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Wednesday January 25, 2007 2:30 Cranford
(faculty dining room)
Attendees:
Discussed
T&T Keynote Speaker:
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The 2007 UCC Teaching
and Technology conference will be March 24, 2007, 9am to 1pm
in Elizabeth
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Maria has talked to
Cynthia Villanti's of Suffolk County Community College. She
teaches online F2F and hybrid and has published several works on
collaborative learning
See her "about me" page:
www2.sunysuffolk.edu/villanc/aboutme.htm
and her collaborative open source classroom:
www.cynthiasite.net
She is available and will charge $800. Maureen agreed that
she looks very interesting and Maria should complete the
scheduling details.
T&T Workshops-
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final number should
be 8 workshops - 4 each of the 2 sessions
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Maureen will ask Toby
Marks to do a session on motivation (one of the topics requested
by faculty)
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Maria got a few
answers from her email asking what the faculty would like
presented at the T&T and the overwhelming requests were for:
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Advanced
PowerPoint (including video, import pictures, custom charts,
etc)
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Word and Mail
Merge
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Excel
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PowerPoint
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MS Outlook
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plagiarism
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electronic
clickers for large classes
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health issues:
stress, obesity
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Assisting with
diversity
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Maria will ask
Chris Grzesik to do a
session distance learning
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Maria will do a
session on TurnItIn and teaching student what plagiarism is and
how to avoid doing it
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Maureen will call the
United Way (since UCC counseling function is more oriented to
counseling students as to which courses to take ad such) and see
if they can provide a speak who can discus the organizations in
Union county that can assist student with issues such as anger
management, domestic abuse, elder and child care. This is
at the suggestion of Karen who will contact Bohdan to joining
the PDC committee this ear in preparation for next year.
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Maureen will ask
Vince Tanzi to do a session
of Outlook feature
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Maureen will do
PowerPoint (or Excel or Word) and coordinate with Wendy (see
below)
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Maureen will ask
Joann Levey to ask Wendy Pate to do an abbreviated version of
the Word and/or Excel workshops that she will do in the spring and
has done in the Fall.
Joann indicated since she will not be responsible for Wendy
getting paid that she would like Maria or Maureen to ask Wendy.
So since Maureen is doing a computer session she will email
Wendy.
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We should have
everything firm by next meeting which will be before the
Plainfield faculty meeting so we decided on a luch meeting at
Blackberry's
at 12:30.
Round Tables
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Thurs. Feb. 1 on
Experiential Education
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Thurs. March 1 on
WebCT
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Stan C wants to do a
session on information literacy with a faculty member from
math., one from computers, one from English, from the History
etc each discussing how they incorporate it into their classes
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Susan C might do one
on ucc101
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