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DILLARD Today: A Monthly E-Newsletter From Dillard University - October 2012

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A Monthly E-Newsletter From Dillard University October 2012 ________________    Quick Links Give to Dillard Admissions Bleu Devil Athletics News & Events ________________    Alumni Links Job Opportunities National Alumni Association Alumni Contact Info Update Alumni Making News ________________    Prospective Students! OPEN HOUSE Nov. 10  10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Tours, Food and Fun  Meet Students & Faculty  Click Here to Register!  ________________    Calendar of Events 10/27 -- QuickBooks Workshop, PSB Room 389, 1-3 p.m. 10/30 -- Bleu Pride Rising Tour Kickoff, Georges Auditorium, 6 p.m. 10/31 -- Message In the Middle w/ Rev. Olu Brown, Lawless Chapel, 12-1 p.m. 11/3 -- Tom Dent Literary Festival, PSB Room 115, All Day 11/9-11/18 -- DU Theatre Presents "Two Trains Running," Cook Theatre 11/10 -- Fall Open House, PSB, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 11/10 -- Homecoming Parade, Gentilly Community, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 11/10 -- National Alumni Association Luncheon, Kearny West, 12:30 p.m. 11/10 -- National Alumni Association Mtg., Georges Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. 11/10 -- Alumni/Pre-Alumni Tailgate, Kabacoff Plaza, 1-6 p.m. 11/10 -- Pan-Hellenic Probate Show, Dent Hall, 8 p.m. 11/10 -- QuickBooks Workshop, PSB Room 389, 1-3 p.m. 11/11 -- Founders' Day Convocation, Lawless Chapel, 3:30 p.m. 11/11 -- Nursing Scholarship Gala: Celebrating 70 Years, PSB, 5 p.m. 11/14 -- Message In the Middle w/ Melech Thomas, Lawless, 12-1 p.m. 11/16 -- Coronation Ball, Dent Hall, 8 p.m. 11/17 -- Homecoming Basketball Games, Dent Hall 11/28 -- Ortique Lecture on Law and Society w/ Michelle Alexander, Georges Auditorium, 7-10 p.m. Click here for more events. ________________     ________________   Join Us Online   Visit Our Social Media Page ________________   Contact Us   Dillard Today 2601 Gentilly Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70122 dillardtoday@dillard.edu ________________     Welcome to the October 2012 edition of the Dillard Today E-Newsletter. Homecoming is just around the corner! That means Founders' Day, Coronation Ball, and a slew of other great Dillard traditions will soon be here. This month, we give you all the information on these events and more. We hope you can make it out to campus to take part in the festivities! Also, we have our Fall Open House on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is an important recruitment event to help boost enrollment and usher in the next generation of Dillard students. If you know someone who could benefit from a Dillard education, encourage them to come learn what we're all about. It could change their life forever. Ex fide fortis! Sincerely, Mona Duffel Jones Senior Director, University Communications   Founders' Day and Homecoming 2012   On Sunday, Nov. 11, Dillard will host its annual Founders' Day Convocation at 3:30 p.m. in Lawless Memorial Chapel. Dr. Cheryl Taylor, '77, (pictured) interim dean of Southern University and A&M College School of Nursing, will give the keynote address. This year's convocation will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dillard's School of Nursing. Founders' Day is one of the highlights in an exciting slate of Homecoming Week events. On Saturday, Nov. 10, Dillard's Homecoming Parade will roll through the Gentilly community from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. That afternoon, from 1-6 p.m., there will be an Alumni & Pre-Alumni Tailgate in Kabacoff Plaza on Dillard's campus (click here for tailgate rules). The following Saturday, Nov. 17, the Dillard Bleu Devils men's and women's basketball teams will host their homecoming doubleheader in Dent Hall Gymnasium. Those games will also be preceded by a tailgate in Kabacoff Plaza from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. We hope you'll join us for Founders' Day and more Homecoming Week festivities!   Nursing Scholarship Gala: Sunday, Nov. 11 On Sunday, Nov. 11 at 5 p.m., following the Founders' Day Convocation, Dillard's School of Nursing will host a Scholarship Gala to celebrate its 70th anniversary. The gala, which will be held in the Professional Schools and Sciences Building, will feature a wine reception, dinner, live music from pianist Lucian Zidaru, and an address from Dr. Mackie Harper Norris, '60. Throughout 2012, Dillard has celebrated the Year of the Nurse. There have been roundtables and panel discussions to enrich the education of today's nursing students, and commemorative banners have been hung across campus and on Gentilly Boulevard. Founded in 1942, Dillard's program was the first accredited nursing school in the state of Louisiana. To learn more about the history of the program, please click here. To purchase gala tickets ($70), please visit the cashier's office on the first floor of Rosenwald Hall during business hours (M-F, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) or contact Travis Chase at (504) 816-4713 or tchase@dillard.edu. Thank you for supporting Dillard's School of Nursing!   