Technology

Add power to your process mapping ability with full integration with Microsoft® PowerPoint®! SmartDraw helps you work smarter...just select a template, input your information, and SmartDraw does the rest - aligning everything automatically and applying professional design themes for professional-quality results every time.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Marlene Masten
Performance Measure: Knowledge/Work Quality/Reliability

Technology

Add power to your process mapping ability with full integration with Microsoft® PowerPoint®! SmartDraw helps you work smarter...just select a template, input your information, and SmartDraw does the rest - aligning everything automatically and applying professional design themes for professional-quality results every time.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Marlene Masten
Performance Measure: Knowledge/Work Quality/Reliability

Technology

Do you have questions regarding Microsoft Outlook? Bring your questions to this open lab and let's work to find you answers. Notes: This class is open to all NVC Employees, and approved for credit toward IT Development in the APD Certification Program.

Target Audience: Faculty Staff Students
Instructor: Viviane Marioneaux

Employee Development

"Process Mapping" introduces us to the basic knowledge and techniques involved in data collection, interviewing, analyzing, and clearly documenting work processes. Facilitator, Marlene Masten.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Marlene Masten
Performance Measure: Knowledge; Work Quality/Reliability

Employee Development

What is FISH!®? FISH! is a skill that provides the process, tools and language to generate the skills necessary to design a workplace full of inspiration, creativity and innovation. FISH! creates a common language. A language that will help improve your culture by using four simple practices - Be There, Play, Make Their Day and Choose Your Attitude. FISH! is a wisdom that everyone can embrace. It is an invitation that enables people to care about each other and their commitments. FISH! is an ongoing journey. It is not a fad. It is a practice and a skill that evolves over time creating a positive workplace and a vibrant culture each time it is embraced. Notes: Session for Student Success Employee Development Day.

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: Valarie Fluellen
Performance Measure: Teamwork/Team Building/Customer Service

Technology

You're familiar with Employee Central's basic functions; now its time to grow and learn to utilize those nifty tools to navigate through the system and learn more of what's available at your fingertips! Notes: This class is open to all NVC Employees, and approved for credit toward IT Development in the APD Certification Program.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Kori Schneider
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Technology

Beginning - Learn the basics of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet such as navigating, formatting and sorting. Get informed on how spreadsheets can help you! Notes: This class is open to all NVC Employees, and approved for credit toward IT Development in the APD Certification Program.

Target Audience: Faculty Staff Students
Instructor: Viviane Marioneaux
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Faculty Development

Certification for Blackboard Vista online instruction

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: Julie Bajusz
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Employee Development

"Process Mapping" introduces us to the basic knowledge and techniques involved in data collection, interviewing, analyzing, and clearly documenting work processes. Facilitator, Marlene Masten.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Marlene Masten
Performance Measure: Knowledge; Work Quality/Reliability

Employee Development

This information session will answer questions for supervisors, team leads, or anyone overseeing work study employees. Included will be areas such as work study required orientation, training available to work studies, handbook and guidelines for supervisors, contact names and numbers, upcoming changes in work study hiring and more.

Target Audience: Target Group
Instructor: Valarie Fluellen
Performance Measure: Knowledge, Leadership

Employee Development

This information session will answer questions for supervisors, team leads, or anyone overseeing work study employees. Included will be areas such as work study required orientation, training available to work studies, handbook and guidelines for supervisors, contact names and numbers, upcoming changes in work study hiring and more.

Target Audience: Target Group
Instructor: Valarie Fluellen
Performance Measure: Knowledge, Leadership

Technology

Do you have questions regarding Microsoft Outlook? Bring your questions to this open lab and let's work to find you answers. Notes: This class is open to all NVC Employees, and approved for credit toward IT Development in the APD Certification Program.

Target Audience: Faculty Staff Students
Instructor: Viviane Marioneaux

Technology

Employee Central is the centralized database for maintaining personnel records from the first day of hire throughout the employee's term of employment with NVC. Designed to record HR, Contact, Availability, and individual Professional Development Transcripts, this system is instrumental in the tracking of PAR's (Personnel Activity Reports) which are a mandatory process in association with District HR regulation. Notes: This class is open to all NVC Employees, and approved for credit toward IT Development in the APD Certification Program.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Kori Schneider
Performance Measure: Work Quality/Reliability

Faculty Development

Each Fall, discipline-specific faculty orientations are held to ready all new instructors, especially adjunct instructors, for the academic year. Every instructor teaching in the discipline whose session is scheduled for this day is suppose to attend.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: TBA
Performance Measure: Organizing/Planning/Problem Solving

Technology

Learn how to use the Who's Next system with hands-on experience of logging students into the system and then signing them out with your area's services. We will also cover reporting, batch visits, and so much more!

