Spring Clean Your "My Courses" List in Blackboard Blackboard now supports term organization Whether teaching or taking courses, after semesters of enrollments and access to Blackboard, the My Courses list can really stack up. While faculty and students can edit the listing to remove courses they do not want to see and resort the order, the list itself produces a huge block of text.

Term organization, however, provides a logical organizational structure for sorting courses by semester. Terms are collapsible so the My Courses list can be quickly reduced to a set of very important links on the My Blackboard dashboard.


Additional sorting options include course development, training and beta testing. If a course is not associated to a term, it will appear under the No Term Assigned category.

Organizations may also be sorted into terms. These include shared governance, committees, and university orgs. For these specialized options, instructors, organization leaders, and staff must open an RT ticket to request alignment to the terms. 

As of April 2015, all courses except SP2015 are sorted into their corresponding terms on the managed hosting site. The current semester's courses will be aligned to the SP2015 term at the end of May.

For more information, please visit:

For support or further questions, please open an RT ticket.
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Introducing new updates to the GradSense Website

As part of the “Enhancing Student Financial Education” Best Practice project, CGS project staff have been working to enhance the GradSense website by responding to suggestions made by graduate students on site visits to 15 research partner universities. We want to draw your attention to the newly created Budget Calculator in the new Cost of Living section. This tool is designed with students in mind and allows them to view possible budgeting scenarios. Students enter their available funds, monthly and one-time expenses, and then receive an output of where they stand financially along with helpful budgeting advice. The addition of this tool will help graduate and undergraduate students make wise financial decisions that will support their long term academic and professional career goals.

Financial Literacy Seminar – Wed, April 22, 2015

This week, we also have a Financial Literacy Seminar coming up. The seminar would be advice for graduate students on “Managing student debt & building resources for your future“. Don’t forget to RSVP! Here are the event details: Date: April 22, 2015 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Venue: UMBC Commons 331 Speakers: Shanna Smith AVP Branch Manager, Catonsville Branch, PNC Leslie McSweeney Campus Relations Manager, PNC.

RSVP HERE on MyUMBC: http://my.umbc.edu/events/29319

If you do not have a UMBC ID, you may RSVP in the comment section below, with your name, school, and department, and we will add you to the list.

If you are unable to attend in person, we have set up a live webcast.

Here are the links: YouTube: http://youtu.be/k3cyjUbLBcY GooglePlus: https://plus.google.com/events/c4p0jfeu4ufjkuh4bolvg3g879o

Feel free to return to this site and watch from here.

— Piyush Waradpande Graduate Assistant, PROMISE AGEP


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June
2 - Blackboard 101

2 -  Complete Tasks Quickly with Quickly
 
9 - Motivating Your Students with Achievements

9 - Conquering the Blackboard Grade Center
 
16 - Organizing Your Course Content in Box

16 - What Can Google Apps Do for You?

23 - Collaboration in Real Time with Blackboard Collaborate

23 - Flipping Out: Screencasting and You

30 - Assessing Learners in Blackboard

30 - Rev Up Your Courses with Rubrics

July
14 - Tools to Secure Your Course Activities

28 - Full Service or A La Carte: Enhancing Your Course Delivery Model

28 - Reusing & Recycling Your Course with the Blackboard Content Collection & Course Copy Tools

August
4 - Reusing & Recycling Your Course with the Blackboard Content Collection & Course Copy Tools

11 - Full Service or A La Carte: Enhancing Your Course Delivery Model

11 - Complete Tasks Quickly with Quickly

To register for any of these sessions, please select the linked session title and click the green "I Can Attend" button on the event page. We also recommend adding the workshop to your calendar. You can join any session above virtually by going to www.umbc.edu/go/collaborate.

Instructional Technology is also available to bring customized training to your department or group. Whether you need a general overview or information on a specific feature or function of Blackboard, searching for a solution to a classroom challenge, or seeking help for any instructional technology application or tool at UMBC, just contact us at instructionaltechnology@umbc.edu.


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Dr. Nora Volkow opened the discussion to current graduate students and postdoctorate fellows, asking what aspects would draw in diversity in the STEM fields. When the audience responded, a few suggestions were made, which included early exposure to opportunities and real-life applications, financial support, and protection of early-stage principal investigators. Another suggestion brought up was to provide partnerships between universities, which would allow shared resources and an increase in networking with others. 

After discussing about STEM diversity, Dr. Volkow began speaking about how being a woman in the life sciences is challenging. She said, "Women have children and responsibilities. That becomes a major priority, which puts women at a disadvantage." She says it would be nice if women were provided extra time for certain tasks to compensate for the time spent on other responsibilities. She also mentioned that culture is another critical factor as well; culture impacts the behavioral differences between men and women. 

When Dr. Volkow was asked about challenges that she has faced, she said, "Prejudice and jealousy. Prejudice because you look differently and work differently. I was brought up in Mexico. Whether you are born here or not should not matter, but it's something you need to overcome. If you have a unique way of looking at something, it makes it harder because people would try to interfere with it. Just come to see that is how things are and you have to persevere. Trust your instincts. Don't loose confidence in yourself. You are unique." 

