This Week

Monday, October 13

4:00 - 5:00 PM - LS102 Meeting for All LS102 Faculty
Founders Hall Basement Lounge

Tuesday, October 14

Campus Emergency Notification Drill

11:30 - 11:50 AM - Reflections - Mike Schroeder, Education Dept.
Ascension Chapel, 2nd Floor, Founders Hall

8:00 PM - Student Recital
Wallenberg Hall
Various student musicians

Wednesday, October 15

12:00 - 1:00 PM - Weekly Bible Study
Chicago Room, College Center
Led by Pastor Priggie, College Chaplain
Bring your lunch if you wish, and a Bible

9:30 PM - Evening Prayer & Holy Communion
Ascension Chapel, 2nd Floor, Founders Hall

Thursday, October 16

10:30 - 11:30 - Convocation - Robert Levey
Centennial Hall
See detail under "announcements"

11:30 AM - CVR Reflections - Dan Corts
"College Live: Unscripted and Untranscribed"
Library South End

Friday, October 17

1:00 - 2:00 PM - Walk-In Hour with Jeff
116 Founders Hall

4:00 PM - Friday Conversations
3:30 PM - Refreshments
Wilson Center
Don Erickson
"Three Big Ideas About Liberal Education: A Sabbatical Report"

7:00 PM - Ander Lecture in Immigration History - Joy Lintelman, professor of history at Concordia College in Moorehead, MN
Science Building 102
"I Go to America": Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson

7:30 PM - Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre), by Frederico Garcia Lorca
Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts
Tickets are $10 with discounts for senior citizens and students and are available from the Augustana Ticket Office at 309.794.7306.

Saturday, October 18

8:00 PM - Symphony Orchestra - Beetoven #6 "Pastorale"
Centennial Hall
Dan Culver, conductor
Cindy Lambrecht, oboe
James Lambrecht, trumpet

Sunday, October 19

10:30 AM - Sunday Morning Worship
Ascension Chapel, 2nd Floor, Founders Hall

5:00 PM - Sunday Catholic Mass
Ascension Chapel, 2nd Floor, Founders Hall

ACTL (Augustana Center for Teaching and Learning)

Should Instructors Provide Students with Complete Notes?

By Maryellen Weimer

Course management software programs make it especially easy for instructors to provide students with a set of complete lecture notes. It seems that more instructors are doing this, as witnessed in the regularity with which students ask that the instructor's notes be posted. But is giving students a complete set of notes a good idea?

The entire article may be viewed at http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_ff/5_27/news/601920-1.html

"Faculty Reflective Practitioner Groups: A Model to Consider"

Participants of a reflective practitioner group will talk about their experiences with their discussions on teaching theories and practice.

Lunch/Roundtable Discussion
Sponsored by CVR and ACTL
Monday, October 20

11:30 - 1:00 p.m.

Carlsson-Evald - Seminar Room

[Due to a great response from faculty - the event is already filled to capacity. We will plan to schedule another session for those that are interested in early winter term]

"Students 101: How to tailor your teaching to the interrupter, the hijacker, and other familiar types."     http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i06/06a12001.htm

ACTL Website http://www.augustana.edu/x10019.xml

The Teaching Professor: http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_tp/

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