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My First MOOC: A New Year’s Resolution Posted by: bodewedl / August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 Click above to view complete image By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer I am not one to jump on the bandwagon for any type of fad that gets a lot of media attention.  My first iPhone was the 5, just out of stubbornness.  But in my role as an instructional designer, I felt it was due time for me to have an opinion of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, based on first-hand experience.  (For those of

text, files, GIFs, emojis, and code. Instructors can organize the Chatroom into various rooms based on topics. Rooms can be made available to the entire class or instructors can set up private rooms for group discussions. Instructors also have the option to enable direct messaging for student-to-instructor as well as student-to-student private communication. Campuswire Chatrooms For faculty looking for an alternative to Sakai Forums, the PLU Instructional Technologies team recommends Campuswire

March 14, 2008 Art software has applications across campus It looked like a photograph of a cell phone sitting on a table, only it wasn’t. The image wasn’t real at all. It was created using a 3-D digital modeling tool called Rhinoceros Software, Rhino for short. Created by Seattle-based Robert McNeel and Associates, the software is the newest addition to the art department. In February, McNeel employee and 1985 PLU graduate Dale Fugier donated 30 software licenses and several rendering packages

during the second half of the University Wind Ensemble’s performance in Lagerquist Concert Hall on March 20. Written by composer Daron Hagen, the piece was commissioned by PLU, the University of Michigan, Illinois State University and Western Illinois University. The composer of operas, chamber and orchestral works, and over two hundred art songs and cycles, Hagen is currently writing an opera based on the life of Amelia Earhart for the Seattle Opera. Hagen was the subject of band director Ed

innovative approaches to work for social change. Featured speakers include Ben Atherton-Zeman, spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, and Lane and Patty Judson, parents of domestic violence victim Crystal Judson. Judson was fatally shot five years ago by her husband, then Tacoma Police Chief David Brame in a Gig Harbor parking lot. There will also be presentations by representatives from A Call to Men and Seattle-based The Men’s Network Against Domestic Violence, among others

values-based education just by watching others on campus live out their lives. “The campus community models the tradition quietly – not in an evangelical way in the sense of going around preaching what they believe – but rather ideally living by example and serving by example with a true sense of joy and an understanding of grace,” he said. He said some students will not understand how the Lutheran tradition has influenced their education until after they gradate. “It may take them until later in

before it went live in mid-August. “They can buy a used book, purchase a new book here, or participate through the buyback program.” Under the buyback program, if a book is a current edition, adopted for an upcoming term at PLU, and the bookstore needs those copies, students can receive up to 50 percent of the new sell price for the book. In other cases, the price is based on the national wholesale demand for the book. Most of the students begin purchasing their books two weeks before classes start

. “This gives me an opportunity to discuss topics that otherwise, I may not know about,” said Briggs, who added that many contestants brush up on issues covered in The Economist before appearing at “worlds” as the contest is commonly referred to among the debating crowd. Often, judges pull topics covered in the UK-based publication for the contest. Debate gives one an understanding of the importance of what you say, as well as how you say it, said Skinner, a communications major from Covington, Wash

, if we are creating more, healthy, family wage jobs, then we’re winning,” Wolfe said. According to port statistics, activities directly and indirectly connect the Port of Tacoma to about one in six jobs, or more than 43,000 jobs in Pierce County and 113,000 jobs statewide. Wolfe arrived at the Port of Tacoma in 2005 after five years at the Port of Olympia (Wash.), and 12 years with Sea Land, a North Carolina–based container shipping firm. Wolfe served as deputy executive director at the Port of

in Canada and across the North Atlantic back to Norway. It was a race against time and in waters with drifting ice, increasing darkness and autumn gales. They have credited their successful voyage on innovation, using state-of-the-art communication technology, good teamwork and a combination of thorough preparation and improvisation. Thorleifsson is an experienced mariner and an organizational developer. His ideas and perspectives are based on his own experiences from business, organizational