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2014 Power Up your Pedagogy Conference Registration Continues

Colleagues – – Registration Continues!

Power Up Your Pedagogy
(PUP)

The Ninth Annual Power UP your Pedagogy (PUP) Conference is OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!  All Faculty and Professional Staff are cordially invited.

It is an online registration—Just click on this link.
http://www.nvcc.edu/faculty-and-staff/teaching-support/cetl/conference.html
And then on the Registration Tab.

(Faculty relaxing in the 2013 conference lounge)

Faculty

PUP is an exciting, award-winning, professional development conference that brings all NOVA faculty together.  PUP is YOUR conference presented by YOUR colleagues. You will leave with amazing new insights about the best teaching practices, the best teaching tips and tricks and the very best ideas about teaching and especially about teaching at NOVA! Cluster Meetings are also part of the conference.

The 2014 PUP 21st Century Teaching & Learning

January 8th and 9th on the Annandale Campus

Register Now!

We have reviewed some wonderful proposals and have exciting speakers for the conference. You will see the following:

  • Interactive peer presentations are at the heart of the conference.  You may choose to attend a variety of sessions such as:
    • Many interactive 45-minute breakout sessions
    • Dynamic two-hour workshops
    • Topical Interest Groups
    • Three important conference addresses highlight the conference. Learn from our leaders:
      • Dr. Robert Templin will give a welcoming address to open the conference
      • Robert Bausch, the 2013 NOVA SCHEV Award winner will give us his insights on teaching.
      • And,  continuing last year’s amazing success with a Second Day Plenary Speaker: Dr. Bryan Alexander, an educational futurist.
  • Also featured  this year:
    •  an Active Backchannel to make it your own conference:  A backchannel conversation is one that occurs concurrently with the main conference and gives voice to attendees.  Each can add content to the conference, comment on it as it progresses, and share inspirations from it.  Here are the PUP backchannels:
  • PUP twitter feed #PUP14.
  • A PUP blog page on which to enter comments as replies.
  • Whiteboards for your written and drawn comments
  • Face to face conversations in the PUP lounge area.
  • A Project Poster Presentation hosted by adjunct and fulltime faculty in the Gym
  • An exhibition of Learning Spaces of the Future
  • A Vendor Fair that lets you visit with representatives of companies dedicated to supporting education in the CE Forum
  • PUP has an important commitment to sustainability.   When you register you’ll be able to choose how you want to receive your program – in a printed format, or electronically.  You’ll also be able to print your individual conference schedule through the Conference Event Planner, just as soon as the program is finalized.  We’ll let you know.  (Printed programs will only be available to those who indicated they want one during the registration process.  They won’t be available at the conference.)

Every attempt is being made to be sure that everyone, even those who only attend Cluster Meetings, receives a lunch.   The lunches are the single largest expense for PUP.  In these tight economic times, it is imperative that we have an accurate count of those who wish lunch.   The only way to count YOU is by your registration.  You must register even if you only plan to attend the Cluster meetings.

 NOVA Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

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Volunteer for PUP! You are needed!

PUP

  Power Up Your Pedagogy (PUP) 

needs your help!

Now in its 9th successful year, PUP continues to lead the way in sharing innovations in our teaching practices here at NOVA.

 This couldn’t happen without PUP Volunteers!

Three kinds of volunteers are needed.

  • Support Volunteers are needed for everything from set up to manning the registration desk to monitoring the breakout sessions to helping with lunch and lots more.
  • IT volunteers are really needed to support the presenters and other IT needs of the conference.
  • Photography volunteers.  Snap pictures with your phones or your cameras and upload those pictures to a photo site.

There is a place and a job and a time just for you.  Bring a friend and you’ll have twice the fun!

Click here to find the spot that is just right for you:   http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0449A9AB28A20-20141
The site is organized by day and time so you’ll easily understand your time commitment.

T-shirt 1T-shirt 2

If you have volunteered before, you’ll already have the nifty CETL fleece vest, or a really cool  long-sleeved “I’M IT at NOVA” shirt  given to all those who volunteer.  Support folks get the vest, IT folks get the Shirt.  If you haven’t volunteered before, we’ll get one for you this year.  Photography volunteers will get also get a special shirt!  (please email cetl@nvcc.edu and tell us you are a new volunteer and indicate what size vest or shirt is right for you.  All are MEN’s sizes,  from XS to XXL by November 11th).

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NOVA Alexandria Graduation Preparation Program

Advising

As one of the programs for Academic Advising Week (November 4-8), the Alexandria Counseling Department is sponsoring a program for continuing students who are planning for their last semester at NOVA.   We will provide future graduates with important information so that they will understand how to:

  • Enroll in the correct classes for their final semester
  • Apply for NOVA graduation before the deadline
  • Purchase their caps/gowns
  • Apply for transfer before deadline(s)
  • Apply for financial aid for their intended transfer college(s)
  • Prepare for employment (resume, interview, etc.)

Balancing the completion of their last semester along with planning for life after NOVA can be a major challenge for some students.  Therefore, we are providing a panel presentation and Q&A for students who are planning to graduate in Spring 2014.   Students who are planning to graduate later but want to learn the information are also welcomed to attend.  Please consider encouraging the attendance of your students (particularly those classes with high enrollment of continuing students nearing degree completion).  

Program:           So You Think You Are Ready to Graduate?

                          Academic Advising Week

When:                Tuesday, November 5th, 2013

Time:                 12:30PM-1:30PM Panel

                          1:30PM-2:00PM Q&A

Where:               NOVA Alexandria Campus

                           Bisdorf AA-196

Student RSVP is not required but appreciated.  An email with a registration link was sent to all NOVA Alexandria Students.  It will be resent periodically throughout the week with other advertisements.

If you are also a faculty advisor who believes this information would be helpful for you, then please feel free to join us!  Participants include our Campus Registrar, Counselors-(Career, Transfer and Division), Campus Bookstore Manager, Satisfactory Academic Progress Advisor, and Financial Aid.