Lynda \\u2013 3ds Max 2019 Essential Training
Lutero Chaloux
Colleges face the unique challenge of needing faculty and staff to stay current with the latest technologies and career skills in an effort to perform their jobs and best support our students. We do not have the resources to provide sufficient individualized training or workshops, which makes it challenging for our faulty and staff to make best use of technology.
Did you know that the California Community Colleges Professional Learning Network (Prolearning Network) has training resources and information available for faculty and staff? Yes, They Do, and they have added some valuable training for all faculty and staff!
Lynda \\u2013 3ds Max 2019 Essential Training
We are excited that Grovo and lynda.com, premiere training offerings on a wide variety of technical and professional topics, are now available to faculty and staff through the Prolearning Network.
Grovo offers short burst courses (less than 3 minutes, typically) designed around specific topics, such as Excel formulas, adding images to Powerpoint slides, and protecting data while using the cloud.
lynda.com offers in-depth video-based instruction used by a wide range of leading academic institutions. Course topics include most major software programs as well as workplace skills like presentations, leadership and career development. While course topics cover a broad spectrum, you'll find the most general training under the "Business" section. Browse the current full library, and note that new courses and topics are added every week. Below are some recommended courses for all faculty and staff:
Fill out the registration form (below)--this account uses your Butte College email address for verification and communication, but it is a separate account and does not use your Butte College password--you must enter a different password.
I am pleased to announce two new Revit courses on the lynda.com video library authored by yours truly. Please visit my page at lynda.com to learn about these and all of my courses. (Full disclosure: I get a small referral fee if you purchase from this link)
This course shows AutoCAD drafters and designers how to migrate their CAD workflow to Autodesk Revit software. Author Paul F. Aubin details how to transfer your files and explains key distinctions between the packages. Along the way, learn how to customize the Revit settings for optimal control, get a basic handle on the modeling tools, and adjust yourself to the differences in visibility, plot style, object creation, and the user interface.
Phasing in Autodesk Revit allows you to show the complete life cycle of a project, such as a before and after or existing and proposed status, while design options allow you to save multiple iterations of a concept in a single project file. In this course, Paul F. Aubin shows how to use phasing and design options to organize multipart, multifaceted projects in Revit. The course also covers adding and assigning phases to views, scheduling phases and designating future work, working with design option sets, and presenting complex designs to clients.
Both of these course are around 2 hours in length. They focus on specific topics rather than a comprehensive look at the software. If you want a more general look at Revit Architecture overall, you can check out my other courses at lynda.com including Revit Architecture Essentials. There are also a few other courses on Revit there by other excellent authors as well. And if you want to learn more than just Revit, lynda.com is the place to go. You can learn about nearly anything you like with new topics being added every day. I highly recommend it.
Hi Stephen:
Thanks for your interest. This course is a video course hosted at lynda.com. Simply visit and you will see it listed with my other courses. You can sign up for various modes of subscription and there is even a 7-day trial offer. This will give you access to this course and ALL of the courses offered at lynda.com. Please let me know if you want to learn more. Thanks.
Hello Julio:
Thank you for your comments. I am happy that you have enjoyed the lynda videos. As for buying the book in Mexico, do you have access to Amazon.com? I am not sure if they have a Mexican site. Otherwise, any local book seller should be able to order a copy for you. What part of Mexico? Maybe I can ask my publisher for you.
I am from NZ and have gained so much from your training videos. I have seen your tutorials on Lynda.com and has been very impressed by it. I am looking for more advanced materials for the family editor. I was wondering whether your 5 set DVDs on Families cover some advance topics that were not taken on the Lynda family tutorials. Thanks.
