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Previously Approved Summer Projects (2004)
Below are selected examples of previous summer projects
Jed (James E.) Allen
Phoenix College
Symposium of the Whole: Exploring the Poetry and Literature of Ethnopoetics
I teach English Composition, Literature, and Creative Writing; in all of these classes I use literature, particularly poetry, to supplement my instruction and assignments. In response to the challenge of our diverse student population at Phoenix College, I want to research the poetry aned literature of Ethnopoetics, defined as a survey and discussion of concepts of poetry gathered from world cultures, particularly non-Western cultures overlooked or dismissed in 20th century discussions of poetry and poetics. I will research during Summer II, from July 12th to August 13th, at home and in Arizona State University's Hayden Library.
Brent Alvar
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Chandler-Gilbert Strength and Conditioning Programs – Research, Dissemination, Application
This summer project will be threefold.
1. Research - Finish collecting data on 5 research projects with 5 adjunct faculty members. We will then analyze the data and prepare the research in the form of research posters. (July 1 - July 12)
2. Dissemination - We will be attending The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) national conference in Minneapolis Minnesota (July 14 – 17, 2004). We will present our research and the current practices utilized at CGCC.
3. Application - I have been working this year to establish a more scientific way to approach strength and conditioning at CGCC. I have helped each of the 5 adjunct faculty to design and implement research studies utilizing CGCC students and athletes. The summer project will allow us to examine the efficacy of our programs and techniques and then present them to other professionals.
Kristin Anderson
Phoenix College
Advanced Leadership Training
For this project I will attend Leadership Lessons/Learning opportunities sponsored by Employee and Organizational Development, (at MCCD) and attend the National Institute for Leadership Development Leaders Symposium. Both of these are in the Phoenix area. In addition to attending these sessions, I will review and research OSHA protocols on the internet taking notes as to appropriate procedures used in dentistry. I will also investigate and research the process of drug testing for dental students taking notes and making recommendations needed to update policy and changes in the Department.
Christine Beckman
Mesa Community College
Digital Storytelling Research
We (Christine Beckman & Cyndi Greening) are very interested in digital storytelling. However, we come from different disciplines and use different approaches to narration. We would like to attend a workshop and work together to discover ways of blending graphic art and oral storytelling into one artform. Christine Beckman (Speech Communication) and Cynthia Greening (Art) will be learning about this innovative approach to storytelling by attending the Digital Storytelling Bootcamp - Festival in Sedona, Arizona June 7th - 13th 2004. The three day bootcamp (June 7 - 9) is a hands-on training component of the festival at the state-of-the-art training facility of Yavapai College, Sedona Center for Arts & Technology. The festival (June 10-12) will feature various speakers, roundtable discussions, sponsor expositions, and a traditional storytelling performance. The final day (June 13) is a meeting for members of the digital storytelling association. We (Beckman & Greening) plan on attending the meeting to learn more about this professional organization and meet faculty who have been successful in designing and teaching digital storytelling in the community college environment. The festival and digital storytelling association meeting are also held at Yavapai College, Sedona Center for Arts & Technology.
Jerry Booher
Scottsdale Community College
Learn Linux to Broaden My Networking Knowledge
I studied Unix and Red Hat Linux from the end of the spring semester for 4 weeks at 20 hours per week. The project was funded for 65 hours. My goal was to learn enough Unix/Linux to understand why the spurt in growth in Unix/Linux was occurring in the networking world
 Final Report  More Details in MLX
Ilene Borze
GateWay Community College
Exploring New Treatment Modalities in the Management of Mood Disorders
Mood disorders, a cluster of mental disorders recognized by depression or mania rank among the top 10 causes of worldwide disability. About 7% of Americans suffer from these disorders, which have potentially severe consequences for morbidity and mortality as well as devastating impacts on society. Treatment for mood disorders aims at achieving complete symptom remission and complete restoration of day-to-day function, as well as prevention of recurrences. Numerous new antidepressant medications used for mood disorders and several new therapies focusing more on biochemical theories are now available for patients that were resistant to the older conventional treatments. Treatment modalities have drastically changed in the last several years and bring new promise to the recovery of individuals suffering from these mental disabilities.
This summer I will visit several mental health facilities in the valley that offer different therapies for mood disorders. I have selected agencies that will allow me to gain new information and actually participate actively in the care and management of patients with mood disorders. I will work with various members of the mental health team, attend inservice training of the various new treatments, participate in patient intake and interviews and observe actual treatments such as Electroconvulsive Therapy, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation used in the severely depressed. I plan to complete this project every Friday (8 hours a day) from July 2nd to August 6th 2004.
Mark Burtch
Scottsdale Community College
Developing Mathematical Authority through Conjecturing
This project will study the effect that establishing a classroom norm of conjecturing had on students' sense of mathematical authority. The source of mathematical authority, which is the ability to determine the validity of an argument or solution, has tremendous effect on learning mathematics. Many students seek to have either the teacher or a textbook provide validation of their arguments and solutions because they do not see themselves as possessing mathematical authority. In an effort to help students develop mathematical authority, an innovative approach to instruction, which placed an emphasis on student generated conjectures, was implemented in 2 different math classes. Both classes were videotaped along with several interviews of students. Mark Burtch, who taught both classes, will analyze the data at SCC, and will submit a proposal to present the results at a national mathematics education conference. The analysis and writing will span 6 weeks, from 6/23/04 to 8/04/04.
Thomas Butler
Paradise Valley Community College
OnCourse Workshop I: Strategies for creating success in college and in life
I am a Reading and English teacher with a large number of “under-prepared” students in my classes. I read and studied the book “Strategies for Creating Success in College and In Life,” and attended a nationally recognized corresponding four-day workshop in Marriottsville, MD. (http://www.oncourseworkshop.com), at which I was exposed to several dozen learner-centered strategies for empowering students to become active, responsible learners. The book, now in its fourth edition, is a popular text in college success and study skills courses. Indeed, the most common discipline of the 35 educators at the interactive conference I attended, was that of academic counselor or learning support specialist, although I was pleased to see there were a number of subject area teachers like myself. The conference itself required our active participation in a variety of activities that modeled processes of metacognitive self-regulation and cooperative learning that can be applied in any academic discipline. I heartily recommend this 4-day conference to any instructor desiring to recharge his/her vocation and looking for more effective ways to help under-prepared students develop the focus, skills, and attitude necessary for college success.
