Truman State University
PML 204
100 E Normal Street
Kirksville, MO 63501
E-mail -
ctl@truman.edu
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Thank You
To Vaughan Pultz (Chemistry), Jeanne Mitchell (Biology), and Marianna Giovaninni (Advisors) who tied for best attendance at the Weekly Lunch Series this year. How nice to have a 3-way tie for best attendance! Thank you for your presence and contributions toward the success of this Center program. Evaluations of the Weekly Lunch series are welcomed and may be completed anonymously via the evaluation form.
Coming Soon
The
next Sabbatical Projects Support Luncheon will be Monday, December 8. We
meet at 12:30 pm at La Fuente restaurant. Join us if you need to talk over bumps
and barriers in your sabbatical project, or if you’d like a place to brag about
a special accomplishment. We’ll be all ears :-)
Tips for the Peer Review of Teaching session for Department Chairs
will be December 18 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm in PML 205. We will learn to do
peer review of teaching and peer review of syllabi. Rsvp
here.
Are you going up for Promotion? For Tenure? For formative review? Then mark your
calendar now for the annual Promotion and Tenure Portfolio Blitz
scheduled for January 6 and 7, 2009. This workshop provides: materials
that help you to more fully explicate your activity; peer reviewers for first
drafts who help you state things succinctly for out-of-field reviewers; prompts
for including -- and tips for documenting -- themes that individual faculty typically
leave out. We meet from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon both days, and you prepare
your materials during the afternoons and evenings. Bridget Thomas (Classical
& Modern Languages), who had her portfolio showcased in Peter Seldin’s
The Teaching Portfolio, 2nd ed., will assist with this workshop. Rsvp
here.
Have you got ideas for articles that you just can’t get to during the teaching
semester? Are you part of one of the many Truman student learning experiences
that the world doesn’t know about? The scholarly writing workshop, Publish
and Flourish, will be held from January 5-9. Start the week with an
introduction to this efficient method of getting your writing done; then
continue through the week to write on your own submitting drafts of work to the
writing circle that participates. Those writing about Truman’s student research
program will be especially well-represented among attendees this time, but the
workshop is open to anyone who is interested. Sara Orel (Fine Art) will
help facilitate this workshop. Rsvp
here. Get a preview at 3:30 pm Monday, December 8, in PML 205.
Is presenting at a conference in your future (or your students’ futures) next
spring? Learn how to make a professional looking conference presentation poster
at the InkScape workshop. InkScape
is an easier alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Barb Bevell, Instructional Design
Assistant, will lead this workshop on January 20, in time for you to prepare for
the spate of spring conferences.
Look forward in your spring semester calendar and schedule yourself to attend
one of the Blackboard workshops planned for January 22 and 23.
Sessions will include: Intro to Blackboard; Tips and Secrets in Blackboard;
Blackboard, Blogs and Wikis Oh My; and more. For more information about each
session and to sign up, see the class list
here.
Also of Interest
If you teach with any of the Collegiate Readership Program newspapers, please contact The Center for Teaching and Learning about free resources available to you.
Want to
take advantage of the wonderful programs and events that abound in Kirksville
this time of year? Good places to find out about them are:
Kirksville Area Chamber of Commerce
Community Events Calendar
Truman State University
Music
Dept. calendar of upcoming events
Truman State University
Theater Dept.
box office schedule
Hope to see you at some of these events,
Julie