TO REGISTER:

• Go to MyIllinoisState: https://my.illinoisstate.edu/event-registration/events
• Log in
• Click on ReggieNet
• To see the different dates and to register click on the title of the workshop

For questions please call CTLT at 438-2542

ReggieNet Gradebook Clinic

This mini-workshop will provide participants with a brief review of ReggieNet gradebook features. After the review, we will have hands-on lab time to have you finish setting up grade book for the fall semester.

Monday, April 22^nd, 11am-12pm, ITDC Room 108Introduction to ReggieNet – Part 1

You will be introduced to the ReggieNet interface and course site organization. We will explore various course site tools including Gradebook, Resources and Materials, and selected communication tools. We will also discuss how these tools differ from Blackboard. You will be able to start adding content to your course site in this workshop, but please plan to take Part 2 to learn about some of the other tools available in ReggieNet, and pick up some pointers on migrating content from Blackboard.

Tuesday, April 23^rd, 1-4pm, ITDC Room 108

Introduction to ReggieNet – Part 2

You will learn to create a variety of learning activities using the Tests and Quizzes, Assignment, and discussion tools. You will also learn how to effectively organize course materials and migrate some content from Blackboard, including files and quizzes. Pre-requisite: Completion of Part 1.

Thursday, April 24^th, 1-4pm, ITDC Room 108

ReggieNet Migration Assistance –NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

CTLT staff will help you in migrating files and quizzes from Blackboard.  If you need more advanced assistance, please call or e-mail with questions or make an appointment with one of the CTLT

Monday, April 22^nd, 10am-12pm, ITDC Room 103b

Tuesday, April 23^rd, 9-11am, ITDC Room 103b

Thursday, April 25^th, 1-3pm, ITDC Room 103b

Friday, April 26^th, 10am-12pm, ITDC Room 103b

Short Courses:

TO REGISTER:

• Go to MyIllinoisState: https://my.illinoisstate.edu/event-registration/events
• Click on Short Courses
• From there you will see the titles of all the workshops being offered
• To see the different dates and to register click on the title of the workshop

For questions please call CTLT at 438-2542

Introduction to InDesign

This session will give you an overview of the page layout editor, including the basic tools and concepts.  You will learn to place and move graphics and text to create an aesthetically pleasing format for printing.

Tuesday, April 23^rd, 9am-12pm, ITDC Room 108

Photoshop CS6: Part 6

This session will give you an overview of the workflow of creating a single complex (but not too complex!) image. New tools we’ll look at will include Blending Modes and Layer Masks.

Wednesday, April 24^th, 1-4pm, ITDC Room 108

Word 2010: Level 2 – Intermediate
Explore the time-saving tools and commands built into the program.  You will also learn formatting techniques including headers, footers and annotations. This class is suitable for new Word 2010 users and those who are upgrading to Word 2010.  

Thursday, April 25^th, 9am-12pm, ITDC Room 108

News Postings with WordPress

 Do you need to post news items to your website?  Learn how to use this online tool to add news stories, tag them to feed to multiple locations, add images, photo galleries, and more.  This workshop is open to faculty, administrators, and staff only.

Thursday, April 25^th, 2-3pm, Stevenson Hall Room 107

 Pre-Tenure Faculty Professional Development Circle

Have you successfully navigated the first few years of teaching? Are you wondering how to stay motivated (and organized) in the run up to tenure and promotion? This Faculty Professional Development Circle, facilitated by Health Sciences Associate Professor Chris Grieshaber and Assistant Vice President for Academic Administration Sam Catanzaro, combines professional development activities and discussion to help pre-tenure faculty continue on a successful path to tenure and promotion by identifying some of the barriers and challenges that may lie ahead in the next 2-3 years. First-time attendees will receive a book that supports their efforts moving toward tenure.

The spring 2013 Pre-Tenure Career Professional Development Circles will meet in the CTLT Commons, 301 S. Main, from noon to 12:50 pm on Wednesdays, with content repeated from noon to 12:50 pm on Thursdays. Choose which day is most convenient for you and attend as many as you can (but don’t worry if you can’t attend all of them).

