Descriptions are in alphabetical order. For current sessions' dates, times, and venues, please visit our Events calendar.
Facilitated by Peter Beyersdorf, Faculty-in-Residence, Center for Faculty Development; Associate Professor, Physics
Streamline your organization's election procedures by implementing electronic voting. Participants will learn how to use google docs to set up and administer elections with features such as restricting who is allowed to vote, allowing a different fractional vote count for each voter (for example part time employees vote counts less than a full time employee), and maintaining anonymity of voters through the entire process.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Designing student learning objectives or learning outcomes, learning activities and assessments are not new processes to many instructors. However, many of us tend to approach these design tasks separately or in a random sequence. As a result, there are misalignments among the learning expectations, learning activity types, and assessment methods. In this workshop, participants will be exposed to tools such as, the OSMA (outcome, strategy, media, assessment) alignment matrix, the ABCD (audience, behavior, conditions, and degree) rule for constructing student learning outcome, basic learning theories, etc. to design an aligned, relevant, and measurable learning process. You are welcome to bring along your current syllabi as a reference for the workshop activities.
Facilitated by Jerry Flanzer, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research; Amy Strage, Interim Director, Center for Faculty Development
Come start the day learning about the fascinating projects your colleagues have under way. Come start the day with some scintillating conversation! At each “Breakfast Club” meeting, we will invite one faculty member or team to present a quick thumbnail sketch of their current work, and then open things up for a general conversation. We will provide coffee, tea and bagels.
Occasional Thursdays (check the Calendar of Events), 7:45am to 8:45am. For this semester's information on the presenters, please see our Coming Events in our Events page.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Creating consensus, considering different perspectives, accumulating information and knowledge from a group, are the typical outcomes of using a wiki. Wiki is a web 2.0 technology example that promotes online social networking and forms learning community. In this workshop you will gain hands-on experience on how to create a wiki from the ground up. SJSU Google Apps will be used to develop your first wiki.
Important: You must have your Tower ID and an active SJSUOne account to use SJSU Google Apps.
The Campus Reading Program involves the members of our campus - students and employees, reading the same book. A book is selected each year that students, faculty and staff are encouraged to read during the summer. Throughout the academic year, readers engage in critique and analysis of the book in small discussion groups. This has become a common practice at many universities as a way to help members of a campus community connect - to have something in common - to engage with each other in talking about their perspectives of a book and to engage in a lively and intellectual manner through a variety of campus activities offered around the book. A book read by many enriches a campus community. The book selected for the 2011-12 academic year is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Do you need to prepare for the WASC, program accreditation or simply want to improve your course? This workshop provides practical and resourceful instructional design theories and practice to enable faculty and developers to rethink a course design. Workshop participants will appreciate the benefits of a student-centered course design that aligns performance competency with learning objectives. Through discussions and group work participants will learn to understand student learning needs, analyze a course outline, identify performance competency, formulate learning goals and objectives, and design strategic classroom activities to facilitate the learning process. Backward Design model, Bloom’s taxonomy and/or Six Facets of Understanding will be used as the major references in this workshop.
This workshop can also be used to satisfy a CFD Course Design program that recognizes efforts in teaching and professional development. More about the Course Design Program at http://www.sjsu.edu/cfd/programs/coursedesign.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
What is an “accessible” PowerPoint document? Why do I need to worry about accessibility issue? How do I know whether my PowerPoint document is accessible?
At this two-hour workshop, we will discuss the accessibility issues and PowerPoint basic features on the Macintosh. You will learn how to create powerful and accessible presentations through the use of automated tools in PowerPoint. You will create, edit, and publish a PowerPoint presentation, follow “best practices” as well as accessibility guidelines with hands-on exercises.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
What is an “accessible” PowerPoint document? Why do I need to worry about accessibility issue? How do I know whether my PowerPoint document is accessible?
At this two-hour workshop, we will discuss the accessibility issues and PowerPoint basic features on a Windows system. You will learn how to create powerful and accessible presentations through the use of automated tools in PowerPoint. You will create, edit, and publish a PowerPoint presentation, follow “best practices” as well as accessibility guidelines with hands-on exercises.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
What is an “accessible” document? Why do I need to worry about accessibility issue? How do I know whether my document is accessible?
