New+Professional+Development

This page hosts content shared by HCC faculty at the May 2013 Professional Development Series - May 21st to May 31st.

Calendar
 * **Mon** || **Tues** || **Wed** || **Thurs** || **Fri** ||~ i || ** Academic **** Leadership ** ||  || ** Assessment ** ||   || ** E-learning ** ||   || ** Student ** ** Engagement ** ||   || ** Teaching **** ~ Best **** Practices ** ||   || ** Technology **
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 * || 21 || 22 || 23 || 24 ||~  || [[image:hccfacultysupport/lead.PNG align="center" link="hccfacultysupport/Academic Leadership Training"]] ||   || [[image:hccfacultysupport/blue_-_horiz.png align="center" link="hccfacultysupport/Assessment Training"]] ||   || [[image:hccfacultysupport/elearn.png link="hccfacultysupport/E-learning Sessions"]] ||   || [[image:hccfacultysupport/green_-_horiz.png align="center" link="hccfacultysupport/Student Engagement Sessions"]] ||   || [[image:hccfacultysupport/teaching.png align="center" link="hccfacultysupport/Teaching - Best Practices"]] ||   || [[image:hccfacultysupport/orange_-_horiz.png align="center" link="hccfacultysupport/Technology Integration Training"]] ||
 * Holiday || 28 || 29 || 30 || 31 ||~  |||||||||||||||||| ** Professional Development Topics ** Click a color above to see a list of sessions focusing on that topic. ||   ||   ||



Participants complete the DiSC profile test before the session; results are illuminated and a rich discussion among your colleagues is facilitated by presenters Rebecca Price and Minah Woo. ||  || Participants complete the Strengths Finders survey before the session; Jean Svacina leads an interactive discussion of results. ||  || In this interactive seminar, I will share with you my ideas for stepping out of a routine, doing something worthwhile even if it seems daunting; and we will discuss techniques for getting your students to see who they are and what they’re becoming. We’ll explore how to challenge and inspire your students, and how to help them sharpen their vision for themselves. ||  || || Tuesday May 28 || 11:00-12:30 || N 224 || Amy Chase Martin ||= **Using Digital Tools to Assess Student Learning****HCC Express #4519** How do you know what your students know? Do your current assessments capture higher order thinking? Can you evaluate them easily and fairly?This workshop will introduce a variety of digital tools and assessment approaches that may be used to reveal student understanding and mastery of course content. || || LYoo@howardcc.edu**Showcase A**: 1:30-2:20, DH 216 Engaging Students Through Social Media #4388 OR Cross Cultural Communications #7135, Rm. DH 217 FYE All About ME (Motivation & Engagement) #7136 OR The Environment & Me #7137, Rm. DH 217 ||  || || May 29 || 9:30-11:00 || HVPA 130 || Tara Hart ||= **Academic Leadership Training:** **//Effective Performance Evaluations (MAPS) with a Strengths Focus//****HCC Express #4530** Division Chairs Tara Hart and Valerie Lash lead participants towards understanding how to conduct MAP meetings that focus on faculty strengths and talents, that inspire our best work, ignite our intellect, and tap our desires to contribute meaningfully towards students' overall HCC learning experience. ||  || May 29 || 10-11:30 || N 224 || Karen Evans & Turning Technologies Representative || **Clickers: Extreme Makeover Edition****HCC Express #5860** Turning Point is upgrading and improving! Come participate in a demonstration and evaluation of some new clicker technology. Vote on what resources HCC should include. //Some of the optional features are:// Instructor controls presentation with a FREE app on an iPad, iPhone, iTouch, or Droid mobile phone. Points or scores awarded for participation in a polling session can become data in a column in a Canvas grade book. Take 5 minutes at the beginning of class to have students click to associate themselves with a specific clicker, their responses are then tracked for you to run analytical reports. Ask questions orally, poll and collect data without using PowerPoint while students use Clickers to respond. || || || Wednesday May 29 || 10:30-11:45 || DH 202 || Jodi Fisher ||= ** Using INTRO to Generate Student Interest **** HCC Express #4523 ** Do you sometimes ask yourself how you can keep students engaged week 1 through week 15? Join this session and walk away with your own INTRO game plan to use in this next academic year. Why do you need INTRO? Because it not only increases student engagement, but it keeps you organized and thoughtful when creating your lesson plan no matter the discipline. In one hour and fifteen minutes you