There is a tab on the LincIn menu to help centralize communication about professional development opportunities. By clicking on this tab, faculty and staff can see all articles submitted on conferences, workshops, webinars and more.
If you have a professional development opportunity you would like to share, submit an article through the online LincIn form (also in top menu bar above).
Friday, Sept. 4, is National College Colors Day! Show spirit and school pride by wearing our LLCC colors tomorrow. Take a photo of your blues and reds, and send to amy.flynn@llcc.edu for including in a social media post that day!
Craving Quiznos? As a reminder, Quiznos in the lower level of Menard Hall is open with modified hours of Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. You are encouraged to use the Quiznos mobile app for ordering as much as possible. Please note, per Illinois guidelines, no personal cups are allowed to be used to fill at the beverage machine. This includes drinks and ice.
Listen to an interview with LLCC’s Jamil Steele, director of adult education and literacy, in Episode 2 of the Lincoln Land Community College Podcast.
Illinois Community Colleges Online (ILCCO) is sponsoring a free webinar for Illinois community college faculty and staff. “Humanizing the Online Environment: Increasing Instructor Presence and Enhancing Student Engagement” with Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock will be held Wednesday, Sept. 23, at noon. This is the rescheduled keynote from February’s ILCCO Growing Online Learning Conference.
There has been a change to increase the seat capacity. Registration is available at https://form.jotform.com/202366974689069.
Humanizing is a pedagogical approach that supports the non-cognitive components of learning and increases the success of more students in online courses. In this presentation, we will consider why supporting the non-cognitive dimensions of learning is so important for students from marginalized groups and look at examples of humanized online teaching strategies. You will see how we are inspiring — not requiring — faculty to humanize their online courses through faculty-centric professional development in California.
The live link for the session, and the recording, will be available on the ICCB COVID faculty resource page.
Each month, the LLCC Writing Center will emphasize writing in various career fields. For September, we are highlighting environmental sciences. We hope you enjoy viewing our Padlet presentation and encourage you to share it with your students: https://llcc.padlet.org/lauriemyers/h91chh46yu8vvjpi.
The 25,000th bird was banded the morning of Aug. 31 at the LLCC Bird Banding Station! It was a warbler called a Northern Waterthrush (a fairly common migrant in central Illinois). Tony Rothering, professor of biology, and net-check assistants banded a total of 19 birds of seven species that morning.
In addition, a small segment of an interview Professor Rothering did in conjunction with a May bird banding event at Julbilee Farm is now available on the Jubilee Farm Facebook page.
Jolene Lamb, coordinator, LLCC Culinary Institute, wrote today’s Epicuriosity 101 column in the State Journal-Register, “What do I want to eat?”
Three new forms have been posted to the Accounts Payable SharePoint page that will replace the older versions of the C+R and blanket forms. Moving forward, we ask that you only use these three forms when submitting vouchers for payment and that you please submit them electronically per the instructions on the forms. These forms are:
Pease fill these forms out entirely before submitting them for payment. Vouchers should only be submitted via email to Elyse.Calhoun@llcc.edu and your budget manager(s). If you have any questions, please reach out to Elyse Calhoun in LLCC Accounts Payable at Elyse.Calhoun@llcc.edu.
Thank you for your cooperation during this transition!
Microsoft Office 365 is comprised of online applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive and Teams. All active LLCC accounts (students, faculty, adjunct faculty and staff) have access to cloud storage with OneDrive. OneDrive is accessible on any smart device using a web browser or corresponding downloaded app.
With OneDrive, you can upload and store your LLCC documents and set permissions to share with other active LLCC users all from one location. There are no restrictions on the types of files that you can upload to OneDrive, and each account is granted 1024GB (1TB) of storage space.
Sync OneDrive to your PC or Mac, so you can access your files even when you’re offline. With sync, your PC (File Explorer) or Mac (Finder) files are always up-to-date. Any time that you edit a document, it is then synced via the cloud to your other devices and/or people you’ve shared with.
Additional tech tips will be added to LincIn. Go to the Employee Portal > IT > Remote Access Knowledge Base > OneDrive folder for additional documentation and to view a Getting started with OneDrive.pdf.