Tuesday, 10 Sep 2013
EAP Training: The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Human resource services, in conjunction with Employee and Family Resources, is offering professional development classes to benefits-eligible employees. Space is limited. Register via AccessPlus (Employee tab > "HRS Training")
Online Tele-Workshop: Overcoming academic perfectionism
- Do you struggle to share your writing at early stages because it's not perfect? - Do you find yourself devastated by criticism of your work? - Do you beat yourself up every time the tiniest thing goes wrong? - Is it difficult for you to celebrate other people's success because it reminds you of your own shortcomings?
Friday, 13 Sep 2013
BUG: Blackboard User Group Meetings
Monthly meeting of BbLearn users discussing various topics related to the use of Blackboard Learn in teaching and learning.
Monday, 16 Sep 2013
Workshop: Developing your Course in Blackboard Learn
In this hands-on Blackboard Learn workshop you will learn how and where to upload your course syllabus, post assignments, create and manage announcements, send email, enroll students using the ISU Admin Tool, add TAs, course builders, or guests, organize course materials, add instructor contact info with photo, access the Grade Center, and more.
Tuesday, 17 Sep 2013
Workshop: Using Tests, Quizzes, and Surveys in Blackboard Learn
In this hands-on Blackboard Learn workshop you will learn how to create online tests, quizzes, and surveys and learn how to use them effectively within your BbLearn course. You will also learn how to view quiz results, grade, and provide student feedback online or set your quiz to grade and provide feedback automatically.
Wednesday, 18 Sep 2013
Seminar: Frantic Student, Busy Instructor: How to Incorporate Writing into Your Classroom in Time-Conscious Ways
Though research shows students learn more from written assignments, we are often daunted by the idea of grading student writing. Join the director of the Writing & Media Center for a cross-disciplinary conversation about manageable ways to incorporate writing and other forms of WOVE (writing, oral, visual, and electronic) communication into your courses.
The Research-Based Flipped Classroom: Team-Based Learning: A Teaching and Learning Circle
Join in on the excitement of Team Based Learning (TBL), a highly effective, research-based teaching methodology implemented in many disciplines & throughout the world. TBL is an increasingly-popular form of flipped-classroom where small-group learning that can be implemented effectively in small or large classes. TBL provides students with a more intimate, small class feel even in large theater-style classrooms with fixed seats.
Thursday, 19 Sep 2013
Workshop: Grade Center Essentials and Beyond
Explore Blackboard Learn's Grade Center and see how it integrates with Assessment Tools (Tests, Assignments) & Interactive Tools (Graded Discussions, Journals, and Blogs). Learn how to add, modify, organize, show/hide, remove grade columns, and how to use Bb Learn to calculate and submit Midterm and Final Grades. Experience multiple options for entering and modifying grades -- and adding comments and feedback.
Friday, 20 Sep 2013
Hands-on fire extinguisher training
Environmental Health and Safety and the Ames Fire Department will offer hands-on fire extinguisher training. Pick up some fire safety information. T-shirts and coupons from local restaurants will be given away while supplies last.
Tuesday, 24 Sep 2013
Workshop: Developing your Course in Blackboard Learn
In this hands-on Blackboard Learn workshop you will learn how and where to upload your course syllabus, post assignments, create and manage announcements, send email, enroll students using the ISU Admin Tool, add TAs, course builders, or guests, organize course materials, add instructor contact info with photo, access the Grade Center, and more.
Wednesday, 25 Sep 2013
Workshop: Using Tests, Quizzes, and Surveys in Blackboard Learn
In this hands-on Blackboard Learn workshop you will learn how to create online tests, quizzes, and surveys and learn how to use them effectively within your BbLearn course. You will also learn how to view quiz results, grade, and provide student feedback online or set your quiz to grade and provide feedback automatically.
Seminar: Service-Learning at ISU
Service-learning is a proven pedagogical strategy for increasing engagement and promoting deeper learning among students.
Thursday, 26 Sep 2013
ISU Youth Program Awareness Training
The Office of Risk Management, University Council, and 4-H Extension and Outreach collectively are holding a training session for youth program leaders and administrators. The training will address youth-related policies, procedures and forms that must be completed to conduct youth programs at Iowa State. Register in advance by emailing the Office of Risk Management at orm@iastate.edu.
Workshop: Monitoring Student Learning in Blackboard Learn
This workshop is designed to introduce the monitoring functions of your Blackboard Learn course for understanding student learning. You will see a demonstration and become familiar with the benefits and logistics of the early warning system, course reports, item review statuses, item selective releases, Grade Center's smart views and color-coding.
Monday, 30 Sep 2013
Bioeconomy Showcase and Progressive Dinner
"The Iowa Capital Corridor Project: Roles and Opportunities for ISU Faculty Working in Biorenewables" will orient faculty on the corridor project, ISU's bioenergy resources and diverse research facilities (on and off campus). RSVPs (online) are requested by Sept. 25.
The Strange Saga of Academic Freedom and the Law
Matthew W. Finkin is the author of For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom and the The Case for Tenure. He is on the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he is the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law, and director of the Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy.