UCC Professional Development Committee

UNION COUNTY COLLEGE                                                                                 

Spring 2003

Greetings:

The PDC would like to welcome everyone to participate in our Spring 2003 workshops. In addition to the workshops listed below, please watch for registration announcements in your mailboxes and via college email.

Conferences and calls for papers continue to be posted at the resource areas on each campus. Please refer to our web page for current information as well. It can be reached via the link from the UCC faculty page or directly at http://faculty.ucc.edu/committee-pdc

To make sure that you get credit for your participation, always be sure to sign the attendance sheet at each workshop. Letters of acknowledgement and certificates of attendance will be sent to all by the end of the academic year. 

We welcome suggestions and hope you will consider sharing what you have learned with our teaching community. Please direct comments to any PDC member, or contact the Chairpersons, John McDermott  at ext. 5139 or via email at mcdermott@ucc.edu or Susan Bissett at ext. 7104 or via email at bissett@ucc.edu. 

Best wishes for a productive semester.

The Professional Development Committee

Current members:

Susan Bissett (Co-Chair); John McDermott (Co-chair); Jean Bodman; Stan Cohen; Margaret Deng (Newsletter and Web Editor); John Fludas; Pat Ishill; Eileen Kaufman; Jennifer McCarthy; Toby Marx; Judy Mayer; Maria Palmeri-Martinez; Brian Pankuch.

Workshop Schedules

 

Launch Your Own Faculty Website with Just One Workshop!

by Barbara McGoldrick and Amarjit Kaur

Thursday 3- 27-03  2:30 - 4:30 PM

L-209 Cranford   *Early sign-up and some prep required.  Look for the flyer!

Digital Cameras II—Editing Still Images for New Users

By Steve Kato

Tentative date: Monday  3-31-03  2:30-4:00 P M

Room TBA  Register early. Spaces limited.

Digital Video I an Introduction to Computer Video

By Steve Kato

Tentative date: Monday  4-28-03  2:30-4:00 PM

Room TBA  Register early. Spaces limited.

 

Conferences Schedules

March, 2003

TESOL 2003 Graduate Student Forum

Date: March 24, 2003 (held at TESOL 2003)

Venue: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

For more information, please visit the TESOL Graduate Student Forum page at http://www.tesol.org/mbr/community/students/gsf1.html

TESOL 2003 the 37th Annual Convention and Exposition

"Hearing Every Voice"

Date: March 25-29th, 2003

Venue: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Theme: Hearing Every Voice

For more information, please visit TESOL annual convention home at http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2003/pp/index.html

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2003

"The Diversity of Applied Linguistics"

Date: March 25-25th, 2003

Venue: Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, Virginia

Theme: The Diversity of Applied Linguistics

The deadline for paper submission is August 25th, 2002. An Online abstract submission form is available at http://www.aaal.org/aaal2003/call.html. For more information, please visit the AAAL annual conference page at http://www.aaal.org/aaal2003/

Annual conference of New York State Bilingual Association (SABE)

Date: March 27-29th, 2003

Venue: Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown, New York

Theme: A tool for Global Connection  

For more information please visit the NYSABE website at http://www.nysabe.org/

April, 2003

National Association Asian and Pacific American Education (NAAPE)

"Weaving our Collective Strength"

Date: April 3-5, 2003

Venue: Long Beach, CA

For more information, please visit the NAAPE conference website at http://www.csulb.edu/naapae2003

The First Mercator International Symposium on European Minority Languages and Research

Date: April 8th-10th, 2003

Venue: Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

For more information, please visit the Mercator Education website at http://www.mercator-education.org/

84th Annual Meeting of American Education Research Association (AERA)

Date: April 21-25th, 2003

Venue: Chicago Illinois

Theme: Accountability for Educational Quality: A Shared Responsibility

For more information on the conference, please visit the AREA 2003 website at http://www.area.net/meeting/

Mini Area Conference: New York City Region NYS-TESOL

Date: Saturday, April 26th, 2003

Venue: Pace University

Theme: Moving Forward: (Re) Building a New Trends and Revitalizing Old Ideas

For more information on the conference, contact Brian Hickey, Kristen DiGennaro, or Lisa Kraft. For information on the presentation proposal, contact Marcie Williams. Visit their website at http://www.nystesol.org/region/nycregion.html

 

 

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