Memberships, Community, and Committees

Memberships

  • California Community Colleges Canvas Group (2016-Present)

  • CCCDECO, California Community College DE Coordinators Association (2014-Present)

  • CaliBUG, California Blackboard User Group (2012-2016)

  • Blackboard Course Administrators List (2012-2016)

Community Service

Technology-Related Instruction and Committee Work

  • Online Instruction Training, 2012-present, with over 500 faculty fully trained to teach online

  • Co-Chair, Distance Education Committee, 2012-present

  • Blackboard to Canvas Online Training Workshops, 2016

  • Online Education Initiative Work Group on Professional Development (Summer 2014)

  • Presented Distance Education Committee recommendations for faculty online training courses, course approvals, and course self-assessment rubric to Academic Senate and YFA Faculty Union (spring 2013)

  • Completed the Blackboard Certified Trainer program (December 2012)

  • Co-presented Distance Education issues, including MJC Online Instructor list, to Deans Council (fall 2012)

  • Distance Education Committee, fall 2009 to present; Chair 2012 to present

  • Campus Technology Committee, fall 2011 to present

  • Taught “Advanced Blackboard 9.1 SP8” to a cohort of twelve faculty colleagues. The course was the capstone in a three-course MJC@One Online Instructor Certificate, summer 2012

  • Presenter, Blackboard 9.1 Campus Presentation Workshops:

      • Turnitin, GradeMark, and PeerMark

      • Embedding Video with Jing and Screencast-o-Matic

      • Using Elluminate and Facebook to Enhance Online Classes

      • Introduction to Gradebook and Advanced Gradebook

      • Enhancing Course Content with Video and Photographs

      • Blackboard Brush Up

  • Hosted Pat James, Dean of Library and Technology at Mt. San Jacinto College and co-director of the @One Project, December 10, 2011. Pat gave a workshop and spoke to the Academic Senate.

  • Completed the @One Certified Online Instructor program. The program consists of five three-unit courses and a practicum. Spring-Fall, 2011

  • Accreditation Subcommittee on Technology, 2011

  • Chair, English Department Program Review, Fall 2011 and again in Spring 2012

  • Co-organized the @One Cohort for MJC online instructors. The cohort is going through the @One Certified Online Instructor Program, a sequence of courses leading to a certificate in online instruction. Fall 2011 to present.

  • Title V Grant, technology (co-author), spring 2012

  • Blackboard 9.1 Lunchtime Discussion Group, spring 2010

  • Accreditation Report, Technology (co-author), June 2010

  • Distance Education Plan Writing Group Committee, November 2010

  • Blackboard 9.1 Discussion Group (2010)

  • “Essay Grading Made Easy with MS Word,” faculty presentation (2005)

  • Technology Advisory Committee, English Department, Modesto Junior College (2000-2005)

  • Served on the Senate Committee on Software Implementation (2003)

  • Worked to promote smart-classroom use and expansion (2003)

  • Helped to create open-door policies for computer labs, letting students use them when class not in session (2002)

  • “Giving Feedback on Student Writing Using Special Features in MSWord” faculty presentation (2001)

  • Created in 2001 a “paperless” composition course—i.e. no hard copy handouts or submissions

  • AACC Taming Technology conference, Denver (2001), participated with the group to select Datatel as a replacement for Banner.

  • Technology Committee, College of the Sequoias (2000)