Bleu Pride Rising Tour Kicks Off Oct. 30 New Orleans Alumni! You're invited to meet Walter M. Kimbrough, the seventh president of Dillard University, at the kickoff of his nationwide Bleu Pride Rising Tour. Dr. Kimbrough is heading out across the country to meet with local alumni chapters. Now you can be among the first to learn about his vision for Fair Dillard. The Bleu Pride Rising Kickoff will be held on Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. in the Georges Auditorium in the PSB. To RSVP, contact Kathy Ancar at (504) 816-4304 or kancar@dillard.edu, or Brenda Reynolds at (504) 816-4423 or breynolds@dillard.edu. National Alumni! Stay tuned for more information about the Bleu Pride Rising tour. It may be coming to your town soon! Show your spirit. Bleu pride is rising!   DU Hosts Cultural Exchange w/ Matsue, Japan Dillard University hosted a cultural exchange ceremony between New Orleans and its Japanese sister city, Matsue, on Oct. 19. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu welcomed to campus a group of Japanese delegates representing higher education and commerce. The delegates received a gift of okra seeds, while bestowing fig trees to New Orleans. Those trees will be nurtured in Dillard's greenhouse by Dillard undergrads and students from nearby Langston Hughes Academy (LHA) as part of the From Seed To Table program, which brings LHA students to Dillard to garden, learn about nutrition, and work with DU students in a mentoring program. To learn more about the cultural exchange with Matsue, and to view photos from the event, please click here.     Hollywood Filmmakers Speak at Dillard A pair of renowned Hollywood filmmakers spoke at Dillard this month. Kerwin DeVonish, who has served as Spike Lee's cinematographer on films such as the recent "Red Hook Summer" and the forthcoming Michael Jackson documentary "Bad 25," spoke on Oct. 5. Sharon Seymour, who has served as production designer on films such as Ben Affleck's "Argo" and George Clooney's "The Ides of March,"spoke on Oct. 10. Both sessions were free and held in the Georges Auditorium in the PSB.   Each session included three parts: an interview conducted by Keith Alan Morris, assistant professor of mass communication at Dillard; clips from the artists' films and accompanying discussion; and an audience Q&A. Both DeVonish and Seymour have recently worked on Spike Lee's remake of the 2003 Korean film "Oldboy," which has been shooting locally and is scheduled for release in 2013. To learn more about the lectures, and film at Dillard, click here.     Legal Eagles: Alumni Stewart, Jones Honored Judge Carl E. Stewart, '71, became the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which hears appeals from federal courts in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, on Oct. 1. Stewart, a resident of Shreveport, is the second African-American appointed to the Fifth Circuit and the first to serve as Chief Judge. President William Clinton appointed him as U.S. Circuit Judge in 1994. As Chief Judge of the Circuit, Stewart will sit on the Judicial Conference of the United States, which establishes policies for federal courts nationwide. Stewart gave the Ortique Lecture on Law and Society at Dillard's Founders' Day Convocation in 2011.   Michael D. Jones, '82, a partner in the D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a member of Dillard's board of trustees, has been officially installed as co-chair of the board of trustees for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. As co-chair with Jane C. Sherburne, he will lead an influential board of over 200 members. His term officially began on Sept. 1 and a welcome reception was held in his honor on Sept. 18. Jones serves as co-chair of the university's Advantage Dillard! capital campaign.

DILLARD Today: A Monthly E-Newsletter From Dillard University - October 2012

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From TLT Group World Headquarters	TLT Group Institutional Subscribers Did You Know! One of the TLT Group’s newest subscribing colleges asked us to register the entire faculty and staff as individual TLT Group members.  This Institution set a new precedent by taking advantage of a long-standing institutional subscription benefit in a new way.  Every individual affiliated with a TLT Group  institutional subscriber is entitled to a FREE individual membership for the duration of that subscription.  We’ll be working with this institution to develop new ways to use our services and resources to support the college’s faculty and professional development goals.
