The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has scheduled a number of special events for September. If you have an idea for a future professional development session, please contact us 810-.232-7883 or email William.Reich@mcc.edu.

Current Professional Development Events

Innovate: Journal of Online Education Webcasts
Innovate and ULiveandLearn host and produce Innovate-Live webcasts where authors in the current issue of the Innovate online journal are available during scheduled times to interact synchronously with readers on the topic of their articles. To view the current webcast schedule, please go to ULiveandLearn's Innovate-Live portal, which you can connect to by going to the Innovate Website <http://www.innovateonline.info/?view=subscribe>. Webcasts are free, but a separate registration requiring an email address and password is required. We suggest that you use the same email address and password for both Innovate and the Innovate-Live portal. (You can check the email address and password you use to access Innovate by clicking on "account" on the Innovate navigation tool bar.) Again, you can register for each of the following Webcasts by going to the Innovate Website <http://www.innovateonline.info/?view=subscribe> and establishing a free account.

Why Professor Johnny Can't Read: Understanding the Net Generation's Texts
Thursday, September 11, 2008, 2:00 PM
Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley offer an analysis of the texts favored by the Net Generation. Arguing that the blogs, social networking sites, and other interactive venues favored by these students reflect cognitive differences wrought by a lifetime of technological immersion, Mabrito and Medley suggest that instructors can benefit by learning to "read" these electronic texts, which must be understood differently than the paper texts of previous generations, and by leveraging them as pedagogical opportunities.

The Interactive Syllabus: Modifications and New Insights
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 11:00 AM
Scott Windham offers a practical discussion of a tool designed to accommodate students' varied learning preferences. Adapting Sylvie Richards's interactive syllabus, Windham discusses the opportunities and challenges presented by his own use of an online, resource-rich assignment guide in German-language classes.

The Net Generation Cheating Challenge
Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 11:00 AM
Valerie Milliron and Kent Sandoe focus on a more troubling difference: the apparent indifference of Net-Generation students toward cheating. Detailing their own experience with a pattern of cheating on online quizzes, Milliron and Sandoe describe the Net Generation's culture of cheating and describe ways to detect or, even better, deter cheating.

Mediating the Tensions of Online Learning with Second Life
Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 1:00 PM
Nancy Evans, Thalia M. Mulvihill, and Nancy J. Brooks argue that online education must satisfy perennial human needs for belonging and self-activation. E-mail and threaded discussion boards cannot foster the relationships that meet such needs; Evans, Mulvihill, and Brooks suggest that Second Life and similar multiuser virtual environments can provide a sense of presence and community that satisfies these needs while offering all of the benefits of online education.

Public Webinar: Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic Update
Thursday, September 18 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: Steve Noble
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) has been the leader in providing quality audio text books for students for half a century. Going from disks to real-to-real tapes, cassette tapes and now to digital books, RFB&D continues to blaze the trail for accessibility. RFB&D is launching a new service which allows members to download AudioPlus textbooks directly to your computer and then transfer to portable media players. Of course, anyone that prefers to get the CDs through the mail can still order them that way. This is simply a new service that gives users more options on how to receive and use AudioPlus textbooks. "RFB&D members can now choose to download these audio textbooks and literature directly to a Windows-compatible computer. AudioAccess is easy to use and portable! If you choose, once the books have been downloaded, they can be synced with a compatible portable media player for take-anywhere convenience." Register for the RFB&D Public Webinar at easi.cc/forms/rfbd.htm

Public Webinar: Understanding Electronic Document Formats
Thursday, September 25 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter Robert Beach
There are many document formats available to computer users. However, are they all accessible? Are they all navigable? Are they all usable for accommodation and/or production purposes? What are the pluses and minuses of the different file types? This webinar will look at several of the common document formats used as both accommodations for individuals with disabilities and production files in producing accessible materials. Some of the document formats that will be discussed are: plain text format (TXT), rich text format (RTF), Word Document format (DOC), hypertext markup language format (HTM), Portable Document Format (PDF), WYNN (WYN), Kurzweil (KES), and DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System). Register for this public Webinar at easi.cc/forms/doctypes.htm

EASI Interactive, Live Webinars
EASI is producing Interactive Webinars on specific accessibility-related topics. Participants can listen to the presenter, and watch as the presenter pushes Web pages and also ask questions yourself. The new series is Webinar Snapshots consisting of short focused presentations dealing with issues most relevant to beginner and intermediate creators of accessibility content.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Version 2 Guidelines
September 11 at 2:00 PM Eastern
Presenters: WAI staff and consultants
The Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines were first released about a decade ago. Since then, Web technology has been changing rapidly. Similarly, the accessibility technologies used by people with disabilities has also undergone significant revisions. As a consequence, there was a need to upgrade the WAI guidelines. This Webinar will outline these changes.
Register for the free WAI Webinar at: http://easi.cc/forms/wai2.htm

