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MEETING OF THE SABBTICAL LEAVESUBCOMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES - 2- APRIL 10, 201314and then apply them to learning outcomes. Mr. Blaser said he also hopes to expandthis to his colleagues in that he learned it, tried it, and it's working well. If they're interestedthey can try and adopt the new practices. Mr, Blaser said he's used a clickerclass response for a long time with pretty good results. He can quantify it there, butthere are lots of moving parts to play with. Mr. Pierson said it's been a long time sincehe was in class. That's the thing about when there is success in the classroom: it's hardto put your finger on it. Mr. Blaser said as a follow up to his inspiration, part of the reasonCarl Wieman is an inspiration to him is he was looking at their website and they aretalking about what they're doing. He printed a few copies of the shortest paper by Mr.Weiman entitled entitled "WHY NOT TRY A Scientific Approach to Science Education?"Mr. Blaser handed copies to the Board [attached hereto as Exhibit B]. Mr. Piersonthanked Mr. Blaser for his presentation.Ms. Turner said good evening to the Board members, her fellow sabbatical leave presenter,the College President, the Vice Presidents, and Ms. Markword. Ms. Turnerhanded out a folder containing copies of her Powerpoint slides and an article from Redding.comentitled "Shasta College Instructor Teaches How To Land And Keep A Job"[attached hereto as Exhibit C]. Ms. Turner then gave a Powerpoint presentation regardingher proposed sabbatical leave [attached hereto as Exhibit D].Mr. Pierson said with the rapid change in communication due to technological devices,emails, and texts, are you going to cover any of that and how it affects relationships?Ms. Turner responded there will be a module on nonverbal communication talking abouthow communication has changed. The messages we're sending by text is an additionallanguage module. I'll find out for sure best practices, but will talk about the difference inthe level of relationships. If you only text or tweet, we don't know you in the same way.Mr. Pierson said he can only imagine in five years what it will be like with this velocity ofchange. The next five years will be like the last 20 years. Ms. Turner said the studentsin her class say this is the only class where they talk to someone else. They didn't realizetheir communication skills were so bad. Ms. Turner said her favorite story is from astudent talking about her husband. She said she always thought she communicatedwith her husband, but she noticed their conversations were getting shorter and shorter.Last night, she started using active listening. She said tears were falling down her faceas they talked for three hours.Ms. Turner said she is excited to put together what she learns, and find out what everyoneelse is doing and share it with the community. Mr. Pierson said it's an interestingphenomenon. Ms. Turner said people are getting good at superficial relationships, butotherwise don't know what to do. Mr. Swendiman said texting is the most challengingpart due to the lack of inflection in messages. It gives a 180 degree span of choicesabout what the message meant. He said the response he got after sending a text to hiscousin was that she was wasting his time. He texted back that he meant nothing of thesort, to which his cousin apologized. Ms. Turner said that was a good response. Mr.Swendiman said it's good to consider, Ms. Turner said 97% of messages are nonverbal;tone of voice, inflection, or body language. Emoticons don't do it. Mr. Swendimansaid often you don't know what they mean. Ms. Turner said the same can be true of acronyms.Mr. Pierson thanked Ms. Turner for her presentation.Mr. Pierson said the task of the Sabbatical Leave Subcommittee is to put forth the recommendedsabbaticals during regular meeting status.