wellness. This initiative was inspired by the discussion at the White House National Conference on Mental Health in 2013, which came on the heels of the Newtown, Conn. tragedy.