Saturday, January 25th
Adjunct Institute Conference Schedule
8:30 - 9:00 AM
All are welcome for breakfast!
Register for workshops on MyHCC to earn professional development credit.
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Designed for newer adjuncts, this interactive session will answer your questions about a variety of essential administrative tasks such as: accessing online resources to submit grades, communicating with students, recording lectures, viewing rosters, viewing classroom images, registering for professional development, and more.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin
Recommended for New Faculty 
Work in groups to assure that your assignments are set up clearly, your modules make sense, and discover an online active learning strategy you can use this semester. You will be on the road to success in no time! Returning faculty only. Seats limited to 20, first come basis. Must have content in a Canvas site (from this or a previous semester).
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers, Jamie Bourne, & Maureen Martin
Recommended for Returning Faculty
Each semester faculty report that reaching ALL students can be difficult. Students with defined and undefined special needs and classroom behaviors can provide an opportunity to consider new strategies to enhance teaching and encourage a positive classroom environment. In this hands-on workshop, participants will identify contributors to classroom behaviors that are challenging and practice research-based strategies to address these behaviors.
Facilitator: Helen Rose & Mike Stein
Recommended for Returning Faculty
10:40 - 12:00 PM
Participants will gain concrete strategies to amplify positive classroom behaviors, build a community of learners and set the stage for active student-centered learning. In this session, we will try at least 5 different strategies that can be used in the very first class session to enhance classroom community. Participants will leave with research-based information on the role of faculty-student interaction; how to introduce the course, and encourage student participation.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin
Recommended for New Faculty
Your old gradebook is going, going, gone on January 18th! The New Gradebook in Canvas offers improved accessibility, robust data organization and filtering, and helpful grade management options. Find out how to apply an automatic late deduction policy or keep students from seeing the grades of a particular assignment until you are finished grading the entire class. Using realistic scenarios with your colleagues, you will see how the choices you make will change the way New Gradebook operates.
Facilitator: Maureen Martin
Recommended for All Faculty
Kahoot!, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canvas Quizzes, Outlook, MyHCC. Participants are invited to attend 1 or more of these hands-on lab stations to create quizzes and slides or learn time-saving productivity tips and tricks about HCC Email and MyHCC. Each station lasts about 20 minutes, and participants are welcome to drop in and out of stations to learn about the technologies that will be most useful for their teaching and productivity.
Facilitator: Various Faculty
Recommended for All Faculty
12:00 - 12:45 PM
Take a break, grab some food, network, and get recharged for the afternoon sessions!
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Placing students at the center of the learning opportunity can improve participation and retention, but HOW can we do this? Participants will learn and share effective strategies to help students get up, reflect, and take an active role in their learning.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin & Mike Stein
Recommended for New Faculty
This hands-on session is designed for new users who want a simple overview of the Canvas learning management system. Find out HCC's Canvas requirements and how to fulfill them. You will learn how to post a syllabus on the syllabus page, how to create assignments to set up the gradebook, and how to publish your course. You will leave with resources that explain how to create an announcement, view people, import course content, see your course from "student view," and publish individual items.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers & Maureen Martin
Recommended for All Faculty
Does the thought of standing in front of a classroom make you nervous? Are you wondering how to create engaging, active lessons that don't rely on a PowerPoint lecture? Crystal Walker and Rachel Adams, assistant professors of Communication Studies, will show you how to get rid of those butterflies, build classes that students look forward to attending, and teach with confidence.
Facilitator: Rachel Adams & Crystal Walker
Recommended for All Faculty
2:45 - 4:15 PM
In this workshop, faculty will receive essential hands-on instruction and practice the operation of various classroom technologies, such as the document camera, projector, and control systems.
Facilitator: Brandon Meiklejohn & Ben Fan
Recommended for New Faculty
Your old gradebook is going, going, gone on January 18th! The New Gradebook in Canvas offers improved accessibility, robust data organization and filtering, and helpful grade management options. Find out how to apply an automatic late deduction policy or keep students from seeing the grades of a particular assignment until you are finished grading the entire class. Using realistic scenarios with your colleagues, you will see how the choices you make will change the way New Gradebook operates.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers
Recommended for All Faculty
Challenges with assigning Group Work to maximize student learning often leads to avoiding it as part of course design. This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to practice, review and develop research-based approaches to group work and includes ideas for assigning and assessing the group process to enhance student success.
Facilitator: Mike Stein
Recommended for All Faculty
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Stick around for a raffle drawing to win prizes and discuss take-aways from the day.
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Recommended For Returning Faculty
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