	More from the TLT-SWG Blog: DRAFT GUIDELINES/DESIDERATA for good educ Social Media/Networking Tools/Resources from TLTGroup Oct19 tlt.gs/frlv FridayLive! #TLTGfrlv 20+ good higher ed Social Media/Networking Tools/Resources from TLTGroup online free FridayLive! Oct19 tlt.gs/frlv #TLTGfrlv "Social Collaboration Online” Slides, Chat Transcript TLT Group's FridayLive! tlt.gs/frlv #TLTGfrlv 10/19 online free “Clothing the Emperor” when technology and education touch each other so furtively, tentatively, eagerly, expectantly
Online Workshops	NEW FOR November!!! 20+ good higher ed Social Media/Networking Tools/Resources from TLTGroup Dates and times to follow. Silver Cloud  - Revisioning and Supporting Retirement Transitions “...what I really wish someone had told me.”  Look for new dates and times to come Demysifying Accreditation Look for new dates and times to come
*	sMOOChers Mid-Term Update - What are we learning from participating in the MOOC “Current/Future State of Higher Education” [CFHE12] FridayLive! Free online Oct26 2pm ET.  online Free Register in advance Dale Parker will summarize and evaluate our 3 categories for reflection as we participate in CFHE12 and comment on implications for adult learners: Process:  Reflection about Experience(about our shared experience in a MOOC as it happens - focus on process) Content:  Adaptation and Application of Resources (to our own institutions and individual situations of the information and resources provided by the MOOC - focus on content) Support:  Develop New Roles (to help students learn from MOOCs) Nancy Smulsky will review and extend her comments about the quality and variety of resources within CFHE12, the effectiveness (or lack) of interactivities within CFHE12, and the significance of being unable to view/use MOOC resources prior to the week for which they are designated.   Jane Harris will be unable to join us live on Oct 26, but will share some of her notes and list of recommended readings based on her experience within CFHE12 (and elsewhere). Steve Gilbert will invite more discussion about the role of scheduled synchronous events within MOOCs and other online educational activities.  He will ask participants about their own experiences with synchronous online elements within larger courses, MOOCs, programs, including these and other questions: ·  In what ways are scheduled synchronous online sessions helpful to learners who prefer or need more external structure and guidance for their own learning, even when those learners are highly motivated to master the course content?  In what ways does  it matter, if at all, if the synchronous sessions are required, recommended, or purely optional? In what ways do scheduled synchronous online sessions deter learners who prefer or need flexible schedules from participating in online courses, MOOCs, et al. ?  In what ways does it matter, if at all, if the synchronous sessions are required, recommended, or purely optional? In what ways does it matter, if at all,  which media are used and which kinds of equipment are required for synchronous sessions?  Pure text?  Multi-way voice via telephone?  Webinar?  Two-way video?  Etc. We will also discuss additional plans and questions to enhance our participation in the last weeks of CFHE12 and guide our preparation of final comments during FridayLive!  November 30, 2012.  NOTE:  Jane Marcus offered to prepare some notes and comments - based on her recent observations of MOOC-like developments at Stanford and elsewhere -  in time for the final session. 3 Generations View of Improving Teaching, Learning...with Technology with Derek Bruf, Milt Cox, Stephen Kaufman,&  Timothy Lomardo FridayLive! Free online Nov2 2pm ET online Free Register in advance Is higher education changing too fast or too slowly?  In the past few decades, higher education has often been criticized for changing too fast AND for changing too slowly.  Is Charles Dickens always right?  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This multi-generational panel will focus on the past, present, and future of ho we teach, how we learn, and how faculty members adapt. We’ll try to “clothe the emperor” Register
Up-date from our MOOC Experience	sMOOCHer Week Three is underway join our sMOOChers forum tlt.gs/smoochforum as we talk together and make sense of this whole MOOC thing. Use Twitter hashtag #tltgSMOOCHERS This is a great video of Martin Weller interviewing Dave Cormier and George Siemens on  MOOCs.  I highly recommend it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1G4SUblnbo sMOOChers  Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup October 8 -November 18 2012 PLUS FridayLive! follow ups on October 12, 26. and November 30th 1:00-2:00 pm EDT   This workshop is free to TLT Group Individual Members. Click here to register and stay up-to-date with MOOC related discussions and events. Our online MOOC exploration will focus on this MOOC “Current/Future State of Higher Education” (CFHE12). “The course starts October 8, 2012.” You will need to register separately by following this link. http://edfuture.mooc.ca/index.html Twitter hash tag:  #tltgSMOOCHERS
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