MARCH 24, 2023 | 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM

HCC WEST HOUSTON INSTITUTE

2811 Hayes Rd, Houston, TX 77082

ABOUT

The Faculty Conference is an annual event hosted by HCC's Faculty Senate Professional Development & Conferences Committee. It is open to all HCC employees, is free, and optional. Breakfast and lunch are included.

This year's event offers several tracks to faculty:

• Space for ongoing HEERF courses
  
• Viewing rooms for registered OLC 2022 Accelerate Conference participants
• Viewing rooms for registered OLC 2022 Blended Learning Symposium participants
  
• Sessions on specific areas from the:
• Faculty Senate's Compensation, Workload and Benefits Committee
  
• Faculty Virtual Lounge
  
• Research, Analytics, and Decision Support
• TLI Adjunct, Faculty, and Instructional Leaders Academies
  
• TLI CLIs
• WHI Fellows
• WHI IdeaSpace

Session Program Below

SCHEDULE BLOCK 1

9:00-10:20 AM

Breakfast Served in Auditorium

Session Descriptions Below

SCHEDULE BLOCK 2

10:30-11:50 AM

Breakfast Served in Auditorium

Session Descriptions Below

SCHEDULE BLOCK 3

12:00-1:20 PM

Session Descriptions Below

Lunch Served in Auditorium

SCHEDULE BLOCK 4

1:30-2:50 PM

Lunch Served in Auditorium

Session Descriptions Below

Session Descriptions

HEERF Initiative with Online Learning Consortium (OLC) & Quality Matters (QM)

HEERF JAM - Work on OLC &/or QM Courses on Your Own

8:30 AM - 3:00 PM WHI Auditorium

Participants are invited to work through ongoing QM and/or OLC courses in the Auditorium. There will not be a moderator. Strongly suggest for participants to bring headphones.

OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Collaboratorium Screening Rm.

Registered 2022 Accelerate Conference (asynchronous) attendees are welcome to gather in the Collabratorium to view selected Conference materials throughout the day. The session will be continually moderated. ONLY AVAILABLE TO REGISTERED OLC CONFERENCE participants.

OLC 2022 Blended Learning Symposium

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Rm. 204

Registered 2022 BL Symposium (asynchronous) attendees are welcome to gather and view selected Symposium materials throughout the day. The session will be continually moderated. ONLY AVAILABLE TO REGISTERED OLC Symposium participants.

WHI Innovation Fellows

Back to Foodture Interdisciplinary Projects

9:00 - 10:20 AM Collaboratorium

Presenters: Shawn Anderson (Library), Michael Cammareri (Culinary), Nazanin Hebel (Biology), & Lauran Kerr-Heraly (History)

We will be discussing our Multidisciplinary project, across multiple disciplines (Biology, History, Pastry). Students are placed in teams and they compete using a presentation, having the Pastry student creating a dish, and the others talk about the concepts from their discipline while the pastry is being made. Get a sneak peak here!

SEED: Co-Curricular Projects Outside the Classroom

10:30 - 11:50 AM Collabratorium

Presenters: Jackie Barry (Interior Design) & Shasta Beveridge (Interior Design)

Ready, Set, Go! Prototyping the Student Experience

12:00-1:20 PM Collaboratorium

Presenters: 2022-23 Innovation Fellows Cohort

Escape the Classroom

1:30-2:50 PM Collaboratorium

Presenter: Lauran Kerr-Heraly (History)

The West Houston Institute houses a classroom turned Escape Room. Participants answer content questions (discipline-specific, HCC-related, etc.) and solves puzzles that give them a series of codes to locks and instructions on how to unlock the final box. Come and see how game-based learning in the escape room can meet learning objectives and increase engagement.

WHI IDEAStudio Makerspace

Engage with IDEAStudio as an Instructor

9:00 - 10:20 AM IDEAStudio

WHI Facilitators: Jordan Carswell, Jeffrey Chen, & Israel Garza

VR Design + 3D Printing

10:30 - 11:50 AM IDEAStudio

Facilitators: Bennie Ansell (Art) & Ruben Duran (CLI)

DIY Swag: T-Shirt Making

12:00-1:20 and 1:30-2:50 PM IDEAStudio

IDEAStudio Staff

Materials and designs provided!