Public Webinar: Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic Update
Thursday, September 18 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: Steve Noble
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) has been the leader in providing quality audio text books for students for half a century. Going from disks to real-to-real tapes, cassette tapes and now to digital books, RFB&D continues to blaze the trail for accessibility. RFB&D is launching a new service which allows members to download AudioPlus textbooks directly to your computer and then transfer to portable media players. Of course, anyone that prefers to get the CDs through the mail can still order them that way. This is simply a new service that gives users more options on how to receive and use AudioPlus textbooks. "RFB&D members can now choose to download these audio textbooks and literature directly to a Windows-compatible computer. AudioAccess is easy to use and portable! If you choose, once the books have been downloaded, they can be synced with a compatible portable media player for take-anywhere convenience."
Register for the RFB&D Public Webinar at easi.cc/forms/rfbd.htm Public Webinar: Understanding Electronic Document Formats Thursday, September 25 at 2 PM Eastern Presenter Robert Beach There are many document formats available to computer users. However, are they all accessible? Are they all navigable? Are they all usable for accommodation and/or production purposes? What are the pluses and minuses of the different file types? This webinar will look at several of the common document formats used as both accommodations for individuals with disabilities and production files in producing accessible materials. Some of the document formats that will be discussed are: plain text format (TXT), rich text format (RTF), Word Document format (DOC), hypertext markup language format (HTM), Portable Document Format (PDF), WYNN (WYN), Kurzweil (KES), and DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System). Register for this public Webinar at easi.cc/forms/doctypes.htm

University Business Web Seminars One Hour On Demand Web Seminar:
"How Rich Media Is Helping Hearing-Impaired College Students"
Presenters: Earl Parks, Gallaudet University, Director of Academic Technology
Deborah Chen Pichler, Gallaudet University, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Mark Turner, Director of the Center for Accessible Media, California State University Chancellor's Office
Technology is helping students (and faculty) with disabilities. Gallaudet U., the leading university for deaf and hearing impaired undergraduate students, has been using lecture capture video to record the instructor using American Sign Language. The recording can then be modified to add a transcript and/or closed captions for hearing impaired students to facilitate their review.

To view this UB Web Seminar on-demand, go to www.universitybusiness.com/webseminars

Valencia's Learning Conversations Conference
October 22-24, 2008
Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, Florida.
Community colleges across the country have taken the initiative to move from teaching centered to learning-centered. Refining visions and breaking traditions and habits have resulted in fundamental changes in the way we view and support teaching, learning, assessment, institutional effectiveness, and student success while serving the unique needs of our ever changing and diverse communities. Valencia's Learning Conversations Conference is designed to elicit purposeful and substantial conversation around these changes, build on current approaches, and consider future steps to support the success of our students, faculty, staff and communities.
For additional conference information, visit http://www.valenciacc.edu/learningconference/ or call 407-582-3219.
Please use code LCSDE0801 when registering online or for conference inquiries.

Helping Students Emerge as Critial Thinkers - Dr. Stephen Brookfield
November 7, 2008
University of Michigan
See flyer for details

Past Workshops - This is a list of previously offered workshops

The Laboratory Safety Institute's Short Course
Tuesday, August 26 through Friday, August 29
See Registration Form and Four Day Schedule
The Laboratory Safety Institute's 2008 Short Course teaches the fundamentals of lab safety and how to improve lab safety programs. MCC employees may apply for professional development funds to cover or off set the $475 registration fee. Please apply early as enrollment needs to reach fifteen participants in order for this training to run.
Mott employees can register anytime by calling 800-647-1977 or by emailing LSIAdams@aol.com

Simulation Expo II Simulation Committee of Mott Community College
Wednesday, August 27 8:00AM-4:00 PM CM2204
See attached flier
Participants will perform a micro simulation, participate in a macro-simulation, acquaint selves with newest simulation equipment, differentiate between effective and ineffective debriefing methods, describe elements of teamwork and communication to promote patient safety, and identify methods for further faculty development in simulation. This session is primarily for health science faculty. The Simulation Expo II will be offered to general faculty during the 2008-2009 school year. RSVP To Bernadette Coleman 232-6592

New Full Time Faculty Development
August 26
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m Tuesday
New Faculty will receive additional information over the summer.
New Part-Time Faculty Orientation
August 28
5:00-7:00 p.m. Thursday,
New Part Time Faculty will receive additional information over the summer.

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) 2008 Fall Kickoff Professional Development Sessions
Aug 26 - Aug 29
Informational Brochure

English Department Part Time, Adjunct Faculty Professional Development
Writing Center CM2031
Tuesday, August 26 10:00 a.m.
Glenn Harris, Composition Coordinator will go over the English Department's expectations with part time and adjunct instructors, especially those new to the department and MCC. Please come with questions, comments, and suggestions.

Basic Wids 7.5 Workshop
Full and Part-time faculty are encouraged to attend this 3 day workshop.
November 9th, 16th, and 30th

Sixth Annual Teaching Professor Conference
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
June 5-7, 2009.
The Teaching Professor Conference joins the best minds from the best schools. This is your opportunity to shine and interact with teaching and learning experts with national reputations.
Go to http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference/index.html for more information.

Distance Learning Peer To Peer Workshop
June 6, 2008
Mott Community College

WIDS Training
Full and Part-time faculty are encouraged to attend this 3 day workshop.
May 30, June 6, & June 13
8:00 - 4:00
RTC 2121& 2106

LiveText Presentation
Monday, August 4, 1:00 pm in CM2139
LiveText is a planning, assessment, accreditation and e-portfolio suite of tools. Learn how LiveText is currently being used in institutions similar to Mott and how LiveText can be used to help meet institutional goals.