Professional Development Workshop Descriptions
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Adjunct Connection Meetings
Lunch and discussion about Adjunct Issues highlight this time. It is always nice to see others from your department, be able to ask questions, receive information, and find out what is going on as far as Adjunct benefits are concerned. Come join us if you would like a free lunch (yes, there is such a thing! )
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Advanced Word
Students will learn how to create forms, use customizing features, create a Table of Contents and an Index, and integrate Word with other Microsoft Office 2003 programs.
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Basic Access
This workshop will enable the participants to utilize the Access database management software in the Windows environment. A computerized database management system allows you to store, retrieve, analyze, and print information. Access has the capability to store thousands of pieces of data that can be quickly searched, sorted, and extracted to save time. This workshop will train the participants to utilize the basic features of creating databases in Access and extracting records that meet specific criteria.
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Basic Word
Participants will learn how to use helpful features for formatting text, paragraphs, long documents, and newsletters in the Microsoft Word 2003 program.
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Basic Excel
Participants, through hands-on activities, will learn to change the appearance of a worksheet, organize the worksheet, create basic formulas, and create basic charts.
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| "BCC's Counseling & Security Issues and Virginia Tech"
This workshop will cover the policies and procedures that the Counseling
staff at Butler follows with clients, as well as, referral information,
how to deal with troubling students, and other information that may
help instructors with questions about mental health issues and security
on the Butler campuses, in light of the Virginia Tech tragedy.
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Brain Gym Workshop
The Brain Gym Introduction workshop is for those interested in helping
their students learn easily and quickly with simple, fun, physical
movements. Brain Gym makes all types of learning easier. Participants
will learn how stress affects learning and how to prepare the brain for
new learning.
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Citing Online Sources
Citing online sources can be confusing and frustrating for both students and instructors. The L.W. Nixon Reference Librarian will review how to cite from such sources as EBSCO, Opposing Viewpoints, and online books in APA and MLA styles. She will show you some shortcuts that will assist your students with citations.
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Classroom Interest Accrues Daily
Many teachers have the knowledge of their subjects down cold; but do they have the int4erest of their other subjects: the students? This workshop will help the classroom teacher cultivate and enhance the students's interest and involvement in class discussion, homw3work, and ultimately the subject matter being taught. Tips will be given to help students become more active learners and to encourage students to build interest and energy in their courses. teachers will be shown how to take that they already know and use in the classroom to better engage and enliven their students.
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Classroom Management
It is clear that one of a teacher’s most important jobs is managing the
classroom effectively. This workshop will provide you with strategies
to increase student responsibility, self-control, and self-management.
Learn how to create a classroom environment that will allow you to
spend the major part of your contact time in instructional activities,
thus increasing student learning.
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Customizing Pipeline for Faculty
Find out about some new tools in Pipeline including adding a new channel that only contains links to final grades, class rosters and certification rosters. This can be added to the Home Page for quick access. Also, find out about how to consolidate courses to create a single list of all your students which can be used to send e-mail or announcements, how to view multiple calendars in one view, and other exciting ways to customize your Homepage.
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Dealing with Difficult People
Most of us have people that we love to teach, love to work with, love to be around, and then there are those other people…. .the difficult people. We will be discussing some of the most common types of difficult people and how to better teach or work with them. Click here to register online. |
| Developing a Service-Learning Project
Participants will engage in hands-on development of a service-learning
project, and will leave equipped with practical tools for planning and
implementing a service-learning project. (Please bring to the workshop
a course syllabus or, for a co-curricular project, a document stating
the purpose and goals for the group you advise. )
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Design Concepts for More Effective Power Point Presentations
Learn and apply design strategies to make your Power Point presentations engaging for your audience. Topics include sound use of color, type, animations and basic design principles.
Registration will close at 12:00 noon on Thursday, February 9.
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Designing Your Grade book in Excel
Learn the basics of Microsoft Excel and how to write formulas for keeping a grade book. Successful completion includes a final assignment of designing a grade book that will work for your classes.
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Designing and Developing an Online Course*
So you've taken Introduction to Online Teaching and you want to give the virtual classroom a try. What do you do next?
After speaking with your dean and lead instructor to determine what classes are available you must turn in all the required paperwork to Meg McGranaghan. This online workshop will help you learn the steps to good instructional design. This is a project oriented workshop. You may not enroll in this course unless you have been cleared to teach online by the appropriate dean and lead instructor. When you have completed this course your first unit will be ready to go!
*Successful completion of Introduction to Online Teaching is a prerequisite for registration in this workshop. One face-to-face meeting is required.
Registration is now open for the summer and fall sessions.
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Document Cam
This workshop outlines the connection and use of document cameras available now on the Andover and El Dorado campuses, and how this technology can benefit both instructors and students. Participants will learn how to setup and use the document camera and use it, even in conjunction with laptops or computers , so that students can see detail in print documents (even 3D objects! ) in teaching not possible otherwise.
