Useful Windows Capabilities: Saving and Searching

Learn how to save your files in an organized way so they are easy to find.  How do you save to a network drive?  How do students save to a network drive?  Learn how to save an e-mail attachment.  Learn how to use the Search capability when you lose track of a file.

Wendy Pate

4:30-6 pm

N-41
(C)

9-25
(Mon)

Microsoft Access: Basics

Start a program.  Open a database.  Design a table.  Create a database.  Learn about records & fields. Use a primary key.

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

9-25
(Mon)

Microsoft Word: Basics

Use the Menu bar, status bar, toolbars.  Create a new document from a template. Use the spell & grammar checker. Align text. Try different fonts.  Create a table. Double-space.  Print.  Select text.  Insert & delete.  Use the Office Assistant.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212
(E)

9-27
(Wed)

Effective Lecture Techniques

Course content often requires extensive class lectures.  How do you engage students in class discussions?  How do you approach material from different points of view?  How effective are visual aids?

Dr. Xue-Mei Hu

1:30-3 pm

L-308
(C)

9-27
(Wed)

Using Webmail

Access & utilize Webmail.  Attendees must have a UCC username and password.

Mohamad Chenawi

3-4:30 pm

N-41
(C)

9-27
(Wed)

Microsoft Word: Advanced

Footnotes, endnotes and columns.  Create an abstract.  Use advanced print functions.  Create an html document (web page).  Draw with color. Create watermark.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(P)

Library Orientation for New Faculty

What the College Library can do for You and Your Students

Susan Bissett

1:30-3 pm

L-105
(C)

10-2
(Mon)

Learning Puzzles

Research findings and their implications for classroom achievement. 

Ray Krukovsky

2:30-4 pm

10-2
(Mon)

Microsoft Word: Advanced

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

10-3
(Tue)

What the ALC Can Do for You and Your Students 

How tutorial support is provided, subjects supported, schedules, recommending students as tutors.

Gail Hein

1-2:30 pm

Questions & Concerns about the UCC Department of Public Safety

Emergency contacts, illness or injury, safety concerns and theft.

Keith Troutman

1:30-3 pm

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

1:30-3 pm

(E)

Budget Request Package

Using Excel to create the budget request:  how to fill out the form, save it, do updates, etc.  Attendees must have an activated FRS ID.

Donna Farlow

4:30-6 pm

(C)

Microsoft Word: Advanced

Footnotes, endnotes and columns.  Create an abstract.  Use advanced print functions.  Create an html document (web page).  Draw with color. Create watermark.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

Helping Students who Miss Exams

Tour the College Assessment Center.  This Center is a walk-in anytime facility during the normal work week for students unable to participate in routine classroom testing.  Discuss how testing is handled and monitored.  Learn some easy guidelines to using the Center effectively.  Meet in N-22 (the Assessment Center) then move to H-216

Doug Greenwood

4:30-6 pm

Microsoft Outlook:  The College e-mail Program

Learn Outlook basics.  Send & receive mail & attachments.  Delete old mail.  Attendees must have a UCC username and password.

Mohamad Chenawi

3-4:30 pm

(Mon)

Search Engine Prowess

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

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(Mon)

Mail Merge using Microsoft Word

Review several variations of mail merge: envelopes, letters, e-mail, labels.  Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Word.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

An Electronic Research Paper

Show students how to create an electronic research paper that can include Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint documents as well as links to the World Wide Web.  Attendees must have at least a beginning knowledge of Word, Excel, Access & PowerPoint.

Maureen Greenbaum

3:30-5 pm

P-114
(P)

Strategic Use of Role Playing

Make course content more interactive and dynamic.  With role playing, learning is more student-centered.

Dr. Xue-Mei Hu

1:30-3 pm

(C)

(Wed)

Making Teaching Easier

Quick and easy ways to make your job easier without losing your effectiveness.  

Joanne Gouveia

2:30-4 pm

(C)

Dealing with Different Student Learning Styles

Effective approaches to the different learning styles of students.

