Bring your Stuff in a Box
Tech Center, room 910   10-11:30 a.m.   EIT Committee

Join the EIT committee in an interactive workshop designed to provide you with direction and camaraderie as you develop your professional portfolio. Please bring any materials that might become part of your portfolio. Light refreshments and some materials for portfolio development will be provided.

New Faculty Orientation
Phillips Building, room 381   4-7:30 p.m.   TLC Advisory Committee

New part-time and full-time faculty members will learn about the college as a learning environment. Each attendee will receive a CD with important resources for successful teaching. Registration is required for this event.

Spanish Conversation Hour
White Building Faculty/Staff Lounge   3-4 p.m.  M. Grabarek

The Spanish Conversation hour offers informal conversation time with native and non-native Spanish speakers in a comfortable setting. Appropriate for all levels. Group facilitator will lead the discussion, and attendees will have the opportunity to participate and/or to simply listen.

Retaining Students in Your Hybrid Classes
Collins Building, room 201   11a.m. -noon  Cantwell/ MacAdam

This workshop briefly defines and illustrates the Hybrid Mode of Instruction. Exploring the concern of retention in this relatively new form of Instruction at the Community College level is another goal of the workshop. Participants should expect to reflect on retention research and review techniques to successfully retain and engage students in Hybrid courses.

Creating and Using Rubrics
Phillips Building, room 381   3-4 p.m.  M. Williams

In this workshop participants will be asked to bring an assignment for which they wish to create a rubric.

Spanish Conversation Hour
White Building Advising Center, room 49   3-4 p.m.

Socrates B&G #1
Phillips Building, room 381   4-5 p.m.  Tilson/Wooldridge/Grabarek

This session is another in the series of discussions about ethical considerations. The whole campus community is invited to participate.

Library Resources Available Online
Collins Building, room 201    2:30-3:30 p.m.  Humphrey/Laube

Student evaluations of online courses show that students do not think they have enough information about library resources. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to come to this session to learn about the array of library services available online for the Durham Tech community.

Spanish Conversation Hour
White Building Advising Center, room 49   3-4 p.m.

Faces of the Future – A Comparison of Hispanic Credit and Non-Credit Students at DTCC
Collins Building, room 201   4-5 p.m.  P. Senegal

Participants will learn the primary motivators of credit and non-credit Hispanic students based on recent survey data. What do they look like in terms of age, sex, and educational background? Why are they at Durham Tech? What do they hope to accomplish while they are here? What's the number one reason they chose Durham Tech? What does this data tell us about how we're serving them before they reach the classroom and afterwards? Answers to these questions and more!

Crafting Learning Outcomes
Collins Building, room 201    9 a.m.-noon   Lee     Registration required

Led by Dr. Virginia Lee, this workshop will enable program directors, chairs, and faculty to design learning outcomes for their programs. Learning outcomes for individual courses will be the focus. Participants should bring course outlines they wish to work on. Call mag for information.

Roundtable: Facilitating and Evaluating Online Discussions
Phillips Building, room 381   3-4 p.m.   McPhaul/Wooldridge

There are so many different ways that faculty use Blackboard's Discussion Board feature in online, hybrid and traditional classes. At this session, instructors are invited to share creative prompts they've used to start active and engaging online discussions. We'll also share tips for managing online conversations and for evaluating participation. Whether you have a lot, a little or no experience using discussion boards with students, we hope you'll come ready to learn, share and brainstorm with your colleagues.

Critical Advising Skills: Helping Students with Child Care Concerns
Collins Building, room 245      3 - 4 p.m.      Jaynes

Finding affordable, accessible, and quality childcare can be a difficult task for some students. Learn more about the resources available to help students with this challenge. A representative from the Child Care Services Association of Durham County (a non-profit United Way Agency) will present the latest information about local childcare options.

Spanish Conversation Hour
White Building Advising Center, room 49   3-4 p.m.

Spanish Conversation Hour
White Building Advising Center, room 49   3-4 p.m.

Faculty Said/Student Said
Collins Building, room 245   11:30-12:30 a.m.   Pugh, Senegal, Skulnik

What did faculty say about students based on CCFSSE results? What did students say about faculty based on CCSSE results? Many of you took and administered surveys of engagement in the Spring of 2005. The results have been analyzed and you may be surprised at some of the gaps the results reveal. Join us for a lively discussion of the survey findings, along with best practices from DTCC and other community colleges. You will leave with practical ideas for how to help our students be more successful in and outside of the classroom.

Mathematics of Poker
Collins Building, room 245     2:30-3:30 p.m.   Mansfield

Do you like to play poker? Would you like to improve your game? Knowing a little math helps a lot. Using examples from the game of Texas Hold’em, this presentation will cover the concept of expected value and some basic principle of probability theory integral to playing good poker.

Spanish Conversation Hour
White Building Advising Center, room 49   3-4 p.m.

Globalizing the Campus and the Curriculum: A Campus-wide Initiative
Collins Building, room 245    3:30 p.m.   Fraser-Molina/Barclay-Toy/Newhouse/Abell

This session will review the major reasons DTCC subscribes to a need for Global Ed., highlight on-going initiatives in different program areas (e.g. international student services, study abroad, faculty/staff development, internationalizing the curriculum), and provide an opportunity for participants to provide input and share ideas for future program enhancement

Seeing the Signs: Identifying At-Risk Students
Collins Building, room 245    3-4 p.m.     Kelly-Kleese/Brady

Chris Brady -- Coordinator, Minority Male Mentoring -- and Christine Kelly-Kleese -- Associate Dean, Developmental Studies -- will lead a discussion about identifying and assisting at-risk students at Durham Tech.

