Faculty Development Podcast #22

This week's podcast contains an interview with Judy Bentley, faculty member at South Seattle Community College, shown on the right. Judy is the author of several non-fiction young adult books and interviewed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor during her first year on the bench for a biography she wrote about O'Connor.

I hope you'll attend David Levy's lecture on Information and the Quality of Life on Wednesday, May 24 from 2:30 - 4:30 in the Library at Seattle Central. Then, on Wednesday, May 31, Mike Eisenberg will speak on the information literacy skills our students will need to survive in the 21st Century.

Interested in attending the Rich Media Summer Institute from August 22 - August 25th? Submit your application by June 12th in order to be considered.
Here's a link to the application: http://northonline.northseattle.edu/SI2006/forms/application.html.

Here's a link to Faculty Development Podcast #22. 15:15 minutes long.

Here's a link to the transcript.

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Faculty Development Podcast #21

This is one of the flower combinations I'm going to try this summer thanks to PlantByNumber.com.

This podcast episode has a few announcements and updates - my workshops this week and the Chaplain James Yee lecture on Thursday, May 19th. I also wanted to remind you about the deadline next Monday for submitting grants to develop new online courses or revise existing ones. Go to the SCCD Intranet to find information and an application.

The application and lots more information about the District Rich Media Summer Institute is available from http://northonline.northseattle.edu/SI2006/forms/application.html. The Institute will be held Tuesday, August 22 till noon on August 25 at South Campus.

I also wanted to share a link to a text to speech tool that Mike Taylor, an instructor from Central sent me today. http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html. Do check it out. If you listen to the podcast, you'll hear a short phrase that I converted from text using this tool.

Here's a link to the Faculty Development Podcast #21 5:48 minutes.

Here's a link to the transcript.

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Faculty Development Podcast #20

From left to right, Geoff Cain, Tacoma Community College, Jean Kent, Seattle Community Colleges, and Andy Duckworth, Tacoma Community College. We co-presented a workshop on podcasting at the PNW Teaching and Learning Conference in Vancouver Washington. Here's a link to the session web site: http://faculty.seattlecolleges.com/jkent/workshops/teaching_learning/

Jay Keeton will be presenting Blogging 101: Weblogs as an Instructional Tool on Tuesday, May 9th from 2 - 4 in BE 3110. Here's a link to his excellent blog on sociological reasoning: http://gr-soc110-s.blogspot.com/

Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, May 24th for David Levy's presentation on Information and the Quality of Life. I gave the wrong date in last week's podcast and I want to make sure everyone has the new, correct date.

The 2006 - 2007 District Online Course Development Stipend application process was launched on May 2nd. If you would like to create a new online course or revise an existing one, go to the District Intranet and click on the Instruction button on the left to find the application, guidelines and instructions.

Check out Zillow at http://www.zillow.com - an amazing new real estate web site resource.

Here's a link to FD Podcast #20. 5:15 minutes

Here's a link to the transcript.

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Faculty Development Podcast #19

This week's podcast is full of announcements. The final FD Grant application submission deadline is Monday, May 8th. Grant guidelines and applications are located at the Faculty Development Web Site.

This spring Faculty Development is sponsoring a spearkers series. The first speaker, David Levy (pictured to the right) will speak Wednesday, May 10th on Information and the quality of life. Save the date and time, 2:30 - 4:30 and place (Library Classroom at Seattle Central).

Faculty Development is one of several co-sponsors for a presentation by Chaplain James Yee who will speak Wednesday, May 18th from 1:30 - 2:30 in room BE 4106 at Seattle Central Community College.

The final speaker, Mike Eisenberg, from the Information School at the University of Washington will speak on information overload, personal information management, and the information and technology skills our students need to be successful in work and life. He'll speak on Wednesday, May 31 from 2:30 - 4:30 in the Library Classroom at Seattle Central.



The District Summer Institute is back with a focus on rich media instructional materials like digital video, podcasts, and blogs. The dates are August 22 to noon on August 25. We have room for 20 participants and an application will be available by May 12. More information to follow.

Here's a link to Podcast #19.

Here's a link to the transcript.

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