Power-up With New Ideas and Technology!
The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning is offering the following Power-up Sessions:
Flipping the Classroom
This session will provide hands-on experience with creating video and audio mini-lectures and effective teaching strategies for “flipping” a blended or online course.
Dates & Times:
- Tuesday, Oct 1 at 9:30–11:00 a.m. OR
- Wednesday, Oct 2 at 1:30–3:00 p.m.
Assessment & Collaboration Strategies in the Online Classroom
This session will explore a variety of effective assessment techniques used in the online classroom, discuss how to foster critical thinking, and the use of assessment rubrics. The Collaboration session will cover best practices for using a variety of collaboration tools and group activities. Each session will be 90 minutes in length and lunch will be provided between the morning and afternoon meetings.
Dates & Times:
- Thursday, Oct 4 at 10:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
- Friday, Oct 18 at 10:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
- Friday, Oct 25 at 10:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
All sessions will be held in the FCTL Innovation Commons in Meyer Library Room 204.
Please register through My Learning Connection or contact fctl@missouristate.edu or (417)836-3059 for additional information.
Master Advisor Refresher Workshop
Date: Thursday, October 3
Time: 1:30–4:30 p.m.
Location: Plaster Student Union 317
Facilitator: Susan Martindale
This workshop is designed for those whose Master Advisor designation has lapsed or for those who wish to complete the year’s recertification requirements in one session. Space is limited and registration is required through the advising website.
Annual Master Online Course Recognition Award for Excellence in Online Course Design and Pedagogy
Call for Nominations for Spring, Summer and Fall 2013 Courses
In recognition of outstanding online course design and teaching at Missouri State University, Missouri State Online is sponsoring the 2013 Master Online Course Recognition Award!
By filling out the nomination form, you can nominate your own class, a class of your peers, or students may make nominations for the 2013 Master Online Course Recognition Award for Excellence in Online Course Design and Pedagogy.
- Check out the Missouri State Online website for more information and nominations forms.
- Nominations must be received at Missouri State Online (ALUM 400) by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 6, 2013.
Geophysical Adventures in Antarctica
Date: Tuesday, October 8
Time: 7:30–8:30 p.m.
Location: Temple Hall 002
Speaker: Kevin Mickus, Professor, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning
Geophysics is the use of the methods of physics to explore the subsurface of the Earth (and other planets). Techniques include measuring the Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields, studying how seismic waves travel through the Earth, and analyzing how electric and magnetic fields interact with subsurface materials. These methods are useful in academic pursuits such as studying the crust and mantle of the Earth and how different tectonic features are formed. Of economic and societal importance, these methods can be used for petroleum, mineral, geothermal and groundwater exploration. One of the most hostile places on Earth, Antarctica, places extra challenges in collecting geophysical data because of the extreme cold, elevation, and thick ice layers. In this talk I will present my experience; first the training to be ready to go to the field and then the actual collection of gravity data on the 13,000 foot Mt. Erebus, which is an active volcano in western Antarctica. I will also discuss the geology and tectonics of the west Antarctica region.
Optimal Preparation for Tenure and Promotion for CNAS Faculty—
Years 1–4
Date: Monday, October 7
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Temple 145
This workshop will focus on the teaching, research, and service criteria that are used for tenure and promotion to various ranks and how to best prepare to meet them. Process for annual evaluation, what to expect in feedback, and how to respond optimally will be discussed. Establishment of yearly goals and documentation of progress will be emphasized.
Blackboard Feature Spotlight: The New Discussion Board
Do you like to communicate? Well get ready, because Blackboard has completely revamped the Discussion Board!
First you will notice that contributor’s Profile pictures will show up next to their posts and comments, making the conversation much easier to follow. Also you can now see all the threads in one continuous chain or, if that’s overwhelming, pair it down to just what you want to see at a time.
Many instructors will be excited about the new “post first” feature as well. This requires students to post a thread before being able to see and comment on other’s posts. Useful if you want to see what that particular student thinks before they are influenced by the thoughts of their peers.
Take a look at this video from Blackboard about the New Discussion Board!
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See the Blackboard Blog to learn more about other great improvements to Blackboard, and don’t forget about all the opportunities for Blackboard training at the Blackboard at Missouri State University website, and learn how you can become a Blackboard Black Belt while you’re there!
Manhattan Short Film Festival
Date: Saturday, September 28
Time: 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Location: PSU Theatre
This coming Saturday, the MSU Film Series and the Department of Media, Journalism & Film will host the 2013 Manhattan Short Film Festival. This terrific festival is the only major international film festival where audiences around the world get to determine the “Best of Festival Winner.” MSU is the only venue in Missouri to screen these 10 short films.
Tickets are $10 and the proceeds go towards supporting a digital film production scholarship for worthy students involved in film making here in the Ozarks.
