Academic Affairs Office

MCC Math & Tech Workshop

August 10-14, 2009 on the Muskegon Community College Campus

Sponsors:  TechSmith, Wacom, Wolfram Research, and MichMATYC.

Technology Bootcamp (Limited to 30 Participants): 

  • Searching the Internet Effectively/Organizing the Results
  • Using SnagIt to Capture and Communicate
  • Choose the right file types
  • Creating documents with math
  • Creating presentations with math / effective presentations
  • Mathematica 7 Training
  • Tablets !!! 
  • Camtasia / Jing Training
  • General and math-specific pedagogies for Online Classes
  • Best Practices for Online Homework Systems
  • Avatars and Synchronous Communication Systems
  • Maintain a Web Presence / Managing Emai

Advanced Workshop:  By popular demand, we will host a group of returning participants (and advanced participants).  This group will spend quite a bit of their time working on building digital materials for their own courses, but there will be new things to learn!  Among other things (after all, there are still months to go before Auguest 2009), we'll take a look at some advanced features of Camtasia (like building quizzes into videos), advanced features in PowerPoint (Action buttons and animations) and we'll learn how to use Mathematica 7, and play a bit in Second Life.

Questions:  Contact Maria (231-777-0682 or maria.andersen@muskegoncc.edu)

Registration: $75 (this cost also gets you lunch every day)

Registration for Technology Bootcamp is FULL.  There is a waiting list, so if you didn't make it in, you can definitely add yourself to the waiting list.  There is still space in the Advanced Workshop.

 

Travel & Lodging

Airports: Muskegon (MKG) is about a 5-min drive from the hotel, Grand Rapids (GRR) is a bigger airport, and about an hour drive from Muskegon.

Hotel: The official workshop hotel is the Baymont Inn / Amerihost.  They are giving us a conference rate of $65 per night.  To book a room at the Baymont, call 231-798-0220, and give them the group code MCC.  If they are confused, tell them to look up my confirmation number G00012-44.  

Need a roommate?  If you're coming in from out of town and would like to share a room, we can play matchmaker and pair you up with someone else in the same situation.

Need transportation?  At least half of the participants will drive in for the workshop, so we can pair up the drivers and non-drivers so that nobody has to rent a car unless they want to.  If you are flying in to Grand Rapids, we can try to find someone who is driving through Grand Rapids to pick you up on their way here – just let me know.


Visual Map to get to the Meijer Library Information Technology Center (LIT) from Rte.31.  Google Map for MCC.

Directions from Muskegon Airport to MCC Campus.

Parking:  There is no permit required to park on the MCC campus.