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Center for
Teaching and
learning
NOV 2012, Issue 12.1
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Spotlight on ADvising!
Advising as Teaching
Think back to your own academic
career.
Was there a particular
instructor or advisor who made a
profound impact on your development
(either positively or negatively)? What
made that person stand out?
We know that advising can be the most
valuable teaching you do. Reaching
out, particularly to those who are not
doing well, to help them find the right
path can make all the difference in the
world.
Getting to know your advisees will
facilitate dialog that can help you to
give students the perspective they need
to make good choices. To facilitate
this, Vice President Bryon Grigsby will
cover up to $100.00 per advisor for
you to take your advisees for a meal or
for coffee. You can use the requisition
form to get reimbursed or you can
login to Blackboard and order catering
through Sodexo (Community->Dining
Services->Catering). Jeanne Hoffman
in Academic Affairs (Wilkins Hall) will
process the forms for you. We hope
that with degree audits in place, the
heavy lifting of academic advising has
been done for you and that you will
have more time to focus on each
student and their individual goals and
aspirations.
NACADA (the National Academic
Advising Association) has many useful
resources for advisors For upcoming
webinars on advising transfer students
and international students, see:
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Webinar
s/events.htm
–A. Marchant ([email protected])
ITunes U Files to be deleted
Please be aware that older files in
iTunes U, starting with 2010 and
before, will be removed beginning next
week. Our available memory allotment
was 500 gigabytes, and we have
exceeded it. If you need any of these
files and do not already have backups,
please contact Val Gangwer at Media
Services [email protected] / 540-6654637 for help. Also, if you have old
files you know can be safely deleted,
please let Val know. –V. Gangwer
Preregistration
for
2013/SP
continues through November 20th.
Sophomores (and above) can register
November 6, Freshmen (and above) on
November 9th, all visiting students
(and above) on November 14th. New
undergraduates may register on paper
beginning November 14th as well.
Please review degree audits with your
students. –E. White, Interim Registrar
New Course Evaluation System
The university is transitioning to
IOTA’s MyCourseEvaluation System.
So far, testing on courses that ended
early has gone well. For courses that
end in December, the evaluation period
will begin 12/3 and go through 12/11.
Students will get an email and will
login with their SUNet login and
password. (The same credentials they
use for Blackboard and WebAdvisor.)
Faculty and administrators will get an
email notifying them when reports are
ready after grades are submitted.
There will be a webinar 12/14 3-4 for
faculty who wish to preview the
system.
Sign up on the Faculty
Training Calendar or to request a
recording of the webcast.
From the Registrar: Final Course Grades
Ø Final grades for 2012/FA are due 3 business days after the
final exam. All grades must be submitted no later
than 5 pm Wednesday, December 19. As of Friday,
December 21st, grades not entered will be recorded as
"F". This deadline is not flexible, as academic standing
reports need to be run immediately thereafter.
CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Blackboard News: (Blackboard email: [email protected]; site: www.su.edu/bb)
Ø Collaborate session links are now working properly in Firefox.
IC News: (https://learn.su.edu->Tech Support)
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1. RAM upgrades for the classroom systems should help improve performance.
2. OS X Lion coming to the classrooms starting in November.
3. Our Mac users can now add printers through Self Service. This service is now being tested and available to all faculty/staff who will
no longer need to dig around in System Preferences to select the printer model and/or driver manually. Just find the printer in Self
Service and click "Add Printer." Most printers are now available but we're still working on the ones that use accounting codes (mostly
impacts staff). Look for the Printers section in the Categories list in Self Service.
Have great student videos? Please upload short videos to upload.su.edu to show the great work our students are doing.
IBooks Author Training
Would you or your students be interested
in learning more about authoring
iBooks? If you are interested in attending
an iBooks training session in early
January, please send your name to Terri
Masiello at [email protected]. We are
keeping a list of those interested in hopes
of providing a well-attended session. If
you will be assigning an iBooks project in
your class, consider registering your class
for this training.
Workshops
The Center for Teaching and Learning
continues to offer workshops with the
support of our very talented faculty and
staff. Sometimes there are no signups for
workshops, forcing us to cancel at the last
minute. This can be frustrating for the
presenters.
So please use the
Faculty/Staff Training Calendar found in
Blackboard to sign up for workshops
you’d
like
to
attend:
https://sites.google.com/a/su.edu/train
ing-calendars/.
Also, it is our goal to schedule workshops
that are diverse in content and meet the
needs of the entire campus. If you have
ideas for future workshops or would like
to present a specific topic, please contact
Terri Masiello at [email protected].
Hot Link:
http://pinterest.com/esheninger/
Check out this collection of great
resources. (Thanks to Devon Taylor for
sending this link!)
Upcoming Workshops
11/6 10-11am Blackboard Drop-in hr
11/7 11-12pm Blackboard Grade
Center and Assignments
11/8 2:30pm Blackboard Utilities
11/8 3-4pm Smartboard
11/9 3-4pm Blackboard Grade Center
and Assignments
11/13 2:15-3:15pm Smartboard
11/14 3-4pm Iota Course Evaluations
11/14 4-5pm Blackboard Drop-in hr
11/15 10:30pm Blackboard Utilities
11/15 2:00pm Blackboard Grade
Center and Assignments
11/15 3:00pm Blackboard drop-in hr
11/15 3:00pm Grant Proposal Writing
Workshop
Please note that IC’s Devon Taylor is
available for faculty drop in technology
help most Tuesday-Fridays 3-4:30pm
in the IC Learning Center on the
basement level of the Smith Library.
See the Faculty/Staff Training calendar
to confirm dates and times.
Thanksgiving Soon!
The Center for Teaching and Learning
would like to thank the many people
who contribute to this newsletter
throughout the year. Your community
spirit is much appreciated!
The Buzz on MOOCS
Massively Open Online Courses
Consortia of universities and
entrepreneurs are experimenting
with
free/inexpensive
online
courses. How this will play out is
unclear, but in the short term this
means there is a lot of free, high
quality content that you can use to
augment your own courses or use
for supplemental instruction.
Examples:
-Carnegie Mellon:
http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/freeopen/
-Khan Academy:
http://www.khanacademy.org/
-A network for faculty to share,
collaborate, and teach:
http://www.academicroom.com/
For more information:
-Dave Comier, ”What is a MOOC”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e
W3gMGqcZQc (4.27)
-A. Ripley, “College is Dead. Long Live
College!,” Time US, 10/18/12.
-Other MOOCs: EdX, Duolingo
(languages) Coursera, Udemy, and
Udacity.
In a future article, we will talk about
the power of small scale
collaborations. Stay tuned!
-A. Marchant
Center for Teaching and Learning, Smith Library, rm 322
Anne Marchant, Director: [email protected]
Terri Masiello, Assessment Coordinator: [email protected]
George Hoffman, Instructional Technology Training Coordinator: [email protected]