Activities

• Third Year Living Lab Fellow: Revitalizing General Education for a 21st Century College of Technology
  Role: Fellow | 2013-2014
  Activities: Serving 2-year term fellowship with Spring 2013 term award of 3CR release; the following years I will continue to work with other faculty across the College campus to help redesign General Education and incorporate High Impact Educational Practices and competencies into my courses as well as introduce these practices with my colleagues.
• Online Certification Professor: Blackboard
  Online Seminar | Facilitator: Karen Lundstrem | Role: Participant | 2011
  • Activities: Completed online professional development program, whose goal is to assist faculty creating and delivering online/hybrid courses in an interactive and collaborative learning environment.
• Entering the Mentoring–A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Mentors
  Organizer, Undergraduate Research Committee| Role: Co-led Session 6 & Participant | 2010-2011
  Activities:
  Sept. 23, 2010 Session 1 Getting Started
  Oct. 28, 2010 Session 2 Learning to Communicate
  Nov. 11, 2010 Session 3 Presentation Strategies
  Feb. 24, 2011 Session 6 The Elements of Good Mentoring* (Co-Led workshop)
  March 17, 2011 Session 7 Evaluating our Progress as Mentors
  April 14, 2011 Session 8 Developing a Mentoring Philosophy
  May 26, 2011 Session 4 & 5 Challenges and Pathways
• Teaching Portfolio Workshop
  Role: Participant | 2010
  Activities: June 1, 3, 4 & 7, 2010 – Participated in City Tech’s Teaching Portfolio Workshop conducted by City Tech’s Faculty Commons office.
• Websupport1 and FTP Workshop
  Role: Participant | 2010
  Activities: Participated in the Websupport1 and FTP Workshop conducted by Rezaul Hoque, City Tech’s Department of Instructional Technology and Media Services. I am using the skills learned to develop my own website that was launched in Spring 2011.
• WAC: Scaffolding the Writing Assignment
  Role: Participant | 2009-2010
  Activities: Attended a presentation sponsored by City Tech’s Faculty Commons on Scaffolding the Writing Assignment conducted by Robert Turner. Ongoing throughout the Spring 2010 semester, I worked with writing fellow, Robert W. Turner from City Tech’s “Writing across the Curriculum” program (WAC) to develop and enhance existing courses with writing assignments. Updated my own writing assignments based on the presentation.