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  • Microsoft Excel: The Pizza Party Challenge

    Presenter: Megan Calvert Get ready to turn data into a delicious plan! In this fun, hands-on session, you’ll learn how to organize, calculate, and visualize information in Excel—all while planning a pizza party. You’ll practice time-saving tricks like formatting data…

  • Co-Creating with ChatGPT

    Presenter: Dr. Paul Miller This interactive workshop introduces staff to practical and ethical ways of working with ChatGPT as a co-creative partner. Using the RESPECT framework for responsible AI literacy and the CREATE framework for collaborative design, participants will explore…

  • YuJa Basics

    Presenter: Tom Cantu YuJa is Montgomery College’s new video platform that enables faculty and staff to create, organize, caption, and edit video content with ease. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of uploading, organizing, and recording videos…

  • Let the Game Mechanics Begin!

    How can you draw from the engagement of game play to engage students in course content and encourage success? This workshop will cover game mechanics such as narratives, quests, leveling up, and freedom-to-fail to motivate students and encourage them to…

  • Cognitive Load Made Simple

    In this workshop, you will learn how to optimize learning by reducing cognitive overload. We will discuss how to breakdown content into manageable and accessible chunks, diversify delivery formats to enhance information processing, and integrate check-ins throughout the learning process…

  • HIPs in Action: Practical Approaches to Transform Student Learning

    In this one-hour workshop, faculty will explore High-Impact Practices (HIPs)—such as collaborative projects, service learning, and undergraduate research—that are proven to enhance student engagement, learning, and retention. Participants will examine ways to integrate these evidence-based practices into their own courses,…

  • Memory, Attention, and Retrieval Practice

    Discover evidence-based strategies to improve student learning and retention such as cumulative quizzes and practice tests, diagnostic charts to identify weak areas, group quizzing that converts assessments into learning experiences. Leave with practical tools to boost metacognition, reduce test anxiety,…

  • AI for Scaffolded Learning: Integrating the 4 C’s of 21st Century Education

    This workshop explores how generative AI can support scaffolded learning aligned with the 4 C’s of 21st century education: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. Faculty will learn how to design learning activities that intentionally develop these competencies using AI…

  • The ABCs of Motivating Learners: Competence

    How can we help students feel capable and confident in their learning? This third session in our First Faculty Fridays series about motivation explores Competence—the experience of making progress and feeling effective in one’s efforts. When students experience mastery and…

  • Backward Design Leveraging Generative AI

    This workshop introduces faculty to the principles of backward design, enhanced by the capabilities of generative AI. Participants will learn how to start with clearly defined learning outcomes and use AI tools to inform the development of assessments and instructional…