Tech Brown bag sessions are intended to provide short (1-hour) technology session that focus on the computing needs and interests of JCCC faculty and staff. Sessions are coordinated by the Ed Tech Center and Staff and Organizational Development. Sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m. (See locations below.)
Snacks and soft drinks are available courtesy of Staff & Organizational Development.
March 4 Location |
Learn the Practical Uses of SharePoint for Your Department |
Michael Rea |
March 11 Location |
Exploring the My Site SharePoint Space |
Keith Krieger |
March 25 Location |
Home and Office Privacy Issues |
Rochelle Boyd |
April 1 Location |
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better |
Marziah Karch |
April 8 Location |
Web 2.0 Apps: Collaboration and Productivity Tools |
Keith Krieger, Nick Greenup and Jonathan Bacon |
April 15 Location |
Coming Soon: Goodbye CDS, Hello Hannon-Hill |
Julie Haas and Karen Davis |
April 22 Location |
The Macintosh and Virtualization with Virtual PC, VMWare Fusion & Boot Camp |
Marziah Karch and Keith Krieger |
April 29 Location |
Telling Your Story with Video |
Bob Epp |
May 6 Location |
What a Semester! What’s Next? |
Ed Lovitt, Keith Krieger, Jonathan Bacon, Michael Rea, Mary O’Sullivan, Randy Crenshaw |
August 19 Location |
ANGEL & Blackboard, Together Again? |
Ed Lovitt, Monica Hogan, Tracy Newman |
August 26 Location |
Campus Bandwidth, Video Resources & JCCC's YouTube Channel |
Sandra Warner, Don Campbell, Michael Rea, Jonathan Bacon |
September 2 Location |
Using Clickers in the Classroom |
Jeff Kosko |
September 9 Location |
Twitter, Tumbler, Yammer, Huh? How to Navigate Massive Information Streams and Have a Life |
Jonathan Bacon & Tracy Newman substituting for Marziah Karch |
September 16 Location |
"Struttin Your Stuff“ Exploring ePortfolios for Everyone (Faculty, Staff and Students) |
Bob Epp |
September 23 Location |
Going Where They Are–Using Facebook in Class |
Keith Krieger, Marziah Karch |
September 30 Location |
Building Your Own Epsilen ePortfolio |
Jonathan Bacon, Bob Epp, Davy Jones, Marziah Karch |
October 7 Location |
Out with the Old (Misty City Grade Book), In with the New (ANGEL
Grade Book)
|
Monica Hogan, Tracy Newman |
October 14 Location |
The Seed of an Idea: Technology Innovation |
Ed Lovitt, Carol Campbell, Damon Feuerborn |
October 21 Location |
When You Cannot Remember Everything: Evernote |
Jonathan Bacon |
October 28 Location |
Technology for the Intimidated - Basic Steps for Finding Help |
Marziah Karch, Tracy Newman |
November 4 Location |
Postponed: Web Conferencing: A New Classroom & Training Tool
|
Jeff Kosko, Ed Lovitt, Michael Rea |
November 11 Location |
The New Look: JCCC's Web Site |
Karen Davis |
| November 18 Location GEB 264 |
Creating PDF Portfolios and Web Galleries for Online PresentationVideo Archive |
Bob Epp |
December 2 Location |
Electronic Gifts for the Season |
Bob Epp, Marziah Karch, Jeff Kosko, Ed Lovitt, Tracy Newman, Jonathan Bacon |
December 9 Location |
Electronic Gifts for the Season Part IIno video |
Bob Epp, Marziah Karch, Jeff Kosko, Ed Lovitt, Tracy Newman, Jonathan Bacon |
| January 20, 2010 Location GEB 264 |
Out with the Old (Misty City Gradebook), In with the New (ANGEL
Gradebook)
Misty City Grade Book is no longer supported by the software vendor. The College has adopted ANGEL as our learning management system and it includes a Grade Book with functionality that matches Misty City. You don't need to use all the features in ANGEL, you can use just the Grade Book to:
Further, you'll no longer need to download a roster and import
students into your Grade Book. They'll be automatically added and
dropped based on activity in Banner. Every credit course at JCCC
automatically has an ANGEL course shell created, so you need to do
nothing more than use it (no form to fill out or request to make). |
Monica Hogan, Tracy Newman |
| January 27 Location GEB 264 |
KanREN & JCCC: Old Friends, New PartnersNow that KanREN and JCCC are once again working together to help bring JCCC closer to the state, regional and national R&E (Research and Education) community, some may wonder exactly what that means and what is possible. This session will present KanREN, who we are, what we do, and how we do it. Presentation topics also include discussion of the kinds of things that are possible with the KanREN connection, and what new possibilities lay ahead. A detailed view of how KanREN interconnects JCCC the R&E community, and a bit of forecasting on the future of R&E networking in the state and nation.Video Archive |
