January+2015+-+20th

The sessions listed below occur on Tuesday, January 20th, 2015

Next day Previous day ** Mini-Conference ** x4553 Brittany Budden x4432 10:00 || DH123 || Dave Kaus x4621 Cliff Galloway x4080 || ** Mediasite Desktop Recorder - Capturing Students' Attention ** //** HCC Express #5960 **// Record your lectures in your office or at home using just a computer and a webcam. Free software captures your narrated PowerPoints or other instructional content. Come learn more! ||  || 11:00 || CL154 || Hanael Bianchi x4063 || ** Gamifying Your Course ** //** HCC Express #5583 **//**​**   Do your students love games? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to harness their interest in games and direct it towards learning? This presentation will examine the gamification of the classroom, but it will go beyond the simple practice of adding a game to your class. Instead, it aims to uncover the basic characteristics of a game, and how they can be incorporated into an entire curriculum to increase student engagement and learning, using examples from popular games. Attendees will understand the basic characteristics of a game and will discuss ways to design their course based on games. ||  || 11:30 || Test Center || Greta Holtackers x4953 || ** Experience the Math Placement Test ** //** HCC Express #6205 **//**​** Experience what it is like to be an incoming student taking the Math Placement Exam. Like all incoming students, your exam will be given in the Test Center. ||  || x4848 Dave Kaus x4621 || ** Multiple Means of Student Engagement ** //** HCC Express #5913 **// Student engagement and creating contextual relevance are explored and several faculty-tested strategic approaches will be shared. || || January 20 || 11:00- 12:00 || DH230 || Sylvia Lee x4666 || ** English Placement Team ** **// Required for the team //** This is a norming session ||  || 2:00 || CL154 || Michael Heffren x4564 || ** Using the New Gen Ed Goals and Objectives in your Teaching: a Workshop for Faculty ** //** HCC Express #5861 **//   Discuss your experiences adapting your courses and teaching to the new Gen Ed goals and objectives. Share perspectives with other faculty. The agenda for this session will be determined by the articipants. Emphasis will be on the practical issues faced by teachers in the classroom as they enter the new gen ed era. Join Michael Heffren, Megan Myers, and Mari Wepprecht for a free-wheeling discussion of goals, objectives, rubrics and anything else that seems pertinent. ||  || 3:00 || HS114 || Susan Seibel 3:30 || N206 || Danielle Brown x4899 Amy Martin x4848 3:30 || CL138 || Jim Bell x4892 David Buck x4290 || ** Becoming a More Effective Teacher ** //** HCC Express #6050 **// The policy on effective teaching is now college policy. What changes might faculty want to make in their teaching to be more effective? ||  || January 20 || 3:00- 4:00 || DH123 || Anna Hamilton x4422 || ** Microsoft Office 2013 ** //** HCC Express #5800 **// Classroom and lab computers will have Office 2013 for the Spring 2015 semester. Come learn what's new in the Suite! ||  || January 20 || 4:30 5:30 || DH123 || Amy Martin x4848 || ** Microsoft Word 2013 - Creating and Formatting Papers in APA and MLA ** //** HCC Express #5908 **// Research papers, lesson plans and other Word docs are enhanced in the new version of Office. Come see! || Office 2013 Help || x3554 || ** Canvas Basics ** //** HCC Express #6053 **// This training session is designed for novice users who want a simple overview of the Canvas learning management system. Topics will include a hands-on overview of the syllabus, calendar, announcement, discussion, assignment, and grade book tools. If you are a new faculty or just want a refresher, please come ready to learn and share ideas for using Canvas to help facilitate your pedagogy! ||  || January 20 || 5:30- 7:30 || HR324 || Lamont Vaughn
 * **Date** || **Time** || **Room** || **Facilitator** || **Session Description** || **Materials** ||
 * Tuesday January 20 || 9:00-10:30 || DH202 || Laura Cripps
 * RSVP** || ** Creating Social Memory: the Crownsville Hospital Research Project ** //** HCC Express #5919 **// This academic year, HCC's chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has been researching the lives of residents at the Crownsville Hospital Center from the 1920's-1940's. Although officially a hospital for African Americans who were mentally infirm, our research has cast light upon a much more complex social history to this institution. Attend this session to learn from our students; about the amazing lives of some of the hospital's residents, and to assist these students with their ongoing research. For part of this session, students will direct you in using census records and other documents from Ancestry.com to research specific individuals who lived at Crownsville Hospital. ||  ||
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 * x3035** || ** HIPAA Training ** //** HCC Express #5920 **// Come learn about the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as seen through the allied health profession. This special training, while geared towards the dental professional, can help those of you in the Allied Health field understand how to protect patient information in the workforce. We will be viewing the following video as part of the training: The American Dental Association Practical Guide to HIPAA Training. This session is open to anyone in the Health Sciences Division and those who are just curious about HIPAA! While this information is tedious, we will try to make it fun! ||  ||
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 * RSVP** || ** Low Stakes Assignments as Direct Measures of Student Learning ** //** HCC Express #5999 **// The workshop will present low-stakes, in-class (and some out of class) assignments that could be used as direct measures of student learning. Examples include minute papers, clickers, checklist, etc. The workshop will also incorporate hands-on examples and instructional technology. || [[file:Low Stakes Direct Assess.pptx]] ||
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 * Tuesday January 20 || 5:00- 7:00 || CL238 || Michelle Franz
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 * x3311** || ** Introduction to MATH 061-067 Program ** //** HCC Express #5898 **// Come and experience what a day in the math 061-067 program is like for your students! This hands on session is for all instructors who teach MATH-061, 063, and/or 067. Not only will you experience day one, but you will also experience subsequent days! ||  ||

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