Teaching & Learning Innovation Academies

Faculty Academy: Experimenting with Ungrading

9:00 - 10:20 AM Rm. 203

Presenter: Jim Ross-Nazzal

In this workshop, using my 2021-2022 classes as examples, we will examine the triumphs and tribulations of ungrading. Allowing students to provide their own grades turns them into the subject, their work into objects, and frees both the student and the instructor to focus on learning.

Faculty Academy: Equitable Assessment Strategies

10:30 - 11:50 AM Rm. 203

Presenter: Rosalyn Crain Tinnin

Building on our successful “Moving from Awareness to Action: Strategies to Advance Equity in the Classroom” workshop, this workshop will take a deeper dive into one of the highlighted strategies–equitable assessment. This workshop will explore ways faculty may make their course assessments more equitable and inclusive.

Instructional Leaders Academy: Path to Leadership

12:00-1:20 PM Rm. 203

Presenter: Karen Saenz

Have you been thinking about applying to be an instructional leader? This session will provide information about the positions, the election process, and answers to your questions.

Adjunct Academy: Application Kit Overview

1:30-2:50 PM Rm. 203

Presenters: Tineke Berends & Jennifer Vacca with Rodney Nathan

Adjunct Academy Facilitators provide an interactive workshop with an overview of the full time instructor application kit, including discussion on CVs, Cover Letters, and Teaching Philosophies.

Teaching & Learning Innovation, Centers for Learning & Innovation

ChatGPT & Other Tools: Tell Me More!

10:30-11:05 AM Rm. 169

Presenter: Dr. Brenda Quintanilla. Regional Manager, Innovative Instructional Technology and Learning Services

This session provides an overview of Generative AI and investigates AI in education.

HyperDocs & Choice Boards: Student Engagement through Interactive Documents

12:45-1:20 AM Rm. 171

Presenter: Dr. Brenda Quintanilla. Regional Manager, Innovative Instructional Technology and Learning Services

Discover ways to engage your learners using interactive documents and student choice.

Research, Analytics, and Decision Support

Data Tracking with Tableau

9:00-9:35 AM Rm. 171

Presenter: Andrea Burridge

Tableau Server is a platform that allows exploration of data about HCC student success. In this session we show you how to access the platform and take you on a brief tour of resources for Faculty.

Surveying Qualtrics

11:15-11:50 AM Rm. 171

Presenter: Christopher Burnett

This session will provide an overview and demonstration of the powerful survey platform Qualtrics you can access for free through HCC.

Faculty Virtual Lounge

The March Madness Banking Crisis

9:00-9:35 AM Rm. 169

Presenter: Richard Gosselin

Last week our country witnessed the largest bank collapse since the 2008 financial crisis with Silicon Valley Bank being taken into receivership. In the wake of this failure other banks have failed as well or are showing signs of stress. If you are worried about your retirement investments or just concerned about the banking system and the economy as a whole and you want to learn more, please consider attending.

Artificial Intelligence & How to Make it Work for Our Students

9:45-10:20 Rm. 169

Presenter: Wayne Stauffer

This session will recap what we know about ChatGPT so far and offer suggestions on how teach our students around it.

Coaching Students on Presentation Skills

11:15-11:50 Rm. 169

Presenter: Letitia King

Breaking the Ice: Activities to Build Relationships & Community in the Classroom

12:00-12:35 Rm. 169

Presenter: Monika Casella

Faculty Senate: Compensation, Workload and Benefits Committee

HCC Compensation Study

10:30-11:05 AM Rm. 171

Presenters: Sophie Haci and Nathan Smith

Every year the Faculty Senate's Compensation, Workload and Benefits committee compiles a compensation analysis of HCC and comparable community colleges in Texas. This session will cover the 2023 report on the status of HCC compensation scheme.