Tuesday, 03 Mar 2015
Workshop: Introducing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, knowledge of personality type and how it is used to make people more effective are used by many organizations, large and small throughout the world. Type can support many functions and situations including: managing others, development of leadership skills, conflict resolution, executive coaching, change management and more. Registration is free on AccessPlus.
Thursday, 05 Mar 2015
Workshop: How to Negotiate any Situation Successfully
Learn how to negotiate for the conditions that create your career success. Led by Regina Barr, founder and CEO of Red Ladder Inc.
Balancing work and private life
Workshop on balancing work and private life
Friday, 06 Mar 2015
EH&S Safety Summit
"Ergonomics." This session will provide attendees with specific examples of equipment and techniques to reduce or eliminate laboratory and office ergonomic risk factors. Registration is free.
Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015
Panel: The Student Experience with Service-Learning
Service-learning offers a dynamic strategy for engaging students in deeper learning of course content through community action. Dr. Gail Nonnecke, Global Professor of Global Resource Systems and Morrill Professor of Horticulture, will facilitate as student panelists share their reflections about the influence service-learning had on their understanding of content presented in the classroom.
Thursday, 12 Mar 2015
Altmetrics: New Metrics for Your Research Impact!
OFFERED AS HANDS-ON WORKSHOP OR LIVE WEBINAR. Track your impact beyond citations! Track page views, social bookmarking, tweets, subscribers, downloads, databases, presentation slideshows, videos, websites and more. Preregistration Required for workshop (limited seating) and for webinar.
Friday, 13 Mar 2015
Workshop: Launching Your Campaign
"Ready to Run Iowa" is nonpartisan, campaign training for women considering running for elective office in Iowa, preparing for appointive office, or seeking to be leaders in their communities. Registration is required.
Workshop: Fundraising for Success
"Ready to Run Iowa" is nonpartisan, campaign training for women considering running for elective office in Iowa, preparing for appointive office, or seeking to be leaders in their communities. Registration is required.
Monday, 23 Mar 2015
Workshop: Building an Effective Team
This session offers participants the opportunity to learn what makes an effective team, the challenges that can get in the way and specific skills that each team member can practice on a day-to-day basis to improve relationships and team performance. Registration is free on AccessPlus.
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2015
Mentoring graduate students
Mentoring graduate students
POSTPONED: Forum: Designing Coursework as a Game with Visiting Professor Lee Sheldon
Everywhere educators from K-12 to university professors are attempting to negotiate the widening gap between decades-old teaching methods and the parallel-processing and social-networking students of today. They recognize that students seem more focused on video game challenges than their classes, but literal efforts to use video games to teach have met with uncertain success.
What Are the Digital Humanities and Why Are They Important?
You may have noticed the phrase "Digital Humanities" popping up all over the place in the last several years. In this workshop you'll learn what is meant by DH, why it's such an important field, and how you, as a humanist, can make it work for you. Intended for graduate students and faculty in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Seating is limited. Prerequisite required.
Thursday, 26 Mar 2015
Seminar: Best Practices in Flipped Class Design
Best Practices in Flipped Class Design will give you the knowledge about how flipped learning works in different disciplines and the conceptual tools for constructing a flipped classroom of your own. This webinar is taught by Robert Talbert, Ph.D., associate professor in the mathematics department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.
Monday, 30 Mar 2015
CELT Morrill Professor Panel and Teaching Poster Symposium
Beginning at 3:30 p.m., a panel session, featuring Morrill Professors, will share their perspectives on the importance of effective teaching in higher education. The symposium will feature efforts of the CELT Teaching Partners Program which pairs junior faculty with senior faculty mentors, as well as showcasing examples of teaching techniques, teaching strategies and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Tuesday, 31 Mar 2015
Storm Spotter Training
Free training open to all ISU faculty, staff and students, especially encouraged for people working outdoors. Learn the warning process, elements of a spotter report, thunderstorm basics and storm spotter safety. Registration encouraged for this free event.