Upcoming Brown Bags at Harper College

All faculty and staff are invited to attend two upcoming Brown Bag presentations offered by Harper faculty members Pardess Mitchell and Andy Geary, who were each awarded Instructional Technology Committee mini-grants and look forward to sharing ideas on best practices from their recent conference involvements.  No registration is required.  Specific details regarding each presentation are as follows:

I.  Please join us for a Brown Bag lunch session on April 23^rd with Pardess Mitchell who will share ideas on "Using Cognitive Strategies to Improve your Online Class" following participation in the recent Sloan-C conference:

TITLE: Using Cognitive Strategies to Improve your Online Class

DATE:  Tuesday, April 23, 2013

TIME: 12:00-12:45PM

LOCATION:  A242

PRESENTER: Pardess Mitchell, Chair, Physical Education Department

DESCRIPTION:  This session will present some of the best practices in online learning. The strategies that will be presented can work within any online course. These techniques are pulled from cognitive psychology and research suggests they can help improve student outcomes in online classes.

II.  Please join Andy Geary for an afternoon Brown Bag session on May 2^nd to learn new tips for communicating with online, blended, and even traditional students using a variety of tools and programs.  Before or after attending Andy’s sharing session, be sure to check out the CII Area’s Open House showcasing their newly renovated facilities (hospitality will be provided).

TITLE: Facilitating Indirect Communication with Online/Blended (and Traditional) Students

DATE:  Thursday May 2, 2013

TIME: 3:00-3:45PM

LOCATION:   F124 (CII Lab)

PRESENTER: Andy Geary of the Harper Math Department

DESCRIPTION:  Online and Blended classes offer unique communication challenges. Often times it is difficult to answer complicated questions for students via e-mail or even speaking with them directly on the phone. Students are often working at odd hours because of their schedules and direct communication, although available, is not convenient. There are several ways to effectively communicate ideas and problem solving to your students indirectly using the tablet PC and programs like JING. We will look at writing messages with image capturing, creating demonstration videos of websites and programs, problem solving videos and more. We will be using SnagIt, JING, www.ScreenCast.com and possibly a few other programs in this presentation.

ICCFA 2012 Teaching and Learning Excellence Conference

Registration is now open for the Illinois Community College Faculty Association 2012 Teaching and Learning Excellence Conference. The conference will be held October 25 and 26 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield, Illinois.

Registration includes five Thursday evening Round Table Discussions with appetizers provided and over 20 sessions from which to attend on Friday; as well as Friday breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. Session topics include e-textbooks, student retention, learning communities, online teaching, and more. Keynote speaker will be Ralph Martire, Executive Director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accounting. Mr. Martire will address the issue of pension reform.

A draft version of the Program is available at Teaching & Learning Conference Program/Draft.

Register for the conference on or before October 17th to receive the $100 conference rate. http://iccbdbsrv.iccb.org/iccfa/registration.cfm

Room reservations must be made on or before October 4, 2012, to ensure you receive the conference room rate of $70.

Use the conference code: ICC.

Spring TechFest on Friday, January 14

The Spring TechFest is an annual event for faculty to share how they've used technology to enhance teaching and learning. Our 2011 TechFest will be held on Friday, January 14, 2011 in room Y203F. The presenters and their e-poster session topics are listed below:

Gary Anderson, Management
Business Quotations for First Class Meeting
Read and chat about various “business quotes” the presenter has collected. These quotations pertain to the business world and relate to management issues in today’s dynamic, global business environment. Find out how this information is creatively incorporated in the classroom.

Joan Carlson, Nursing
Nursing Students Teaching on the Web
Find out how students can develop wikis using the PBworks website. The presenter will show how students in NUR 201 Child Bearing Concepts use technology to create web-based teaching projects for patient education.

Karen Chandra, Nursing
Using Wikis for Student Success
Did you know wikis can provide an innovative teaching strategy that promotes collaboration, teamwork and learning among group members? Learn how the presenter has used wikis to foster critical thinking skills among students in specific courses, and how this enhanced student success in the care of oncology patients.

Kim Fournier, Library
Got eBrary? “Free” eBooks
Find out about the eBook pilot in our library. The presenter will share her experience with experimenting with eBooks as supplementary classroom textbooks. Learn how to expand and make better use of the library’s eBook collections, thus assisting students with textbook costs and introducing them to more options.

Jim Gramlich, Sociology
You Learn Quick: Adapting to Homelessness
This is a short (20 minute) documentary film developed through CII and CML faculty fellowship. Designed as a classroom resource, it focuses on four individuals recalling their transition frmo living in a home to homelessness. The film was shot entirely on an HD Flip camera.

Laine Gurley, Biological Sciences
Concept Mapping with CMap Tools
Get an explanation of the basics of concept mapping as a learning strategy. Listen and learn as the presenter illustrates how to create concept maps using CMap Tools, a free downloadable tool.

