2011 Professional Development Grants and
Workshop Mini-Grants Final Reports

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Fall 2011

College	Title	Name	Email	Final Report
BRCC	Integrating Active Learning Techniques into the Physics Classroom	Kenneth Phillips	phillipsk@brcc.edu	F2011-419P-FF
BRCC	Discover and Learn: Incorporating Interactive Lesson Plans through Instruction Using a Digital Film Streaming System	Stacey Effrig	effrigs@brcc.edu	F2011-19W-CF
BRCC	Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! The Road to Oz through Generational and Multicultural Awareness	Susan Simmers	simmerss@brcc.edu	F2011-18W-CF
CVCC	Teaching the Mobile Generation	Juville Dario-Becker	dario-beckerj@cvcc.vccs.edu	F2011-20W-FF
CVCC	OPERATION NATURE TRAIL RESCUE: Engaging Students in the Establishment of an Outdoor Learning Lab	Teresa Ranson	ransont@cvcc.vccs.edu	F2011-421P-FF
GCC	Fall 2011 Instructional technology Summit—Innovations in Teaching and Learning	Juliette Mersiowsky	JMersiowsky@germanna.edu	F2011-22W-PF
JSRCC	VCCS Oral Communication Competency Assessment: Three College Pilot of Standardized Rubric and Comon Speech Assignment	Cynthia De Riemer	cderiemer@reynolds.edu	F2011-411P-FF
JTCC	Creating an Interactive, Digital Teaching and Learning Resource	Alexandr Tolj	atolj@jtcc.edu	F2011-417P-FF
NVCC	Student Engagement through Team-based Learning: Incorporating Team Assignments into the Curriculum	Amy Harding	alharding@nvcc.edu	F2011-425P-PF
NVCC	The Underground Railroad Quilt Codes, Fact or Fiction	Elizabeth Tebow/Tindell	etebow@nvcc.edu	F2011-433P-PF
NVCC	Facilitating a Community of Practice for Biology Instructors	Lucinda Miller	lmiller@nvcc.edu	F2011-413P-PF
NVCC	Create a Website for Storing Best Practice Teaching and Learning Materials Specifically Geared Towards Gen 1.5 Students.	Memuna Sillah	msillah@nvcc.edu	F2011-431P-PF
NVCC	Making the Invisible, Visible: A Visual Dialogue between Art and Science Lecture Tour	Rebecca Kamen	rkamen@nvcc.edu	F2011-427P-PF
NVCC	Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War Through Music	Wendy Matthews	wmatthews@nvcc.edu	F2011-415P-PF

Summer 2011

College	Title	Name	Email	Final Report
BRCC	Paralegal Exploration	Lisa Kara	karal@brcc.edu	SU2011-395P-FF
BRCC	Canine Physical Rehabilitation	Janice Larsen	larsenj@brcc.edu	SU2011-384P-PF
BRCC	Expanding Internationalization of the Nursing Curriculum and Cultural Awareness of Community College Nursing Students through an Exploration of Chinese Alternative Medicine	Drew Strong	StrongD@brcc.edu	SU2011-400P-PF
DSLCC	Multiplying Memories: Using Technology to Research, Organize and Archive Educational Experiences of African Americans in the Allegheny Highlands of Virginia (1930s through 1960s)	Cynthia Boteler	cboteler@dslcc.edu	SU2011-410P-FF
NRCC	The History of Distance Education at a VCCS college: Innovation through Teamwork	Tom Faigle	tfaigle@virginiawestern.edu	SU2011-401P-CF
NVCC	Creating a Super Computer at a Super Price	Edward Delean	edelean@nvcc.edu	SU2011-391P-PF
NVCC	Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Critic of the Dutch Colonial World and Decolonization in Indonesia	Charles Evans	cevans@nvcc.edu	SU2011-387P-CF
NVCC	A Multi-media Lecture for an Interdisciplinary Natural Science Course on Water	Rebecca Kamen	rkamen@nvcc.edu	SU2011-382P-FF
NVCC	Distance Physics Laboratory for Virginia	Walerian Majewski	wmajewski@nvcc.edu	SU2011-408P-FF
NVCC	Development of a New Geoscience Field Course: "The Geology and Oceanography of Delmarva Barrier Islands"	Kenneth Rasmussen	krasmussen@nvcc.edu	SU2011-397P-FF
NVCC	Developing a Certificate program for Building Inspection—Local, National and International (Developing countries)	Nazanin Saidi	nsaidi@nvcc.edu	SU2011-409P-FF
NVCC	DpBestFlow for Photographers	Barbara Southworth	msouthworth@reynolds.edu	SU2011-388P-FF
NVCC	Physics Laboratory Experiments At Home	Tatiana Stantcheva	tstantcheva@nvc.edu	SU2011-385P-FF
SWCC	Professional Development Project: Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop	Joseph Trivette	joseph.trivette@sw.edu	SU2011-405P-PF
TCC	Social Change and Intersectional Activism Book Completion	Sharon Doetsch-Kidder		SU2011-407P-FF
VWCC	Improving Student Retention through Utilization of Best Practices in Community College Career Centers	Ruth Hendrick	HendrickR@CVCC.VCCS.EDU	SU2011-394P-FF
VWCC	Meeting Workforce and Student Needs through Improved Services and Opportunities in Community College Career Centers	Rhonda Perdue	rperdue@virginiawestern.edu	SU2011-404P-FF

Spring 2011

College	Title	Name	Email	Final Report
GCC	Research on Partnerships for India Study Abroad	Sunithi Gnanadoss	sgnanadoss@germmana.edu	SP2011-372P-PF
GCC	BYOC: Bring Your Own Course!	Cheryl Huff	chuff@germanna.edu	SP2011-3W-PF
LFCC	Spring 2011 Instructional Technology Summit—Innovations in Teaching and Learning	Joan Osborne	josborne@nvcc.edu	SP2011-5W-FF
NVCC	Making the Invisible, Visible: A Visual Dialogue between Art and Science	Rebecca Kamen	rkamen@nvcc.edu	SP2011-374P-FF
NVCC	A Comparative Study of Student Learning Outcomes for Research Papers in Dual Enrollment and On-campus	Jay Steere	jsteere@nvcc.edu	SP2011-377P-CF
NVCC	Robotics in Engineering Education	Monica Mallini		SP2011-379P-CF.PF
NVCC	Teaching in Black and White: Using the Newspaper as a Text in the Composition Classroom	Meena Nayak	mnayak@nvcc.edu	SP2011-380P-PF
PVCC	A Novel Approach: Feeding a Book Manuscript to Writers' Conference Wolves	Andrew Smith	ansmith@pvcc.edu	SP2011-370P-CF
SWCC	Music Instruction and Perform Professional Development Project	Joseph Trivette	joseph.trivette@sw.edu	SP2011-373P-CF
TNCC	Emerging Scholars in Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science	Robert Crumpler	rcrumpler@tcc.edu	SP2011-376P-FF