Wednesday, April 24^th, 12pm-1pm, ITDC Room 107

Thursday, April 25^th, 12pm-1pm, ITDC Room 107

By: Pete Smudde on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 at 9:20 am

http://www.instituteforpr.org/2013/04/employees-as-ambassadors-and-their-affect-on-corporate-reputation/?utm_source=IPR+Research+Letter+-+The+Role+of+PR+in+Conscious+Capitalism+4-17&utm_campaign=Measuring+Influence+with+Infographic&utm_medium=email 

Employees are ambassadors of their employers. That idea of “ambassadorship” isn’t really new, and it is much more literal than figurative. Employees (and, really, members of any organization) are insiders who represent their employers to people outside the company’s walls. That insider status makes employees authoritative and authentic communicators about their employers. So the natural question is, “How well do employees represent their companies?”

Notice that the question is not necessarily about better informing employees to make them more credible—there are many, many reams of research about that. Rather, the question is about results. Indeed, the better question would be, “How may we know when employees represent their companies well?” The focus, then, is being able to recognize effective employee representation with the outside world when we see it. The best way to achieve that focus is through measuring employee influence on corporate reputation.

This idea came to mind during a recent PRSA Central Illinois Chapter meeting held in Bloomington, Ill. The guest speaker was Ellen Schank, senior manager of reputation leadership at Allstate Insurance, which is headquartered near Chicago. She discussed the importance of managing her organization’s reputation to protect the brand, develop products and services, and drive recommendations and referrals. Most interestingly, she also explained Allstate’s regular measurement studies of the company’s reputation as perceived by key external and internal stakeholders.

According to Schank, managing Allstate’s reputation is a matter of a multifaceted measurement effort. Data are collected, analyzed, and reported about customer interactions, advertising, social media, investors, analysts, news coverage, and other dimensions that bear on reputation. These dimensions address the outside-in dynamics for managing Allstate’s corporate reputation, and Schank explained that these make up the bulk of the measurements.

More intriguing to me were the comparatively limited measurements of the inside-out dynamics of employee representation of Allstate. As the company’s website says, Allstate is comprised of “approximately 70,000 professionals made up of employees, agency owners and staff.” Among all these insiders, field agents are a critical link in the reputation management chain. But what of companies that don’t have such a public presence or field network?

I believe focused research on the inside-out dynamics of corporate reputation for a variety of organizations is needed. Such research would require the cooperation of organizations that are also willing to participate (anonymously or not) in research that would be shared publicly in conferences and in print. An effective, reliable, and valid research design could be proposed that protects corporate interests and provides much-needed knowledge. We need to know not only how well employees play the role of ambassadors, but more important, what ways of ambassadorship are most effective, when, and why. I’d welcome the opportunity to work with any organization to conduct such research.

If you need a computer lab to administer your final exam please complete this online lab reservation form: http://communication.illinoisstate.edu/technology/labrequests.    Remember that you need to reserve the lab via this form and that I will not reserve the lab for you based on your final exam schedule, even if you regularly teach in a computer lab.  This helps us make a finals week open lab schedule based on actual need.

Also, please email me and let me know if your students will need open lab times during finals week as soon as possible.  I need to coordinate with my student workers and the room schedules based on the lab requests.

Please complete the lab request form and let me know if your students will need open lab time by Wednesday, April 17, 2013. 

Thanks!

Media Contact:  Dr. Steve Hunt

Ph: (309) 438-7279

Dr. Sandra Metts, Central States Communication Association Hall of Fame Inductee
Spring 2013

Normal, IL–Dr. Sandra Metts, Emeritus Professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University, was inducted into the Central States Communication Association’s (CSCA) Hall of Fame in April 2013.