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: Kori Schneider

Faculty Development

Each Fall, discipline-specific faculty orientations are held to ready all new instructors, especially adjunct instructors, for the academic year. Every instructor teaching in the discipline whose session is scheduled for this day is suppose to attend.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: TBA
Performance Measure: Organizing/Planning/Problem Solving

Technology

Learn how to use the Who's Next system with hands-on experience of logging students into the system and then signing them out with your area's services. We will also cover reporting, batch visits, and so much more!

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: Kori Schneider

Employee Development

All faculty and staff are invited to this important event to kick off the 2009-2010 academic year. We will start with an informal Breakfast in Cypress at 8:00 am followed by a program in the new Palmetto Fine Arts Center. Awards and recognition will start the program with some fun activities throughout. Additional important outcome data on NVC will wrap up the Palmetto program. The morning will conclude with small focus groups aimed at providing feedback on the data.

Target Audience: Faculty/ Staff
Instructor: Various
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Employee Development

This full day of training is required of all newly hired NVC Work Studies. Topics covered will range from the NVC Culture, to Customer Service Skills, Policy Briefings, Navigating the Web, FERPA and other key processes that will help acclimate Work Studies to the NVC way of service. Campus tour and light lunch included.

Target Audience: Target Group
Instructor: Valarie Fluellen/Various Administrative Staff
Performance Measure: Customer Service, Knowledge, Work Quality/Reliability.

Faculty Development

Foundations in Cooperative Learning Fall 2009 ( 7 hour workshop ) This extended course allows time for students to complete the Beginner Cooperative Learning training course in one day, helping them see the difference between functioning teams and ordinary classroom groups. It is followed by a shorter follow-up session (Sept 26) needed for completing the full course. This course will cover Theory, Foundations, Application, and Implementation of Basic Cooperative Learning techniques. By working with the same group members for the entire session, students will have a strong model for seeing how these techniques can help develop both social and academic bonds between students, which will enhance their overall success and learning potential. *For Certificate of Completion (available to all faculty) and Stipend ($200 available to part-time adjunct faculty ONLY), completion of this course, including follow-up, or Parts 1-4, a lesson plan, a reflection paragraph posted to the website (meeting the established criteria) are required.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: Natalia Trevino and Linda Cuellar
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Civic Engagement

Please come and help welcome our students by signing up for one or more 1-hour shifts at any of our Willdcat Welcome Tables. Visit our website to sign up! Notes: Please visit our website to sign up. View a map of table locations here.

Target Audience: Faculty Staff
Instructor: none
Performance Measure: Customer Service

Civic Engagement

Please come and help welcome our students by signing up for one or more 1-hour shifts at any of our Willdcat Welcome Tables. Visit our website to sign up! Notes: Please visit our website to sign up. View a map of table locations here.

Target Audience: Faculty Staff
Instructor: none
Performance Measure: Customer Service

Employee Development

Tired of yo-yo dieting? Tired of "die"ting? Tired of being tired all the time? If you are, then please join Clare Walderman, RN on Wednesdays from 5:30 -6:30 p.m. in CCC Room 122 to discover how you can get empowered to "own" your health through discovering what foods work in your body, what exercise does for your body, and ultimately gain a sense of control in your life. This is an open forum for all faculty and staff. *Please note: If you are currently on a physician ordered diet, email Clare at jflammang-walder@alamo.edu to discuss if this forum is appropriate for you.

Target Audience: Everyone
Instructor: Clare Walderman, RN
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Faculty Development

This session will introduce many of the people who help run this college work. Several of the vice presidents and deans will be in attendance. The individuals who run certain areas like Students with Disabilities, Service Learning, Career Services, Student Alumni and Student Development among others will attend. There will also be many of our seasoned instructors on hand. After lunch we will go to the Library and receive a tour as well as an introduction to how the Librarians can help teachers become more effective and efficient. Everyone is invited to this session including our most veteran instructors who might not have met some of the new people.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: William Keith
Performance Measure: Knowledge