Dealing
with Stress in Difficult Economic Times
Monday, February 23, 8:00 to 9:30 AM and 3:00 to 4:30 PM, CC3460
Presenter: Tom Sweeney, WA State Employee Assistance Program
It is no secret that many of us are feeling the stress associated
with national, regional and local economies in major crisis. Anyone with retirement
savings has seen those savings lose considerable value over the last several
months. Some of us have friends or family members who have lost jobs or income
or who are facing that possibility. Our college, along with all of state government,
is under a budget-cutting imperative. In response, we are holding some jobs
vacant and many feel they are being asked to work harder with fewer resources.
What final form our budget-cutting will take is as yet unknown. This session
will help provide perspective on and understanding of the very natural stress
associated with the current economic crisis, along with some strategies and
resources for dealing constructively with that stress. Included in the session
will be an overview of the resources available to North’s employees
through the Washington State Employee Assistance Program.
http://www.dop.wa.gov/Employees/EmployeeAssistanceProgram
Please Note: the same session is repeated twice to accommodate varying schedules
Pedagogy 102
Monday, February 23, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, CC2153
Facilitator Jane Lister-Reis
Offered through the college’s Teaching and Learning Center, Pedagogy
101/102 are two year-long, monthly professional development experiences open
to all faculty, but are especially designed with new faculty (both full- and
part-time) in mind.
The 2008-09 program includes two distinct areas of focus:
Pedagogy 101:The Creation of a Community of Learners (*The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer)
Pedagogy 102:Teaching, Learning and Assessment Best Practices (*What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain)
In Pedagogy 101, faculty used discussion materials, a common text and reflective practices to build their own learning community as a safe and supportive environment through which to explore and share their own teaching and learning practices (and to be able to apply these same principles, practices and values in their classroom).
In Pedagogy 102, faculty will learn instructional design skills in order to ensure their courses have robust learning outcomes, clear concepts and skills, and effective assessment tools. At the end of the academic year, faculty will be asked to share their learning project/s with the larger academic community.
Note: You can choose to sign up for both Pedagogy 101 and 102, or just one. When you register, please plan to commit to the entire year’s program.
Facilitator Jane Lister-Reis. For more information please email her at jreis@sccd.ctc.edu or phone the TLC at 206-527-3776.
Camtasia 6, Part II
Tuesday, February 24, 2:30 to 4:30 PM, TLC LB 3231C
Instructor Coryl Celene-Martel
Camtasia Studio is a powerful, easy-to-use tool for providing instructions to students, saving repetitive answering of frequently asked questions about homework, lesson requirements, etc. and/or enabling more nuanced instructions than you could type out in text. Simply recording screen action and easily adding narration, music and screen hints helps you further clarify a procedure or sequence of actions for students and provides you with a reuseable course resource for quarters to come. Providing Camtasia-recorded materials in an online, hybrid, or on-campus course can also help improve accessability for students with a variety of learning styles. In part II, we will explore some of the more advanced elements, such as adding a self-quiz or combining a suite of Camtasia movies into one file.
Teaching to Outcome
7
Wednesday, February 25, 2:30 to 4:30 PM, CC3460 Coordinated Studies Rm
Facilitator Christopher Davis
Are you a faculty
member teaching to Outcome 7, with "emphasis"? This workshop will
introduce the Outcome 7 rubric, help individual instructors/courses determine
where they are presently in terms of assessing Outcome 7, and facilitate work
toward outlining some specific applications, assignments, or approaches aimed
at accurately assessing Outcome 7. The workshop is open to all, but specifically
targeted for those with Outcome 7 as an emphasis.
International
Students & Cultural Differences: "What To Do When You’re from
Saturn and the Other Is from Neptune" Series
Thursday, February 26
Session 2, first presentation 8:00 to 9:00 AM
Session 2, repeated 3:00 to 4:00 PM
CC2153 Coordinated Studies Room
Facilitated by Mari Acob-Nash
Session 2: Focus on Vietnamese Students
Increasingly, our campus is becoming a global community. The number of international
students at NSCC has grown from 258 in fall 2005 to 583 in fall 2008. Establishing
understanding and interacting in positive ways across cultural differences
can present challenges—some slight and some significant. This session
begins a two-quarter series of four workshops. Each workshop will be divided
into two parts. The first half of each session will present a general principle
(GP) for dealing constructively with cultural differences. The second half
of each session will focus on cultural characteristics of a specific group
of international students. Each session will be presented twice to accommodate
varying work schedules.
Session Series Entire Schedule:
Indonesian Students
Wednesday, Jan 28, 3:00-400, CC2153 and Thursday, Jan 29, 8:00-9:00 ,CC2153
(at Collaboration Day Winter 2009)
Vietnamese Students
Thursday, Feb 26, 8:00-9:00, CC2153 and Thursday, Feb 26, 3:00-4:00, CC2153
South Korean Students
Tuesday, Apr 21, 3:00-4:00, CC2153 and Wednesday, Apr 22, 8:00-9:00, CC2153
Mainland Chinese Students
Wednesday, May 13, 3:00-4:00, CC2153 and Thursday, May 14, 8:00-9:00, CC2153
Angel: First Steps (Series 2)
Thursday, February 26, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, TLC LB 3231C
Instructor Tom Braziunas
Dear Colleagues, This workshop is full. No walk-ins can be added. These ANGEL workshops will be offered multiple times and multiple days in Spring Quarter.
For information or to sign up for a future workshop, please contact Tom Brazunias at tbraziun@sccd.ctc.edu.
For the past 10 years, this college has used WebCT and FirstClass as two alternative “learning management systems” (LMS) to successfully provide online discussion rooms, grade books, lessons, activities and/or testing to students in campus classes, blended (hybrid) classes and virtual classrooms. The popularity of these beneficial online enhancements for students and faculty has led us to essentially outgrow our current arrangement.
In order to expand capacity, we have begun to switch to another learning management system. We have been impressed with ANGEL (“A New Generation of E-Learning”) which is a robust, acclaimed and tried-and-true LMS chosen by the State Board to replace Blackboard for all the state’s Washington Online classes. Faculty, staff and admin representatives from every community college participated in a two-year rigorous review process to choose the LMS that best fit with our (and our students’) specific needs. Many of these colleges are also switching to ANGEL.
At North, we will continue to use WebCT through Fall 2009 and FirstClass through Summer 2009 after which our licensing contracts end. We have a license to use ANGEL and so we are starting to provide TLC workshops in ANGEL in a couple weeks and many times in following quarters (including summer). Please consider attending now or later! We will be using ANGEL exclusively starting Winter 2010.
Faculty Retreat
Friday, February 27, 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM, Off-campus
The Annual Faculty Retreat will be held at the
new Northgate Community Center at 10510 5th Ave. NE, east of Northgate Mall.
More details soon.
