Spring '06 Workshops
DIRECTIONS:    Put a check in the signup column for each workshop and roundtable you would like to attend during the Spring 2006, semester. When you finish, hit Submit on the bottom of  this form, and it will be automatically be emailed to Joann Levey.   Thank you.

Links have been provided to each instructor's e-email so that you can contact them if you wish to ask about course content.
If you have questions about course logistics (where it will be held, etc.) contact Joanne Levey.

DATE

TITLE

DESCRIPTION

 

INSTRUCTOR

        TIME       

ROOM

2-6
(Mon)

Basic Tips for Working with A Learning-Disabled student

How do you provide the support a learning-disabled student will need in your classroom?

Lisa Chambers-Smith

5-6:30 pm

H-207 (C)

2-8
(Wed)

50 Years of Teaching: 50 Years of Learning

What do we actually learn from teaching?

Harvey Yablonsky

12:20-1:50pm

L-312 (C)

2-14
(Tue)

Microsoft Word - Intermediate

Toolbars. Help. Clipart. Find & replace.  Cut & Paste. Headers & footers. Page numbers, footnotes, endnotes.   Columns. Mail merge.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

S-120 (C)

2-16
(Thu)

Ideas for Student Research Papers

Ideas for designing and structuring interesting and motivational research on social issue projects. 

Susan Bissett

4-5 pm

Admiral Stanley Rm (C)

2-21
(Tue)

Sustaining Student Interest in the Classroom

Do you ever see those blank stares from students?  Learn some strategies for keeping students actively involved in class.

Kathy Trombacco

4:30-6 pm

L-313 (C)

2-22
(Wed)

Microsoft Word – Advanced

Create an abstract.  Use advanced print functions.  Create an html document (web page).  Draw with color. Create watermark.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212 (E)

2-23
(Thu)

Active Student Learning

Learn how to support and monitor group discussions & projects in class.  Suggestions on developing appropriate topics and facilitating group progress.

Toby Marx

4:30-6 pm

S-120 (C)

2-27
(Mon)

Synergy in the Classroom

Help students generate their own creative ideas and evaluate their own work & classmates’ work.  Create a nurturing environment.  Keep student interest.

Joanne Gouveia

2-3:30 pm

SLH (C)

2-28
(Tue)

Teacher’s Toolbox

Learn about an integrated grading software program that includes an attendance module, planning module, grade module, etc.

David Mc Clure

4-5:30 pm

H-207 (C)

3-3
(Fri)

Saving Your Files

Should you save your files to your hard drive, a floppy, jump drive, zip or a CD?  How do you save to a CD or DVD?

Chris Saladores

4:30-6 pm

N-41 (C)

3-7
(Tue)

Using Multimedia Classrooms

Connecting the laptop to the projector, turning on the projector, using the VCR and document camera, network access, lowering the screen, troubleshooting.

Patrick Gallagher

2-3:30 pm

H-216 (C)

3-8
(Wed)

HTML (MACintosh)

Learn the basics of the language of the World Wide Web

Mohannad B Chenawi

4:20-5:30 pm

N-37 (C)

3-9
(Thu)

Using Multimedia Classrooms

Connecting the laptop to the projector, turning on the projector, using the VCR and document camera, network access, lowering the screen, troubleshooting.

James Eimont

2:30-4 pm

Rm 623 (E)

3-20
(Mon)

Microsoft Access: Intermediate

Create reports, do queries, merge tables and files, add footer information.

Maureen Greenbaum

4:30-6 pm

N-41 (C)

3-20
(Mon)

Microsoft Excel - Intermediate

Toolbars. Help. Clipart. Find & replace.  Cut &
Paste. Headers & footers. Page numbers, footnotes, endnotes.   Columns. Mail merge

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212 (E)

3-21
(Tue)
Before we can change student attitudes, we must change educator attitudes.

This event is sponsored by the PDC, Plainfield Campus Educational Seminars Committee and the LPN department under the Perkins Educational Vocational Grant.

A new scientific or technological breakthrough occurs every seventeen minutes.  Will teaching methods work as schools attempt to prepare students for the unknown challenges ahead? How can we as educators change? What "blocks" keep us from attempting to find "best practice"? Dr. Vince Walencik, Professor in the department of curriculum and teaching at Montclair State University 2 - 4pm

This will be a sign interpreted event

light refreshments will be provided

Plainfield Campus Annex

3-21
(Tue)

Effective Teaching Techniques

Present the same concepts more than one way to account for different learning styles.

Kathy Trombacco

4:30-6 pm

L-313 (C)

3-23
(Thu)

Designing Student Assignments

How to integrate Information Literacy requirements into your semester without shortchanging the subject material.

Susan Bissett

4-5 pm

Admiral Stanley Room (C)

3-24
Fri)

Microsoft Outlook:  The College e-mail Program

Learn Outlook basics.  Send & receive mail & attachments.  Create folders & a calendar. Contacts list.

Chris Saladores

4:30-6 pm

N-41 (C)

3-27
(Mon)

Faculty Web Page Expand your classroom beyond the four walls.  Learn how to create a basic web page for class information, assignments & tutorials. Maureen Greenbaum 4:30-6pm N-41 (C)

3-29
(Wed)

Microsoft Excel – Advanced

More charts.  Utilize functions.  Try different views.  Insert information.   Review formulas.  Format cells.  Automate tasks with macros.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

S-120 (C)

4-3
(Mon)

Search Engine Prowess

Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search engines and help screens.

Maureen Greenbaum

4:30-6 pm

N-41 (C)

4-4
(Tue)

Motivating the Reluctant Student

Encourage students doing poorly  on tests, not completing assignments, not participating in class.

Toby Marx

4:30-6 pm

L-313 (C)

4-5
(Wed)

Microsoft PowerPoint: Advanced

Presentations from outlines.  Bulleted lists.  Change slide layout.   Animation & slide transition effects.  Running a slide show.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

S-120 (C)

4-10
(Mon)

The Three R's - Rewards, Relevance, and Respect

Practical approaches to motivate students to learn.

Jan Wyzynowski

12-1:30 pm

L-305 (C)

4-12
(Wed)

Handling Chronic Student Behaviors

How do you work with the student who is chronically late for class or almost always turns in assignments late or seems continually distracted?

William Lipkin

5-6:30 pm

L-313 (C)

4-17
(Mon)

Microsoft FrontPage: Intermediate

Create a new web.  Create web pages. Use templates.  Import webs. Publish webs to the Internet.

Maureen Greenbaum

4:30-6 pm

N-41 (C)

4-19(Wed)

Macromedia Dreamweaver (MacIntosh)

This web development tool will enable you to  efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Mohannad B Chenawi

4:20-5:30 pm

N-37 (C)

4-24
(Mon)

Using SIS and the e-Services Link on the UCC Web Page

Learn how to utilize the different e-services options & SIS screens

Jo Ann Davis

4:30-6 pm

N-41 (C)

4-26
(Wed)

ESL Students in UCC Content Courses

A look at the make-up of ESL students at UCC and a discussion of the language concerns related to ESL students that arise in content courses

Susan Khodabakhshi and Karen Zielony

4-5:30 pm

H-102 (C)

 

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 DIRECTIONS:    Put a check in the signup column for each workshop and roundtable you would like to attend during the Fall 2005 semester.

When you hit Submit, this form will automatically be emailed to Joann Levey.   Thank you.

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