Title: Chemistry Department Meeting
When: 8:00 AM – 9:50 AM
Presenters: Vahid Eskandari and Chemistry Faculty
Description: Discussions regarding Free Textbooks, SLO’s, Lab Manuals, Lead Instructors.
Title: Academic Senate Meeting
When: 9:00 AM – 11:50 PM
Title: The Professional Development System
When: 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM
Presenter: Michelle Smith
Description: Take a guided tour of our brand new Professional Development System and learn how
to register for events, submit optional requests, and much more!
Title: Active Learning & Achievement Gaps
When: 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM
Presenters: Commodore St. Germain & Others
Description: Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate
science, technology, engineering, and math.
NCBI Pubmed Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32152114/
Title: Smart Classroom Demo
When: 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM
Presenters: Jose Leal and Robert Nuñez
Description: Interested in learning the fundamentals of how to use Smart Classroom technology while
working on-campus? Well, this session is for you. The purpose of this training will
teach new and returning users how to operate the New Audio/Video Control System. The
new system is much easier to use and provides users with improved features that help
transform the students' learning experience. For example, we will cover the basics
with how to:
- Operate and navigate with the touch screen Atlona tablet
- Power the projector
- Display your desktop or switch from sharing screen-to-screen
- Turn on the Blu-Ray DVD player
- Connect your laptop or tablet device to the HDMI port
- BYOD - Connect external devices and wirelessly stream to the projector
Please note, this will be a recorded session for future training purposes, and we
will leave time to answer questions at the end.
Title: Secrets to Improve Student Success
When: 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
Presenters: Isabel Anderson, Ann Hefner-Gravink, Melissa Reeve & Brad Paschal
Description: Strategies to improve student success need not be a mystery, even online. Join us
as we discuss surveys as ideal tools for easy and frequent check-ins with students.
These survey strategies work for both in-person and online learning environments!
Title: MySolano Overview
When: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Presenter: Tina Abbate
Description: Learn how to use MySolano to access rosters.
Title: Reimagine Campus Safety and Security at SCC
When: 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Presenters: Brian Travis, Joe Uchisbha, Bryant Williams, and Amber Wade
Description: As our country slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic many businesses and schools
will begin the process of reopening again. During this time, Solano Community College
will begin an evaluation process to reimagine how the college’s campus safety and
security department can effectively deliver just, equitable, compassionate and integrity-driven
services. We currently contract with the Solano County Sheriff’s Office but the contract
will end this June 30. However, the college and Sheriff’s Office have worked out a
month- to-month contract until the college figures out what we would like to do for
campus safety and security.
We are seeking input, comments and suggestions regarding this process. Your participation,
opinions and feedback will be important to this reimagining campus safety & security
process.
Title: Zoom Training
When: 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Presenter: Robert Nuñez
Description: The purpose of this workshop will teach users the fundamentals of using Zoom. We will
cover several main topics, like how to:
- Share a portion of your screen
- Add a self-timer during presentations
- Customize features to make zoom work for you
- Check for new system updates and install the latest versions from your Zoom App
- Tips for combating Zoom fatigue
We will also show you how to help yourself - where to find tutorials and information,
and who to ask questions when you get stuck. By the end of the session, we hope this
information helps expand user's knowledge around Zoom that one can integrate these
key concepts into the classroom or during virtual office meetings and training.
Title: Looking Back, Moving Forward
When: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Presenters: Michelle Smith & Heather Watson-Perez
Description: Remote teaching is hard! But it is not without opportunity. In this session, we use
the "DAKI" framework to guide a group activity on what we plan to Drop, Add, Keep,
and Improve upon in our courses moving forward.
Title: Integrating Canvas Studio into Your Shell
When: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Presenter: John D. Perez
Description: An overview of Canvas Studio application. This product is available to assist faculty
and students with video capture and captioning. This presentation will demonstrate
some of the functions available for faculty to integrate into their Canvas shell.
Title: Academic Senate Meeting with Administrators
When: 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Presenters: LaNae Jaimez, Academic Senate President and Josh Scott, Academic Senate Vice President
Title: The Professional Development System
When: 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Presenter: Michelle Smith
Description: Take a guided tour of our brand new Professional Development System and learn how
to register for events, submit optional requests, and much more!
Title: Ask a Tech
When: 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Presenters: Kimo Calilan & Others
Description: Join a panel of members of the district IT team to ask whatever questions you have.
Tips, how-to’s, using district technology, and overall technology info will be shared.
Feel free to email your questions in advance to askatech@solano.edu so we can better
prepare answers for your needs.
Title: COVID Workgroup
When: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Presenters: Alison Aubert, Scott Parish & Christie Speck
Description: A presentation from the COVID Campus Workgroup sharing lessons from this past year
including what worked, challenges met, and how we can all move forward safely together.
Title: The Evolution of the Minority Coalition – Past, Present, and Future
When: 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Presenters: Dr. Karen McCord, PhD, Psychology and Former Instructor, Dr. Ella Tolliver, PhD, Education
and Former Instructor & Earl Taylor, Author and Former student
Description: A Meeting of the Minds and More
Title: Updates on OER and Lowering Textbook Costs
When: 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Presenter: Atticus Frey
Description: We will be discussing updated resources for faculty to explore, potentially lowering
learning resources costs for their students.
Title: How to build individualized quizzes in Canvas
When: 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Presenter: Erica Beam
Description: Would you like to build quizzes that use different numbers for each student? Attend
this intermediate to advanced session and learn how to use the formula option in Canvas
quizzes to build robust quiz questions that will support the use of OER and academic
integrity.
Title: CCCAAComplianceWorkshop Zoom
When: 3:00-4:50 PM
Presenter: Alison Aubert
Description: Annual CCCAA compliance exam (open book) which is mandatory for all Full time, part time, volunteer athletics
staff well as all other departments which interact with Athletics. The exam must be
successfully completed prior to the mandatory CCCAA Compliance workshop on Thursday August 12 3-5pm.
At this workshop all coaches, staff members will sign CCCAA Form R2 confirming attendance at workshop and completion of exam. Prior to the Compliance workshop, all coaches and staff will also receive both the 21-22 Solano Athletics Department Policy Manual as well as the Student Athlete manual.
Below is also a link to the 21-22 CCCAA Constitution.
Below is the link to the exam
https://exams.cccaasports.org/
Below link with all instructions especially all new staff members
https://www.cccaasports.org/working/pdf/Directions_for_taking_the_CCCAA_online_exam.pdf
Below link to 21-22 CCCAA constitution incorporating all new legislation
https://www.cccaasports.org/working/pdf/Constitution/2021-22_Constitution.pdf
Title: Humanizing your courses in Canvas: tips and tricks
When: 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Presenter: Erica Beam
Description: This session will cover many ways to increase your presence in Canvas, created a more
humanized experience for students and you. Some topics include using the live transcript
for Zoom sessions, booking appointments in Canvas, using the new annotation assignment
in Canvas, using anonymous feedback in real time, and more!
Title: Convocation for Adjunct Faculty
When: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Hosted by: S/P Esposito-Noy, VP Cooper, AND VP Williams
Description: Join the S/P and VPs for updates on academic affairs, the budget, student services,
and more. Michelle Smith provides a brief overview of the new Professional Development
system. This is also your chance to share and get all your questions answered!
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