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Fall 2008 Faculty Development Events Calendar

Meeting dates and times listed in red are listed to help people plan events and thus to possibly avoid conflicts.

August

Thursday, 14 Blackboard Drop-In, 1-3 pm, B123a

Friday, 15 Blackboard Drop-In, 1-3 pm, B123a

Week of Accountability

Monday, 18 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 1-2 pm, B123a
Monday, 18 New Adjunct Faculty Orientation, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm, C110*

Tuesday, 19 Technology Tuesdays #1: The Wide-Wide World of Web 2.0, 1:30-2:30 pm, B123a**
Tuesday, 19 All-Faculty Meeting, 5:00 pm, Pavilion


Faculty Learning Communities*
At the All-Faculty Meeting and at the beginning of September, faculty will have the opportunity to join one of following Faculty Learning Communities: Critical Thinking 101, Brain Research for Student Success, Proven Active Learning Techniques, and Connecting Your Curriculum to Oil on the Brain and the SEE Your World Outcomes. Cohort teams will gather at their initial meeting during the week of September 8. At that meeting, they will plan out the meeting schedule and course of study for their next three-four meetings.
Wednesday, 20 "Unnatural Disaster?" Open Meeting, 11:30 am-12:30 pm, E216
Wednesday, 20 Introduction to the Honors Program: Students, Projects, and More, 1-2 pm, C207 (register)
Wednesday, 20 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 1-2 pm, B123a

Thursday, 21 Reflection, Renewal, and Role, 1-3 pm, SC140-144
Thursday, 21 Blackboard Drop-In, 1-3 pm, C101

Friday, 22 Diversity Committee, 12-1 pm
Friday, 22 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 1-2 pm, B123a
Friday, 22, Second Annual Teaching and Learning Conference at MCC

Saturday, 23 Classes Begin

Monday, 25 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 2-3 pm, B123a

Tuesday, 26 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 11 am-12 pm, B123a

Wednesday, 27 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 2-3 pm, B123a
Wednesday, 27 E-Learning Users Group, 2:15 pm-3:30 pm

Thursday, 28 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 11 am-12 pm, B123a
Thursday, 28 Blackboard Drop-In, 1-3 pm, B123a

Friday, 29 Service-Learning Applications Due for Into the Streets, Hunger Banquet, or Poverty 101
Friday, 29 ICC, 8:30-10:00 am
Friday, 29 SLOAC, 9-10:30 am, L217

September

Thursday, 4 Brown Bag Lunch Series: Dialogue on Race Issues, 12:45-1:45, SC140

Friday, 5 PEC, 9:00-11:30 am, SC140s
Friday, 5 FAST, 11:30 am-12:30 pm, C110
Friday, 5 Network for Excellence I, 12-2 pm
Friday, 5 Faculty Senate, 1:00-3:00 pm, C110

Monday, 8 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 1-2 pm, B123a
Tuesday, 9 Technology Tuesdays #2: Wikis, 3-4 pm, B123a**

Wednesday, 10 Webcast: Consider Mobile Learning for Your Institution, 10-11:30 am, L238
Wednesday, 10 Brief Overview of Office 2007, 1-2 pm, B123a

Thursday, 11 Peace Pole Dedication, Mall
Thursday, 11 Nicaraguan Dance, 7 pm, PAC

Friday, 12 ICC, 8:30-10:30 am
Friday, 12 Division Meetings 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Friday, 12 Global Learning, 2:00-3:30 pm

Tuesday, 16 Civic Engagement, 2 pm, Student Life

Friday, 19 MOSAIC IIA training, 8 am-noon, B170
Friday, 19 "Breakfast with Paulo": faculty reading group discusses Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 9-10:30 am, L226
Friday, 19 Learning Community Meeting, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, L226
Friday, 19 Service Learning Faculty Meeting, 12-2 pm, Student Life
Friday, 19 New Faculty Orientation, 12-2 pm

Friday, 19 MOSAIC IIB training, 1-5 pm, B170

Saturday, 20 Teatro Bravo: Los Illegals, 7 pm, PAC

Monday, 22 Reflection, Renewal, and Role (R3), 2:30-4 pm, Pecos

Tuesday, 23 Technology Tuesdays #3: Finding Videos for Teaching, 3-4 pm, B123a**, click to register

