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Last Chance for Head shots!

Events, TW@M

Need a professional-looking head shot photo for your LinkedIn profile or e-portfolio? December 1st is the final day of head shots this semester for students on campus.

Offered through the DLC, we will be taking photos between noon-2:00 on a first-come, first-served basis on the patio between the Security shack and the Lara Soto Adobe. Come get your picture taken!

What

A professional head shot by Tom Stagg, for your LinkedIn and E-portfolios.

For Who

Open to all MIIS students. (*Note, faculty and staff are encouraged to get their professional photos taken through the Communications department.)

When

Headshots are happening December 1st from 12:00-2:00 pm. 

Where

They will be taken on the patio between the Lara Soto adobe and the security shack.

How to Sign Up

No sign up required. These head shots are on a first-come, first-served basis.

Questions?

Email dlc@miis.edu.

 

 

Digital Storytelling Internship Info Session: Freedom from Hunger & MIIS Collaboration

Anna Santos Digital Storytelling, Events, MIIS Update, Storytelling, TW@M

The NGO Freedom From Hunger (FFH) is partnering with MIIS to develop internships for students to help create a pipeline of digital content for their outreach efforts. FFH will be hosting an information session on this initiative, the Digital Storytelling Internship Program, on Thursday November 19th. Students who are interested in international development work and digital storytelling are invited to attend.

The FFH Interns will work with NGO partners in Peru or Burkina Faso to provide fresh and authentic digital content about the beneficiaries and impacts of their work. Interns will live in communities served by FFH and will “report” from the field through daily blog posts, photos, and videos.

To find out more about the internship opportunity and requirements click here.

The info session will be held November 19th from 1:00pm – 2:00pm in Morse A101. Representatives from the Center for Advising & Career Services (CACS) and Immersive Learning will also be present to answer questions.

Story+Maps Brown Bag Lunch Nov 10

Bob Cole Events, MIIS Update, Storytelling, TW@M, Workshops

What: Story+Maps Brown Bag Lunch
When: Tuesday, November 10 | 12:15pm-1:30pm
Where: DLC Design Sp@ce

Join Institute alumni Andy Stieglitz and Aaron Ebner, founders of the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development (AASD) in Peru, for a brown bag lunch focusing on using new media approaches to communicating the reach of organizations. The informal event is a space to share ideas and examples of how different mapping tools can be partnered with stories to convey impact. AASD will share the ArcGIS Story Map of their work, the Center for Social Impact Learning (CSIL) will walk us through their Ambassador Corps map created with help from the META Lab, and Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project (IDSP) Senior Fellows along with other immersive learning teams working on J-term project plans will brainstorm how maps might be used to help visualize their work in the field. We hope you’ll join us!

This event is a collaboration between the DLC, CSIL, and the META lab!

MORE MAPPING GOODNESS: Friday November 13 | 12-1pm
Follow-up with the META Lab team to learn more about working with open source mapping tools on Friday, November 13 from 12-1pm in the Pac Lab. Workshop Details here.

Fall 2015 Excel Learning Series – Session 2

Amy Slay Data Analysis, Events, Excel, TW@M, Workshops

Are you looking to improve your Excel skills? Does the phrase Microsoft Excel make you nervous? Fear not friends, META LAB and the DLC are collaborating once again to provide a series of Excel workshops during the first half of the Fall 2015 term to support the MIIS community.  The second of four sessions will take place on September 25th 11am – noon in MG100 (McGowan 100).  All you need to bring is yourself and your laptop! Your facilitator will be META Lab graduate assistant and Data Analysis Teaching Assistant: Mentru Nagbe.

When used properly, Microsoft Excel can be an extremely powerful tool to display, organize, and analyze large data sets. The series will contain hidden tips and tricks in addition to exercises that will make you an Excel champion in no time.

Sign Up

excel-signup-buttonTo get access to the learning series materials and receive information on future sessions, click the sign up button!