Terry Morris, Computer Information Systems
Reach Out to Students with Text Messages and Twitter
Support student success by sending students timely reminders! Students don’t always access their online courses or check e-mail. However students always seem to be on their cell phones! Find out how you can push course reminders to students using text messages and Twitter!

Kelly Page, Physical Science
Providing Class Content for Mobile Devices
Learn ways to connect students to your class material using mobile Internet-capable devices. Listen as the presenter shares his experiences integrating Blackberries and iPhones into the classroom.

Michele Ukleja, Library
Streaming Media
Learn about the streaming media options available through the library databases. The presenter will demonstrate how to create playlists, film clips, and how to link to streaming videos in Blackboard.

James Vitullo, English and Humanities
Leadership Principles and Techniques Applied to Student Assignments
Are you frustrated by a lack of student accountability for assignments? Listen and learn from the presenter’s insights about leadership and management. Find out how to construct student assignments that engender accountability.

Nominations are Open for the Glenn A. Reich Memorial Award for Instructional Technology

Glenn Reich believed in a humanistic, collaborative approach to instructional technology. He believed that "technology could enrich the teaching and learning process; it could open the doors for new opportunities and new ideas."

This award was established in 1999 by Lori Reich in memory of her late husband, Glenn Reich, former Director of User Services at Harper College. Glenn wanted to share his love of computers with students and faculty members. He encouraged faculty and staff to invest their energy in the technology that he knew would dramatically affect our world. Glenn believed every academic discipline should expose students to technology and assist them to become more comfortable with it. This award is devoted to realizing and carrying forward that vision.

Award Recipients

• 2000-2001 Mark Healy
• 2001-2002 Sunil Koswatta
• 2002-2003 Terry Morris
• 2003-2004 Deepa Godambe
• 2004-2005 Kenneth Hyde
• 2004-2005 Timothy Prentiss
• 2005-2006 Judith Zaplatynsky
• 2006-2007 Julie D'Agostino & Denise Dudzinski
• 2007-2008 Jeff Przybylo
• 2008-2009 Dave Braunschweig
• 2009-2010 Jennifer Bell

Glenn A. Reich Award nominations are accepted until November 1, 2010.

Technology Grants

Technology Grant applications may be submitted by Harper College full-time faculty and must be for discipline-specific, technology-related professional development projects. Funding may be available for projects that utilize technology as a tool in the teaching and learning process, including the development of material that may be available via the Internet or by other means. Funding may also be available for information gathering as to how to utilize technology as a tool in the teaching and learning process, such as attending related conferences or taking related courses.

Special consideration will be given to first time applicants and successful, continuing projects.

No capital equipment and no maintenance of Internet sites will be funded through these grants. For information regarding reassigned time related to developing and teaching distance learning courses, please review your contract.

2009-2010 Technology Grant Recipients

• Regina Rector: BIOSCI Concepts Workshop
  
  
• Leslye Hess & Mary Hood: 2009 League for Innovation Annual Conference on Information Technology
  
  
• Dominique Svarc: 2009 League for Innovation Annual Conference on Information Technology
  
  
• Terry Morris: 2009 League for Innovation Annual Conference on Information Technology
  
  
• Kathy Foldvary: 2009 League for Innovation Annual Conference on Information Technology
  
  
• Andy Geary: American Mathematics Associateion of Two Year Colleges 2009 Annual Conference
  
  
• David Clydesdale: Mathematics & Technology Workshop
  
  
• Collette Marsh: Technology Tools for Online Learning (ION class)
  
  
• Leslye Hess: Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning Conference
  
  
• Pardess Mitchell: 2010 TechEd Conference: Improving Technology in Education
  
  
• Karen Patterson: Applying Online Course Design Review
  
  
• Stephanie Whalen & Marianne Farinas deLeon: Sloan Consortium on Blended Learning
  
  
• Shante Holley Bishop: Sloan Consortium on Blended Learning

2010 - 2011 Technology Grants

• Andy Geary: 2010 MCC Math & Tech Workshop
• Michele Ukleja: Internet Librarian 2010 Conference
• Terry Morris: Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
• Andy Geary: AMAYTC 2010 Annual Conference
• Karen Chandra: Mosby's Faculty Development Institute conference
• Tara Mathien: CUE Annual Conference
• Kimberley Polly: NCTM Conference
• Kimberly Fournier: American Library Association Annual Conference

2011 - 2012 Technology Grants

• Andy Geary: AMATYC 2011 Conference
• David Clydesdale: AMATYC 2011 Conference
• Andy Geary: ICTCM 2012 Conference
• Chad Taylor: ICTCM 2012 Conference
• Leslye Hess & Mary Hood: League of Innovation Innovations 2012 Conference
• Marianne Farinas de Leon: League of Innovation Innovations 2012 Conference
• Thomas Goetz: ExLibris Users Group
• Kathleen Reynolds & Marjorie Allen: TESOL
• William Pankey, Jim Edstrom, & Tom Goetz: site visits for ERM
• Xilao Li: Faculty Summer Institute

See Faculty Development for information on Technology Grant applications and deadlines.