Volume 1, Issue 8 | ELITE Digest | May 2022
We invite you to explore this month’s Digest to learn about the exciting things available to you from the Office of
E-Learning, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence.
As we enter graduation season, ELITE would like to proudly recognize the graduating members of the 28th Leadership Development Institute who graduated from the program on April 21. Congratulations on your well-deserved accomplishment.
May 19 and 20 are only the first of many amazing moments for our students, and we know life has many more in store for them. This calls for celebrating, and we look forward to seeing you during graduation.
Compete in our monthly H5P challenge! To enter, all you must do is:
- complete this month’s ELITE Interactive Game (see below); and
2. send us a copyof your answers by 5 pm on Friday, May 6, 2022.
Winners will be selected at random and contacted via email on May 9, 2022. For an extra chance to win, “like” the May ELITE Digest post on the Montgomery Employees Facebook page by 5 pm on May 6, 2022.
Thank you for taking a moment to read this month’s Digest. The ELITE team looks forward to serving your professional development needs.
If you have any questions or feedback about our latest edition of the ELITE Digest, please let us know or contact us through the various ASK ELITE channels.
Spring Professional Week
Spring Professional Week offers faculty and staff a variety of professional development opportunities provided by the College and ELITE and a chance to celebrate our graduates. Professional Week begins on Monday, May 16, and kicks off with a day of ELITE professional development opportunities. All ELITE-sponsored events are scheduled on Monday, May 16, and held via Zoom.
Learn more about Spring Professional Week.
Data Asset Management Training
Montgomery College has launched basic asset management data training effective immediately. This online training focuses on privacy and compliance. The targeted audience is all administrators, faculty, and staff. All are strongly encouraged to participate. Data Asset Management Training is the first of many offerings being developed through collaboration and partnership between Analytics and Insights (A&I), Workforce Development and Continuing Education (WDCE), and E-Learning, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence (ELITE). You can access and complete this course in Workday.
Virtual Campus Lounge Hours
As the Virtual Campus begins to take shape, ELITE would like to invite you to our Virtual Campus Lounge hours for February.
Celebrating Diversity for National Salad Month
Once described as a melting pot, America has been described in more recent decades as a salad bowl with its many cultural groups maintaining their own identities instead of “melting” into the identity of the dominant culture.
Learn More about Multicultural Moment.
Managing End-of-Semester Grading
Tip 1: Recorded Feedback for More Efficient Grading
Grading papers and other digitally submitted assignments can be time-consuming. One way to evaluate these assignments more efficiently is to use video or screen capture programs to give recorded feedback to students on their work.
Learn More about Teaching Tip of the Month.
Teaching Tips with MS Visio 365
What is Visio?
Visio is a robust and lavish diagramming program, available through Office 365, for creating flowcharts, organizational charts, basic network diagrams, Venn diagrams, block diagrams, and business matrices.
Learn More about Teaching Tips with Technology.
Diversity, Problem-Solving, and Reconciliation
The quality, creativity, and inventiveness of problem-solving increase when diverse people work together. However, this diversity can cause misunderstandings and frustrations as cross-cultural dynamics play out. In some cases, the focus becomes more on how people perceive and manage problems differently than the actual problem
Learn More about Return to Work Tip of the Month.
MC Forward
Dr. Michael Mills hosts a weekly podcast that focuses on Montgomery College individuals who are leading from where they are.
