Wednesday, 20 Feb 2019
Workshop, Rubrics and Outcomes in Canvas (Canvas Track 2)
Rubrics are a great way to provide useful formative feedback to your students. Rubrics can also help you understand where your students stand in your course. Learn how to receive insights into whether your students are meeting your intended outcomes as you monitor their progress with constructive feedback! Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Award-Winning Faculty Series: A Day in the Life of a Rural African Woman: Bringing global experiences into the classroom (Dorothy Masinde)
Looking for more ways to excite, activate, and engage students? Needing a solution to transform frustrated students into successful, passionate learners? Award-winning lecturer Dorothy Masinde, Global Resource Systems, Horticulture, has thirty years of experience inspiring learners of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
Research workshop: National Science Foundation Proposal Development (Session 1)
In this session you will learn about the recent changes to NSF Policies and Procedures along with NSF-specific requirements, tips, and tricks for proposal development. This training was created with grant coordinators in mind, but would also be useful for investigators and post-docs who intend to seek NSF funding.
Workshop, Peer review and assessment with Canvas, Google and Qualtrics
Led by Lesya Hassall from CELT and Karla Embleton, the session will focus on the best use case scenarios for Canvas Peer Review, a generic peer review Google form and a peer review Qualtrics process to accommodate peer review of student work and behavior.
Faculty workshop: Documenting Your Research Impact and Increasing Visibility
This session will cover introductory impact metrics and sources (including journal impact factors and altmetrics); identifying who is citing your work and creating reports in Web of Science and Scopus; and methods for increasing scholarly visibility such as Google Scholar and ORCiD profiles, Digital Repository @ISU, and open access publishing.
Thursday, 21 Feb 2019
Research workshop: National Science Foundation Proposal Development (Session 2)
In this session you will learn about the recent changes to NSF Policies and Procedures along with NSF-specific requirements, tips, and tricks for proposal development. This training was created with grant coordinators in mind, but would also be useful for investigators and post-docs who intend to seek NSF funding.
Open Access Publishing: Where do I Start?
Start exploring your options for Open Access publishing today! This workshop will walk you through the process of identifying and evaluating a publisher, locating funding, and exploring other options for making your research open. Whether you want to publish your dissertation or share your research data, we'll get you started! Register through Learn@ISU, keyword: LIB. Let us know if you need accommodation.
Friday, 22 Feb 2019
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
VP for diversity and inclusion Reg Stewart and VP for research Sarah Nusser will share pieces of their leadership journeys in "The Gritty Truth of Higher Ed Administration: Discerning Your Path."
Monday, 25 Feb 2019
Seminar series: Developing Successful Job Application Materials
Part I: Compiling Your CV/Resume
Tuesday, 26 Feb 2019
P&S Council Professional Development Conference
"Cultivate Your Adventure: Planting the Seeds of Success" will feature two breakout sessions and two keynote speakers.
Engaged Scholar meeting
"Health Coaching and Community Health Programming," Trina Suchan, Community Health Partners director. Learn about collaborations between community health partners and ISU Translational Research Network (U-TuRN), related to motivational interviewing and clinical health coaching. Sessions are also available via Zoom.
Seminar series: Developing Successful Job Application Materials
Part II: Compiling your CV/Resume
Research workshop: Your Successful NSF CAREER Proposal
The goal of the prestigious NSF CAREER Grant is to help promising researchers "build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research." Writing a successful CAREER proposal requires clear articulation of long-term research and education goals that are cohesive and well integrated.
Wednesday, 27 Feb 2019
Seminar series: Developing Successful Job Application Materials
Part III: Writing the Research Statement