Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Rockland Community College
Spring 2016 CETL Calendar of Events
Date & Time
Event
Location
February 2016
Tues 9-Feb
2:00 – 2:50 pm
SUNY’s Tools of Engaement Project (TOEP)
Discover valuable uses of educational technology with
the support of a community of faculty who are also
interested in expanding their repertoire of tools to
engage students.
CETL
(Room 8322)
TOEP provides a curated selection of educational
technology tools carefully organized into several
functional categories including Lifelong Learning,
Collaborative Spaces, Podcasts, Photo Sharing,
Citation Management, Mobile Apps, and that’s
just a sample.
Participants have until April 1 to earn official recognition
for their explorations so if you haven’t started yet, this
is a good time to do so. The last day to join is
February 12.
Presenter(s):
Lynn Aaron, CETL Co-director & RCC TOEP
Fellow
Thur 11-Feb
12:40 – 1:30 pm
SUNY’s Tools of Engaement Project (TOEP)
Same as above (Tues 9 – Feb.)
CETL
(Room 8322)
To accommodate people who prefer this time
Mon 8-Feb
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Wed 10-Feb
9:00 am - Noon
Thur 11-Feb
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Sat 13-Feb
9:00 am - Noon
eLearning Training: EDT201 (Online, Hybrid) *
CETL
(Room 8322)
* Please contact eLearning with questions about EDT Training or register at http://tinyurl.com/EDTRCC
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Spring 2016 CETL Calendar of Events
Wed 17-Feb
2:00 – 3:00 pm
CETL Series: Last Good Book I Read Colloquium
Stokely: A Life
by Peniel Joseph
CETL
(Room 8322)
Special Selection for African American History Month
This presentation will discuss the new biography about
the radical activist who popularized the phrase "black
power" and was once thought to be the heir of Malcolm
X's nationalist legacy.
Presenter: David Lucander, Multicultural Studies
Faculty
Mon 15-Feb
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Wed 17-Feb
9:00 am - Noon
Thur 18-Feb
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Sat 20-Feb
9:00 am - Noon
Thur 25-Feb
12:30 – 1:20 pm
eLearning Training: EDT301 *
Best practices in online courses
Prerequisite EDT 201 or 101
CETL
(Room 8322)
Unraveling the New LAP
The New/Revised Course Approval Form is the result
of hours – make that months – of cooperation and
organizational skill. Gone are Forms A, B, and E. Seeking
SUNY General Education approval can also be indicated.
This workshop will explain the new form and respond to
questions about how to best complete it.
Presenters:
Cliff Ader, Criminal Justice Faculty, Fire
Technology Coordinator
Corey Ratner, Automotive Technology
Department Chair
Beth Robinson, Communication Arts
Department Chair
Mon 22-Feb
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Wed 24-Feb
9:00 am - Noon
Thur 25-Feb
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Sat 27-Feb
9:00 am - Noon
eLearning Training: EDT101 (Web-Enhancing) *
eLearning Training: EDT201 (Online, Hybrid) *
eLearning Training: EDT301 *
Best practices in online courses
Prerequisite EDT 201 or 101
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CETL
(Room 8322)
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Spring 2016 CETL Calendar of Events
March 2016
Tues 1-March
Mastering the Blackboard Grade Center
CETL
2:00 - 2:50 pm
Whether you teach an online or face-to-face course,
Blackboard's Grade Center allows you to record
students' grades for assignments, tests, discussion
posts, journals, blogs, and wikis, and for ungraded
items, such as surveys or self-tests in a dynamic and
interactive way. You can record and monitor data,
calculate grades, and track student progress.
Room 8322
Learn how the Grade Center can generate reports and
determine which assigned grades to show to your
students in My Grades, including columns displaying
performance results. You can also create grade
columns for any activities or requirements you want to
grade, such as special projects, participation, or
attendance.
