Monday, 04 Feb 2019
Faculty workshop: Advancing Your Career at ISU
Associate provost Dawn Bratsch-Prince and LAS associate dean Amy Slagell will present on best practices for putting together a portfolio, opportunities for faculty to be more engaged as their careers develop, and the new term faculty tracks. This session is intended for adjunct, clinical and research-track faculty.
Workshop: Effectively managing disruptive classroom behavior
When disruptive behavior takes place, a number of Iowa State University faculty members recommend addressing it immediately. Their advice: remain calm, assess the situation, listen to student concerns. Especially recommended: provide a clear, firm response that is consistent with responses you've given other students. The strategies and resources in this workshop will help you prepare for these moments before they occur.
Discuss Published Education Research in Your Discipline (DBER Journal Club)
How do students learn best in your discipline? Where can you publish the way you solved instructional problems? You are invited to share and discuss DBER journal articles, seek feedback as you begin designing your own educational research projects, and form collaborations with participants from other disciplines.
Tuesday, 05 Feb 2019
Workshop, Using social media to support learning in your classroom
This event has been rescheduled from its' originally scheduled date of January 29, 2019 due to inclement weather and university closure.
Thursday, 07 Feb 2019
Workshop, Peer review and assessment with Canvas, Google Suite 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.
Monday, 11 Feb 2019
Workshop, Building a Canvas Course that Makes Sense to Your Students (Canvas Track 1)
Learn about the top five strategies to ensure that your Canvas course is navigable and user-friendly! Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Workshop: Fulbright Opportunities for Administrators, Faculty Members and Professionals
Kaitlin Jewett, Outreach and Recruitment Officer at the Institute of International Education, will lead this free workshop. Faculty and professionals can reserve a 30-minute visit with Jewett (8-9:30 a.m. and 1-5 p.m.)
Tuesday, 12 Feb 2019
Quality Matters Learning Community
The Quality Matters (QM) Learning Community is designed to help you improve your courses using the Quality Matters Standards. Members will have opportunities to hear about ways to meet the QM standards, as well as discussing best practices, experiences, and solutions to course design problems.
Wednesday, 13 Feb 2019
Workshop, Low and High Stakes Quizzes in Canvas (Canvas Track 1)
The quiz set up in Canvas depends on the purpose with which the assessment is administered. Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Thursday, 14 Feb 2019
Workshop, Grading and Student Data in Canvas (Canvas Track 1)
Use the power of Gradebook and student data in Canvas to fuel your students' progress! Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Friday, 15 Feb 2019
Workshop, Group and Collaborative Work in Canvas (Canvas Track 1)
Canvas has several options for organizing effective groups and collaborative work in Canvas. Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Dale Pietrzak, institutional effectiveness and accreditation officer, office of the vice president for academic affairs/provost, University of Idaho, Moscow, is one of five finalists named in the search.
Monday, 18 Feb 2019
Workshop, Personalized Learning in Canvas (Canvas Track 2)
Personalized learning is the type of instruction that targets individual student's needs. How does personalized learning look like in Canvas? Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Chris Feit, director of institutional research at Loras College, Dubuque is one of five finalists named in the search.
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.
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Amanda DeGraff, senior analyst and assistant director of institutional research at Iowa State, is one of five finalists named in the search.
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.
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."
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Kathy Felts, associate director of research activities and myVITA coordinator, office of the provost, at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is one of five finalists named in the search.
Monday, 25 Feb 2019
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Alicia Knoedler, consultant on research development and leadership; and former executive associate vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, is one of five finalists named in the search.
Thursday, 28 Feb 2019
Retirement reception: Ruth Braymen
Ruth Braymen, a secretary in the office of admissions, is retiring. Refreshments will be served.