Congratulations to everybody that participated in OMOT!

All pieces awarded 1^st place will move on to the OMOT city-wide exhibit, which will be at the Springfield Art Association (SAA), 700 N. Fourth Street, from December 2-21. The city-wide awards, as well as the best of show award will be announced at a reception at the SAA for all OMOT participants to be held on December 6, from 6-8 p.m.

Michelle Burger
Release, 1^st
Vivaciousness, 1^st

Esteban Cruz
Fabulous, 1^st

Pam Daniel
Lincoln Perspective, 1^st

Wendy Howerter
Inside-Ewing Cultural Center, 2^nd

Tricia Kujawa
The Eyes of Lincoln-Mt. Rushmore, 1^st
Dusk at the Badlands, 1^st
Evening Storm Over the Badlands, 2^nd

Brenda Protz
Gateway, 1^st

Sue Rush
Bird on a Wire, 1^st

Jan Szoke
Meet Norman, Honorable Mention

Greg Walbert
Free To Be Cool, 1^st
A.L. 1864, 1^st
Cross-section, 2^nd

The exhibit remains open through Oct. 26; please check it out and vote for the LLCC’s People’s Choice Award! For more information, contact Misty Hagstrom at 786.2466 or misty.hagstrom@llcc.edu.

Our sympathy to Barb Eades, assistant director, LLCC Foundation, on the passing of her brother, Daniel A. Knipfer, 57, of New Berlin, who died Thursday, Oct. 13 at St. John’s Hospital. Services were held yesterday, Oct. 18. Memorial contributions may be made to Family Service Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, American Heart Association or First United Methodist Church. View the obituary.

Blackboard Upgrade and Changes for 2017
Tuesday, Oct. 18 | 10-11 a.m. | Sangamon 0119
Facilitator: Andy Mitkos, Learning Management System Coordinator
Click here to register for this session.

We are pleased to announce exciting changes coming to our Blackboard system. Come hear about all of the things that you can expect to see in our Blackboard system this coming spring semester and hear how these updates and changes may impact you and your students. This session is highly recommended for faculty who use Blackboard regularly for online and face-to-face classes.

Encourage Student Engagement With Live Streaming
Wednesday, Oct. 19 | 11 a.m.-noon | Sangamon 0119
Facilitators: Barry Lamb, Director, Instructional Technology Services
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Recording and sharing video at any time is easier than ever! This workshop will feature demonstrations on how to stream video live and share information quickly and easily. Discussion will be focused on best practices to consider when live streaming.  Facebook Live, YouTube, and Periscope will be demonstrated.

Experimentation In Teaching
Thursday, Oct. 20 | 2-3 p.m. | Sangamon 0120
Facilitator Jason Dockter, Ph.D, Professor, English
Click here to register for this session.

Teaching is our first priority as faculty members of the college. We devise classroom activities, teaching methods, and instructional strategies all intended to help students learn the concepts of our courses. But it’s easy to become stuck in a rut, relying on the same activities, methods, and strategies semester after semester. This workshop is not a demonstration workshop – it’s a conversation workshop, mainly about you and what you do in your classroom to get out of those ruts. What out-of-the-box activities or approaches to teaching are you experimenting with? What do you do that you were a bit hesitant to try? What do you bring to your class that others might think is strange? weird? highly suspect? These are the sorts of things I want to hear about and share with other faculty. Your academic discipline doesn’t matter here – but your experimentation in teaching does. Bring your best to this workshop and share it with your peers — the weirder, the better!

Office of Academic Effectiveness Open Lab
Thursday, Oct. 20 | 2-4 p.m. | Sangamon 0119
Facilitator Elaine Guthals, Academic Effectiveness Manager
No registration is required.

Not sure how to get started with your mission statement? Have it developed; need to know what happens next? Still have questions on program review and assessment?   Have curriculum development and maintenance questions? We have added additional Open Lab sessions to address these questions. These open-lab sessions will give you the opportunity to get individual help with any of your curriculum needs.

LLCC’s Recital Series continues Sunday, Oct. 23, with a performance by the LLCC Stolen Moments improvisational jazz ensemble under the direction of Jason Waddell, associate professor of music. The recital begins at 4 p.m. in the Trutter Center.

At the recital, Stolen Moments will perform and improvise solos on a variety of musical styles and standards, including “Autumn Leaves,” “Take Five,” “Satin Doll” and the Blues Brothers tune, “Everybody Needs Somebody.” Student performers include Caleb Jennings, George Smith, Zach Fedor, Kevin Carman, Kenyon Deshasier, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Merriman and Abigail Shaver.

All LLCC Recital Series performances are free and open to the public.

LLCC administers a campus climate survey every three years. The purpose is to assess the climate and experience of college employees. The results are used for planning and institutional effectiveness purposes, and to inform continuous quality improvements at the college.

Today, Monday, Oct. 17, you will receive an email from the National Initiative for Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness (NILIE), which administers the Personal Assessment of the College Environment (PACE) survey.  If you do not receive it today, please check your junk email and/or Clutter folders to see if it was caught by spam filters. The survey subject line will read “PACE Survey- Lincoln Land Community College” and it will come from noreply@qemailserve.com.

The survey is confidential.  LLCC personnel will not have access to the raw data, including comments. NILIE will analyze the data and provide a sample representation of comments in the final report to the college.

The survey should take approximately 15-20 minutes. Thank you for taking the time to complete this important survey.

PLEASE NOTE: The PACE Campus Climate Survey is separate from a Community Survey currently underway, that you received an email about last week. We encourage you to fill out both surveys.  

The Computer Banc will be on campus TODAY with laptops and desktops available for purchase by LLCC students and employees.  The event will take place in A. Lincoln Commons, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.  For details, view this flyer.

LLCC’s On My Own Time exhibit has some “fabulous” entries! Check out these and all of the others in the front atrium of Menard Hall and vote for your favorite! The exhibit continues through Oct. 26.

LLCC Student Government Association will host an Election Debate Night on Oct. 19 in Menard Hall Room 2209. Students, faculty and staff are invited to come watch the 3rd presidential debate. The event will start at 7:30 p.m.. and last until the debate is over at 9:30 p.m. Come socialize, learn about the candidates and eat pizza!

ITS and the Finance Department will soon be launching the Vehicle Request Queue in KBOX. Be on the lookout for the LincIn notice that Vehicle Requests are available through KBOX. When the queue officially opens, the Vehicle Request InfoPath form will no longer be accessible OR accepted. The information required for a request has not changed but detailed instructions will be made available. Immediate supervisor AND Cabinet Level approvals will also still be required. We are very hopeful that this system will provide for a more streamlined process that allows for all parties to know the status of a reservation at any given time.