Calendar for 2009 -2010
Workshops, Brown Bags & Seminars include:
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October
Keeping Up: Using Library Technology to Stay Current with Your Teaching and Research
What are the best ways for keeping up with your research and learning about the new developments in your field? Interested in automating your literature searches so new articles of interest are "pushed" right to you? Hoping to make your own research faster and more efficient?
This session will provide faculty with the tools for staying current with their disciplines using library resources. Specific topics include creating search alerts using library databases and receiving new journal tables of contents via e-mail or RSS. Participants unfamiliar with RSS will receive a brief tutorial and learn the benefits of this easy-to-use technology. Participants will be invited to share their disciplines and current teaching and research interests with the presenter, who will use this information for the demonstration examples. Attendees will also be asked to share their own strategies for "keeping up" with the literature and their library research.
After attending the session, attendees will create and receive search alerts and electronic journal tables of contents relating to their areas of teaching and research interest using library databases.
Day/Date: Wednesday, Oct. 28
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Saint Paul Campus, Library 132
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or 651-793-1774
By popular demand, these trainings are being scheduled on Saturdays to serve better the varied schedules of faculty, particularly community faculty.
There is a two-step registration process:
1. Register for these workshops through Metro State’s CTL; once registered you will be rostered on a D2L training site. Faculty registering for any of these workshops will be rostered in the shared d2l site (there is not a separate site for each workshop).
2. To participate, if you do not already have an account, you MUST sign up for eFolio account in advance at http://www.efoliominnesota.com; if you have a version 1 efolio, you must migrate your eFolio to version 2 before the workshop(s) you plan to attend.
3. If you have questions about this, please email carol.lacey@metrostate.edu
Tricks & Treats with eFoliov2 Workshop
Whether you’ve migrated your version 1 site or are a version 2 newcomer to eFolio, gain skill and confidence using eFolio version 2 features, such as Identify and develop a distinctive teaching metaphor.
Organize and present your work, civic engagement, academic information, presentations and other dimensions of your life and experience.
Create alternate versions within your eFolio for specific opportunities or audiences.
Explore options for personal reflection on and reviewer feedback.
Facilitator: Carol Lacey, Community Faculty, Individualized, Interdisciplinary and Life Long Learning
Date: Saturday, Oct. 31
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: SP, Lib 13
Registrations: ctl@metrostate.edu or 651-793-1774
This workshop is set up in line with Provost Lowe’s suggestion that all courses have a D2L website in case of emergency closings or large numbers of absences.
If you have questions about these trainings, please email Carol.Lacey@metrostate.edu, who will be designing and guiding these training opportunities.
Understanding Spam, Phishing, Viruses and Spyware: Tips for Safe Computing
This session is an interactive lecture utilizing web resources and video. Demonstrations of new IT resources for both faculty and students will be shown. Participants will have opportunity to ask questions throughout the presentation. The presentation will be based on the well-rated session given at the university's Employee Development Day last spring.
Primary objective and expected outcome: Participants will gain an understanding of common computer and e-mail attacks, strategies for protection, and resources to mitigate risks and prevent security breaches. Methods
to ensure secure electronic communication between students and faculty will be discussed, focusing on new resources available from IT this semester.
Facilitators: Garrett Lanzy, Network System Administrator, Information Technology Services, and Tanya Buetow, Network Security Administrator, Information Technology Services
Day/Date: Monday Nov. 9
Time: 12 p.m. to 1:00p.m.
Location: Midway 105 Computer Lab
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or call 651-793-1774
Facilitators: Garrett Lanzy, Network System Administrator, Information Technology Services, and Tanya Buetow, Network Security Administrator, Information Technology Services
Day/Date: Tuesday Nov. 10
Time: 12 p.m. to 1:00p.m.
Location: MPLS M2500 Computer Lab
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or call 651-793-1774
Talking about Teaching
Are you interested in receiving support and ideas regarding teaching strategies, concerns, and challenges? Would you like to share teaching strategies, assessment techniques, classroom management techniques that you’ve found to be particularly effective? Would you like to relax, listen to lively discussion about teaching and learning.
If you have answered yes to these questions, then join your colleagues in these faculty-facilitated casual conversations. Discussions may include but are not
limited to these topics: creating writing and speaking assignments, identifying students with non-apparent learning challenges, classroom civility, attendance issues, effective lecturing, course design, syllabus construction, assessment of student learning, first day of class activities, engaging students, active learning, and teaching with technology.
Facilitator: Lori Schroeder, Community Faculty, Communications, Writing, and Arts
Date: Friday, Nov. 13
Time: 1 – 2:30 pm
Location: SP, CTL Lib. 131
eFolio Minnesota Version 2 Faculty Training
By popular demand, this training is being scheduled on Saturday to serve better the varied schedules of faculty, particularly community faculty.
There is a two-step registration process:
1. Register for these workshops through Metro State’s CTL; once registered you will be rostered on a D2L training site. Faculty registering for any of these workshops will be rostered in the shared d2l site (there is not a separate site for each workshop).
2. To participate, if you do not already have an account, you MUST sign up for eFolio account in advance at http://www.efoliominnesota.com; if you have a version 1 efolio, you must migrate your eFolio to version 2 before the workshop(s) you plan to attend.
