Mar

11

You asked for it…!

March 11, 2010 | | 1 Comment

The survey of staff needs conducted last year by the staff advisory team pointed to the desire on the part of staff members for more training around issues of customer service.  The two remaining workshops HR’s staff development series address this very topic!  Please sign up for

“Customer Service” on March 18th

and/or

“Conflict Management and Dealing with Difficult Situations/People” on March 24th.

Both workshops meet from 1-5 pm in the Boardroom.

Just send a message to hr@miis.edu to reserve your space.

(While these workshops target staff, interested faculty are also welcome if space permits.)

Mar

10

Kiva CEO Speaks at MIIS

March 10, 2010 | | Leave a Comment

The 9th Annual Fisher Fiesta will focus on “How Do Micro-finance and Business Development Alleviate Poverty?”  The keynote address will be offered by Matt Flannery, Co-Founder & CEO of Kiva, the world’s first online micro-lending platform.  Founded in 2005, Kiva empowers individuals to lend to entrepreneurs across the globe in order to alleviate poverty.

All MIIS students, staff & faculty are welcome to attend the keynote address in the Irvine Auditorium.  Thanks to a donation from Student Council, the Fisher Fiesta Planning Committee is now able to waive the $5 fee for admission to this event. For more information, please visit http://www.fisherfiesta.info/FisherFiesta/Welcome.html.

Fisher Fiesta is planned and managed by students from the Fisher International MBA Program.  If you’re interested in supporting this event, please email Joanie Baczewski at jbaczewski@miis.edu or Sky Mehringer at smehringer@miis.edu.

Mar

10

Trade Conference on Friday!

March 10, 2010 | | Leave a Comment

The 3rd Annual MIIS Trade & Investment Conference will be held this Friday, March 12th in Irvine Auditorium from 10:15AM – 5:30PM.  All members of the Monterey Institute community are welcome to attend.  The complete schedule for the conference, which includes impressive keynote speakers and panelists, can be found at http://blogs.miis.edu/tradeconference/panel-sessions/.

In order to make the conference accessible to those who are unable to join the event live, the MIIS International Trade Club will also be broadcasting the conference via U-stream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/2010-miis-trade-investment-conference.

The video streaming link can also be accessed through the MIIS Events Calendar on Moodle and on www.miis.edu.

Mar

9

MIIS Stories Campaign: Help Us Collect 500 Voices!

March 9, 2010 |  Tagged , , | Leave a Comment

We need your help to collect 500 stories from students, alumni, faculty, and staff for MIIS Around the World, an interactive map located on miis.edu. Every story serves as a personal webpage that you can share not only with our community, but with your family, friends, and professional networks. Your  story could feature your latest research, fieldwork, or revelatory MIIS experience. For example, check out Professor Ahaka’s story about promoting innovative teaching and learning methods at Russian and Kyrgyz universities.

While we have dozens of stories from students and alumni, we only have a handful from faculty and staff members. Contribute your story or nominate someone else for a story.

To spread the word about the MIIS Stories Campaign, send your friends and colleagues to http://go.miis.edu/stories.

Mar

8

Zarsky Publishes Paper on Climate Resilient Development

March 8, 2010 | | Leave a Comment

Prof. Lyuba Zarsky (GSIPM) recently published a paper entitled Climate-Resilient Industrial Development Paths: Design Principles and Alternative Models, on the website of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts.  Zarsky compares three distinct development models and suggests that the so-called “new developmentalist” model, with its overarching objective of building endogenous productive capacity and a strong role for government in industrial development, make it the most robust of the three models as a starting point for the design of climate-resilient development paths.  The working paper will be published in a collection by Routledge later this year.

Mar

8

CEO of Kiva to Speak at MIIS

March 8, 2010 | | Leave a Comment

The 9th Annual Fisher Fiesta will focus on “How Do Micro-finance and Business Development Alleviate Poverty?”  The keynote address will be offered by Matt Flannery, Co-Founder & CEO of Kiva.

Kiva is the world’s first online micro-lending platform.  Founded in 2005, Kiva empowers individuals to lend to entrepreneurs across the globe in order to alleviate poverty.

All students and faculty, regardless of program affiliation, are welcome to attend the keynote event in the Irvine Auditorium.
When: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 5:00 PM

Where: Irvine Auditorium

Tickets:  $5  per person

Mar

3

Digital Media Commons Workshops Schedule Posted

March 3, 2010 | | Leave a Comment

The Digital Media Commons, located upstairs in the Kade Building, is hosting a series of workshops on Tuesday and Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30 open to the MIIS community.  The DMC is staffed Monday-Friday during the week from 10am to 6pm, unless otherwise posted.

Bookmark the DMC Blog: http://blogs.miis.edu/dmc
Check out the DMC Workshop Schedule: http://blogs.miis.edu/dmc/workshops

Spring Workshop Series
Sessions are designed to showcase examples from our broader community, promote discussion of best practices and possibilities, and offer time for hands-on exploring on participant computers or DMC iMacs. Options for working with different operating systems are also a part of the conversation.  No sign-up or previous experience is required to participate.

Weekly workshops are organized around a couple of themes:

Digital Media in the World of 2.0
Facilitated sessions on movie making, podcasting, blogging, image editing, document layout design and more!

Emerging Trends
Exploring a variety of topics including: mobile learning technology applications, data visualization, concept mapping, and micro-blogging with Twitter and Tumblr.

Another way to join the learning community is by taking contacting the DMC with an interest, idea, question, or project that you want to develop.

DMC On Demand

In addition to the published workshop schedule is the opportunity to request a workshop learning session ‘on demand.’ Email “collaborate AT miis DOT edu” to schedule a personalized or small group session.  We strive to work with you and your team.

Examples of ‘On Demand’ sessions have included: introduction to video editing with iMovie, Photostory basics (Windows PC), intro to collaboration tools, podcasting with Audacity or Garageband, organizing your digital files, designing effective presentations with Powerpoint, Keynote, or Prezi…

Come visit us!
There’s a wealth of knowledge on the DMC graduate assistant team.

Mar

2

Constituency pages on miis.edu: do you use them? How could they be improved?

March 2, 2010 | | Comments Off

constituencymenus

miis.edu has a constituency-based navigation menu for the following groups: students, faculty & staff, alumni, and employers. These pages contain quicklinks to a variety of resources including webmail, MIIS social networks, BannerWeb, and many others. The content of each page is tailored to meet the needs of its intended audience.

We would love to hear your suggestions for making these pages more useful! Please comment and let us know if we are missing any crucial links/resources.

Mar

1

Debut of a new MIIS Knowledge Base for Technology FAQs

March 1, 2010 | | Comments Off

The staff members of the Teaching & Learning Collaborative have been working with our friends in IT to develop a knowledge base of frequently asked questions related to campus technologies. We gathered useful information from wikis and other campus resources, updated the content, and formatted them as sets of questions and answers. We are continually improving these FAQs by adding screenshots and video tutorials where appropriate. Next time you have a question about the various technologies on campus, take the Knowledge Base for a spin.

You can find the Knowledge Base at http://blogs.miis.edu/kb. Please check it out and feel free to suggest some additional questions you think we should address in this space.

Mar

1

Kathi Bailey to speak at TESOL Convention in Dubai

March 1, 2010 | | Leave a Comment

On March 8, Dr. Kathi Bailey (GSTILE) will fly to Dubai, where she will be a plenary speaker at the TESOL Arabia Convention – a regional conference which draws attendees from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt.

Bailey will give a plenary presentation on innovation in language teaching, lead a one-day workshop on classroom research methods, chair a colloquium about research on English language teaching and learning in the region, and report on a survey of language program administrators’ responsibilities.