Subject: Instruction Notes 12/10/02
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:09:35 -0800
From: Claire Biancalana
Organization: Cabrillo College, Office of Instruction
To: faculty@REMOVE-BEFORE-SENDINGcabrillo.edu (All Faculty)

INSTRUCTION NOTE
         

BUDGET MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT HURD
The e-mail sent by President Hurd mentioned an immediate hiring freeze. Since then I have spoken with him and
he agrees we must proceed with hiring the adjunct faculty. As far as I know at this time, we will not reduce the spring schedule. We will continue as normal, canceling classes for low enrollment. Also, we plan to continue with
the recruitment for the tenure track faculty unless, or until, we receive notice from the Chancellor's Office about changing rules regarding the full time faculty obligation Cabrillo must maintain. The hiring freeze will be applied
to temporary hourly, administrators, managers, and classified personnel. I will give you an update on this,
including the spending freeze, after CPC meets tomorrow. This meeting will be in Sesnon 1804 at 3:30pm. I know that you are as discouraged as I am over the recent news from our Governor. There will be more details of the reductions after the legislative process occurs. I will give you information as soon as I receive it. Don't panic yet!
I will panic for you!

MULTIMEDIA CD's
Many faculty are developing instructional multimedia CD's to distribute to their students. Librarians tell us that student may have a problem reading these CD's in college labs because of network security issues. To guarantee that the CD you may distribute to your students is readable at labs on campus, please bring a copy to one of the following individuals for testing: Johanna Bowen, Library x6536; David Warren or Francine Van Meter, TLC x5030.

A&R
Spring 2003 registration began on Tuesday, December 10. All college students registered for fall 2002 were sent registration packets. The Schedule of Classes have been delivered to the college, and the course schedule is on
our web site.

WORK-BASED LEARNING
Making the Work- Based Learning Connections is an online course offered through Orange Coast College beginning January 6, 2003 and lasting 8 weeks. Students (faculty) taking this class will learn how work- based learning complements and illuminates course work, visit a work sites for their own work- based learning experience, then
craft a work -based learning module to use in classroom. For more information, contact
Rebecca Arnesty at 479-6459 or rearnest@REMOVE-BEFORE-SENDINGcabrillo.edu or register on line at: http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/tlc/spring2003flex/WBLonlinecourse.pdf

TEACH DISTANCE AND/OR HYBRID COURSES
Just another reminder! Design and Delivery of an Online Course, Digital Media 190CD - 1 unit - Section #30168
will be offered this January. The course is offered over four days during Wintersession: Tuesday – Friday,
January 21-24, 2003 from 8am-12:20PM Room 1096 of the Teaching and Learning Center, Cabrillo College.
Design and Delivery of an Online Course is for teaching professionals who want to create and teach a course
online. This class offers a basic introduction to web-based learning and the tools used in online course
management systems such as WebCT. Participants will examine theories and practices of distance education,
design considerations, and strategies for managing an online class. The course will be taught in a modified,
hybrid format consisting of four on-campus meetings and arranged online lab instruction. How to enroll:
     1.    Download an application http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/INFORMATION/application.pdf
     2.    Register online http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/webreg/ OR use Hawk Talk (831-477-5678).

TLC
The Spring 2003 Flex Calendar is now online at http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/tlc/spring2003flex/index.html
Guidelines for flex requirements and a downloadable Flex Agreement Form are also listed on the site.
Francine thanks the members of the 2002-2003 Cabrillo College Staff Development Committee for their work
in planning flex week: Claire Biancalana, Johanna Bowen, Dan Martinez, Sue Slater, Mark Hopkins, Shirley
Flores-Muñoz, Patricia Tomnitz, Felix Robles and Cathy Summa. Finals are coming. Schedule your Scantron time!
If you use the Parscore software to crunch your student response data, please schedule use of the Scantron in advance. Simply email the tlc@REMOVE-BEFORE-SENDINGcabrillo.edu or call x5030 to schedule time at the Scantron station. Checking out equipment? Cameras, laptops, LCD projectors, etc. – Please reserve equipment in advance either by phone or
email (tlc@REMOVE-BEFORE-SENDINGcabrillo.edu or call x5030) Please help in ensuring that all equipment gets returned promptly and all
cords and loose auxiliary parts returned as well.

LOOK, A BOOK!
Look, A Book! is a wonderful new program that has been created by Zoe Davidson in order to help eligible full
time students obtain the texts they need for general education courses. All the program's funds are donated
from Cabrillo employees, students and the community. I join with the Cabrillo Faculty Senate in encouraging
you to participate by:
(1) donating extra copies of adopted texts to the program
(2) donating funds obtained by the sale of unused texts
(3) donating funds through payroll deduction (through the Cabrillo Foundation attention Look, A Book Program)

For more information contact: Zoe at ext. 7100 or Nancy A. Brown at ext. 6401. For a payroll deduction form
contact Nancy @ 6401, leave your name and she will deposit the form in your mailbox.

LIBRARY HOURS BEFORE FINALS
Please share this with your students. The Library will have EXTRA HOURS BEFORE FINALS From
Monday, December 2nd through Sunday, December 15th Monday-Thursday OPEN UNTIL 10:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday open FROM 11 am-5 pm
(Friday unchanged)

MESA WINTER INSTITUTE
During wintersession, MESA will offering the Winter Institute. Workshops and seminars will be offered in
physics and math at various levels to help students stay current on their knowledge & skills, and be more
successful in their spring course work. These will be on a drop-in basis, Monday through Thursday, from
1pm to 5pm in the MESA Center.

BASIC SKILLS TASK FORCE
The Basic Skills Task Force has met twice this semester and is considering approaches to support students and instructors. One suggestion has been that faculty would benefit from access to paragraphs that have already
been developed to lay out Tips for Success or Study Skills Strategies that could be placed on their syllabus and discussed right from the beginning of the semester. If you have developed such a statement, please forward to Bette Hirsch before the end of the semester. She and the task force will put these together and make them
available for general use.

DIVERSITY TASK FORCE
There are two (2) additional diversity workshops being offered to all contract faculty and contract classified staff. The first meeting was scheduled on Friday, 12/6/02. The second meeting will be held this Friday, 12/13/02. The workshop will be in the Pool Room, directly behind Building 1100 (the Gym), from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a break
for lunch. As was the case with the first diversity workshop, some refreshments will be provided. The session will
be limited to approximately 20 participants, so please call or e-mail your reservation to confirm your attendance
at either workshop to Diane Lydon, at Ext. 3528, or e-mail dilydon@REMOVE-BEFORE-SENDINGcabrillo.edu

FINALS
All instructors are required to be present and have a "final exercise" at the time specified in the final exam
schedule. Some give tests, some review exams, but all must be there.