FYI: Presentation April 24

I thought this might be of interest to some of you.
From the Society for Technical Communication Central (STC) Iowa Community:


We have an exciting presentation opportunity coming up next week if you are interested in attending. Nationally-known humorist and speaker Dalton Hooper (http://www.wordsandwit.com/index1.html) will be presenting Why is a Microphone Like a Breath Mint? Mr. Hooper will be sharing his tips for public speaking and presentation skills with us while making the program informational and fun!

Program details are included below:

• Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
• Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  Location: Christopher's Restaurant, 2816 Beaver Ave., Beaverdale, IA 50310
• Cost: $35.00 (includes cost of meal and program)
• Contact: Eden Picht at (515) 577-9891 cell or at epicht@shazam.net if you are interested in attending this program.

Please contact Eden by Monday, April 21, and she will assist you with registration for this program.

STC Central Iowa Community
www.stc-centraliowa.org

Bucksbaum Lecture April 9

As many of you may know, Drake hosts several lectures each year as part of the Bucksbaum lecture series. April 9th at 7:30pm, Erik Peterson will speak on the Seven Revolutions initiative, and will explore issues leaders will face out to the year 2025.

It should be a fascinating night of future trends, insights and implications for leaders and the rest of us. This should be interesting and useful no matter what your concentration (Training & Development, Leadership, HRM or Higher Education).

Consider getting together for "dinner and a lecture" with some of your ALOP colleagues or, since it's free and open to the public, feel free to bring your non-Drake friends and family too!

"Mis-matched" higher ed course numbers for registration

I suppose it's inevitible that when you restructure a program (like ALPD to ALOP) there are bound to be a few technical snafu's. Here's the first one:

Apparently the course numbers for the classes in the higher ed concentration have different numbers in our brochure and on the stickers, than the numbers that are listed in MYDUSIS. Of course, this has the potential to be confusing for you because we're starting registration next week. So here's the scoop:

You think the number is: -----MYDUSIS thinks the number is:
ALOP283:Seminar in Stud Svcs--ALOP284:Seminar in Stud Svcs
ALOP284:Hist & Phil of High Ed---ALOP282:Hist & Phil of High Ed

We're going to try to get them synched up, but if we don't, you now know what you need to register with minimal confusion! No matter what, if you go by the title, you'll be all set!

Sorry for any confusion!

Short Notice! Jane Elliott in Ames tonight!

I just heard that Jane Elliott (creator of the Brown eyes/Blue eyes diversity exercise) will be presenting an interactive workshop tonight at ISU in Ames. It's a wonderful opportunity if you can make it!

Here's the info:
"The Anatomy of Prejudice"
Jane Elliott
7 p.m., March 27
Memorial Union Sun Room
Free and open to the public

Did you get your "free" MS office software?

Reminder: one of the benefits of the tech fee you pay each semester is that you can pick up a copy of MS office (for the macintosh or windows). If you have not yet picked yours up, you can get it in the basement of Carnegie Hall before 4:30p Monday-Friday. Currently they are distributing office 2003.

For everyone--I recently heard that they are going to start distributing 2007 (windows) and 2008 (macintosh) in June and because it's a version change you can pick up a new disk whether or not you've picked one up in the last year! I'll try to send you a note when they are available, but you might also want to make yourself a reminder to call the help desk in June (515-271-3001) and see when the new versions are available.

Summer & Fall registration

The summer and spring courses are now available on MYDUSIS.

Also posted on BlueView is the schedule for when registration opens for each of you.

Here it is in a nutshell: Registration dates are based on the number of credits you earned as of the end of Fall 2007 semester (since we're in the middle of spring semester, you technically have not yet earned your spring semester credits and that's why we don't count them.)

The dates/times for School of Ed, graduate students are:

• 18 or more credits -- Mar 31, 3:00pm
• less than 18 credits -- Apr 1, 3:00pm

You should be able to register through MYDUSIS.

Good luck and let me know if you have any questions!

Summer/Fall Registration

The summer/fall registration dates will be March 31 to April 7. (the exact date & time you are eligible to register is based on the number of credits you've earned and will be announced soon.) If you would like to meet and talk through your schedule, let me know and we can set something up!