Date: March 5, 2009
4:10 p.m.
Place: 210 Bessey Hall
Speaker: Deb Satterfield, Associate Professor, Art and Design, and ISUComm Consultant
Topic: Deb Satterfield will demonstrate the application of visual design principles relevant to the creation of posters and slides for professional scientific presentations.
Date: February 10, 2009
Time: 4:10 p.m.
Place: 210 Bessey Hall
Speaker: Amy Slagell, Associate Professor, English, and ISUComm Consultant
Topic: Amy Slagell will speak on ways to design effective, professional presentations by focusing on the needs and knowledge of the audience.
Do you have some classroom materials—print, audio, video, multimedia—that you would like to developed or refined or reshaped for online delivery? ISUComm instructors are encouraged to take their technology-related classroom projects to the new elearning consultants provided by JETS Services.
Date: March 25, 2009
Time: 12:10–1:30 p.m.
Location: Sun Room, Memorial Union
Facilitator: Don Payne
Topic: Faculty from various disciplines will discuss collaborative curriculum projects designed to improve communication learning for upper-level undergraduates.
This ISUComm workshop will explore the role of electronic slide presentations in both foundational and advanced communication courses. We'll start by focusing on the PowerPoint debate engaged by Edward Tufte and others. Then we'll take a broad curricular view, sorting out the competencies and learning objectives that best serve students in lower- and upper-level communication classes.
Learn to use PowerPoint to improve student learning at PowerPoint 2007 I: Creating Effective Presentations for the Classroom, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1:10-3 p.m., in 1230 Communications Building. Register via AccessPlus > Employee > HRS Training > Courses. Contact CELT at 294-5357 or celt@iastate.edu if you have difficulty using AccessPlus.
The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference, November 7–8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.
Paper Clips. Joe Fab and Elliot Berline, dir. 2003. Arts Alliance America, 2006. DVD.
Vintage Chicken and Poultry Films. 1935–60. Quality Information Publishers, 2007. DVD.