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Extreme MakeoverExperimental Classroom- Smith, 318 Smith 318, which is used for faculty development workshops and experimentalteaching is now equipped with:-trapezoidal tables on wheels to support different types of learning activities-a SMART podium with Mac mini-a flat screen display-detachable whiteboard panels Faculty who are interested in visiting or learning more about how to make the mostuse of classroom spaces can contact the Center for Teaching and Learning([email protected]). Many thanks to Media Services, Physical Plant, IC, and the Business Office fortheir support in helping to make this happen.
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SUpr SummitShenandoah University projects & research Summit
April 23, 2014
Please encourage your students to register for this wonderful opportunity.
To learn more about the Summit, please visit our webpage
Arts Education Grants AvailableThe Marion Park Lewis Foundation The Marion Park Lewis Foundation (MPLF) has announced guidelines for its annualindividual and organizational grants:
Applications are due March 15, for projects that occur from June 1, 2014,through May 31, 2015.
The foundation is interested in projects that actively engage participants in developingtheir artistic skills or that uniquely enhance the art experience within the community.Shenandoah University and a number of its faculty have received MPLF grantsin the past. Complete instructions and grant application forms are availableat www.mplf-arts.org.
Please contact the office of grant support ([email protected])for guidance if you are interested in applying for an institutional grant.
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Updates from ICGoogle Indoor Maps: Floor Picker Tool on Desktop
Now that Google's Indoor Maps team has visited and confirmed SU's floor plans, It may bebeneficial to inform students, prospective students, parents, etc.. about the mobile and now desktop tool, they can find their way around SU easily. No more getting lost trying to find aspecific faculty's office.
With the new Google Maps, browsing floor plans from home is even more helpful—with
greater zoom ability and an indoor floor picker tool to alternate levels.
Simply enlarge the building you'd like to view, and click inside to highlight its interior. If the
building contains multiple floors, you'll be able to access the floor plan picker tool on the
right of the map.
Any questions, contact [email protected]
ExamSoft General Information SessionExam Management, Delivery and Analyitics
ExamSoft is a Secure testing system allowing you to administer exams to your
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students in a “locked down” environment. This means that you can restrict students
access to the internet or other computer programs while they complete exams.
Additionally, ExamSoft Results can be reported to Blackboard.
Please join us for a Lunch & Learn (Register 48 hours in advance for lunch)*
This workshop will cover the basics of ExamSoft for those faculty members who may
be interested in utilizing this software in their classes. The session will be led by Ed
Schrank who is currently using ExamSoft in his courses.
Allen Dining Hall, Huntsberry Room
To register for this session, please click HERE.
Contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
Reminders From the RegistrarAdvisors & Faculty Important Dates to Remember:
March 1, 2014 :: Last day to apply for May graduation
March 10-15, 2014 :: Spring Break
March 12, 2014 :: Midterm grades are due
WEAVE WorkshopsEntering Findings
Information about entering appropriate findings in WEAVE will be provided. All
programs are required to maintain their WEAVE site by entering findings in May that
align with specific learning objectives. Don't wait until May to learn how to enter this
information.
Session 1: Thursday, 3/6/14 from 3-4pm in Smith Library, room 318
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[Click HERE to register]
Session 2: Wednesday, 3/26/14 from 3-4pm in Smith Library, room 318
[Click HERE to register]
To learn more or schedule a training session, please contact Terri Masielloat [email protected].
Many Updates
YouTube as a Necessary Alternative to iTunesU As you may or may not know, we have heard from reliable sources that Apple’s iTunesU,
as we know it, will be non-existent sometime in the near future. We have not been given
an exact date, but we know it is imminent. As such, we know we must seek alternative
methods of storing and making accessible media for our courses.
One such readily available resource is YouTube. YouTube provides a large space for storingyour video and audio files, and your YouTube ‘channel,’ associated with your SU Gmailaccount, can be managed easily, allowing you to share those files at will.
Blackboard makes using YouTube even easier, allowing you to link directly to your
YouTube channel, and/or any media file directly. Instructions for using the YouTube
integration in Blackboard may be found HERE.
Because of Bb file size constraints, we ask that you please NOT upload videosand/or large media files directly into Blackboard.
Date Management in BlackboardThere’s an old adage that has to do with no one wanting to "reinvent the wheel."
Indeed, at the beginning of each semester, no instructor wants to recreate a complete
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course he or she just recently taught. Thus, many instructors reuse their course materials
in Blackboard by using either the COURSE COPY or the EXPORT/IMPORT methods.
Even so, one must often go through the course and manually change things such
as, availability dates, due dates, and adaptive release dates in the newly-created course.
A recent improvement in Blackboard, the Date Management tool, allows for automatic
updating of all those dates in the new course. You can choose to update the dates
automatically or manually from one convenient location. To learn more about this tool,
click HERE.
Reminders
Please remember to make your courses available to students, especially if they are
newly-created or newly-merged after the first day of classes. This alleviates a lot of
student confusion, as well as many unnecessary support requests to various support
personnel.
As you may know, we have an automated process that makes each class available on
the first day of the semester, but courses that are created following that date, of
course, do not benefit from that automation. If you don’t remember the steps for
making your course available, they are, from your CONTROL PANEL, click on
CUSTOMIZATION, then select PROPERTIES. Look for SET AVAILABILITY and click on
YES next to MAKE COURSE AVAILABLE. Complete the process but clicking SUBMIT.
Please make every effort to submit your Blackboard COURSE MERGE requests before
you have engaged students in any gradable activities. Remember that merging
courses means you will lose any student work, as well as your content, with the
merge. Merge requests should be done prior to the semester’s beginning, if at all
possible. The form for requesting a course merge is HERE. Please submit a separate
course merge request for each group of courses you wish to merge.
