HIGHLIGHT EVENTS
Breakfast with Brian
Kick off the new year with an informal dialog with college president Brian King. As Cabrillo celebrates its 50th Anniversary, we will explore how to maintain excellence for the next fi fty years and beyond.
8-10AM
Hort 5005
Brian King
What’s Hot, What’s Not in Math, Science Career Technical Education
New jobs, new trends and new skills in emerging green technology must inform math and science curriculum for our students to be prepared to enter this rapidly changing workforce in areas such as green construction, water, new energy and others. Experts from green careers will be on hand to present math and science in action through hands-on activities for you to experience. Stipends may be available to develop contextualized math/science curriculum.
1–3PM
1094
Eva Acosta, Audries Blake, and Frank Lynch
Strides toward Teaching Sustainably
Walk and talk with us as we develop and share strategies for bringing sustainability into our course content and classroom practices. We’ll begin our walk at the base of the road up to the Horticulture Center and continue up the hill and through into the woods behind campus. Bring comfortable walking shoes, sun protection and a canteen/reusable bottle. Let’s walk and enjoy the world we’re working to protect.
3–5PM
Meet at base of road to Hort. Center
Karen Groppi, Michelle Merrill, Elissa Wagner
Breakfast with Brian
Kick off the new year with an informal dialog with college president Brian King. As Cabrillo celebrates its 50th Anniversary, we will explore how to maintain excellence for the next fi fty years and beyond.
8-10AM
Hort 5005
Brian King
Part-Timers’ Solidarity Breakfast
Share your input on contract issues and hear the about the highlights of our spring 2009 contract development surveys while enjoying breakfast with your colleagues.
8–10AM
Sesnon 1804
Michael McCarthy
Infusing Student Presentations with Energy, Involvement and Attention
Tired of sitting through mind-numbing, monotone oral reports? It’s time to liven things up! Participants of this dynamic workshop will receive a “Speaking Tips” handout to give students, as well as many creative ideas to energize the classroom. Student presentations will never be the same!
10AM–12NOON
510
Michelle Waters
Iron Chef Cabrillo
This workshop is a fun, team-building exercise for 12 people (2 teams of 6). Each team will be given a basket of mystery ingredients and have complete access to the Pino Alto kitchen larder and dining room. Th e teams will prepare and serve a lunch for 12 people under the limited guidance of chefinstructors Eric Carter and Mike Wille.Teams will have to work together to solve cooking and serving challenges within a short time frame. Cooks of all levels are welcome to participate. Teams can be made up of a group of individuals from one department or random participants. Plan to sit down with colleagues and enjoy a tasty lunch after cooking. Since there are limited slots for this event, please sign up early by sending an email or phone message to Eric Carter.Submissions will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.
10AM–12NOON
Sesnon Kitchen
Mike Wille and Eric Carter
Teaching the Traditional Canon at Cabrillo: Challenges and Achievements
The world is but a word.
Were it all yours to give it in a breath, How quickly were it gone.
—William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
Join three English department faculty in a discussion about teaching the traditional literary canon at a community college. Questions to be bandied about include: Who are our students and why are they in the class? What difficulties do community college students encounter when reading and writing about these texts, and how can we address these concerns? How do we make the canon relevant to our students? How do we infuse the canon with diverse perspectives and voices? What diffi culties do we as teachers encounter when teaching the canon? Bring a favorite literary quote to share.
10AM–12NOON
405
Letitia Scott-Curtis, Virginia Coe,and Conrad Scott-Curtis
Toward a Fourth Annual Social Justice Conference
Please join us as we recap last year’s social justice conference and plan for this year’s conference. We’ll show photos, videos, and data of SJC III, while brainstorming for spring. Support an event that creates a venue for social justice, activisim and, more importantly, the academic and creative voices of Cabrillo College.
10AM–12NOON
406
Social Justice Conference Steering Committee
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment and Program Planning
This workshop is designed to help participants implement Student Learning Outcomes Assessment as required in the Program Planning process. Anyone with questions about what the requirements are, or how to meet them, should attend. Program Chairs are especially encouraged to attend or to send representatives from their departments. Also offered on Tuesday.
10AM–12NOON
425
Winnie Baer
What’s Hot, What’s Not in Math, Science Career Technical Education
New jobs, new trends and new skills in emerging green technology must inform math and science curriculum for our students to be prepared to enter this rapidly changing workforce in areas such as green construction, water, new energy and others. Experts from green careers will be on hand to present math and science in action through hands-on activities for you to experience. Stipends may be available to develop contextualized math/science curriculum.
