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| Best Practices of Web Development Review concepts and techniques considered by many developers to be the best practices of Web page development. Topics to be covered include document structure, page layouts, navigation, style sheets, standards, accessibility and more. An overview of key concepts, various techniques, related web resources, and handouts will be provided. Faculty should bring an USB drive for storage of materials. Space is limited to 8 participants. Adjunct faculty will receive a $50 stipend for completing a seminar activity. Facilitator: Christopher Dobson LFD0308-001, Monday, August 18, 2008 Classroom Discussions: This session addresses how the physical layout of
a classroom can affect classroom dynamics. More importantly, it
addresses how students respond to their physical environment. An
understanding of classroom space has dramatic implications for teachers,
because it offers us ways to generate the environment that we want
to have: Adjunct faculty will receive a $50 stipend for completing a seminar activity. Facilitator: Joshua Sunderbruch LFD0281-001, Monday, August 18, 2008 CD-R: Preparing Your Online Course for a Design Review This workshop focuses on three facets of the online course design review process. The facilitator will share why you may want to consider submitting your course for a design review, the procedure from start to finish when you do decide to participate in this initiative and a quick overview of the rubric that will be used for this review process. Time for questions and answers is included, and if time permits, participants will be able to use the rubric to compare their own online course designs with best practices. Space is limited to 8 participants. Adjunct faculty will receive a $25 stipend for completing a seminar activity. Facilitator: Matt Ensenberger, DoIT LFD1031-001, Monday, August 18, 2008 Creating Visual Content for iPods This presentation will introduce participants to basic concepts
and practices that relate to the creation of learning materials
and content that can be effectively delivered through portable electronic
devices such as the iPod. Emphasis is placed on the appropriate
use of text and visual design techniques. Adjunct faculty will receive a $75 stipend for completing a seminar activity. Facilitator: Dr. Kevin Crow, DoIT Micrograde for Windows Learn Micrograde for Windows, a computerized gradebook for IBM computers. Micrograde has weighted and total point formats and generates student summaries and various reports for tracking student progress. You must have a Harper Network account to attend the seminar. Please email lbranski from your Harper network account after you register for this seminar for information on how to receive your class list to download to Micrograde. Adjunct faculty will receive a $75 stipend for completing a seminar activity. Facilitator: Andy Geary LFD0001-001, Friday, August 29, 2008 LFD0001-002, Friday, September 5, 2008 LFD0001-003, Friday, September 12, 2008 Micrograde for Windows--Open Lab If you have previously attended a Micrograde seminar, come to this open lab for answers to Micrograde questions and help in setting up your classes for spring semester. Be sure to request your class lists: send Laura Branski (lbranski) the course number and section number for each class list that you need. (Class lists must be sent to your Harper email account.) Also, remember to sign out on your office computer before coming to the open lab. You must have taken a Micrograde for Windows seminar to attend this open lab. Facilitator: Andy Geary Friday, August 29, 2008 International Books: Requiem for the East In this novel by celebrated Russian-born novelist Andrei Makine, amid the ashes of the Soviet Union a Russian army doctor turned spy addresses the woman he loves—a woman who is also a spy and who has shared his shadowy life across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. She has disappeared. The narrator’s tale traces her, and traces the lives of ordinary people across three generations living through the tragic convulsions of the Russian empire: from the civil war through the Second World War to the fall of communism and beyond. Adjunct faculty will receive a $50 stipend. The book will be available for purchase in the bookstore. Sponsored by the International Committee and Faculty Development LFD0339-001, Friday, October 3, 2008 International Books: So Monstrous a Crime: Face-to-Face with Modern Day Slavery We might think that the days of slavery and the international slave trade are over. Not so. Slave trafficking continues today, with one major form being the kidnapping and selling of women into sexual slavery. In fact, there are more slaves today than at any time in history according to this book by journalist E. Benjamin Skinner. Skinner focuses on Haiti, Sudan, Romania, Cambodia, Sudan, India,
and Dubai as centers of slave trafficking and sexual enslavement,
but he also turns his attention to the United States, where a significant
number of these women end up. Skinner also gives a detailed account
of the work of the United States’s “antislavery czar,”
John Miller, director of the State Department Office to Monitor
and Combat Trafficking in Person. Adjunct faculty will receive a $50 stipend. The book is available for purchase in the bookstore. Sponsored by the International Committee and Faculty Development LFD0340-001, Friday, November 14, 2008 Electronic Reserves through Blackboard Enhance your Blackboard course and let your reading list come to life! Learn how to link directly to full text specialized encyclopedia and journal articles, and now streaming videos, through Blackboard. Traditionally, students would come to the library to photocopy articles on a reading list. Now students can have electronic access to the full articles anywhere any time. This offers the instructor more control in managing the reading list, and offers the students organized, hassle-free access. The workshop will review searching the Library EBSCO Host databases and Access Science. Databases Covered: Access Science, Academic Search Complete, ERIC, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Literary Reference Center , MLA International Bibliography, Business Source Elite, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and Newspaper Source. Prerequisite Adjunct faculty will receive a $50 stipend for applying information from this seminar to their Blackboard account. Facilitator: Kim Fournier, Library LFD0219-025, On-Request: Please contact Kim Fournier, x6882, for information about this on-request seminar
To register call Continuing Education, 847/925-6300 or register online: https://www.harpercollege.edu/secure/registerce.htm Faculty Development Seminars are offered free of charge to Harper College full-time and adjunct faculty. Adjunct Faculty may receive a stipend for attending a seminar and completing an activity related to the seminar topic. Information regarding the activity will be available at the seminar.
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