Please contact George Hoffman [email protected] with any questions.
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Teaching Questions?
Everything you always wanted to know about teaching, but were afraid it wasa dumb question:http://vulearninordertoserve.wordpress.com/
National Endowment for the Arts,Literature FellowshipsDeadline: March 12, 2014
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers thatenable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general careeradvancement.
Projects may begin any time between January 1, 2015, and January 1, 2016, and extend forup to two years. The NEA Literature Fellowships program operates on a two-year cycle withfellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. Poetry fellowships areavailable for the current funding cycle (deadline of March 12, 2014).
Guidelines for fellowships in prose will be available in the fall of 2014. Applications should besubmitted online, ten days ahead of the deadline, to allow for resolution of any technicalproblems. Full information is available at http://arts.gov/grants-individuals/creative-writing-fellowships.
You may contact Jenny Bousquet ([email protected]) or Kelly Nemzek ([email protected]) inthe Office of Grant Support and Foundation Relations for assistance if you are interested inapplying for this opportunity.
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The Library's Discovery Service Takes InformationDiscovery to the Next Level
The University Library is excited to introduce a new research tool called Discovery
to the campus community. Discovery was developed by EBSCO, a major information
provider, and customized by SU library staff. Discovery is an online tool designed
to provide a single, unified search interface for nearly all our digital and print library
content, including books, e-books, music scores, e-journals, music files and visual
images, in more than 150 different databases.
Searches using Discovery occur across all of the university’s databases and electronic
collections, rather than searching each database one resource at a time. In addition,
Discovery has been configured to identify content from other key information
providers, even where full text is not directly available. The results are presented in
an integrated list, ranked by relevance. In many ways, using Discovery is like
searching Google, with the primary difference being quality content provided by
trusted information providers and vetted by the University Library staff.
Discovery is used in conjunction with the “Journals and More A-Z” list and LinkSource
to make it easy to find the resources you need, wherever they are located. Whenever
full-text is unavailable, links to the ILLiad interlibrary loan system makes requesting
materials quick and easy by automatically populating your request forms with
the necessary citation information.
Library users can still search the Webcat online catalog and other electronic databases
individually. Some users might prefer the more focused approach of searching a
single resource that takes advantage of specialized vocabulary. Librarians can help
guide users in selecting the resources that best fit user needs.
We hope you’ll give Discovery a try. Discovery is an ideal tool to start your research,
when you don’t know much about your subject. But Discovery is also perfect when
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you need to be comprehensive in locating information in unfamiliar collections.
Links to Discovery can be found on the library website:
http://www.su.edu/university-libraries, or follow this Discovery link.
Let us know what you think. For more information, please contact Christopher Bean in
Smith Library: [email protected].
SU Book ClubReading in the Community
The Book Club continues to readand discuss great books. However,we need your assistance. The Book Clubhas been reading in the community byvisiting local preschools. We need morestudents to help with this initiative. Pleasetell your students about this greatopportunity and share this link with thosewho are interested in reading with youngstudents.
If students would like more information,please have them contact Terri Masielloat [email protected].
Exemplary Teaching Award for May, 2014Nominations Requested
For the past 20 years, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM)
has presented The Exemplary Teacher Award annually to a member of Shenandoah
University’s faculty. This year’s award will be presented at Shenandoah University’s
Commencement Ceremony on Saturday May 10, 2014.
Specific criteria are determined by Shenandoah University within the following broad
general guidelines: excellence in teaching; civility and concern for students and
colleagues; commitment to value-centered education; and service to students, the
institution, and the community.
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Criteria for candidates:
Must be a full-time SU faculty member, but not necessarily a member of the
United Methodist Church.
Must have an exceptional reputation as a teacher in terms of knowledge of the
subject, course organization, clarity of instruction, and availability to students.
Is expected to contribute to the welfare of Shenandoah University and to the
greater community.
Is expected to show interest in scholarly and professional achievement.
Recitals and lectures before learned societies are considered on an equal
footing with publications, research, application of professional expertise, or
postgraduate study.
Should demonstrate reasonable concern for student welfare in areas beyond
the academic.
Collegiality in the candidate shall be defined as cooperation with and respect for
colleagues even when there is basis for debate.
*Nominations must be received via email by Friday, February 21, 2014 to the
selection committee chair, Bryan Pearce-Gonzales, [email protected].
*In order to give each nominee full consideration, nominators should describe the ways in
which the candidate meets the criteria listed above for this award.
Last Day to Sign-Up:Feb. 9th!
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App of the Month Click Here to check out the App of the
Month!
You can help make Bb more faculty-friendly by completing this short survey
Please consider submitting your course toBlackboard's Exemplary CourseProgram. If you participate, please let ICknow by submitting a work order; they willgive the Bb reviewers access to yourcourse.Submission deadline is 2/17. To learnmore or to participate, click HERE.
Bb Support can be found on Twitter
Faculty Research DayLibrary of Congress
Join us for a one-day trip to the Library ofCongress (LC). All faculty, full time andadjunct, are invited. Transportation will beprovided; participants will be responsiblefor their own lunches.
Space is limited to 20 faculty members,
and registration is required. Use the
button below to register.
Click here to register
Center for Teaching and Learning, Smith Library, room 322
Anne Marchant, Director: [email protected] Masiello, Assessment Coordinator: [email protected] Hoffman, Instructional Technology Training Coordinator: [email protected] Johnson, Instructional Support Coordinator: [email protected]
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