CCT News
23 February 2010
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previous news,
alum news and exchanges,
items for the upcoming news, and
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Contents:
Student matters,
CCT community,
CCT events,
alums,
other events,
opportunities,
resources,
food for thought,
humor
Student Matters
CCT Writing Support Group - every Tuesday at 5:30 - 7:30 in the CCT Program office (W-2-157). Come as your time allows, even if you are coming late after getting out of class or leaving early to get to class. Open to all CCTers who would like to discuss current challenges of writing related to coursework and beyond. See
Report from Writing Support Group, Fall '09.
Student online accounts - the new UMass student email system, Blackboard system for online courses, and wiki accounts on wikispaces.umb.edu now all use the same password.
While the old student system is temporarily available for archive retrieval purposes only, no new email will flow into the old system. You must
activate your email account on the new system,
http://webmail.umb.edu
All university official business will be sent only to your University email address. Students who have not set up
email forwarding in the past or new students may set a redirect within the inbox rules in the UMass Boston email ("Live") system. Choose menu Option -> Forward Your Mails Using IN Box rule. That means you have to log into your University (@umb.edu) email address at least once to set up that forwarding.
You don't know that email address? On the WISER system you can look up your Student Email Address if you don't already know it. You don't actually use email in WISER - you can only SEE what your Student Email Address is.
You know your University email address, but
you don't know the password? No problem (or, at least, it shouldn't be) because the new email ("Live") system requires you to establish a new password.
CCT Community
The Search for Solutions to Messy Problems: A Creative and Critical Thinking Workshop
Co-facilitators: Dr. Nina Greenwald and Dr. David Martin
Date/Time: Saturday, March 6: 10AM-2PM (with brown bag break)
Place: Cape Cod Art Museum (CCAA), Route 6A, Barnstable, MA
Register:
nlgreenwald@comcast.net
CCT Events
Monday, March 1, 2010
6:30-9:00pm, Wheatley 4th Floor Lounge, W-04-148
CCT Open House:
Our Lives and Other Worlds: Educational Change, Leadership, and Teaching/Learning Interactions
Please join us for alum presentations about taking CCT beyond the formal program of studies.
Alum and CCT associates Notes
Allyn Bradford, instructor of CCT courses on Dialogue Processes and Collaboration & Organizational Change is home now from Rehab, where he recovered well after being injured a month ago by a hit-and-run snowboarder.
- Get-well wishes were conveyed to him on Valentine's Day with a pop-up card of the CCT community, but feel free to email him more.
Events
"Perspectives on Creativity 2010," an interdisciplinary conference exploring creativity, Holy Family University in Philadelphia on March 20, 2010,
http://www.holyfamily.edu/sas/creativity
Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education and Democracy Lecture and Book Series. Linda Darling-Hammond lectures on March 23-25.
http://www.raceandeducation.com/
Robert Fritz workshops on the Fundamentals of Structural Thinking,
http://www.robertfritz.com/index.php?content=schedule
Minds in Motion course (arts collaborative initiative) Saturday April 10, 2010, 9am to 4pm; Saturday May 8, 2010, 9am to 4pm
Authority Leadership and Peacemaking Conference, Dover, MA, April 16-18, 2010,
http://www.diasporaforpeace.com
"Problem- and case-based learning about biology-in-society," April 22-25, 2010 Workshop in Woods Hole MA,
http://www.stv.umb.edu/newssc10b.html Organized and led by Peter Taylor. Spaces still available.
- The topic and the processes of this workshop are designed to attract a diverse group of scientists, science educators, and scholars from the various areas of science and technology studies interested in the life sciences and pedagogical innovation.
- With an eye to training "interdisciplinarians" the workshop will include graduate students (who can get course credit) as well as more experienced scholars.
2010 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis October 24-26, 2010,
http://planning.iupui.edu/institute/callforproposals.
- Plenary sessions and workshops emphasizing assessment in: Capstone Experiences, Civic Engagement, ePortfolios, Faculty Development, First-Year Experience, Student Development
See the UMass-Boston
Community Front Page for more university and local events.
Opportunities
Opportunity for advanced graduate students to teach at Tufts Experimental College
Deadline for Fall 2010 is March 12, 2010,
http://www.excollege.tufts.edu
Elementary Classroom (Gr.2-4 & 5-6) Teaching positions for ANOVA 2010 – 2011,
http://www.anovaschool.org
Dynamic, entrepreneurial lead teachers sought to launch multi-age classrooms in a school focused on gifted students.
Free RefWorks workshops, open to all students to learn how to use this resource to better organize your research.
All held in Healey Library ~ 4th floor, Center for Library Instruction, Room 4/015.
RSVP to
library.reference@umb.edu to save space for any of the following: Tuesday, February 23: 3:15 - 4:15 p.m; Wednesday, March 10: 12 - 1 p.m.; Thursday, March 25: 5-6 p.m.; Monday, April 5: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Resources
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Dan Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers -- recently released film.
- In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies, and he leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. Hailed as a hero, vilified as a traitor, and ostracized by even his closest colleagues, Ellsberg risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan.
Ruins in Turkey of a temple built 11,500 years ago—before villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—upends stories about the origin of civilization,
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844
Food for Thought
Greenspan wins Dynamite Prize in Economics
Alan Greenspan has been judged the economist most responsible for causing the Global Financial Crisis. He and 2nd and 3rd place finishers Milton Friedman and Larry Summers have won the first–and hopefully last—Dynamite Prize in Economics.
In awarding the Prize, Edward Fullbrook, editor of the Real World Economics Review, noted that “They have been judged to be the three economists most responsible for the Global Financial Crisis. More figuratively, they are the three economists most responsible for blowing up the global economy.”
Humor
Customer service,
http://imgs.xkcd.com/verizon_billing.mp3 (Caveat: humorous only if you understand that .002 cents is not the same as .002 dollars.)