The Florissant Valley Counseling Department introduced Mental Health First Aid to St. Louis Community College to assist faculty and staff with the growing number of mental health issues on college campuses. It has been successful in creating an awareness of mental health issues as well as an appropriate referral source. After two years of development, the workshop was adapted to a one credit hour course (PRD 528) that is available to both students and the public. Since its introduction, the Counseling Department has trained over 200 faculty, staff, students, and community members in Mental Health First Aid. It has brought local and national attention to St. Louis Community College and has introduced the college to a number of individuals.

In this presentation, the presenter will introduce ideas on how to teach the Arabic language (or any other language) online; discuss various ways of teaching a language beyond the physical classroom; and enhance the learning experience by using different technology tools to engage students in active learning.

Students in BIO 261: Nucleic Acids, a biotechnology course, had a unique final exam in which they were charged with identifying an organism using just its DNA. Each student received a swab of cells from an unknown organism, extracted DNA from the cells, and designed and executed an experiment to determine the species of the organism from which the cells had come. The students used polymerase chain reaction - the same process that forensic DNA labs use - to find the answer. This experiment not only tested the students’ experimental design and laboratory skills, but provided them with a fun and exciting real-world challenge.

Kirkwood Community College uses a variety of methods to cut energy consumption and energy costs. This presentation will focus on energy policies, load shedding, ice storage, and other methods to reduce consumption and costs. It will also address the recent construction of a 2.5MW wind turbine on the Cedar Rapids Campus.

Salt Lake Teens Write program provides long-term academic and career mentoring for underserved teens through writing. Salt Lake Teens Write serves as a model program where learning is reciprocal - mentors write alongside teens, learn alongside teens, and grow in their abilities just as the teens do. Rather than a top-down, teacher-student approach, this program encourages an equal playing field. Not only is the program itself a creative innovation, but within the program creativity and learning go hand-in-hand. Both mentors and teens benefit from the reciprocity of exploring genres together, generating ideas together, writing drafts together, and being readers and listeners for one another. Salt Lake Teens Write is also a creative approach to recruiting underserved youth for college in the near future.

San Diego Miramar College has used funds from the California Community Colleges' Basic Skills Initiative grant to offer a wide array of student support programs, including instructional assistants in basic skills English courses, an English/ESOL lab, supplemental instruction in basic skills math and English, tutoring services to students pursuing certificates and degrees in Child Development, counseling presentations tailored to basic skills students, and basic skills tutoring in a specialized math lab. Individual project coordinators have collaborated to make the overall Basic Skills connections program efficient and well-connected, so that services are widely advertised and accessible to as many basic skills students as possible each semester.

A series of image mapped photographs and micrographs were prepared for three courses: Anatomy and Physiology I and II (BSC 1085 and BSC 1086) and Biology II (BSC 1011). This program provides review materials for students who have completed their weekly on-campus lab sessions. The program provides micrographs of their actual lab slides and photographs of their specimens. Explanatory essays accompany the photos and micrographs for each of the lab exercises, a sound program provides English (American) pronunciation of key scientific terms for non-native speakers, and an optional self-grading quiz is included in each lab so students can self-check their progress.

Student Success Plan (SSP) is an open-source software system designed to increase the persistence, success, and graduation rates of targeted students. Through holistic counseling, Web-based support systems, and intervention techniques, students at risk of failing in college are identified, supported, and monitored. Tools include case management software, early alert, student interface, student information system (SIS) integration, and reporting tools/data collection.

Single Stop (SS) is a ground-breaking partnership between Miami Dade College (MDC) and Single Stop USA, an anti-poverty organization. Designed to help students persist and complete, MDC launched SS at two campuses in 2010, and then replicated it. SS's model combines benefits screening, tax preparation, legal and financial counseling, and mentoring. Over one hundred service-learning students assist with services. SS advisors use cutting-edge software to determine eligibility and to provide students coordinated access to health insurance, food stamps, and subsidies; financial coaching addresses debt management and budgeting; legal counseling targets housing, immigration, and other matters; and tax preparation ensures access to tax credits and financial aid filing. SS leverages existing resources to help the poorest students marshal resources to persist. More than 7,000 students were served, totaling over $8M in benefits and services. Over 2,000 students received tax services.

