DATE

TITLE

DESCRIPTION

INSTRUCTOR

  TIME    

PLACE

2-5
(Mon)

Collaboration on a Word Document

Learn how to work with others on a common Word document.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

N-39
(C)

2-6
(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

1:30-3 pm

(C)

2-7
(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 important are visual aids?

Xue-Mei Hu

1:30-3 pm

(C)

2-7
(Wed)

Orientation for Adjunct Faculty

An overview of Union County College and its expectations of adjunct faculty.  An opportunity to ask questions.

William Lipkin

5-6:30 pm

(C)

2-8
(Thu)

Search Engine Prowess

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

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(C)

2-12
(Mon)

Collaboration on a Word Document

Learn how to work with others on a common Word document.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212
(E)

2-13
(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

3:30 – 5 pm

(C)

2-14
(Wed)

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

Jo Ann Davis

4:30 – 6 pm

(C)

2-15
(Thu)

Using style sheets and cascading style sheets in FrontPage.

Set up styles for an individual page.  How to define styles by overwriting existing styles or creating new ones.  When to create a cascading stylesheet for use with an entire web site.

Vince Tanzi

4:30-6 pm

S-120
(C)

2-15
(Thu)

The Art of Leadership

Assess your leadership style.  Take a leadership assessment survey to determine your leadership style.  Discover the types of individuals that are easy for you to supervise as well as those who are more challenging.  Learn how to assess the styles of others as well.

Wallace Smith

5-6 pm

(C)

2-20
(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

1:30-3 pm

2-21 (Wed)

The Art of Questioning

How are we questioning our students?  Is there a wait time?  Are we giving our students enough wait time to formulate their responses?  Learn some interesting questioning skills.

Gerry Coleman

12 noon – 1:30 pm

(C)

2-22
(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

(C)

2-26
(Mon)

Creating Charts in Excel

Learn how to create a variety of charts using Microsoft Excel:  bar, pie, stacked bar, area, line, etc.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

N-39
(C)

2-28
(Wed)

Creating Charts in Excel

Learn how to create a variety of charts using Microsoft Excel:  bar, pie, stacked bar, area, line, etc.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

(E)

3-1
(Thu)

2:00 – 3:30 pm

L-315
(C)

3-1
(Thu)

(click for syllabus)

Use the World Wide Web creatively to watch your stocks (www.top10traders.com), to save family or class photos (www.picasa.com) or family videos (www.video.google.com), create a family web page (www.googlepages.com), create a blog (www.blogger.com) or do your taxes online (http://www.turbotax.com)  

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15 – 4:45 pm

N-39
(C)

3-1
(Thu)

The Financial Records System

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

Donna Farlow

5-6:30 pm

N-39
(C)

3-5
(Mon)

E-Mail Etiquette

In an effort to promote efficient and effective communication between instructors and students, certain guidelines must be adhered to. This is the place to vent and share thoughts.

Jan Wyzykowski

1-2:30

(C)

3-5
(Mon)

Mail Merge using 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-39
(C)

3-6
(Tue)

Is the today’s Millennial Student different?  Have world events caused basic changes in their attitudes?  Has technology affected the way they learn?  Discuss some exciting new ideas in this area.

Toby Marx

3:30 – 5 pm

3-7
(Wed)

Negative Effects of Motivational Factors on Academic 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

11 am – 12:30 pm

(C)

3-7
(Wed)

Mail Merge using 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

(E)

3-7
(Wed)

Dealing with Different Student Learning Styles

Effective approaches to the different learning styles of students.

William Lipkin

5-6:30 pm

(C)

Microsoft Access: Basics(click for syllabus)canceled

Start the program. Open a database. Design a table. Create a database. Records & fields. Create a simple form and report with totals.

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15-4:45 pm

(C)

3-19
(Mon)

Useful Windows Capabilities: Saving & Searching

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. Use the Search capability when you lose track of a file.

Wendy Pate

5-6:30 pm

N-39
(C)

(Wed)

Strategic Use of Role Playing

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

Xue-Mei Hu

1:30-3 pm

(C)

3-21
(Wed)

Useful Windows Capabilities: Saving & 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

5-6:30 pm

(E)

3-22
(Thu)

Library Full-Text Databases

Overview of UCC database collections.  Hands-on use of three of the major databases.  Simple & advanced database search techniques.

Susan Bissett

1:30-3 pm

(C)

3-22
(Thu)

Effective Teaching Techniques

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

Kathy Trombacco

3-4:30 pm

(C)

3-26
(Mon)

Excel Gradebook

Learn how to easily and quickly port information from SIS into an Excel gradebook for your classes.  Must have an SIS account with access to the 107 screen.  Do not need to have experience with Excel.

Celeste Schaffer

4-5:30 pm

(C)

3-26
(Mon)

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

Lab 212
(E)

3-27
(Tue)

Advanced Tables in Frontpage.

Precisely drawing a table to enhance the page’s layout.  Fine-tuning your table by adjusting its properties.  Rearranging the structure and content of a table. 

Vince Tanzi

4:30-6 pm

N-39
(C)

3-29
(Thu)

Tools in Word that Help Your Students Become Writers(click for syllabus)

Using the Spell and Grammar Checker, Thesaurus, Toolbars, Footnotes and Endnotes, different styles and formats, Track Changes, etc. 

Maureen Greenbaum

3:15 – 4:45 pm

N-39
(C)

4-2
(Mon) 

4-2
(Mon)

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

N-39
(C)

4-4
(Wed)

Adding Multimedia and Interactivity to web pages

The use of dynamic HTML in websites.  How to add sound and video to your site. How to place a scrolling marquee on a page.

Vince Tanzi

4:30-6 pm

N-39
(C)

Maximizing Your Effectiveness as a Manager

An opportunity for Academic Department Chairs to gain a perspective about what they are confronting and how to improve their effectiveness.  Also a chance for potential Chairs to see what they may be taking on.

Cindy Singer

11 am to 12:30 pm

4-10
(Tues)

4-16
(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

N-39
(C)

Microsoft Excel: Intermediate

Create charts.    Find/replace. Move/ copy.  Rename. Shortcut keys. Macros. Formulas & functions.  Format cells.

Wendy Pate

5 – 6:30 pm

(E)

4-23
(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

N-39
(C)