Coming up in the Center for Teaching Excellence - 9/5/12-11/16/12 - Corrected

[Registration Link Corrected] COMING UP IN THE Center for Teaching Excellence – registration and details at grcc.edu/ctereg

Blackboard Grade Center TOMORROW
Wed, 9/5/12 03:30PM-04:30PM 351 Main

The Grade Center supports custom grading scales, grade weighting, item analysis, and multiple gradebook views. Learn to record and store student performance results.

As an alternative, this course is always available online – open entry, open exit

Advanced Blackboard
Fri, 9/7/12 01:30PM-03:00PM 351 Main

Learn new and advanced features and functionalities in the latest version of Blackboard. This session is designed for advanced Blackboard users and those already familiar with the basics of Blackboard.

Introduction to MyDegreeworks
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Mon, 9/10/12 03:00PM-04:00PM 351 Main
Fri, 9/14/12 01:00PM-02:00PM 351 Main
Mon, 9/17/12 09:30AM-10:30AM 351 Main
Th, 9/20/12 10:00AM-11:00AM 351 Main
Th, 9/20/12 03:30PM-04:30PM 351 Main

MyDegreePath is a web-based student degree audit program designed to help students track their degree progress, identify classes for registration and to build a semester by semester plan to graduation. Learn how to read a MyDegreePath audit, use it as an advising tool, utilize notes, assist students in planning and running a “what if” audit. Note: This semester, this training is limited to full-time GRCC faculty since they will be the first to use the program.

Best Practices and Practical Examples to Implement Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Increase Course Accessibility
Th, 9/13/12 03:00PM-04:30PM 219 ATC

This learning session will look at the UDL principles and its role in curriculum development, help faculty determine how well the principles of UDL are currently deployed in their courses, and demonstrate how faculty can implement best practices and practical examples to make courses more accessible to all students.

Adjunct Faculty Learning Day
Sat, 9/15/12 8 AM to Noon, Applied Technology Center

Specially designed for our Adjunct Faculty but open to all faculty from GRCC and other institutions of higher education.  Connect with your colleagues over coffee, enjoy a welcome by Provost Gilda Gely and attend two offerings specially geared toward supporting our Adjunct Faculty members. Choose two: Early Alert/Degree Works, Blackboard Basics, Classroom Assessment or Disability Support.
Hold these dates – October 13 and November 10 – and watch your mail for more details.

Getting Results @ GRCC
Online, Mon, 9/17/12 – Sun, 10/28/12

Specially designed for our Adjunct Faculty but open to all faculty from GRCC and other institutions of higher education.  This six-week online course with optional in-person meetings provides a comprehensive approach to teaching adults in the community college setting. Learn to set up and manage a classroom environment that contributes to students’ abilities to engage fully in learning, envision students in the jobs for which they are preparing and design courses that help them learn the skills, issues, and concepts they will need to succeed, use teaching methods that encourage students to be actively and interactively engaged throughout a learning experience, create learning opportunities that integrate industry and community resources and better prepare students for jobs in the workplace, choose and implement appropriate technologies for enhancing students’ learning, and create assessments that focus on intended outcomes and the instructor’s own teaching.

Practice What You Teach
Begins Fri, 9/28/12 09:00AM-10:30AM 316 Main

Registering for the 9/28 date includes all of these dates: 9/28, 10/26, 11/30, 12/14, 1/18, 2/15, 3/22. Attend as many as you can.  Designed to define, share, practice and produce teaching and learning scholarship at GRCC, this seven-part series will uses Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a practitioner-scholarship based approach to research to teaching in higher education, learn to define practitioner-scholarship (SoTL) at GRCC, share best practices for creating scholarship, practice techniques for producing a variety of teaching techniques, lessons, and scholarship and produce and share teaching techniques, lessons, and other practitioner-scholar work.

Creating Rubrics for Dual Purposes: Grading & Assessment
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Mon, 10/1/12 03:00PM-04:30PM 316 Main
Fri, 10/26/12 09:00AM-10:30AM 316 Main

Rubrics are an effective tool for both grading and assessment of student learning. Review the contexts in which rubrics can and should be used, and the advantages creating rubric that can serve the dual purposes of grading and assessment of student learning. Common rubric formats will be shared and evaluated based on their intended purpose. The basic steps for writing an effective rubric will be reviewed and applied to specific faculty needs. Recommended followup: Blackboard Interactive Rubrics (see below)

Blackboard Basics
Fri, 10/12/12 11:30AM-12:30PM 351 Main

A quick overview of using the most current version of Blackboard in teaching, learning, and community building. Learn to increase student access to materials, assessments, and grades. Learn to use the control panel, how to create announcements, upload items and create folders and best practices.

As an alternative, this course is always available online – open entry, open exit

i>Clicker Training
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Mon, 10/8/12 03:00PM-04:00PM 204 Sneden
Fri, 11/2/12 09:00AM-10:00AM 351 Main

i>Clicker is GRCC’s campus standard for student response systems.. Using i>clicker can significantly change the way you and your students interact by enabling you to assess your students’ knowledge, keep their attention, provide immediate feedback, and encourage all students to participate. Learn ‘hands on’ how to use the i>clicker classroom response system in your classes.

Online Hybrid Certification Course
Online with optional meetings on Fridays
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10/12/12 – 11/18/12
1/18/13 – 2/22/13
3/15/13 – 4/21/13 Main

Become certified to teach online by learning to plan, construct and manage your own online or hybrid course. This is a full-fledged, academic, five-week, online/hybrid course. All five weeks and a final project must be completed for certification. You will be required to log in and attend, meet minimum standards for participation, and submit assignments. Please review the course syllabus to make sure you are able to commit to the entire course before registering. One of the greatest lessons you will get out of this experience is how it feels to be a student. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics or Blackboard Bootcamp or Adjunct Faculty Institute.

Blackboard Interactive Rubrics
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Mon, 10/15/12 03:00PM-04:30PM 351 Main
Fri, 11/9/12 09:00AM-10:30AM 351 Main

Blackboard Interactive Rubrics are grading forms that are fully integrated into the course management system that may be used to grade discussion forums, wikis, blogs, assignments and essay formatted test questions. The rubrics provide a way for faculty to consistently and fairly assess student work. Learn how to create and import a rubric into your course and associate it with a discussion forum, wiki, blog, assignment, test question or grade book column. This is a great followup to Creating Rubrics for Dual Purposes: Grading & Assessment.

Adding Video to your Course
Fri, 11/16/12 09:00AM-10:30AM 351 Main

Did you know that there are large repositories of video content that may be available for you to use without having to create your own recordings? Discover Blackboard tools to embed video directly into your courses from YouTube, NBC Content, and Camtasia Relay.

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