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Fall FLEX 2013

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Kurt Leuschner9:20 AM--12 PM

Tram Excursion

Technology Student Services Personal Development

Faculty Information School/Discipline Adjunct

Learning

Explore the natural wonders of the Mt. San Jacinto State park. We will be meeting at 9:20 AM at the lower tram

station and taking the 10 AM tram. RSVP to [email protected]. Special price $11.

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Where do you draw the line?

3:30 5:30 PM CSSC MPR

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Learning

Lunch provided by Altura Credit Union

12-1:30 PM The Hilb

Coffee and Donuts with CODAA Executive Board

8:30-10:30 AM FRC

Blackboard Lab

8:30-10:30 AM B6

Speaking Freely or Shouting Fire

1:30-3:30 PM CSSC MPR

Adjunct Orientation II

3:30-5:30 PM CSSC 237

Choices and Challenges:

The Evolution of Online Education

1:30-3:30 PM Pollock Theater

Adjunct Orientation

1:30-3:30 PM CSSC 237

Adjunct Essentials

10:30 AM-12 PM CMH4

New Blackboard

10:30 AM-12 PM B6

Technology Personal DevelopmentStudent Services


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8:30-10:30 AM

Adjuncts are invited to have coffee and donuts with the CODAA Executive Board. Stop by and say hello, grab

something to eat, and meet your Executive Board.

Blackboard Lab

Felix Marhuenda-Donate

Adjunct Essentials

B68:30-10:30 AM

Participants in the Bb lab will have a chance to work with and talk to each other, to experiment, explore, discuss,

reflect and draw appropriate conclusions from their work. There will be several lab attendants present helping

participants with their specific Blackboard questions. There will be several guided mini-lectures lasting no longer

than 10 minutes.

This session will provide adjuncts with essential information that should help to promote success in the classroom,

at the college, and in their careers. Content will include but not be limited to: dealing with difficult students, DSPS

issues, cheating & plagiarism, office hours, mentoring students, getting classes, benefits, sick time, canceling classes,

continuing education, November 2012 tax initiatives & their impact on COD & its adjuncts, one year assignments,

bargaining update, pay per course vs. equal pay periods, evaluations, and the outlook for adjuncts over the next

year.

We have installed the latest version of Blackboard! This new release improves most of the current features,

updates the look of the LMS, and adds new features. Discussion will focus on the three new main features;

MyBlackboard, Global Navigation Menu, and the Content Editor.

New Blackboard

10:30 AM-12 PM Felix Marhuenda-Donate

FRC CODAA Board

10:30 AM-12 PM CMH4 Cathy Levitt and Julius Varga



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CSSC 237

Andy DiPaoloPollock Theater

College campuses are flashpoints for First Amendment clashes. Protesters, employee complaints, academic

freedom, invocations, religious clubs, school newspapers, Facebook, blogs, cell phones, use of campus mailboxes -

what is allowable, and when? How does technology affect the right to regulate speech?

Mary Dowell and Libert Cassidy Whitmore

12-1:30 PM

1:30-3:30 PM

Lunch Provided by Altura Credit Union

The Hilb


CSSC MPR

Choices and Challenges: The Evolution of Online Education

1:30-3:30 PM

Speaking Freely or Shouting Fire

What are the critical challenges and lessons learned by academic institutions delivering online education? How can

these lessons be applied to assess opportunities, create strategies and design innovative online offerings to take

advantage of existing and emerging delivery technologies? This presentation will address the potential and risks of

online education, identify the changing education needs and expectations of students and their employers, share the

lessons learned from the rise of new higher education providers, describe the rapid development and future of

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and offer advice on strategies for institutions and faculty to successfully

deliver programs at a distance.

Adjunct Orientation 1

1:30-3:30 PM Adrian Gonzales, Annebelle Nery, Chris Nelson, and Tom Jones

This orientation is for new and existing faculty. It will cover payroll, absence reporting, getting a substitute,

ordering textbooks, due dates, classroom management, DSPS, and other services available to faculty and students.

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CSSC 237

Where do you draw the line?

3:30-5:30 PM

This may be the most important workshop you attend this flex. When it comes to relationships with students,

what are the boundaries? Is socializing with students okay? When is behavior considered unprofessional? Mary

Dowell of Liebert, Cassidy, Whitmore will highlight case studies and real life examples to explain the do’s and

don’ts of sexual harassment. Come and get the answers to your questions.