Session 2 Topics

  • Control 1 important and easy way to get to the format cell box
  • Formatting Cells
  • Tabs (part 2)
  • Row Height and Columns functions
  • Alignments
  • Text Wrap
  • Borders
  • Numerical Formatting
  • Dates
  • Time
  • Format
  • Conditional Formatting –
  • Tables
  • Hidden Function
  • Print Preview tab
  • Previewing Page Breaks
  • Page Set up and printing screen

Resources

Lynda LogoLynda.com is an incredible online resource offering guided video tutorials and step by step instructions for all sorts of digital tools. As a member of the Middlebury community you have premium access. Here’s how it works:

  • Visit go.miis.edu/lynda
  • Input your MIIS login credentials
  • Search “Excel Essential Learning”

Fall 2015 Excel Learning Series

Amy Slay Data Analysis, Events, Excel, MIIS Update, TW@M, Workshops

Are you looking to improve your Excel skills? Does the phrase Microsoft Excel make you nervous? Fear not friends, META LAB and the DLC are collaborating once again to provide a series of Excel workshops during the first half of the Fall 2015 term to support the MIIS community. The first of four sessions will take place on September 11th at noon in CF442, Pac Lab. All you need to bring is yourself! Your facilitator will be META Lab graduate assistant and Data Analysis Teaching Assistant: Mentru Nagbe.

When used properly, Microsoft Excel can be an extremely powerful tool to display, organize, and analyze large data sets. The series will contain hidden tips and tricks in addition to exercises that will make you an Excel champion in no time.

Session 1 Topics

– cursor
– cells
– formula bar
– tabs
– worksheets
– templates
– fonts
– copy and paste
– wrap text
– mini toolbar
– quick access tool bar
– status bar
– entering data
– autofill
– undo/redo
– comments
– save
– writing + copying formulas
– $$$$$$

Sign Up

excel-signup-buttonTo get access to the learning series materials and receive information on future sessions, click the sign up button!

 

Resources

Lynda LogoLynda.com is an incredible online resource offering guided video tutorials and step by step instructions for all sorts of digital tools. As a member of the Middlebury community you have premium access. Here’s how it works:

  • Visit go.miis.edu/lynda
  • Input your MIIS login credentials
  • Search “Excel Essential Learning”

Video conference simulcast of Dr. Amy Collier’s talk at Middlebury | Tues, March 31

Bob Cole Events, TW@M

Amy Collier, Ph.D. is Senior Director for Inspiration and Outreach, Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University. The simulcast of this talk is co-sponsored by the MIddlebury Provost’s Office and the Digital Learning Commons.

Tuesday, March 31 | 9:30 – 11:00am | 499 Van Buren Video Conference Room*.
*499 Van Buren is located at the corner of Van Buren and Jefferson Streets, CNS headquarters

Attend simulcast of Dr. Amy Collier talk at Middlebury College

Date: March 31, 2015

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Curricular Possibilities of GIS, Spatial Thinking & Cartography with Jeff Howarth

Bob Cole Events, TW@M

The DLC welcomes Middlebury Asst. Professor of Geography, Jeff Howarth, for a morning ideation session and exploration to diversify and strengthen curricular connections between MIIS critical areas of interest and GIS, spatial thinking/analysis, and cartography.

Some questions that might spark this session: What kinds of problems are faculty and students working on at the Institute that might benefit from a spatial/cartographic perspective? How might we collaborate with faculty and students at Middlebury to develop curricula or interdisciplinary projects that integrate spatial thinking, GIS, and cartography.

What?     Morning Discussion with Pastries & Coffee
Where?  Design Space @ the Digital Learning Commons, 420 Calle Principal / 001 McGowan
When?   9:30 – 11:00am, Friday, February 20, 2015
Who?      MIIS Faculty, Students, Staff with an interest in GIS, mapping, spatial thinking and analysis

Please sign-up online below to participate by Wednesday, February 18, 2015. No technical knowledge required to attend!