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Getting the Most Out of Google for more Effective Classroom Use
Tired of getting 200,000 results in Google and only having two web sites that are really good and useful? Use Google the smart way. Learn advanced search techniques to limit and focus your results. Also, learn how to search for scholarly material with Google Scholar. We will also check out some new, coo. features in Google.
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Getting Results: Creating a Community of Learners
See how getting to know your students and establishing a positive classroom environment can greatly increase student success.
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| Graphing Calculators
This hour-long workshop is for math instructors wishing to know more about the
TI-83 calculator (required for College Algebra students). Participants will learn the basic uses of the calculator and learn how to help students become more efficient users for class work.
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IDEA Student Rating Form
This time will be spent discussing the new student rating form (IDEA) that will be used beginning in Fall 2007. Items covered will be a bit of history of the form, how it is administered, what new features you will enjoy in data returned, how the results look, and how this score fits into the overall teacher evaluation score.
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Interest Accrues Daily
Many teachers have the knowledge of their subjects down cold; but do they have the interest of their other subjects: the students? This workshop will help the classroom teacher cultivate and enhance the student’s interest and involvement in class discussion, homework, and ultimately the subject matter being taught. Tips will be given to help students become more active learners and to encourage students to build interest and energy in their courses. Teachers will be shown how to take what they already know and use in the classroom to better engage and enliven their students.
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Intermediate Word
Students will learn how to format documents with sections and columns, tables, styles, and with headers and footers. They will also learn how to merge form documents, mailing labels and envelopes, and work with charts.
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Intermediate Power Point
The workshop will include demonstration and active participation. The participants will learn how to add pictures, sounds,movies, notes pages, footers, hyperlinks, and text boxes. They will also learn to copy the presentation to a CD and publish it to the Web.
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Instructional Design for Student Engagement
Several useful models exist to aid in the planning, implementation and evaluation of instruction. Workshop participants will examine instructional design models and use one to develop instruction to implement in their classroom. Instructors will evaluate the effectiveness of the planned instruction.
Registration will close at 12:00 noon on Thursday, March 9.
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Introduction to School Maestro Grade book Program
School Maestro II is a grade book program that supports a wide variety of different grading methods. The program tracks attendance, does seating charts, records grades, creates reusable lesson plans, tracks GPA, and transcripts. The program can trace appointments, maintain contact information, and develop a variety of customizable reports such as individual grade lists, class grade sheets, and attendance reports. The program can also be use to produce fully formatted form letters which may include a customizable letterhead with a logo. For letters may also be emailed.
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Second Generation OWL: Updates and Improvements to the Butler Online Writing Lab
This workshop will update participants to the changes in the Butler OWL (Online Writing Lab), a student tutoring service available via email and the web. Instructors who require written assignments in their classes will receive a brief overview of tutoring theory, a walk-through of the paper submission process, and promotional materials to distribute to classes.
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SoftChalk Lesson Builder for Online Instructors Group
Participation in this workshop is currently limited to online instructors. You may access the workshop through the Toolkit course in ANGEL. The workshop is self directed and allows 4 weeks for completion. Participants will use the tools in SoftChalk to develop an interactive unit of instruction for their online course.
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Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
This workshop is based upon the “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education,” authored by Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda Gamson. Originally published in 1987, these principles and their accompanying suggestions for implementation were a product of decades of research on learning in higher education, and the basic tenets set forth in them are still timely and applicable to teaching today. This is a project oriented course with weekly assignments. Successful completion requires a final project addressing how the participant's thoughts about teaching have changed through the implementation of the principles.
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Student Motivation: Techniques for the College Instructor
Topics will include the motivating instructor, using outcomes to motivate, motivating with style, and helping students help themselves.
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Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty
Discussion will center around the video "Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty: Connecting Students with Your Teaching". The video is hosted by Dr. Richard Lyons, "arguably the leading authority on the teaching and classroom management skills of adjunct faculty".
Strategies to increase student critical thinking skills and deepen student learning are discussed.
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TEACH Act
As an instructor, what can you legally use in your course? The reference librarian at L.W. Nixon Library will do a detailed overview of the rights and limitations of the TEACH Act. We will also cover the institution and instructor requirements for the TEACH Act so it will apply to you.
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Using Pipeline to Web Enhance Your Course
Learn how to use the My Courses feature in Pipeline to communicate with students more efficiently and make files, links and other information available to students which will help develop the technological skills required in the Butler Learning PACT and make the instructor’s job easier.
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| Using the Butler Online Databases
If you are feeling left behind by all of the changes in the library, this workshop will catch you up on all of the online resources available to you. We will cover the basics of using an online database, but we will also look at the tools these databases provide to help you and your students keep up-to-date and organized in this information age. We will look at the library's online book collection and how to best utilize this resource in your classroom.
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Who Are They and Why Are They Here: Beyond Butler Demographics
Coming soon.
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Send inquiries to:
Bob Meyer
Director of Faculty Development
Butler Community College
Andover, Kansas
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