Dillard University CTLAT Blog

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Simple K12 FREE Professional Development Webinars!

Hi Teachers,

Do you think that Professional Development can't be fun? Well, I challenge you to give SimpleK12's Day of Learning a try and see if you still feel that way.

What's our Day of Learning all about?
It's a free online conference for educators. An entire day filled with free, online sessions led by experts from around the globe.

SimpleK12's Day of Learning starts with a keynote and is packed with virtual sessions all day long. Attend one, or attend them all... either way, I'm sure you'll learn that Professional Development can be fun!

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All sessions are FREE
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It's easy to join in. All you have to do is register for each of the following live online sessions.

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Join SimpleK12 on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
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Here are the details...

Keynote Kickoff: More Interactive Sites for Your Interactive Whiteboard

12:30-1:00 PM Eastern Time, USA

Watch a brief "Day of Learning" Orientation and learn about some new online resources to use with your Interactive Whiteboard. As a special bonus, all attendees will receive an updated copy of SimpleK12's Interactive Whiteboard Workbook.
Register Now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/298961698

Easily Create Detailed Classroom Observations with iPad Apps
1:30- 2:00 PM Eastern Time, USA
Join us and learn about three free, easy-to-use apps you can download and use to start create detailed classroom observations.
Register now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/251478178

The Knowledge Journey: Ways to Keep Students Learning During Breaks
2:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time, USA
Discover tips for motivating students to learn during school breaks and after leaving the classroom. These ideas can be used as homework alternatives as well!
Register now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/852898722

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Space is Limited - Register Now!
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Create Student ePortfolios using VoiceThread
3:30- 4:00 PM Eastern Time, USA
Come learn about a free web tool, VoiceThread, and how you can use it with your students so they can create and maintain digital portfolios to share with you, their classmates, and parents.
Register now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/280611490

Build a Class Website and Create a Class Identity
4:30- 5:00 PM Eastern Time, USA
Come learn how to quickly build a fun, dynamic website to stay in touch with parents, post assignments, and much more!
Register now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/632696626

LiveBinder Tips and Tricks
5:30-6:00 PM Eastern Time, USA
LiveBinders are great for collaborating, sharing, and organizing online information and resources. In this session, discover how to get the most out of your LiveBinders.
Register now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/361836234

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First session begins at 12:30 on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
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I'll see you there!
Kimberly
P.S. All of these webinars are free and open to the public, so make sure to share this registration link with your friends!
http://simplek12.com/tlc/webinars

Dillard University Faculty and Student in the News November 15, 2011

Dr. Beverly Wright to Address group at Rice University as part of the President's Lecture Series

http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=16458&SnID=852689558

Dillard Freshman, Jennifer Jackson receives $1,000 scholarship

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/three-n-o-freshmen-earn-1000-scholarships/

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GREETINGS FROM YOUR MOBILE BOOKSELLER!
NOTE: THEIR ARE A NUMBER OF NEW TITLES COMING OUT OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS, YOUR "MOBILE BOOKSELLER" WILL KEEP YOU POSTED. IF YOU NEED ANYTHING PLEASE CALL 243-2436.

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FEATURING LIVE MUSIC; SPECIAL GUEST

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THE "BOOKSTOP" WILL BE SELLING OUR BOOKS, SOME OF WHICH ARE NEW RELEASES. COME OUT TO THIS FREE EVENT, GET A HEAD START ON HOLIDAY SHOPPING. GREAT ART, BOOKS, MUSIC, & CHAMPAGNE.

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14th CUR Conference: Leveraging Uncertainty: Toward a New Generation of Undergraduate Research

http://www.cur.org/conferences/tcnj/proposals.html

June 23-26, 2012

Hosted by The College of New Jersey

In current crises of economic viability, urban decline, environmental degradation, and cultural meaning, we face deep and broad-based concerns, both for personal prospects and larger social contracts. We can be swept along by those changes, or we can use them as opportunities for positive transformation. We know that research must inform our responses to these new conditions. And we know that undergraduate research offers experiences and skills that our students can draw on for successful future study, meaningful work lives, and social engagement. This conference will ask us to consider new models of undergraduate research that create possibilities where others might see peril.

