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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Dillard U. Library Training Classes Reminder Flyer 02 12 10

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DU Library Training Classes Schedule Spring 2010

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New Web Site Lists Free Online Textbooks



A new Web site, Open Educational Resources Center for California, brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location. Though the Web site was designed for California’s community-college faculty members, it could be a useful resource for anyone trying to find learning materials in the public domain. The site links to more than 400 open textbooks and peer reviews of open textbooks.


Source: Chronicle of Higher Education/Wired Campus
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Top 50 University Open Courseware Collections - Free!

Free Learning Resources from The Open University
Educational and Teaching Resources




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Online Leadership Training Workshop: "Strategies & Techniques for Memorably Communicating Your Ideas and Concepts"

WHEN

Live: Thursday, February 25th at 2pm EST/1pm CST/12noon Mountain/11am Pacific
or
Recorded: Watch webinar at your own convenience. The online workshop lasts 1 hour.


WHERE
Online from your own computer. You will be emailed a link to access the webinar.

WHAT YOU GAIN:
• Learn how to communicate your concepts and ideas so that they are understood and remembered
• Use tools and strategies to be a better communicator
• Create new message ideas for your concepts
• Engage in activities and techniques to brainstorm creative communication


BONUS DELIVERABLES:
• A PDF of all training materials used in the webinar

PRICE
$177 per Participant, or
$897 per Group (up to 10 people from one organization)

Do you have problems of your new ideas, concepts, and innovations not taking off internally in your organization or externally to your stakeholders and clients? Could it be a problem of communication? Did people learn, understand, and get engaged with your new idea? Learn how to engage and help others learn and understand what you've created. We will facilitate you through our best practice system of activities to generate new ways of communicating your concept so it sticks.



• Learn, gain tools, and get your communication work done with a facilitator during this 1-1.5 hour online workshop on how to communicate your concepts.

• Develop your communication skills, generate ideas, and develop a simple way to get your message across memorably in this interactive training experience.
• Create engaging communication concepts for your new products, services, campaigns and move into innovation action!
 
This webinar will be valuable for you if you’ve ever encountered these problems in your work:

•A great idea doesn’t go anywhere because people don’t understand it or are motivated to collaborate on it.
•New ideas don’t get put into action internally or externally.
•A new product or service launch requires new and more creative ideas than before.
•Change is happening faster and new communication ideas are continually needed.
•You need to more naturally present and persuade with your ideas simply and memorably so others can take a risk.
 
Idea and Concept Communication and Action:

Create and communicate concepts that stick! You may have generated good ideas and a great concept but then how do you communicate it so that it sticks with people? How do you show the story so people can understand your idea and will collaborate with you as you launch into the real world? We will show you some of the best practices and innovations used for communicating your new concepts. We will show you and facilitate you through starting with a number of simple and effective strategies:
•Create a concept story.

•Create a concept map.
•Communicate with visuals.
•Communicate with metaphors and analogies.
•Communicate from your feet without notes.
•Communicate your story online.
•Create a rapid concept prototype.


Bring an idea or concept with you and we will help you develop ideas to communicate it so that it sticks!
During this workshop, you will learn to become a more memorable communicator in your professional life, acquire techniques on how to develop and deliver presentations that are more effective, and build your confidence as a communicator.

This online workshop is facilitated by BrainReactions. BrainReactions has worked with the most innovative companies in the world to help them generate ideas for how to communicate their products and services. We learned from their methods, but we have also developed our own toolset that will help you continually create simple and better messages. Brainreactions is experienced, personal, and easy to train with if this is your first webinar. They have led numerous innovation and leadership webinars, most notably Innovation Training and Brainstorming programs.