Learning Technology Student Services Personal Development

Faculty Information School/Discipline


Adjunct

This orientation is for new and existing faculty. It will cover payroll, absence reporting, getting a substitute,

ordering textbooks, due dates, classroom management, DSPS, and other services available to faculty and students.

3:30-5:30 PM

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Mary Dowell and Libert Cassidy WhitmoreCSSC MPR

Adrian Gonzales, Annebelle Nery, Chris Nelson, and Tom Jones

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"Happy" 6:30-9 PM Pollock Theater

School Breakout Sessions 4:30-5:30 PM

President's Message

10:30 AM-12 PM Pollock Theater

Introduction to Happiness

1-2:30 PM B2

Teaching with Tablet PC and

Microsoft One Note

1-2:30 PM MSTC 250

Where are the fences going

next?

9-10 AM COM 107

LibGuides in Cyberspace

9-10 AM B4

Thursday, August 22, 2013

New Blackboard

8-9 AM MSTC 106

Jazz and Lunch provided by the FDC

11:30 AM-1 PM The Hilb

Frustrated with Outcomes

and Program Review?

1-2:30 PM B3

Coffee and Donuts with the

CODAA Executive Board

8-10 AM FRC

Student Financial Aid Eligibility

2:30-3:30 PM COM 102

Problem Solving in the

Workplace

3:30-4:30 PM B2

Senate Q & A

2:30-3:30 PM B4

Getting Creative with Games

2:30-3:30 PM N6

MyCOD Portal

2:30-3:30 PM MSTC 106

Understanding Your Credit

Score

1-2:30 PM COM 101

Mindfulness: Exploring the

Practice

3:30-4:30 PM COM 101

Origami

8-9 AM N6

Department Meetings 5:30-6:30 PM

International Students

8-9 AM CSSC 237

Classroom Media

3:30-4:30 PM COM 109

Early Advantage

3:30-4:30 PM COM 103

Seeding Multicultural

Education

9-10 AM COM 103

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CSSC 237 Lisa McFadden and Darlene Peceimer

Have you noticed an increase in the number of Middle Eastern students in your classrooms? Because the United

States has a great variety of programs and degrees, it is the most desirable destination for Middle Eastern students

to obtain their higher education. Learn about the stereotypes and challenges these students face on the long

journey from trying to obtain an F1 Visa all the way to sitting in your classroom. Learn how you can help them

succeed.

Origami


International Students

8-9 AM

8-9 AM

Participants will learn, hands-on, about the details, and fun, of Origami, the paper-folding art form.


8-10 AM FRC CODAA Board

Adjuncts are invited to have coffee and donuts with the CODAA Executive Board. Stop by and say hello, grab

something to eat, and meet your Executive Board.

8-9 AM

Take a tour of our new Bb Version 9 SP 10. Blackboard recently released a new version with a new look and

feature improvements. Learn all the great updates to this latest version.

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New Blackboard

Marc DrescherMSTC 106

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Where are the fences going next?

Steve Renew and Mac McGinnisCOM 1079-10 AM

Victor Rios and Chris Jones-Cage9-10 AM

Join Chris Jones-Cage & Victor Rios in the continuing series of Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity (SEED) Flex

Seminars for activities and discussions about teaching and learning through the frame of Curriculum as Window &

Mirror.

Come hear which projects will be completed in this academic year and which will start up this year and next. This

session is intended to be informative and conversational, focused on the remaining projects of Measure B.

Jazz and Lunch provided by the FDC

Claudia Derum, Christa Siegel, and Stella Baker

President's Message

9-10 AM

Seeding Multicultural Education

B4

LibGuides in Cyberspace

Learn about a new tool being developed and designed to engage your students in the research process. Listen to a

discussion about Faculty Liaison Librarians collaborating with Instructional Faculty to develop online resources

which focus on the needs of College of the Desert students. All faculty are invited to join in the process of

brainstorming and collaboration.

11:30 AM-1 PM

President KinnamonPollock Theater10:30 AM-12 PM


COM 103

The Hilb

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A demonstration of a hardware and software alternative to the white board and Powerpoint, along with a

discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using this technology.