Wednesday, 24 E-Learning Users Group, 2:15-3:30 pm

Thursday, 25 Reflection, Renewal, and Role (R3), 2:30-4, Williams
Thursday, 25 Presidential Candidate Panel Forum, reception 6:30-7 pm, forum 7-8 pm, PAC

Friday, 26 MOSAIC IIIA training, 8 am-noon, L226
Friday, 26 ICC, 8:30-10:30 am
Friday, 26 SLOAC, 9-10:30 am, ATC 136
Friday, 26 Brain Research for Student Success Faculty Learning Community, 1-2:30 pm
Friday, 26 MOSAIC IIIB training, 1-5 pm, L226
Friday, 26 Faculty Development Team Meeting, 1:30-3:00 pm, L238 in the TLC

October

Wednesday, 1 Into the Streets Agency Sign-Up Sheets go out at 9 am, Pavilion (Faculty submit Service-Learning Application by 8/29)
Wednesday, 1 Sheriff Candidate Forum, reception 6:30-7 pm, forum 7-8 pm, PAC

Thursday, 2 Brown Bag Lunch Series: Dialogue on Race Issues, 12:45-1:45, SC140

Friday, 3 PEC, 9:00-11:30 am, SC140s
Friday, 3 Assessment Forum, MOVED TO NOV. 21
Friday, 3 Network for Excellence I, 12-2 pm
Friday, 3 Faculty Senate, 1:00-3:00 pm, C110

Monday, 6 Connecting Your Curriculum to Oil on the Brain Faculty Learning Community, 3:30-5 pm, E216

Tuesday, 7 Technology Tuesdays #4: Finding Photos & Easy Photo Editing, 3-4 pm, B123a**

Wednesday, 8 Making Sense of the 2008 Ballot Initiatives, 12:45-1:55 pm, PAC
Wednesday, 8 Corridos With Feedback: The Fiction of Michael Jaime-Becerra, evening with the author, 7-8:30 pm, PAC

Friday, 10 ICC, 8:30-10:30 am
Friday, 10 FAST, 11:30 am-12:30 pm, C110
Friday, 10 Division Meetings
Friday, 10 Global Learning, 2:00-3:30 pm
Friday, 10 CGCC Fall Festival, 4-7 pm

Friday, 17 Into the Streets, 8 am-1:45 pm, Pavilion (Faculty submit Service-Learning Application by 8/29)
Friday, 17 Learning Community Meeting, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, L226
Friday, 17 New Faculty Orientation, 12-2 pm
Friday, 17 Brain Research for Student Success Faculty Learning Community, 1-2:30

Saturday, 18 Into the Streets, 8 am-1:45 pm, Pavilion (Faculty submit Service-Learning Application by 8/29)

Monday, 20 Howling Coyotes Public Speaking Group, 1-2 pm, SC178
Monday, 20 Reflection, Renewal, and Role (R3), 2:30-4 pm, Pecos

Tuesday, 21 Your Civil Role in Civil Rights, 12:40-2:00 pm, SC140-144: CANCELLED
Tuesday, 21 Civic Engagement, 2 pm, Student Life
Tuesday, 21 Technology Tuesdays #5: Easy Audio and Fun Ways to Use It, 3-4 pm, B123a**

SCUP Sustainability Day, 11:15 am-12:30 pm, SC140s
Wednesday, 22 E-Learning Users Group, 2:15-3:30 pm

Thursday, 23 Reflection, Renewal, and Role (R3), 2:30-4, Williams

Friday, 24 ICC, 8:30-10:30 am
Friday, 24 SLOAC, 9-10:30 am, L217
Friday, 24 Writing Across the Curriculum, 10:15-11:30 am
Friday, 24 Service Learning Faculty Meeting, 12-2 pm, Student Life
Friday, 24 Faculty Development Team Meeting, 1:30-3:00 pm, L238 in the TLC

Friday, 31 Community Partner Breakfast, Pavilion
Friday, 31
"Breakfast with Paulo": faculty reading group discusses Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 8:30-10 am, L226
Friday, 31 All-Employee Meeting: Safety and Emergency Preparedness, 10-11:30 am, PAC.

