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Collaborate, Learn, Inspire Fall 2015

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Evergreen Valley College Fall 2015 Professional Development Day

August 27-28 Thursday, August 27

Time Description Location 7:45AM-9:00AM SUNRISE BREAKFAST! Welcome Back EVC Faculty & Staff

Social hours: Greeting and Meeting

VPA

9:00AM-

10:30AM

Welcome

Dancing with one of the EVC Stars- Dallas Manson

Introducing dance for all by Liz Falvey

More EVC Talents introduced by Sylvia Min

Fun Feud Trivia moderated by Bob Brown

VPA Theatre

10:30AM-

10:40AM B R E A K

10:40AM-

12:00PM Tribute to Paul Humann – Daniel Allen & Keith Aytch (10 min.)

College Updates- President Henry Yong (10 min.)

Welcome Interim Chancellor- John Hendrickson (10 min.)

o Police Chief Introduction (3min.)

Accreditation- Keith Aytch and Lynette Apen (10 min.)

Integrated Planning- Lynette Apen (10min)

ILO Assessment update – Lynette Apen (5min)

SLO Assessment Best Practices Panel – Lynette Apen (10 min)

AFT 6157 (4 min.)- Randy Pratt

CSEA (4 min.) – Art Azevedo

MSCC (4 min.) – Lauren McKee

VPA Theatre

12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch and Conversation College Leaders Gullo I SLO & ILO, Assessment Planning and/ Updates on

Strategic Planning by Divisions/Departments

1:05PM-3:15PM SSHAAPE LE-232

1:05PM-3:15PM Student Success/Counseling Counseling

Platform

1:05PM-3:15PM Business and Workforce and Instructional Technology LE-228

1:05PM-3:15PM Language Arts and Library LE-204

1:05PM-3:15PM Math Science and Engineering AD-143

1:05PM-3:15PM Nursing S-219


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Friday, August 28

Time Description Location

8:15AM-9:00AM Sunrise Breakfast VPA

9:00AM-

10:00AM Student Equity Report

Alex Duran, Octavio Cruz, William Nguyen & Shelley Blackman

VPA Theatre

10:05AM-12:10AM B r e a k o u t S e s s i o n s Location 10:05AM-11:05AM S e s s i o n 1 Location

10:05AM-11:05AM CalPERS: Planning your Retirement Class

(Continues in Session 2)

S-127

(Montgomery

Hall)

10:05AM-11:05AM Trends and Best Practices in Online Education


LE-231

10:05AM-11:05AM PowerPoint is not the Only Tool

C-103

10:05AM-11:05AM Using CROA to Support Enrollment Management and

Student Success

Assessment

Center

10:05AM-11:05AM Climate Change Across the Curriculum


Mishra Room

10:05AM-11:05AM Demo of Outlook in Office 365


LE-232

10:05AM-11:05AM Useful Excel

(Repeated in Session 2)

C-104

10:05AM-11:05AM AFT-6157: Faculty Rights and Obligations C-105

10:05AM-11:05AM SLO/PLO


LE-228

10:05AM-11:05AM Accreditation and Program Review LE-209

10:05AM-11:05AM Yoga PE-202

10:05AM-11:05AM CurricUNet


LE-204

10:05AM-11:05AM Use of smartphones and tablets in Physics Labs


AE-251

10:05AM-11:05AM NBCLearn in Moodle: A Valuable Resource


LE-227

10:05AM-11:05AM J.E.W.L./Oral History and Learning Institute/Museum


S-130 & S-131


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11:10AM-12:10PM S e s s i o n 2 Location 11:10AM-12:10PM CalPERS: Planning your Retirement Class

(Continued from Session 1)

S-127

(Montgomery

Hall)

11:10AM-12:10PM Trends and Best Practices in Online Education


LE-231

11:10AM-12:10PM Data 101 Assessment

Center

11:10AM-12:10PM Climate Change Across the Curriculum


Mishra Room

11:10AM-12:10PM Student Success through OER’s and Cool4Ed LE-324

11:10AM-12:10PM Demo of Outlook in Office 365


LE-232

11:10AM-12:10PM Useful Excel

(Repeated)