will learn what an INTRO is exactly, a demonstration of two example INTRO’s, be provided a worksheet to complete your own INTRO and then time to ask questions! ||  || May 29 || 11-12:20 || HVPA 130 || Tara Hart || **Academic Leadership Training:****//Handling Academic Complaint Process/Student Code of Conduct Procedures//****HCC Express # 4531** Associate Chairs Dave Beaudoin and Jean Svacina facilitate a discussion that takes us through the process and also explores the various philosophies, approaches, and strategies that can lead to the best possible outcomes for students and faculty. ||  || May 29 || 1:00-2:30 || HS 110 || Mary Beth Furst || **INSPIRES Showcase****HCC Express #4457** **Diversity #7052** Join us and learn about innovative opportunities and significant insights that our colleague developed during this year's INSPIRES Global Perspectives projects. Be inspired and think of ideas for next year's projects (that are part of your MAPS and Annual Plans). || || May 29 || 1:00 - 2:00 || HSB lobby || Safety Bob || **A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the New Health Sciences Building** ||   || May 29 || 3-4:30 || HS 112 || David Kaus || **Using Lecture Capture to Improve Student Learning****HCC Express #7047** Interested in learning how to use lecture capture technology to record your classroom lectures and instructional content? This session will teach you how to use Camtasia Relay and Adobe Connect to record your instructional materials and activities and make them available digitally. You will also be provided with some best practices so you will be prepared to create lecture captures that will have the greatest impact on your students' learning. || || May 30 || 9:30-11:00 || RCF 401 || Tara Hart || **Academic Leadership Training:****//Academic Budget Training//**** HCC Express #4532 **Open to Assoc. Chairs and New Dept. Chairs ONLY > *Please register and RSVP to Jean Svacina in order to receive pre-session materials. Academic Office Supervisors Erin Kline and Marjorie McDonald and Finance officer Amanda Huffman will present a practical overview of the academic budget process and procedures. ||  || May 30 || 10:00-11:00 || N 224 || Karen Evans || **Teaching in the N Wing?****Orientation to N224/206****HCC Express #4524** Faculty slated to teach in these renovated rooms will benefit from this brief orientation to the control system, document camera and interactive projector. || || May 30 || 9:30-11:00 || HS 363 || Guy Bunyard || **The Gen Ed Core****HCC Express #7110** We will explain the new Gen Ed goals that have been worked on over the past year. ||  || May 30 || 11-12:30 || RCF 401 || Tara Hart || **Academic Leadership Training:****//Best Practices in Leadership and Well-Being//****HCC Express #4533** Jean Svacina will present practical and philosophical strategies to increase "WellBeing," especially for academic leaders or any faculty seeking a higher quality of life. Tara Hart facilitates a discussion of transformational and servant leadership, applicable to teachers, academic leaders, or anyone working in higher education. ||  || May 30 || 11-12:00 || DH 219 || Brooke Tyson || **Rethinking the Writing Process****HCC Express #4669** Session will explore ways faculty are rethinking revision and peer review in the classroom. ||  || May 30 || 12:00-2:00 || RCF 400 || Human Resources || **New Employee Information Sessions****HCC Express #3702** Budgeted employees hired since July 2012 are invited to attend.//**RSVP, x1100** **(lunch provided)**// ||   || || Thursday May 30 || 12-1:50 || HS 163 || David Kaus ||= **Collaborating Using Health Sciences Classroom Technology** Teaching in one of the collaboration classrooms in the Health Sciences Building but aren't sure how you can integrate the multiple wall displays into your instruction? Participate in this session and you will not only learn how to control the monitors, but see specific examples of using them to support your instruction and increase student engagement. This session will cover how to use the touch panel to control the displays, and provide you with some instructional strategies to use the displays to your advantage. See you there! || || May 30 || 1:00-2:00 || ST 146 || Jerry Casway || **Rouse Scholars Faculty Meeting** ||   || May 30 || 2:00-3:00 || HS 110 || Mary Beth Furst || **1st & 2nd Year Faculty Meeting**//Required for 1st & 2nd Year Faculty//Required for Full time faculty completing their first or second year. Come to wrap up the year and learn what's ahead. ||  || || Thursday May 30 || 2:00 - 3:30 || HS 163 || Nancy Calder ||= ** MLT Student Engagement in Collaborative Global Research / Presentations Using Online Library Resources ** MLT students participate in a weekly online project in order to address program goals: foster collaboration, address accreditation mandate for information literacy, enhance critical evaluative thinking in literature research, emphasize appropriate citation skills, and promote improvement in public speaking skills. ||  || It’s true… Daryl Beard is retiring!Please stop by N 206 from 2:30-4:00 today to offer congrats, best wishes and godspeed! || May 31 || 11:00-12:00 || N 212 || Amy Chase Martin || **Faculty Ask? How do I...?-**//**Prepping for Health Sciences Bldg.**//**HCC Express #7025** ||  ||
