January Institute
Wednesday, January, 16, 2013
8:30am – 9:00am
IT Lobby Breakfast refreshments and lots of tunes!
9:00am – 10:00am - Plenary Presentation
IT Theater Telling Our Story and Advancing Our Goals: The Journey Toward Institutional Effectiveness / Karen Froslid-Jones, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, American University, Washington, DC & long time evaluator for Middle States
In this presentation, Karen Froslid-Jones, will talk about the important role that effective assessments can play in helping academic and other unit’s demonstrate their success and advance their overall goals. Ms. Froslid-Jones will provide a brief overview of some of the common challenges facing higher education institutions, and make a case for why assessment strategies can help address them. Using examples from a variety of higher education institutions and from both academic and non-academic units, she’ll demonstrate how assessment can be meaningful and do-able. This will be an interactive session, so come prepared with questions, concerns and examples of best practice in your own units.
10:15am – 11:15am - Concurrent Sessions
IT 225 Modeling Best Practice and Creating a Culture of Assessment: Exploring Practical Ways to Advance Student Learning and Institutional Effectiveness / Karen Froslid-Jones, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, American University, Washington, DC & long time evaluator for Middle States
In this workshop, participants will learn how to build on assessment success as well as strategies for making assessment useful. How can we move past inertia? Get wider faculty and staff participation? Make better use of assessment data? What does a culture of assessment look like at Mohawk Valley Community College? Team participation is encouraged. Come with others from your unit to develop strategies and a "next steps" action plan that can work for you.
IT 138 Google Docs as a Classroom and Committee Tool / Faculty Tech Club
Google Docs is a real-time, online office-like set-up that allows you and others to edit text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. For documents that you need to access from multiple computers but you don't always want to drag a flash drive around with you; or a document that the entire committee could edit at once but from 4 different locations. You could also have students work together on group projects from their own homes and edit student documents that they can look at instantly from any computer on the internet. Anyone can use it free, and anyone can edit or view with or without a google account. Come learn everything you need to know and get a chance to practice! Limit 20
IT 216 Make a Safe Space in Our Place! / Allison Jackson of Planned Parenthood Education Department
"Safe Space in Our Place!" will explore ways we can create a safe place for LGBTQ students and staff on campus and off. MVCC has committed itself to civility. Civility and safety go hand in hand. If we have a civil campus, safety is not questioned. If we don’t, then our environment contradicts our core values and our mission as an inclusive empowering community college. Let’s enhance the conversation to make sure we are taking into account all perspectives, and that we’ve not left anyone out of a civil and safe educational experience. Limit 40
IT 226 Passion in Action! Service Learning in Your Classroom / Sarah Beck, Ron LaBuz, James Smrtic, Sara Boulanger and Sue Smith
Service Learning is an opportunity for students and faculty to become engaged in our community. These short-term experiences are a great learning tool. In this workshop, you'll learn how three different projects were developed on campus and how varied the learning experiences can be. Service learning can range from a single faculty member working with a single student to an entire class or club serving the community. Come learn with us how you can add an exciting new aspect to your courses. Limit 25
JC 102 Play Your Stress Away / Robin Saxe
Reduce stress the child’s way. Create your own personalized stress balls, make therapeutic scented play dough, and enjoy the calming effects of sand and water play. Limit 20
AB 131 Making Rubrics is Fun / Carmelita Lomeo-Smrtic
Description: Learn the basics of constructing rubrics. Learn how to create measureable, discrete standards while retaining the creativity and higher-order thinking components in open-ended learning assignments and projects. Please come to the workshop with an assignment, project, paper, etc. you want to use as practice during the workshop. Limit 25