Some of the topics covered in the workshop included the following, for which there were always numerous classroom strategies to employ:
· Greater Self Responsibility
· Increased Self-Motivation
· Improved Self-Management
· Enhanced Interdependence
· Heightened Self-Awareness
· Effective Life-Long Learning
· Greater Emotional Intelligence
· Higher Self-Esteem
Final Report More Details in MLX
Roy Cohen
Mesa Community College
2004 APA Convention
I wish to attend the 2004 Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) which
will take place from July 28 through August 1, 2004 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Continuing Education
in Psychology Workshops are designed to "upgrade the knowledge of clinicians, academics, and
those in research". However, detailed information about the specific activities offered will not be
available until after the deadline for this application. Nevertheless, there is always an enormous
array of conference presentations, independent of these workshops, at which academics expand
their knowledge, so details about these workshops are not essential to the value of attending.
Suffice it to say that I expect to be actively attending 6-8 hours daily either conference papers,
discussion panels or formal CE workshops in some mixture to be determined as more information
is made available.
Linda Collins
Mesa Community College
Understanding the Computer Literacy needs for Arizona High School Teachers
For this summer project, we will research and explore the computer literacy needs of the Arizona high school community statewide. According to information we received from the Business Education State Supervisor, Arizona Department of Education, Arizona high schools need to better prepare and validate student’s fundamental computer skills. Although most high school age students have experienced and used computers to a certain degree, many are still lacking fundamental computer skills that will prepare them for college or the workforce. We plan to work with high school administrators and faculty to discuss their ideas for better preparing their students and how the community college can participate and assist in meeting their goals.
Karen Ann Conzelman
Glendale Community College
Coaching as a Model for Motivating Students: What can classroom teachers learn from athletics?
I had the pleasure of interviewing many of GCC's athletic coaches as well as several personal trainers, aerobics instructors, former college athletes, and youth sports coaches over the course of the summer about their experiences with coaches (since most were former student/professional athletes), learning to coach, and coaching itself. I also had the opportunity to watch several of these individuals (and their assistants) interact with their teams during summer camps, classes and clinics, as well as to interview a few of the athletes. I found all these individuals incredibly open and willing to share their experiences; in fact, most seemed delighted to have their expertise acknowledged in this manner. I also gleaned some information from reading books and articles on sports psychology.
While the outcomes were not totally unexpected, I did find that seeing the teaching/learning process from a different (physical) perspective gave me new insights. If one thinks about learning to so something like play golf as opposed to learning biology, a whole new vantage point becomes available. This project heightened my awareness of the importance of the following to the teaching/learning process (and also raised a number of questions for me, a sampling of which I have included below):
* TIMELY and MEANINGFUL feedback. Modification and adjustment of behavior can only happen if one knows one is not "doing it right." Sometimes that awareness is intrinsically apparent (e.g., the throw misses the receiver) but not always. Left uncorrected such practices can become ingrained and difficult to correct. (In the classroom, how can I give students more immediate and personalized feedback? does marking something wrong on a test or quiz help a student to understand how to find the right answer? how can I help students to know that they have figured things out correctly on problem sets and study guides without just giving them the answers and thereby facilitating passive behavior?)
* encouraging learners to set GOALS as well as ACTION PLANS to accomplish them. This is a regular practice among sports teams but something I think most classroom teachers assume that students do on their own and consequently don't incorporate it into their instruction. In reality, I think many of our students have very general goals (e.g., to become a nurse or to get an A in a BIO class) but I would assert that most cannot break those broad goals into the steps necessary to achieve them, much less translate those short term goals into concrete actions. Is it any wonder so many do not seem to have a clue how to be successful in our classes?
* breaking new concepts down to the learner's level and building from there. (How would any of us feel about learning something new if we experienced nothing but failure despite our efforts? Yet this is exactly the experience of some of our students. Is it any wonder that these struggling students lose motivation, quit trying and ultimately withdraw? How can I help all students to feel some measure of success in my classroom and still maintain course content standards?)
* being recognized as an INDIVIDUAL in a supportive and personalized way. (How can I help students to feel like I am paying attention and care about their individual success? how can I foster more of a mentoring relationship with students?)
* learner must BELIEVE that you have something to teach them and/or that you can help them to achieve their goals. This comes in part from reputation/culture (e.g., winning team history) and in part from showing them that what you are teaching them works. The latter requires that your instructional practices (athletic drills) are, in fact, effective and that students do see recognizable improvement when they "do what you say."
I think many of us in the classroom make assumptions about what students are doing autonomously based on generalizations derived from our own personal histories. We need to remember that many contemporary students, particularly those at the community college, are not like we were. Many have not developed the skill set necessary to carry out these practices independently. These students need more directed guidance to learn how to do these things and then to assimilate these important learning skills into their personal practices.
While coaching and classroom teaching do share a tremendous amount in common, there are some differences that do distinguish the processes.
For one thing, most athletes (particularly by the time they reach the collegiate level) love their sport and bring a tremendous amount of intrinsic motivation to the practice and playing field. This is not always true for college students; certain college courses can be perceived as impeding rather than facilitating the achievement of students' goals. Also, because of the long term nature of most coaching relationships (lasting at least a year), there is a level of intimacy in the relationship between athlete and coach that is not possible (or perhaps even desirable) in the classroom. And while both coaches and teachers are both regarded to some degree as the athlete/student's advocate, ultimately a teacher acquires an adversarial role in students' minds as we are perceived as the one who determine their success or failure by administering and evaluating exams. Coaches and athletes, on the other hand, are united in their desire to defeat a common foe (another team). Thus even though they can be confrontational and punitive with players, coaches are ultimately regarded as being "on their side."
While these differences do distinguish the nature of these two relationships to some degree, the parallels noted above made this intellectual inquiry very worthwhile for me.
Final Report More Details in MLX
Trey Cox
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
The Investigation of a Professional Learning Community for Mathematics Instructors
This project will describe the experiences of math teachers in a professional learning community (as defined later in this document). It will consist of analyzing audiotapes of each learning community meeting, clinical interview transcripts, and the written work that the teachers completed. The focus of the analysis will be on the ways in which the professional learning community impacted the participants' mathematical content knowledge, teaching methods, and beliefs about the nature of mathematics. Additionally, the data will be analyzed with an eye toward making improvements to the professional learning community structure so that the implementation of future iterations will be even more successful.
Trey Cox, facilitator of the community, will analyze the data at CGCC and submit a proposal to national mathematics conferences to present the results of the analysis. The analysis and writing will span approximately 7 weeks from 5/26/04 to 6/30/04 and 7/1/04 to 7/12/04.
Marilyn Cristiano
Paradise Valley Community College
Learning iLife04 Software (iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, GargageBand, and iDVD)
I plan to learn to use the new iLife04 software (iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, GargageBand, and iDVD) to take my use of multi-media to teach COM 225 (Public Speaking) to a new level. I plan to learn to use this software program at home on my G4 Macintosh computer. I will use the iLife04 program help modules and tutorials, the Learning iLife CD-ROM Video program with Garrick Chow and published by Lynda.com, and the
iLife04 web sites to learn the how to use the program. I own a ZR10 Camcorder and a Sony DSC-P010 digital camera that I can use to practice with the software program. I plan to learn this program in 128 hours from May 17, 2004, through June 9, 2004. I plan to use my new skills to teach COM 225 more effectively and efficiently by using state of the art multimedia. I will learn how to use photos, music, and video to enhance my lectures, and as a consequence, I will be able to inform students on the endless possibilities of incorporating multimedia into public speeches. Should I receive this summer project, I have been asked by Chrystle Hall (PVCC’s technology trainer) to share my learning with my colleagues.
