IN THIS ISSUE • SEPTEMBER 2022
CTLEE Moves Into E125
Easy Video Recording With LOOM
Critical Thinking Academy: The Art of Asking Essential Questions Seminar
New Professional Growth Policy Approved
NISOD and League Excellence Awards Coming Soon
Podcasts:
Listen Up Faculty - This Is Your Next Student
Outsider's View Inside the James Webb Space Telescope
Photoshop! History and Importance of a Fun and Powerful Tool
MOVIN' IN
We're Here! We're still slowly getting settled into our new digs in E125, but come visit us!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Know what Friday, Sept 9th is?
PVCC JERSEY DAY KICK OFF! Keep watch in the Daily Growl for more info to come!
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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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LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
FEATURE FOCUS
EASY VIDEO RECORDING WITH LOOM
Do you want to make welcome videos that include a tour of your Canvas course?
Are you interested in creating videos that include your face, your screen, or both?
And, would you like an accurate timestamped transcript for ADA compliance?
Then Loom is a great video recording option for you. It’s easy. It’s free, and it’s fun to use. Watch this video to get started.
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.
See the drop downs below for our self training options.
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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
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.
EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
COMING IN OCTOBER
Look for the nomination process for the League and NISOD Excellence Awards. Click on the images below for more information.
GREAT NEWS! The new Classified Staff Professional Growth (CSPG) policy was approved by the Governing board, implemented as of September 1, 2022!
A major changes is that now all Specially Funded employees will be eligible for Activities and Education Reimbursement Program funding to participate in degree programs, certifications, or activities when employed consecutively over 12 months.
The annual dollar amount for all classified staff employees is $4,000.00.
Click HERE to view the CSPG page!
TOAST EDU PODCAST
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Listen Up Faculty - This Is Your Next Student
This podcast is focused on the next generation of students coming into our college system. As each high school year ends, more young teens graduate from high school and make their way into “your” classrooms. Ready and armed with a virtual backpack of digital skills of interactive media knowledge and creation skills, online course experience such as Canvas knowledge, along with other advanced skills.
These are the students that are extremely tech savvy and will be needing much more from their instructors to keep them engaged and better learners. Sit back and listen to a conversation with a 15 year old sophomore who will give us an insight to what she loves about her high school experience with her instructional multimedia and Canvas usage.
Click HERE to listen to more about TOAST EDU!
Outsider's View Inside the James Webb Space Telescope
The Uppercase lowercase podcast - a podcast for creative types is the creation of Lynn McClelland. This is the first episode of "An Outsider's View Inside." In this episode, Dr. Casey Durandet answers some basic questions about the James Webb Space Telescope. What kind of telescope is it? How far away from earth is it orbiting? How far back in time will we be able to see? And finally, she answers questions about the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Tune in to learn more about the JWST.
Photoshop! History and Importance of a Fun and Powerful Tool
In this episode, I explore a short history of Photoshop and its impact on education, art, and graphic design with PVCC's Dr. Jon Storslee and Sam Fraulino. From its link to Star Wars and special effects artist John Knoll to Sam's design of the graphics on this page, Photoshop remains one of the most important graphic design editors ever created and remains the industry standard to this day.
Click HERE to listen to more Uppercase/lowerCase podcasts!