About your Facilitator and Trainer: Darin Eich, Ph. D. President, BrainReactions
Dr. Darin Eich has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Darin is an innovation and leadership program facilitator and researcher. His experience and research from hundreds of innovation sessions and programs contributes the key elements of the processes taught by BrainReactions. He is known nationally for his high-energy, entertaining workshops and speeches that enhance leadership development and creativity. Darin has helped many organizations enhance their own innovation, idea generation, product development and marketing efforts. From Fortune 500 companies and global nonprofits to universities and start-up entrepreneurs, Darin's systems and activities have proven effective for a variety of industries and challenges.
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DU Office of Undergraduate Research Announces 2010 Student Intern Abroad Program


2010 Student Intern Abroad Program The Washington Center
The Intern Abroad Program sponsored by The Washington Center combines a ten-day seminar in Washington, D.C., coursework, internship, and programming events. Internships are open to all majors. To learn more about the courses and other program components go to the website below; the components vary in each program.

There will be three programs this summer in London, Oxford and Sydney.
Application deadline for the programs: February 26, 2010.
Other programs are scheduled in London for Fall 2010, and Sydney in Spring 2011.
For more information, the following two sites should be helpful:
The Washington Center main site: www.twc.edu/internabroad
Spplemental site for faculty and staff: www.ites.google.com/site/internabroadinfokit  


CONTACT
Heather Hendy, Senior Program Coordinator, The Washington Center; Ph: 202-238-7978
Lynn Strong, Director
Undergraduate Research
Dillard University
Rosenwald Hall, Rm. 203-B
2601 Gentilly Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70122
t: 504-816-4446 / f: 504-816-4144 / e: lstrong@dillard.edu
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6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (for free!)


Kroski, Ellyssa 6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (for free!). The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research, 2009, vol. 14, n. 5, p. 6. [Journal Article (Print/Paginated)].
Abstract(s)

Do you secretly harbor a dream of becoming Editor-in-Chief of your own publication? Are you organizing a conference and looking for an easy way to publish all of those contributed papers? Would you like to walk your students through the peer-reviewed publishing process? Why not start your own online journal?

6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (for free!) by Ellyssa Kroski
Published in The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research, Volume 14, Issue 5 — May 2009

Do you secretly harbor a dream of becoming Editor-in-Chief of your own publication? Are you organizing a conference and looking for an easy way to publish all of those contributed papers? Would you like to walk your students through the peer-reviewed publishing process? Why not start your own online journal?


I created an open access class journal for my “Open Movements” course using a free open-source software application. The program is called Open Journal Systems (OJS) and it is a journal management application and system for publishing scholarly journals online. It supports a complete workflow for the editorial process including peer review for those who wish to create refereed publications. At the end of each semester, students create and publish an issue in the journal as their capstone project. They are able to submit drafts of their final papers as authors in the system, and also to critique their classmates’ work as reviewers. After incorporating peer review comments into their article, students resubmit their work and the issue is published on the last day of class.


Launching your own scholarly journal is not as difficult as it sounds as OJS does much of the work for you. Since its start in 2002, over 2,000 online journals have been created worldwide using the program developed by the Public Knowledge Project, a partnership between the University of British Columbia, Stanford University, and Simon Fraser University. Most recently, Harvard University Press and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business used OJS to create their first open access journal, The Journal of Legal Analysis. And by following just a few quick steps you too could be on your way to editorial bliss!



Step One: Focus & Scope

Think about the types of content you’d like to publish; faculty papers, departmental research, inter-disciplinary research, book reviews, or perhaps student work such as the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal which publishes outstanding papers by its undergrads in every discipline. What topic(s) will your journal focus on? Will your publication be a scientific one such as Wildlife Biology in Practice or a political pub as in the Canadian Political Science Review? Perhaps you plan to set up multiple journals as did the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences which manages 12 peer reviewed journals using OJS. Or you may wish to transform an existing print journal to an online publication as did the BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA which also used OJS to digitize their archives back to the journal’s beginnings in 1966. The possibilities are limitless, it’s up to you. But you will want to give this a good amount of thought before you begin your journal.


