Professional Development Workshops
Contact Us
If you are interested in presenting a workshop please contact Denise Swett at x6952.
For assistance with registration please contact:
For more information on professional development workshops contact:
Denise Swett
Associate Vice President Middlefield Campus & Community Programs
Office: (650) 949-6952
The program for 2011-12 includes dozens of workshops grouped in strands:
- Teaching & Learning
- Assessment & Culture of Inquiry
- Classroom Management
- Using Technology
- Computer Applications
- Foothill Tools
- Personal/Professional Development
- College-Wide Knowledge Community
Workshops are scheduled throughout the year. Go to the Calendar of Events to
review workshop dates and times and register.
TEACHING & LEARNING
- Designing College Courses That Foster Significant Learning Experiences
- Web-Based Collaborative Teaching Tools
- CA Perkins Nontraditional & Special Populations Workshop
- Maximize Social Learning w/ Alternative to Discussion Forum: Classroom Salon
- Responding to Students with Psychological Distress
- Building Paths to 1st Year Student Success: Planning for Effective Student Transition
- Academic Advising: A Critical Link to First-Year Student Success
- Cheating Prevention - How Everyone Can Win
ASSESSMENT & CULTURE OF INQUIRY
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
- Difficult Students
- Cheating & Plagiarism
- Make Your Syllabus Bulletproof
- Copyright
USING TECHNOLOGY
- Rich Media
- Accessibility Training for Online Courses
- Wiki's
- Google Docs
- Etudes Training
- Web 2.0 and Social Media
- Open Educational Resources
- Collaboration with Google Applications
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
- Word: Beg-Int-Adv
- Excel: Beg-Int-Adv
- PowerPoint: Beg-Int-Adv
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Premier
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Flash
- Dreamweaver
- InDesign
- Visual Literacy: Graphic Design for Amateurs
- Easy Video Making
- Making Multimedia Accessible
FOOTHILL TOOLS
- Make the Most of Your Smartclassroom
- Using Course Studio (Banner Application)
PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Essential Communication Skills Workshop - Nonverbal
- Using CCC Confer for Webconferencing
- Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) Planning Workshop
- Professional Achievement Awards Process
COLLEGE-WIDE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
- FERPA
- Faculty Hiring: Guidelines for Promoting Diversity
- Promoting the Development, Achievement and Persistence of Students from Diverse Backgrounds
- Emergency Response
- Serving Veterans
- QPR Suicide Prevention Training
- Learn to Respond to Students with Psychological Distress
- Academic Advising: A Critical Link To First-Year Student Success
- Building For Success: A Model For Improving African-American Male Student Retention, Success and Diversity