C-104

11:10AM-12:10PM CDCP Curriculum- Nuts and Bolts C-103

11:10AM-12:10PM SLO/PLO


LE-228

11:10AM-12:10PM Strategic Planning LE-209

11:10AM-12:10PM EVC Counseling Faculty and AFT 6157 Special

Session

C-105

11:10AM-12:10PM Longevity in Health and Happiness

PE-204

11:10AM-12:10PM CurricUNet


LE-204

11:10AM-12:10PM Use of smartphones and tablets in Physics Labs


AE-251

11:10AM-12:10PM NBCLearn in Moodle: A Valuable Resource


LE-227

11:10AM-12:10PM J.E.W.L./Oral History and Learning Institute/Museum


S-130 & 131

11:10AM-12:10PM Mental Wellness on Campus: Early Detection LE-210

12:15PM-

1:15PM

Lunch + Bingo/Games (Raffle tickets)

Gullo I


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1:20PM-2:45PM B r e a k o u t S e s s i o n L o c a t i o n

1:20PM-2:45PM S e s s i o n 3 Location 1:20PM-2:45PM Turnitin LE-231

1:20PM-2:45PM Colleague Web UI Basic Navigation Assessment Center

1:20PM-2:45PM CurricUNet

(Continued from Session 1 & 2)

LE-204

1:20PM-2:45PM SLO/PLO


LE-228

1:20PM-2:45PM Educational Master Plan LE-232

1:20PM-2:45PM Theater in the Classroom Mishra Room

1:20PM-2:45PM Use of smartphones and tablets in Physics Labs


AE-251

1:20PM-2:45PM ASPIRE A5-212

1:20PM-2:45PM PRC LE-224

3:00PM-4:00PM Social Hour with Music & Ice-cream Gullo I

Special thanks to:

President’s Office, Custodial Services, Campus Technology Support Services, Reprographics,

and Division Administrative Assistances

Thank you to all the PDD presenters


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Professional Development Day (PDD)

Friday, August 28, 2015

Workshops with Detailed Information

Session 1: 10:05am -11:05am CalPERS: Planning your

Retirement Class

Facilitator: Dianne Escalante SC-127

(Montgomery Hall)

Description: This is a workshop on the basic retirement information for new hires and classic members,

topics such as retirement types, service credit, retirement options, and online resources.

Participants will be able to:

Expand knowledge base of the CalPERS Retirement System for a successful retirement

Trends and Best Practices in Online

Education

Facilitators: Daniel Allen & Nasreen Rahim LE-231

Description: In this workshop, participants will have a brief overview of best practices on online course

design using any course management system, and the four components in creating, and/or assessing an

online course. In the second part of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity of hands-on

experience in designing their courses using the four components of the course design rubric as suggested in

the Online Education Initiatives (OEI).


Participants will be able to learn some of the dos and don’ts of online course design

Participants will be able to implement the four components in designing their courses in their course

management system

PowerPoint is not the Only Tool!

Facilitator: Raquel Rojas C-103

Description: Are you tired of using Power Point to deliver your lectures or presentations? Are you

wondering what else is out there? Look no further because here is a start! This workshop will highlight free

online software applications. What attracts students to these software applications? They have audio,

creative visuals and will definitely catch the attention of your audience!


Learn about different forms of software applications that provide visual and auditory material

Using CROA to Support

Enrollment Management and

Student Success

Facilitator: John Van Weeren, ASR

Analytics, LLC

Assessment

Center


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Description: This is a hands on working session, facilitated by ASR Analytics, the creators of Colleague

Reporting and Operating Analytics (CROA) student success analysis suite. Facilitators will introduce CROA

reports that were designed specifically for EVC. These data and reports in CROA provide rich information

about enrollment trends, demographics, course offerings, financial aids, student success, and institutional

effectiveness.