The Enough is Enough campaign is a critical collaboration designed to create a new paradigm for peace and safety on this nation's campuses by addressing the societal violence that has contributed to unprecedented violence in some of the very places our students should feel the most safe. (NASPA.org/enough) Let us show you how MCC's Civility Project Committee facilitated 20+ programs over the course of four days. The Enough is Enough Campaign is creating a new climate on our college campuses. All of the programs have granted opportunities for students to self discover, self disclose, become aware, desensitize, and foster discussion. They helped create a safe environment, provide resources, tools, and skills to help students cope, understand, report, and support one another when faced with violence or incivility. We will start with our planning process and goals of the campaign, and take you through each event.

The Pioneering Online Science Labs project exemplifies Sinclair Community College's motto, "Find the need and endeavor to meet it." Sinclair students expressed a need for fully online degree programs. However, the lack of online science courses prevented the completion of the AA and AS degrees online. The College listened and met the need by developing fully online astronomy and biology lecture and lab courses. The courses have been extremely successful - enrollment has increased and success rates mirror those of the traditional classroom. Students have learned and are very satisfied with their experiences.

Apple released iBooks Author in January 2012 and opened up an unimaginable world to the textbook. This software makes it easy to embed video, sound files, and 3D images. For language teaching and learning, including sound files is essential; this was not possible with traditional printed textbooks. Many publishers are publishing eBook PDF versions, but such eBooks cannot include sound files. This session will talk about how iBooks Author can be used to create language teaching material.

Facebook recently opened its newest data center in Forest City, NC. The $900M facility will handle a vast amount of the company's network traffic. The site is adjacent to a data center built several years ago by the State of North Carolina. Data centers have been built in neighboring counties by Google, Apple, Disney, and AT&T. Isothermal Community College worked closely with Facebook to develop a certification to prepare students to work in one of the area's most exciting industries. This 12 day workshop focuses on technical requirements of an entry-level data center employee in a hands-on, active learning environment. Content is in modules focused on technical concepts, followed by a two-day simulation and a certification exam. Isothermal is already working with Facebook on a second certification focusing on data center facility operations (e.g., power systems, climate control). In addition to serving students, Isothermal is adding to its role as a driver of economic development.

This session will describe how the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) have partnered to receive a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant designed to significantly scale blended learning. Our project expanded adoption of blended learning to twenty participating AASCU member institutions by developing and disseminating a Blended Learning Toolkit based upon the proven best practices that have been successfully implemented by UCF. Included in this toolkit are strategies for blended course design and delivery, model courses in Composition and Algebra, assessment and data collection protocols, and train-the-trainer materials and workshops.

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Phoenix College and Arizona State University implemented a 90:30 agreement for a Bachelor in Applied Science in Medical Laboratory Science in fall 2010 to meet the demand for Laboratory professionals. Students can essentially earn a bachelor degree on the Phoenix College campus. Hybrid delivery and videoconferencing technology expand the program statewide.

Whether enrolled face-to-face or on-line, students need basic computing literacy skills for academic success. Learning management systems, college web portals, and web based instruction are only a few examples requiring computing literacy. Yet a study at Greenville Technical College found less than 30% of students with such skills. A follow-on study found instructors spending instructional time teaching computing literacy skills such as how to attach files and how to set margins in Word instead of planned subject matter lessons. To increase student academic success, a team of three faculty (Mary Locke, Dept Head Computer Skills and Application, Mark Krawczyk, Networking Faculty, and Lenna Young, Dean Business and Public Service) developed an interactive assessment designed to measure computing literacy levels. Students scoring below the desired level can be identified and directed to a course designed to prepare them for the basic computing literacy required in all courses. This session presents information about the college's two responses: a) development of an assessment to determine students computer technology skill level; and, b) development of an introductory, basic computing technology course.

Mobile devices can be used to deliver podcasts covering laboratory techniques and conceptual information that provide vital modeling and scaffolding for students working in laboratories taught with an inquiry-based curriculum. These resources are delivered electronically, which allow students to work more independently at their own pace. Faculty members at three institutions have collaborated on the Mobile Enhanced Inquiry-Based Learning (MEIBL) project. This presentation will include data collected on student performance and student approaches to learning at the three institutions, as well as challenges and successes in adapting mobile device use for different curricula.

Supplementing instruction with cyber competition exercises provides a venue for high school and college students to gain authentic experience, assess their career interests, and apply knowledge gained in their coursework.