At this two-hour workshop, you will learn the basic Word features as well as how to use some of these basic existing features in Word to make your document accessible on the Macintosh environment. These features are also very useful in developing your Word documents. At the end of the workshop you will experience to have the document read back out loud to you via Adobe Acrobat.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
What is an “accessible” document? Why do I need to worry about accessibility issue? How do I know whether my document is accessible?
At this two-hour workshop, you will learn the basic Word features as well as how to use some of these basic existing features in Word to make your document accessible on the Windows system. These features are also very useful in developing your Word documents. At the end of the workshop you will also experience to have the document read back out loud to you via Adobe Acrobat.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
In this workshop you will learn how to create accessible and fillable forms that are appropriate for printing as well as for online use. Users, with or without visual impairment, will be able to fill out the form electronically. You will use both Word and Acrobat Professional 9 to create accessible forms. Familiarity with the accessible features in Word is preferred.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
What does accessibility have anything to do with scanning? At this one-hour workshop, we will discuss their relationship and convert printed materials such as flyers, correspondence, newspaper articles, etc. into an accessible digital and editable document. You will have the hands-on experience of using a scanner and optical character recognition (OCR) software such as OmniPage and Adobe Acrobat to scan your documents. Printed material will be provided for your OCR scanning experience, or you can bring your own document to practice scanning.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Do you have a faculty web site that contains your contacts and timely course information for your students? Do you publish your lists of publications and presentations, professional profile or expertise areas to the campus community or public at large? If yes, come attend one of the above workshops. You will be able to create and publish your professional looking and accessible website by the end of the workshop using the Website Builder.
Important:
1. A Website Builder account is necessary for the workshop (http://www.sjsu.edu/webservices/services/websitebuilder). Request an account (http://www.sjsu.edu/webservices/services/websitebuilder/join/) at least two days before the desired workshop.
2. An active SJSUOne is required for accessing your Website Builder account. Activate your SJSUOne account or resetting account password by visiting the SJSUone Account Management website (http://uts.sjsu.edu/Systems/sjsuone-password-consolidation-system.html).
3. Participants who did not sign up in advance, with no Website Builder accounts, or no active SJSUOne accounts, are only provided a demo account to practice during the workshop.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Not all students are alike. Not all your teaching is the same. What are the different ways you present your course content and materials? What are the multiple ways your students can express or act to demonstrate what they have learned from you? What are the instructional or delivery strategies you have used to engage your students?
At this two-hour workshop, we will visit and discuss how these issues can be incorporated or reflected in your teaching or learning experience for your students. To further assist you in your instructional design, an overview of the available workshops offered at the Center for Faculty Development will be introduced. Bring a soft copy of your syllabus and come brainstorm ideas how you can design your learning environment with Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Lecturing can be engaging, interactive and fun. Participants will learn how to use special features in PowerPoint to create or enhance graphics, animate visual effects, insert audio or video elements, etc. to capture and sustain students’ attention and desire to learn. Prior experience with PowerPoint is required. This workshop is for PowerPoint Windows 2007 version.
Facilitated by Annette Nellen, Faculty-in-Residence for Educated Person Dialogue; Professor, Accounting & Finance
Educated Person Dialogue is part of the Campus Dialogue that began in 2003, on what it means to be an educated person and what more we can be doing to help our students on their journey of lifelong learning. Brown bag discussions/workshops are held in each semester. Please come to as many as you can to share your ideas with others and to learn more about ways we can all help to further enrich the educational experience of SJSU students. Bring a friend. All sessions are from noon – 1 pm in IRC 101.
Become an Educated Person Fellow: Attend 4 of the sessions for spring, read and share something from an AAC&U liberal learning report (or something similar) with the Educated Person Dialogue email discussion group, and provide an idea for a future Educated Person brown bag discussion to earn an Educated Person Fellow Certificate.