Work with reports that are available in CROA

Participate in a discussion on how to use these data for making decisions about student success and

enrollment management

Climate Change across the

Curriculum

Facilitator: Steven Mentor Mishra Room

Description: This presentation will briefly discuss climate change and global warming as a context across

the curriculum. Instructors from different disciplines will share their own lesson plans regarding this issue.

The presenter will share his own Climate Change unit from English 1C, and a future unit for English 1C and

1A. Finally, faculty will have a chance to discuss their own interest in climate change as a pedagogical

opportunity for making connections across the curriculum, and as a group we’ll brainstorm possible

assignments and curricula for various disciplines.


Bringing the issue of climate change into our educational setting as a topic that crosses disciplines

Getting faculty and staff excited about the potential for students’ active learning and making

connections across disciplines

Applying themes of active learning, reading, writing and thinking to the presenter’s discipline, and

inviting others to share their own disciplinary strategies for active learning

Discussing possible teaching connections across the curriculum

Helping instructors form a group dedicated to such connections

Demo of Outlook in Office 365

Facilitator: Irene Gutierrez (DO-ITSS) LE-232

Description: This presentation is an overview of what the Outlook component Office 365 can do.


Learn the basic features of Outlook in Office 365

Useful Excel

Facilitator: Henry Gee C-104

Description: This presentation will demo how to do more with Excel.


Organize Spreadsheet

Condition Formatting

Work with Pivot Charts

Create Data Tables


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AFT-6157: Understanding Your

Faculty Rights and Obligations

Facilitators: Barbara Hanfling & AFT 6147

members

C-105

Description: This workshop will enable full-time and adjunct faculty to learn about new and continuing

rights guaranteed to them by the Union contract. The goals of educating our students and ensuring positive

Student Success is enhanced by a well-educated, informed faculty member regarding their contract. Class

Size, Professional Responsibilities, Office hours, etc. all contribute to Student Success-our goal. We will

focus on Evaluations (and request feedback on SLO assessments in the Contract per the ACCJC). We will

learn how to move across and down the Salary Schedule and filing for Sabbaticals through the PRC

(Professional Development Committee). There will be time for questions and answers about the connections

between our contract and student success.


Empower faculty to know and understand their rights

Create a positive working environment for faculty and students

Enhance Student Success

SLO/PLO

Facilitators: Abdie Tabrizi & Bob Brown LE-228

Description: This session is provided by the SLO Sub-committee and is available to any participants

interested in working on assessment related work including updating assessment matrices at the course or

program level and/or conducting assessment planning activities for the academic year. Participants will need

to bring a flash drive and any assessment data to the session.


Develop an assessment plan for 2015/16 academic year for courses and/or programs OR

Complete data analysis on assessment results, document results and develop interventions for

improvement (if needed) AND/OR

Document reassessment data to “close the loop” after interventions have been implemented

Participate in assessment related dialogue, including sharing lessons learned, challenges or success

stories after closing the loop.

Accreditation & Program Review

Facilitators: Keith Aytch & Felicia Mesa LE-209

Description: Session presenters will provide an update on the 2016 Accreditation Self Study draft. For the

remaining time, presenters will review EVCs program review process and describe the importance of

program review. This session is open to any learner interested in these topics; however, those undergoing

program review for 15/16 are highly encouraged to attend. This session is facilitated by members of the

Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC).


Describe the status of the 2016 EVC Self Evaluation Accreditation report

Identify ways to get involved in the accreditation process

Apply EVCs program review process

Detail the importance of program review


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Yoga Facilitator: Minerva Duke

PE-202

Description: This class will energized you while building your flexibility and strength. This yoga practice

will link your breath and movement while moving from one pose to another. Dress in comfortable clothes

and be on time.


