tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139157462318474789.post-75179524423534643552008-03-14T11:21:00.004-05:002008-03-14T11:29:36.383-05:00Weekly News and Tip, March 13, 2008<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tip - Key Characteristics of Good Teaching</span><br />Faculty developer Barbara Mills identifies nine key characteristics of good teaching, such as knowledge of the subject matter, about which faculty and students agree. <a href="http://workplace.unr.edu/2006/10/17/teaching-tip-nine-key-characteristics/">Learn about all nine of these</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Announcements - CELT Programming</span><br />Register for CELT events via <a href="https://accessplus.iastate.edu/">AccessPlus</a> (go to the Employee tab, then to HRS Training > Continue > Courses).<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Two WebCT workshops</span> are coming up, both in 1230 Communications:</li><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">WebCT: Quizzes, Surveys &amp; Self-Tests</span>, Wed., March 26, 9-11 a.m., and </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to WebCT GOLD</span>, Friday, March 28, 2-3:30 p.m.</li></ul></ul><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">FYI - Creativity Outcome Meeting; Lecture on Prejudice </span><br /><ul><li>Creativity Outcome Center meeting, Tuesday, March 25, 12-1 p.m., 1121 HNSB. All are welcome. Share resources and best practices in helping students learn creativity, working toward better defining and assessing this ability.</li><li>The Anatomy of Prejudice, a three-hour presentation with Jane Elliott, adaptor of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, will be held Thursday, March 27, 7 p.m., in the Memorial Union Sun Room. She will explore with the audience the problems of racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and ethnocentrism, and ways to eliminate them from our selves and our environment.</li></ul>CELThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11461243588851745024noreply@blogger.com