The Good, the Bad and the Ugly--PowerPoint Best Practices

COCC Community Learning has planned another opportunity to continue your professional development as an instructor. There is no charge for this evening session.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - PowerPoint Best Practices for Classroom Instructors. If you currently use or are considering using PowerPoint (or a similar presentation tool) to accompany your teaching, why not put some more pizzazz into your presentations? There is an art to preparing and delivering audience-engaging presentations. Come and explore . . .

* Best practices for effective presentations
* Tips and techniques to enhance your presentation
* A group work session on critiquing and improving slide design and flow

The details:
When: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Time: 6:00-8:30 pm
Where: COCC Bend Campus, Boyle Education Center
Room 151
Facilitators: Annette Witzel & Charlene Schulz

(This is not a hands-on software class. It is a group session to discuss and view best practices.)

How to Register: Email Nancy Jumper, Program Manager at njumper@cocc.edu or call 541-383-7273 and let Nancy know you'd like to attend. In your email, please indicate your experience level with using PowerPoint. Do you use it regularly in your teaching, occasionally, or not at all and would like to start? Please register by email or phone by Monday, January 23.

New Year, New Changes in the Department

Flexreg, new director, new staff, new phone system, we have a lot of changes happening at the office. We are also into the Winter term and classes have started.

First, you can check the attendance in your class by going into Flexreg and seeing how many seats are left in your class. If you don’t know your max number of seats just give your programmer a call. Remember the seats showing are what is left. Also, if there is a waiting list, it starts at 40 seats. So if your class is full and showing 35 seats on the waitlist, then you have 5 people waiting to get into your class.

We are in the midst of choosing a new director for Community Learning. More on that when it happens.

We have a new staff person who is taking Natalie’s place as a graphic designer and marketer. Her name is Denise Rucci and she starts on January 17th.

Finally, the new phone system which is an IP phone. We can see who is calling us now and many other features. If we do it right, you’ll never know the difference.

Have a great New Year and thanks for teaching for us.

Paul

New Registration System is LIVE this Weekend

Our new online registration system is going live even as I write this. Anyone going to our website http://noncredit.cocc.edu and now sign up for classes. Everything is handled online including payment and students get an immediate email reciept once they register and pay.

This is a much improved system and may take some getting used to. It offers us opportunities we didn't have with the other system especially the email reciept. We used to have to mail these to students.

It also lets you know right away if you are in the class or on the wait list.

When you have time go check it out. You will also notice the new website and the easier navigation it offers.

Let us know what you think.

Asian/Pacific Island Festival

Join the COCC fun and have a cultural experience at the Asian/Pacific Island Festival on April 9, 2011. The event will feature food booths, demonstrations, and activities for the children. Admission is FREE!

Click here for more info.

See you there this Saturday, April 9, 2011, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. in the Campus Center.