Pam Davenport
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project for MCCD Faculty
This summer ASU will offer a Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project (GPAWP) class just for MCCD instructors. This class will focus not only on teaching writing in college composition courses, but also on using “writing to learn” in various academic disciplines. As a veteran of GPAWP, I will participate in this class and will help facilitate the activities. Planning will take place at ASU May 17, 18, 19, 24, and 25 and the class June 1-24, Monday-Thursday. We will meet each day from 8:30-11:30am, and in the afternoon I will continue to meet with the other leaders of the group to plan and evaluate activities, as well as complete research as needed. (We will work over the lunch hour.)
Anne Dudley
Glendale Community College
Maple Experience
The intent of this summer project is for faculty from throughout the District to update skills with the new version of Maple (Maple 9), Maplets, and MapleNET Computer Algebra System (CAS) software. We will develop these skills by creating activities for students and classroom demonstrations for math classes from Introductory Algebra through Differential Equations. This will be accomplished through workshop training sessions on Maple (by experts), individual work learning Maple by developing activities, and group sharing of our findings. The workshops will be offered at one of the MCCD campuses in early June, individual learning will take place in June and July, and collaboration and refinement will occur in late July and August.
Michelle Dyer-Hurdon
Phoenix College
Web skills development: Dreamweaver, W3C specifications, and cascading style sheets.
I am currently the web manager for the PC Library’s web site. I will also be teaching a WebCT class in the fall. It is important that the library’s web site is well designed and compliant with current web standards. I have basic web design skills, but I would like an opportunity to further develop these skills using Dreamweaver, and at the same time increase my knowledge of cascading style sheets and the current web specifications developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). I plan on spending three weeks reading background information, completing online tutorials, and experimenting with what I have learned. I will complete the work mainly from my home office.
John Ellis
Scottsdale Community College
Educational Travel through Peru and Bolivia
I spent three weeks traveling in Peru and Bolivia visiting significant cultural, natural, archaeological and historical sites. It was important to visit them first hand, particularly the unique areas of Nazca and Cuzco in Peru and Potosi and Sucre in Bolivia, as these are regions that feature prominently in the cultural components of the Spanish 101-202 courses I teach. I was also able to practice my Spanish intensively.
Final Report More Details in MLX
Geoffrey Eroe
Phoenix College
Learning 3D Studio Max computer software
The purpose of this project is to learn the computer software 3D Studio Max., the premiere software in the design industry for animation and rendering. This software will be used eventually in the Architectural Animation, DFT 262 which I teach and I will be using it for rendering and animating stage designs for the John Paul Theatre, Phoenix College. I have a grant copy of the software and will be learning the software on my home computer. Timeline is approximately 135 hours over Summer I and Summer II.
Ann Ewing
Mesa Community College
2004 American Psychological Association 112th Annual Convention and Invited Presentation
I would like to attend the 2004 Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) that will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from July 28 through August 1, 2004. This is the largest psychology convention in the world and draws outstanding speakers who present cutting edge research from all areas of psychology. It provides a wonderful opportunity to meet, hear, and interact with the leaders in my academic field. In addition to attending sessions eight hours per day and learning much new information at this convention, I will be presenting an invited address (The Ruth Hubbard Cousins Distinguished Lecture). I will also present a paper on getting students involved in research, and I will chair a third session on outcomes assessment.
Peter Facciola
South Mountain Community College
Developing Creative Thinking Using Software in Teaching and Faculty Work
Creative thinking is a boon in my teaching fields of communication, conflict management, and education. IdeaFisher is a software creativity tool. IdeaFisher helps users access and shape information in their heads to define problems, brainstorm creative ideas, generate solutions, organize information, and evaluate choices. The purpose of this project is for me to learn to use IdeaFisher in my teaching and faculty responsibilities. I will learn the operation of the software, complete several tutorials, apply the software to examples of my professional situations, and conduct additional reading on creative thinking in teaching. Thus, I will become a more creative and effective teacher and faculty member. I will conduct this project in Phoenix between May 17 and June 14, 2004.
William Farrar
Estrella Mountain Community College
Archetypes and Cultural Diversity in the Literature of Southwest Borderlands
The concept of archetypes, which was first elaborated by the psychologist Carl Jung, has been influential in creating cross-disciplinary connections between such diverse fields as psychology, mythology, literary criticism, cultural anthropology, and religious studies. However, the relationship of his work to the motifs found in Southwestern literature, primarily literature of people living between cultures in the Southwest borderlands has not been well studied. The goal of my summer project is to deepen this research by gaining first-hand knowledge of Jung’s theory of archetypes and examining its relationship to the motifs found in Southwestern literature. This project, which will be completed in the Phoenix area from July 1 to July 29, will be documented using active journaling to create a reference document.
Doug Ferguson
South Mountain Community College
Researching The Causes And Symptoms Of Male Menopause
The three and a half week project is designed to gather research information on the causes and symptoms of male menopause, which will include hormonal, physical, psychological, and sexual components.In the United States there are 25,172,000 men between the ages of forty and fifty-five who are now going through the male menopause phase.The research information will be gathered by previewing websites related to male menopause. The project will also include researching articles and books at the ASU and NAU College Libraries along with a survey questionnaire submitted to men identified with male menopause..The information from notes, surveys, and data generated from research will be compiled for a list of causes and symptoms related to male menopause.
Yvette Garcia
GateWay Community College
ENG 594 The Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project for Maricopa Community College Teachers
In June, I participated in the Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project (ENG 594) at ASU, along with public school teachers and faculty from MCCCD. The group of us from MCCCD broke off from the large group in order to have more relevant sharing of information. We spent time each day writing and sharing ideas that would be valuable to our students. Each of us presented and “taught” a lesson in our own discipline for our colleagues, and handouts and various materials were provided with each lesson. In addition, we wrote public pieces (which we began in our journals) each week which we shared with the entire class; sharing consisted of reading aloud our finished pieces and providing copies for each classmate. Before sharing with the large group, the Maricopans met in smaller groups for peer editing suggestions, so that we could revise and rewrite our pieces until they were polished and ready for “publication.” The topics about which we wrote follow:
• Book reviews and critiques
• Beginning and Ending Personal Reflections on Teaching
• Reflections on My Name
• I Remember Poem
• Word Photo
• Small Joys, Little Blessings & Great Gifts in My Teaching Life
It was a personally and professionally invaluable, energizing experience.
