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Faculty Senate Professional Development Week Concludes Today

Below are today's Faculty Senate Professional Development Week sessions. Please download the attached program for each session's login information.

Today's sessions will conclude this year's Professional Development Week. However, please note the session Creating Customized Academic Plans: Exploring Student Education Planner, originally scheduled for June 3, has been moved to June 8th from 1130am-1pm. Through Wednesday, total session attendance is just over 330. The Faculty Senate and Faculty Senate Professional Development Committee would like to thank all those who presented and attended sessions over the course of the week. Together you helped make this another successful Professional Development Week.

Today's Sessions

The MCC Libraries' College Research Badging Program

830am-930am

Presenters: Alice Wilson (Library Services) and Anjali Parasnis-Samar (Library Services)

The MCC Libraries' College Researcher Badging Program (http://libguides.monroecc.edu/collegeresearcher) is a set of online tutorials designed to help students prepare for college-level research. Come to this session to learn more about the program and how you can integrate one or more of these badges into your online and face-to-face classes.

Creating Opportunities for Collaborative Global Learning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Diversity/Global Learning at MCC: A HIPs Committee Sponsored Event

10am-11am

Presenters: Andrea Kingston (Library Services) and Christina Lee (Global Education and International Services)

Collaborative and global learning are both designated as high-impact educational practices (HIPs) by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. MCC's participation in a SUNY-wide initiative to incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the curriculum offers a unique opportunity to incorporate both HIPs into your courses. For example, in the spring semester GEIS and the MCC Libraries worked together to offer students, as well as faculty and staff, an opportunity to transform 17 library study rooms into sources of information and inspiration about the SDGs for everyone at MCC. With few preset parameters, participants were invited to use their creativity to offer information and a call for action. Courses from multiple departments, a student club, and a faculty and staff committee signed on to participate before the move to distance learning interrupted the project. It will be relaunched next spring. This is just one example of how exploring the SDGs with students can provide opportunities to incorporate collaborative and global learning in both coursework and co-curricular activities. Join us as we use the project as a spark for a larger conversation about exploring the SDGs at MCC.

Fast Track Online Training for Adjuncts Teaching for SUNY Online

1130am-230pm

Presenters: Andrea Gilbert (Instructional Technologies/Virtual Campus), Tom Capuano (Instructional Technologies/Virtual Campus), Jeremy Case (Instructional Technologies/Virtual Campus), and Kate Robinson (Instructional Technologies/Virtual Campus)

Will you be teaching a SUNY Online course in an upcoming semester? Are you new to teaching online and want to be prepared? Come and get trained to teach fully online in this half day session. We will cover some basic Blackboard training (managing content, communication tools, and assessment tools), and best practices for teaching an online course. This session is geared towards adjunct faculty, however, it will be open to all teaching faculty that may be teaching a SUNY Online course. Registration is strongly recommended for this session.

Health by Humor Sponsored by the MCC Wellness Council

3pm-4pm

Join the discussion lead by the MCC Wellness Council and special guest host John Delate on the health benefits of humor in the workplace! It will be an entertaining, interactive hour leaving you laughing for more!

Attached Files:
(Internal only; employees must log in to view.)

2020 Professional Development Week Program.pdf

Joseph Scanlon
Anthrop/History/Poli. Science/Sociology
06/04/2020