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| Start Date and Time | Event Details | Location |
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| 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM | Meet our Goats
FLEX # 109
Come on out to the Farm and learn more about the Butte College Goats. Meet at the Mechanized Ag Building before heading out to the Farm. Our goats provide amAzing learning opportunities for our Ag students. Let's share our ideas on how all students can learn from our goats. | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Batteries Included
FLEX # 106
Batteries are an indelible part of modern life; they’re everywhere. These simple power supplies are the result of over two centuries of theory, experimentation, and refinement. All batteries work using the same idea: combine two different metals together with an electrolytic solution. The creation of the first battery arose from an argument between two Italian scientists in the 1790s—Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta—about the correct cause for how a dead frog’s legs can be made to twitch. Batteries revolutionized the study of electricity since they provided scientists with reliable and continuous sources of electric current. Today, batteries can power virtually anything, from myriad handheld electronic devices to two-and-a-half-ton electric cars. This workshop will explain how batteries work. Attendees will also have the chance to build their own simple batteries using commonly available materials. We’ll also explore what the future may hold for these power supplies. No background is needed. | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | Connecting Students with Support Services
FLEX # 207
In this focus-group style workshop, we will cover on-campus and community resources available to students, staff, and faculty. You will learn about Student Success Services and resources related to student achievement and success, and best practices for effectively connecting students with services. Let’s discuss how we can dismantle barriers to students accessing services to facilitate their success. | |
| 9:00 AM - 11:20 AM | HR Orientation for New Full-time Faculty*
FLEX # 358
This new hire orientation will provide the new faculty employee information regarding contract, salary, evaluations, column movement, longevity, benefits, absences, leaves, worker’s compensation, as well as answering any other questions you may have concerning your new role. | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Safe Zone II
FLEX # 611
This training is a 2-hour opportunity to RENEW your Safe Zone placard, indicating your LGBTQIA+ allyship. This training is only open to those who have taken the initial Safe Zone I. In this workshop, the conversation and practices will be driven by what you are doing in your campus spaces to support queer students. You'll be asked to complete a self-evaluation and invited to deepen your understanding of the concepts from Safe Zone I: gender identity & expression, pronouns, queer history, intersectional identities, coming out, and tips for allyship. NOTE: If you haven't completed Safe Zone I, join us for that training in September! | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Academic Senate: New Senator Orientation*
FLEX # 900.1
Academic Senate President, Jess Vickery, will provide an orientation for new Academic Senate senators. | |
| 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Canvas Orientation Module for All Modalities
FLEX # 413
Now that many of us are back in F2F classes, what is the role of our Canvas Orientation Module? The AC ⚡DC (Adaptable Course Design Committee) is focused on how we can make all our courses adaptable and flexible, so our students can continue to learn during personal and community interruptions. How do we create an orientation module that engages students and sets them on the path to success, whether they are attending in person, or catching up online? We will focus on strategies that you can incorporate this semester and share several examples of orientation modules that you can adapt for your own courses. Please join us for a round table discussion to share successes, challenges and solutions. | |
| 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Deans, Directors & Chairs Summit*
FLEX # 359
Hosted by the Vice President of Instruction | |
| 11:00 AM - 12:50 PM | Ice Cores: Climate Change in Butte County
FLEX # 107
Researchers and scientists regularly head to the polar regions of the world (Greenland, Antarctica) to collect snow and ice core samples. Scientists use chemical instruments to measure the trace amounts of chemical species in these snow and ice samples to get a better understanding of the atmosphere in both the present and the past. Two-mile deep ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica allow scientists to peer back into the past, going back hundreds of thousands of years into the history of Earth’s atmosphere and climate. The knowledge of how the Earth’s atmosphere and climate have been linked in the past allows us to better understand how current changes to the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere will impact the global climate. Before coming to Butte, Dr. Tommy Cox worked in ice core research for more than a decade, with numerous ventures to both Greenland and the Antarctic. Join Dr. Cox as we follow him on a two-mile “time machine” to better understand the past in hopes of predicting our future climate – particularly as it applies to California’s current mega-drought and Butte County’s ever growing fire season. | |
| 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM | (Cancelled) CTA/CCA Benefits
FLEX # 360
This workshop will explain the many benefits available from being a CTA/CCA/BCEA member. You can get great savings and access to some wonderful benefits. | |
| 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM | (Cancelled) EON Reality Grant: Using Augmented Reality Software
FLEX # 414
Butte College has a 5-year EON Reality grant for using their specialized software to create augmented reality projects for students and faculty. This software can be utilized for hundreds of students and faculty throughout all disciplines on campus. We will showcase the software, and build an AR lesson to show how easy it is to use and implement. | |
| 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM | Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Flex
FLEX # 111
Are you a new faculty member and wondering what Flex means? Are you a long-time member of the Butte College faculty finding yourself confused about the various Flex programs and activities available? Attend this workshop for an overview of our Flex program, along with the opportunity to ask questions and get answers. You are guaranteed to leave this workshop with a better understanding of the opportunities available to you through the Butte College Professional Development program. | |
| 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Tour of Athletic Facilities
FLEX # 120
Come check out our nationally recognized athletic facilities. | |
| 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Academic Senators' Summit*
FLEX # 900.2
The Academic Senate will meet to prepare for the new semester. | |
| 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | Mnemonics Part III
FLEX # 103.3
Would you like to improve your memory? Mnemonic systems are strategies that anyone can learn and use to remember more. We often wish we had a better memory: we’d be less forgetful; we’d learn more things; we’d be more effective in our courses; and retain more of our lives. The good news is that we can all improve our memories by using time-tested and evidence-based mnemonic strategies. “Mental athletes” may astound us by their impressive feats of memory, like memorizing decks of playing cards quickly, long lists of words or numbers, or reciting pages after page of texts verbatim. They will all tell you, however, that they don’t have a special memory – they simply use mnemonics. And you can too! In this series of workshops, you will learn a number of mnemonic techniques you can apply immediately to improve your memory. This series will cover three systems – the Peg (introductory) and Phonetic (advanced) Systems, in addition to learning how to memorize names and faces. | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | ART Department MakerSpace Technology Tour
FLEX # 108
Take a full tour of the Butte College Art department and Makerspace. See all the new technology we have available for faculty and students. | |
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