Tuesday, 01 Apr 2014
Roundtable: Design Solutions for Blended Undergraduate Courses
Our presentation will show how to implement successful blended course strategies, factors impacting design and decision points in the design and why they succeed. We will interactively engage in a discussion on early design failures and how to avoid them in your course. We will also show and share how to fully exploit online resources in a blended course.
Preparing for a successful P&T review - workshop for new tenure-eligible faculty, mentors, and department chairs
Review of ISU's promotion & tenure policies for new tenure-eligible faculty, their mentors, and department chairs
Wednesday, 02 Apr 2014
Preparing for a successful P&T review - workshop for new tenure-eligible faculty, mentors, and department chairs
Review of ISU's promotion & tenure policies for new tenure-eligible faculty, their mentors, and department chairs
Thursday, 03 Apr 2014
Awareness training: Youth program staff
Training for departmental/unit youth program leaders, camp directors and administrative assistants who provide support for youth programs. Current information on youth-related policies, procedures and forms for conducting youth programs at ISU. To register, send an email to the office of risk management.
Monday, 07 Apr 2014
Blended Learning Brown-Bag Roundtable: "At a distance" student assessment
The use of new technologies has changed the distance education paradigm and complicated methods used to assess student learning. These changes, along with a cultural climate more accepting of cheating and added market pressures, require a reevaluation of student assessment. Learn what is being done to ensure the academic integrity of assessments delivered to distance education students.
Wednesday, 09 Apr 2014
SP@ISU Brown Bag Lunch: Working in K-12 for Broader Impacts
Fredric Janzen, professor in ecology, evolution and organismal biology; and Adah Leshem, Pre-College Education programs director at the Center for Biorenewable Chemicals; will discuss successful faculty-led K-12 programs and share how to partner with larger programs that work with K-12 students and teachers.
Friday, 11 Apr 2014
BUG: Blackboard User Group Meetings
Monthly meeting of BbLearn users discussing various topics related to the use of Blackboard Learn in teaching and learning.
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014
Service-Learning Faculty/Staff/Graduate Student Learning Community
Are you interested in developing, or enhancing, a service-learning component within your course? You are invited to join this dynamic, interdisciplinary group as we walk-through the process of integrating service-learning into the curriculum. These interactive sessions will include topical discussions, readings, and sharing of best practices.
Strategies for obtaining tenure: panel discussion for new tenure-eligible faculty
Senior faculty members share their best tips and strategies for obtaining tenure with new tenure-eligible faculty
Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014
Workshop: PowerPoint: Beyond Bullets: Being Creative in the Classroom
Learn how to plan, create, and deliver classroom presentations using PowerPoint's visual tools. Topics include classroom strategies for using PowerPoint to deliver content and manage classroom activities. Design slides using graphics, photos, and multimedia and insert sounds, and video clips. Learn to guide viewers' attention with graphs, transitions and animations.
Online Tele-Workshop: Know your audiences, know your readers: How to market your book from Day One
It's important for authors to be active promoters of their own work, and most scholars understand the need to publicize their books after publication. But what about before publication? How should marketing considerations inform the entire publication process?
Friday, 18 Apr 2014
Symposium: Research Writing for Publishing in Journals
Editors of respected journals (for example, Evolution, Journal of Biological Chemistry and others) will speak about the conventions of writing for publication in their disciplines.
Monday, 21 Apr 2014
Roundtable: The Blended Learning Brown-bag*: Implementation of Hybrid Course Design
Hybrid instruction is an educational approach that combines traditional face-to-face instruction and online instruction with the premise of providing the benefits of the two formats (Lamport & Hill, 2012). When executed correctly, hybrid learning has been proven to increase efficiency for the institution and learning for the students (Mitchell & Honore, 2007).
Wednesday, 23 Apr 2014
Online Teleworkshop: How to Master Academic Time Management
This workshop is designed to provide participants with concrete skills to transition from graduate student to professor.
Friday, 25 Apr 2014
Strategies for obtaining tenure: panel discussion for new tenure-eligible faculty
Senior faculty members share their best tips and strategies for obtaining tenure with new tenure-eligible faculty
Monday, 28 Apr 2014
Compassion Fatigue: Managing the Journey
Many people work in a care-giving setting and/or perform care-giving tasks for others on a regular basis and often don't realize how the repetitive stress affects them. Caring too much can seem overwhelming, leaving us feeling drained and helpless. While the effects of Compassion Fatigue can cause chronic and cumulative stress, learning to recognize and manage symptoms is the first step to managing and maintaining our health.
Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014
Roundtable: The Blended Learning Brown-bag* Online Fitness Education Modules: Strategies for Blended and Online Instruction
A barrier in many courses is getting students to see personal relevance in the course material. The session will describe how customized video-based modules and engaging application assignments have been integrated through Blackboard to create a more personalized learning environment for students enrolled in an online fitness education course (KIN 210 - Concepts of Fitness and Wellness).