Day	Date	Time	Location	Presenter	Title	Descriptions
Monday	1/23/2012	10:00am-11:00am	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	ITS Media Services Staff	Crestron: Making Smart Classrooms Work Smarter	Are you interested in using Mott's smart classrooms to present materials to your students? This presentation will take you through the basics of using smart classrooms.
Thursday	1/26/2012	1:00pm-2:00pm	CTL (ML 3106)	Ethel Mason, Accounting Supervisor - Accounting & Brenda Phillips, Supervisor-HR Systems & Research - Human Resources	WebAdvisor - Employee Self Service Opportunities	Enhance your WebAdvisor experience by learning about the various applications and uses for the Employee Section of WebAdvisor and how to get the most out of the employee self-service capabilities.
Friday	1/27/2012	10:00am-12:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division	Bare Bones and Beginning Blackboard for Teaching	Designed specifically for new users, this presentation will serve as a basic introduction to some of BlackBoard's features. Topics include creating a course shell, adding and organizing content, and using grade-book and discussion boards. You will have an opportunity to practice, hands-on, what you learn in the second half of this presentation,
Monday	1/30/2012	5:00pm-7:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division	Gmail and Google Calendar	This workshop will introduce users to the wide variety of organizational and planning tools available in Gmail and Google Calendar. Participants will have a chance to practice using the tools within these apps to streamline their work flow and share organization ideas with their peers.
Monday	1/30/2012	2:00pm-3:00pm	CTL (ML 3106)	Jessica Himstedt, Librarian I: Tech. Services/Circulation - Library Services	MeLCat	Come find out about Michigan's best kept research secret: MeLCat. With over 400 participating libraries and over 9,000,000 items at your finger tips, you don't know what you're missing!
Tuesday	1/31/2012	1:30pm-2:30pm	CTL (ML 3106)	Margaret Bourcier, Manager, e-Learning, FS And Web Development - ITS e-Learning	NBC Learn for Blackboard	Students increasingly comprehend through observation and learn by seeing events themselves. Through a partnership between Blackboard, Inc. and NBC Learn, educators can easily locate educational multimedia content about real-world events that is instructionally sound and relevant to course curricula. NBC Learn contains professionally made multimedia content archived in easily searchable video collections that are updated regularly: News footage of historic and current events. Primary source documents, articles and political cartoons. Photographs, images, charts and graphs. Critical analysis and mini-documentaries covering topics across academic disciplines. This workshop will introduce faculty to NBC Learn and how to incorporate it into their courses.
Thursday	2/2/2012	1:00pm-2:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	ITS Media Services Staff	Smart Cart Training	During this workshop we'll show you the "Ins & Outs" of using a smartcart. You'll learn how to set up your PowerPoint presentations, along with how to setup your Smartcart for showing a DVD with "CLOSED CAPTIONING" in Windows Media Player 7. And, last but not least, how to access the Internet.
Monday	2/6/2012	2:30pm-3:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	ITS Staff	Telephone Training - Learning the Basics	This interactive workshop will teach you the basic operations and features of MCC's new POLYCOM telephones. Learn how to access voicemail, transfer calls, make calls off campus, access & search the directories, forward calls, place calls on hold and the 'do not disturb' feature. The CTL Computer Lab is equipped for each participant to have their own telephone for hands-on training.
Saturday	2/11/2012	9:00am-11:00am	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	"Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division "	Google Docs and Apps	This workshop will introduce users to GoogleDocs--a powerful, yet simple, suite of productivity apps. In addition to learning about the 'creation' features of Google Docs (creating a quick document, spreadsheet, or presentation), users will also learn about using Google Docs as a platform for storing and sharing documents with colleagues, students, or the world.
Tuesday	2/14/2012	11:00am-11:30am	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	ITS Staff	Advanced Telephone Training	Attend this CTL session if you're looking for more advanced training on the Mott telephone system. We ask that you submit specific questions in advance, so our trainers can be prepared with answers. Questions should be emailed to Chulindra.Cooks@mcc.edu
Friday	2/24/2012	10:00am-12:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division	Effective (PowerPoint) Presentation Design for Teachers and Professionals	We have all sat through some rather horrible presentations in our life. As the saying goes, 'Power Corrupts but PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.' This interactive workshop will introduce you to the basics of designing an effective presentation and help you create dynamic, visually concise presentations, whatever the topic or situation may be (classroom, meetings, professional workshops, etc). Come learn the do's and don'ts of presentation design. Though PowerPoint will be our primary focus, we will also discuss alternative presentation programs, like Prezi and Keynote.
Friday	3/2/2012	10:00am-12:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division	Effective (PowerPoint) Presentation Design for Teachers and Professionals	We have all sat through some rather horrible presentations in our life. As the saying goes, 'Power Corrupts but PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.' This interactive workshop will introduce you to the basics of designing an effective presentation and help you create dynamic, visually concise presentations, whatever the topic or situation may be (classroom, meetings, professional workshops, etc). Come learn the do's and don'ts of presentation design. Though PowerPoint will be our primary focus, we will also discuss alternative presentation programs, like Prezi and Keynote.
Monday	3/5/2012	2:30pm-3:30pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	ITS Staff	Virtual Desktops at Mott Community College	Virtual Desktops are used by Mott Community College to deliver computer services to computer labs, offices and remotely to your home PC. While the usage is very similar to a standard computer on campus, there are some limited differences. You will be given a brief introduction into what a virtual desktop is, while spending the rest of the time setting up a virtual desktop session and getting your questions answered.
