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Title: Adjunct Faculty Institute
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Bill Faber, Ann Alexander, Jerome Drain, Steve Abid, Laurie Foster, Kathy Miller
Audience: Adjunct Faculty
Title: And Nobody Said Anything
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Facilitator(s): Kathleen Owens
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard Advanced - Advanced Assessment
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Facilitator(s): Bill Faber
Audience: Faculty
Remarks: - Eligible for Longevity Training Credit.
Title: Blackboard - Assignments and Assessments
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Facilitator(s): Bill Faber
Audience: Faculty
Remarks: - Eligible for Longevity Training Credit.
Title: Blackboard - Basics for Faculty
Description: A quick overview of using Blackboard in teaching, learning, and community building. This is a quick start session designed to get you on board with Blackboard f-a-s-t! Training highlights:
1. Learn the basics of Blackboard!
2. Reduce the time it takes to place materials on the Web!
3. Increase student access to materials, assessments, and grades!
4. Discover a new way to leverage web-based technology in teaching and learning!
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Basics for Non-Faculty
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Communication and Collaboration
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Creating and Managing Assessments and Surveys
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Creating and Managing Assignments
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Drop In Sessions
Description: These are special sessions for faculty to drop in with any questions they might have regarding the use of Blackboard.
Facilitator(s): Bill Faber
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Using and Managing the Gradebook
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Using Learning Objects Campus Pack (Blogs, Wikis, Journals, Portfolios, and Teams)
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Using Respondus
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Using Safe Assignment (Antiplagiarism)
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Using StudyMate
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Blackboard - Using Wimba Voice Tools (Announcements, Authoring, Email, Board, Direct)
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Facilitator(s): Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Title: Collaborative Learning
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Facilitator(s): Kathy Miller
Audience: Faculty
Title: Communicating with Style
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Facilitator(s): Cathy Wilson
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Computing of Tomorrow – Faster, higher, stronger... prettier
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Szymon Machajewski
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: CPR & First Aid Training
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Joey Sutherlin
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Formation Retreat for GRCC Staff
Description:

Based on the work of Dr. Parker Palmer and informed by practices in holistic health, art therapy, and psychology; Formation retreats are designed as a place for the renewal of mind, heart and spirit. Without abandoning the outer world, Formation is the process of creating a quiet, focused, and disciplined space in which the noise within us and around us can subside so that the inner voice of authenticity and integrity might be heard. During the retreats, we join together to:

- connect as a group with the traditional wisdom of poets, storytellers, and artists
- collaborate with others around personal experiences and insights
- contemplate our inner beliefs through intervals of solitary reflection

A retreat is a time to uncover and perhaps recover our inner teacher. Participants are invited to speak honestly about their lives while listening and responding to each other - and to themselves - with encouragement and compassion. With a focus on soul and role, the retreats strive to develop a deeper understanding of how our chosen profession intersects with who we are as a person.

In drawing upon the collective and poetic parts of being human, participants are left with a deeper and more integrated sense of self while understanding their own place and connection within the Universe. Often times therapeutic, these retreats are not therapy: often times spiritual, these retreats are not religious. Participants are average, healthy adults seeking some time to pause and reflect on their life within a community of others.