The CSCA Hall of Fame recognizes the highest level of service to the association through mentoring of fellow members, fulfilling the responsibilities of various offices at the interest group and/or association level, regular participation on conference panels as a presenter or respondent, and/or advancing the mission of the association through scholarship and other means. Inductees must have shown a strong pattern of dedicated and continued service to the association over time; and, to qualify for induction, the candidate must have reached the rank of Emeritus Professor or be in the later stages of her/his career.

Dr. Metts has served CSCA throughout her lengthy membership with the association and her long career at Illinois State University. She served as Vice-President and program planner in 1997-1998 and President in 1998-1999. While Dr. Metts’ record of service to CSCA is impressive, it is only a small part of her record of service in the Central States region and beyond. Dr. Metts currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Western States Communication Association. She held several offices including Program Planner for the International Association for Relationship Research and the International Network on Personal Relationships. Dr. Metts has also been a member of the Planning Committee for the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships. She has served on 11 editorial boards, including that of CSCA’s Communication Studies and has reviewed countless articles for other journals on an ad hoc basis.

Beyond her service to the discipline, the CSCA Hall of Fame Committee also recognized Dr. Metts’ enormous scholarly and teaching contributions. Since her first publication in 1985 on the newly discovered area of emotion in interpersonal communication, Dr. Metts has published over 20 empirical articles and more than 50 chapters in scholarly books and encyclopedias. She is also highly visible at regional, national, and international conventions with over 150 competitively selected papers, 25 of which have won top scholarship awards.

According to Dr. Larry Long, Executive Director of the School of Communication, “Dr. Metts’ scholarship is important because it has not simply enriched the historical or traditional areas of interpersonal communication, but has actually brought new areas of investigation into the discipline. For example, a decade ago, the topics that Dr. Metts’ has advanced in her research program would not have been found in convention programs or in interpersonal communication textbooks.”

Dr. Metts’ contributions to the discipline of communication are also evident through her work with students and her love for teaching. This has occurred first of all through her leadership in the development of our training model for graduate students teaching the introductory communication course. This program, largely influenced by Dr. Metts’ work, is a flagship model for other schools in the nation. In her courses, she works diligently with masters students leading several each year to present their work at regional and national conferences. This taste of academic research and presentation often inspires students to proceed to doctoral work. Dr. Metts continues working with them, frequently publishing book chapters and studies with these students continuing as their mentor, even as they are in doctoral programs around the nation.

The Central States Communication Association is a professional, academic organization of primary and secondary school teachers, students, college and university professors, and communication professionals. CSCA was founded in 1931 to promote the communication discipline in educational, scholarly, and professional endeavors. The association, which consists of the 13 Midwestern states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.

TO REGISTER:

• Go to MyIllinoisState: https://my.illinoisstate.edu/event-registration/events
• Log in
• Click on ReggieNet
• To see the different dates and to register click on the title of the workshop

For questions please call CTLT at 438-2542

ReggieNet – Assessment

This workshop will cover the assessment tools available in Reggienet, including Tests & Quizzes, Assignments, and File Drop. We will explain the options available for different types of assessment, the limitations of the assessment tools, and instructional strategies for promoting academic integrity. Pre-requisite: Completion of Intro to ReggieNet

Thursday, April 18^th, 1-3:30pm, ITDC Room 108

ReggieNet Migration Assistance –NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

CTLT staff will help you in migrating files and quizzes from Blackboard.  If you need more advanced assistance, please call or e-mail with questions or make an appointment with one of the CTLT

Monday, April 15^th, 10am-12pm, ITDC Room 103b

Tuesday, April 16^th, 9-11am, ITDC Room 103b

Thursday, April 18^th, 1-3pm, ITDC Room 103b

Friday, April 19^th, 10am-12pm, ITDC Room 103b

Short Courses:

TO REGISTER:

• Go to MyIllinoisState: https://my.illinoisstate.edu/event-registration/events
• Click on Short Courses
• From there you will see the titles of all the workshops being offered
• To see the different dates and to register click on the title of the workshop

For questions please call CTLT at 438-2542

Introduction to Audacity

Audacity is a simple-to-use sound recording software, available for free to anyone and often used to record podcasts. We’ll look at where to download the application, how to use it to record and edit sound, how to add effects, and how to save the file afterward. This is a hands-on class, so don’t forget to bring your voice.

