Winter/Spring 2012
Workshops are at 1:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the Professional Development Center (PDC).

| JANUARY | FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | MAY |

January
Jan. 9	Introduction to PowerPoint – Jim Marteney Session for beginners, no experience necessary. Learn the basics, such as entering and editing text, using design templates and color schemes, inserting images, and creating handouts.
Jan. 12	Preventing Plagiarism – Deborah Kaye Discover great resources and online sites to help students understand what plagiarism is so you can prevent it.
Jan. 16	MyLAVC Portal – Khaled Hussain Learn how to use the portal to share information with your students and upload materials. Give your class an online presence and save time and paper!
Jan. 17	Introduction to Distance Learning – Jim Marteney Are you intrigued by the idea of teaching online? Find out what’s involved in teaching online.
Jan. 19	MyLAVC Portal – Khaled Hussain Learn how to use the portal to share information with your students and upload materials. Give your class an online presence and save time and paper!
Jan. 23	Getting Your Online Class Together – Jim Marteney Get help with preparations for your online spring classes, including Etudes’ new tools “Course Map” and “Activity Meter.”
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February
Feb. 9	40 Ways to Engage and Motivate Students – Deborah Kaye Find out tried-and-true strategies to encourage students to want to learn what you’re teaching.
Feb. 13	Distance Education Time-Saving Tips – Jim Marteney Examine a variety of strategies to save time and energy when teaching your online course.
Feb. 16	Mobi Training – Khaled Hussain Learn how to use mobile interactive whiteboards to deliver content from anywhere in the room and involve your students – available for check-out.
Feb. 20	101 Great Websites – Deborah Kaye Find out how to access fabulous resources from -- literally -- 101 sites. Among the resources are lesson plans, game templates, teaching tips, videos, visuals, web 2.0 tools for collaboration, fun stuff to enliven your courses, and tutorials and content for you and your students.
Feb. 23	Using Social Media – Jim Marteney Your students use Facebook and Twitter – find out how to use these tools in your teaching.
Feb. 28	Embedding Videos Effectively – Khaled Hussain For beginning online instructors: This training shows you how to embed videos into your modules, discussions, and assignments in a fun and effective way.
Feb. 29	Active Learning with Technology – Deborah Kaye Find out about a multitude of free technology tools you can use to engage your students. You’ll receive links to great websites and ways to incorporate them in your classes to promote active learning through social networking, collaborating and communicating with others, creating and sharing media, and more.
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March
Mar. 1	Mobi Training – Khaled Hussain Learn how to use mobile interactive whiteboards to deliver content from anywhere in the room and involve your students – available for check-out.
Mar. 6	My LAVC Portal – Khaled Hussain Learn how to use the portal to share information with your students and upload materials. Give your class an online presence and save time and paper!
Mar. 12	iPad/iPhone Educational Uses – Sally Raskoff Learn how to use these Apple products to enhance your teaching.
Mar. 14	Using Google Docs – Jim Marteney Use this resource so students can work collaboratively and so you can access your documents from any computer.
Mar. 19	Death by PowerPoint – Jim Marteney Microsoft estimates that 30 million PowerPoints are presented each day, 50% of which are unbearable. We will look at PowerPoints that put our students to sleep and ones that get them thinking and involved. You will leave with many ideas for improving your presentations.
Mar. 21	Using the Resource Tool – Jim Marteney Learn how to use the class and personal resource area tool in Etudes to save and share information with students, and even create web pages.
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April
Apr. 12	Designing the Perfect Module – Jim Marteney Learn how to create a perfect module for your online class.
Apr. 16	iMovie – La Vergne Rosow Bring a flash drive with photos -- leave with a one-to-five minute movie. Find out how to use photos, special effects, sound recording, and more to create your own presentation.
Apr. 17	Best Practices for Department Chairs – Jim Marteney Improve your ability to effectively evaluate your online faculty’s performance, using best practices developed by CDEC, the evaluation form in the new union contract, and the new Etudes survey tool.
Apr. 18	Introduction to Distance Learning (5:00 p.m.) – Jim Marteney Are you intrigued by the idea of teaching online? Find out what’s involved in teaching online.
Apr. 19	Embedding Videos Effectively – Khaled Hussain For beginning online instructors: This training shows you how to embed videos into your modules, discussions, and assignments in a fun and effective way.
Apr. 23	Creating a Great Homepage – Jim Marteney Pick up great new ideas for a terrific home page for your online class.
Apr. 26	Introduction to Distance Learning – Jim Marteney Are you intrigued by the idea of teaching online? Find out what’s involved in teaching online.
Apr. 30	Producing Podcasts – Jim Marteney Record your lectures and add narration to PowerPoints for students to listen to again and again. Bring a PPT you use.
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May
May 1	Mobi Training – Khaled Hussain Learn how to use mobile interactive whiteboards to deliver content from anywhere in the room and involve your students – available for check-out.
May 2	Digital Student Projects – Deborah Kaye Tap into student creativity by assigning digital projects in your course. These can be good alternatives to traditional tests.
May 3	My LAVC Portal – Khaled Hussain Learn how to use the portal to share information with your students and upload materials. Give your class an online presence and save time and paper!
May 8	Death by PowerPoint – Jim Marteney Microsoft estimates that 30 million PowerPoints are presented each day, 50% of which are unbearable. We will look at PowerPoints that put our students to sleep and ones that get them thinking and involved. You will leave with many ideas for improving your presentations.
May 10	Create, Edit, and Upload Videos – Jim Marteney Faculty have more tools than ever before to create, store, and show videos that can stimulate student learning. In this session we will look at a variety of ways to create, upload, and present videos from cameras to computer “cams” to iPhones using the Portal, YouTube and Edustream. Welcome to the 21st Century!
May 14	Tools for Captioning Videos – Jim Marteney To be compliant, we need to ensure our videos are captioned. Find out how to use all the tools available to us to caption videos.
May 15	Creating your Syllabus – Sally Raskoff Find out what is required on your syllabus – bring one of yours to share and take away great ideas for enhancing this important document.
Questions? Contact Deborah Kaye (818 947 2569) or Jim Marteney (818 947 2808).
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