May
May Workshops
Adding a Positionality Statement to Your Syllabus
Co-create with Me! Inviting Students to Collaborate and Innovate
20 in 60: Tech Tips to Get Some of Your Time Back
20 in 60: Tech Tips to Get Some of Your Time Back
Social Annotation Roundtable Discussion
5/2
10-11 a.m.
Adding a Positionality Statement to Your Syllabus
Instructor: Philip Bonner
A positionality statement is a declaration of the identities one has and how those identities most likely influence that individual. Positionality statements include information about race, social class, religion, career, and beliefs. Adding a positionality statement to a syllabus can succinctly communicate who the professor is and what their belief system is to students. Including a positionality statement is conducive to building an inclusive and welcoming classroom. Come to this one-hour class and explore what a positionality statement can do to promote equity, inclusivity, and social justice.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- explain what a positionality statement is.
- explain how they promote equity, inclusivity, and social justice.
- write a draft of a positionality statement for themselves.
5/3
1-4 p.m.
Microsoft Excel Essentials
Instructor: Megan Calvert
This hands-on, small-group workshop will provide a solid foundation in the use of Microsoft Excel. Whether you want an overview of the basics, are looking to become more efficient, or have used Excel for years and just want to update your knowledge of newer features, this course is for you. Even experienced users can benefit from valuable tips, tricks, and timesavers along the way.
Workshop outcomes are flexible and may be adjusted based on a survey of participant needs. Outcomes may include:
- Access Excel via the desktop application and via Microsoft 365 (prior to the workshop)
- Identify the best uses for Excel
- Navigate and customize the latest Excel environment
- Create blank worksheets and worksheets from templates
- Save, organize, locate, and open worksheets both locally and on the cloud
- Share and collaborate on worksheets in real time using the cloud
- Insert, delete, and modify content in cells
- Modify columns, rows, and cells
- Format cells for readability and accessibility
- Work with multiple worksheets
- Use basic formulas
- Freeze rows and columns
- Sort data
- Filter data
- Format data as a table
- Check spelling and accessibility
- Print workbooks and customize printing
5/3
10-11 a.m.
Co-create with Me! Inviting Students to Collaborate and Innovate
Instructor: Angela Lanier
Whether hard copy or digital, the textbook has long been a primary resource for teaching and learning in higher education. Recent movements toward Open Pedagogy and Decolonizing the Curriculum challenge educators to think differently about the role of the textbook and identify alternatives that value students’ voices, experiences, and contributions to the curriculum and assessment. This workshop will define what it means to have students co-create, give examples of what that looks like in practice, and highlight the benefit for both students and others.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Explain the different ways students can co-create
- Identify the benefits of co-creating with students and strategies to address challenges
- Review an existing assignment for opportunities for student co-creation
5/8
8-9 p.m.
20 in 60: Tech Tips to Get Some of Your Time Back
Instructor: Stacy Ford
Explore 20 tips in 60 minutes to help save you some time in your day-to-day interactions with technology from email to mindful use of tech.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify 2 relevant tech tips to implement.
5/9
8-9 p.m.
20 in 60: Tech Tips to Get Some of Your Time Back
Instructor: Stacy Ford
Explore 20 tips in 60 minutes to help save you some time in your day-to-day interactions with technology from email to mindful use of tech.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify 2 relevant tech tips to implement.
5/10
1-4 p.m.
Microsoft Outlook Essentials
Instructor: Megan Calvert
This hands-on, small group workshop will provide a solid foundation in the use of Microsoft Outlook. Whether you want an overview of the basics, are looking to become more efficient, or have used Outlook for years and just want to update your knowledge of newer features, this course is for you. Even experienced users can benefit from valuable tips, tricks, and timesavers along the way.
Workshop outcomes are flexible and may be adjusted based on a survey of participant needs. Outcomes may include:
Access your email via the Outlook 2019 (or the Microsoft 365 desktop app), mobile app, and Microsoft 365 web app
- Identify best uses for Outlook
- Navigate and customize the latest Outlook environment
- Create, send, forward, and reply to emails
- Format text and appearance of emails
- Create an email signature in accordance with Montgomery College guidelines
- Send, receive, and collaborate on attachments
- Set up an auto reply (out of office)
- Search and filter email
- Ignore email conversations
- Clean up your inbox
- Set categories, flags, reminders, or colors to organize your inbox
- Organize mail using folders
- Add and organize contacts
- Use the Montgomery College global address book
- Create tasks and manage a to-do list using To Do
- Navigate and customize the calendar
- Schedule appointment and meetings
- Search for calendar items
5/12
1-2:30 p.m.