IT 227 Your Resolution to Quit: Tobacco 101 & Smoking Cessation / Jesse Orton
Jesse Orton from Oneida County Public Health will empower you or a loved one with strategic ways to quit the smoking habit. You’ve been told many times why you shouldn’t smoke; now let’s get some help from the expert to “kick the habit’! Limit 25
11:30am – 12:30pm - Concurrent Sessions
IT 138 One step closer to being Green: Online tests, quizzes and surveys! / Norma Chrisman
Don’t be nervous about adding a quiz, test, or survey to your Blackboard course site. It really isn’t that hard! I will take you step by step through the process of creating the test, to making it available for the students to take. Stop by to learn how! Limit 20
IT 225 Dress Rehearsal for Core Workshop Facilitators / Cheryl Plescia, Bill Hysell & David Katz
It’s almost “ShowTime” for the “Core Workshop on Student Success” that you will be facilitating later in the semester. Now is your chance to run through the entire powerpoint with activities, guides and props! As always, we plan on having fun while we bring out the best in each other and nail down our “script”! Limit 22 (by invitation only)
IT 226 Partnering with Your Librarians: An Exploration of Collaborative Opportunities! / Colleen Kehoe-Robinson & Krista Hartman
Join MVCC’s Librarians to discover new and innovative ways to bring information literacy to our students through a variety of collaborative means. Please bring your questions and concerns; ideas for research topics, problems with plagiarism and more! Limit 25
JC 115 Yoga Class / Jerri George
“A yoga class is a divine appointment that students have made with themselves.” Wahe Guru Kauri
Discover higher awareness of your inner most self. Join the yoga class; an hour of mediation, stretching, the graceful flow of movement and energy, and relaxation. No prior experience is necessary. Wear comfortable clothing, no shoes required. Drink plenty of water before and after class, and bring an open mind to the “practice.” Yoga mats will be provided or you may bring your own. Limit 25
IT 227 Literacy and New Media / Jim Roberts & Brandon Shaw
What is the role of new media in the composition classroom? Should the definition of “literacy” extend to include visual texts? What problems can be addressed from using media in the classroom? We begin with the premise that in the 21st century, composition instructors should provide the tools needed for students to critically engage with visual texts as well as written texts. This workshop serves as an opportunity to discuss how television, advertising, and the Internet provide interpretive sites where hierarchies of race, class, and gender can be interrogated. Limit 25
IT 224 “So you Want To Be A Club Advisor?” / Kim Overrocker & Sandy Cummings
Being a student club advisor is a rewarding yet challenging way to interact with students outside of the classroom. This workshop will provide you, the Student Club Advisor, with information on the following items: 10 member lists, club constitutions, funding requests, review of required forms and a brief overview of the policies and procedures concerning student clubs and student congress. Time will also be built in for a question and answer period. Limit 20
IT 116 Binders Full of WISE Women (and Men!) / WISE
A brief introduction of WISE (women in science and engineering) members will be followed by a presentation about the history of the WISE group. Statistical analysis and studies, showing the need for more women in stem fields and the existence of gender bias, will be presented. A brief outline of the WISE group's past and future activities will conclude the session. Limit 40
12:30pm – 1:30pm - Lunch
IT Lobby Casual lunch, beverages and music!
1:30pm – 2:30pm - Concurrent Sessions
IT 225 Modeling Best Practice and Creating a Culture of Assessment: Exploring Practical Ways to Advance Student Learning and Institutional Effectiveness / Karen Froslid-Jones, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, American University, Washington, DC & long time evaluator for Middle States
In this workshop, participants will learn how to build on assessment success as well as strategies for making assessment useful. How can we move past inertia? Get wider faculty and staff participation? Make better use of assessment data? What does a culture of assessment look like at Mohawk Valley Community College? Team participation is encouraged. Come with others from your unit to develop strategies and a "next steps" action plan that can work for you.