Monday, April 15^th, 1-3pm, ITDC Room 108

Photoshop Elements 8: Part 3

More information about Photoshop Elements, looking at more of the tools and functions available in this popular image editing program

Tuesday, April 16^th, 9am-12pm, ITDC Room 108

Excel 2010: Level 2

Learn the basics of creating and modifying charts.  Additionally, we will explore useful tools like filtering and pivot tables.

Tuesday, April 16^th, 1-4pm, ITDC Room 108

Photoshop CS6: Part 5

This session will give you an overview of the use of powerful Adjustment Layers in Photoshop. Part of this session will be spent taking a grayscale picture and colorizing it using these tools.

Wednesday, April 17^th, 1-4pm, ITDC Room 108

Illustrator CS6: Part 3 – Using the Pen Tool

This session will give you an overview of Illustrator’s Pen Tool, the principal tool for drawing complex shapes and drawings in this popular program.

Thursday, April 18^th, 9am-12pm, ITDC Room 108

SharePoint 2010 for Committees

Are you doing a job search?  Are you part of your DFSC, Program Review, or other committee?  Learn how to use this online tool to share documents, calendars, task lists and more.  This workshop is open to faculty, administrators, and staff only.

Thursday, April 18^th, 2-3pm, Stevenson Hall Room 107

Early Career Faculty Circles

CTLT’s Early-Career Faculty Circles offer faculty in their 1^st, 2^nd, or 3^rd year of service at ISU a combination of professional development and peer support. Join us for a series of lively conversations about surviving and thriving in the academy. “It would be easy not to do this,” commented one participant, “but if you make the time, you’ll be glad you did!”

The topics for the Spring Early-Career Faculty Circle meetings are drawn from the book The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life by Parker J. Palmer. The text “builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher.” No reading is required for participation in these circles. Each participant will receive a copy of the book, but we will provide executive summaries of chapters. Understanding how to be authentically present in the classroom enables teachers to be deeply connected with their students and their subject which, in turn, enhances the learning process.

Choose EITHER Wednesday OR Thursday to attend. NO PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. All sessions are held in the CTLT Commons, 301 S. Main. Attend as many as you can, but don’t worry if you can’t attend all.

Wednesday, April 17^th, 12pm-1pm, ITDC Resource Commons

Thursday, April 18^th, 12pm-1pm, ITDC Resource Commons

 ISUReD Invite Postcard

Please go to http://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/ for access.

I hope you will join us on April 19 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm on the third floor of Milner Library to learn how your colleagues are using ISU ReD. Bring your curiosity and your lunch and we will supply light refreshments.  The attached invitation to the launch party has more details.

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 We greatly value the faculty’s input as we work to identify these potential cuts and cancellations.

The  survey should take you only a few minutes to mark the top 10+ journals/databases you regularly use, or you may simply e-mail your subject librarian a list of the top titles you use, and we will mark those for you.  Be sure to indicate as well if there are new titles to which you would like us to subscribe.  Please make your selections by April 19, 2013.

http://ilstu.libguides.com/PeriodicalsUsageSurvey

Based on the results of this survey and internal assessment of cost/use data, we will generate lists of suggested titles to be considered for cancellation which will then be returned to the departments/schools toward the end of April for final decision-making.

Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey and working with us to ensure that the periodicals, databases, and standing orders which we provide to the campus are in fact meeting the needs of you and your students.

Sincerely,

Chad Buckley

Head of Collection Development

Milner Library

cebuckle@ilstu.edu

309-438-7445

Sharon J. Van Der Laan

Reference Librarian

Subject Librarian for School of Communication

526 Milner Library

Illinois State University

Phone: 309-438-7461

E-mail: sjvande@ilstu.edu