Final Report More Details in MLX
Terry Grygiel
Paradise Valley Community College
Increasing My Knowledge of Graphing Calculators
My knowledge of graphing calculators is limited and, quite frankly, very rusty. I want to use this project as an opportunity to refresh and to expand my knowledge of graphing calculators.
I will be working at home with a TI-83 Plus graphing calculator, the same kind of calculator now used by our students in College Algebra (Mat 151) and classes beyond College Algebra. I will be using a manual provided by Texas instruments and will download some applications from Texas Instrument’s web site. This project will take twelve days to complete.
Yi Guo
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
China-US Conference on Community Colleges in Beijing
In this project, I will first research and summarize science education practices in community colleges with emphasis on chemistry (5/17 ~ 6/7, utilizing ASU Noble Library and Internet resources). I hope to find what the focuses have been and how they may change to better meet student needs. Then, I will present my findings at the China-US conference on community colleges (7/5~7/8, Beijing). The conference purpose is to develop understanding and promote partnerships among US and Chinese counterparts. By sharing my findings on science (chemistry) education in the community colleges and participate in the conference activities I will have many opportunities to exchange ideas, best practices with both US and Chinese colleagues and to explore global professional interaction possibilities.
RaNae Healy
GateWay Community College
Strategies for Empowering Students
Strategies for Empowering Students Project involves a workshop. The "On Course I Workshop" is a highly experiential retreat designed to provide dozens of powerful strategies for helping students become active, responsible learners. This is a workshop designed for all college and university educators who want to help students become active, responsible, and successful learners. The workshop will take place in Marriottsville, MD from May 23-26, 2004. The price includes registration for the 4-day workshop, 3 nights' lodging, nine meals, and all workshop supplies. The only aditional cost is travel.
Darby Heath
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Brain Research Training
This summer project comprehensively examines the applicability of brain research to life-long learning. The project includes (1) preparation prior to the conference: reading, annotating and responding to four required books; (2) attending the conference, “Brain Research Training for Trainers,” July 19-22, 2004 in Napa Valley, CA; and (3) an informal presentation to CGC faculty in the fall of 2004. My research interest is to link biological and neurological brain research (hard science) to the anecdotal knowledge we as instructors share and experience when our students are actively engaged and real learning is taking place. This conference is an extension of the material Dr. Pat Wolfe presented at the MCLI Dialogue Day (Brain Matters: Translating Research to Classroom Practice) Sept. 19, 2003.
Heather Horn
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Assessment 2004: Raising Standards in Formative and Summative Assessment
My paper “Beyond Intuition: Examining the Effectiveness of Compressed Writing Classes Via Formative Program Assessment,” co-authored with Professor Susan McLeod of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been accepted for presentation at Assessment 2004: Raising Standards in Formative and Summative Assessment. This conference will take place June 23-25 in Bergen, Norway. Attending the event--which is sponsored by the University of Bergen, Northumbria University (U.K.), and EARLI, the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction--will further my professional growth in the field of assessment. I will use the feedback I receive from our presentation to design measures of student learning in a compressed one-semester sequence of WAC101 and ENG101, which I will teach at Chandler-Gilbert during Fall 2004, and in two non-compressed sequences of the courses.
Suzy Horton
Mesa Community College
American Psychological Association Conference
From July 28 to August 1 I attended the American Psychological Association’s annual conference in Honolulu. For approximately 6 hours a day I attended a variety of presentations, seminars, workshops, film presentations, and award ceremonies. I had several goals in mind. First, I concentrated on improving my teaching. I attended several presentations and workshops: Models and Exemplars of Scholarship in the Teaching of Psychology; The Joy of Teaching; and Tools and Resources for College Teaching, Teaching for Passion or Passion for Teaching, to name a few. Second on my agenda was to learn something brand new to share with my students. I attended several talks bridging neuroscience and psychology. I also attended two symposia on Evolutionary Psychology – a growing and controversial subfield. Another goal is to hear famous psychologists talk about their work. I heard Phil Zimbardo talk about fear and terrorism. I heard Diane Halpern talk about combining family and work issues. I especially enjoyed hearing a panel discussion of legendary developmental psychologists discuss the “day care scare”. Albert Bandura received the lifetime achievement award. Two top researchers in the field of sleep research gave excellent talks and I learned about some good reference books on the subject. And some top researchers argued, in town hall style, about issues related to love, sex, and marriage. Another goal was to support colleagues and students. Several students from Glendale CC presented and it was useful to network with some of my Glendale colleagues. I enjoyed the stimulating talks by Ann Ewing and Gayla Preisser, two MCC colleagues. My final goal was to check out new books, films, and teaching materials. National conferences are always goldmines for these materials.
Final Report More Details in MLX
Charles Hulihan
Glendale Community College
The Rischel&Birket-Smith Collection of Guitar Music
This project will be an in depth study of the Rischel & Birket-Smith Collection in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, a major source of 19th century guitar music. It will involve assessing the collection, identifying both major works and unknown scores, developing a database of the 1,000+ scores, and classifying and learning selected works. The end result will be a greatly enlarged repertoire of 19th century scores to include methods, exercises, studies, and large compositions written by composers from Spain, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and many other countries. The main goal of the project is to gain a familiarity with this collection and be able to share it with students, utilize manuscript resources in presentation and practice, and encourage musicological research.
Sally Jacobs
Scottsdale Community College
Learning about Learning Communities
I will learn about Learning Communities (LC) through reading books and articles, consulting with experienced LC educators in the field, watching videos about LC, and observing LC classrooms in action. I will be based at SCC from May 24 to July 29 (with the exception of several days when I will drive to CGCC for classroom observations and meetings). My objective is to gain deep understanding about the philosophy and principles of LC. In addition, I want to become knowledgeable about the practical implementation issues surrounding LC. My goal is to develop a strong professional foundation so that I can start a LC elementary algebra MAT090 class in Fall 2004.
Deborah Kappes
Phoenix College
Learning Periodontal Instrumentation Teaching Methodology
This project involves attending an intensive 3-day hands-on workshop to learn periodontal instrumentation teaching methodology. This workshop is conducted by faculty who uses these methods and has made contributions to the text book I currently use in teaching dental hygiene instrumentation. Beyond the 3 day workshop, I plan to spend an additional day to compile notes, reflect upon the experience, and plan how to share my experience with other clinical faculty.