IT 138 Google Docs as a Classroom and Committee Tool / Faculty Tech Club
Google Docs is a real-time, online office-like set-up that allows you and others to edit text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. For documents that you need to access from multiple computers but you don't always want to drag a flash drive around with you; or a document that the entire committee could edit at once but from 4 different locations. You could also have students work together on group projects from their own homes and edit student documents that they can look at instantly from any computer on the internet. Anyone can use it free, and anyone can edit or view with or without a google account. Come learn everything you need to know and get a chance to practice! Limit 20
IT 216 Make a Safe Space in Our Place! / Allison Jackson of Planned Parenthood Education Department
"Safe Space in Our Place!" will explore ways we can create a safe place for LGBTQ students and staff on campus and off. MVCC has committed itself to civility. Civility and safety go hand in hand. If we have a civil campus, safety is not questioned. If we don’t, then our environment contradicts our core values and our mission as an inclusive empowering community college. Let’s enhance the conversation to make sure we are taking into account all perspectives, and that we’ve not left anyone out of a civil and safe educational experience. Limit 40
IT 226 Passion in Action! Service Learning in Your Classroom / Sarah Beck, Ron LaBuz, James Smrtic, Sara Boulanger and Sue Smith
Service Learning is an opportunity for students and faculty to become engaged in our community. These short-term experiences are a great learning tool. In this workshop, you'll learn how three different projects were developed on campus and how varied the learning experiences can be. Service learning can range from a single faculty member working with a single student to an entire class or club serving the community. Come learn with us how you can add an exciting new aspect to your courses. Limit 25
JC 102 Play Your Stress Away / Robin Saxe
Reduce stress the child’s way. Create your own personalized stress balls, make therapeutic scented play dough, and enjoy the calming effects of sand and water play. Limit 20
AB 131 Making Rubrics is Fun / Carmelita Lomeo-Smrtic
Description: Learn the basics of constructing rubrics. Learn how to create measureable, discrete standards while retaining the creativity and higher-order thinking components in open-ended learning assignments and projects. Please come to the workshop with an assignment, project, paper, etc. you want to use as practice during the workshop. Limit 25
IT 227 Your Resolution to Quit: Tobacco 101 & Smoking Cessation / Jesse Orton
Jesse Orton from Oneida County Public Health will empower you or a loved one with strategic ways to quit the smoking habit. You’ve been told many times why you shouldn’t smoke; now let’s get some help from the expert to “kick the habit’! Limit 25
2:45pm – 3:45pm – Concurrent Sessions
IT 138 One step closer to being Green: Online tests, quizzes and surveys! / Norma Chrisman
Don’t be nervous about adding a quiz, test, or survey to your Blackboard course site. It really isn’t that hard! I will take you step by step through the process of creating the test, to making it available for the students to take. Stop by to learn how! Limit 20
IT 225 Dress Rehearsal for Core Workshop Facilitators / Cheryl Plescia, Bill Hysell & David Katz
It’s almost “ShowTime” for the “Core Workshop on Student Success” that you will be facilitating later in the semester. Now is your chance to run through the entire powerpoint with activities, guides and props! As always, we plan on having fun while we bring out the best in each other and nail down our “script”! Limit 22 (by invitation only)
IT 226 Partnering with Your Librarians: An Exploration of Collaborative Opportunities! / Colleen Kehoe-Robinson & Krista Hartman
Join MVCC’s Librarians to discover new and innovative ways to bring information literacy to our students through a variety of collaborative means. Please bring your questions and concerns; ideas for research topics, problems with plagiarism and more! Limit 25
JC 115 Yoga Class / Jerri George
“A yoga class is a divine appointment that students have made with themselves.” Wahe Guru Kauri
Discover higher awareness of your inner most self. Join the yoga class; an hour of mediation, stretching, the graceful flow of movement and energy, and relaxation. No prior experience is necessary. Wear comfortable clothing, no shoes required. Drink plenty of water before and after class, and bring an open mind to the “practice.” Yoga mats will be provided or you may bring your own. Limit 25
IT 227 Literacy and New Media / Jim Roberts & Brandon Shaw
What is the role of new media in the composition classroom? Should the definition of “literacy” extend to include visual texts? What problems can be addressed from using media in the classroom? We begin with the premise that in the 21st century, composition instructors should provide the tools needed for students to critically engage with visual texts as well as written texts. This workshop serves as an opportunity to discuss how television, advertising, and the Internet provide interpretive sites where hierarchies of race, class, and gender can be interrogated. Limit 25
IT 224 “So you Want To Be A Club Advisor?” / Kim Overrocker & Sandy Cummings
Being a student club advisor is a rewarding yet challenging way to interact with students outside of the classroom. This workshop will provide you, the Student Club Advisor, with information on the following items: 10 member lists, club constitutions, funding requests, review of required forms and a brief overview of the policies and procedures concerning student clubs and student congress. Time will also be built in for a question and answer period. Limit 20
IT 116 Binders Full of WISE Women (and Men!) / WISE
A brief introduction of WISE (women in science and engineering) members will be followed by a presentation about the history of the WISE group. Statistical analysis and studies, showing the need for more women in stem fields and the existence of gender bias, will be presented. A brief outline of the WISE group's past and future activities will conclude the session. Limit 40