March/April 2006

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Richard Bolles is Coming to ACC

Richard Bolles: What Color is Your [Lonestar] Parachute? Parts I & II

Richard Bolles, considered America’s top career expert, is coming to ACC for a two-day seminar in April. He is the author of many books including What Color is Your Parachute, How to Find Your Mission in Life, The Three Boxes of Life, and The Career Counselor’s Handbook. This seminar with Dick Bolles and others is designed for ACC counselors and career specialists, interested ACC employees, and area high school counselors. Required text: The 2006 What Color is Your Parachute? Advance registration necessary. Information regarding required text, parking, and lunch arrangements will be forwarded to registered participants. For questions, contact Theresa Busby (223-2025). You must enroll in both Parts I and II.
Part I: 4/6/2006, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, EVC - Room 8500
Part II: 4/7/2006, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, EVC - Room 8500

Servant-Leadership

The Servant-Leadership initiative launched by Dr. Steve Kinslow in the fall of 2005 has been very well-received. An overwhelming majority of those who attended training on the topic have responded positively to the concept and have asked for more training. Additional Servant-Leadership training for supervisors is now available; the titles are listed below. You may register for these at https://workshops.austincc.edu.
Check the database regularly for new offerings on this topic; several more training sessions are in the planning stages.

Effective Listening: A Servant-Leadership Approach
3/21/2006, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, HBC - Room 301.0

Conflict Management: A Servant-Leadership Approach
3/30/2006, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, HBC - Room 201

Employee Coaching: A Servant-Leadership Approach
4/13/2006, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM, HBC - Room 201

Listed below are some of the workshops being offered this Spring. Go to the Workshop and Event Registration Database to view or register for any of the 2006 workshops.

Procrastinator's Follow-up: Developing A Plan

If you attended "Procrastinator's Choice: Stall or Succeed," you may want to explore the topic further with this session. After a brief review of basic principles, participants will work together to develop action plans for implementing change.
3/9/2006, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, HBC - Room 301.2

Dreamweaver: Intermediate

Dreamweaver: Intermediate will provide you with tools to take your website to the next level. Topics include rollovers, behaviors, and forms. You will also be introduced to the basics of cascading style sheets.
3/23/2006, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM, HBC - Room 212

Photoshop Elements

Introduces participants to an inexpensive, easy-to-use image manipulation program that will enhance and organize your photos. Learn how to:

3/31/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 212
4/28/2006, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, HBC - Room 212

PowerPoint 1 & 2

This software application can help create compelling, interactive slides that support your presentation.

PowerPoint 1 - Participants will learn how to produce overheads, handouts and speaker notes, insert graphics, sound and video, as well as become familiar with the drawing tools.
3/24/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 212
4/14/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, RGC - Room 229

PowerPoint 2 - This workshop covers creating tables and charts, inserting voice narration, adding transitions, pre-set timings and other effects, in addition to converting your presentation to a web page.
3/24/2006, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, HBC - Room 212
4/14/2006, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, RGC - Room 229

Teleconference: Starlink: Motivating Students from Day One to Graduation

Don Fraser, one of North America’s leading authorities on student success and motivation, will lead this teleconference. He has delivered student motivation seminars to over 9,000 college staff members at many national conferences and at over 90 individual colleges. This broadcast will reveal how to discover the top 10 factors in student motivation, kick-start learning with the 6 keys to brainpower and memory, create an educational and career vision, coach rather than instruct, and tap into a student’s enthusiasm for learning and turn it into motivation for success.
4/6/2006, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, HBC - Room 103.6

Teleconference: Google Print: Its Impact on Scholarship and Libraries

This program will explicate Google’s vision of the future. We will discuss how a successful project will impact the world of information from the perspectives of librarians, academic administrators, scholars and publishers. This project has stirred up a bundle of issues, some of them contentious; but our goal is to highlight the key issues in a constructive manner. We plan to produce a program that is consistent with the academic tradition of a “spirit of inquiry” and not a polemic.
4/28/2006, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, HBC - Room 103.6

Supervisor Series

Current offerings of the "Supervisor Series" current offerings are listed below while additional workshops are being designed and will be added in the coming months.

Supervisor Series: Budget Training
3/24/2006, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, HBC - Room 103.2

Supervisor Series: Environmental Health, Safety and Insurance - Modules I and II
3/24/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, HBC - Room 103.2

Supervisor Series: Environmental Health, Safety and Insurance - Modules III and IV
3/31/2006, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM, HBC - Room 301.0

Supervisor Series: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
3/22/2006, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, HBC - Room 301.0

Supervisor Series: Facilities and Operations
3/31/2006, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, HBC - Room 411

Supervisor Series: Background and Influence of SACS
4/6/2006, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, HBC - Room 201

Supervisor Series: Registered Sex Offender Information
4/21/2006, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, HBC - Room 103.2

J. Gray's Tech Tips

Internet Explorer Address Bar Tips

To get to the Address bar quickly, press F6. Not only does this place the cursor there, it also highlights the current address so it is deleted with the first key you press.

Type the name of the web address in the address bar and then press Control-Enter. IE automatically enters ‘www.’ and ‘.com’ for you. Example: type ‘google’ in the address bar and press Crtl-Enter – IE will fill in www.google.com for you.

How do I change the default document font in Word?
Select Font from the Format menu.
In the font dialog box, set all of the attributes you want for your default font.
Click the Default button.
Word will inform you that this change will affect all documents based on the Normal template.
Click OK.

New***Online: Microsoft Word Basics

For those of you who have asked about an online Microsoft Word Basics class, here it is! This workshop covers the following topics:

To find out more about this class or to register, go to the workshop database.

Blackboard Series Begins March 24th

ACC Instuctional Design Specialists will be presenting a series of workshops on Blackboard beginning March 24th.

IDS: Blackboard Quickstart
3/24/2006, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, HBC - Room TBA

IDS: Blackboard I - Getting Started
4/7/2006, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, RVS - Room IDC - 1121
5/17/2006, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, EVC - Room IDC 2203.1

IDS: Blackboard II - Adding Content
4/21/2006, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, RVS - Room IDC - 1121
5/18/2006, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, EVC - Room IDC 2203.1

IDS : Blackboard III - Communication and Student Management
4/28/2006, 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, RVS - Room IDC - 1121
5/19/2006, 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM, EVC - Room IDC 2203.1

IDS: Blackboard IV - Creating Online Assessments
4/28/2006, 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM, RVS - Room IDC - 1121
5/19/2006, 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM, EVC - Room IDC 2203.1

Casey Ray

Casey Ray, who used to help us keep it all together in the Professional Development area as an Administrative Assistant, has now "graduated" and gone on to the greener pastures of ACC's Service Center. Her new job as a Web Development Specialist will be directed into the area of the Datatel system.

Before ACC, Casey worked for Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona, where she obtained an associate degree. “At Pima CC, I was fortunate to have worked in all major areas of the college including academic, student services and administration. I feel that experience gave me a good overview of how community colleges function and, of course, I have the student perspective, too.”

At night and on the weekends, Casey can be found hanging out with her Jack Russell terrier, Alexey. “Where I am organized, she’s destructive. Where I am fairly laid back, she is hyper and intense. Where I am happy to spend hours in front of the computer, she would prefer spending hours at the park, running and catching the tennis ball.”

In her short duration of four-and-a-half years here at ACC, Casey has become known for her competence and helpfulness, as well as her diligence in furthering her education and skills. She’ll complete the ACC Webmaster’s certification this summer. Hats off to Casey for pursuing her vision and accomplishing it.

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