Relax mind

Control breath

Sweat a little

CurricUNet Facilitators: Vicki Brewster & Janice

Toyoshima

LE-204

Description: In this workshop the participants will use the new CurricUNet software to produce new course

outline and revise existing course outline. It is highly recommended that the participants bring their

reference material in order to create their final finished product.


Experience how the functionality of CurricUNET Meta will facilitate the curriculum approval

process

Experience how the functionality of CurricUNET will delineate their role in the curriculum approval

process

Use of Smartphones and Tablets in

Physics Labs (Part 1)

Facilitator: Celso Batalha AE-251

Description: This workshop is divided in three segments, each illustrating aspects of a new approach to

teaching Mechanics in lab: video analysis using smartphones. In Part 1, participants will use their

smartphones to shoot videos outside the classroom (this is the fun part). The videos are those of a ball

thrown upward following a vertical path (“Free-Fall Motion”) and of a soccer ball being kicked at an angle

creating a curved path. The latter can be replaced by throwing a football and comparing effects of air

resistance with groups kicking the soccer ball (“Projectile Motion”).


Participants will learn about experiments designed to use cell phones in classroom

NBCLearn in Moodle CMS:

Teaching and Learning Resources Facilitator: Cynthia Harrison LE-227

Description: NBC Learn is a rich, dynamic, and innovative resource that provides thousands of historic

news reports, current events stories, original content, primary source documents, and other digital media

specifically designed to help teach and engage students of all levels and abilities.


Easy, affordable, and effective way to infuse technology and digital media into 21st century

How to integrate NBC Learn videos with Moodle CMS

J.E.W.L./Oral History and

Learning Institute/Museum

Facilitator: Lessie James S-130 & 131


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Description: This workshop is the introduction to the historical contents of the Institute and Museum.


Acquire increased awareness of the extensive collection and knowledge housed in the institute and

museum as well as the benefit to the students, faculty, staff, administrators, and the communities

Breakout Session 2: 11:10am – 12:10pm

CalPERS: Planning your

Retirement Class

Facilitator: Dianne Escalante SC-127

(Montgomery Hall)

Description: This is a workshop on the basic retirement information for new hires and classic members,

topics such as retirement types, service credit, retirement options, and online resources.


Expand knowledge base of the CalPERS Retirement System for a successful retirement

Trends and Best Practices in Online

Education

Facilitators: Daniel Allen & Nasreen Rahim LE-231

Description: In this workshop, participants will have a brief over view of best practices on online course design using any

course management system, and the four components in creating, and/or assessing an online course. In the second part of the

workshop, participants will have the opportunity of hands-on experience in designing their courses using the four components of

the course design rubric as suggested in the Online Education Initiatives (OEI). Participants will be able to:

Participants will be able to learn some of the dos and don’ts of online course design

Participants will be able to implement the four components in designing their courses in their course

management system

Data 101 Facilitators: Tamela Hawley & Ying-Fang

Chen

Assessment

Center

Description: This workshop will provide an introduction to the services available through the Office of

Institutional Effectiveness and Student Success. Participants will explore the types of data and reports that

are used to answer common research questions, and review the new Research Request guidelines and

Research/Data Request Form. Facilitators will lead a discussion on phrasing research questions to get the

most out of your data requests.


View the new program

Review data tool in the Colleague Reporting and Operational Analytics (CROA) data system

Climate Change across the

Curriculum

Facilitator: Steven Mentor Mishra Room


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Description: This presentation will briefly discuss climate change and global warming as a context across

the curriculum. Instructors from different disciplines will share their own lesson plans regarding this issue.

The presenter will share his own Climate Change unit from English 1C, and a future unit for English 1C and

1A. Finally, faculty will have a chance to discuss their own interest in climate change as a pedagogical

opportunity for making connections across the curriculum, and as a group we’ll brainstorm possible

assignments and curricula for various disciplines.