Wednesday	3/21/2012	1:00pm-2:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	ITS Staff	GMail - the basics	This workshop will focus on a brief introduction to Gmail and how it works. Logging in, reading email, sending email, archiving mail and dealing with attachments will be covered. Additionally there will be a little introduction into the other g-apps that come with Gmail.
Thursday	3/22/2012	1:00pm-2:00pm	CTL (ML 3106)	Kathy Irwin, Director - Library Services	e-books, e-readers @ your library	This session will provide a quick history and overview of e-books and e-readers, and a demonstration of how you can access the e-books provided by the Mott Library.
Monday	3/26/2012	5:00pm-7:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division	Advanced Blackboard for Teaching	Even for those who've been using Blackboard for years, there are always new tricks to learn. Come practice using some tools you might not be familiar with including Adaptive Release, Lesson Plans and Modules, Blogs, Wikis, and more. Prerequisites: Familiarity with BlackBoard and a course shell you can use to practice new skills.
Tuesday	4/3/2012	3:00pm-4:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	ITS Staff	Google Apps.	As our world becomes more wired, crowd sourcing and individual contributions begin to add to the collective community resources, and the software and hardware increase in power and presence. Increasingly, the tools we can use are freely available for download or use online. In this hands-on workshop, we'll examine just a few of the most useful, clever, cool, and basic things you ought to know about when using Google Apps and collaborative tools. You may have seen some of these tips, and you may not want others, but we guarantee you'll take away something of use.
Friday	4/13/2012	8:30am-3:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Bill Reich, ATD Faculty Lead - Planning, Research, And Quality & Rob Benard, Faculty/Coordinator Information Technology - Technology Division	WIDS Training	This workshop will be on using the WIDS 7.5 Instructional Design System. It will benefit faculty who are creating new courses, revising old courses, developing distance learning classes or classes offered in the RTC. WIDS designed student learning plans can be exported as HTML documents for use on Blackboard or be incorporated as Word documents in workbooks and handouts. Workshop participants will complete the design of one or more courseware modules, following the WIDS performance based instructional model. The training will cover every part of the WIDS program from general course information, developing observable and measurable competencies, learning and assessment activities to a complete syllabus that can even include a weekly schedule. Breakfast & lunch will be served. A minimum of eight participants will be needed in order to offer this training. PARTICIPANTS MUST ATTEND ALL THREE SESSIONS!
Friday	4/13/2012	10:00am-12:00pm	CTL (ML 3106)	Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division	Best Practices in 'Fair Use:' A workshop for educators and professionals	Afraid or hesitant to use copyrighted work in your classroom? Unsure if you are breaking the law by using copyrighted images in your presentations? If so, you won't want to miss this presentation. Based on the book Reclaiming Fair Use: How to put Balance Back in Copyright, this presentation will help you understand when, where, and why you can use copyrighted materials in your professional and personal projects, presentations, and teaching. We will discuss the history, myths, and best practices of 'fair use' in this two-hour, interactive, visually pleasing presentation.
Saturday	4/14/2012	8:30am-3:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Bill Reich, ATD Faculty Lead - Planning, Research, And Quality & Rob Benard, Faculty/Coordinator Information Technology - Technology Division	WIDS Training	This workshop will be on using the WIDS 7.5 Instructional Design System. It will benefit faculty who are creating new courses, revising old courses, developing distance learning classes or classes offered in the RTC. WIDS designed student learning plans can be exported as HTML documents for use on Blackboard or be incorporated as Word documents in workbooks and handouts. Workshop participants will complete the design of one or more courseware modules, following the WIDS performance based instructional model. The training will cover every part of the WIDS program from general course information, developing observable and measurable competencies, learning and assessment activities to a complete syllabus that can even include a weekly schedule. Breakfast & lunch will be served. A minimum of eight participants will be needed in order to offer this training. PARTICIPANTS MUST ATTEND ALL THREE SESSIONS!
Monday	4/16/2012	5:00pm-7:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Aaron Gulyas, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty-History - Fine Arts & Social Sciences Division & Joshua Sauvie, CTL Technology Consultant & Faculty - English - Humanities Division	Gmail and Google Calendar	This workshop will introduce users to the wide variety of organizational and planning tools available in Gmail and Google Calendar. Participants will have a chance to practice using the tools within these apps to streamline their work flow and share organization ideas with their peers.
Friday	4/20/2012	8:30am-3:00pm	Computer Lab (ML 3101)	Bill Reich, ATD Faculty Lead - Planning, Research, And Quality & Rob Benard, Faculty/Coordinator Information Technology - Technology Division	WIDS Training	This workshop will be on using the WIDS 7.5 Instructional Design System. It will benefit faculty who are creating new courses, revising old courses, developing distance learning classes or classes offered in the RTC. WIDS designed student learning plans can be exported as HTML documents for use on Blackboard or be incorporated as Word documents in workbooks and handouts. Workshop participants will complete the design of one or more courseware modules, following the WIDS performance based instructional model. The training will cover every part of the WIDS program from general course information, developing observable and measurable competencies, learning and assessment activities to a complete syllabus that can even include a weekly schedule. Breakfast & lunch will be served. A minimum of eight participants will be needed in order to offer this training. PARTICIPANTS MUST ATTEND ALL THREE SESSIONS!
Friday	5/4/2012	8:00am-7:00pm	CTL (ML 3106)	Center for Teaching & Learning	Grind Out the Grades	Are you a new instructor at Mott and unfamiliar with how to submit grades online? Are you an experienced instructor who might enjoy completing this end of semester task with a little company? Would you like a break from grading end of the semester assessments and assigning grades? No matter what your reason, join the party. There will be technical assistance for those who need it, food for those who like to feed their stress, and of course, the excellent company of your colleagues. Come for a couple hours or just drop in for a few minutes.