Fall '06 Workshop Schedule
DATE TITLE   DESCRIPTION INSTRUCTOR    TIME      PLACE

9-22
(Fri)

 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 3:15-4:45pm

N-41
(C)

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-114
(P)

9-28
(Thu)

 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)
9-28
(Thu)		 How to set up & prepare your Faculty Record File   Dr. Wallace Smith, Vice President Academic Affair 3-4:30pm

L305 (C)
 

10-2
(Mon)

 Learning Puzzles Research findings and their implications for classroom achievement.  Ray Krukovsky 2:30-4 pm

L-306
(C)

10-2
(Mon)

 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

Lab 212
(E)

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

L-112
(C)

10-4
(Wed)

 Questions & Concerns about the UCC Department of Public Safety Emergency contacts, illness or injury, safety concerns and theft. Keith Troutman 1:30-3 pm

L-308
(C)

10-4
(Wed)

 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

Rm 403
(E)

10-4
(Wed)

 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

N-39
(C)

10-4
(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

N-41
(C)

10-5
(Thu)

 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

N-22
(C)

10-5
(Thu)

 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

N-39
(C)

10-9
(Mon)

 Search Engine Prowess Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search engines and help screens. Maureen Greenbaum 3:15-4:45pm

N-41
     (C)

10-9
(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

N-41
(C)

10-10
(Tue)

 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)

10-11
(Wed)

 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

L-308
(C)

10-11
(Wed)

 Making Teaching Easier Quick and easy ways to make your job easier without losing your effectiveness. Joanne Gouveia 2:30-4 pm

L-306
(C)

10-11
(Wed)

 Dealing with Different Student Learning Styles Effective approaches to the different learning styles of students. William Lipkin 5-6:30 pm

L-308
(C)

10-11
(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

N-41

(C)

10-12
(Thu)

 Ideas for Student Research Papers Ideas for designing and structuring interesting and motivational research on social issue projects. Susan Bissett 1:30-3 pm

L-105
(C)

10-16
(Mon)

 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)

10-16
(Mon)

 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

L-306
(C)

10-16
(Mon)

 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

N-41
(C)

10-16
(Mon)

 Protect Your PC Learn how to avoid spyware, viruses, pop-ups and other annoying intrusions. Mohamad Chenawi 3:15-4:45 pm

N-39
(C)

10-16
(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

Lab 212
(E)

10-17
(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

Rm 224
(E)

10-18
(Wed)

 Reading Across the Curriculum Learn how to help your students improve their reading skills as they learn their subject-area material.  Gerry Coleman 1:30-3 pm

L-308
(C)

10-18
(Wed)

 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)

10-18
(Wed)

 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

N-39
(C)

10-18
(Wed)

 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

N-41
(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

L-105
(C)

10-19
(Thu)

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

N-39
(C)
10-23
(Mon)		 Assisting Students With Disabilities If you have any specific topics you would like addressed, please forward them to Barbara Milne, X-7164 Barbara D. Milne
Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities		 11 am Seminar B
(C)
10-23
(Mon)		 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 C-207
(C)
10-23
(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 3:15-4:45pm N-41
(C)
10-23
(Mon)		 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

Lab 212
(E)
10-24
(Tue)		 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 L-308
(C)
10-25
(Wed)		 Instructor’s Choice Teaching with minimum confusion or maximum astonishment. Harvey Yablonsky 1:30-3 pm L-308
(C)
10-25
(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 N-41
(C)
10-25
(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 L-308

(C)
10-25
(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

Lab 212
(E)
10-26
(Thu)		 Assisting Students With Disabilities If you have any specific topics you would like addressed, please forward them to Barbara Milne, X-7164 Barbara D. Milne
Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities		 11 am E 131
(E)
10-26
(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)
10-27
(Fri)		 Assisting Students With Disabilities If you have any specific topics you would like addressed, please forward them to Barbara Milne, X-7164 Barbara D. Milne
Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities		 11 am P110
(p)
10-30
(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 3:15-4:45pm N-41
(C)
10-30
(Mon)		 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 P-114
(P)
10-31
(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 Lower Level - Library
(P)
 
11-1
(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 N-41
(C)
11-6
(Mon)		 Sexual Harassment Potential sexual harassment issues at the community college. College policy & complaint procedure  Linda Spagnola 1:30-3 pm L-308
(C)
11-6
(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 L-306(C)
11-6
(Mon)		 Creating My Own Website Use Microsoft FrontPage to produce your own site. Maureen Greenbaum 3:15-4:45pm N-41
(C)
11-6
(Mon)		 WinZip Use WinZip to compress and decompress large files. Wendy Pate 5-6:30 pm N-41
(C)
11-7
(Tue)		 Customer Service Basic tips and guidelines to provide the best-possible service to all our students and to other UCC staff members. 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

  L-308(C)
11-8
(Wed)		 WinZip Use WinZip to compress and decompress large files. Wendy Pate 5-6:30 pm

Lab 212
(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   L-308
(C)
11-9
(Thu)		 Teacher’s Toolbox Learn about an integrated grading software program that includes an attendance module, planning module, grade module, etc. David McClure 4:35-5:45 pm H-216

(C)
11-13
(Mon)		 Teaching: Each Day a New Challenge How to handle the daily problems that arise in the classroom. Harvey Yablonsky 1:30-3 pm L-308
(C)
11-13
(Mon)		 Yahoo! or Google Which search engine is best for you: Yahoo!, Google, or one of the metasearch engines? Maureen Greenbaum 3:15-4:45pm 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/font> 5-6:30 pm Lab 212
(E)
11-14
(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 N-39
(C)
11-14
(Tue)		 Using the Faculty Resource Center Discover all the technologies available to you as a UCC instructor, including graphics & animation design, web page creation, DVD authoring, webcasting, color & photo printing, scanning, PDF printing, editing and conversion, etc. Vincent Tanzi 4:30-6 pm L-28
(C)
11-15
(Wed)		 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 1:30-3 pm L-307
(C)
11-15
(Wed)		 Making Student Research Creative Help students create electronic term papers with images, audio and video.  Joanne Gouveia 2-3:30 pm L-306
(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 3:15-4:45pm N-41
(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 L-308
(C)

11-20
(Mon)

 Gaining a Student's Perspective A panel discussion of learning strategies from faculty who have studied languages independently via computer instruction. Lunch & discussion among faculty who have developed strategies for computer-aided instruction 2pm Room 712
(E)
11-21
(Tue)		 Minimal Communication Via Gesturing A guide to communicating with students, clients and the public using gesturing as a form for verbal interaction. Professor David Rivera, American Sign Language program 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Light Refreshments Will Be Provided		 Plainfield 
Campus
 Annex
11-21
(Tue)		 Basic Windows II Installing programs, plug-and-play peripherals, Internet basics, quitting unresponsive programs.  Mohamad Chenawi 4-5:30 pm N-39
(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)
11-29
(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 N-39
(C)
11-29
(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 L-308
C)
11-29
(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 S-120
(C)
 
12-4
(Mon)		 Microsoft Access: Intermediate Create reports.  Do queries.  Merge tables and files.  Add footer information. Maureen Greenbaum 3:15-4:45pm N-41
(C)
12-5
(Tue)		 Writing About Survival Dr. Wachtel will present her innovative pedagogy for using The New York Times in the classroom along with actual student assignments from the course and her book entitled The Story of Blima-A Holocaust Survivor Dr. Shirley Wachtel of Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ 2pm Room 415
(E)
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    N-39
(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 N-39
(C)

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