College Hour Fall 2010

All College Hours are 2-3pm on Wednesday except for Final Escape (9am-2pm)

Descriptions are below

Date

 

Main topic

Loc.

Host

Technology Workshops

Loc.

Host

25 Aug

New Faculty Introduction

S235

Lisa Lentner

 

 

 

1 Sep

Defensive Teaching

S235

Kendra Miller

Retention Tool in D2L—Intelligent Agents work session*

T207

Rita Resendiz

8 Sep

Spotlight on ASL and Chinese Departments

S235

Joan McKearnan

Recording Your Presentations—Connect & Camtasia++

T208

Rita R. & Bruce Bordwell

15 Sep

MSCF

S235

Kelly Befus

 

 

 

22 Sep

Pastel Demonstration – Great River Gallery

tbd

Joan

Adobe Connect—Advanced Features*

T207

Rita R.

29 Sep

Chat with the President

S235

Joan

 

 

 

6 Oct

Two Rivers Authors Series - Wang Ping, author of The Last Communist Virgin

PAC

Two Rivers Committee & Blayn Lemke

D2L grade books work session*

T207

Rita R.

13 Oct

CTL speaker – Engaging Students Where They Are: Online

B203

Laurie Wolfe

 

 

 

20 Oct

MSCF

 

Kelly Befus

 

 

 

27 Oct

Sabbatical Reports

S235

Sasha Verkhoetseva

Great Ways to Engage Students Online++

T208

Laurie W.

3 Nov

Questions on Academic Dishonesty

S235

Kendra

Outlook for Beginners*

T207

Skip Robinson

10 Nov

PSEO student panel

S235

Michael Wall & Blayn

Advanced Outlook session*

T207

Skip (changed)

17 Nov

MSCF

 

Kelly Befus

 

 

 

24 Nov

Strategies for managing your grading (CPR, Rubrics, etc)

S235

Paula Croonquist

Creating Content for D2L: Presenter, Softchalk, Sharepoint, HTML Editor++

T208

Rita R.

1 Dec

Student Advising Issues

S235

Lisa L.

Content Creation Work session*

T207

Rita R.

8 Dec

Most Honored Faculty – Jill Gromberg

S235

Paula

 

 

 

15 Dec

Final Escape

(9am-2pm)

SC278

Joan

 

 

 

++ Demonstrations, *Hands-On Sessions – must register with host before session

 


 

Session Descriptions

Date

FD Committee session

Technology Sessions

25 Aug

Meet and greet new faculty and administrators. We will ask fun questions for them to answer.

 

1 Sep

Jim Biederman will present ways faculty can protect themselves from potential problems with students.

Intelligent Agents can help your online students. Learn how to create IAs in your own D2L courses.   

8 Sep

Come meet Trung Ha, our new ASL instructor and Xiaojuan Xia, aka Summer, our Chinese exchange faculty as they talk about themselves and the joys and challenges of teaching their languages.

Adobe Connect can be used for audio & visual online office hours, recording lectures and conferencing with colleagues.  As an alternative to Adobe Connect, ARCC offers Camtasia which allows you to record & edit lecture and other activities. Both can be useful for online or seated classes.

15 Sep

Faculty Union Meeting

 

22 Sep

The Lake Country Pastel Society will be having an exhibit in the Great River Gallery opening 17 Sept. Come learn about this art form.

Adobe Connect—Advanced Features* - Come and check out some advanced features such as chat, polling, discussions, collaboration, and sharing.

29 Sep

Come join Interim President Jessie Stumpf in an informal conversation about topics of your choice.

 

6 Oct

Wang Peng, author fiction and poetry will read from and discuss her work, including her latest short story collection

D2L grade books – Learn how to set up grade books, import and export grades, etc.

13 Oct

Speaker from the Center of Teaching and Learning will talk more about actively engaging students online.

 

20 Oct

Faculty Union Meeting

 

27 Oct

Faculty who return from Sabbatical leave will share their experiences.

Faculty will demonstrate some of the tools and activities they use to engage students online.  

3 Nov

Questions of Academic Honesty: A follow-up to the Fall Development Days discussion on dealing with cheating and plagiarism.

Learn the basics of Microsoft Outlook; this session will help you feel confident about frequently-used tools.

10 Nov

Come listen to the challenges of our PSEO students.

Learn how to maximize Outlook? If you want this productivity tool to work for you even better than it does already, join this session.

17 Nov

Faculty Union Meeting

 

24 Nov

Come, explore and share your favorite type of Assessment. From efficient rubrics and online examinations, learn about what is already working for your colleagues.

Adobe Presenter enables you to use PowerPoint to turn presentations into web presentations.  SoftChalk is an authoring tool that allows educators to create and edit interactive content for eLearning.  SharePoint Designer is a web page (HTML) editor.  D2L’s html editor has been improved with the latest update to D2L. 

1 Dec

Come meet the Advising staff and discuss how Anoka Ramsey faculty & staff can better serve our students in their academic career.

Content Creation Work session*

A follow-up to the previous week’s session that will allow people to work in smaller groups based on the content tool you liked.  This session offers you time to work and to get ideas from your colleagues. 

8 Dec

Our voted Most Honored Faculty, Jill Gromberg will share her favorite lecture and receive her honors at this session.

 

15 Dec

Join us for food, fun, and frivolity! There will be games, treats, and of course prizes. This is a great break from the frantic finals week.

 

* Work Sessions – You MUST contact Rita.Resendiz@anokaramsey.edu or Skip.Robinson@anokaramsey.edu  to reserve a spot for any sessions shaded in gray.  Work sessions are limited to 30 participants.