Please visit our Educated Person Dialog website (http://www.sjsu.edu/cfd/consultations/Educated_Person_Dialogue/website_index/)
If you want to join the email discussion group – please contact Annette Nellen at annette.nellen@sjsu.edu.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
In this semester, San Jose State University has unlimited licenses for Elluminate Live! In this workshop, participants will experience this web conferencing tool and learn how it can enhance learning and teaching beyond the boundaries of a physical classroom. You will learn to use the features such as live audio, whiteboard, messaging, polling, application sharing, etc. to engage your students in one-on-one tutoring, group work, or delivery to a large group. Sessions created in Elluminate Live! (http://www.elluminate.com) can also be recorded for anytime, anyplace review. This workshop is useful for online and face-to-face teaching.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Turnitin Suite is a set of tools that consists of Originality Check, PeerMark and GradeMark. The suit will check the integrity of your students' papers after digital submissions, promotes peer learning through peer review of their submitted papers, and provides instructors the tools to grade and comment their papers in an online environment. In addition, the suite also provides rubric design features and student work management features. In this workshop you will create your Turnitin account as an instructor and learn to use the tools to set up classes and writing assignments that generate plagiarism prevention reports. You will practice the paper submission process as a student. You will learn how to use the tools to provide constructive comments and improve students’ attitude and skills in preventing plagiarism. You can bring a soft copy sample of a writing assignment from a student to test in Turnitin.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Do you have a faculty web site that contains your contacts and timely course information for your students? Do you publish your lists of publications and presentations, professional profile or expertise areas to the campus community or public at large? If yes, come attend one of the above workshops. You will be able to create and publish your professional looking and accessible website by the end of the workshop using the Website Builder.
Important:
1. A Website Builder account is necessary for the workshop (http://www.sjsu.edu/webservices/services/websitebuilder). Request an account (http://www.sjsu.edu/webservices/services/websitebuilder/join/) at least two days before the desired workshop.
2. An active SJSUOne is required for accessing your Website Builder account. Activate your SJSUOne account or resetting account password by visiting the SJSUone Account Management website (http://uts.sjsu.edu/Systems/sjsuone-password-consolidation-system.html).
3. Participants who did not sign up in advance, with no Website Builder accounts, or no active SJSUOne accounts, are only provided a demo account to practice during the workshop.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Wondering how confident your students are feeling about their learning outcomes? Eager to confirm if your teaching is staying aligned with the course goals and objectives? In this workshop we will examine the significance of planning and implementing formative assessment in mid semester to steer or facilitate student learning outcomes in the direction as planned. We will look at tools for formative assessments, examples of the assessments, and how to use the data from the assessments.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Gmail is the official electronic mail solution adopted by San Jose State University. It is one of the Google Apps designed to meet your office communication needs.
Are you comfortable or familiar with all the key features of Gmail? If not and interested, come join us. At the end of the workshop, in addition to performing the basic email function, you will be comfortable and able to manage or organize your mail messages, and have fun in customizing the default settings behind the mail to your personal preference.
Gmail requires authentication through SJSUOne. The SJSUOne, which is different from the MySJSU, is an account system that provides access to the campus wireless network and twenty other services. You need this account to participate in the class. This SJSUOne account is available to all faculty, staff, and students. If you do not have one, visit SJSUOne web site at http://www.sjsu.edu/sjsuone to activate your account.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Calendar like Gmail is one of the Google Apps adopted by San Jose State University. It is designed to help you schedule meetings and organize your work. Are you comfortable or familiar with the features of Google Calendar? If not and interested, come join us. At end of this workshop, you will feel comfortable and be able to use it to schedule meetings or manage events for yourself, other people as well as for groups. Furthermore, you will find it an effective tool to manage all your work.
Calendar requires authentication through SJSUOne. The SJSUOne, which is different from MySJSU, is an account system that provides access to the campus wireless network and twenty other services. You need this account to participate in the class. This SJSUOne account is available to all faculty, staff, and students. If you do not have one, visit SJSUOne web site at http://www.sjsu.edu/sjsuone to activate your account.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Won’t it be nice if you can just double click to open a document without worry about what application or version it is saved? Won’t it be nice if the document is stored in one fixed location that you don’t need to carry it around or email to yourself or amongst your collaborators? Won’t it be nice if you and your group members can go to one workspace to review, edit a document and track all changes for your collaboration work?
Google Documents, another one of the Google Apps bundled with Gmail, Calendar and other apps, serves just for the above purposes. It consists of a light version of word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, etc. It is designed to meet your basic office needs for individuals as well as for a group.