William Lipkin

5-6:30 pm

(C)

Correcting Papers Electronically

Using Microsoft Word and the Reviewing toolbar to make and track corrections on papers your students submit electronically.  Both the original and new information will be visible.  Use this capability to collaborate with others on a document.  Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Word.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(C)

Ideas for Student Research Papers

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

Susan Bissett

1:30-3 pm

(C)

Understanding Research Results

A non-mathematical survey of the interpretation and uses of correlation and experimental design statistics to better understand the reported results in research. Random selection, correlation, multiple correlation, t-tests, ANOVA, probability, and descriptive statistics will be presented and discussed.

Allen Hodes

1-2:30 pm

L-308
(C)

Using the New York Times in the Classroom

Learn how to use The New York Times as a dynamic classroom text.   See instructional methods used in multiple disciplines. Find out about additional resources for faculty and how to get subscriptions to The New York Times for your class.

Angela Kluwin

2-3 pm

(C)

An Electronic Research Paper

Show your students how to use Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint to create an electronic paper.  Attendees must have at least a beginner's knowledge of Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. 

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(Mon)

Protect Your PC

Learn how to avoid spyware, viruses, pop-ups and other annoying intrusions.

Mohamad Chenawi

3:15-4:45 pm

(C)

Mail Merge using Microsoft Word

Review several variations of mail merge: envelopes, letters, e-mail, labels.  Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Word.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(Tue)

What the ALC Can Do for You and Your Students

How tutorial support is provided, subjects supported, schedules, recommending students as tutors.

Gail Hein

1-2:30 pm

Reading Across the Curriculum

Gerry Coleman

1:30-3 pm

Basic Windows & the Graphical User Interface

Create and view folders.  Copy/move/rename files.  Use the My Computer and Recycle Bin folders.

Mohamad Chenawi

3:30-5 pm

N-41
(C)

The Financial Records System

Available screens, how to read & extract data, screen printing.    Attendees must have an activated FRS ID.

Donna Farlow

4:30-6 pm

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

(C)

10-19
(Thu)

Plagiarism and the Use of Turnitin.com

How to handle the problem of plagiarism in the classroom as well as a brief look at the turnitin.com website for the prevention of plagiarism.  This website instantly identifies papers containing unoriginal material.

Susan Bissett & Bohdan Lukaschewsky

1:30-3 pm

Learn how to utilize the different e-services options & SIS screens.  Attendees must have UCC signon and password.

Jo Ann Davis-Wayne

5-6:30 pm

Using a Scanner and Digital Camera

Easy steps to using a scanner.  How to borrow and use a digital camera.

Mohamad Chenawi

3-4:30 pm

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

3:15-4:45 pm

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

Teaching Students of All Ages

How is a 50-year old student different from a 20-year old?  Learn classroom strategies to deal with students of all ages.

Toby Marx

1-2:30 pm

(C)

(Wed)

Instructor’s Choice

Teaching with minimum confusion or maximum astonishment.

Harvey Yablonsky

1:30-3 pm

(C)

(Wed)

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?

Mohamad Chenawi

3-4:30 pm

(C)

(Wed)

What’s Working and What Isn’t in the Classroom?

Discuss what is working and not working in your classes.  Learn ways to interact with different types of students.

Arthur Rose

4-5:30 pm

(C)

(Wed)

Microsoft Power Point:  Advanced

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

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(E)

(Thu)

Citation Resources at UCC Libraries: MLA and APA

Complicated MLA and APA style documentation  made
simple. Can be used by individuals & classes.

Susan Bissett

3:30-5 pm

L-105 (C)

(Mon)

Jazzing up Your Website

Ways to use FrontPage to make your web pages more eye-catching and fun such as page transitions, marquees, interactive buttons, DHTML, fancy bullets and photo gallery.  Selecting and modifying clip art, finding Internet images and capturing portions of screens and incorporating them.

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(C)

(Mon)

Microsoft Power Point:  Advanced

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

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(P)

(Tue)

What the ALC Can Do for You and Your Students

How tutorial support is provided, subjects supported, schedules, recommending students as tutors.