Step Two: Install the Software
You will need to install OJS ( http://tinyurl.com/2ydklr )on a Web server with a fairly common configuration often referred to as a LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). You can check the project’s website for variations on these system requirements, but you may also substitute Windows (WAMP) or Mac (MAMP) for Linux. If you are unfamiliar with these technologies, you will want to contact your systems office, a techie friend, or your web-host. Your web-host may already have this configuration set up for you and if you are shopping for a new hosting plan be sure to look for this in your package. Beyond this you will need to configure your MySQL database in order to get started. This is the only scary bit if you’ve never done this type of thing before, however, most web-hosts do provide database support. And the process is quite fast. You can be done and on your way to designing your brand new publication in about 15 minutes.


Step Three: Journal Setup

When you create a new journal with OJS, you are led through a series of five pages titled Details, Policies, Submissions, Management, and The Look, each with options for customizing your publication. This is where you will enter key information about your journal such as the title, policies for peer review, submission guidelines, publication scheduling, and indexing information. In this journal setup area you will have the opportunity to decide if you would like your publication to be open access, or if readers will need to pay in order to access content. (OJS’s payment module permits many types of charges such as subscriptions, per article fees, memberships, donations, and author fees.) If you are so inclined you may also upload a journal logo or your own style sheet in order to affect the layout. All of these pages and options can later be accessed via the Journal Management menu.


Step Four: Learn the Ropes
You will want to get up to speed with how OJS handles the editorial process and familiarize yourself with the workflow involved in running your journal. Articles start off in a submissions queue awaiting peer review and assignment to an editor. Upon acceptance, they move ahead to copyediting, proofreading, and layout. Once done, articles sit in a scheduling queue until they are assigned to a specific issue. All items in a particular issue are organized into a Table of Contents and published. In order to fulfill all of these tasks, OJS enables the Journal Manager (you!) to assign roles to journal staff, each with specific functions to perform. These roles include Author, Reviewer, Editor, Section Editor, Copyeditor, Layout Editor, Proofreader. One person may fill several roles for example with my class journal, students are Readers, Authors, and Reviewers and as Journal Manager and Editor I perform all the editorial tasks. The OJS website has many resources for learning about both the editorial process and how to accomplish tasks in the software such as video tutorials and a user’s guide titled “OJS in an Hour”.


Step Five: Recruit! Recruit! Recruit!

Every publication needs writers, so put out a call for papers (CFP) seeking author submissions in your field. If your journal is aimed at a particular group of people such as your students, faculty members, or colleagues get the word out locally through word-of-mouth, flyers, or an email announcement (just one is enough!). Start looking through the literature in your subject area for knowledgeable people who are just as passionate as you are about your journal’s topic and recruit them as authors, editors, and reviewers. Look up subject-specific blogs in Technorati and draft some bloggers as well. Think about tempting subject experts to make a guest appearance as a special issue editor that is publicized as such. With just a couple of volunteers and submissions your journal will be publishing its first issue in no time.


Step Six: Publish Your First Issue
You’ve got submissions, they’ve undergone the peer review process, they’ve been edited, and the galleys have been prepared. Now you must decide which articles – and how many - to include in your first issue. Take a good look through what you have to determine if any or all of your pieces fit a particular theme. As time goes on you may want to devise an editorial calendar in which you determine themes for each issue ahead of time and seek submissions based on that, but for this first issue odds are you aren’t at that stage yet. Next consider how many articles you want to include - if you publish 20 articles in the first issue, you aren’t going to want to follow that up with 5 the next month. Instead, decide on a range to aim for with each issue such as 8-12. Next you will need to organize the articles into a Table of Contents. You can choose to order them alphabetically, from best article to average, or any other order you prefer. Once you’ve done that all that’s left is to click publish. Congratulations!


