PRONTO is an Instant Messenger app with a sleek, modern design. Through it, instructors can connect with their students real-time, making it possible to share and store files, as well as communicate through video conferencing and direct messaging via mobile devices or directly inside Blackboard’s LMS platform. Join us to learn how to start using this powerful tool to connect with your students.

If you are not familiar with the Starfish Early Alert System, this interactive session will help familiarize you with the platform. Starfish was implemented at South Texas College in 2016, in an effort to increase engagement between students, faculty, and support staff. Starfish helps identify students who are at-risk and provides faculty an opportunity to provide students with resources to help them be successful. This session will provide participants (whether faculty, advisors, or support staff) hands-on training for setting up profiles, office hours, raising flags, and one of the new features, taking attendance and downloading the report. Participants will also be provided an opportunity for questions and answer at the end of the session.

Microsoft Office Online and OneDrive are now available through your South Texas College Office 365 account, providing you with online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. The new features include: • 1 TB of cloud storage for Office Online word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and notebook • Create documents in Microsoft Office Online and store them in OneDrive o Share them among peers for collaboration using a link o Make document modifications in real-time o Access them anytime anywhere; including the Office programs installed on your local computer • Microsoft Office Online runs in your web browser; there’s nothing to download or install

BBC-018 Academic Continuity (previously known as Blackboard Certification): is a course that prepares faculty to web-enhance, allowing instructors to supplement their face-to-face courses through online interactivity. This course also prepares faculty to design and deliver a Hybrid course. Online: June 8, 2020

OTC-005 The “Online Teaching Certification” workshop explores the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. ***This is a fully online, self-paced workshop in Blackboard. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric. Participants come away with a plan for course improvement so enrolling in the workshop with a pre-developed online course is required.

PURPOSE The Developing Excellence in Learning and Teaching Academy (DELTA) Online will help Dual Credit and Ad-junct Faculty to become part of the South Texas College family. DELTA Online will provide participants with support and guidance as well as information on faculty expectations, resources, policies, procedures, and creating a college environment. TIME COMMITMENT Participants will have six weeks to complete all course requirements but are encouraged to complete each module on a weekly basis. DELTA Online starts on Monday, June 8. PARTICIPATION All New Dual Credit Faculty and Adjunct Faculty will be expected to successfully complete the academy within one semester. Returning faculty will be encouraged to participate as space is available.

This Workshop will expose and teach individuals basic ASL Vocabulary. The basic vocabulary will consist of ABC's and basic commonly used words and phrases in ASL.

Join us for this 100% online 9-week course beginning June 10 -and ending August 12. If you teach classes that are delivered 100% online at South Texas College, this course was designed especially for you! Enrollment in online courses has grown exponentially. In spite of the many advantages of this course modality, online instructors face a variety of unique challenges not encountered in face-to-face instruction. Instructors have many questions: How will my students master core concepts and achieve the intended learning outcomes? How do I know that the weekly learning activities are adequately preparing students to be successful on assessments? Besides discussion boards, are there any other ways to engage online students? What technologies can I integrate into Blackboard to enhance student learning? Perhaps you have several years of experience teaching online, or you might be relatively new to this environment. In either case, our goal is to provide best practice instructional principles, strategies and resources to help you improve the quality of your students’ learning experiences through weekly assignments, discussion posts and a variety of resources that highlight best practices.

This workshop is intended for people in the interpreting profession. Others are welcome to join an get a glimpse into the profession. Take a look at current events thru the eyes of the interpreter. The importance of staying up to date and how current events affect and interpreter and the people they are interpreting for.

You know how to record your sessions with students, but how do you provide students access to your recordings on Blackboard? Blackboard has a very limited amount of storage space for large files. In this workshop, we will show you how to use One Drive to store your videos and link them to your Blackboard courses. (June 11, 2020 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.)

In these 3 basic to mid-level sessions you will learn how to develop a competitive grant proposal. Class will be conducted using MS Teams online learning platform. Session 1 Topics include: Basic Grant Lingo / The Initial Consideration Tool / Developing a Grant Idea /Types of Grants / Identifying Funding Sources / Key Components of Grant Proposals /Goals and Objectives / Building a Statement of Need Session 2 Topics: The Management Plan / Elements of an Evaluation Plan/ Overview of the Budget /Grant Writing Tips / Characteristics of Winning Grants

This workshop is intended to provide an overview of how to organize a CyberPatriot competition team. Attendees will also have the opportunity to observe a live mini-CyberPatriot competition taking place during one of the CyberPatriot summer camps. Additionally, you will also be able to interact with the students in the CyberPatriot summer camps over lunch.

