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Integrated Course Design Workshop

Integrated Course Design Workshop
All faculty are invited to participate in a workshop designed to enhance your instructional design skills and discover ways to incorporate online learning in your courses. It is particularly critical for Augsburg for Adults and graduate faculty who are creating "hybrid" courses for 2013-14.

The Integrated Course Design for Hybrid Learning is a hands-on workshop that introduces Augsburg's Moodle Template for developing your course in accordance with GAAC/AAC requirements and a Course Design Support site to provide additional detail and examples for Moodle applications. In this workshop, you will explore Fink's model for course design, which integrates situational factors, learning goals, learning activities, and assessment. We will also address how to choose face-to-face and online activities to create an engaging learning experience, provide direct instruction, and facilitate active, collaborative learning. Workshops will be held on:

9-12 am, Thursday, July 25, OGC 100
9-12 am, Thursday, August 8, OGC 100

Please rsvp to ctl@augsburg.edu

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URGO Summer Research Conference July 30 & 31

Please join us for this year's URGO Summer Research Conference July 30-31. The event is open to the public and will feature over 30 student research presentations. The conference schedule will be posted in next week's A-Mail, and includes presentations in the STEM fields, Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts. We hope that you will mark your calendar for this opportunity to pop in and see some of the outstanding work that our undergraduate students have accomplished this summer!

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Moodle Huddle Workshops Begin This Week

Moodle Huddle 2013
Strengthen Your Moodle Muscles!

To help you gear up for the 2013-2014 academic year, your IT User Support Team offers its Moodle Huddle workshop series for all Augsburg faculty and staff. Eighteen 20-minute sessions will be held in Sverdrup Hall, 2nd floor from 9 a.m.-noon each of the following days:

July 23, 24, 25
August 6, 7, 8
August 20, 21, 22

View the full Moodle Huddle 2013 schedule at http://go.augsburg.edu/huddle2013

Each unique session targets specific features, workflows, or strategies to best implement your goals in Moodle. No RSVP is required. You are welcome to attend topics that fit your needs or schedule. Come for a few sessions or attend multiple days to get all 18! Refreshments provided.

Questions? Contact Eric Strom at strom@augsburg.edu.

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Augsburg at the State Fair

We are getting very close to filling all the shifts at the Augsburg booth at the Minnesota State Fair. Here are the remaining opportunities:

Sunday, August 25
5-9 p.m.: One more person needed

Monday, September 2
5-9 p.m.: Two people needed

I will be holding three sessions for those of you who are representing Augsburg at the Fair. Here are the opportunities to come for a brief training AND to pick up your ticket:

-- August 12th at 2 p.m., OGC 300

--August 13th at 9 a.m., OGC 300

Another chance to come for training is during our Institutional Advancement Volunteer Night, August 15th from 6-9 p.m. This evening will be a chance to enjoy a meal together, get trained to represent Augsburg at the Fair and then if your schedule permits to thank generous donors to The Augsburg Fund (please R.S.V.P. to me if you're coming this evening so we order enough food).

Please let me know if you can help fill the remaining shifts and I will look forward to seeing you at one of the training sessions. Questions? herron@augsburg.edu or ext. 1525.

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Dining Services

Lunch Today: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Soft Shell Tacos or Taco Salad with Chips
Ground Beef
Carrots and Green Beans
Pizzas
Salad bar and pasta salads

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Farmers Market Starts Today!

Tuesdays
Augsburg Foss Chapel - 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Brian Coyle Community Center - 2-5 p.m.

It's finally happening - After weeks of delays due to a cold, wet spring, the West Bank Farmers Markets is set to start next Tuesday, July 23. Normally we start the first Tuesday of July but we have had to find new farmers and wait until our previous ones were ready to start.

This year to start, we're welcoming back See and Shoua Vang's family and Campus Kitchen will sell oils, honeys, breads, and some new local products. We are excited to introduce a new family who will sell with us - Maly and Malia Thao, second year Auggies, and their family. They already have tomatoes to sell (normally not big news in July but especially exciting this year).

If you have any questions or ideas before we start, please let us know, and we look forward to seeing you at the market soon!"

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Ice fishing house for food shelf?

Campus Kitchen will be working with at least three farmers markets this summer and fall to collect donations of unsold produce from area farmers and get them into food shelves. One of the challenges is that the largest markets are on Saturdays and Sunday when most food shelves are closed. One solution could be to create an refrigerated storage space outside of the food shelf building where produce can be chilled until it can be distributed. We're hoping to find an insulated ice fishing house that could be used, where it can be parked out during the summer months and fitted with a air conditioner (there are devices to allow them to cool down to 40 degrees). Can we put your's or a friend's ice house to good use this summer, and even get it out of your yard in the meantime?

Also, if you'd like to join us at the farmers market to help collect vegetables, currently we are visiting markets Wednesday 1-3 pm, Thursday 12-2 pm, and Saturday 12-2. Please let us know if there's a day that you would like to join!

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