Presenter: Amie Gardner, Assistant Director,
eLearning & Instructional Technology
Thur 3-March
12:30 – 1:30 pm
“Can't We All Just Get Along?”:
Two Short Stories on Ireland Divided
by William Trevor
An Irish Heritage Month Celebration
Many people believe that “the Troubles”, a period that
began in Ireland in the 1960’s, ended in the Good Friday
Agreement of 1998. But ten centuries of invasions,
rebellions, repression and violence, along with the
continuing claims of unionists and nationalists to
possession of Northern Ireland, have placed peace
keeping on this island on dangerous and shifting ground.
One of the great writer-diplomats behind the scenes is
William Trevor who was born into a middle class
protestant family in catholic Ireland. Known as the Irish
Chekov, Trevor, in his novels and short stories is ironic
and surprising, so brilliant in intricacy and analysis that
readers become compassionate interpreters, searching
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out even-handed, intelligent solutions to the array of
troubles humans make for themselves.
This discussion will deal with two Trevor stories about
protestant-catholic tensions in late twentieth-century
Ireland. Copies of “Lost Ground” (New Yorker,
Feb.24, 1992) and “The Distant Past” can be provided.
Contact Colleen Scanlon, [email protected]
(CETL) or Rosemary Witte, [email protected]
(Performing Arts) for copies. The readings would take
only about 30 minutes of your time, but you are
welcome to come even if you haven’t finished the
stories.
Presenter: Pam Floyd, Professor of English
Wed 2-March
9:00 am - Noon
Thur 3-March
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Sat 5-March
9:00 am - Noon
eLearning Training: EDT101 (Web-Enhancing) *
CETL
(Room 8322)
Open Education Week (March 7 – 11, 2016)
RCC will participate in the celebration with a week of TOEP Tips.
Each will contain an open educational resource recommended by one of
our colleagues. Watch for your daily “TOEP Tip” email.
Tues 8-March
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Curriculum Mapping:
Aligning Course Level SLOs with PLOs, ILOs
& GELOs
This workshop will focus on how to align course level
student learning outcomes with program learning
outcomes, institutional learning outcomes, and general
education learning outcomes. Tools will be presented
to help with this process.
Curriculum mapping is a strong tool that can provide
guidance for developing assessments that provide
useful information at the course, program, department
and college levels.
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We will discuss why this is important and what you can
get out of the process.
Presenter:
Nancy Koester, Assistant Director Office of
Institutional Research and Effectiveness
Tues 8-March
2:00 - 2:50 pm
Blackboard's Retention Center:
An Early Warning System
CETL
Room 8322
Looking for a way of keeping your at-risk students from
slipping through the cracks? Want to check the overall
academic health of your class at a glance? In
Blackboard's Retention Center, student engagement
and participation are visually displayed, quickly alerting
you to potential risk. From the Retention Center, you
can flag and communicate with struggling students and
help them take immediate action for improvement.
Find out who needs your help and drill in to see their
specific areas of difficulty. Monitor general course
activity and locate and affirm your high-performing
students. As you observe their progress and
correspond, you can also track this correspondence
and make notes about each student right in
the Retention Center. Retention Center features can
be utilized immediately—no setup required.
Presenter: Amie Gardner, Assistant Director,
eLearning & Instructional Technology
Mon 7-March
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Wed 9-March
9:00 am - Noon
Thur 10-March
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Sat 12-March
9:00 am - Noon
eLearning Training: EDT201 (Online, Hybrid) *
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CETL
(Room 8322)
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Rockland Community College
Spring 2016 CETL Calendar of Events
Tues 15-March
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Faculty Members and FERPA,
ADA Section 504, and Title IX
Room 8372
Co-sponsored with the
Accessibility Services Faculty Advisory Committee
Privacy concerns. Discrimination. Disability
accommodations.
You probably know about FERPA, ADA, and Title IX,
but there are always questions about how to apply
them in specific classrooms situations or with specific
student populations.