Panel on Poverty Issues
Collins Building, room 278     TBA      Williams, Allebaugh, Dodson

The Durham community is coming together to address issues of poverty in our area. Three people who are leading the discussion and taking action to make changes will provide a special opportunity for our campus to participate in the conversation.

Come On! You Can Do It! Learn to Teach and Assess Writing in Non-English Courses
Collins Building, room 245    1-2 p.m.     Cantwell/Hoover/Lease

Do you ever say to yourself, "What can I reasonably expect from my students in terms of writing? This isn't an English class, after all!" Or, "I have my students write papers because I know 'I'm supposed to,' but I don't really know how to grade them. I just...sort of...grade on effort." Well, this workshop is for you! Come learn more from our multidisciplinary panel about successfully constructing and assessing writing assignments for your non-English courses.

The Future of the DTCC Credit Schedule
Collins Building, room 261    1:30-2:30 p.m.      Lamb

Come to this Q&A session led by Durham Tech’s new data manager. Robin Lamb will explain the current scheduling process (including classroom reservations for events). She will also discuss some innovations being planned for the future.

Critical Advising Skills: Helping Students Navigate Public Transportation
While Building, room 71      3-4 p.m.     Jaynes

Become more familiar with the public transportation options (DATA, CAT, TTA) available to students. Review the costs, schedules, and routes available for students.

Socrates B&G #2
Phillips Building, room 381          3 - 4 p.m.            Tilson/Wooldridge/Grabarek

This session is another in the series of discussions about ethical considerations. The whole campus community is invited to participate.

Engaging Adult Learners in an Academic In-group
Phillips Building, room 371       1-2 p.m.          Wooldridge/Grabarek

Students enrolled in a course constitute a social group. There is substantial psychological research to suggest that certain group characteristics can make group functioning more successful. This session will provide an overview of this new theory and an opportunity for your comments on it.

What is ACA 111 and how can it help Durham Tech students be successful?
Collins Building, room 201    2-3 p.m.    McCutchen

ACA 111 is one of four Achieving the Dream initiatives and has the potential to significantly improve student success at Durham Tech and beyond. But what actually happens in the classroom? How are students learning strategies for success? How can this class help students in other college coursework? What do we already know about students in the three ACA 111 sections this semester? This TLC presentation will answer these questions and more with an informal discussion of the course’s objectives and its relationship with other AtD initiatives.

Great Art, Great Science
Collins Building, room 201     2:15-3:15 p.m.      Falbo

Do you hear students proclaim their disdain for classes they perceive as irrelevant to their educational or career goals, e.g., “Why do I have to take this class? I’ll never use this stuff?” In this session we’ll discuss ideas that involve linking course material with student interests in an effort to change this particular student perception. Bring your ideas! Participants will complete one specific example from physics and math that links optics and geometry with painting and art history. Bring a pencil and paper. Other materials will be provided.

Program Planning Roundtable
Phillips Building, room 360   2-3 p.m.   Daniell, Coin

Come explore flexible scheduling, program review materials, and effective work with advisory committees. Share your own ideas, triumphs and tribulations as program directors, chairs, and coordinators. What major and minor problems occupy your days? What procedures could we simplify or clarify?

Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry
Phillips Building, room 360      2-3 p.m.      Lee

Inquiry-guided learning promotes learning through students' active investigation of questions, problems, and issues, often for which there is no one answer. In this session, we will actively explore how teaching and learning through inquiry differs from traditional methods including key learning outcomes, teaching methods, and assignments. Virginia Lee, Ph.D. is an independent consultant. Previously she was Associate Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at NC State, where she led a campus-wide inquiry-guided learning initiative. For several years she taught part-time as a psychology instructor in Durham Tech's College Transfer Program.

Local Professional Development Opportunities: UNC-CH Program in the Humanities and Human Values
Phillips Building, room 381      3-4 p.m.    Martin

Dr. John Martin will discuss his experience with the UNC-CH Program in the Humanities and Human Values. This Seminar Series provides a 50% reduction in registration costs for NC Community College faculty. A review of the Fall 2005 offerings can be found at
http://www.adventuresinideas.unc.edu/level_3/fall05_list.html

Student Code of Conduct: Student Perception vs College Perception
Phillips Building, room 378    2-3 p.m.   Massengill

Come to this discussion about the college’s code of conduct and learn about how students see things differently from faculty and staff.

Technology for Teaching and Learning
Tech Center, room 983    10-11:30 a.m.       Murphy

Come to this session to find out how to use technology to enhance the learning environment.

ACERIMA: Journey to a US Education
Collins Building, room 201    2-3:30 p.m.       O’Malley

This simulation exercise is designed to sensitize participants to the difficulties that international students encounter in their quest for a U.S. American education. It acquaints the participants with the procedures students must follow from the initial contact with a U.S. educational institution to their arrival on campus. A facilitated discussion takes place after the simulation to address the specific issues at stake.