Lucia M. Kisiel
Phoenix College
AMATYC (American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges) Summer Institute
Final Report More Details in MLX
Sujatha Krishnaswamy
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Frontiers in Organic Chemistry
“Frontiers in Organic Chemistry” is a rigorous organic chemistry workshop and was presented by teachers and researchers. This workshop was held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA from June 21-26, 2004. The six day workshop covered topics such as atom economy in organic reactions, novel organic reactions and mechanisms, combinatorial chemistry, library design, computations, and molecular modeling. I gained knowledge in these current topics of organic chemistry and also obtained an extensive bibliography in various topics. I am in the process of organizing this newly obtained information into categories that more closely resemble the course compentencies of CHM235 and CHM236 organic chemistry courses. My ultimate goal is to publish this as a source of reference to both students and instructors on the CGCC chemistry website.
Final Report More Details in MLX
Brenda Larson
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Anytown USA--Experiential Learning in Cultural Diversity
Anytown USA, sponsored by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), is a week-long cultural diversity experience in Prescott. It is held during various weeks in July. (I have not been assigned to a specific week yet.) Anytown is “dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry, and racism in America as well as promoting understanding and respect among all races, religions, and cultures through advocacy, conflict resolution, and education.” The people who attend are 15-18 year old high school students, from various racial, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The NCCJ’s goals and objectives are very similar to those in a class that I teach, Cultural Diversity in Education. I would be attending as an advisor/leader.
Pat Lokey
Scottsdale Community College
Harvard Graduate School of Education Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians
My project is to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians in Cambridge, MA, August 8-13, 2004. This institute is specifically designed to help academic library directors increase their capacity to lead and manage. It is a unique opportunity to engage in a lively, interactive environment with library administrators to develop new perspectives on effective leadership in academic institutions. For six highly-intensive days of study, interacting, and attending classes, I will be evaluating how well-positioned Scottsdale Community College Library is to meet current and future challenges and the effectiveness of my own leadership.
Bill Lyon
Paradise Valley Community College
Critical Thinking: Research into a Problem-Solving Paradigm in the Social Sciences
For my summer project I will research the literature that deals with the construction and application of critical thinking in the social sciences. Specifically, my study will focus on identifying and learning (an) effective problem-solving technique(s)that can be employed when attempting to comprehend, assess, and ultimately generate solutions for, social concerns/claims. My investigative research will be conducted at Paradise Valley Community College and Arizona State University-West, as well as the Maricopa County and Burton Barr Central libraries. The project will take place beginning May 24, 2004 and conclude on June 14, 2004.
Ken Macleish
Glendale Community College
Increasing C# and .NET expertise to prepare for the future of Computer Science
My project (increasing expertise in C# and .NET) took place during Summer II, 2004. I attended a Microsoft Webcast entitled "C# for College Faculty" and engaged in study of specific advanced areas in C# and .NET, including database access, web services, web protocols, and security issues. C#/.NET is expected to become an industry and academic standard in Computer Science. The knowledge learned will be of great value to CS students as well as to my own professional growth.
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Susan Malmo
Estrella Mountain Community College
Learning to Create Self-Paced Online and Electronic Modules on Writing
To learn more about online writing resources for college students and to increase my technical skills so that I can create helpful, online writing resources for Estrella Mountain students, I plan to research the online resources available through other colleges' writing center web sites and then work to develop my technical skills (learning FrontPage and exploring Adobe Premiere and CD creation software) to the point that I would be able to design and develop electronic modules that would use text, graphics, sound, and video to support learning by walking students through the steps of various writing situations.
This project could be completed on campus, using the Internet and available on-campus technological resources, in five weeks--May 17 - June 16.
Marybeth Mason
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Attending the 17th Annual International Conference on the First-Year Experience June 14-17, 2004
If my conference session proposal is accepted, I, along with my co-presenter Brenda Larson, will be attending and presenting at the 17th Annual International Conference on the First-Year Experience, June 14-17, 2000, in Maui, Hawaii. The president of our college, Maria Hesse, suggested that we submit a proposal and attend because we both teach in multi-disciplinary first-year experience learning communities, and our president supports having Maricopa and Chandler-Gilbert Community College represented on the conference program to both share information and to learn. I teach two year-long multi-disciplinary first-year learning communities, one entitled “Creating Community in a Changing World,” and the other, “Finding Our Histories, Finding Ourselves.” I am requesting an hourly stipend of $600.21.
Robin McCord
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Environmental Physics Enquiry: Research and Pedagogical Methodologies Here and Abroad
This summer project was designed to examine the implications of the approaching deadline European Union (EU) countries are facing to implement new higher education reforms and what the implications for MCCCD/CGCC might be. The goals were accomplished although the unanticipated spring referendums of some EU countries, forced a reconsideration of the true progress of the EUs Bologna Process and its support and acceptance by the European community.
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Anne McNamara
Rio Salado College
To attend the 2004 ANA Biennial Convention
Attending the ANA convention exceeded my expectations. As a representative of the nursing profession from Arizona, I attended two different business meetings; the Center for American Nursing (CAN) and the American Nurses Association House of Delegates. I was one of two delegates to the CAN meeting and one of six delegates to the ANA House of Delegates meeting.
It is at these meetings that policy is set for the profession of nursing in the areas of standards of practice, code of ethics, and the national social policy statement. It was a powerful experience to be part of the decision making process.
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Cate McNamara
District Office
Learning the Integrated Library System
An Integrated Library System (ILS) consists of many modules that operate and perform various library-related tasks. Additionally, the system interfaces with other Maricopa systems such as the student and fiscal systems. The purpose of this summer project was to learn some of the vital capabilities and additional modules that would impact the Library’s ability to serve its campus community. The Integrated Library System serves all ten (10) Maricopa Community College Libraries. Implementation of this new system occurred May 20, 2004.
Because the ILS system contains a variety of different modules that perform certain tasks, the group defined important and new modules within the system to learn and developed five (5) specific objectives. Each of the three group members worked on their designated objectives during different periods over the summer and at different locations. These locations included our homes, offices on campus, and the Library Media Center on the Glendale campus.
Cate, David, and Dianna all participated in Objective 1; Learn the Circulation module. Cate and David learned Objective 2; Learn the Cataloging Module. Cate learned Objective 3; Dynix Launcher software. David learned Objective 5; Reserve Bookroom module.
The original proposal was amended for Dianna Dwyer, therefore Objective 4 was omitted.
The group found that learning these modules was essential to the transition of systems. This transition was enhanced by our new collective knowledge and experience gained through this summer project.
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Susan Miller-Cochran
Mesa Community College
Designing Effective Instructional Technology for Second Language Writers
This project helped me improve my use of instructional technology with English as a Second Language (ESL) students. My project involved three interrelated activities: attending the Computers and Writing 2004 conference from June 10-13 in Honolulu, Hawaii; attending two workshops at Arizona State University's Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence from June 21-25; and conducting research on usability based on the information I learned from the conference and workshops. Originally I had planned to design and conduct a usability study, but I learned at the conference and through the workshops that I needed to conduct further research instead and that a usability study might be an extension of my project to pursue later.