With a free Zoom account, staff can video conference, screen share, use a virtual whiteboard to present to others, and much more. Learn how to create sessions and record these sessions for those who were not able to join. Recordings can be uploaded to the OneDrive (1TB of storage) and linked to other platforms. (June 12, 2020, 9 am- 10:15 am)

This training will include an introduction to Microsoft Teams, show you how to create a team, explain user roles and permissions along with other useful resources. You will also have hands-on training that will provide an overview of the different tab options that are available in Teams, explaining how to use certain features in each one. An in-depth demonstration will then be covered in the Teams tab, showing Faculty how they can create a team for a class, how to manage the team, and how to schedule an online lecture using “Schedule a Meeting”. Training will be wrapped up by showing Faculty how to integrate Microsoft Teams with Blackboard.

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This workshop will provide a foundation to American Sign Language communication to exchange in a daily conversation using ASL-By Nora McAllister

If you are not familiar with the Starfish Early Alert System, this interactive session will help familiarize you with the platform. Starfish was implemented at South Texas College in 2016, in an effort to increase engagement between students, faculty, and support staff. Starfish helps identify students who are at-risk and provides faculty an opportunity to provide students with resources to help them be successful. This session will provide participants (whether faculty, advisors, or support staff) hands-on training for setting up profiles, office hours, raising flags, and one of the new features, taking attendance and downloading the report. Participants will also be provided an opportunity for questions and answer at the end of the session.

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Participants will learn hands on how to create workshops and meetings in the Professional Development System. By the end of the workshop participants will also learn how to print reports such as attendance, evaluation, participant information, rosters for each workshop created and learn how to upload out of STC certificates.

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Take a look at interpreters and their role during the pandemic and the changes that we all had to deal with.

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Join us via Zoom for discussions with our colleagues to explore and share XXXXX. (June 18, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) Audience: Faculty OPOD STC is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Coffee and Collaborate - June 18 Time: Jun 18, 2020 09:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://southtexascollege.zoom.us/j/94185700070 Meeting ID: 941 8570 0070

In these 3 basic to mid-level sessions you will learn how to develop a competitive grant proposal. Class will be conducted using MS Teams online learning platform. Session 1 Topics include: Basic Grant Lingo / The Initial Consideration Tool / Developing a Grant Idea /Types of Grants / Identifying Funding Sources / Key Components of Grant Proposals /Goals and Objectives / Building a Statement of Need Session 2 Topics: The Management Plan / Elements of an Evaluation Plan/ Overview of the Budget /Grant Writing Tips / Characteristics of Winning Grants

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This online, live training will include instruction on how to create pivot tables, adding multiple pivot table Fields, Changing a pivot table's calculation, adding calculated fields, using GETPIVOTDATA, filtering Pivot tables, creating pivot charts, refreshing a pivot chart, applying pivot chart styles, and using drill down buttons.

Are you wanting to learn ASL? Here you will learn how to introduce yourself and a few basic conversational phrases in American Sign Language.

American sign language is a conceptual-based language. Participants will analyze English word-order phrases and render the message in ASL.

In these 3 basic to mid-level sessions you will learn how to develop a competitive grant proposal. Class will be conducted using MS Teams online learning platform. Session 1 Topics include: Basic Grant Lingo / The Initial Consideration Tool / Developing a Grant Idea /Types of Grants / Identifying Funding Sources / Key Components of Grant Proposals /Goals and Objectives / Building a Statement of Need Session 2 Topics: The Management Plan / Elements of an Evaluation Plan/ Overview of the Budget /Grant Writing Tips / Characteristics of Winning Grants

Padlet is a great tool to use for collaborative group projects, as it eliminates the need to schedule time in advance for the group members to meet face-to-face. It allows an online notice board to be set up where your students can contribute by pinning their own ideas. This is an ideal online tool for teachers if you are looking to quickly capture students's ideas in one place. Students can add pictures, videos, opinions, links, documents all in one place and they can also see what other people have contributed.

This training will include an introduction to Microsoft Teams, show you how to create a team, explain user roles and permissions along with other useful resources. You will also have hands-on training that will provide an overview of the different tab options that are available in Teams, explaining how to use certain features in each one. An in-depth demonstration will then be covered in the Teams tab, showing staff how to create a team, how to manage the team, and how to create channels. The session will conclude with how to schedule a meeting using “Schedule a Meeting”, and how to create a webinar using “Live Event”.