In this live webinar, legal experts Joshua Zugish, J.D. and
Scott Schneider specialize in higher education and will
focus on the fundamentals of these three regulations.
Find out what situations each law governs, how they
work, and how to comply. Learn the potential
consequences for you and your institution if you don’t
follow the law. You will get case-study examples that
illustrate how effective these laws can be when applied
correctly, and come away with the tools you need to
better handle these issues.
Facilitator: Lynn Aaron, CETL Co-Director
Wed 16-March
2:00 – 3:00 pm
CETL Series: Last Good Book I Read Colloquium
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics
by Ruth Lewin Sime
Celebrating Women’s History Month
As a pioneering woman scientist and a Jewish refugee
who fled Nazi Germany, Lise Meitner's life has much to
teach about contemporary issues - come learn more
about this hidden heroine and what makes her so
special. This discussion is about a woman who made the
world a better place even though that world wasn't
always willing to hear her.
Presenter: Joan Asch, Humanities, Social &
Behavioral Sciences
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CETL
(Room 8322)
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Rockland Community College
Spring 2016 CETL Calendar of Events
Mon 14-March
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Wed 16-March
9:00 am - Noon
Thur 17-March
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Sat 19-March
9:00 am - Noon
eLearning Training: EDT301 *
Best practices in online courses
Prerequisite EDT 201 or 101
Mon 21-March
1:00 – 4:00 pm
eLearning Training: EDT101 (Web-Enhancing) *
Wed 23-March
9:00 am - Noon
eLearning Training: EDT201 (Online, Hybrid) *
eLearning Training: EDT301 *
Thur 24-March
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Best practices in online courses
Sat 26-March
9:00 am - Noon
eLearning Training: EDT101 (Web-Enhancing) *
Thur 31-March
Breaking the Tech Ceiling:
Bringing More Women into Technology
11:30–12:30 pm
CETL
(Room 8322)
CETL
Room 8322
Prerequisite EDT 201 or 101
Ellipse
Room 8180
Co-sponsored with Women’s History Month
This presentation will address the current issues
surrounding women in technology today: how can
women set themselves up for success and take
advantage of the opportunities in the field.
Presenter:
Paola Garcia, Webmaster, Datadog, Inc and
Adjunct Faculty, Computer Studies
Thur 31-March
6:00 – 9:00 pm
eLearning Training: EDT301 *
Best practices in online courses
Prerequisite EDT 201 or 101
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April 2016
Thur 7-April
3:00 – 4:30 pm
CETL Special Event >>>
Faculty/Staff
RCC Researchers’ Tea
Join Dr. Wood and CETL to celebrate the
scholarship of our colleagues from several disciplines:
Last year we honored faculty who had authored
books. This year we will recognize those who have
published articles in peer-reviewed/refereed journals:
 Kristopher Baker, PhD, STEM and Health
Professionals Division Chair
 David Beisel, PhD, Professor of Social Science
(Retired)
 Jillian Decker, PhD, Assistant Professor of
Biology
 Michael Francesco, Adjunct Faculty, Science
 Sarah Levy, Professor, Access Services Librarian
 Eric Magaram, Assistant Professor of
Mathematics
 Jeffrey McLean, PhD, Assistant Professor of
Biology
 Catherine Roche, Business and Professional/
Public Services Division Chair
 Diane Rosen, Adjunct Faculty, English
 Xi Shi, PhD, Professor of Library Services
 Christina Stern, PhD, Assistant Professor of
History
 Elaine M. Toia, PhD, Resident Professor of
English
 Lynn Aaron, Professor of Computer
Studies, CETL Co-director
Come and celebrate your colleagues. (And learn what
we have in mind for next year!)