If interested, come join us. At end of this workshop, you will be able to use the appropriate file format to start the work for yourself or with other people.
Google Documents requires authentication through SJSUOne. The SJSUOne, which is different from the MySJSU, is an account system that provides access to the campus wireless network and twenty other services. You need this account to participate in the class. This SJSUOne account is available to all faculty, staff, and student staff. If you do not have one, visit SJSUOne web site at http://www.sjsu.edu/sjsuone to activate your account.
Facilitated by Peter Beyersdorf, Faculty-in-Residence, Center for Faculty Development; Associate Professor, Physics
Learn how you can use "smart boards" in and out of the classroom to engage your students, annotate documents being displayed to your class, work interactively and allow demonstration of computer based tools using a simple and natural interface. We'll look at how to use the touch input capabilities of smart boards, how to annotate documents, how to use smart boards to record screen captures of your writing, and how all of this can be used to improve the classroom experience for students.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
This workshop is for participants who are new to InDesign (CS5) and would like to adopt the InDesign templates prepared by Public Affairs located at http://www.sjsu.edu/publicaffairs/downloads/templates/. Participants will be able to use the basic authoring tools in InDesign to integrate and manipulate text and images for a single page letter size document using the template. Prior knowledge in PageMaker would be an asset.
Facilitated by Peter Beyersdorf, Faculty-in-Residence, Center for Faculty Development; Associate Professor, Physics
You know how to use email and the world wide web to improve the educational experience of your students, but do you know about podcasting? Find out how you can use podcasting to easily collect and disseminate information you want your students to have through "iTunesU". Learn how class lectures, homework sets, video tutorials and supplemental class information and more can be automatically made available to students on their computer and iPods.
Facilitator by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Do you believe in first thing first? Joe Grimes and Cynthia Desrochers of CSU believed that the first day of class is the most important day in a semester. If done appropriately, the agenda of your first class could establish a foundation for the expectations and implementation of your course’s outcomes. Grimes and Desrochers created an online case story Making Your 1st Day of Class Really First Class (ELIXR -MERLOT Project- http://pachyderm.cdl.edu/elixr-stories/1stday-slo/) that consisted of six disciplines to show how effective first day of class strategies can make a difference. In this seminar, we will review the case story and discuss how you might revisit and enhance the goals of your first day of class this semester.
This workshop could be offered as a cohort-based workshop for departments. If you are interested please contact Mei Fang, the facilitator, by email waimei.fang@sjsu.edu or phone (408) 924-2456.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Planning for an online course or a hybrid for the first time? Trying to understand the differences of online and face-to-face learning and teaching? Introducing your faculty to online teaching? This workshop series provides useful information, discussion time, and hands-on experience on the pedagogical and technological aspects of online learning and teaching. The workshop format is primarily face-to-face with online activities.
Currently this workshop series is cohort-based for similar disciplines. If your department is interested to have your own workshop series, please contact Mei Fang, the facilitator, by email waimei.fang@sjsu.edu or phone (408) 924-2456.
General Outline for the Workshop Series
Unit A: Reality Check
Opportunities and Concerns in Online Learning and Teaching (OLT)
Unit B: What is OLT?
Introduction to OLT Components, Models, Stakeholders, Pedagogical Approaches
Unit C: How to Get Started
Implementation Process, Development Milestones, Instructional Design Process, Learning Outcome Alignment. Hands-on Exercises to Create Your Get-Started Plans
Unit D: Creating Learning Objects for OLT
Purposes and Development Process of Content-Units to Aid OLT, Pedagogical Framework for Implementation of Learning Objects, Hands-on Experiments with Various Tools to Create Learning Objects (Tools include PowerPoint, Acrobat Professional, Elluminate Live, Google Apps, etc. open to department’s request).
Unit E: Facilitating and Assessing Online Learning Communities
Concepts of Learning Communities, Stages of Community Development and Facilitation, Integrative Assessment Methods
Facilitated by Nancy Markowitz, Faculty-in-Residence for Peer Partners in Teaching, Professor, Elementary Education
Have you ever wished you could engage in collegial discussions about teaching without it being part of RTP? Have you ever felt isolated in your own department, and less "at home" in the larger university community? Have you ever wondered how other faculties handle specific classroom situations, such as facilitating more active student participation, communicating with students regarding cheating, plagiarism, or poor performance, creating a safe space for sharing in the classroom, fostering more student interest in a subject, or soliciting student feedback to improve teaching before the class is over? These are some of the many issues that have stimulated collaborative discussions in the Peer Partners in teaching program.
