Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014
Training: Cardinal sheets
The cardinal sheet is the proposal routing form used by the ISU Foundation to secure departmental, college and university approvals to request gift/grant funding from a foundation, corporation or other nongovernmental source. Learn how to initiate a cardinal sheet, what documents are required, what approvers need to look for, tips for successfully routing the form, the notification process and generating reports for your unit.
Learning Community: Game Based Learning: Gamifying a Course
Special Guest: Dr. Larysa Nadolny, School of Education, will share her experience and lessons learned from gamifying her 2014 Blackboard Catalyst award winning course.
Workshop: Creative teaching: Replacing problems with opportunities
What bugs you about your large lecture classroom? Your grading system? Your Blackboard sections? AESHM creativity researchers Sara Marcketti and Elena Karpova study students' creative thinking in their classrooms. Together, they have designed this workshop to help inspire ISU teachers' creativity--bring your "bug list" and learn different concrete techniques that will help you creatively solve problems throughout your career.
P&S Council outreach seminar
"Tips for Handling Conflict without Losing Your Temper, Your Mind or Your Job," Elaine Newell, ISU ombuds officer. The open forum also will be astreamed live online.
Lecture: Active Social Architecture, Kigali, Rwanda
Spanish architect Nerea Amoros Elorduy is a cofounder of Active Social Architecture (ASA), a design firm in Kigali, Rwanda. ASA works in close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team across continents to improve livelihoods and strengthen and empower communities and their sense of identity, through innovative, community-based designs and a holistic approach to architecture. Elorduy will share her work in this public presentation.
Class: Beginner Photography
This is a four part course on Tuesdays, October 7, October 14, October 21, and October 28 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. This four-part workshop will cover the basics of photography including equipment and how to use it, depth of field, aperture, light, composition, finding your subject and tips and tricks. Each class is broken into 3 parts: classroom discussion, hands-on practice taking pictures by the students and review of the images taken.
Panel: Open access and the land-grant mission
Harrison Inefuku, Digital Repository coordinator, and Emma Molls, scholarly communications and social sciences and humanities librarian, will join ISU faculty and researchers for a panel discussion on open access and research sharing, including using Digital Repository at Iowa State University to further the land-grant ideal that higher education should be accessible to all.
Workshop: Floral Design Series
"Monochromatic Arrangements." A monochromatic arrangement is an arrangement with tints, tones, and shades of a single hue -- this month inspired by the red planet. Learn the tips and skills used by professionals and create your own one-of-a-kind floral designs. All 2014 class topics were designed on a planetary theme.
Operation Beautiful - Caitlin Boyle
Caitlin Boyle launched Operation Beautiful in 2009 in an effort to curb the negative self-images she so often discovered among young women and men. She began leaving messages on the mirrors of public restrooms to encourage others to think positively about their body. She scribbles down whatever comes to mind - You are beautiful! A smile is your best accessory. Love yourself first. Today, Operation Beautiful is at work on school lockers,...
Concert: Ani DiFranco
With ample doses of soul, funk and jazz, Ani DiFranco performs at Stephens Auditorium this October!