Moderator: Dr. Elaine Padilla, Professor of
Sociology & Anthropology, CETL Co-director
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Spring 2016 CETL Calendar of Events
Tues 12-April
12:30 – 1:30 pm
“Life is too much like a pathless wood”:
Using Cognitive Science to Read Robert Frost
The theory of embodied cognition claims that cognition is
composed of an interactive system spanning the brain, the
body, and the environment. The developing field of cognitive
science has had a profound impact on many disciplines,
including the study of language and, more recently,
literature. The contention that metaphor had something to
do with mundane bodily experience was once considered
shocking. However, as psychologist Raymond Gibbs, Jr.
(2014) notes, cognitive science “has placed metaphor centre
stage within everyday cognition, and demonstrated that
many aspects of metaphoric language and action are deeply
tied to embodiment or recurring patterns of bodily
experience.”
Ellipse
Room 8180
This interdisciplinary lecture will examine Robert Frost’s
poetry, including a close reading of “The Road Not Taken.”
It will draw upon recent findings in cognitive linguistics, as
well as current research into memory, to explore
conceptual metaphors in the poem. Frost poses questions
about human perception, our drive to shape random
experiences into narratives and, at a deeper level, memory’s
complex role in creating identity and meaning.
Presenter: Stephen Burke, English, Philosophy, and
Religious Studies Chair
Thur 14-April
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Making Waves:
RCC's Asian-Pacific Islander Students Discuss Challenges
They Face in the U.S and at RCC
Co-sponsored with the
Asian/Pacific Island Heritage Month Committee
Rockland hosts many exceptional Asian Pacific Islander
students from many countries such as Japan, Korea and
Taiwan. Take this opportunity to learn about their
homelands and their experiences at RCC. A panel of API
students will share their stories and insights and discuss
what life here means to them. They will reflect on their
college experiences relating their achievements as well as
ongoing challenges. Students will also field questions from
attendees.
Moderator: Cathy Davis, ESL Department Chair
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Tues 19-April
1:00 – 2:00 pm
CETL Open Door
Are there things that puzzle you about email or Word or
PowerPoint or other programs you use? Would you like
to find out about TOEP? Do you have other technologyrelated questions?
CETL
(Room 8322)
The door is open. Drop in to CETL. No promises, but
we’ll do what we can to find an answer.
Facilitator: Lynn Aaron, CETL Co-director
Wed 20-April
2:00 – 3:00 pm
CETL Series: Last Good Book I Read Colloquium
How To Be Gay
CETL
(Room 8322)
by David Halpern
David Halpern, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest
that gayness is a specific way of being that gay men must
learn from one another in order to become who they are.
Halpern contends the genius of gay culture resides in some
of its most despised features: its aestheticism, snobbery,
melodrama, adoration of glamour, caricatures of women,
and obsession with mothers – and in the social meaning of
style. Does Halpern's thesis go too far? Come to this
discussion and get Andrew Jacobs' take on a very important
and highly acclaimed book about what it means to be gay
today.
Presenter: Andrew Jacobs, Speech Faculty
Tues 26-April
TOEP End-of-Year Celebration
12:45 – 1:30 pm
CETL
(Room 8322)
RCC faculty have been able to participate in SUNY’s
Tools of Engagement Project. This project gives faculty
access to a curated, organized selection of Web-based
tools chosen to engage students. The TOEP year is over.
Come celebrate with Faculty who have participated.
Facilitator: Lynn Aaron, CETL Co-Director
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Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Rockland Community College
Spring 2016 CETL Calendar of Events
Tues 26-April
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Title IX Compliance:
Online Trainings For Your Faculty, Staff & Students
Title IX regulations, requirements and standards have
taken our colleges by storm in the last 2 years with
extensive new guidelines, expectations, and compliance
obligations. There is no doubt this has been a long time
coming and is finally a strict and measurable response to
sexual harassment and assault. All members of the
college community (faculty, staff, students) must be
aware of how to respond and the resources available.
This live webinar will explore training possibilities.
CETL
(Room 8322)
Facilitator: Lynn Aaron, CETL Co-Director
* Please contact eLearning with questions about EDT Training or register at http://tinyurl.com/EDTRCC
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