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Topics in Online Teaching and Learning Workshops

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Faculty who teach (or want to teach) blended and online courses are invited to participate in any of ELI’s November TOTAL workshops:

 

  • Developing Collaborative Activities  (November 11 – November 24)
  • Designing Rubrics and Providing Feedback  (November 11 – December 15; no activities Thanksgiving week)
  • Writing Directions  (November 11 – November 24)

 

The workshops are facilitated online in Blackboard and involve reading/viewing assignments, application assignments, and interaction with colleagues.    See the TOTAL project website (https://sites.google.com/a/email.vccs.edu/vccs-total-project/home-1/workshops) for specific workshop descriptions.  Each workshop requires 5 – 8 hours of work per week.  Consider the workload carefully before registering for multiple workshops at the same time.  Most TOTAL workshops are repeated each semester.

 

Registration for the November workshops is open now and closes at noon on November 8.  To register for a workshop:

  1. Log into NOVA Academy (https://covkc.virginia.gov/nvcc).  See HR’s professional development page (NOVA web site > Faculty & Staff >Human Resources > Professional Development) for NOVA Academy login directions and a user guide.
  2. Select Course Catalog in the Learning Center menu at the top of the page.
  3. Search on VCCS total to see the TOTAL workshops listed.  (Ignore the “classroom” description; NOVA Academy does not recognize Blackboard as a delivery method.)
  4. Click on a workshop to see the section(s) available.
  5. Click on a section to enroll or manage your enrollment.   All those enrolled will receive an email announcement with workshop directions on or before the first day of the workshop.

 

Questions?  Contact Bob Loser (rloser@nvcc.edu).

AL Campus Weekly Announcements, Student Services

PARKING INFORMATION ON NOVEMBER 5th for Voting Day!

PARKING ON NOVEMBER 5th  | Voting Day

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Parking Lot A-8 will be used for voter parking, due to the construction of the Beauregard Parking Deck.

 

We are asking that Tyler Building Faculty and Staff park in the BACK of the Tyler Building on Tuesday, 05 November 2013.

 

This will allow available parking for our voters in the front of the Tyler Building on that day.

CONTACT:

For more information please contact Mike Delchamp | mdelchamp@nvcc.edu or Marc Henderson | mhenderson@nvcc.edu

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Student Spotlight: Eugene Malts

Eugene Malts

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENT ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

photo 1Where do I start? I remember how I was debating with myself concerning my future. It was summer in Russia. Meanwhile, I was sitting on the corner of the street in my hometown in Siberia. The debate was concerning my future life, to be exact, should I move to the USA or to stay where I belong, in Siberia? In this particular case, I believe my major experience is the immigration to the USA.

It is August of 2012, and I’m taking a placement test to measure my English language skills. The test placed me in an ESL class, where I belong.

During my ESL experience for almost 1.5 year, I’ve struggled and didn’t get any useful advice from surrounding me people due to limited English.

In my last level of the ESL, I realized something that will change my views, and an attitude towards the education.

My friends and I decided to open an interest group to gather those shy, inexperienced, and, you know, brilliant students all over the campus to help them adjust to American college system and, of course, improve their English. Obviously, our advisors made a crucial impact on our club. The most important thing is to believe that we can make it. Imagine the amateur group of students with noble spirits evolved into the established club. As the president, I’m learning how to lead and how to be a good role model for those, like me in the past, who is struggling.

I would never imagine that the idea was so successful and we built up a team, which is working hard to make sure our moral to help brilliant students’ works.

After a year and a half of hard work, I’m sitting in a college composition class debating on George Orwell’s works in my head. Did I mention that I finished struggling? No, I’m still struggling, learning more and believe that impossible could be possible. And there is a tip to a Good Samaritan: hard work always pays off.

 

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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Izanne Zorin

DR. IZANNE ZORIN

BIOLOGY PROFESSOR

SCIENCE, BUSINESS, AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

ALEXANDRIA CAMPUS

GulfWarA long time ago I was a combat medic in the Army National Guard out of South Carolina. People find this interesting because I am a small person and a nerd – so it just goes to show that you can’t judge a book by its cover. I appreciate my 7 years with the National Guard – I met wonderful people, had access to great equipment and had amazing experiences.  I enlisted to get the funding to complete my undergraduate degree, and the military did provide me with the GI Bill and other programs so that I graduated college with almost zero debt. While training as a non-commissioned officer, I met my husband of 20 years – so I can thank the Army for that too.

