UPCOMING EVENTS
“Project Runway” star Justin LeBlanc Presentation and Q&A
Friday, April 24
Save the Date! On April 24, 2015, Justin LeBlanc, will be coming to UNCG to share his experiences as a fashion designer, as one of the finalists on the TV show “Project Runway” and of his growing up years being a deaf person. LeBlanc is a native of Raleigh, NC and teaches at NC State University. Starting at 1:00 pm in the School of Education Building, he will give a one-hour presentation followed by a one-hour Q&A session and then a Meet and Greet with refreshments. This event is being sponsored by the School of Education and the Consumer, Apparel and Retail Studies program in the Bryan School of Business.
North Carolina Science Festival
Saturday, April 25
GCS Global Education Conference
Saturday, April 25
The contents of the conference align with the required PD for the NC Global Educator Digital Badge as well as with the Cultural Awareness standard in NCEES. The event is free for GCS employees and for college students and teachers presenting their college ID. Special invitations are also available upon request.
Triad Teacher Researcher Conference
Wednesday, April 29
This conference is for ALL educators at ALL levels. Please encourage your undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to submit, along with community members. If you have questions or special needs, please email Amy Vetter at amvetter@uncg.edu. Visit our website at: triadteacherresearcher.weebly.com.
Scratch Day
Saturday, May 9
Would you like to learn how to create awesome animations, digital stories, or video games? Come to our first Scratch Day at the SELF Design Studio! Free and open to the public!
What is Scratch?
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.
Registration is required. For more information, click here!
2015 TASH Regional Conference
Friday and Saturday, May 15-16
Rethinking Traffic and Transit: A Community Conversation
Stephanie Hudson from the ELC department and Sophia Angeles from the CED department have worked on this proposal. We are hoping to reach out to the chief of police and city council members after we have collected some signatures.
Please feel free to pass this along to any community that you feel might benefit from having this concern or any other related concern voiced.
Please join us in supporting our efforts to engage the UNCG and greater Greensboro communities to take action to make our streets safe for all. Add your signature to the list of those who have already pledged support. We ask you to contribute to this conversation, in honor of the students, faculty, and staff at UNCG, as well as the greater community of Greensboro, who have been affected by the unsafe conditions that currently exist, to ensure our community is safe for all who share our streets. We also encourage you to join our conversation by adding your comments, questions, suggestions, ideas, insights, experiences, etc. We want to express our sincerest gratitude for your support.
See the proposal and pledge support here: https://docs.google.com/a/uncg.edu/forms/d/1GcLpSjovGwzVL6aPbDonbk_sdv9UIommVYOMIReBZKQ/viewform?c=0&w=1
Faculty and Staff Headshots
If you have not had a headshot taken for our SOE directory page, please do so as soon as possible, no matter if you’ve been here 10 years or 10 days. Getting a headshot at University Relations is free and easy – just fill out the online headshot request form. Once you receive your picture, please forward it to Laura Caroline Spell (lcspell@uncg.edu).
COMMENCEMENT INFORMATION
Commencement Guide Available Online
The SOE’s 2015 Commencement information is available online here. Information about summer graduates, registration, and guests and much more has been posted.
Faculty SOE Commencement Registration
Closes Thursday, April 23
All faculty who plan to participate in the School of Education Commencement should fill out the Faculty RSVP Commencement Form. Please RSVP your participation interest no later than Thursday, April 23.
TECHNOLOGY
SOE Instructional Technology Blog – Now Live!
This blog is a way for faculty to learn more about current instructional technology trends, new web 2.0 tool releases, UNCG tech events, Canvas updates, and more. There is a feature for faculty and staff to sign up to get an email every time there is a new post, as well as adding the blog to a RSS feed. Hopefully this is a way for SOE faculty to stay up to date with SOE IT without receiving mass emails from us!
The direct link to the blog is: http://uncgsoeit.blogspot.com/
It’s also featured on the SOE IT website under tech news: http://intech.uncg.edu/tech-news/