Adjunct Benefit - CSM Courses Tuition Free

During any semester in which you are teaching a class at CSM, you are eligible to take CSM courses tuition free. To sign up for a course and receive this benefit, you must first send a form to HRD so they can verify your employment. We have posted the form for you at: http://www.dlf.csmd.edu/forms/EmployeeVerificationForm.doc

Return the form to HRD via inter-office mail, in person, or by scanning and e-mailing to jrupp@csmd.edu.
Questions? Contact Human Resources at 301-934-7700 or DLF (ssubocz@csmd.edu)

Dell EPP

Check out the link below for the CSM Educational Purchase Program with Dell:
http://premier.dell.com/portal/messages.aspx?c=US&l=en&s=eep&cs=RC810224

Keynote Project Report

Alison Bode recently completed her Adjunct Certification Level III project and submitted her report. Some of the highlights from her report:

On the blog, I found a request for help in planning a social justice event for the La Plata campus. Since social justice is a cause I support, and the help needed seemed to be mostly organizational, which is something I can do, I agreed to serve on the La Plata Social Justice Committee and submitted a proposal for Social Justice Day as my keynote project.

I began by meeting with the committee, composed of Beth Settle of the Teacher Education Department, Ed Schauf of the Criminal Justice Department and me, on Thursday, March 12. At that meeting, we discussed the format we envisioned for the event, when and where the event would take place, and what aspect of planning each committee member would undertake. My primary area of responsibility was publicity, and I was charged with contacting the Marketing Department, creating and distributing fliers, and seeing that the event was mentioned through on-campus outlets, such as The Friday Report and the “What’s Happening at CSM” online calendar. Other members were charged with enlisting a speaker, arranging a meeting space, and ordering refreshments.

In addition to my publicity duties, I volunteered to procure awards for the social justice projects to be displayed at the event. I purchased certificate paper and ribbons and prepared 24 awards for the projects. On the day of the event, I served as a judge to score the projects, and every student who submitted a project received an award.

On the day of the event, I helped to set up projects, and brought one of my English 1010 classes to the event. Our social justice day included short presentations by Patrick Allen and Linda Morales, projects on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and other issues, activities for students to participate in to enhance their awareness of social justice, and refreshments. About 40 people attended the event, which was held in BI 113 from 1 – 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.

Faculty Development Advice from Higher Ed Jobs

Interesting article from Higher Ed jobs about micro careers:

http://www.higheredjobs.com/Articles/articleDisplay.cfm?ID=105

More on Learning Games

Check out this link to learning game resources:

http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/2009/06/24/top-100-learning-game-resources/

We Need Your Help!

We are putting together plans for training events for the Fall 2009 semester and we need your help! If you could set aside 5-10 minutes to give us your feedback on the kinds of training you would like to have available, we would greatly appreciate it. You can complete the survey at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Iprci0tQ486E_2bu1a9uG_2bBA_3d_3d

Thanks!

Spotlight on Information Literacy Resources

Some research on Information Literacy Resources

http://www.informationliteracy.org/
http://www.kernhigh.org/district/instruct/InformationLiteracy/
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/infolitles.html
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/presentations/fetc2004/infolit.html
http://www.libraryinstruction.com/electronic.html

MCAPD Conference

The Maryland Consortium for Adjunct Faculty Professional Development (MCAPD) is holding it's annual conference on October 3, 2009 at the Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville.

MCAPD conferences are designed to rejuvenate and inspire faculty and administrators to try new teaching and learning strategies. Meeting new colleagues will expand your Maryland network and provide opportunities for future collaborations. These conferences enable adjunct faculty to offer presentations and workshops to share experiences with peers across the state and to serve as evidence of professional activity in the higher education community.

CSM will pay the registration fee for any CSM faculty or staff member who registers by September 25th. You can get more information about the conference at: http://ola.aacc.edu/mcapd/conference.html. Please do NOT follow the instructions on their form, though. Instead, simply let me know you want to go with an e-mail telling me you want to be registered (ssubocz@csmd.edu). That way, we can just register everyone at once and write one check.

We will work out some carpools later, too, so CSM can reimburse our carpool drivers.

Saturday April 25th at Leonardtown

Saturday training and adjunct faculty development committee meeting at Leonardtown was AWESOME! What a great group of people, including some new faces. What a great day! Thanks for participating. If you missed it, you should ask Brent Burdick, Marcia Chase, June Nicholas, Bob Pike, Sue Piras, Dawn Richards, Ann Reagan, Tim Mooney, Cindy Hardman, Janice McCue, Barbara Johnson or Kim Donnelly.

League for Innovation and iStream

The Innovation Stream (iStream) provided by the League for Innovation in the Community College is now available to our institution. This tool is an online resource bank and learning community ( http://www.league.org/istreamsite). Click the "Comments" link below for more details.