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Regi Munro
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
American College of Sports Medicine 2004 Annual Meeting
The purpose of this summer project was to attend the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) annual 2004 meeting. This conference took place from 6/02/04 to 6/05/04 in Indianapolis, IN. This conference presented the most recent research findings in the exercise & wellness field with special emphasis placed on physical activity and its impact on health and well being including cardiovascular disease, obesity, mental health, and musculoskeletal injuries. I found these topics to be very appropriate for the wellness curriculum in which I teach. As one of the faculty representatives for EBAC it is important that I stay current on health related issues which most significantly impact our faculty. Further, as the representative for Chandler-Gilbert on Wellness Maricopa, it is important to not only stay current in these topics, but also increase my knowledge on intervention strategies. Finally, the networking aspect fosters an environment for discussion & innovative thinking which in turn impacts teaching, student learning, & contribution to improving workplace climate.
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Kathleen Murphy
GateWay Community College
Summer Project: Learning About Digital Information and Imaging Systems at Maricopa Medical Center
Diagnostic Medical Imaging (DMI) today is creating patient images in digital format. Now it is imperative to master the skills required for all imaging personnel who acquire patient information in electronic format. There are new restrictions on release of sensitive patient information because of new privacy guidelines per the Health Insurance Accountability & Portability Act (HIPAA). I am proposing to work on this project for seven weeks this summer in the Diagnostic Imaging Department at Maricopa Integrated Health System. I will train and work with their Patient Archiving System (PACS) obtaining a variety of HIPAA compliant case studies integrating all areas of imaging: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Diagnostic Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Mammography.
Mark Nielsen
South Mountain Community College
Fundamentals of Cisco Networking lab exploration
My project was a study of the basic configuration skills needed by Cisco Certified Networking Associates (CCNA) - specifically familiarizing myself with the labs in the new Cisco sponsored curriculum (version 3.0). During the eleven weeks of my project I completed all the required labs for each of the four core CCNAv3 courses (CNT140, CNT 150, CNT 160 and CNT170) offered at South Mountain Community College.
Many of the labs could be completed from my home as I have the ability to telnet into six routers and two switches. However, several of the labs (specifically those dealing with the cable testers and the LinkRunner) required my presence in BE132 (the CCNA lab at SMC) because of the equipment involved.
The projected spanned approximately 11 weeks (two weeks more than I originally anticipated.)
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Joseph Ortiz
Scottsdale Community College
Formation Principles and Practices Retreat
This project involves attendance and participation in the Courage to Teach Formation and Principles Retreat. It is a five day experience to be held in Seattle, Washington this summer. The experience stems from the work of Parker Palmer, and provides an opportunity to reflect on professional identity and practices as they intersect in the work that we do as teachers. A mix of small group and large group sessions are structured across the five day retreat.
Larry Pesta
Estrella Mountain Community College
Becoming an Expert Using Mac OSX and iApplications (iLife)
The goal of this project is to become an expert user of MAC OSX Panther (system software) and the iLife Applications (which include multimedia applications such as iMovie and iTunes) now closely associated with it. I will be using various computer texts to support my learning and my own personal copy of the software.
I will be engaged in this project during May and June of 2004 in my home in Avondale, Arizona. After I have acquired this skill, I will be able to effectively use this system software (and associated software applications) in Estrella's new wireless iBook equipped classrooms. I will be able to include more technology in my instruction, assist students with their challenges in using their iBooks, and be more creative in my classroom presentations by incorporating multimedia.
B. Petterson
Phoenix College
Assembly on Education Symposium
The annual Assembly on Education (AOE) meeting of the American Health Information Management Association will be held in Chicago, Illinois, June 28-30, 2004. In conjuction with that meeting, special hands-on application computer training entitled "Healthcare Data Analytics" will take place on June 26th and 27th. This project involves attending the four and a half days of the two events and preparation for them by reading pertinent currrent journal articles.
Sian Proctor
South Mountain Community College
NASA Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program
The NASA Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program is a summer research traineeship for college science students. This program also allows for faculty members to be project counselors. I have applied and was accepted to be a counselor for this year's summer program. The program last for 8 weeks (June 1st-July 22nd) and is located at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the first time a faculty member from SMCC or even MCCD has been accepted to the counselor position. The role of the counselor is to assist the NASA scientist with working with the trainees in understanding scientific concepts and doing laboratory projects. This is an excellent opportunity for me to research real scientists and the impact they have on students. I want to use this experience to document how NASA scientists are evaluating the impact of Kennedy Space Center on the local ecology.
Pushpa Ramakrishna
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Comparative Genomics
For my summer project, I would like to learn more about biotechnology, specifically in the area of comparative genomics. I would like to conduct research at a biotechnology company called Translational Genomics (TGen), learn more about data analysis and apply it to genomic databases. My goal is to learn more about biotechnology in two ways
• Work at a state of the art research lab called TGen to do research on comparative genomics.
• Take a course at Arizona State University to extend my knowledge about data analysis and how to interpret data from the huge genomic databases. This class is an eight week summer class from June 1st to July 23rd, 2004.
I will summarize all the activities and share with faculty from my division and other colleges in our district.
Tina Rangel
Mesa Community College
Diversity Awareness through Dance (DAD)
My summer project proposal is to gather information from local ethnic groups about their culture's history, traditions and values surrounding dance. I plan to spend one third of my time researching the information through books, journals and videotapes. I will spend two thirds of my time doing field research with the Native American, Irish, Scottish, Chinese, Japanese, Polynesian and Mexican people throughout the valley. I will also travel to Mexico City to meet with teachers and dancers who preserve and perform folkloric dances. I will use theoretical and hands on approaches to gathering this information. Some of my experiences will include observing and participating in various dance classes, as well as interviewing directors, choreographers and dancers. I will keep a written and video log of my experiences to share at a later date.
Sally Rings
Paradise Valley Community College
Learning Communities and Undergraduate Education Reform: A National Conference
This national Learning Communities was held in Seattle, WA, from May 20-22, 2004. Our team attended in order to gain knowledge that would help us in strengthening our Learning Communities program. Specifically, we gained in our understanding of assessing LCs, expanding faculty development for LCs, developing LCs for underprepared students, developing LCs that include math, marketing LCs, and sustaining LCs.
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Joan Ritsch
Paradise Valley Community College
Hand Made Paper Workshop
The most universally used art material in the world is paper. As an artist and educator I use papers for writing, drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpting. The only thing I have never experienced doing with paper is making it. This one-week workshop at "The Clearing" in Wisconsin is focused on creating handmade paper using the western method of sheet formation. Along with making handmade paper the workshop includes learning advanced techniques applied to papers such as paper embossing, embellishing, laminating, double dipping, painting with pulp, molding, and using recycled papers. In addition there will be reviews of current handmade paper trends and videos on papermaking, visits to local art galleries, and meeting and discussing paper arts with other artists.
