Faculty & Staff

 

CTL Services

Faculty Development

The CTL provides a variety of services designed to help faculty grow in their field.  We can help with classroom observation (peer), research and community building to name a few.  Book study groups, discussion groups, webinars and seminars are planned each semester to enhance growth activities.  All attempts are made to schedule events that make participation for both adjunct and full-time faculty. Instructional design available by appointment, see CTL page for posted hours or email sarah.swart@muskegoncc.edu for an appointment. You can drop in for assistance as well.

Available Equipment and Space

    • Adjunct Faculty Office Space
    • PC (5) and Mac (1) workstations for faculty development and one-on-one instruction
       

Core Components

·         Windows XP Professional SP3

·         Office 2003 Professional Enterprise [Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel, Access, FrontPage]

·         Office 2007 Professional Enterprise [Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel, Access, Outlook, InfoPath]

·         OpenOffice.org [Free suite similar to MS Office]

·         Adobe PhotoShop CS2

·         Adobe Acrobat CS2 [create PDF files, fully functional]

Instructional Design

·         Camtasia 6 [screen capture for training and presentations]

·         Jing [digital conversations with video and screen capture]

·         Respondus 3.5 [learning games and quiz uploads]

·         StudyMate by Respondus

·         Respondus Math plugin (comes with StudyMate)

·         SnagIt 9 [grabs anything on your screen and creates an image]

·         Audacity

Presentation

·         SmartBoard software

·         NetOp Teacher [display contents of teacher’s monitor to student monitors]

·         NetOp Student [runs in the background to allow a computer to be controlled by teacher; launch manually on CTL PCs]

Miscellaneous

·         Firefox

·         Internet Explorer

·         Nero [CD/DVD burning]

·         Microsoft Office 2007 PDF maker plug-in [create PDF files without Adobe Acrobat, free from Microsoft]

·         Home page set to CTL  (pages/513.asp)

·         Printer

    • Scanning Equipment
    • Scantron workstation 
    • Smart Board and small conference table (seats 6-8 people)


Instruction and Mentoring

In conjunction with the Office of Information Technology and others, the CTL provides training opportunities to learn new skills and stay current with ever changing technologies.  The technology goal of the center is to train faculty to become proficient enough in classroom technologies that they are able to create their own materials.
    • Creating Interactive Content: Create Learning Games and Formatted Quizzes
    • Creating Interactive Content: Movies with Audio from Screen Capture or PowerPoint
    • Course Packs Using Library Databases
    • Blackboard Start-Up for New Faculty Users
    • May-Days: four day faculty seminar on technology and teaching 
 


Library 

The Center for Teaching and Learning maintains a library of books and media that can be checked out to any faculty member.  Educational journals and papers as well as some popular magazines are available to read in the center.
The HLC materials are available for review at the CTL.