Cort Buffington |
| February 3 Location GEB 264 |
Web Conferencing: A New Classroom & Training ToolThis session will demonstrate how Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro can be used for online office hours, synchronous classroom lectures, webinars and other online meetings. |
Jeff Kosko, Ed Lovitt, Michael Rea |
| February 10 Location GEB 264 |
Secure Testing in ANGELIn this session, you'll learn how to secure your tests in ANGEL. We will look at using the ANGEL Secure Browser in the Testing Center, internet address restrictions, proctor passwords and other settings that make it more difficult for students to cheat. The session will also cover JCCC Testing Center guidelines. |
Jeff Kosko, Preeti Potnis |
| February 17 Location GEB 264 |
Introducing JCCC New Student DL Orientation System |
Monica Hogan, Ed Lovitt |
| February 24 Location GEB 264 |
The New JCCC Web Site- How do I get to Where I want to Go.The session will review the progress on the new JCCC web site, present the new locations of technical Help Desk support both on the web site and in Sharepoint, and answer any questions you may have on design or navigation. |
Karen Davis, Randy Crenshaw |
| March 3 Location GEB 264 |
Intermediate Tips for Microsoft WordIn this session, we’ll take a look at tools and techniques to
help you work with Word more efficiently. We’ll cover techniques
such as creating and modifying styles to develop more consistent
looks to your documents, and make them easier to format. In
addition, we’ll take a look at creating and managing sections to
apply formatting in different ways. Building blocks also make quick
work of repeated content, and we’ll see the ease of creating those
reusable blocks. If you use SharePoint, document properties are
important for document management. |
Keith Krieger |
| March 10 Location GEB 264 |
Intermediate Tips for Microsoft ExcelIn this session, we’ll take a look at tools and techniques to help you work with Excel more efficiently. We’ll cover techniques such as linking worksheets with 3-D formulas, sorting and filtering data using autofilters, commenting cells, using lookup functions, creating PivotTables for data analysis using the Banner reports SYRSTAN and SYROLLY. We’ll also take a look at useful techniques to transpose columns and rows, discarding empty cells, and using Excel as a data source for Word mail merges. This touches on a few of the tools and techniques available for intermediate Excel users, and if time allows, we’ll demonstrate other techniques. |
Keith Krieger |
| March 24 Location GEB 264 |
Video for the Classroom (Online & F2F)JCCC has licensed access to several video archives. Attend and find out how you can use these video clips in the classroom, whether it's online or face-to-face. The session will explore the INTELECOM Online Resources Network, the Dallas TeleLearning Digital Resource Repository and other repositories available through the library. |
Jonathan Bacon, Marsha Cousino |
| March 31 Location GEB 264 |
Ning vs. ANGEL Communities: JCCC Uses for Both?Do you have a club, organization, network of friends, state-wide committee or other group that needs a gathering place on the web? Attend this session and find out what you can "house" in an ANGEL community...and if it doesn't fit in ANGEL, we'll show you the options available using Ning! |
Keith Krieger, Jonathan Bacon, Ed Lovitt |
| April 7 Location GEB 264 |
Beyond Patrolling for Plagiarism: Using Turnitin's Grademark ToolsWish you could just click at a spot on your student's paper and write a comment that didn't need to be specially formatted to set it apart? Wish you had better grading rubrics? Come to this session to learn how Turnitin's Grademark Tools can meet these needs. |
Monica Hogan, Jim McWard |
| April 14 Location GEB 264 |