While deployed during the first Gulf war, my unit was tasked with running a hospital on a military base in Saudi Arabia. The photograph is of me in the ER with an Egyptian nurse, Adnan, who made friends with all of us (he also proposed marriage to almost all of us women medics). After seeing American and Iraqi soldiers and Saudi civilians with serious injuries and burns, I realized that we are all the same: when we are in pain or scared, we all need support and understanding regardless of our country of origin, race or religion. Although I haven’t been in the military for years now, I will always be grateful for that experience. Go Army!

AL Campus Weekly Announcements, Student Services

Flu Shot Clinic October 28th

CVS Pharmacy | Flu Shot Clinic


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CVS Pharmacy will hold a Flu Shot Clinic for employees and students at the Alexandria campus on October 28, 2013! The clinic is open to all employees who are COVA Care and COVA Health Aware participants.  Please bring your ID and insurance card.

 

Students and employees who do not have the COVA plans may still receive a flu shot for $31.99 out of pocket (check only please). Timeslots are available from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm in Bisdorf 158.

 

Walk ins are welcome but space is limited so please reserve your spot by signing up at: http://www.jooners.com/guest?l=b2d6eb23-4282-4de3-bd76-455231cc0eaf

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Lyceum Event, “Religion, Politics, & Polarization”

Lyceum Event: “Religion, Politics, & Polarization”

Monday, 10-28-2013

12:30pm-1:45pm

Room AA-196 (Bisdorf Buidling) NOVA-Alexandria

(Maps and Directions: http://www.nvcc.edu/about-nova/maps-directions/alexandria/index.html)

 

Free and Open to ALL!

 

Title: “Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict is Changing Congress and American Democracy.”

 

By Professor and Author, Dr. Josiah Baker

  • Nimocks Professor of Business & Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC
  • Adjunct Professor at Northern Virginia Community College

 

Dr. Baker is a co-author of Religion, Politics,and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict Is Changing Congress and American Democracy, and will be discussing the book and answering questions on Monday.

 

More information on the book: Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict Is Changing Congress and American Democracy Paperback

byWilliam V. D’Antonio (Author) ,Steven A. Tuch (Author) ,Josiah R. Baker (Author)

 

“Do the religious affiliations of elected officials shape the way they vote on such key issues as abortion, homosexuality, defense spending, taxes, and welfare spending? In Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict is Changing Congress and American Democracy, William D’Antonio, Steven A. Tuch and Josiah R. Baker trace the influence of religion and party in the U.S. Congress over time. For almost four decades these key issues have competed for public attention with health care, war, terrorism, and the growing inequity between the incomes of the middle classes and those of corporate America. The authors examine several contemporary issues and trace the increasing polarization in Congress. They examine whether abortion, defense and welfare spending, and taxes are uniquely polarizing or, rather, models of a more general pattern of increasing ideological division in the U.S. Congress. By examining the impact of religion on these key issues the authors effectively address the question of how the various religious denominations have shaped the House and Senate. Throughout the book they draw on key roll call votes, survey data, and extensive background research to argue that the political ideologies of both parties have become grounded in distinctive religious visions of the good society, in turn influencing the voting patterns of elected officials.

http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Politics-Polarization-Religiopolitical-Democracy/dp/1442223979

 

Jack Lechelt, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Northern Virginia Community College

JLechelt@nvcc.edu

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/jlechelt/

NOVA-AL Political Science Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalScienceNOVAAlexandria

AL Campus Weekly Announcements, Student Services

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK 2013

Monday, 11/18      $$     

1:30-2:30PM   IEW Kick-Off – Invited will be local diplomats and the NOVA community

POC: Stacey Bustillos and Puryea Suphaphiphat

 

Student Presentations   $$

Partnerships between Community College Initiative Students and NOVA students on the Alexandria Campus (CCI) (maybe have student exhibits during the IEW Kick-Off)

POC: Amira, Christina

**Hallway outside of 193, 194, 195, and 196 has been requested.

 

3 PM   Maiti Nepal Discussion/Lecture with Dr. Reva Savkar and Dr. Robert Loser

POC: Twyla Jones

*Girl Rising (18 minute video) will be shown prior to presentation, if approved by Professors Savkar and Loser.

