WORKSHOP ON THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF BLACKBOARD.  Dr. Jim VanSpeybroeck will offer a workshop for interested faculty on "The Most Effective Use of Blackboard."  The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, October 28 in New Hall 013 at 3:05.  Everyone who attends the workshop ( from start to finish – no checking in at the front and checking out the back door!) will be entered into a drawing for a Magical Computer (worth far less than $10.00) which if properly used is alleged to be able to solve all your problems!).

 TEACHING CIRCLE ON THE COURAGE TO TEACH.   The teaching circle on Parker Palmer's book, The Courage to Teach, co-facilitated by Brenda Peters and Terry Schlabach, met for its first time on October 15.  The circle will meet again next month on November 12th at 3:00 p.m. in the Cosgrove private dining room.  Discussion topics will be announced closer to that date.

PRESENTATION ON THE NEW FACULTY/COURSE RATING FORM -- REPEAT. Dr. Paul Koch (Psychology and Institutional Research) will repeat his presentation about the new form for the evaluation of teaching at St. Ambrose.  He will be making this presentation again to accommodate those faculty who were unable to attend his first presentation.  We are looking at scheduling his presentation to faculty at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, November 7 in the Ambrose Room of Rogalski Center.    

 Paul  will present an analysis of the new form from Educational Testing Services (the SIR II) that is being used for course ratings at St. Ambrose beginning this semester.

 WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FACEBOOK? See the article in the National Teaching and Learning FORUM through the CTE website.  Go to "Teaching Centers at Other Institutions" and click on "National Teaching and Learning Forum."  Check it out electronically through the CTE web page at:     www.sau.edu/cte .           

 EXCELLENCE IN COLLEGE TEACHING CERTIFICATE--FACULTY SELECTED. St. Ambrose University recently became a member of the Quad-City Professional Development Network.  This consortium offers seminars open to SAU faculty on a limited basis.  The consortium offers a certificate program in "Excellence in College Teaching" and its first offering will be held at Black Hawk College on Nov. 8 from 8:30 to 3:00.  Six SAU faculty member have been selected to attend this first workshop.  They were selected from the pool of those faculty who applied by the closing date. 

 Full information about the program and the consortium is available at the consortium website:  http://www.qcpdn.org .    Member institutions include Black Hawk, Eastern Iowa CCD, Palmer C. C., Western Illinois U. and St. Ambrose.  

It is expected that the workshops in this series will be repeated  on, perhaps, a yearly basis. 

CTE PERIODICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS ALWAYS AVAILABLE.   The Center subscribes to College Teaching and CHANGE.  Back issues of these publications are in the latice-doored shelves in the reading area on the first floor (northwest corner) of the library.  Enjoy a beautiful view of campus and gorgeous sunsets as you peruse the back issues of the Center's publications.
     Three other publications subscribed to by the Center are available in several places on campus.  TheTeaching Professor, The Professor in the Classroom and the National Teaching and Learning Forum are available as they arrive in three wall pocket locations: in the old snack bar area in Ambrose Hall (in Stingers, near the elevator, ground level), in the Cosgrove Hall private dining room near the drink dispenser, and in the coffee shop on Harrison St.-- as well as at ACCEL with Neala McCarthy and through Allison Ambrose in the College of Business. 
     Back issues of these publications are kept in the shelves in the Library on the first floor, northwest corner (along with the Center's book collection). All of the Center's subscription materials are available during the hours the St. Ambrose Library is open.  Most of the Center's book collection has been  catalogued into the general library collection but it is still kept in the latice-doored shelves. 

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