Here are the week’s headlines from the News Room:
The Life and Death of Joseph Battell
Students Bring Literary Journal to Life Onstage
Ricardo Nuila Wins NER Award for Emerging Writers
Middlebury Voices in the News: Youth Protests, Dance Review, Study Abroad
Student-Organized Conference Explores ‘Apathy and Action’
View past stories by visiting the News Room Page.
Beat the winter blues with a BUS TRIP to Boston, MA
Open to Staff, Faculty and Students too.
Get out of town! Enjoy a day of no driving and take in the sites of Boston, MA
• Drop-offs Boston, MA
o Seaport World Trade Center (Flower Show) 10ish
Within walking distance:
• New England Aquarium
• Quincy Market
Saturday, March 14th
Bus leaves the Service Building at 6:30AM, Brandon Green 7:00AM
and Rutland Home Depot 7:30 AM.
(please be on time the bus won’t wait!)
• Pick-ups Boston, MA
o Seaport World Trade Center (Flower Show) 5:30PM
$43 per person (bus only-all other tickets on your own)
Reservations are first come first serve, open to all Middlebury College Community and their guests.
Deadline for reservations is Tuesday, March 3rd through the Middlebury Box Office: go online, by phone 443-3168, or stop in McCullough or Mahaney Center for the Arts. Reservations are non-refundable. Spend a day in the city and let someone else do the driving! Sponsored by Middlebury College Staff Council
Questions?mathomps@middelbury.edu or x-5258
Good news! Thanks to our partners in ITS, faculty can now embed a video from Middlebury’s repository of Kanopy streaming videos in their WordPress sites. We’ve documented the process here. Below is a sample of what this would look like once it is embedded in the site.
You can do this in Moodle as well. The process is a little different, and is documented here. (Look in the section “Additional Options” below the YouTube instructions.)
Adobe Photoshop is a pretty amazing application, but in the hands of artists, it’s breathtaking. Check out the work of Erik Johansson via this post in Mashable. I’ve included a Behind the Scenes video below that shows you how he works his magic. (Hint: LOTS of layers.)
“Why digital natives prefer reading in print”
In this post we’ll introduce you to a new member of the Middlebury College staff. Please join us as we welcome Chelsea to campus!
Chelsea Griggs is the new academic coordinator for the environmental studies program. Prior to joining Middlebury College, Chelsea worked for 7 years at Helen Porter Healthcare Center (Porter Medical Center). Chelsea resides in Bristol with her husband, an almost two year old daughter, and three energetic dogs. In her spare time she enjoys kayaking, snowshoeing, jogging and spending time with friends.
Do you know how to save a life? Want to brush up on your first aid skills?
All students, faculty and staff are invited to take an American Heart Association certified First Aid and CPR class (including use of automated external defibrillator), offered free of charge, on Wednesday, March 4th. The class runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be held in Mitchell Green Lounge.
Email jkazmierczak@middlebury.edu to sign up.
Join us for professional development workshops presented by John Tallmadge, an educational and literary consultant (who is the author of Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher’s Path), on Friday, March 6th, in the CTLR Suite in the Davis Family Library. John has worked with a number of Middlebury faculty. To sign up, please visit http://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrmarch2015/
The three workshops on Friday are:
12:15-1:20 pm Workshop 1 - Staying Alive in the Beginning and Warrior Phases of a Career (for junior and term faculty) – This workshop is primarily for junior faculty as well as to those not on the tenure track and deals with the challenges of leading a balanced life during the beginning and warrior phases of one’s career. Lunch included.
1:30-2:30 pm Workshop 2 – Academic Publishing: from leveraging the dissertation to rendering mature work into articles and books (for all ranks) – This workshop, designed for both junior and senior faculty, deals with the nuts and bolts of academic publishing, both for those just getting started and for those whose experience may feel a bit out of date; it covers journals (print and online) as well as books.
2:45-3:45 pm Workshop 3 – Staying Vital in the Citizen and Later Phases of a Career: leadership, mentoring, and retirement (for senior faculty) – This workshop engages senior faculty in the citizen and later phases of their careers, when leadership calls and retirement looms (or beckons) and the challenges of leading a balanced, healthy life can feel particularly acute.