Parking will be available in Lot 24 or in Bear Park North next to Hammons Hall. Take the MSU Shuttle to the PSU.
View event news release
Event flyer
America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway
The MSU Libraries is hosting a six-part series of films and lectures on popular music genres with American roots. The six sessions feature either a complete documentary film or excerpts from longer films followed by scholar-led discussions. All films and lectures are free and open to the public.
Start Collecting Your Old Shoes Now!
Starting Family Weekend (Saturday, September 28) through Homecoming (Saturday, October 19) MSU will be joining with Drury, OTC, Evangel and SBU in “Stomp Out Hunger: All-Collegiate Shoe Drive” benefiting Sole Food, a program of Friends Against Hunger. Bring your unwanted shoes (no holes in the soles, please) to one of the many drop locations on campus to do your part in this campus-wide project. Through this collection, we will also attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the longest string of shoes (using only the shoes with laces). The current record of 12,481 pairs of shoes is held by the Shoeman Water Project who displayed the shoes at the University of Missouri on May 7, 2011. For more information, visit the Public Affairs website and download the information sheet.
Artwork provided by Hook Creative
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Volunteer Opportunities
The campus-wide community service project “Stomp Out Hunger: All-Collegiate Shoe Drive” will provide many opportunities for everyone on campus to be involved. Besides bringing shoes for the drive, there are opportunities to help assist in all phases of the collection and attempt to break the record. If you are interested in helping, please contact the Office of Public Affairs Support (6-4233) or send an e-mail to publicaffairsupport@missouristate.edu. Let’s make this a true, campus-wide event!
Public Affairs Theme Suggestions for 2015–2016 Now Being Accepted
As is the case with this year’s theme of Global Perspective: Why it matters and the 2014–2015 theme of The Ethical Citizen: Can you make a difference?, the intent is to identify and adopt a theme that can permeate the campus community for the academic year. While public affairs themes generally focus on challenges in public policy or issues confronting our world, you are encouraged to submit any and all ideas. Ultimately, the theme will be developed in a collaborative manner involving representatives of the university and Springfield communities; these individuals will look for a concept that can engage and excite the campus through a broad topic and provide meaningful opportunities for learning.
The intent is for the annual public affairs theme to be selected a minimum of two years in advance so that the theme may be incorporated into SOAR materials for new students in the 2015–16 academic year. This time frame also allows for careful planning of a multitude of public affairs activities that will occur that year.
In addition to serving as the focal point of the annual Public Affairs Conference, the theme should be broad enough to be used in a wide variety of both curricular and co-curricular activities, yet focused enough to be illustrative of our public affairs components: community engagement, cultural competence, and ethical leadership.
Proposals should include a brief (1 page) description of the theme and how it would fulfill the above criteria (including specific examples of curricular and co-curricular activities that could take place). Because the Associate Provost for Student Development and Public Affairs will select a Provost Fellow to coordinate the year-long activities, and in particular, to serve as the coordinator of the 2016 Public Affairs Conference, proposals including the name(s) of potential Provost Fellows for Public Affairs are encouraged.
Send all proposals to Dr. Rachelle Darabi, Associate Provost for Student Development and Public Affairs, by Friday, November 1, 5 p.m. We hope to have the theme selected by Monday, December 2.
Submit Your Public Affairs Student Work to the Quality
Initiative Project
The Quality Initiative Project (QIP) is a continuous and non-intrusive system for assessing (not grading) student work related to the public affairs mission. By collecting student work across all disciplines, course levels, and both curricular and co-curricular units, this project will provide campus constituents with a sense of our students’ understanding and integration of the public affairs mission themes and our diversity goals.
How the process works:
- Fill out the online Intent to Participate Form
- Collect student work as usual
- Either submit copies electronically to assessment@missouristate.edu, or
- We can come to you, make copies, and return your originals in 2–3 days
- Faculty and staff reviewers score the work using a scoring rubric, and we send you a report
- Office of Assessment staff report aggregate data to the Assessment Council and Faculty Senate
As a bonus, everyone who submits student work will receive a Starbucks gift card and a certificate of participation that can be included in a promotion and tenure dossier or ADP!
To submit student work: complete the online Intent to Participate Form
To become a QIP reviewer: fill out the online application
For additional information: visit the QIP page on the Office of Assessment website, or contact us at assessment@missouristate.edu or 836-6300.
CHPA and the Department of Religious Studies present
Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the New Christian Right
Date: Thursday, October 3
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Meyer Library 101
Join Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Avila University in Kansas City, as she presents a free public lecture on how changing the way that we look at religion may help create new models for thinking about the intersection between religion and American political life. Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith is an alumna of the Religious Studies department here at Missouri State.
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