Hello
As I move around campus I sense that a number of people are ready for Spring Break already! It is not too far away, even though at times it seems like we have just started the Spring Semester - well, maybe not!
However we feel about where we are in the semester, here is a mix of things that have been happening, are happening, and are planned to happen in IS&T.
Just for fun, there is a humorous video on how to deal with unwanted email!
Don't forget to look at the infographic showing the top 10 issues facing IT in higher ed for 2017, as compiled by the Educause group, ECAR.
As I move around campus I sense that a number of people are ready for Spring Break already! It is not too far away, even though at times it seems like we have just started the Spring Semester - well, maybe not!
However we feel about where we are in the semester, here is a mix of things that have been happening, are happening, and are planned to happen in IS&T.
Just for fun, there is a humorous video on how to deal with unwanted email!
Don't forget to look at the infographic showing the top 10 issues facing IT in higher ed for 2017, as compiled by the Educause group, ECAR.
Harding Remembers
Legacy. It’s a word I hear often at Harding. Walking around campus I can’t help but see testimony after testimony of honored legacies from the Harding community. We celebrate the legacies of those who came before, those spiritual giants who touched the lives of many…or perhaps only one life which was changed for good.
But what if you don’t live in Searcy? What if distance keeps you from being able to enjoy these legacies? Or perhaps you donated money to honor one of your spiritual giants, only you don’t know the location of that brick or plaque.
Questions such as these led members of Brackett Library’s staff to launch the Harding Remembers project in the Fall of 2015. The goal: to document all of the memorial bricks and plaques on campus and make them available in an interactive online database. Quickly realizing we were in over our heads, we enlisted help from our colleagues and student workers who have spent hundreds of hours working behind the scenes to make Harding Remembers a reality.
Currently in Phase II, the Harding Remembers project has documented bricks from the center of campus, plaques on Benson seats, and plaques from buildings across campus. Go to Harding Remembers to see pictures of these memorials, learn their location on campus, and even see the location plotted on an interactive Google map.
In Phase III we hope to capture the memorials found throughout the First Ladies Garden, Harding Academy, and other individual memorials from around campus. If you know of a memorial or honorarium in or near your building or office and can’t find it in the current Harding Remembers database, please contact me at archives@harding.edu and let me know. We want to make sure we have as complete a database as possible!
- Hannah Wood
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Online Course Development for Summer 2017
Under the direction of Dr. McLarty, fall 2016 marked the beginning of a collaborative project between The Center for Learning with Technology and 7 departments across campus. The project goal was to develop liberal arts courses that would be offered online beginning in the summer of 2017. Each course was assigned a development team, which included a content expert, an instructional designer, and a librarian. The courses are being developed to the Quality Matters rubric standard. To date, all courses are progressing well and by this summer Harding will be prepared to add the following courses to the HU online course offerings:
PSY-201 with Dr. Glen Adams
PHS-115 with Dr. Dennis Matlock
MUS-101 with Dr. Wesley Parker
KINS-101 with Dr. J.D. Yingling
ECON-201 with Dr. Mark Farley
BOLD-301 with Dr. Tim Westbrook
ART-101 with Tessa Davidson
2017 Top 10 IT Issues
(Read the full details here: https://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/research/top-10-it-issues)
The Agony of Trying to Unsubscribe
And or those of us who want to rid our inboxes of
unwanted email, James Veitch approaches the problem with humor…
If the embedded video does not play, here is the direct link: https://tinyurl.com/TED-Veitch-unscubscribe
Faculty Technology Showcase - Fall 2017