Gail Hein

1-2:30 pm

(P)

(Wed)

Microsoft Power Point:  Advanced

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

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(C)

(Mon)

Sexual Harassment

Linda Spagnola

1:30-3 pm

L-308
(C)

(Mon)

Motivational Factors Affecting Classroom Functioning

A look at the difference between achievement motivation and performance motivation, the dynamics of each and some topics related to them, e.g., self-handicapping behaviors of students.

Ray Krukovsky

2:30-4 pm

(C)

(Mon)

Creating My Own Website

Use Microsoft FrontPage to produce your own site.

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(C)

(Mon)

WinZip

Use WinZip to compress and decompress large files.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(C)

(Tue)

Customer Service

Toby Marx

1-2:30 pm

L-308
(C)

11-8
(Wed)

Teaching Large Classes

How do you engage students from the first day of instruction, especially in a large class?  Learn effective teaching techniques that are learner-centered and encourage active learning.

Dr. Xue-Mei Hu

1:30-3 pm

(C)

11-8
(Wed)

WinZip

Use WinZip to compress and decompress large files.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(E)

11-8
(Wed)

Deer-in-the-Headlights Look

Do you ever see those blank stares when students aren’t grasping the material?  Learn some strategies for teaching difficult topics

William Lipkin

5-6:30 pm

(C)

(Thu)

Teacher’s Toolbox

David Mc Clure

4:35-5:45 pm

(C)

11-13
(Mon)

Teaching: Each Day a New Challenge

How to handle the daily problems that arise in the classroom.

Yablonsky

1:30-3 pm

(C)

11-13
(Mon)

Yahoo! or Google

Which search engine is best for you: Yahoo!, Google, or one of the metasearch engines?

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

N-41
(C)

11-13
(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)

(Tue)

Advanced Outlook

Create folders, a calendar and a contacts list. Create a mailing list.  Attendees must have a UCC username and password. 

Mohamad Chenawi

4-5:30 pm

(C)

(Tue)

Using the Faculty Resource Center

Vincent Tanzi

4:30-6 pm

(C)

(Wed)

Using Multimedia Classrooms

Patrick  Gallagher

1:30-3 pm

(C)

11-15
(Wed)

Making Student Research Creative

Joanne Gouveia

2-3:30 pm

(C)

11-15
(Wed)

Correcting Papers Electronically

Using Microsoft Word and the Reviewing toolbar to make and track corrections on papers your students submit electronically.  Both the original and new information will be visible.  Use this capability to collaborate with others on a document.  Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Word.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

P-114
(P)

11-20
(Mon)

FrontPage: Intermediate

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

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(C)

11-20
(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

(C)

(Tue)

Basic Windows II

Mohamad Chenawi

4-5:30 pm

(C)

11-27
(Mon)

Correcting Papers Electronically

Using Microsoft Word and the Reviewing toolbar to make and track corrections on papers your students submit electronically.  Both the original and new information will be visible.  Use this capability to collaborate with others on a document.  Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Word.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212
(E)

(Wed)

WebCT / Excel Grade Integration

Learn how to integrate  your Excel grades with WebCT.  Attendees must have WebCT ID and password.

Vincent Wrice

8:45-10:15 am

(C)

(Wed)

Handling Chronic Student Behaviors

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

William Lipkin

5-6:30 pm

(C)

(Wed)

NetMeeting

Software that lets users share their  desktop and PowerPoint presentations over the web and control another PC remotely

Jim Granitzki

5-6:30 pm

(C)

12-4
(Mon)

Microsoft Access: Intermediate

Create reports.  Do queries.  Merge tables and files.  Add footer information.

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(C)

12-7
(Thu)

Basic Windows III

How to use shortcuts, different types of file extensions, and some of the Windows multimedia options (e.g. Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, Sound Max, etc.). Review how to save to a CD or DVD.

Jim Granitzki

5-6:30 pm

(C)

12-14
(Thu)

Linux Operating System

Demo of LINUX software – a robust, stable & free operating system.  Brief history of development & hands-on experience with LINUX & other LINUX applications.

Jim Granitzki

5-6:30 pm

(C)