Sidebar - Six OJS Journals to Check Out
Wildlife Biology in Practice ( http://www.socpvs.org/wbp/index.php/wbp ) or ( http://tinyurl.com/kbscq )
Health and Human Rights: An International Journal ( http://www.hhrjournal.org )
Ecology and Society ( http://www.ecologyandsociety.org )
Caderno Virtual de Turismo ( http://www.ivt.coppe.ufrj.br/caderno/ojs ) or ( http://tinyurl.com/d82szn )
ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΑ ΣΥΜΜΕΙΚΤΑ ( http://www.byzsym.org )
CodeBreakers Journal ( http://www.codebreakers-journal.com )
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Innovative Educators Student Retention Resources


Websites, Articles and Guides
- Retain Students Retain Budgets: A How To http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1280&p=1#0
- IDEAS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENT RETENTION http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/studretn.htm
- Assessing Student Retention of Essential Statistical Ideas: Perspectives, Priorities, and Possibilities
http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/rtg/BerensonEtAl.pdf
- National Dropout Prevention Centers http://www.dropoutprevention.org/


Videos - Sign up for Weekly Innovations to view the videos - it's FREE!
http://www.weeklyinnovations.org/main/
- Teaching Strategy - Journals instead of quizzes? 
- Helping Students Stay at St. Francis College on WABC
- Interactive Teaching Methods
- Good for a Laugh - A Politically Correct Admissions Video Gone Wrong


Books
- How to Recruit and Retain Higher Education Students: A Handbook of Good Practice http://www.amazon.com/Recruit-Retain-Education-Students-ebook/dp/B002I4OVOM/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1265675523&sr=8-7
- Minority Student Retention The Best of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice http://www.amazon.com/Minority-Student-Retention-Journal-College/dp/0895033313/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265676041&sr=8-5#noop


Forum
- Retention tips - Share best practices in student retention  http://www.weeklyinnovations.org/main/ 
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Innovative Educators Webinar: Improve Retention by Focusing on Specific Student Populations

Improve Retention by Focusing on Specific Student Populations

Tuesday, March 9th ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST

If you can not make this date and time, you can watch the recording. Each participant will receive a link to the recording which is good for one year and can be distributed to your entire faculty and staff via email for viewing anytime, anywhere!

“We each have the ability to make a significant impact on student retention, student satisfaction, and the student experience if we focus, focus, focus our efforts.”

~Dr. Jennifer Layton McCluskey
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Maryville University


Overview

Every faculty and administrator in higher education plays a critical role in the retention efforts on campus, but are we able to articulate our impact? By targeting specific populations that matter most on your campus, you can create meaningful retention efforts to move your entire retention rate upward. Focusing on the right group of students and the right services to offer are key to the successful implementation of any retention efforts. With budgets tight, retention is a hot topic on every campus and your role cannot go unnoticed. If you are not already active in the retention efforts, it’s time to begin to focus and forge ahead with your specific, tangible and quantifiable impact. If you are active in your institution's retention efforts, join us to gain insight on how to focus those efforts in order to achieve the greatest impact.

Objectives

Participants will learn:
.Ways to identify a specific cohort (e.g., males, minorities, commuters) on which to focus retention efforts
.Specific initiatives to implement to increase the retention rate for a cohort in order to increase the overall retention rate
.How to articulate the results of the initiatives made for both the cohort and for overall retention of students
.How to use the results to gain leverage in budgeting for programs/services

Who should attend?
Advisors
Student Retention Specialists
Student Services Personnel
Student Life Staff
Deans
Faculty
Anyone interested in specific, targeted initiatives for retention


Who is the speaker?
Dr. Jennifer Layton McCluskey is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for First-Year Experience and Advising at Maryville University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Previously, she served as Director of Student Programs and Greek Life at the University of Denver; Assistant Dean of Campus Programs at Arkansas State University; and Assistant Director of the Student Center and Student Leadership at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Jen earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Education from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, her Master of Science in Education from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and her Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication from Southeast Missouri State University.

Registration Information

How do I register?
You can register online by adding this product to your shopping cart. If you have any questions, please call 303-775-6004 303-775-6004 .


When do I register? How much does it cost?
You can register at any time. The cost is $345, which includes access to the recording for one year.
Note: This is for one site connection and an unlimited amount of participants.


