Resources

On this page, you will find links to a variety of professional development resources for both faculty and staff. Some of these are subscriptions the college has purchased for your use, materials available for checkout to MCC employees, and links to organizations that provide development materials or hold development conferences.

Starlink: This is a service subscribed to by MCC and available to all MCC employees. The login information will be disseminated via the POD Newsletter. Starlink offers a variety of video-streamed webcasts each available for a limited time. They also keep a Library of webcasts for your use. These include:

  1. Monthly Streaming Videos: Twelve previously broadcast STARLINK programs (60-90 minutes) that are available on-demand at the desktop for an entire month.
  2. Annual Streaming Videos: The best of STARLINK's program library (60-90 minutes programs).
  3. Ideas: Three to seven minute classroom teaching tips available on your computer until August 31, 2008.
Starlink is an agency of the Texas Association of Community Colleges and the oldest satellite and Internet-based educational network in the country. The Starlink network currently provides regular professional development programs to MCC and 140 member colleges and universities in twenty-four states and Canada. To access the Starlink webcasts, you must have either Windows Media Player or Real Player on your computer.

NISOD Hook'Em Up Monthly Newsletter: As a NISOD member institution, this newsletter is available to all MCC employees. The login information will be disseminated via the POD Newsletter. Hook'Em Up is a monthly e-newsletter that connects NISOD members to the latest conference updates, showcases practitioner publications, spotlights community college achievements, features the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) endeavors, and highlights partnerships supporting teaching and learning. Hook’Em Up also directs members to listen to the NISODcast as distinguished leaders discuss critical initiatives that support student success.

The Network The Network is an innovative, new way to connect to free, online professional development resources for career and technical education faculty, counselors and administrators. Search easily through hundreds of topics and teaching modules. It's all in one free, easy to use site created by a partnership of community college professionals from across the state.