The subthemes for the 2012 CUR National Conference are as follows:
• Research Transcending Historic Disciplinary Boundaries
• Sustaining Undergraduate Research in an Era of Fiscal Uncertainty
• Online Technology in Undergraduate Research: Possibilities, Threats and Challenges
• The Challenges and Opportunities of Undergraduate Research in a Broad Global Context
• Other non-theme proposals are also welcome

Due to a server malfunction, CUR has extended the Submission Deadline for Interactive Sessions and Catalyst Discussions to December 1, 2011. Please note the abstract word limit is 150 words.

Submission Deadline for Poster Presentations is February 1, 2011.

For more information, including the link to submit a proposal, please visit: http://www.cur.org/conferences/tcnj/proposals.html

Campus Technology Free Podcast: Blackboard Collaborate: Helping higher education do more with less

Campus Technology & Blackboard Free Podcast

09/01/11
In this podcast, Rajeev Arora, vice president of marketing and strategy for Blackboard Collaborate, explains how Blackboard Collaborate can help higher learning institutions tackle Web conferencing, voice authoring and instant messaging, and how the solution helps colleges and universities stretch IT budgets farther than ever before.

Free Video: Learning Outcomes Webinar by Examsoft Webinar Series

New Methods to Measure & Improve Learning Outcomes

Hosted by The Ohio State University, College of Medicine

Recorded: October 26th, 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011

UB Web Seminars Lecture Capture and Student-Faculty Satisfaction Webinar: Do "blinged-out" classrooms help students make the grade?

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 2pm, ET

Today's smart rooms sport fancy cameras, lecture capture technology and newfangled blackboards that do not require chalk. Sleek classrooms make for great impressions, but are teaching and learning practices much improved? Join this interactive discussion moderated by Alan Greenberg, senior analyst, Wainhouse Research. Hear from IT executives responsible for outfitting classrooms and proving student outcomes and institutional improvements.

Speakers:

Phil Reiter - Executive Director, IT, University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Pharmacy.
Mike Lucas - Director of Instructional Technology Services, University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

Speakers will address the following topics:
• Are smart classrooms necessary to support blended learning?
• Do lecture capture capabilities increase faculty and student satisfaction?
• Is technology a distraction to learning?
• Does access to online resources attract more students?
• Can the higher-ed IT executive influence university revenue growth?

Moderator:
Alan Greenberg, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research

Who will benefit:
CIOs, deans and department heads, technologists. Anyone may register.

What do you think?
Voice your opinion on Twitter at #blingclass before, during and after the live event.

Critical Insights. Timely Information. Free Registration

University Business produces web seminars on topics of special interest to higher education leaders. Moderated by UB's Web Seminar Editor, JD Solomon, each web seminar features presentations by higher education leaders and industry experts. These online events are underwritten by our sponsors so that you may view them for free.

Dillard University School of Public Health: November is American Diabetes Month

Diabetes is a serious disease. If it isn’t managed, it can damage many parts of the body, leading to heart attacks, strokes, amputation, blindness, kidney failure, and nerve damage. But there is good news: diabetes complications can be prevented or delayed by properly managing blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Eating healthy, being physically active and quitting smoking also can help lower the risk of diabetes complications.

November is American Diabetes Month a time to communicate the seriousness of diabetes and the importance of diabetes prevention and control. Dillard University’s School of Public Health is rallying the Dillard community to join the millions in themovement to Stop Diabetes®. Stop Diabetes is the American Diabetes Association’s movement to end the devastating toll that diabetes takes on the lives of millions of individuals across ournation.