Thank you very much for the comments. I am so glad that you liked the lynda.com videos. If you have already watched the Family Editor training, then you have seen most of the material that is in the 5-disk set. The 5-disk set is on 2010 and I used it as a basis to do the course on lynda. There is actually another hour or so more material on lynda. However, if you have not already done so, I recommend you check out my Advanced Modeling course at lynda.com. This one covers a variety of topics, and has some additional family editor tricks. It also gets into the massing environment which is another kind of family editor. Also, check out the free resources I have on my website at I did a couple family editor labs at Autodesk University the past couple years and all the materials are posted there. You might find the Advanced Family Lab useful.
The institution assures the integrity and quality of its programs and services by employing personnel who are qualified by appropriate education, training, and experience to provide and support these programs and services.
All faculty are hired under the same faculty hiring process. (SBCCD Administrative Procedure 7210, line 1135) Faculty who teach online classes are held to the same standards as faculty who teach traditional, face-to-face classes. Minimum qualifications must be met. Additionally, the needs of the department must be considered. Department Faculty Chairs recommend to Division Deans the faculty to teach certain sections. For online sections, both the Faculty Chair and the Division Dean affirm that the person selected for a specific section is qualified to teach that section. Various criteria are used to determine whether a faculty person can successfully teach online. Most faculty who want to teach online have either taken a course or a series of courses on online teaching/learning or have taught online before. In addition, SBVC has a self-paced "Online Teaching Prep" course, housed in the Blackboard Learning Management System, if faculty members want to begin the preparation for online teaching that way. Furthermore, some departments have created extensive, albeit informal, mentoring programs for online teaching. For example, the English department in 2002 would not allow any of their classes to be taught online. With a new Department Faculty Chair, however, one section was permitted. After that person was successful, another English faculty person paired with the online instructor to learn to teach online. In the fall of 2011, six different English faculty members are teaching nine different sections of Freshman Composition and Intermediate Composition. This successful mentoring program is mirrored in the Modern Languages Department with online Spanish classes. [pdf--SBCCD Administrative Procedure 7210]
As a part of the hiring process, the Faculty Chair and/or the Division Dean confirm the various ways in which he or she is prepared for the delivery mode. Record of such successful preparation for online teaching is a part of the Comprehensive Quality Control Process for online classes. This information is used by the Deans and Department Heads to determine if the experience and training is sufficient for the discipline's needs. [webpage--Preparation for Online Teaching]
Criteria, qualifications, and procedures for selection of personnel are clearly and publicly stated. Job descriptions are directly related to institutional mission and goals and accurately reflect position duties, responsibilities, and authority. Criteria for selection of faculty include knowledge of the subject matter or service to be performed (as determined by individuals with discipline expertise), effective teaching, scholarly activities, and potential to contribute to the mission of the institution. Institutional faculty play a significant role in selection of new faculty. Degrees held by faculty and administrators are from institutions accredited by recognized U.S. accrediting agencies. Degrees from non-U.S. institutions are recognized only if equivalence has been established.4
The college does not have its own Human Resources Office. The Human Resources Office is a District Office serving both SBVC and our sister campus, Crafton Hills College. As such, the college shares personnel and hiring policies at the District level.
Having said that, when the college decides to hire a faculty member in a discipline where distance education will be an option or a preference, that information is included in the packet of information provided by the District which advertises the position. At this point, the rationale for including or not including that information is determined at the department level. Online classes were first offered in January of 1996 at SBVC. And over the course of the last 18 years many departments have developed robust online offerings. Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies are examples of departments where all the courses have been approved for distance education delivery. In departments like those, it would be relevant and important to include information about expertise and experience in online teaching during the application process.
The college has not formulated specific selection criteria for faculty desiring to teach distance education courses. Early on in the history of online learning at SBVC, it became apparent that the criteria for being "well qualified" to teach in various disciplines was dramatically different. In the department of Music, the necessary familiarity with multi-media components of learning is crucial. In the department of Philosophy, that multi-media focus is not so crucial. In the department of English, the ability to give feedback on student writing in the online format is essential. In the department of Accounting, that element is trumped by the ability to deal with numbers and spreadsheets. So the criteria selected for determining whether an applicant is well qualified in the field of distance education happens at the department level.
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