Bringing the issue of climate change into our educational setting as a topic that crosses disciplines

Getting faculty and staff excited about the potential for students’ active learning and making

connections across disciplines

Applying themes of active learning, reading, writing and thinking to the presenter’s discipline, and

inviting others to share their own disciplinary strategies for active learning

Discussing possible teaching connections across the curriculum

Helping instructors form a group dedicated to such connections

Demo of Outlook in Office 365

Facilitator: Irene Gutierrez (DO-ITSS) LE-232

Description: This presentation is an overview of what the Outlook component Office 365 can do.


Learn the basic features of Outlook in Office 365

Useful Excel

Facilitator: Henry Gee C-104

Description: This presentation will demo how to do more with Excel.


Organize Spreadsheet

Condition Formatting

Work with Pivot Charts

Create Data Tables

Student Success through OER’s and

Cool4Ed

Facilitator: Shelley Blackman LE-324

Description: Workshop will present an overview of what CCC libraries are doing to contribute to student

success through promoting OERs such as COOL4Ed - California Open Online Library for Education

(www.cool4ed.org).


Recognize what constitutes OERs

Know ways to access quality, affordable, or free OERs to save students money

Know how to participate in OER activities by contributing materials and/or volunteering to be peer

reviewers of submitted material


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SLO/PLO













Strategic Planning

Facilitator: Lynette Apen LE-209

Description: Have you ever wondered why strategic planning is necessary and how it impacts the work

done on the campus? Then this session is for you. The session presenter will cover discussion topics around

the necessity of strategic planning and its connection to the work with our students. EVCs strategic plan will

be reviewed and opportunity for dialogue will be encouraged. This session is facilitated by the Institutional

Effectiveness Committee (IEC) and is open to all those interested.


Describe the necessity of strategic planning.

Identify connection between institutional planning and impact on our students

Discuss EVCs strategic plan and outline commitment to student centered initiative

Career Development & College

Preparation (CDCP) Curriculum –

Nuts and Bolts

Facilitators: Kishan Vujjeni & Lynette Gray C-103

Description: In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Career Development and College Preparation

(CDCP) and create pathways to your certificate/degrees programs, a great enrollment building opportunity

for your department. Workforce education programs can play an important role in responding to local labor

market demands.


Fulfil employers’ demand by addressing workforce needs

Fulfil students’ needs for immediate skills by offering CDCP curriculum


Toyoshima

LE-204


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Description: In this workshop the participants will use the new CurricUNET software to produce new

course outline and revise existing course outline. It is highly recommended that the participants bring their




process


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teaching Mechanics in lab: video analysis using smartphones. In Part 2, the two videos will be analyzed with

LoggerPro software. The effects of air resistance in both motion will be highlighted and discussed.



Longevity in Health and Happiness

Facilitator: Randy Pratt PE-204

Description: In this workshop, participants will engage in light physical activity walking, strength exercises,

badminton and/or table tennis. They’ll discover the power of "happy juice" - endorphins, adrenalin and dopamine

and how to get more of it! Experience how this cocktail greatly contributes to self-image, health and happiness

throughout. Please dress comfortably and wear tennis shoes.

Participants will be able to: Learn about how to maintain lifelong physical fitness and how to maintain the necessary motivation

Learn about the links between physical activity, health and happiness

NBCLearn in Moodle CMS:

Teaching and Learning Resources Facilitator: Cynthia Harrison LE-227

Description: NBC Learn is a rich, dynamic, and innovative resource that provides thousands of historic

news reports, current events stories, original content, primary source documents, and other digital media

specifically designed to help teach and engage students of all levels and abilities.


Easy, affordable, and effective way to infuse technology and digital media into 21st century

How to integrate NBC Learn videos with Moodle CMS

J.E.W.L./Oral History and

Learning Institute/Museum

Facilitator: Lessie James S-130 & 131

Description: This workshop is the introduction to the historical contents of the Institute and Museum.


Acquire increased awareness of the extensive collection and knowledge housed in the institute and

museum as well as the benefit to the students, faculty, staff, administrators, and the communities.