This session will be an introduction to Positive Psychology, the scientific study of well-being with an applied

approach to optimal functioning. Positive Psychology does not advocate only a posititive perspective and it is not

positive thinking or a westernized version of "happy-ology" Positive psychology acknowledges the value of planning

for and dealing with problem but suggests it could also be beneficial to expand focus to include what is right about

life. What is well-being? What helps us lead happier and more meaningful lives? What are the benefits of focusing

on developing strengths as opposed to fixing weakness? These are a few of the topics we will explore in this

introductory session.

Teaching with Tablet PC and Microsoft One Note

1-2:30 PM

Frustrated with Outcomes and Program Review?

Dan KleinfelterMSTC 2501-2:30 PM

Bert Bitanga and the OAC Players


How is your credit score calculated? What steps can you take to improve your credit score? Join Karena Chum

from Altura Credit Union for answers to these and other financial questions.

Karena ChumCOM 1011-2:30 PM

Understanding your credit score

B3

So you’ve completed your assessment, now what? Don’t know where to go to start a PRU? Need to revise or

write an SLO? What does this all mean? Join us to learn about the current procedures for Student Learning

Outcomes, Assessments, Program Review Updates, and the 5-year Program Review. We’ll answer your questions,

help to demystify the whole process, and you’ll leave stress free!!

Introduction to Happiness

1-2:30 PM Linda EmersonB2

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Student Financial Aid Eligibility

2:30-3:30 PM

Games allow students to teach other, to find where their strengths are and use those for their team, and to bond

with each other for the benefit of learning. In this fast-paced workshop, learn some exciting games to help your

students learn and bring your own games to share.

Marc Drescher

MyCOD Portal

2:30-3:30 PM MSTC 106

We will be discussing how student academic programs, coursework and progress relate to federal, state and

institutional financial aid eligibility and how faculty can assist students in educational planning.

Ken LiraCOM 1022:30-3:30 PM

Getting Creative with Games

Arlette Poland

Bring your questions and participate in lively discussion of issues facing faculty. Senate Executive Committee

members will be available for answers and discussion; and will present Senate goals and objectives for 2013/2014.

Senate Q & A

The Senate Executive BoardB42:30-3:30 PM

Faculty and Students now have a single point of access to WebAdvisor, Blackboard, Email and more on the new

MyCOD. Learn all of the great new features of the MyCOD Portal from a Single-Sign-On. One login into the

MyCOD gives you access to all these great services.


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COM 101

COM 109

Join us as we continue to explore the benefits and practice of mindfulness. The majority of the session will consist

of experiential exercises that can be used both in the classroom and personally. We will visit some past practices as

well as introduce some new ones, including navigating daily transitions. Participation in previous sessions is not

necessary.

Mindfulness: Exploring the Practice

3:30-4:30 PM

Early Advantage

Tara McCarthy, Jessica Enders, and Cynthia Vasquez3:30-4:30 PM COM 103

Classroom Media

If you are teaching in the new Communication building, this session is a must. Topics include: Managing Classroom

Room Controls, Extending Classroom Capabilities with Tablets & Laptops; and Controlling your presentation with

an iPad.

Marc Drescher and Mike Hadley3:30-4:30 PM

B2

Early Advantage is designed as a timely intervention for students who are observed to be experiencing academic

difficulty each semester. The service provides instructional and student services faculty with a collaborative

opportunity to identify students’ specific needs and subsequent access to carefully identified support services.

Refreshments will be provided.

Melissa Flora and Sally Kalpakoff

We will discuss how problem solving and critical thinking can improve both the efficiency of and the success of

work-related challenges and everyday conundrums. Focus will be given to specific tools and strategies rather than

general philosophies or theories.

Linda Emerson and Chris Jones-Cage

Problem Solving in the Workplace

3:30-4:30 PM


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Technology Student Services Personal Development


School Breakout Sessions

The feature length social documentary "Happy" explores the science of happiness and its prevalence across

cultures. Director Roko Belic shot over 400 hours of footage around the world. The film has won numerous

awards in nations like Mexico, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and the U.S. Six years in the making, the film offers

insight from cutting edge happiness researchers, positive psychologists and real people from every demographic, all

asking the question: What lies at the core of a human being’s happiness? Join us as we view the film and discuss

what Belic learned.

