Thursday, 12 Nov 2020
Transportation Planning and Equity (online lecture)
Gloria J. Jeff, AICP, director of the Minnesota Department of Transportation's Metro District Livability Initiative, will discuss the current state of transportation planning and its challenges for the future, including issues of equity, community restoration and preservation, and planning with a view from the community. Sponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning.
Performance: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Broadway's musical comedy "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" has charmed audiences across the country with its wit and humor. This Tony Award-winner captures middle school anxiety and puts it to song and dance. You will be tickled as adults play middle schoolers and audience members are invited to participate. This is an ACTORS Inc. community theater production.
Friday, 13 Nov 2020
Workshop: Advancing Your Term Career at ISU
Join Dawn Bratsch-Prince, associate provost for faculty, and a panel of term faculty as they provide an overview of the advancement process. The focus will be on best practices for putting together a portfolio and opportunities for term faculty to become more engaged as their careers develop.
Seminar, ISU Online Learning Community (ISU-OLC)
The purpose of the ISU-OLC is to share campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning; see how others are using ISU's Learning Management System (LMS) Canvas to create innovative learning experiences, inform the campus about existing & new web-based instructional technologies, participate in new technology testing and evaluation; as well as, to leverage LMS expertise, experience and training resources across campus.
Innovators Forum: Stacey Cole
A live, moderated conversation with Stacey Cole, superintendent of the Storm Lake Community School District, located in a diverse community in northwest Iowa. Her work to overcome barriers for marginalized populations sparked interest in using civic innovation solutions to address inequality issues. Registration required.
Web talk, Supports and barriers to implementing lasting change towards inclusive classrooms
The initial impetus for seeking and finding community supports is much more than common sense. It stems from our very instincts for survival and deeply affects our ability to grow, accomplish and succeed. Meghan Bathgate returns for this happy hour to share her remarkable research on how much the acquisition of supports weigh in, when attempting to implement lasting change in individual and institutional teaching practices.
Astronomy Seminar: When Galaxy Clusters Collide: Recent Results from the NuSTAR and Chandra X-ray Observatories
Dr. Daniel Wik, University of Utah
Performance: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Broadway's musical comedy "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" has charmed audiences across the country with its wit and humor. This Tony Award-winner captures middle school anxiety and puts it to song and dance. You will be tickled as adults play middle schoolers and audience members are invited to participate. This is an ACTORS Inc. community theater production.
Saturday, 14 Nov 2020
ISU Orchestra
The performance of the ISU Orchestra will be virtual, because of the Coronavirus. If you have difficulty with the URL, go to our music web page - https://www.music.iastate.edu. Click on "Special Interests" at the top of the page. Located on the Special Interests page, you will find "Recital Hall Webcasting". Please click on this.
Performance: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Broadway's musical comedy "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" has charmed audiences across the country with its wit and humor. This Tony Award-winner captures middle school anxiety and puts it to song and dance. You will be tickled as adults play middle schoolers and audience members are invited to participate. This is an ACTORS Inc. community theater production.
Sunday, 15 Nov 2020
Performance: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Broadway's musical comedy "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" has charmed audiences across the country with its wit and humor. This Tony Award-winner captures middle school anxiety and puts it to song and dance. You will be tickled as adults play middle schoolers and audience members are invited to participate. This is an ACTORS Inc. community theater production.
VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Family Sunday from Home - Modern Origami
A family friendly program on modern day origami practices.
Monday, 16 Nov 2020
Adam Shafer defense seminar
Adam Shafer defense seminar
Soil and Water Conservation Club Meeting
SWCC promotes soil and water education and conservation. We encourage members to network with professionals in the field. SWCC is affiliated with the Iowa Chapter of Soil and Water Conservation Society.
Tuesday, 17 Nov 2020
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Grading Tricks and Tips)
CELT's Choose Your Instructional Tool Adventure focuses on various instructional strategies found on the CELT website and demonstrates practical ways to incorporate these tools in a Canvas course. Instructional support staff from across campus will facilitate each 30-minute byte. These 30-minutes builds on concepts covered in the Canvas Mini-Bytes training videos on the CELT instructional strategies pages.
Wednesday, 18 Nov 2020
Art Mart Pop Up Shop
One-of-a-kind gifts from our campus community of artists.
Concert: Prairie Lions
Part of KHOI FM community radio's Pantorium Sessions fundraiser. Reggae, roots rock party band, Prairie Lions will play a range of classic reggae music from Yellowman to Max Romeo to Steel Pulse, and other reggae-fied tunes. Seating is limited.
Thursday, 19 Nov 2020
Online Workshop Series: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR)
APPQMR (Applying the Quality Matters Rubric) is a virtual offering of the Quality Matters flagship workshop on the underlying principles of the Quality Matters rubric, an instrument for assessing the quality of online courses. Learn how to use the QM rubric as you apply it to a demo online course and recommend practical course improvements.
Online Workshop Series: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR)
APPQMR (Applying the Quality Matters Rubric) is a virtual offering of the Quality Matters flagship workshop on the underlying principles of the Quality Matters rubric, an instrument for assessing the quality of online courses. Learn how to use the QM rubric as you apply it to a demo online course and recommend practical course improvements.
Web talk: External Recognition for Career Progression
Kirsten Abel, honors and awards coordinator in the office of the senior vice president and provost, and a panel of highly awarded faculty will share resources and strategies to successfully position yourself to garner external recognitions.
Art Mart Pop Up Shop
One-of-a-kind gifts from our campus community of artists.
Iowa Atmospheric Observatory - Tower virtual tour and new research
Dan Rajewski & Andy VanLoocke
Webinar, Black women & belongingness: An interrogation of STEM education as a white, patriarchal space
This interactive research presentation engages audience members with empirical data to deconstruct ideas of Black women's belongingness in STEM education as a white, patriarchal space. Statistics from recent National Science Foundation reports of advanced degrees in mathematical sciences are used along with Black women's narratives of experience in STEM majors as well as perceptions of instruction in introductory courses.
Webinar, Team-Based Learning (TBL) Teaching and Learning Community
This topic-based teaching and learning community meets throughout the academic year. We work as teams to optimize application exercises, readiness assurance tests, peer evaluation, and other aspects of course design, and also invite speakers to facilitate discussions of TBL theory, research and classroom application.
No CMP seminar
Due to faculty meeting
Friday, 20 Nov 2020
Art Mart Pop Up Shop
One-of-a-kind gifts from our campus community of artists.
Innovators Forum: James Altamirano
A live, moderated conversation with James Altamirano, senior experience design and innovation strategist at Principal Financial Group, a global financial services company. Altamirano's entrepreneurial background helped him create an intrapreneurial approach to innovation within the workforce. Registration required.
Webinar, Turning your Scholarly Teaching into Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Scholarly teaching focuses on student learning and is grounded in the subject matter being taught, and in the implementation of effective pedagogies. The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) involves framing a research question related to student learning and systematically investigating it. The research methods often include qualitative and quantitative data collection as well as direct and indirect measures.
POSTPONED: The Choir of Man
This exclusive live virtual performance has been postponed due to the pandemic lockdown in England. Ticket buyers will be contacted about refunds.
Saturday, 21 Nov 2020
Final exams
Final exams are Nov. 21 and 23-25.