Peer Partners in Teaching is an enjoyable, non-threatening way to broaden your skills as a teacher while increasing your sense of connection to the larger SJSU campus community! You will participate by 1) attending monthly discussions, and 2) having the opportunity to observe and be observed teaching by peers in the program with you.
Peer Partners is for all faculty: part time and full time, tenure track or tenured, lecturers and permanent faculty, including those who have participated in Peer Partners in Teaching in previous years.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Learning objects (LOs), also known as practice unit, knowledge bits, etc., could be created easily from modules in your existing teaching materials to maximize self-paced learning. The LO contents are designed to be just-in-time for learning, self-contained as a unit, and flexible enough to be repurposed with other LOs to form bigger units. In this workshop you will see examples of LOs, understand the pedagogical framework for implementation and have hands-on experience with various tools such as, PowerPoint, Acrobat Professional, Elluminate Live, Google Docs, etc., to create your own LOs.
The CARMA Consortium Webcast Program is available to SJSU Faculty. The Center for Faculty Development hosts CARMA's monthly webcast where viewers get an opportunity to gain advanced training in research methods and data analysis. Generally, the webcasts are on a Friday morning. We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to engage in current research methodology and interact with your fellow faculty viewing the webcast. The details and dates of the webcasts can be found at http://carma.wayne.edu/Webcasts.asp#sch.
Facilitated by Elizabeth Tu, Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
The “smart classrooms” are equipped with a powerful LCD projector, DVD player, VHS player, Internet connection, speakers, and cable television feeds. Come to this session and learn how to harness the power of these powerful technologies. You will also learn how to connect to the SJSU wireless network and how to apply for an account as an authorized user.
You will need to know your PeopleSoft employee ID. Come and never be intimidated by the equipment again!
Facilitated by Amy Strage, Interim Director, Center for Faculty Development
Wondering about the best ways to gage what your students have learned from your course? No doubt, you have heard students assert that they have preferences for one kind of test or another. No doubt you have heard students assert that they either excel or crumble under pressure. In this workshop, we will consider the pros and cons about a wide variety of mechanisms for assessing student learning outcomes. We’ll consider different exam formats (multiple choice, short-answer, essay, etc.), administration formats (in-class, take-home), and participant configurations (individual efforts, group efforts). We’ll consider several creative yet rigorous alternatives to the traditional choices of exams, papers, and student presentations. Bring your syllabi, and we will tailor the workshop to your particular situation.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Now you can organize contents for your Elluminate Live! session before it begins and store session recordings to your computer with Elluminate Live! companion tools Plan! and Publish!. With Plan! you can organize, script, and package content and activities offline and preload the package when you create your session. With Publish! you can save your recorded Elluminate Live! session to your computer in your desired media file formats as standalone recordings for future offline repurposing or playback on different devices. In this workshop you will have hands-on experience with these time saving repurposing tools for content repurposing.
Important: To attend this workshop you should have experience using Elluminate Live! and have an Elluminate user account.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Turnitin Suite is a set of tools that consists of Originality Check, PeerMark and GradeMark. The suit will check the integrity of your students' papers after digital submissions, promotes peer learning through peer review of their submitted papers, and provides instructors the tools to grade and comment their papers in an online environment. In addition, the suite also provides rubric design features and student work management features. In this workshop you will create your Turnitin account as an instructor and learn to use the tools to set up classes and writing assignments that generate plagiarism prevention reports. You will practice the paper submission process as a student. You will learn how to use the tools to provide constructive comments and improve students’ attitude and skills in preventing plagiarism. You can bring a soft copy sample of a writing assignment from a student to test in Turnitin.
Facilitated by Amy Strage, Interim Director, Center for Faculty Development
Like snowflakes, no students are exactly alike – they differ enormously in how they learn best, how they respond to constructive feedback about their performance, how and why they do or don’t make use of their instructors and other resources to help them in their classes. Come explore some ways to figure out what might work best in your classes.