Student Access and School Relations- COM 101

Linda EmersonPollock Theater6:30-9 PM

School of Communication & Humanities - COM 111/112

School of Arts and Sciences - CSSC MPR

Department Meetings

School of Applied Sciences & Business - PSA 19

Learning

"Happy"

5:30-6:30 PM (Check with your school administrative assistant for rooms)

School of Library and Learning Resources - Library

Student Services and Special Programs - COM 103

4:30-5:30 PM

School of Health Sciences & Education - BNC 32

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Personal Development

Your Public Relations Office

1-2:30 PM COM 102

Professional Branding

2:30-4:30 PM COM 104

EVC Tutoring and Academic

Skills Center

2:30-4:30 PM EVC

Recognize Me: Keeping our

Students Engaged

2:30-4 PM COM 108

The New Communication

Building

10:30 AM-12 PM

COM 114

Writing Effective Self-

Evaluations

10:30 AM-12 PM B2

Placing Copy Center Orders

8-9 AM B6

Data Oasis

9-10:30 AM MSTC 106

Lunch Courtesy of CODFA 12-1 PM PSA 18/19

Faculty Information

Learning

School/Discipline Adjunct

Technology

Designing Your Desert

Landscape

8-10:30 AM East Annex 2

California Mandated Reporting

8-9 AM B2

Outfitting your Toolbox

8-9 AM B4

Got My Data: Now What?

10:30 AM-12 PM

MSTC 106

Help Wanted!

10:30 AM-12 PM N9

Cheating or Collaborating?

1-2:30 PM N9

iPads in the Classroom

1-2:30 PM MSTC 250

Budget Update

1-2:30 PM B3

New Technology in the

Communication Building

2:30-4 PM COM 109

Student Services

Friday August 23, 2013

The CPC and You

9-10:30 AM COM 101

Covering your Syllabus

9-10:30 AM COM 203

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Jeff Place

The trend in the Desert is to remove your front lawn and convert your landscape to a more desert friendly, and

water efficient, landscape. Topics to be discussed include: how to get rid of bermuda grass, plant selection,

irrigation changes, styles of desert landscapes, and maintenance of the new landscape.

Stephanie HerringtonB28-9 AM

Designing Your Desert Landscape

8-10:30 AM East Annex 2


Student Services

Outfitting your Toolbox


Learning Technology

Placing Copy Center Orders

8-9 AM

8-9 AM

Learn how to submit copy center jobs from any computer hooked up to the internet.

Nathan Church and Stephen HarmonB4

This session will provide tools and resources (and a drawing for $50 worth of campus bookstore gifts!!) for faculty

to identify the students of concern. You may have students of concern who range from being disruptive in class,

and handled through disciplinary channels, to students who may be at risk of harm to self or others, requiring

referral for more clinical assessment and intervention. But how can you distinguish between these types of

students? This session will introduce a tool to help faculty approach a student of concern and initiate an

appropriate referral and will inform faculty about referral services available at COD.

Do you know if you are mandated by the state of California to report the suspicion of child abuse or neglect?

Most of College of the Desert faculty and staff are. Since the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky tragedy, there are many

changes being made nationwide that could impact how effectively we protect minors here at C.O.D.

California Mandated Reporting

Rosa Limon, Mary Lisi, and Job Gonzalez

Personal Development

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10:30 AM-12 PM

MSTC 106

Joel Kinnamon

The CPC and You

Covering your Syllabus

9-10:30 AM COM 203

Jay LewensteinN9

COM 101

What is the most effective way to present your syllabus on the first day of class? This workshop teaches you how

to present your syllabus on the first day of classes in a learner-centered format or style.

Nicholle Clark and Donna Green

Are you interested in joining CPC? Interested in learning more about the Planning Process at COD? Wondering

what happens to that PRU you write? Puzzled about how to find resources? This session will be your one stop for

answers to those questions and more.

Where do our students come from? Where do they transfer to? How do our CTE, Basic Skills, and other students

in different cohorts perform and succeed? What do they earn after graduation? What are the external data

warehouses? Where can we mine these and other pertinent information and do comparison analysis? Please come

to this session to find the answers.

For the 2013-14 academic school year, COD Friends of the Earth looks forward to working with other COD

instructors, staff and students to promote the open and honest campus discussion of gender issues. At our FLEX

workshop, we will introduce the COD Friends of the Earth “GENDER - OSITY” Film Festival. Our ultimate goal is

to create exciting and meaningful writing opportunities to be shared across the curriculum.


Bina Isaac

Help Wanted

9-10:30 AM

Data Oasis

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A self-evaluation is now required under the adjunct collective bargaining agreement. This workshop will discuss the

changes and how they impact you. Whether you are new or have years’ experience, you will learn a lot from this

session. Your self-evaluation should be a marketing tool that showcases your accomplishments and strengths.

Learn how to use filters, conditional formatting, table formats and pivot tables to make your data show what you

need. Also see how to use the Data Tools to clean up your data after importing it to excel.

Got My Data: Now What?

Bina IsaacMSTC 10610:30 AM-12 PM

Donna Greene

Participants will view parts of a TED Talk by Ken Robinson about shifting educational paradigms and then

participate in a round table discussion about student learning outcomes, assessment, testing and the future of

education. Implications of smart phones, on-line courses, and use of technology in the classroom will be discussed,

in addition to any topics suggested by participants.

Cheating or Collaborating?

1-2:30 PM

10:30 AM-12 PM B2 David Bashore

The New Communication Building

Join us for a grand tour of the new Communication Building. Scones, clotted cream, marmalade, and English

breakfast tea will be served.

Tony DisalvoCOM Office

Writing Effective Self-Evaluations

Lunch courtesy of CODFA

PSA 18/1912-1 PM

10:30 AM-12 PM


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COM 102 Revae Reynolds


Professional Branding “Who Are You Workshop” is an outgrowth of Personal Branding, with its primary focus on

career: where we are, where we’re going and how we get there. Professional Branding is integral to Professional

Development and Leadership. Its fast-moving, quick-thinking workshops, through a series of insight-bearing

questions, will assist one in self-realizing their key value and learning how to use it to enhance their career and

organization. Providing Professional Branding “Who Are You Workshops,” by a branding specialist, is an effective

way to polish the school’s Commercial Brand while highlighting the Professional Brand of its key personnel.

Your Public Relations Office

iPads in the Classroom

1-2:30 PM

The Public Relations Office has a wealth of resources for you including photos, college logos, printed promotional

materials, display booth items, and templates for letterhead, brochures, COD business cards, flyers, powerpoint

presentations, event programs, award certificates, and more. Find out where they are stored and how to use them.

(Even if you don't attend this session, remember that we are always looking for positive things to promote about

COD so send us whatever you have.)

Lorraine DischingerCOM 104

MSTC 250 Marc Drescher and Mike Hadley

2:30-4:30 PM

Learn how iPads are being incorporated into the classroom. Topics include: Presenting with your iPad; Using an iPad

as an Interactive Smart Board; and Connecting your iPad to Classroom Room Controls.

Budget Update

1-2:30 PM B3

Professional Branding

1-2:30 PM

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Institutions serving primarily low-income and students of color often have a difficult time meeting the needs of

students. Research across the educational pipeline has highlighted significant factors associated with student success

and failure. This presentation will focus on the role that institutional culture plays on student engagement and

disengagement.

Recognize Me: Keeping our Students Engaged

2:30-4 PM COM 108

New Technology in the Communication Building

Hop onboard as we take you on a tour of our Technology Enhanced Classrooms. The first stop is your classroom.

The session with make sure you are prepared and ready to use classroom technology on the first day of class.

2:30-4 PM COM 109 Marc Drescher and Hike Hadley

Louie Rodriguez

I would like to offer instructors who teach at EVC and MTC the opportunity to see the learning support that we

have to offer our students and instructors. I will have a series of PowerPoints that introduce instructors to the

Tutoring and Academic Skills Centers' program. I will also give a hands-on demonstration of "Inspiration," which is

used for brainstorming, organizing research papers, planning for science projects, while simultaneously developing

an outline. I will also demonstrate how to access their students' lab reports.

EVC Tutoring and Academic Skills Center


Diana Squillace2:30-4:30 PM

Learning Technology Student Services Personal Development


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