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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
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11/30
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment.
Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD.
The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
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Internship Info Session
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Career Development Center
- Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one?
All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
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12:30 PM
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1:30 PM
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Video Games as Pedagogical Tool
- Location: OFD Lounge, Library 220
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: Description: Come to join us for a presentation and discussion of Video Games as Pedagogical Tool that presented by
Lee Sheldon, Professor of Practice, Department of Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Professor Sheldon will be discussing how to maximize student learning by using multiplayer video games in the classroom.
Lunch will be provided, please sign up through the main event calendar.
NOTE: For those that you're not on campus but would like to join the discussion, you can do so through UMass Dartmouth Zoom.
You can connect to the 12:30pm Zoom meeting by clicking on this URL. https://umassd.zoom.us/j/918782137
If you are not connected to Zoom enter the URL directly into your web browser.
You will then be asked to download and launch the Zoom app. Please do this.
- Topical Areas: Training, audience: Faculty, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development
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10:00 AM
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Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition & Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: free
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: An exhibition of Fine Arts faculty at the College of Visual and Performing Arts presents recent faculty work in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Mixed-Media at the UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery from November 8 through December 12, 2016.
Also on display will be the Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship Exhibition. Collaborative Aggregates has awarded six $1,500 scholarships to students in the Department of Fine Arts enrolled in the graduate or undergraduate program: Henry Carpio, April Claggett, Devin Kish, Andrew Laverty, Allen TenBusschen, and Erin Wheary. Works by each scholarship winner will be included in the Collaborate Aggregates annual calendar and are also presented in this exhibition.
The mission of the Department of Fine Arts is to maintain an environment where artists are committed to the pursuit of teaching, research, and creative work. This faculty of professional artists provides a high-quality cross-disciplinary studio education to students at the foundation, undergraduate, and graduate levels through formal, aesthetic, technical, and intellectual training. Faculty members prepare students to become creative artists, pursue graduate study, or engage in Fine Arts-related professions through the attainment of their BFA and MFA degrees.
The closing reception will be held on Monday, December 12th, from 4 pm to 6 pm with artist talks at 5 pm.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Concerts
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12:00 AM
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11/10
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Person Behind the Badge Sponsored by FDUH and Campus Safety
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Frederick Douglass Unity House and UMassD Campus Safety join together to sponsor "Person Behind the Badge." The event will feature officers from Campus Safety. Students and officers will engage in informal conversation getting to know one another. The program will take place in the FDUH on Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 6PM-7PM. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information please contact the FDUH staff at (508) 999-9220.
- Topical Areas: General Public, Students, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Student Organizations
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11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Polling with REEF
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: Come explore REEF, the new classroom response system from iClicker. This new version of iClicker allows students to use a smartphone, tablet, laptop or iClicker remote to respond with during class. Response systems help create a more engaging classroom environment for your students, while enabling content reinforcement and thinking skills.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/reef-polling/
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Internship Info Session
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center
- Contact: Career Development Center
- Description: Why do an internship? How do you find one?
All types of internships are available for all majors. Come to an Internship Info session and find out how to get started finding and securing the right internship for you! Preregister on CareerLink via the UMassD portal or call the Career Development Center at 508.999.8658 for further information.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
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4:00 PM
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4:50 PM
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ARC/Writing & Reading Center's Academic Reading Workshop
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 220
- Contact: Writing and Reading Center
- Description: Looking to get more information out of your class materials? Want to improve your reading comprehension and retention? Then come to the Academic Reading Strategies Workshop to learn new skills and techniques to better understand and utilize your class readings!
To sign up, come by the Writing & Reading Center, call us at 508-999-8710, or arrive at the date & time listed.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Word Mail Merge
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services
- Description: This workshop covers the use of Microsoft Word’s mail merge tools. Participants create a letter and merge it with names and addresses from a separate data document. Conditional if-then statements are covered, as well as using data from external sources such as Peoplesoft. Familiarity with the basic text-editing features of Word is required.
This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135.
Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799,
or email RLegault@umassd.edu.
Seating is limited, so please register today!
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
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12:00 AM
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Social Justice Trip to Washington, D.C. Report Back Sponsored by BH4SC, FDUH, and SAIL
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The weekend of Friday, October 7th, 2016, 35 UMassD students and four
chaperones traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in several social
justice focused initiatives. The trip featured a visit to the newly
constructed Smithsonian National Museum of African American History
and Culture (NMAAHC) among other important sites.
Join us at this report back to hear from student participants as they
share insight from this co-curricular experience and amazing moments
from their weekend stay. Students will present on various topics using
an array of formats to engage the audience. The report back is scheduled for Wednesday, November 16, 2016 from 4PM-6PM in the Claire T. Carney Library Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room.
For more information please contact the FDUH staff at (508) 999-9222.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Claire T. Carney Library, History, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Student Organizations
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