Undercover Professor – Episode 3 – Management Challenges – Human Aspects, Public Speaking, Organizing Staff, Attitude

Undercover Professor Dr, Jose G. Lepervanche continues his search for learning edge adventures and management challenges. This week he interviews an astronomer and Kent Campus Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences of Florida State College at Jacksonville. He talks to the VP of Top O’ The Rock Toastmasters about public speaking. He also interviewed the Director of Admissions and Assistant Dean of Library Learning Commons about their challenges with staff.

Undercover Professor – Management Challenges – Episode 2 – - Listen to the Heart, Supervising workers and volunteers, Inspect what you Expect

Undercover Professor Dr, Jose G. Lepervanche continues his search for learning edge adventures and management challenges. This time he interviews Kent Campus President of Florida State College at Jacksonville. He volunteers in Boy Scouts of America Adventure Base 100 and interviews the Volunteers Coordinator. Finally, as a board member of the MIT Club of North Florida, he found very good tips about delegation with the Club’s President-elect.

Capstone Island Survivors

Congratulations to the first graduating class of our BAS in Supervision and Management. Time to find new mountains to climb. Enjoy the journey.

My 4 Hearts – Last Day Lecture of the first Capstone course – May 2010

Last lecture for the very first Capstone course at FSCJ – Kent Campus (Thursday night class), May 6, 2010.

21st International Conference on College Teaching and Learning

April 19-23, 2010 – 21st International Conference on College Teaching and Learning

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 – 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Advanced Technology Center
Making Your Blackboard Course “Pop”
Are you or your students tired of the same old, boring online look of black letters on a white background? If so, this workshop is for you. In this interactive, hands on workshop, you will learn how to add images, banners, sound, and videos to the announcements, content, and discussions in your Blackboard courses. Liven up your class to help keep your students motivated. In this workshop, resources will be shared that will help you with adding and manipulating images, sound, and video. Prior experience with Blackboard is helpful but not necessary for this workshop.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m., Players D (Macintosh Multimedia Room)
Eventoons: Experimental creative art using educational eventoons, cartoons and avatars
Cartoons and Second Life (SL) avatars have been used in management and information systems courses to bring educational current events to ground and virtual classroom. Eventoons are an experimental creative way to use art to shape current events in a drawing and/or virtual world to enhance their impact in our students. Drawing cartoons for a class is done on a whiteboard and/or posted on a website (www.eventoons.org), blog or SL virtual world. Creations are experimental because they are tested for usefulness to enhance the learning experience. (ID #143/Track 1)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Players D (Macintosh Multimedia Room)
Microblogging and social media groups to enhance classroom discussions topics
Microblogging and social media networks are two of the current web technologies that bring classroom activities outside the traditional ground and virtual platforms. Microblogging using Twitter is a creative way of posting comments and links that can be replicated in social groups, Blackboard announcements or inside a discussion board. Students are able to read and reply to tweets as part of a class or comment in a social group. Professors can select good responses and tweet them as a microblog in both Twitter and social media groups to expand discussions outside the classroom. (ID #139/Track 4)

Thursday, April 22, 2010, 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m., Players D (Macintosh Multimedia Room)
Capstone course development for the BAS in Supervision and Management
The Capstone in Supervision and Management is a course that focuses on the integration of knowledge, skills and abilities learned in the BAS in Supervision and Management program through a capstone project. Integrating management knowledge was accomplished by including the core competencies and program outcomes (professionalism, problem solving, literacy skills, management perspective, information technology and teamwork), business advisory board current industry needs, students’ current workplace experience, and faculty academic and practitioner experience. The result was a matrix of course components (team project simulation, individual project, OPQ, professional development, current topics, and mentoring) that combine and integrate the above-mentioned areas. (ID #158/Track 1)

Undercover Professor – Management Challenges – Episode 1 – Lead others, Patience

Undercover Professor Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche starts his educational series about Management Challenges. He shares his management challenge as head of a nuclear research reactor. Dr. Michael B. Reiner, Executive Dean – Kent Campus & Cecil Center – Florida State College at Jacksonville talks about quality education and gives tips to new managers.

Guest Speaker: Kevin Newman @ Flagler Hospital

Flagler Hospital Guest Speaker @ Capstone

Kevin Newman, RN and Licensed Nurse Health Care Risk Manager at Flagler Hospital was guest speaker in our Capstone class. Mr. Newman talked about ethics and law with emphasis in the health care industry.

Guest speaker: Dale Lewis and CSX

Guest Speaker: CSX

Guest Speaker: Mark Tolleson & Process Master

Guest Speaker: Process Master

Process Master

We started our series of Guest Speakers in our Management Theory and Practice class with a presentation by Mark Tolleson, one of the owners of Process Master, a local carpet cleaning company that has been family owned and operated in North-East Florida for over 30 years.

Mr. Tolleson gave details about the history and operations of the company and he shared his management rules using his own stories and decisions. Here is the list:

1. Do not lose money
2. Do not forget rule #1
3. Listen to co-workers, clients, and friends
4. You can teach an old dog new tricks
5. Motivate the unmotivated
6. Hang around dogs…..you get fleas
7. Mistakes are lessons
8. Power of positive thinking
9. Help others…..payback is great
10. Have fun

Please think about these rules, his presentation, and feel free to add your comments here.

Nuclear Research Reactor RV-1 Venezuela

Nuclear Research Reactor RV-1 Venezuela. Pictures to support lecture about nuclear energy.

RV1 nuclear core

RV1 control room

RV1 control room