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Mental Wellness on Campus: Early

Detection Facilitator: Michelle Burlyga (REACH

Occupational Therapist) LE-210

Description: This workshop will highlight on how to help detect early warning signs of psychosis that may

prove threat to young adults, and to provide effective support and treatment.


Become aware of the different resources REACH offers to the colleges

Breakout Session 3: 1:10pm – 2:45pm

Turnitin

Facilitator: Karen Moody LE-231

Description: In this workshop, we’ll go over the basics of using Turnitin (available on Moodle) to make

submitting papers, checking for originality and plagiarism, grading papers, keeping track of grades, and saving

paper a simple process.


Set up a Turnitin assignment with its start date, due date, postdate, and points possible and post to

Moodle.

Understand the originality report generated by Turnitin as an instructional tool, and allow students the

option to see the originality report and correct their paper before handing in the final copy.

Use the grading feature to grade papers online with comments (both personalized and standardized) that

the students can access at any time.

Export submitted papers as text, pdf, or xml files to grade offline.

Colleague Web UI Basic Navigation Facilitator: Dan Hawkins (DO-ITSS) Assessment

Center

Description: Demonstration of how to use the basic navigation features of Colleague Web UI. The Datatel

client, UI Desktop, is no longer supported by Ellucian and has been replaced by Colleague Web UI. This

workshop is for counselors, staff, administrators and others who are making the transition from UI Desktop

to Web UI.

Participants will be able to: Understand how to get started with Colleague Web UI and use the basic navigation features

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Educational Master Plan

Facilitator: Fred Trapp LE-232

Description: An overview of the development process and highlights of the content in the Educational

Master Plan. The purposes of an Educational Master Plan will be detailed.


Participants will have an outline of the table of contents to the draft plan, a pointer to the slide

presentations in 014-15 and the URL for the draft of the document.


Toyoshima

LE-204

Description: In this workshop the participants will use the new CurricUNET software to produce new

course outline and revise existing course outline. It is highly recommended that the participants bring their




process


process

Theatre in the Classroom

Facilitators: Liza Kramer & Darold Ross Mishra Room

Description: This workshop will both explain and demonstrate how acting techniques can be used in the

classroom. Prof. Ross uses his expertise in acting and directing in his Theater Arts classes, and has also

brought those skills to 2-hour acting “workshops” in Prof. Kramer’s English 1B classes, where students learn

what it takes to “translate” the written version of a play into performance. If you teach a class in which

drama is or could be on the syllabus, come see how to bring that work alive for our students, many of whom

have had very little exposure to live theater.


Get a direct experience—as well as thoughtful explanations--of how and why theatrical techniques

can enrich learning at EVC

Acquire techniques that can improve students’ public speaking skills in the classroom and beyond

Broaden college community’s appreciation of and involvement in theatrical culture, and to encourage

use of our campus theater, which is a state-of-the-art facility





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teaching Mechanics in lab: video analysis using smartphones. . In Part 3, participants will set air pucks in a

route of collision and analyze their motion before and after collision (“Conservation of Linear Momentum”).

If time allows, we will discuss several other applications in which video analysis can be employed.



ASPIRE

Facilitator: Henry Gee A5-212

Description: This workshop is for the ASPIRE faculty and staff to review our program’s needs. We will be

discussing strategies for working with our students, classes, program review, and fundraising activities.

Participants will be able to: Establish strategies for working with our students, set up courses and schedule for classes, work on

Program Review, and organize fundraising activities for scholarships

PRC

Facilitators: Sterling Werner and PRC

Members

LE-224

Description: Professional Recognition Committee (PRC) members will present information and respond to

questions concerning professional recognition opportunities, including sabbatical leaves, class changes, step

plans, (for Steps 14, 17, and 19)and activity payments. Bring any question you have for this session.


Learn the latest information about the PRC and as it relates to the FA contract

Learn the process to apply for approval of classes and projects for class changes, step increases,

sabbatical and activity payments

Inform faculty about the PRC process online

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