Facilitator(s): Frank Conner & Judy Jankowski
Audience: GRCC Staff
Title: Declining by Degrees
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Facilitator(s): Keith St. Clari and Mike Schuler
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Developmental Ed - Promising Practices
Description: Teaching Strategies that show promise for improving developmental student learning will be featured. These include: Peer-led Team Learning, Accelerated Learning Groups, Brain Compatible Learning, Structured Learning Assistance, and others.
Facilitator(s): None - Starlink Teleconference
Audience: AFP Faculty
Title: DiSC Classic Dimensions of Behavior
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Liz Timmer and Julie Parks
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Eldercare Workshop
Description: [info at Older Learner Center web site]
Facilitator(s): Mike Faber
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: ESP/Supervisors Introduction to the PDD/LP
Description: Session provides an introduction to the new ESP Performance Development Discussion/Learning Plan (PDD/LP) process.
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Facilitator(s): Faye Davis, Misty McClure Anderson, Deb Stout
Audience: ESP & supervisors - intent is for them to attend together
Title: Faculty Evaluation Workshop
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Facilitator(s): Garret Brand, Laurie Foster, Bill Faber, Kathy Miller, Jerome Drain
Audience: Faculty
Title: Fundamentals of Academic Service-Learning Seminar
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Facilitator(s): Mursalata Muhammad
Audience: Faculty
Title: Excel 2003 - Level 1
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Facilitator(s): Amy Koning
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Excel 2003 - Level 2
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Amy Koning
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Excel 2003 - Level 3
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Amy Koning
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Faculty Salons
Description: Join your faculty colleagues in informal discussion on the art and craft of the teaching profession. Faculty will gather at bistro tables to talk about topics that matter most to them. General discussions (e.g. teaching and learning) are hosted by a faculty host and specific discussions (e.g. Bioethics and Compassionate Curriculum) are hosted by Interdisciplinary Studies. Please stop in for a few minutes or for the entire two-hour entire session.
Facilitator(s): Mary Barnum, Interdisciplinary Studies and the Learning Academy
Audience: Faculty
Remarks: - Light refreshments will be served and a cash bar will be available.
Title: Fundamentals of Academic Service-Learning Seminar (Hybrid)
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Facilitator(s): Mursalata Muhammad
Audience: Faculty
- Eligible for Longevity Training Credit.
Title: FERPA
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Howard Shanken
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Gain Control of Your Work Area
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Facilitator(s): Tracy Payne
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: General Learner Outcomes (GLO) Forum - Critical Thinking
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Facilitator(s): Alejendro Saldivar
Audience: Faculty
Title: Great Teachers Seminar
Description: Since 1969, Great Teachers Seminars (GTS) has served to stimulate the exchange of ideas, renew faculty and celebrate great teaching! This year, GRCC faculty will travel to the beautiful Kettunen Center in Tustin , Michigan . If your application is accepted, the cost of your single room, meals and travel will be covered. Full-time faculty will also be eligible to apply for longevity training credit (1.0 hours), as well as graduate credit through Ferris State University.
Facilitator(s): Laurie Foster
Audience: Faculty
Title: Online and Hybrid Certification (OHCC)
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Facilitator(s): Alejendro Saldivar
Audience: Faculty
Title: “I’m sorry, I wasn’t listening…”
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Facilitator(s): Mike Schuler and Kathy Mullins
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Junior Achievement Classroom Volunteer
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): n/a
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Learning Academy Facilitator Workshop
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Mike Schuler, Ph.D.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Managing Stress
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Facilitator(s): Kathleen Owens
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Microsoft Office 2007 Show and Tell
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Facilitator(s): Bryan Vliem, Raju Hegde, Denyse Bening, Pat Ingersoll, Kristina Seevers
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: New Faculty Institute
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Facilitator(s): Garret Brand and Laurie Foster
Audience: Faculty
Remarks: - Eligible for Longevity Training Credit.
Title: Online and Hybrid Certification Course (Fall 2006 Cohort)
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Facilitator(s): Ann Alexander and Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Remarks: - Eligible for Longevity Training Credit.
Title: Online and Hybrid Certification Course (Winter 2007 Cohort)
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Facilitator(s): Ann Alexander and Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Remarks: - Eligible for Longevity Training Credit.
Title: Online and Hybrid Certification Course (Summer 2007 Cohort)
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Ann Alexander and Eric Kunnen
Audience: Faculty
Remarks: - Eligible for Longevity Training Credit.
Title: PDD/LP (The Power of)
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Facilitator(s): Mike Schuler and Cathy Wilson
Audience: Specifically designed for M&C supervisors
Title: Podcasting! (A Live Webcast)
Description: [view webpage] [watch webcast]
Facilitator(s): Garret Brand and Klaas Kwant
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: PowerPoint 2003 - Level 1
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Amy Koning
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: PowerPoint - Emphasizing Active Learning
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Jerome Draine and Bill Faber
Audience: Faculty
Title: PowerPoint - Teaching Basics
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Jerome Draine and Bill Faber
Audience: Faculty
Title: Staff Screening Committee Training
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Facilitator(s): Lilly Anderson and Jim Fox
Audience: Anyone who has been identified to serve or who would like to serve on a screening committee.
Title: Strategies for Living Debt Free in the 21st Century
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Facilitator(s): Forest Wilson
Audience: Faculty and Staff and their family members
Title: Strategies for Planning a Successful Retirement
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Facilitator(s): Forest Wilson
Audience: Faculty and Staff and their family members
Title: Student Engagement Workshop
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Wayne Sneath
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Team Development
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Mike Schuler, Ph.D.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: The Art of Facilitation
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Dave Vermilye
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Time Mastery
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitators: Sara Hill and Dan Lerner
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Trigger Point Message Therapy
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Anita Cook
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Visio Quick Start
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Facilitator(s): Jody Graves
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Unearthing the Treasures of the GRCC Library & Learning Commons
Description: The session leader will demonstrate methods of identifying and accessing subscriptions within the library’s holdings. If GRCC doesn’t own something, we’ll show you how to find it in the Michigan Electronic Library (MeL) cooperating libraries.
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Facilitator(s): Pat Ingersoll
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Webbuilder 101 : Maintaining Content on GRCC’s Web Site
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Facilitator(s): Derek Devries
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Title: Web Writing 2.0: The Next Generation of effective online Messages
Description: You don’t need 100 words to tell drivers the speed limit. And you don’t need 1,000 words to tell a story on the Web. As the Web continues to evolve, so do the rules of communicating effectively through this medium. In this 90 minute Webinar, you will learn approaches for engaging the online reader. [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Liz Timmer
Audience: Any GRCC employee with webpage responsibilities
Title: Work Expectations Profile
Description: [view mini-carp]
Facilitator(s): Derek Devries
Audience: Faculty and Staff


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