IN THIS ISSUE: OCTOBER 2022
Adjunct Faculty Survey
Ben's Bells at PVCC
Bubbles Outdoor Game
Halloween Costume Contest and Festivities
PVCC Day at the Fields
United Way Campaign
Lunch&Learn
October Learning Sessions from CEOD
Career Networking Skills Webinar
Faculty Professional Growth Upcoming Pre-Approved Internal Events
Art of Asking Essential Questions Wrap-up
Faculty Library Resource Workshops for October
Free Courses for Educators from Canvas Network
Podcast: Welcome Back: Doing Things Differently
We have beautiful students!
WOW! Lots of blue links in this newsletter! Get your clicking finger ready to check out all the interesting happenings this month!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Adjunct Faculty! ... We have a survey for you!
Susan Bonnell, your new Adjunct Faculty Coordinator, would like your input on how we can help you. Please click HERE to be taken to a brief survey.
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Lunch&Learn
Sessions will start up again soon! As before, they'll be offered on Mondays or Thursdays, twice per month for 30 minutes, 12-12:30. If you would like to host a L&L session, please submit your interest HERE.
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Look for the "Call to Nominate a Colleague" announcement for the League and NISOD Employee Excellence Awards.
This will be announced in mid-October via the Daily Growl!
UPCOMING EVENTS
The MCCCD United Way Valley of the Sun Fall 2022 campaign is coming soon! If you are interested in participating on the college planning team please contact Michaelle Shadburne. This is a great way to learn new skills and/or give back to our community!
PVCC Day at the Fields!!
Wear Your PVCC Blue & Support Our Pumas!!
Tuesday, October 4 at the Soccer and Baseball Field
Men's Soccer, 1pm vs. Mesa
Women's Soccer 3:30pm vs. Mesa
Baseball vs. SCC at 3:00pm
Keep watch for these fun upcoming events:
Bubbles (and outdoor game)
Halloween Costume Contest and Festivities
Ben's Bells Coming to PVCC (see more info below!)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
FEATURE FOCUS
Have you been checking all your event sources? Be a good PVCC citizen and keep up to date on all the happenings on our campus! Make it a habit to check the Growl Daily and the Employee Calendar Weekly.
Did you know you can add virtual events to the college calendar as well? Need help? - Reach out to PVCC 25Live college administrator, Jeanette Saxon, at: jeanette.saxon@paradisevalley.edu
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MCCCD Center for Employee and Organizational Development (CEOD)
Click HERE to register and see additional CEOD Sessions. Note: there are many self-paced options and resources located in your Employee Learn Center that are open to ALL employees.
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Career Networking Skills Webinar
10/11/22, 11am-1pm
This workshop will teach you how to start building your professional network by using social media, attending events, meeting other professionals and nurturing long-term relationships. Specific tips are included such as how to introduce yourself, make conversation and appropriately convey that you're looking for a job. Click HERE to register!
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Faculty Library Resource Workshops are available, including: ONEsearch Tips & Tricks, Intro to MODPress, Ebook Platforms, and Digital Library/Libby.
See the drop downs below for our self-paced options.
Be a Part of the "Be Kind" Project!
PVCC will host an event to support Ben's Bells and the "Be Kind" Project, connecting to our Puma Commitment of "Care." Keep an eye out for more info to come. In the meanwhile, contact Audrey Moreno with any questions.
Date: November 4th, 2:00-3:30pm
Location: Student Union/Cafe
Help out our community by making kindness coins and/or beads! RSVP by Wednesday, October 26, 2022, by pressing the 'be kind' button!
What is a Ben's Bell, you ask? It's cool, check it out . . .
Intro-to-Bens-Bells.mp4Ben’s Bells are colorful ceramic ornaments hung in communities throughout the world as symbols of kindness for people to find and take home. Thousands of volunteers visit our studios and help us make Bells each year. By the time each Bell is hung, many hands have had a part in its journey, and it represents the efforts of an entire community coming together to make one person’s day a little kinder.
But that’s not all they do!
Ben’s Bells educates communities about the skills they need to make kindness a part of our daily lives. Kindness is a skill set that can be learned, and a series of small actions practiced regularly makes a larger impact than a single random act. Their programs are designed to help us understand the human brain so we can develop our awareness and compassion – both for ourselves and others.
Click HERE to visit the full-site.
This course is a resource of important Canvas information and how-tos, and also is a great resource for those already using Canvas.
MCCCD offers an abundant amount of professional development opportunities to enhance your work life. We have gathered here many resources from our district and beyond and put them in one central location for your convenience.
NEW PUMAS
After the official New Employee Orientation with the District and PV HR offices, this is a great place for new employees (New Pumas) to become better acquainted with PVCC's campus, structure, culture, and community.
This course begins with an overview of online teaching and learning, then addresses many important topics for successfully teaching online, such as the Quality Matters rubric, learning objectives and alignment with learning activities, instructing your online course, best practices in online teaching, assessment, and accessibility.
In support of MCCCD's mission and values to provide access to higher education for diverse students and communities along with PVCC's diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, members of search committees at PVCC are required to take this course prior to serving on a search committee.
NEW MEDIA LAB EXPERIENCE
The New Media Lab in E142 is a place where we (CTLEE) will offer free sessions and support to faculty, staff, and students on media-related topics. Media Lab schedule will be
Tuesdays through Thursdays from 12:00 - 2:00 in E 142 from September 6th to December 1st. The lab will be closed the week of Thanksgiving.
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
FREE FROM CANVAS
Did you know that there are over 50 free self-paced courses from the Canvas Network designed for educators? Below is just a small sample, click HERE to see them all!
Faculty Professional Growth
Upcoming Pre-Approved Internal Events
Upcoming Pre-Approved Internal Events
October
Open Classroom • October 3 - 28 • Classrooms across PVCC • FPG Hours: 5 Share best practices through informal classroom observation. Registration
MOSAIC Level IIB: Recognizing Bias and Its Consequences • October 5 • MCC FPG Hours: 3.75 • Contact: carol.poor@domail.maricopa.edu
Equity and Student Success: A Conversation • October 5 - November 9 • Virtual FPG Hours: 14 • Contact: lisa.young@domail.maricopa.edu Registration
Global Forum: Social Justice Reflections with Ukrainian Artists • October 7 • RSC FPG Hours: 5.25 • Contact: maya.petrova@domail.maricopa.edu
They Do It Because They Want To: Problematizing Excuses within Gendered Organizations • October 7, 2022 • PVCC (KSC1000B) • FPG Hours: 2 Registration
Reflective and Experiential Applied Practices (REAP) Module 1: Design of Instruction & Classroom Management • Oct 10 - Nov 18 • Virtual • FPG Hours: 15
Contact: patricia.guillen@domail.maricopa.edu
Click HERE for more information on these and other events scheduled for October!
TOAST EDU PODCAST
Welcome Back: Doing Things Differently
As summer comes to an end, faculty, staff, and students are now trickling back to the PVCC campus for Fall 2022. Coming out of a pandemic offered many online and remote learning challenges and as well as learning to work and regaining our working relationships, it’s now time to really get back into creating projects, collaborating with others, and using new digital media to enhance our courses.
Sam will briefly discuss Canvas, Google Sites and touch on a new tool that he used over the summer called Adobe Express that he is sure faculty and staff will find a lot of fun as well as easy to learn and implement into your course materials with some really creative design solutions.
Click HERE to listen to more about TOAST EDU!