November

Monday, 3 Howling Coyotes Public Speaking Group, 1-2 pm, SC178
Monday, 3 Connecting Your Curriculum to Oil on the Brain Faculty Learning Community, 3:30-5 pm, E216

Tuesday, 4 Technology Tuesdays #6: Screencasting, 3-4 pm, B123a**

Wednesday, 5 Poverty 101, 5-7 pm, SC140-144
(Faculty submit Service-Learning Application by 8/29)

Thursday, 6 Brown Bag Lunch Series: Dialogue on Race Issues, 12:45-1:45, SC140

Friday, 7 PEC, 9:00-11:30 am, ATC 136
Friday, 7 New Faculty Orientation, 12-2 pm
Friday, 7 Brain Research for Student Success Faculty Learning Community, 1-2:30
Friday, 7 Faculty Senate, 1:00-3:00 pm

Tuesday, 11 Veterans' Day

Thursday, 13 A Tribute to Miguel Mendez, 12:40 pm, SC140
Thursday, 13 Hunger Banquet, 5-7 pm, Pavilion (Faculty submit Service-Learning Application by 8/29)

Friday, 14 ICC, 8:30-10:30 am
Friday, 14 Division Meetings 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Friday, 14 Global Learning, 2:00-3:30 pm

Monday, 17 Howling Coyotes Public Speaking Group, 1-2 pm, SC178
Monday, 17 Reflection, Renewal, and Role (R3), 2:30-4 pm, Pecos

Tuesday, 18 Civic Engagement, 2 pm, Student Life
Tuesday, 18 Technology Tuesdays #7: Review, Recap, Refresh, 3-4 pm, B123a**

Wednesday, 19 Speaker: Sharon Matola, Grassroots Activism in Central America, 7 pm, Pavilion (band starts @ 6 pm)

Thursday, 20 Reflection, Renewal, and Role (R3), 2:30-4 pm, Williams
Thursday, 20 Poverty 101, 5-7 pm, SC140-144 (Faculty submit Service-Learning Application by 8/29)

Friday, 21, Fall Forum on Assessment, 8:30-10:30 am (breakfast at 8:15), SC140-144, click to register
Friday, 21 Writing Across the Curriculum, 10:15-11:30 am
Friday, 21 Learning Community Meeting, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, L226
Friday, 21 Network for Excellence I, 12-2 pm
Friday, 21 Service Learning Faculty Meeting, 12-2 pm, Student Life
Friday, 21 Faculty Development Team Meeting, 1:30-3:00 pm, L238 in the TLC

Thursday-Friday, 27-28 Thanksgiving

December


Monday, 1 Howling Coyotes Public Speaking Group, 1-2 pm, SC178
Monday, 1 Connecting Your Curriculum to Oil on the Brain Faculty Learning Community, 3:30-5 pm, E216

Tuesday, 2 Join Colleagues to Complete Mandatory Training, 3-4 pm, B123a

Thursday, 4 Lunchtime Lecture: Experiential Learning in Belize, 12:40 pm, SC140

Friday, 5 PEC, 9:00-11:30 am
Friday, 5 Faculty Senate, 1:00-3:00 pm

Tuesday, 9 Join Colleagues to Complete Mandatory Training, 3-4 pm, B123a

Monday, 15 Howling Coyotes Public Speaking Group, 1-2 pm, SC178
Monday-Thursday, 15-18 Finals


*Adjunct-faculty currently teaching at CGCC who participate in this workshop or series will be paid at the non-instructional or professional development rate of $26.00/hr.

**Adjunct faculty currently teaching at CGCC will be paid at the non-instructional or professional development rate of $26.00/hr for completing any three of Technology Tuesdays workshops # 3-7. Technology Tuesdays workshop #2 or its equivalent must be completed as a prerequisite to later workshops. For more information, please contact Mary McGlasson at (480) 732-7160.