 * ~ Wednesday May 22nd ||~  ||~   ||
 * || **Date** || **Time** |||| **Location** || **Division Meetings ** ||
 * || Wednesday May 22 || 9:30-12:30 |||| HVPA 140 || Arts and Humanities ||
 * || Wednesday May 22 || 9:00-12:00 |||| DH 100 || Business/Computer Systems ||
 * || Wednesday May 22 || 10:00-1:00 |||| N 206 || English/World Languages ||
 * || Wednesday May 22 || 11:30-2:00 |||| HS 163 || Health Sciences ||
 * || Wednesday May 22 || 9:30-3:00 |||| HR 244 || Mathematics ||
 * || Wednesday May 22 || 10:00-2:00 |||| Howard County Conservancy || Science/Engineering/Technology ||
 * ||  ||   ||||   || __//**NOTE: Social Sciences/ Teacher Education**//__ Scheduled for May 23rd, 9:30-12:30, RCF 401 ||
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 * || Wednesday May 22 || 3:30-5:00 || Monteabaro Hall || Stacy Korbelak, Ryna May, and Greg Fleisher || **Honors Conference**Faculty and staff are encouraged to come out and support several of our HCC Honors students from the Rouse, Schoenbrodt, and STEM programs as they share original scholarship and research in poster and oral presentation formats. ||
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 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/elearn-vert.png]] || Thursday May 23 || 9:00-10:30 || DH 118 || David Buck || **Canvas Faculty Training****HCC Express #4417** A general overview of Canvas. If you are a new faculty or just want a refresher, please come with your ideas for using Canvas to help facilitate your pedagogy! Q & A time will be provided. ||  ||
 * || Thursday May 23 || Appointments can be made from 9:00am-4:00 pm || DH 120 || Jill Romanoski || **Technology Series One-on-One Training** Jill Romanoski returns again this semester to help us with our Microsoft application questions. You can avail yourself of one hour of personal training with Jill on any of the Microsoft applications. Feel free to bring a document or disk for personal training or just come confused and Jill will set you straight. But **you must sign up for a specific hour of training with Jill by calling Andrea Black at ext. 3808; then register in HCC Express using the index/synonym #** 6039 ||  ||
 * || Thursday May 23 || 9:30-12:30 || RCF 401 |||| ** Social Sciences/ Teacher Education Division Meeting **// Required for Division Faculty // ||  ||
 * || Thursday May 23 || 10:00 - 11:00 || HSB lobby || Safety Bob || **A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the New Health Sciences Building** ||  ||
 * || Thursday May 23 || 12:00-12:45 |||| Cafe on the Quad || LUNCH ||  ||
 * || Thursday May 23 || 12:45-1:15 |||| HVPA Lobby || ** Innovation Fair ** ||  ||
 * || Thursday May 23 || 1:30 |||| Smith Theatre || ** Convocation ** ||  ||
 * ~ Friday May 24th ||~  ||~   ||~   ||
 * || **Date** || **Time** || **Room** || **Instructor** || **Session Description** || **Materials** ||
 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/teaching_vert.png]] || Friday May 24 || 9:00-11:00 || N224 || Laura Cripps || **Inquiry Based Learning****HCC Express #4422** This session will demonstrate an "Inquiry Based Learning" (IBL) methodology currently utilized in Anthropology and will share data on student attitudes toward this approach. Attendees will develop ideas for IBL projects in their own classes. //Attendees may wish to bring a copy of their course or program learning outcomes to this session.// ||  ||
 * ~ [[image:hccfacultysupport/flag.png]]Monday May 27th : Memorial Day College Closed- Enjoy the day off! ||~  ||
 * ~ Tuesday May 28th ||~  ||~ Top of Page ||~   ||
 * || **Date** || **Time** || **Room** || **Instructor** ||= **Session Description** || **Materials** ||
 * || Tuesday May 28 || 9:30-11:30 || RCF 400 || Tara Hart || **Academic Leadership Training: //DiSC Profiles//**//Open to Assoc. Chairs and New Dept. Chairs ONLY//**HCC Express # 4528** > *Please register and RSVP to Jean Svacina in order to receive pre-session materials.