Rochelle Rodrigo
Mesa Community College
What is IT anyway? Summer Internship with IT
For five weeks at the beginning of the summer, 5/24-6/24, I will intern with the Instructional Technology (IT) department at Mesa Community College. Better understanding of instructional technology and the IT department will help me to better facilitate dialogue between faculty and IT staff about technology and better construct technological learning tools. During the internship I will work with the following IT areas: networking, systems and security, institutional web design, helpdesk, and databases/special projects. During the proposed five week internship, I will spend approximately a week with each main department. In each department I will shadow individuals as they work, research and read up on current issues and technologies, and potentially have some hands-on training by working on current projects.
Pamela Rogers
Phoenix College
Sudanese Language Research
For my summer project, I will research the first language learning process of the native Southern Sudan people. This investigation will occur via educational and cultural online university data bases, and reference materials, through personal interviews with Phoenix College English as Second Language (ESL) students, a visit to the Phoenix Sudan Cultural Center and the Betania Community Center, with the online communication with Joann Kozyrev from the University of Arizona.The research will focus on how the Southern Sudan population learns to read, write, and communicate orally (the literacy rate nationally is only 20-27%). This intensive study will extend from July 13-Aug.13 on the PC campus, at ASU, and at the community cultural centers in Phoenix.
Lois Roma-Deeley
Paradise Valley Community College
Postgraduate Writers' Conference
The purpose of this project was to attend the 9th Annual Postgraduate Writers' conference from August 11-17, 2004 . My goal was to upgrade my knowledge and skills in creative writing with a specific emphasis in the manuscript arrangement process as well as my knowledge of poetry and the American experience in Viet Nam. The skills involved in the manuscript process aresimilar to those used in arranging music. I learned how to arrange to the following elements found among and between poems/essays/chapters: theme, transitions/juxapositons, tone, structure and symbolism with the final purpose of creating a finished creative piece--a unified, coherent book. Further, this was rare opportunity to upgrade my knowledge as I believe this may be the only postgraduate creative writing conference in the country. My objective was met: to gain new knowledge through research/participation in the manuscript arrangement process, issues and forums, master classes, readings and conferences. Moreover, I received my MFA in creative writing in 1988 and my Ph.D. in creative writing in 2000 and, in both degree programs, the opportunity to learn about manuscript arrangement was not an option.There were simply no classes on the subject. Indeed, I have never attended any lecture, seminar or conference--credited class or professional activity--in which I had the opportunity to learn and apply the skills, techniques, craft and art of manuscript arrangement. Also, my research into the poetry that arises out of the American experience in Viet Nam keeps me current in my discipline regarding this little visited area of American contemporary literature. My research into contemporary poetry written by Ruefle, Goldberg and Weingradtern keeps me current in my field and assist with various campus and district events where I must recommend various poets for district judging and/or campus functions.
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Ann Roselle
Phoenix College
Participation at the 2004 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference
The ALA Annual Conference is being held in Orlando, FL from June 24-30, 2004. I plan on attending from June 25 through June 28. This is the largest national conference for librarians. Thousands of programs of importance to academic librarians will take place at this conference, which will help me keep abreast of new developments in the field. In addition, I have been appointed to two national library committees, which meet at this conference. I also plan on attending a special session on Project SAILS, a standardized test that PC will be using for assessing information literacy campus-wide.
Elizabeth Saliba
Phoenix College
Researching computer assisted instruction (online tutorials) and cognitive learning
I spent four hours daily at home from May 24 - June 25, 2004 researching and reading articles and books on effective characteristics of computer assisted instruction. I spent the first few days researching materials, then obtaining them through district library databases and Interlibrary Loan. As best I could, I organized the material by subject, reading those on effective design first, next learning style and computer assisted instruction, assessment, and finally the effectiveness of information literacy online tutorials. However, in reading the material, I would often want to order another article referenced in the work. This could take some time through Interlibrary Loan, so the final week, I read a mix of these referenced articles on the different subtopics of my research.
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Mona Scott
Mesa Community College
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education
My summer project involves attending the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) held in Miami Beach, Florida from June 1-June 5, 2004. I attended the conference two years ago and by far it was the best conference I had ever attended because the conference included people and workshops that were of great interest to me in the field of race. I teach SOC 140 every semester and this conference helps me to add diversity to my class activities and content. I plan to attend workshops and institutes to learn more about the new theories and concepts within the area of race and ethnicity. I am also looking forward to engaging in dialogue with people who share my passion for educating others on issues of race. I believe attending the conference will add to my knowledge base and enhance my teaching of SOC 140, Racial and Ethnic Minorities and SOC 141, American Indian Sovereignty.
Marsha Segerberg
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Summer Neurobiology Research at Barrow Neurological Institute
The purpose of this project is to allow me to fully participate in ongoing neurobiological research at Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) in the laboratory of Dr. Ronald Lukas. BNI is a research institution affiliated with St.Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. Dr. Lukas is a Senior Staff Scientist at BNI, and Chairman of the Neurochemistry Division. My project will be of 4 weeks duration, from July 1 through July 30, 2004, although I am only requesting salary support through July 23. This work will extend and continue experiments I carried out during the last 5 summers at BNI, for which I received partial FPG funding. Briefly stated, these experiments will employ techniques in electrophysiology and molecular biology in cultured cells to examine the pharmacology of genetically modified acetylcholine receptors in these cells. In addition to carrying out experiments, I will also be attending laboratory meetings and journal clubs, and performing data analysis for publication of results.
Kirt Shineman
Glendale Community College
Public Speaking Digital Benchmarks
Public speaking is a course is aimed at anyone who needs to prepare and deliver workplace or public presentations. Assessing those speeches is an important part of teaching and learning. The communication faculty members who teach the basic public speaking course in communication at GCC have basically standardized learning outcomes based on the National Communication Association criteria for communicative competence (NCA, 2000). The students need access not only to the rubric of the grading assessments but also visual examples that they can access on the internet of these speeches. The following summer project proposal plans to digital video tape six speeches, three for informative speech assignment and three for the persuasive assignment, and identify which speech is a 5 (excellent) a 3 (proficient) and a 1 (poor) and the reasons for the rankings based on the standardized rubric. The videos will be housed at the GCC Foreign Language and Communication Web-Site and monitored by the Prof. Shineman. My project will extend from July 1 to the start of the fall 2004 semester.