Getting Attention and Offering Help in ANGEL: Using Tokens and Help FilesWish you could use your student's name in the middle of the page? You can! Wish you can type just two or three characters as shorthand for a paragraph? You can. Wish you could have a question mark beside your discussion or assignment dropbox that would open your help file or detailed instruction file? You can. Come to this session to learn how to use tokens, create personal tokens, add help files, and put that little question mark beside your ANGEL elements. |
Monica Hogan |
| April 21 Location GEB 264 |
Intermediate Tips for Outlook UsersOutlook on Windows is not just email software, but a personal information manager. In this session, we’ll explore how to configure Outlook for the most effective management of the information that flows through our inboxes. We’ll look at the email configuration to make it less intrusive and easier to manage. In addition, we’ll discover methods to more effectively handle meeting requests, appointments, and contact information arriving in our inbox. We’ll look at how to efficiently handle meetings in Outlook, both as the person arranging meetings, and as a meeting participants. SharePoint and Outlook calendars work together well, and we’ll see how to connect a SharePoint calendar to Outlook for ease of use. Managing everyday tasks is an often overlooked component of Outlook. In this session, we’ll see how to manage tasks and to-do lists, as well as assign tasks to others. We’ll also examine archiving, and why we receive those messages about it, how it works, and the options you have to manage your inbox. |
Keith Krieger |
| April 28 Location GEB 264 |
Exploring Windows 7In this session, we'll take a look at Windows 7. We'll review the available versions, and consider the steps to take if you're planning to upgrade your current computer to Windows 7. We'll also examine the new features of the operating system, and changes and improvements to the user interface. The session will also explore how Windows 7 works with other software at JCCC including ANGEL, My JCCC, and Microsoft Office. |
Keith Krieger |
| May 5 Location GEB 264 |
Building Your Own Epsilen ePortfoliowww.Epsilen.com offers a free, lifetime ePortfolio for any faculty member, student or staff member with an .edu (education) email address. Your ePortfolio can house writing assignments (Word documents), PowerPoint Presentations, images, URLs and more. Attend and see how easy it is to setup your own Epsilen ePortfolio. |
Bob Epp Davy Jones |
| May 12 Location GEB 264 |
What Bugs You About Email?Etiquette is all about reducing friction between people. Netiquette brings those guidelines to the Internet. In this session, we'll discuss your irritations with email, distribution lists and other forms of digital communication...and offer some solutions with guidelines to answer the question "Can't we all just get along?" |
Keith Krieger, Jonathan Bacon, Michael Rea, Marziah Karch |
| June 9, 2010 Repeated June 15, 2010 @ 1:30 PM Location GEB 264 |
ANGEL 101 - Bare EssentialsThis 30-minute session (followed by 30 minutes of Q&A) includes how to log in to ANGEL, upload a course syllabus, upload other course documents, send an email to all students before the course starts, and edit the “About This Section” nugget. If you’re using the MyJCCC Luminis tools, this is the session to help you transition to ANGEL. |
Bob Epp & Saul Epstein |
| June 16, 2010 Location GEB 264 Repeated June 22, 2010 @ 1:30 PM In GEB 213 |
ANGEL 102 – Jump StartThis 60-minute session covers ANGEL navigation and terminology (home pages, nuggets, tabs), accessing the student preview, adding an Ed Tech Analyst to your course, source courses, the copy course process and adding a syllabus, course documents and a drop box. This session builds on ANGEL 101.Video Archive |
Marziah Karch & Bob Epp |
| June 23, 2010 Repeated June 29, 2010 @ 1:30 PM Location GEB 264 |
ANGEL 103 - GradebookThis 60-minute session focuses on the features of the ANGEL 7.3 Gradebook. |
Tracy Newman & Davy Jones |
| June 30, 2010 Repeated July 6, 2010 @ 1:30 PM Location GEB 264 |
ANGEL 104 - AssessmentsThis 60-minute session includes creating questions, adding assessments, grading and regrading assessments, and importing questions using Respondus, Word and publisher test banks. |
Jeff Kosko |
| July 7, 2010 Location GEB 264 Repeated July 13, 2010 @ 1:30 PM in GEB 213 |
ANGEL 105 - DiscussionsThis 60-minute session covers adding, using and grading discussions as well as the use of ANGEL wikis and blogs. |
Michael Rea |
