Vol. XXXIII, No. 13

November 15, 2004

This Week at Valencia.

Monday, November 15, 8:30 a.m. - Instructional Affairs Committee, East 3-113

Tuesday, November 16, 3 p.m. - Student Affairs Leadership Team, West 9-140B

Wednesday, November 17,
9 a.m. - East Campus Staff, East 5-112
10 a.m. - Career Staff Council, Winter Park 246
12 noon - Foundation Board, Osceola, TBA
1 p.m. - Design & Operations-T, Winter Park, Rm. TBA

Thursday, November 18,
2 p.m. - Faculty Association Board of Directors, West 9-113
7 p.m. - Fall Coffeehouse, East 5-112

Desire Under the Elms, a play by Eugene O'Neill- Thursday, Friday & Saturday-7:30 p.m.

Through January 14 - Selected Valencia Fine Art Faculty, Anita S. Wooten Gallery, East

Holiday Schedule for The Bulletin

The Bulletin will not be published on Monday, November 29 due to the Thanksgiving break. The final issue for 2004 will be December 20 and the first issue for 2004 will be January 10.

What's New in the Internship and Placement Office

Completing an Internship just got easier. The number of contact hours required to complete an internship has been reduced from 135 to 80 contact hours per credit hour. For more information, refer students to the Internship and Placement Office on their campus: East-5-230; West-SSB-206; Osceola 1-263; and Winter Park 1-104. Open Enrollment begins November 1, 2004 through December 6, 2004.

Students earn credit for volunteering. Community Service is a new Service Learning course that allows students to blend their learning goals with their passions by volunteering. Students must be able to complete 50 contact hours per credit hour. For more information, refer students to the Internship and Placement Office on their campus. Open Enrollment begins November 1, 2004 through February 25, 2005.

Internships jumpstart student careers. Thirty-four percent or 57 of the 167 employers responding to our satisfaction survey stated they hired the student after the internship experience. An internship is still a powerful resume builder and an excellent way for students to jumpstart their career.

Leadership Valencia

Streaming Media: Incorporating Video and Audio into Your Online Course - An introductory course designed to teach participants how to utilize streaming media. The workshop will cover topics such as what is available, how to get it working, the different types of streaming media, and the best way to use them. This workshop will be presented by Matt Ames on Monday, November 15, 1-3 p.m., Osceola Campus, Room 2-116, registration code: TSM1115.

Macromedia Flash: Level Three - Get deep into Flash with this advanced course. Learn how Action Script can control the behavior of movie clips and create advanced animated buttons. Take control of movie clips, create special effects and discover how to export to Shockwave or a video file. There are three dates to choose from for this workshop presented by Eddie Howell. 1) Tuesday, November 16, 1-5 p.m., West Campus, Room 6-221, registration code: TMF31116, 2) Wednesday, November 17, 1-5 p.m., PDC Portable (Near East), registration code: TMF31117 or 3) Thursday, November 18, 1- 5 p.m., Osceola Campus, Room 2-116, registration code: TMF31118

Beyond the Writing Classroom: Rubrics and Holistic Scoring for TLA Participants - Participants will learn the elements of rubric construction, how to score a writing assignment using the holistic method, and examine a variety of models to use in creating their own rubric. Essential Competency Enhancement: Assessment, Teaching and Learning Strategies. There are two dates to choose from for this workshop presented by Celine Kavalec-Miller. 1) Thursday, November 18, 1 - 3 p.m., East Campus, Room 4-133A, registration code: LBWC1111 or 2) Friday, November 19, 1- 3 p.m., West Campus, Room 1-131, registration code: LBWC1119

Selected Topics for Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 - In this session, the focus will be on intermediate topics using a combination of concepts and tools available in the Adobe family of products. Topics covered in this session will include color correction, retouching portraits, body sculpting, working with filters, and creating photo backdrops, photo merging, and photo restoration techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring their own photos for use in the onsite scanner. This workshop will be presented by Jenny Nevarez and Ewa Rozpedowska on Friday, November 19, 1- 4 p.m., Osceola Campus, Room 2-116, registration code: TSTPS

New Full-Time Employees

A warm Valencia welcome is extended to Shawn Salyers, Director, Valencia Enterprises Sales and Marketing, mc 8-1, ext. 6603.

News from Procurement

Please extend a warm welcome to our new staff member, Claudia Solarte. Claudia is a Staff Assistant who will coordinate and manage all of the College's Contracts and Agreements. She will be contacting many departments regarding their contracts and establishing a database for easy access. Claudia can be reached at ext. 5532, West Campus, Building 14.

Open Conversation with Procurement is made available through Leadership Valencia as a Workshop on Demand module. Discussion can include purchasing procedures and how they are established by Policy or Florida Statutes; involvement with the local, woman/minority owned businesses; Oracle issues, Procurement Card, etc. Call or E-mail Heather Coxe with Leadership Valencia at ext. 3126 or hcoxe@valenciacc.edu.

A Table Top Show hosted by Office Depot and Procurement was held on October 29 at the West Campus. The event was a huge success! Door prizes were provided by 3M, Wilson Jones, Avery, HP, and Sanford to staff members who attended the event. Stay tuned for another upcoming show on East Campus.

Please send all empty printer toner cartridges that you would like to be recycled to West Campus Shipping and Receiving, Mail Code 4-9.

Purchasing From the Big Picture Perspective - Purchasing departments have a unique "seat above the playing field" that offers a view of the whole field and a total picture of the college's spending patterns and commitments for goods, services and construction. We are fortunate to be stewards of our institutions' resources. Purchasing professionals hold the expertise and skills required to ensure that contracts and commitments are made in an efficient and effective manner. Members of the purchasing staff interpret this big picture for their organization and add value to procurement activity where feasible, becoming active participants, by working hand-in-hand with our colleagues and providing consultation, review, and analysis to college contracting activity.

Please feel free to contact any of us for your purchasing and contracting needs. We are here to help you.

Kudos!

Ray Taylor, Program Director, EMS, and Andrew Stafford, Program Coordinator, EMS, traveled to Medellin, Columbia in July for the Emergency Medicine and Disaster Management Symposium. Both were keynote speakers and program coordinators for the event. Taylor and Stafford, along with four other emergency medicine physicians from Orlando Regional Medical Center received acknowledgement and awards from Governor Jeb Bush and the President of Columbia for their efforts and expertise in delivering quality education on the topic of cardiac life support resuscitation techniques

Mike Bosley, Director of Student Development has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Professional Development Activities and Job Satisfaction of Adjunct Faculty at the Community College on November 8, 2004 at the University of Central Florida.

Sharon Wyly, Digital Media program director, presented a workshop on the impact of high definition television on community colleges at the League of Innovation's Conference on Information Technology. The presentation titled, "The Monster in the Closet" was based on her article published in the Community College Journal and earned a mention in The Chronicle of Higher Education's on-line report on the conference.

Submissions to the Bulletin are encouraged, so please e-mail your achievements, awards, recognitions, and relevant information for the college community to Mary Jane Jones, Staff Assistant in Marketing and Media Relations. Deadline for submission is 5 p.m. on the Tuesday preceding each Friday's distribution. Mary Jane can be reached at ext.1017, or mjjones@valenciacc.edu.