What is a webinar?

A webinar is an interactive seminar conducted over the web and is typically 1.5 to 2 hours long.
What is the process? Webinar participants log into the webinar site with a username and password sent via email. Participants can print handouts, as we send you a link to the presentation via email approximately 2 days prior to the event. Once logged in, you are able to see the PowerPoint slides, ask questions and make comments via chat, very similar to instant messaging.
Is there a recording available? Approximately one week after the conclusion of the webinar, you will receive a link to the recording which is yours for one year and can be forwarded to all faculty and staff at your institution for viewing anytime, anywhere.
What equipment is required? An Internet connection, computer speakers and LCD projector if a large group is present.


What are the benefits of a webinar?
Cost-Effective: No travel required. Webinars are an innovative way to provide your entire faculty and staff with a variety of professional development opportunities for one low price! The more you train - the more you save, as the registration fee is per institution, not per person.
Easy: You will receive a detailed list of instructions via email a week prior to the event. And if you run into any problems, we're always here to help.
Interactive: Chat online with presenters, participate in online polling questions, discuss specific situations with your colleagues, and receive implementation strategies for your campus (included when appropriate). You can even join a discussion group to continue the discussion with the presenter and webinar participants. Join discussion groups at www.weeklyinnovations.org.
Practical: Our training sessions focus on the most critical and relevant issues facing educators today. Our primary goal is to provide participants with the information, training and skills necessary to immediately implement positive change at their institutions.
Top-Notch Speakers: Our speakers are subject matter experts and recognized in their field.
Value Added: When you purchase a webinar, you also receive access to the recording, which is good for one year. You can use it wherever and as often as you want, offering consistent training to your faculty and staff.


How will we use these trainings?
Flexible Training:
Live: Promote and attend a live webinar and debrief immediately following.
Hybrid: Distribute a recording to all faculty and staff at the beginning of each month and plan a discussion session at the end of the month to determine how you will implement the strategies presented.
On-Demand: Distribute a recording to faculty and staff so they can watch anytime, anywhere. Contact Innovative Educators at val@ieinfo.org , and we will create an online discussion group specifically for your institution at no extra charge.
In-Service Training: Plan an in-service around a live webinar or schedule a day and time to show the recording in a lecture hall or large conference room and invite faculty and staff to attend - brainstorm and discuss implications for your college.
Staff Recognition: Develop a program around the webinar with monthly themes and recognize the staff members that implement the best idea related to the theme.
Team-Building: Utilize these webinars to develop cross-functional and cross-discipline teams to foster collegiality.
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DU Faculty: Please Apply for the NYU-FRN (Faculty Resource Network) Summer Programs for 2010!

1. Complete the application as indicated in the link 2. Obtain a letter of recommendation from your Dean or Department Chair
3. Attach an updated resume
4. Submit packet of information to Academic Affairs by Monday, February 8, 2009
We will mail all packets as a group. If you have not already spent your CTLAT Travel Funds, you may use it for this Institute.
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Dear FRN Liaison Officer:
The Network Summer 2010 seminar application is now online! To learn about this year's summer seminars and to register, see the FRN Network Summer web link at: http://www.nyu.edu/frn/programs.events/enrichment/network.summer.2010.html

Application Deadline is Friday, February 12, 2010!

Applications for the Summer and Fall 2010 and Spring 2011
Scholar-in-Residence Program also are available online - Learn more at http://www.nyu.edu/frn/programs.events/scholar.in.residence/

Application deadlines for Summer and Fall 2010 is Friday, February 12, 2010. Spring 2011 application deadline is Friday, September 10, 2010. The Call for Proposals for the 2010 FRN National Symposium on "Engaging Students in the Community and the World" has been posted at http://www.nyu.edu/frn/programs.events/national.symposium/2010.national.symp.callproposals.html

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, March 26, 2010. Please be sure to circulate this information among your faculty members, and thank you for your continued support of the Faculty Resource Network.
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