With nearly 26 million children and adults in Americanliving with diabetes, and another 79 million at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, the disease is taking a devastating physical, emotional and financial toll on our country. Yet, most Americans don’t consider diabetes a serious matter. They feel it is someone else’s responsibility; someone else’s problem. Minority populations are disproportionately affected by diabetes. Racial minorities have a higher incidence of diabetes and are often less able to obtain the care they need to manage their disease. With better knowledge of the causes and complications of diabetes, those at risk can make more informed lifestyle choices and avoid this debilitating disease.

Recent numbers by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paint a desperate situation of where we are at, and where we areheaded:
•4.9 million African American adults, or 18.7 percent of all African Americans aged 20 years or older, have diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes.
•Every 17 seconds, someone is diagnosed with diabetes.
•Diabetes kills more people each year than breast cancer and AIDS combined.
•Recent estimates project that as many as 1 in 3 American adults will have diabetes in 2050 unless we take steps to Stop Diabetes. Now is the time to act.

The School of Public Health will be raising awareness about diabetes by providing educational materials the week of November 14-November 18. The School of Public Health encourages you to learn all the ways you can take action during American Diabetes Month by visiting facebook.com/AmericanDiabetesAssociation, stopdiabetes.com, calling 1-800-DIABETES, or texting JOIN to 69866 (standard data and message rates apply).

Valandra L. German, DrPH, MPH
Interim Chair/Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
College of Professional Studies
Gentilly Center for Health Disparities & Disease Control
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122
504-816-4477 (phone)
504-816-4004 (fax)
http://www.dillard.edu/

POD To Improve the Academy – Vol. 31 Reviewer Self Nomination Form

Manuscript submissions for Volume 31 of To Improve the Academy will be due December 1, 2011. We are still looking for reviewers to assist in the publication process. If you are interested in serving in this capacity and have not already sent us your name, please complete the attached self-nomination form and return to TIA@auburn.edu as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Jim Groccia

Editor

TIA Volume 31

To Improve the Academy – Vol. 31

Reviewer Self-Nomination Form

Please word-process (request electronic form from tia@unf.edu)

Name:

Title:

Department:

Institution:

Address:

(City, State, Zip, Country)

Office Phone: FAX:

E-Mail:

Years of Membership in POD:

Past reviewing or editing experiences (in faculty development or your discipline):

Selected publications relevant to faculty development (list a maximum of 5)

Briefly explain why you want to serve in the reviewer position:

As much as possible, TIA editors try to match reviewers' special expertise with the manuscripts they are asked to review. Please check the areas listed below in which you feel particularly competent to judge manuscripts, and, if you like, add an explanatory phrase in the space provided:

_____ general faculty development issues

_____ general instructional development issues

_____ organizational development

_____ personal development

_____ peer evaluation of teaching

_____ student evaluation of teaching

_____ teaching/course portfolios

_____ assessment of student learning

_____ faculty consultations

_____ scholarship of teaching and learning

_____ TA development, Preparing Future Faculty

_____ multiculturalism and diversity

_____ values, ethics

_____ leadership development

_____ active/experiential learning

_____ engaged pedagogy/research/service, service-learning

_____ collaborative/cooperative learning

_____ case studies, PBL

_____ critical thinking

_____ program assessment/evaluation/accountability

_____ educational technology

_____ distance education, online courses

Any other topics/areas in which you have expertise?

Please return as an email attachment to: James Groccia, Editor, TIA@auburn.edu

Phone: 334-844-8530

Must be received by November 11, 2011

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Welcome to the Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology Blog!

The Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology (DUCTLAT) http://www.ductlat.blogspot.com/ is essential in helping faculty effectively manage technology on and off campus. An important aspect of this initiative is achieved by bringing groups of faculty members together to learn the technology necessary to develop electronic resources for their courses and themselves, while planning and beginning the development of shared curricular materials. Cultivating faculty success at all levels reinforces the University's commitment to build premier faculty learning communities. All faculty, deans and academic administrators play a critical role in creating competitive and productive academic units in which expectations for faculty performance are clearly articulated and professional achievements are recognized and rewarded.