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Professional Development |
Spring, 2012 Professional Development Program
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- All workshops will be held in the Experimental Classroom (LC 231).
- Workshops are open to any faculty (full-time or adjunct), staff or administrators.
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Thursday January 19, 2012 |
2:30-3:30 p.m. |
Create A Speaking Avatar on your ANGEL Announcement Page or Somewhere Else in your Course |
Aimee Dickinson, SSHS and
Dinah Hunt, TERC Ashland |
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Learn to create Speaking Avatars with VOKI, a free online service that lets you introduce technology in a fun way that can help motivate students to log on, read and watch your created Avatar relay important course information. You will leave this workshop with a created Avatar uploaded into your course (if you choose).
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Wednesday January 25, 2012 |
2:30-4:00 p.m. |
Success Stories: LCCC Foundation Grant Winners |
Kathy Durham and Janis Thompson, Math and Science Division;
Hope Moon, ALHN Division;
Claudia Lubaski, Business Division
Michele Henes, SSHS Division |
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The Faculty Senate Grants Committee and CTE invite you to meet some of the LCCC faculty members who have written successful proposals for the LCCC Foundation. They will be sharing their experiences with the LCCC Foundation grant making process, including proposal writing and what happens after the grant is awarded. There will be a question and answer period, so bring your questions and learn from those who have been through the process.
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Wednesday February 1, 2012 |
3:00-400 p.m. |
Academic Integrity Survey Results |
Chris Sheetz, Library/Learning Resources |
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Last year over 400 faculty and students completed a survey about academic integrity. Learn what they had to say and consider some next steps for your classes and the campus overall.
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Friday February 3, 2012 |
1:30-2:30 p.m. |
Innovative Learning Workshop
How to Write An Innovative Learning Proposal |
Susan Paul, Library/Learning Resources Center |
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The Center for Teaching Excellence invites you to attend an Innovative Learning workshop for the following topic, "How To Write An Innovative Learning Proposal." Facilitators will share their expertise and time will be provided for hands-on development of your proposal. This will be a great opportunity for faculty to ask questions regarding Innovative Learning Proposals. Those interested in attending this workshop discussion please contact Elisabeth Garcia egarcia@lorainccc.edu or x7595. |
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Thursday February 9, 2012 |
3:30-4:30 p.m. |
Course Redesign Proposal Hands-on Workshop |
Aimee Dickinson, SS/HS Division |
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The Center for Teaching Excellence invites you to attend a Course Redesign Workshop for the following topic, “How to Write a Course Redesign Proposal.” Facilitators will share their expertise and time will be provided for hands-on development of your proposal. This will be a great opportunity for faculty to ask questions regarding Course Redesign Proposals.
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Tuesday February 14, 2012 |
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. |
LCCC Foundation Grants: Tips for Writing a Successful Proposal |
Deb Richter, LCCC Foundation |
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The Faculty Senate Grants Committee and CTE invite you to learn more about the LCCC Foundation grant making process. Debra Richter, the Foundation’s Alumni & Scholarship Coordinator, also coordinates the Foundation’s Campus Grant application process. She will be offering tips on how to write a successful LCCC Foundation grant proposal. Time will be available for questions and answers |
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Wednesday February 22, 2012 |
10:00-11:00 a.m. |
Open Courseware |
Mike Zellers, Business Division |
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Prestigious universities such as MIT and Stanford have been leaders in the area of Open Courseware. Open Courseware means providing free and open access to many of their courses’ materials to anyone in the world. Find out what I have done with Open Courseware and Creative Commons Licensing at LCCC
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Thursday March 1, 2012 |
3:00-4:00 p.m. |
Let’s Collaborate with Jigsaw Groupwork and Web 2.0 Tools |
Tammy Macek, Distance Learning and
Aimee Dickinson, SS/HS |
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Students often cringe when an instructor assigns group work. However, jigsaw group work increases student engagement in courses in LCCC's Learning Studio Classroom. Presenters will demonstrate using the Jigsaw and Web 2.0 tools in any course. The presentation will describe the process for facilitating the jigsaw model; identify useful Web 2.0 presentation tools; apply these tools to specific content areas. Presenters will describe their experiences facilitating the jigsaw process and show students’ work in Prezi, Glogster and Wikispaces.
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Thursday March 22, 2012 |
3:00-4:00 p.m. |
Active Learning in the Online Class |
Barbara Wilford, Allied Health and Nursing, and Aimee Dickinson, SS/HS Division |
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At this workshop, two faculty will share some of their active learning techniques that encourage engagement by utilizing instructor-student, content-student, as well as student-student interaction. This information can be applied in an online or blended format.
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Wednesday April 11, 2012 |
3:00-4:00 p.m. |
Creating High-Level Interaction in Online Courses: Perspectives from Quality Matters and Elsewhere |
James Loftis, Arts & Humanities Division |
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Online courses (either hybrid or fully online) present many obstacles for high-level engagement that are not present in conventional face-to-face courses. This presentation will examine the nature of the problem and present strategies for promoting student-student and instructor-student interaction at the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. A major focus will be strategies for managing and grading online discussion forums in ways that promote active participation and foster skills useful in other public online forums. We will also look at the Quality Matters standards for evaluating efforts to promote online interaction. Participants will be invited to share their own techniques for promoting interaction and ideas about how teachers should be evaluated in this area.
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Tuesday April 17, 2012 |
3:00-4:00 p.m. |
Students’ Cell Phone: A Tool for Higher Education |
Vincent Granito, SS/HS, and Dinah Hunt, TERC Ashland |
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Typically, faculty members become frustrated when students use cell phones during class to make calls, text, or go on the internet. However, new educational tools allow phones to be used to promote learning. This presentation will look at “Poll Everywhere” (a clicker system that uses students’ cell phones) and “Today’s Meet” (a back channel chat system conducted with students’ cell phones) as options to be used in the classroom. Participants will be shown how to use these systems and discuss ways to incorporate them into the educational process.
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CTE Mission Statement:
The Center for Teaching Excellence is a community of educators serving as catalysts and resources for professional growth and innovative teaching to enhance student learning and achievement.
Our Commitment:
We seek opportunities to identify and import best practices and innovative strategies of curriculum design, teaching and assessment. Faculty come together to discuss these findings and topics which speak to their abilities to deliver quality education to a diverse population of students. We are committed to infusing Lorain County Community College with enthusiasm and passion for excellent teaching.