Presentation by Reva Sankar and Robert Loser on Maiti Nepal is an organization dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and stopping sex trafficking of Nepalese girls and women.

http://www.maitinepal.org/

Location: Corridor and AA 196 requested.

 

CONTACT:

For more information please contact Dr. Twyla Jones | twjones@nvcc.edu

AL Campus Weekly Announcements, Student Services

High School Student Open House

High School Student Open House

Open House

Description: High school students and their parents are invited to come to campus to learn about the different opportunities that NOVA has to offer. Students will be able to meet current faculty, staff and students, take a tour of campus and attend presentations about coming to NOVA, taking dual enrollment classes and paying for college.

 

Information:

Date:                     Saturday, October 26th 2013

Time:                     10:00AM-1:00PM

Location:              Alexandria Campus- Bisdorf Building Cafeteria

3001 N. Beauregard St.
Alexandria, VA 22311

 

For more information and to RSVP:

Contact Tom Grane( tgrane@nvcc.edu 703-845-6352) or go to http://blogs.nvcc.edu/alhsoutreach/.

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Student Spotlight: Samuel George William Guyidde-Bisase

Samuel George William Guyidde-Bisase

GENERAL STUDIES AND ARCHITECTURE

samuel pictureMy name is Samuel George William Guyidde-Bisase and I am a sophomore at Northern Virginia Community College; I am the former Vice-President of the Student Government Association (2012-2013), President of the Debate Club, and Member of the College Forensics and Soccer teams.

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, to Ugandan-American parents, I am the son to Esther Naluwemba Kagulu a nurse and the late Andrew Ssentongo Bisase (R.I.P), a businessman and an entertainer. I have studied from the United States and Uganda throughout my education life. After my father died in 1994, I went to Uganda aged 5, to learn the culture of my forefathers and be raised with help from my relatives (It does take a village to raise a child) and graduated High school in December 2010. I am co-captain of the Northern Virginia community College Soccer team and captain of the college forensics team. (GO NOVA! GO GREEN AND GOLD!)

I was elected by a majority of students during a record breaking voter turnout year. I was able to rally students around an innovative and creative platform. I believe in fostering a Transparent, Capitalistic and entrepreneurial-like mentality to Student Government in order to be more effective in reaching out to all students

Over my year in Student Government, I made sure I fought for the students on every account. I increased outreach of the SGA to numerous student organizations, expanded the outreach from Alexandria City Border lines in order to exchange and enhance our ideas and brand. I focused my efforts on reforming the process in the Senate in order to make it more effective in serving the Student Body; by introducing “Robert’s Rules of Order” to the process. Also, in order to serve the students more effectively, I sent student senators to the Campus Council, Academic Divisions, College Wide Senate, a couple of Leadership Conferences, and the General Assembly in Richmond in order for the student voice to always have a say in any of the executive decisions. Currently I am the President of The NOVA Debators, a club aimed at enhancing critical dialogue through argument in our society while discussing a diversity of issues that boil us up in the past, present and future day.

I believe in the notion that the world is his oyster and the sky’s the limit, and that is why I am a proud member of numerous clubs and societies at the Alexandria campus, a diverse athlete (Soccer, Basketball, Track & Field, Volleyball and many others) and a public speaker. I try to enhance my abilities in all aspects of life, because I am fueled by the Martin Luther King’s quotation; “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead and the unborn could do it no better.”

I already have an Associate’s degree in General Studies and a Certificate in Architectural Drafting, and I am pursuing degrees in Architecture, Law and Political Science.

I am 20, a first generation American who speaks English, French, Swahili and Luganda, very interested in Entertainment, Politics and Sports, and hope with the success I achieve to help the society in Uganda with the  education I attain to improve and enhance their standards of living, from education to their way of life.