Social Annotation Roundtable Discussion
Instructors: Gloria Barron and Christie DeCarolis (hypothesis)
Join the conversation to hear how MC’s Hypothesis power users are making a positive difference with digital social annotation. This workshop will help faculty identify and discuss increased ways to leverage the abilities of Hypothesis.
The Hypothesis team will lead participants to discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used in their specific disciplines and with their specific teaching and learning objectives. Participants can expect to come away from this session with a clear idea about how they can expand their usage of collaborative annotation in their courses to improve student success.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- explore how faculty at Montgomery College has implemented social annotation in their courses.
- analyze the benefits of using social annotation in their teaching.
- follow the steps to create a Hypothesis-enabled reading in Blackboard.
Register in Workday
5/16
2-4 p.m.
Microsoft Teams Essentials
Instructor: Megan Calvert
This hands-on, small group workshop will provide a solid foundation in the use of Microsoft Teams. Whether you want an overview of the basics, or are looking to become more efficient, this course is for you. Even experienced users can benefit from valuable tips, tricks, and timesavers along the way.
Workshop outcomes are flexible and may be adjusted based on a survey of participant needs.
Outcomes may include:
- Access Teams via the desktop application, Microsoft 365, and the mobile app (prior to workshop)
- Identify the best uses for Teams
- Navigate and customize the Teams environment
- Use the chat feature for one-on-one and group communication
- Share and collaborate on files
- Schedule meetings, participate in meetings, and follow up after a meeting
- Organize and use channels for focused conversations
- Add apps to chats, channels and meetings
- Create a team using templates or build a team from scratch
- Work with external guests
- Manage team settings
- Make and manage calls
5/22
Monday: 2-4:30 p.m.; Tuesday: 9-11:30 a.m. and 2-4:30 p.m.
Crucial Accountability
Instructor: Cynthia Lee D. Mauris
Crucial Conversation for graduates only.
Learn a powerful set of new skills to resolve your most challenging accountability issues. As a graduate of Crucial Conversations, develop additional skills to diagnose why someone keeps falling short of set expectations and then derive a plan that both motivates and enables the other person to successfully change his or her behaviors. These skills are perfect for crucial accountability discussions that seem resistant to dialogue skills
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Hold anyone accountable, regardless of position or personality.
- Begin any performance discussion on the right foot—avoiding defensiveness and costly arguments.
- Diagnose the underlying causes of misaligned or bad behavior.
- Motivate without using power and enable without taking over.
5/23
1-4 p.m.
Microsoft Excel Essentials
Instructor: Megan Calvert
This hands-on, small group workshop will provide a solid foundation in the use of Microsoft Excel. Whether you want an overview of the basics, are looking to become more efficient, or have used Excel for years and just want to update your knowledge of newer features, this course is for you. Even experienced users can benefit from valuable tips, tricks, and timesavers along the way.
Workshop outcomes are flexible and may be adjusted based on a survey of participant needs.
Outcomes may include:
- Access Excel via the desktop application and via Microsoft 365 (prior to workshop)
- Identify the best uses for Excel
- Navigate and customize the latest Excel environment
- Create blank worksheets and worksheets from templates
- Save, organize, locate, and open worksheets both locally and on the cloud
- Share and collaborate on worksheets in real time using the cloud
- Insert, delete, and modify content in cells
- Modify columns, rows, and cells
- Format cells for readability and accessibility
- Work with multiple worksheets
- Use basic formulas
- Freeze rows and columns
- Sort data
- Filter data
- Format data as a table
- Check spelling and accessibility
- Print workbooks and customize printing
5/30
2-4 p.m.
Microsoft Teams Essentials
Instructor: Megan Calvert
This hands-on, small group workshop will provide a solid foundation in the use of Microsoft Teams. Whether you want an overview of the basics, or are looking to become more efficient, this course is for you. Even experienced users can benefit from valuable tips, tricks, and timesavers along the way.
Workshop outcomes are flexible and may be adjusted based on a survey of participant needs. Outcomes may include:
- Access Teams via the desktop application, Microsoft 365, and the mobile app (prior to the workshop)
- Identify the best uses for Teams
- Navigate and customize the Teams environment
- Use the chat feature for one-on-one and group communication
- Share and collaborate on files
- Schedule meetings, participate in meetings, and follow up after a meeting
- Organize and use channels for focused conversations
- Add apps to chats, channels and meetings
- Create a team using templates or build a team from scratch
- Work with external guests
- Manage team settings
- Make and manage calls