Facilitated by Amy Strage, Interim Director, Center for Faculty Development; Deanna Peck, Counseling Services
This series consists of monthly discussions where panelists/speakers with expertise with respect to a particular segment of our student populations can help faculty (and staff) better understand issues and needs that pertain to that segment of our student body as well as campus resources available to them. The series begins with a general session in the beginning of a semester. Monthly topics thereafter include the following: Student Athletes, Veterans, First-time Students (Frosh and transfer), Student Members of Fraternities and Sororities, First-generation Students and International Students. Descriptions of the topics are as follows:
Student Athletes
Student athletes are truly amazing people. In order to excel at their sport and in the classroom, they must manage their time wisely. In addition to long hours of practice, their commitment to their sport often requires days “on the bus”, away from campus. Some are remarkably successful, both academically and athletically. Others seem to struggle more. In this session, we invite faculty and staff to come and learn about ways we can support these dedicated students.
Veterans, Members of the Military, and Their Families
There are currently several hundred students enrolled at SJSU who are veterans, members of the military, or their dependents. The life-experiences of this group of students are often very different from those of other students on our campus. Many of them are thriving. Others seem to struggle more. We invite faculty and staff to come and learn about ways we can support these dedicated students.
First-time Students (Frosh and Transfer)
We welcomed several thousand first-time students to the campus this September. For many of them, the transition to SJSU was momentous - they have spent the last few weeks adjusting to the size of the campus, the diversity of the people here, and the greater demand on them to manage their academic and social lives, Many of these students are completely acclimated. Others seem to be taking a bit more time to find their way. We invite faculty and staff to come and learn about ways we can support these students and help them launch successful careers here. Presenters/ panelists/ participants will include Maureen Scharberg, Student Academic Success Services.
Student Members of Fraternities and Sororities
Over 1000 SJSU students - about 5% of our undergraduate student population - are currently members of one of the nearly three-dozen fraternities and sororities on campus. Charters and particular missions or goals of the various houses differ, but the core values for each are straightforward: Family, academics, service and leadership. We invite faculty and staff to come and learn about “Greek life” (the portrayal in Animal House is far from accurate!!!!), and about the opportunities and challenges fraternity/sorority membership present for our students.
First-generation Students
SJSU has a long tradition of welcoming first-generation students to its midst. While these students are very motivated and eager to succeed, many do not have the advantage of friends or family to guide them as they make their way to and through the university. We invite you to come and learn about the various kinds of challenges and supports available to this segment of our student population.
International Students
SJSU is assuming an increasingly “global” look, with students from every corner of the globe attending our classes. The strengths and challenges and expectations and customs pertaining to higher education that these students bring to their studies may be quite different from those of our US students. We invite you to attend this session to learn about the many ways we seek to promote an enriching experience for our students from other countries, as well as to learn from them as the incredible resources that they are for expanding our global awareness and cultural exchange.
Facilitated by W. Mei Fang, Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Faculty Development
Do you have a faculty web site that contains your contacts and timely course information for your students? Do you publish your lists of publications and presentations, professional profile or expertise areas to the campus community or public at large? If yes, come attend one of the above workshops. You will be able to create and publish your professional looking and accessible website by the end of the workshop using the Website Builder.
Important:
1. A Website Builder account is necessary for the workshop (http://www.sjsu.edu/webservices/services/websitebuilder). Request an account (http://www.sjsu.edu/webservices/services/websitebuilder/join/) at least two days before the desired workshop.
2. An active SJSUOne is required for accessing your Website Builder account. Activate your SJSUOne account or resetting account password by visiting the SJSUone Account Management website (http://uts.sjsu.edu/Systems/sjsuone-password-consolidation-system.html).
3. Participants who did not sign up in advance, with no Website Builder accounts, or no active SJSUOne accounts, are only provided a demo account to practice during the workshop.
NEW! Undergraduate Research Grants
CFD Spring Forum & End-of-the-Year Celebration April 27, 2012
A unit of
Graduate Studies & Research
One Washington Square
San José, CA 95192-0026
Main Office Location: IRC 213
Computing/Consultation: IRC 202
Seminars: IRC 101, IRC 210
Hours: 8 AM - 5 PM
Monday to Friday
Contact Main Office
(408) 924-2303
cfd@sjsu.edu
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