Dr. Volkow was later asked about how she is able to manage her responsibilities. She said, "You have to find something that you are interested in. When you love something so much, you devote yourself to it. When you do something, you need to make sure, you are you." Overall, Dr. Volkow gives advice that it is important to be genuinely interested in the job position that you hold. She said that she is over-driven by work, and, it is her passion that acts as her driving force. 

Overall, we would like to thank Dr. Volkow for visiting our campus and for speaking with the UMBC community. At the end of the session, Dr. Volkow mentioned about connecting with both the PROMISE AGEP program and the Meyerhoff program to arrange possible trips for students to visit the NIDA facility. 



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This series was conceived by Special Collections student assistant Audrey Gatewood.  She also wrote this first post.  Check out Audrey's picks!

There are so many great resources in our collections, we understand it can be overwhelming. We, the staff, want to give you, the intrigued student, a place to start. Here you will find recommendations for some of the materials that are housed in Special Collections, such as photo books, comics, alternative press, art books and more.

Our collections are more accessible then you may think. Located in the back of the Library Gallery, we are ready to help you find whatever you’re looking for. By sharing some of our favorite materials we hope that this blog can be the beginning of your exploration into the excellent resources we have here.

See you in the reading room!

Two of Audrey's picks from the Bafford Photography Book collection:

THE CENTURY OF THE BODY: 100 PHOTOWORKS OF 1900-2000

The Century of the Body: 100 Photoworks 1900-2000 is a thorough yet concise look at the history of representations of the human body in photography.

                    

(Images: Left: Edward Weston, Page 110; Right: Don McCullin, Page 142)

Spanning one hundred years, this book is a wealth of information that's formatted in a user friendly way. Each photo has a respective paragraph describing its background, both related to the photo specifically and in a broader sense. Many subjects are tied into this book, including science, fine art, technology, media and sociology. This book is especially useful for anyone who wants to learn about the history of photography in relation to other things, but with a core focus on the representation of the body.

BOYSTOWN: LA ZONA DE TOLERANCIA

Warning: Graphic Content

In the 1970's along the border between Texas and Mexico was Boystown, a collection of brothels and clubs. It was a public secret shielded by the dark of night. Men of every sort -- gang members, tourists, doctors, cowboys -- would come to engage with the sex workers. Working in the shadows of Boystown were several anonymous photographers, about seven, who sought out quick money by providing souvenir photos. They would approach the drunken men, photograph them with the woman they were pursuing, and pocket two dollars in exchange for a print. Though their intent was shallow, these photographers incidentally created a truly intense body of work.

The photos presented in this book are merciless, captured without pretense. In an unforgiving act of voyeurism, the facade of Boystown, built up by darkness, alcohol and flashy makeup, is accidentally destroyed within these mementos, which were most likely torn up and tossed the next day by the men who bought them.

           

Thanks for your picks, Audrey! 

Stay tuned for more staff packs from Special Collections!
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The trial will run until May 5, 2015.

Feedback is welcome, please post comments here. 
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YOU ARE INVITED! Communicating Climate 2015

April 20, 2015, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University Center Ballroom

 

Celebrating 20 Years of JCET Climate Research

 

Climate affects all residents of the Earth but we all have different perspectives and ways of talking about it.

The UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology and the UMBC Sustainability Working Group invite the campus community to a symposium focused on communicating the results of scientific climate investigations.  A panel of noted climate researchers will contribute their knowledge of Earth’s climate a discussion prompted by questions from the broader UMBC audience.  This Communicating Climate symposium also celebrates the integration of art and science with renowned musician and composer Kenji Williams who will perform the multi-media presentation,  “Beautiful Earth.”

JCET

Agenda

12:30 PM Registration & Poster Setup

1:00 PM UMBC Speaker Welcoming Remarks

1:30 PM Climate Panel: Moderator: Joe Witte, NASA/GSFC Climate Communicator

Panelists:

3:00 PM UMBC Sustainability Working Group

3:30 PM Kenji Williams:    “Beautiful Earth”

He will perform LIVE! See his TEDx talk here:

5:00 PM Posters & Reception

6:00 PM Dr. Belay Demoz, JCET Director Closing Remarks

 

UMBC

A N   H O N O R S   U N I V E R S I T Y   I N  M A R Y L A N D


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A review of Worthy of Consideration:

“Robert Deluty's poetry encourages us to re-examine our ordinary waking moments, to see them as precious--indeed, as profoundly ‘worthy of consideration.’  He magnifies seemingly mundane sounds, sights, tastes, and feelings, allowing us to breathe anew.  With mere fragments 
of lines, he gently prods us to change for the better by not taking our lives, and those of others, 
for granted.”

Joseph L. DeVitis, Ph.D., 
Co-Editor, School Reform Critics: The Struggle for Democratic Schooling and Today's College Students


Please join us in congratulating Dr. Deluty!

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PROMISE on Amazon

You can now purchase a copy on Amazon. The book features PROMISE SSI programs from 2003-2013!

Purchase here: http://www.amazon.com/Promise-AGEP-Professional-Development-Workshops/dp/1503321770/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428803526&sr=1-1


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