 * || Tuesday May 28 || 9:30-11:30 || RCF 400 || Tara Hart || **Academic Leadership Training: //DiSC Profiles//**//Open to Assoc. Chairs and New Dept. Chairs ONLY//**HCC Express # 4528** > *Please register and RSVP to Jean Svacina in order to receive pre-session materials.
 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/elearn-vert.png]] || Tuesday May 28 || 11:30-12:30 || RCF 400 || Tara Hart || **Academic Leadership Training: //Strengths Finder//**//Open to Assoc. Chairs and New Dept. Chairs ONLY//**HCC Express #4529** > *Please register and RSVP to Jean Svacina in order to receive pre-session materials.
 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/teaching_vert.png]] || Tuesday May 28 || 10:30-12:00 || HVPA 215 || Ben Myers || ** Delving Deeper into "You can Get There From Here," and Helping Your Students Envision Being There **** HCC Express #7087 ** What role can faculty play in helping our students find their path to a positive and fulfilling academic or professional career?
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 * || Tuesday May 28 || 12:30- 1:30 || RCF 401 || Laura Yoo || **2012-2013 FPLC Graduation Luncheon**//Required for 2012/2013 FPLC Participants!//We will celebrate Faculty and Professional Learning Communities achievements in learning and community-building during this graduation ceremony and luncheon. All 2012-2014 FPLC participants are invited to attend. //**Please RSVP**// to Laura Yoo - LYoo@howardcc.edu ||  ||
 * || Tuesday May 28 || 1:30 - 3:30 || DH216 & DH217 || Laura Yoo ||= **2012-2013 FPLC Showcase** //Required for 2012/2013 FPLC Participants!//
 * //Please RSVP//** to Laura Yoo-
 * Showcase B**: 2:30-3:20, DH 216
 * || Tuesday May 28 || 1:00-2:30 || CL 162 || Rita Guida || **Beyond the Veil****HCC Express #4419 Diversity #7232** Why do some women who are our colleagues and students cover their hair? Have you ever wondered about their motivations? And what is our response to this covering, if we are staff members of professors? Join the INSPIRES: Middle Eastern Study Group and a student panel for a workshop that attempts to go "beyond the veil." ||  ||
 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/elearn-vert.png]] || Tuesday May 28 || 1:00-2:30 || TBA || David Buck || **Canvas Faculty Training****HCC Express #4418** A general overview of Canvas. If you are a new faculty or just want a refresher, please come with your ideas for using Canvas to help facilitate your pedagogy! Q & A time will be provided. ||  ||
 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/tech-int-vert.png]] || Tuesday May 28 || 2:30-3:30 || DH 202 || Amy Chase Martin || **Welcome to the Learning Studio- Orientation to DH 202****HCC Express #4522** Thinking of teaching in DH202 or are currently slated to teach in there? This brief orientation will help you learn the control system, interactive projector and other room elements.[|Click HERE to request DH202 for the Fall 2013 semester.] || Getting Started
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 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/teaching_vert.png]] || Wednesday May 29 || 9:00-10:30 || CL 156 || Jim Bell || **Procrastination: The Thief of Time****HCC Express #4674** Students report that a major problem for them is procrastination. What have you tried to decrease student procrastination? What additional ideas might we try? || [[file:hccfacultysupport/procrastination-Bell.pdf|Handout]] ||
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 * HCC Express #4526**
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 * [[image:hccfacultysupport/orange.png]] || Thursday May 30 || 2:00-3:30 || N 200 || Karen Evans || **Hanging Out with Faculty -- Google's Free Alternative to Skype****HCC Express #5859** Experience Google's new free service that allows up to ten participants to video conference and screen share. ||~ [[file:IM Pub75- GooglePlus- Getting Started with Hangouts.pdf|GooglePlus- Getting Started with Hangouts (PDF]][[file:IM Pub75- GooglePlus- Getting Started with Hangouts.pdf|)]]  ||
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 * HCC Express #4525 **
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 * ~ Friday May 31st ||~  ||~ Top of Page ||~   ||
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