Bethany Smith's Blog (8)

TIMELINES FOR AWARD: Presented during American Education Week in November 2009 Deadline for Nominations: September 15, 2009 AWARD RATIONALE: The Award is presented to an individual based on leadership for significant contributions and outstanding advocacy for the College of Education. This award will recognize distinguished service to the College of Education and provide an opportunity to establish new standards of excellence to which others may aspire. This award is presented to dedicated indi… Continue

From Stacy Gant.... Hello all, Registration for DELTA’s Fall 2009 Workshops is now open to faculty, staff & graduate students. Our Fall classes start on Tuesday, September 8th and continue through December 8th. During this time, we are offering over 68 classes, including new Moodle workshops, Instructional Design in Online Learning brown bag seminars and much more. Workshops & seminars are offered at no charge, and most classes are held in the ITTC Labs in DH Hill Library. Howe… Continue

The library is at it again and has some great tutorials for generating e-reserves for your classes this FAll. Hey Everyone, This summer a graduate assistant has been working on a set of short video tutorials that demonstrate the self-service features of the Reserves system. As you may know, in our new system instructors have a lot more options to do things with reserves on their own. Here's a list of the videos we have so far. We'll also be making videos to show how to create a dynamic link b… Continue

The Fall semester is right around the corner and to help you get ready, the College of Education is offering the following workshops. Please sign up for Workshops using our form available at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEdQM3dQY1ZDMGw4MkV2SjRNeDdwOVE6MA All classes are laptop based classes. If you cannot bring your own laptop, please contact bethany_smith@ncsu.edu… Continue

I am a big fan of Templates in MS Word - students & faculty can use them to easily format or dress up a typical document. Thanks to a blog post by Wes Fryer, I was alerted to the plethora of Templates available for Google Docs - many of which have education themes! http://docs.google.com/templates There are over 1… Continue

I am starting to plan the technology professional development for Fall 2009. Please take our online survey to help us plan more effectively! http://ced.ncsu.edu/2/workshopsurvey.html Continue

Your ever helpful librarians have been hard at work on several instructional animations and videos. We hope you find these resources helpful as you work with your students. We're new to the world of animation and have learned a lot in the process. Most of the graphics and animation were done by a graphic design intern from the College of Design. Peer Review in 5 Minutes -- a short animation focused on the importance of peer review in research… Continue

Check out the latest issue of Educational Leadership with their focus on Literacy 2.0 Continue