If you have questions about this, please email carol.lacey@metrostate.edu
eFolio Thinking, Learning, Assessing Workshop
Learning ePortfolios provide a multi-dimensional, dynamic vehicle for documenting and reflecting on development and application of knowledge and skills--unlike test scores that typically measure a student’s performance at a specific time, gain ideas to guide your students’ document and reflect on their learning over time, telling the student’s story by focusing a meaningful collection of student performance and meaningful reflection and evaluation of that work .
Probe application of rubrics to measure levels of competence faculty- or student-designed learning, as well as in prior learning assessment.
Facilitator: Carol Lacey, Community Faculty, Individualized, Interdisciplinary and Lifelong Learning
Day/Date: Saturday, Nov. 14
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Saint Paul Campus, Library 132
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or 651-793-1774
If you have questions about these trainings, please email Carol.Lacey@metrostate.edu, who will be designing and guiding these training opportunities.
Difference in the Classroom: A Roundtable with Gender Studies Faculty
Differences in race, gender, and sexuality remain central to the challenge of teaching in the contemporary university, in particular at places like Metropolitan State, which is the most racially diverse university campus in Minnesota. The demographic changes in student population at Metro State are reflective of similar institutions across the nation serving dynamic cities that are gateways for new immigration and meeting places for people with a wide variety of standpoints, skills, training, and ambition.
Three faculty associated with the Gender Studies Program at Metropolitan State University will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges of honoring and negotiating difference (especially gender, race, and class) in the classroom through presentation and interactive discussion. Our objective is to foster a forum to discuss the importance of teaching with mindfulness about difference through both the practical and the abstract, including the techniques of teaching (assignment and syllabi construction), as well as a cross-disciplinary comparative experiential discussion about the theoretical impacts of standpoints of difference and the aims of education in the contemporary university.
Facilitators: Aureliano DeSoto, Resident Faculty, Ethnic Studies; Mary Kirk, Resident Faculty, Individualized, Interdisciplinary and Lifelong Learning; and Laurie McCartan, Resident Faculty, Communications, Writing and Arts
Day/Date: Monday, Nov. 16
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Saint Paul Campus, New Main L212
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or call 651-793-1774
Fall Faculty D2L Workshop LodeStar:
This workshop introduces you to how you can create interactive multimedia learning activities, with presentations, puzzles, and flash cards, for upload to your D2L course.
Facilitator: Guntis Dumbrovskis, IMS Site Administrator, Center for Online Learning
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 17
Time: 1:00 –3:00 pm
Location: SP, SJH L9 computer lab
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or call 651-793-1774
Questions: For questions about training content email nima.salehi@metrostate.edu
Effective Online Discussions – advanced:
This workshop provides hands on training for experienced online instructors. Sample guidelines
are provided. Bring your ideas to share with colleagues.
Facilitator: Nima Salehi, Instructional Designer/Trainer, Center for Online Learning
Date: Monday, Nov. 23
Time: 6:00 –7:00 pm
Location: SP, SJH L11 computer lab
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or call 651-793-1774
Questions: For questions about training content email nima.salehi@metrostate.edu
Violence Against Women: Strategies for Incorporating VAW in Your Curriculum
Violence Against Women is a serious issue in our society. Each week it seems there's news of another tragedy. Of more immediate concern, Metropolitan State students who participated in a U of M survey indicate that 40% of females have experienced violence in their lives and 25% of males have perpetrated violence.
How can we as faculty have an impact in providing information and/or changing attitudes and culture about VAW, especially if we don't teach courses that seem very related?
Please join several faculty (Kristi Frykman, CWA; Deborah Matthias Anderson, Nursing; Terri Hawthorn, Womens Studies) who took a VAW teaching seminar to hear how they incorporated VAW in their curriculum. Our discussion will include ideas of how VAW might be incorporated in courses that have a logical connect to VAW as well as creative strategies for incorporating the topic in seemingly unrelated subject matter (e.g., statistics, business, etc.).
For questions: e-mail Mary Weeks at mary.weeks@metrostate.edu
Facilitator(s): Mary Weeks, Resident Faculty, College of Professional Studies
Co-presenters: Kristi Frykman, Community Faculty, Communications, Writing and Arts
Deborarh Matthias Anderson, Resident Faculty, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Terri Hawthorne, Community Faculty, Women Studies
Time: 12 pm to 1 pm
Date: Monday, Nov. 30, 2009
Location: Saint Paul campus, Saint Paul Room, NM 203
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or call 651-793-1774
Community Faculty Orientation
The next Community Faculty Orientation will be held in December. Any faculty member wanting a “refresher” is invited to attend an orientation. Contact the CTL to let them know you are coming. There is a lite supper provided.
Facilitator: Kathy Harowski, Community Faculty, School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009
Time: 6 to 9:20 pm
Location: Saint Paul Campus Library LLC 131
Respondus Quiz maker and D2L Quizzes -Advanced
Come to this workshop to see sample quiz questions, and quiz libraries. Discuss and practice creating your own quizzes.
Facilitator: : Guntis Dumbrovskis, IMS Site Administrator, Center for Online Learning
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 8
Time: 12:00 –1:30 pm
Location: SP, SJH L9 computer lab
Registration: ctl@metrostate.edu or call 651-793-1774
Questions: For questions about training content email nima.salehi@metrostate.edu
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