If you are not familiar with the Starfish Early Alert System, this interactive session will help familiarize you with the platform. Starfish was implemented at South Texas College in 2016, in an effort to increase engagement between students, faculty, and support staff. Starfish helps identify students who are at-risk and provides faculty an opportunity to provide students with resources to help them be successful. This session will provide participants (whether faculty, advisors, or support staff) hands-on training for setting up profiles, office hours, raising flags, and one of the new features, taking attendance and downloading the report. Participants will also be provided an opportunity for questions and answer at the end of the session.

Want to acquire information on the importance of self-care? During this interactive session participants will learn the importance of self-care needed for the ASL interpreting profession.

With a free Zoom account, staff can video conference, screen share, use a virtual whiteboard to present to others, and much more. Learn how to create sessions and record these sessions for those who were not able to join. Recordings can be uploaded to the OneDrive (1TB of storage) and linked to other platforms. (July 7, 2020, 9 am- 10:15 am)

Review the process and practices in order to prepare for an Interpreter Internship. Will review the application, interview, and what to do when you are accepted.

PRONTO is an Instant Messenger app with a sleek, modern design. Through it, instructors can connect with their students real-time, making it possible to share and store files, as well as communicate through video conferencing and direct messaging via mobile devices or directly inside Blackboard’s LMS platform. Join us to learn how to start using this powerful tool to connect with your students.

This training will include an introduction to Microsoft Teams, show you how to create a team, explain user roles and permissions along with other useful resources. You will also have hands-on training that will provide an overview of the different tab options that are available in Teams, explaining how to use certain features in each one. An in-depth demonstration will then be covered in the Teams tab, showing Faculty how they can create a team for a class, how to manage the team, and how to schedule an online lecture using “Schedule a Meeting”. Training will be wrapped up by showing Faculty how to integrate Microsoft Teams with Blackboard.

Will take a look at several scenarios and see how one should respond when in the interpreter role.

Join us via Zoom for discussions with our colleagues to explore and share XXXXX. (July 16, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) Audience: Faculty OPOD STC is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Coffee Collaborative Time: Jul 16, 2020 09:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://southtexascollege.zoom.us/j/96499192731 Meeting ID: 964 9919 2731 One tap mobile +13462487799,,96499192731# US (Houston) +16699009128,,96499192731# US (San Jose) Dial by your location +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 964 9919 2731 Find your local number: https://southtexascollege.zoom.us/u/a2qav6yE6

This training will include an introduction to Microsoft Teams, show you how to create a team, explain user roles and permissions along with other useful resources. You will also have hands-on training that will provide an overview of the different tab options that are available in Teams, explaining how to use certain features in each one. An in-depth demonstration will then be covered in the Teams tab, showing staff how to create a team, how to manage the team, and how to create channels. The session will conclude with how to schedule a meeting using “Schedule a Meeting”, and how to create a webinar using “Live Event”.

This Hands-on workshop will introduce you to the basics of the American sign language. It will provide you with the ASL alphabet and conversational vocabulary.

You know how to record your Zoom sessions with students, but how do you provide students access to your recordings on Blackboard? Blackboard has a very limited amount of storage space for large files. In this workshop, we will show you how to use One Drive to store your Zoom videos and link them to your Blackboard courses. (July 21, 2020 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.)

Create interactive opportunities for formative assessment with students by using Poll Everywhere. Instructors have the option of creating different types of questions, including multiple choice, word clouds, hot spots, short phrases, and sorting. Use these to check for comprehension or launch discussions about scenarios with opinion surveys. Instructors can use Poll Everywhere in face to face classes and also embed in Blackboard.

This training is designed to assist new interpreters for the deaf interested in learning about government signs.

Microsoft Office Online and OneDrive are now available through your South Texas College Office 365 account, providing you with online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. The new features include: • 1 TB of cloud storage for Office Online word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and notebook • Create documents in Microsoft Office Online and store them in OneDrive o Share them among peers for collaboration using a link o Make document modifications in real-time o Access them anytime anywhere; including the Office programs installed on your local computer • Microsoft Office Online runs in your web browser; there’s nothing to download or install

Microsoft Advanced Excel Training

This training helps you to be familiar with mathematics terms and how to apply to interpreting settings.

This workshop will provide a platform to increase vocabulary knowledge, in preparation for the BEI test, and apply the knowledge to signing skills.