Wednesday, 09 Mar 2011
How Do I Make Blackboard Learn's Grade Center Work for Me?
Manage who? Manage what? Move over WebCT, a new grade book has emerged in Blackboard Learn. In this session, you will learn how to use Blackboard Learn's Grade Center to manage student performance, including how to create columns, enter grades, calculate final grades, create custom Smart Views, track student activity and export and import records with Excel.
TIAA-CREF financial seminar
"How Am I Doing?" Living a hectic life makes saving for retirement and other financial goals quite challenging. Join us at our seminar to learn a few simple steps that can help put you on the right track to planning your future today. Please preregister, space limited.
Informational session: What Can LAR Do For You?
Ron Morgan, director of Laboratory Animal Resources, will present an overview of services that LAR, clinical veterinarians and caretakers can provide, plus tips on scheduling housing needs. Those interested in attending should register by sending an e-mail to Connie Regenold.
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
"Development and Function of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Emphasis on Agriculture." William Gutowski, professor, ISU Department of Geology and Atmospheric Sciences
Agron 600B - Soil Science Seminars
"Munterville - A New Soil Series in Iowa" Mostafa Ibrahim
The Future of Learning, Research and Collaboration
In a one-hour presentation, Donald Norris, a national expert on navigating change in universities,will help kick off a campus-wide dialogue about how students, faculty and staff at Iowa State will learn, collaborate and do research in the future. A reception will follow Norris' talk.
From Idea to Novel: A Writer and Activist at Work
Author and environmentalist Rick Bass is the author of more than 20 books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West and the short story collection The Lives of Rocks. His latest novel, Nashville Chrome, draws on the rise and fall of the Brown trio, the true-life country music trailblazers who pioneered the 1950s sound from which the novel takes its title.
ISU Clarinet Choir
Gregory Oakes, director
Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why it Matters
James Zogby is author of the newly released Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why it Matters[/i,] as well as What Ethnic Americans Really Think and What Arabs Think. He is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI) and co-founded several other organizations serving the Arab American community.