1–3PM
1094
Eva Acosta, Audries Blake, and Frank Lynch
Experiments in the Writing Laboratory
This workshop is designed for English department faculty and LIAs who offer English 100 and 100L. We will examine the results of spring 2009 English faculty, and LIA surveys on English 100L, discuss the structure of the lab and its strengths and weaknesses, and share our ideas for a new and improved Writing Lab corequisite for English 100. We’ll consider how our one-unit lab might reinforce what students are learning in English 100 while also complementing the composition class. General topics will include: modeling diff erent writing genres, proofreading student writing, incorporating fun class activities that address all learning styles, and intervening early on behalf of floundering lab students.
1–3PM
507
Diane Putnam
Grapes of Wrath : Fact, Myth, and Historical Memory
In the Fall Semester, 2009, Sarah Albertson is directing a production of GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati. (The Galati adaptation was used for the recent Broadway production.) The Cabrillo production will be the inaugural theatre production in the new Crocker Theatre. The novel and the fall theatre production of GRAPES OF WRATH will provide a focus for discussion and hopefully curriculum ideas concerning the Great Depression and what lessons might be learned to improve our current social and economic situation. Join us for a discussion about ways to make use of our collaboration. A number of colleges have designed a similar connection between college courses and their theatre productions of GRAPES OF WRATH. We have the benefit of drawing from their work. Ohio State University has
extensive material on the web relating to their collaboration. A useful website for curriculum is Roskilde University’s Grapes of Wrath-Truth or Myth at http://diggy.ruc.dk/handle/1800/1286 and Voices from the Dust Bowl at memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html A number of departments may find this an intriguing project, including, but not limited to, English, History, Economics, Philosophy and Anthropology.
1–3PM
VAPA 4141 New Location: VAPA 1001
Sarah Albertson and Michael Mangin
Application for Sabbatical Leave: Writing a Successful Proposal
This workshop is mandatory for all applicants who intend to submit an application (proposal) this fall for a sabbatical leave during 2010/2011. The chair of the Sabbatical Leave Review Board (SLRB) will describe the sabbatical application process, explain how to write a successful proposal and discuss the process and criteria by which applications are reviewed and recommended to the Governing Board.
1–3PM
508 Eric Carter
Brain-Based Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogical Design
Recent published neurological research on brain plasticity, mirror neurons, synaptic- and neuro-genesis, and the brain’s prefrontal lobe have implications for the design of curriculum and pedagogy. In this workshop we will explore the characteristics/behaviors of successful and unsuccessful students and how recent neurological research points to the development (or lack of development) of a student’s prefrontal lobe. We will then discuss ways that curriculum and pedagogy can be designed to utilize this research and explore as an example the Digital Bridge Academy curriculum and pedagogy.
3–5PM
515
Diego Navarro
Sabbatical Leave Returnees: Writing a Successful Report
The chair of the Sabbatical Leave Review Board (SLRB) will explain the requirements of the report and respond to your questions about them. All those returning from a sabbatical taken during the 2008-09 period have reports due this fall. You are encouraged but not required to attend this workshop.
3–5PM
508
Eric Carter
Strides toward Teaching Sustainably
Walk and talk with us as we develop and share strategies for bringing sustainability into our course content and classroom practices. We’ll begin our walk at the base of the road up to the Horticulture Center and continue up the hill and through into the woods behind campus. Bring comfortable walking shoes, sun protection and a canteen/reusable bottle. Let’s walk and enjoy the world we’re working to protect.
3–5PM
Meet at base of road to Hort. Center
Karen Groppi, Michelle Merrill, Elissa Wagner
Captioning! See it in Action
Come see Karen Franco, distance captioner, demonstrate how she works her magic and brings live captioned content into a classroom. A panel discussion will follow to answer questions about captioning, distance education, legal issues, etc.
3–5PM
1096
Calais Ingel, Francine Van Meter, and Karen Franco
Computer Technology Center Open House
The Computer Technology Center is a computer lab for all students and also the hub of the student computer network. Drop in, have some refreshments and visit with the CTC staff to learn what is available to your students in the CTC and the services we bring to your computer classroom. We can provide solutions for your classes, shared network space for your teaching materials, class projects, turn-in folders for homework, and more! Come by and pick up student handouts with our hours and information on getting student computer accounts.
4–6PM
1400
Barbara Durland
CHAC (Cabrillo Hispanic Affairs Council): Conocimiento
CHAC, the Cabrillo Hispanic Aff airs Council, invites everyone to a presentation about our organization on campus, Latinidad, Latino/a serving students groups, Latino/a issues on campus, and a general brainstorming session about where to go next. Food, amistad and good conversation. Come get to know us.
5–7PM
406
Cabrillo Hispanic Affairs Council
New Adjunct Faculty Orientation
This workshop is designed for new adjunct faculty to introduce them to the college and familiarize them with college processes and procedures. How do you handle a waitlist? What about disruptive students? What accommodations might a student with a learning disability request of you? What is WebAdvisor and how are you expected to use it? Get answers to these and other questions and handouts vital to a successful first semester at Cabrillo. Don’t miss it!
5:30–7:30PM
Hort 5010
Rock Pfotenhauer