Current Sign-up Sheets

Title Date Open Spots  
GIS | Spatial Thinking | Cartography Curricular Possibilities with Middlebury Asst. Professor of Geography Jeff Howarth February 20, 2015 18 View & sign-up »

Emerging Practices Teaching Conversation with Middlebury Asst. Professor Jeff Howarth – Self Publishing Online Materials

Bob Cole Events, TW@M

The Digital Learning Commons is pleased to invite MIIS faculty as well as interested staff to a lunchtime brown bag conversation on effective and emerging ‘next generation’ teaching practices.

Middlebury Assistant Professor of Geography, Jeff Howarth will share his experience “self-publishing” course materials for use in his teaching. Recognized at Middlebury in 2014 for his excellence in teaching, particularly for his adaptation of the flipped approach to course design, Jeff is actively experimenting with an alternative instructional model which he describes as “self-publishing a new kind of textbook” via his Youtube channel: GIS at Midd.

Participants will get a behind the scenes perspective on the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of teaching with “self-published online materials”, share their own approaches, connect with DLC staff, and take away some new ideas for future course development.

What?     Brown Bag Lunch Collegial Conversation
Where?  Design Space @ the Digital Learning Commons, 420 Calle Principal / 001 McGowan
When?   12:15 – 1:15pm, Thursday, February 19, 2015
Who?      MIIS Faculty, interested staff

Please sign-up online below to attend by Tuesday, February 17, 2015. No technical knowledge required to attend!

Current Sign-up Sheets

Title Date Open Spots  
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MIIS Moodle Updated to version 2.6.6

Bob Cole Curricular Technology, MIIS Update, TW@M

On December 22, 2014 the Institute’s course management system “iLearn” at http://ilearn.miis.edu underwent a much needed version update from 2.4.1 to 2.6.6. This update does not impact existing courses from previous terms or course sites that have been created for the 2015 January- or Spring terms.

With this update you will notice some changes to the look and interface of the MIIS iLearn site, but for the most part this update provides a number of usability and instructional feature improvements that we hope you will appreciate as you look ahead to building course Moodle resources.

Usability Improvements

With this update MIIS iLearn will include some noticeable usability improvements. They include:

  • A more user-friendly web / WYSIWYG editor.Watch a short video describing this changeMoodle 2.6 editor
  • Improved course activity and resource editing (move, drag&drop, drop-down menu): Watch a short video describing this change moodle 2.6 resource editor
  • Drag and drop media and text directly onto the course page
  • Word count visible in discussion forum posts
  • Responsive theme and interface for variety of devices (desktop, tablet, smartphone)

Functional Improvements for Instructors

Other Features of Interest that Instructors may not be aware of

  • Online audio recording in Moodle with Poodll Anywhere plug-in: Watch a short video describing how this feature works
  • Rubrics for criterion based assessments in the Gradebook
  • Conditional Activities and Completion Tracking for hybrid and flipped models of instruction
  • Messaging Students by e-mail from Moodle

If you have any questions or concerns about the update, please e-mail Bob Cole at bcole @ miis.edu.

Get Your Professional Headshot

Tom Blog, Events, TW@M

Need a photo for LinkedIn, your e-portfolio or other professional uses?  Here’s your chance to get one!

Why do I need one?  “First impressions have always mattered, and in the past it was all about the handshake.  Now that we’ve entered the world of LinkedIn, virtual business, and online personal branding, a well-done headshot can be equally important as a firm grip.”

What should I wear? “The number one thing you should NOT wear is something that you are not comfortable in.  If you are uncomfortable in your clothes, this will be very apparent in your photos.  This isn’t the time to experiment.  What you want to convey in your photos is the best version of your authentic self, so wear what will represent the image you want the viewer to perceive…The number one consideration is to wear clothes that fit you well.”

More to think about: