Category: College Service/Committees
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E-Portfolio Recommendations
After over two years of learning more about e-portfolios than I ever expected, the E-portfolio Ad Hoc Task Force’s work at LCC is complete. I think. We made final recommendations to the Provost to implement RosEvaluation system from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (with a couple of caveats). For more details, contact me.
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CWAC: Website Ready
I completed (finally) the development of a website for the LCC College-Wide Assessment Committee. It’s at: http://lcccwac.wordpress.com/ We’re looking at bringing the hosting of the site in-house.
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CTE Presentation
I presented a peek at my Principles of Econ online courses at the CTE workshop “Online Course Demos” on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, along with Jean Lynch-Brandon. The session was well attended with approx. 25 other faculty and administrators in attendance.
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New Assignment: AQIP Strategy
Lansing Community College is part of AQIP, the Academic Quality Improvement Process. AQIP is an alternative process for accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission. The traditional approach involves an intensive, on-site review and comparison to prescriptive criteria by reviewers every 7-10 years. AQIP calls for creating continuous quality improvement processes and reviewing progress/status with other…
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New Project: Search Committee
LCC is going to hire a replacement for Bruce McCrea in Economics. Bruce retired and can’t really be replaced, but we’ll try. I am on the search committee.
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Presentation: Blogs- Professor’s Best Friend
I presented on “Blogs: A Professor’s Best Friend” to LCC faculty as part of LCC’s Professional Development Days. A copy of the powerpoint is here. I have an .mp3 file of the audio here. Both are unedited. I’m planning to edit and combine them into a flash presentation that I’ll post to my new blog…
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Presentation: Future of LMS’s
I presented on “Beyond Angel: The Future of LMS’s” to LCC faculty as part of LCC’s Professional Development Days. A copy of the powerpoint is here. I have an .mp3 file of the audio here. Both are unedited. I’m planning to edit and combine them into a flash presentation that I’ll post to my new…
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Writing Class
Spoke to Jill Reglin’s Writing class about “Is the Recession Over?”. A copy of the presentation is available at: Powerpoint File MP3 audio of the lecture itself It’s in powerpoint format (ppt). If you don’t have Microsoft Powerpoint, download OpenOffice from the “Free Software” page link at the top of this page. OpenOffice is free…
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Online Books
I made a presentation to LS Division faculty at Fall 2009 Kick-off meeting about online books. I shared our experience in Econ with the Taylor book and looked at different publishers’ strategies, as well as student concerns. Presentation here.
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Sub-Committee: Express Server and Storage Space
The E-Learning Advisory Board has formed a temporary, ad-hoc sub-committee to address the storage limitations of the Angel system and start bringing an in-house web content server for teaching materials up to speed (Express server).