Nov./Dec. 2009

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Changes to Spring Development Day

ACC’s Spring Development Day, scheduled for Friday, January 15, 2010, will be hosting professional development workshops at HBC all day long instead of the college-wide meeting usually held in the morning. Workshops will run from 9am-10:30am, 10:45am-12:15pm, 1:30pm-3:00pm, and 3:15pm-4:45pm.

If you or anyone in your area would like to offer a workshop that day, please contact the Professional Development Office at 223-7997 or email Nicole Bell at nbell2@austincc.edu. Workshop enrollment will begin on December 10th, at which point you can go to http://www.austincc.edu/hr/profdev/events/springdevday/jan10/ to view workshop listings.

Workshops

In addition to our usual offerings, below is a list of some additional workshops offered in November and December. Just click on the name of the workshop to get more information or enroll.

PRDE: Facilitating Change I
11/6/2009, 1:30pm-3:30pm, HBC 221

Photoshop Basics
11/6/2009, 9:00am-10:30am, HBC 212

Photoshop Intermediate
11/6/2009, 10:30am-12:00pm, HBC 212

Acoustic Alchemy: Enhancing Instruction through Music
11/13/2009, 9:00am-11:00am, HBC 218

IDS: SoftChalk Training
11/13/2009, 1:30pm-3:30pm, NRG 1229
2/19/2010, 9:00am-11:00am, NRG 1229

IDS: Camtasia
11/17/2009, 1:00pm-3:00pm, CYP 2121.9

E-Staffing: A Workshop for People Working with E-Staffing
11/13/2009, 9:00am-10:30am, HBC 212
2/26/2010, 9:00am-10:30am, HBC TBA

EHS: CPR/AED
11/20/2009,8:30am-2:30pm, RVS BUCT
12/3/2009, 8:30am-2:30pm, HBC 103.2

Improving Presentations:
Seven Acting Tools That Can Dramatically Enhance Your Performance
12/4/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, HBC 103.6

Holiday Spending-Simplified
12/9/2009, 12:00pm-1:00pm, HBC Room 103.2

SurveyMonkey: An online survey tool
12/11/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, HBC  218

Fall 2009 Upcoming Blackboard® Workshops 
Click for a full listing of Blackboard Workshops offered by Instructional Development Services

DC: E-Staffing: A Workshop for Department Chairs
11/13/2009, 9:00am-10:30am, HBC 212
2/26/2010, 9:00am-10:30am, HBC TBA

DC: The Care and Feeding of Student Learners
11/13/2009, 11:00am-12:30pm, HBC 218

DC: Early College Start -- A Workshop for Department Chairs
11/20/2009, 9:00am-10:30am, HBC 214

Online MS Word Course gets a Facelift

New MS Word 2007 online workshop is now available here. Learn the best ways to use the new Ribbon, get a handle on finding popular commands, and understand what the new file format does for you.

It’s course evaluation time!

The bright pink Fall course evaluation packages will be mailed out the first week of November. Faculty should look for a yellow page with student instructions that will be placed in mail boxes along with bright pink course evaluation packets. To obtain the most accurate evaluation data, faculty should go over these instructions with the student monitor.  Remind them that black ball point pens are best to fill out the evaluations (blue pen will work, pencil will not scan).

To see new evaluation instructions for student monitor go to:
www.austincc.edu/hr/eval/documents/ClassClimate2009StudentMonitorInstructions.pdf

To see your evaluation window periods go to:
www.austincc.edu/hr/eval/calendars.php

Please read the instructions in the pink envelope. If you have any questions please contact us and send a request for information at:
www.austincc.edu/hr/eval/requests/information_request.php

Visit our website for more information: 
www.austincc.edu/hr/eval/

Have a great semester!

ACC Faculty and Staff Evaluation Office

Free Educational Streaming Workshops and Videos

ACC Facutly and Stafff have access to free web-delivered workshops and videos each month via Starlink.

In November:
“The Leadership Challenge" - Leadership and Success Series

This program, produced by The National Society of Leadership and Success, is available 24/7 for two weeks via the Internet.To sign up go here.

The upcoming videos are:

• November - "Student Motivation: Techniques for the College Instructor"
• December - "Curriculum Redesign"

Plus, ACC employees can watch archived videos as well with a password. You can gain access to the password by emailing Lara Niles at lniles@austincc.edu. Titles include

• "Anger in the Classroom"
• "Connecting CATs and CoLTs: Techniques To Improve Student Learning"
• "Course Redesign"
• "Creating the Active Classroom"
• "Critical Challenges In Distance Education: Cheating and Plagiarism Using the Internet"