Carlyn Sikes
Scottsdale Community College
The Art of Yoga
My summer project began in Los Angeles on June 25, 2004 and completed on August 8, 2004 in Boulder, Colorado. The beginning and ending dates were public workshops featuring a world class yoga instructor, Manouso Manos in Iyengar style hatha yoga. These workshops were included in the project to inspire in me a more disciplined and fruitful home yoga practice, which was ultimately the main focus of my summer project. I chose the workshop in June to give me more material and information to implement in my home practice and chose the one at the end of summer as a way to test the effectiveness of the work I had done
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Scott Silberman
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association (APA)
I hope to attend the annual conference of the American Psychological Association (APA) in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 28th to August 1, 2004. I am a member of APA's Division #2 (The Teaching of Psychology). Historically, this division has served the needs of university professors far more than community college instructors since issues of incorporating one's research into teaching and preparing students for graduate school have typically been the main focal points. This year however, a group of community college instructors plan on holding formal meetings at this conference so that issues relevant to us can be discussed. Assuming an adequate representation, we hope to make this an annual tradition and thereby increase the presence of community colleges within APA.
Helen Smith
South Mountain Community College
Exploration of the Hybrid Pedagogical Style of Teaching with Developmental Mathematics Students
During the month of June, I researched the use of a web-based learning environment for teaching developmental mathematics students. Focusing on learning the features of Blackboard Enterprise 6.0, I took two courses online using Blackboard software: Integrating Technology in the Classroom Environment and A Crash Course on Online and Hybrid Teaching, Learning and Assessment. I utilized Maricopa District in-person training as well as printed training materials from Paradise Valley Community College, the Maricopa District and South Mountain Community College to further develop my facility with Blackboard Enterprise. Since I have used the Blackboard 5.5 version previously, I spent time analyzing the changes between this version and Blackboard 6.0 Enterprise. In addition, I spent over twenty hours studying aspects of Blackboard that I had not used before. As I explored Blackboard 6.0, I looked at the value of using it from the instructor’s viewpoint and then spent time analyzing the potential difficulties of using this methodology with re-entry students who may not have experience with computers and the use of the internet. Finally, the web sites of mathematical organizations as well as mathematics education sites were explored for their use with developmental students.
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Jon Storslee
Paradise Valley Community College
Creating a Super Computer using Grid / Clustering Networking Technology
Location: PVCC Computer Commons
Time span: June 20 -August 05 2004
Part one: I will create a network grid / cluster using obsolete computers. Clustering will give us the ability to turn useless computers into a super computer using Grid software. Once the cluster is complete, I want to find freeware that is usable for timeshare networking, high-energy physics research and computational chemistry.
Part two: I will find Chemistry and Physics programs capable of running on the virtual super computer.
Part three: I will investigate using the computers in the computer commons after hours. By using the commons computers, we could create a very powerful grid super computer while utilizing existing resources.
April Strom
Glendale Community College
Mathematical Affect: The impact on students' mathematical point of view and future career choices
Researchers in mathematics education have been interested in expanding their knowledge of how students’ mathematical affect relates to students’ mathematical development and how mathematical affect impacts student performance in various ways. With this phenomenon in mind, many questions remain to be answered. The purpose of this research was to answer the following questions:
1. What experiences have influenced adults’ affect toward mathematics (both positively and negatively)?
2. How have these experiences impacted students’ career choices?
Students from Gateway Community College were observed in a classroom activity, surveyed and interviewed to obtain knowledge of these research issues. The process of data gathering, coding, and analyzing to formulate answers to the research questions was completed in approximately six weeks.
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David Turkon
Glendale Community College
Surviving HIV/AIDS in Rural Lesotho, Southern Africa
Project included a literature review of HIV/AIDS research and intervention strategies in Africa. Also included an approximately two-week trip to Lesotho, southern Africa to survey the impace (33%+ infection rate) and to survey local research. Met with local researchers at National University of Lesotho to explore future research possibilities and options. Resarch upon return is ongoing in pursuit of funding for future research project and intervention.
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Sandra Wells
Phoenix College
Learning RoboDemo
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Lisa Will
Mesa Community College
American Astronomical Society Meeting and College Teaching Workshop
This summer project would allow me to attend the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Denver, CO, from May 30 - June 3, 2004. The meeting is preceded by a two-day “College Astronomy Teaching Workshop” on May 29 - 30, 2004. By attending this meeting, I will learn the latest astronomical discoveries and participate in sessions to enhance my ability to bring these discoveries to my students using the latest research in astronomy education.
Stephen Williams
Glendale Community College
Learning to implement two online student assessment systems.
First, the CPS System was studied and we learned how to use it in our classrooms. The CPS system uses a computer program to supply students specific questions during the lecture period. The students respond to the questions using a remote keypad. Their answers are recorded, and in real time we can tell how many students understand the content material currently being explained to them. Together, we produced learning objectives, lists of important terms, and various questions for every subject area covered during BIO 201. We became learned how to formulate the types that would be most beneficial to our interpretation of student understanding and comprehension of presented material. Second, we learned how to use and implement the a tracking process called the Grade Summit, which is an on-line testing system provided through McGraw-Hill Publishers. This system was much more difficult to manage and the on-line support was not very helpful. We spent more time trying to learn the logistics of this system and trying to implement it for use by our students. It took a lot of time to do this part of the project, because of the greater degree of complexity involved. We were involved with numerous communication with McGraw-Hill personnel trying to ‘iron out’ the bugs in the system. We are offering GradeSummit to our BIO 201 classes this Fall Semester, 2004, finished the assignment for Exam 1 and currently are giving our second on-line assignment. Once the bugs were ironed out, this system has received very positive feedback from our students.
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Dr. P.E. Zaccardo
Phoenix College
White Crane T'ai Chi/Chi Kung Workshop
I have been a practitioner of Taiji and Qi Gong for 13 years and of Kung Fu for 8 years. For the project, I studied Taiji, Qi Gong, and Chinese Medicine with Grandmaster RuHu Zhu (White Crane Kung Fu) in Chinatown, San Francisco for 2 ½ weeks. Each day for seven hours, we reviewed Taiji and Qi Gong forms to improve my mastery of them as well as to learn more about the mind/body connection to pass on to my students. I also learned new forms. In addition, Master Zhu taught me a new Taiji form specifically for the Phoenix College students, one which could be learned in one semester. I also worked with Master Zhu to practice more exercises for ASL (American Sign Language) students whose classes I sometimes visit at the request of the teacher to work on hand, arm, shoulder, and neck problems. I also learned cupping, headache massage, Qi Gong exercises for various ailments, and more about the art of relaxation.
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Sandy Zetlan
Estrella Mountain Community College
Biological Illustration: floral and faunal form
I spent 2 weeks in New York City completing botanical illustration classes at the New York Botanical Garden. I also read and competed exercises in drawing books, illustrated plants in the field, collected pressed specimens, examined and drew their parts. In the process I learned about floral anatomy, and how to present different scientific concepts in illustration. I now particularly understand that while drawing takes time, the hours spent greatly add to the understanding of form and function.
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