Title 5 Report - 10/2004 through 9/30/05

Title V - Time Report - Staff Development 2004-2004

dated: 12-14-05

prepared by: David Jordan, Chair of Staff Development

Oct - Dec 2004

1. Showcase of Excellence in Teaching - a new event. "teachers showing teachers" - roundtable discussion and teaching demonstrations by interested faculty. LRC 205 - Thursday, 4:30 pm, 10/04, 10/28, 11/04 & 11/18. come join us.

2. Etudes and How to Construct your own webpage - Prof. David Jordan will show you how you can use etudes and your own webpage for your class materials and easy access by your students. date and time TBA. Thursday, 5:30 pm, LRC 205, 10/04,10/28, 11/04 & 11/18 come and join us.

3. Student Learning Outcomes - how can these new materials help you and your students in your classes. time and date TBA. - planning stage

2005 - January through September 30, 2005

1. On March 11, 2005, there is a demonstration of the new Etudes New Generation Learning Management System at West L.A. CC and faculty are invited to attend.

There was a special workshop on the new Etudes New Generation on March 11th. The new etudes NG will be rolled out in April, and a beta version will be given to selected faculty interested in testing it. At Mission we have started a "Pioneers Club" with 10 faculty who are currently using etudes who will beta test the new version. The conversion from Etudes to Etudes NG will take two years, and no further training is being given on the regular etudes, but the shells will be supported during the conversion. There is a new authoring tool called "melete" which will make it easier for faculty to include photos, and links, and multimedia in their virtual classrooms.

2 Faculty are invited to Welcome to the 10th Annual TechEd International Conference & Exposition! April 4-6, 2005 Pasadena Conference Center

300 East Green Street, Pasadena, California 91101

3. Myself and Carlyn Daly attended a workshop entitled "Writing Across the Curriculum" held over at Valley College and taught by UCLA faculty in English Sandra Mano. She is very interested in coming to our campus, in April and May, and she will report on a long term Harvard study on'Responding to Student Writing, and also hold a workshop for 'Teaching Grammar" for our English Department. This activity is being coordinated by Carolyn Daly of our English Department.

4. April 14 12 - 1 "Embracing Electronic Communication" with Crystal & Margie

5. created a web log of the events and information learned at the Tech Ed Conference in Pasadena on April 4-6 - lso here is a (web)log - 'blog' on some of the things covered in the Tech Ed Conference we attended in Pasadena over the last two days - http://lamc-college.blogspot.com

6. May 4th - Weds at noon - Training on Etudes and Etudes NG - the "new generation" of etudes - LRC 205

7. May 10th, Tuesday at 1-3 pm, and May 19th, Thursday 1-3 pm, LRC 305, "Writing Across the Curriculum" with Dr. Sandra Mano from the UCLA Writing Programs - Transfer Intensive Program ("TIP").

8. Plan Flex Day Events June through August 2005

9. Flex Day - We had another successful Professional Development Day (Flex Day) on 9-01-05 for Fall 2005 with a total of 124 Full Time and Adjunct Faculty attending during the day session and 31 during the Evening Flex Program. During the day, there were a number of interesting workshops, including Academic Excellence with Dr. Kay Hudspeth of Cal Poly Pomona, Using Technology for At Risk Students with Prof. Karla Johnson Majedi of CSUN, and Successful Learning Outcomes with Marna Cornell, along with a Budgeting and Procurment Workshop with our own Connie Reyes, Computer and Telephone Tips with Joyce Hollingsworth, Financial Aid with Anafe Robinson, Payroll and Using ERPA for assignments - Johnny Berella and Ronn Gluck.

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