Upcoming FSU ISLT Dissertation Defenses

Upcoming FSU ISLT Dissertation Defenses

GRADUATE SCHOOL DEFENSE ANNOUNCEMENTS

The following includes details for upcoming FSU ISLT student dissertation defenses.

Tuesday, March 27 at 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Arrington, Thomas Dissertation Defense
"Productive Failure: Examining the Impact of Need for Cognition and Cognitive Flexibility on Conceptual Learning in Chemistry."
Major Professor: Darabi, Abbas

Friday, March 30 at 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Lim, Taehyeong Dissertation Defense
"Featured Student Profiles: An Instructional Blogging Strategy to Promote Student Interactions in Online Courses."
Major Professor: Dennen, Vanessa

Monday, April 2 at 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Huang, Yujia Dissertation Defense
"Effects of Annotation Sharing and Guided Annotation Strategies on Second Language Reading." Major Professor: Shute, Valerie

Wednesday, April 4 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Fornara, Fabrizio - Dissertation Defense
"Instagram for the Development of Foreign Language Students' Intercultural Competence" Major Professor: Dennen, Vanessa

Friday, May 4 at 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Sermon, Jenay Dissertation Defense
"Moving Metacognitive Regulation Beyond Curriculum and Into Culture: Improving Marginalized Students' Agency Through Motivation-Infused Cognitive Awareness Training"
Committee Chair: Klein, James

Current Happenings in ISLT

Current Happenings in ISLT

Over the last few weeks, a few events have taken place and a few more that are right around the corner that you may be interested in.

Dr. Klein's class using and Press the Chest (a CPR training kit)

Dr. Klein's Advanced Instructional Design and Development class using principles of learning theory, early instructional theory, and communication/media theory to analyze "Press the Chest" (a CPR training kit).

Open Access Publishing Presentation

On Friday, March 2, Florida State Library's scholarly communication librarian, Devin Soper presented in Dr. Dennen's Academic Publishing EME6635 class. A few key points are listed below as well as a link to his presentation.

• Library expenses are increasing and forcing subscriptions to some journals to be discontinued and or reevaluated while the profits of a publisher have been known to recently exceed the profits of Google
• Types of open access publishing: Gold vs. Green 
• If a student wants to publish in an open access journal, check with the FSU library to see if there is a budget set aside for them to help you out
• Quality Open Access Market: https://www.qoam.eu/
• Think Check Submit https://thinkchecksubmit.org/
• FSU's Digital Repository, Diginole: https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/
• URL to Devin's presentation: http://bit.ly/2HYDbIo 

Development Tool Workshops

ISSA has delivered two development tool workshops and another is scheduled to be delivered. 

• On Friday, February 16, Lukas delivered a hands on workshop for Articulate Storyline
• On Friday, March 2, Kari delivered a hands on workshop for Adobe Captivate
• On Friday, March 30, Yao will deliver a hands on workshop for Lectora

 Other Upcoming Events

• March 8, FSU Library will be hosting the Open Education Symposium where you can attend in person, stream the event live at https://youtu.be/uuxua5TM0Jk, and or join in the live chat on Twitter at #FSUOpenEd 
• March 31, ISSA is hosting a BBQ potluck at FSU Rez at noon
• April 13, Michelle is delivering a resume workshop at 3:00 pm
• April 13 - April 17, 2018 AERA's Annual Meeting will be held in NYC where some of the ISLT community will be presenting

Follow ISLT on Social Media

If you are not already following us, feel free to do so and let us know if you have any ideas of scholarships, awards, conferences, events, news, pictures, that you would like us to share. 

• Twitter: @islt_fsu
• Instagram: instructionalsystemsfsu

Adobe Captivate Workshop

ISSA Development Workshop Series: Adobe Captivate 101

Dear ISLT Students:

Please mark your calendar: ISSA will facilitate one free workshop to introduce Adobe Captivate and its basic features. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to create a basic lesson with Adobe Captivate. This is one of the ISSA development workshop series. Our next workshop will be about Lectora Online and it will be in late March.

Time: March 2nd from 1:30-3:30 pm EST

Location: TBA

Please register for this workshop ASAP via the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adobe-captivate-101-tickets-43411541088

Only 15 face-to-face slots are available and we are not steaming this workshop online this time. 

Note:

Please bring your own laptop (BYOC) with Captivate installed (optional). If you need a laptop or have any other questions, please contact Kari (kdk17b@my.fsu.edu) or Lukas (liulukas91@gmail.com). 

Look forward to seeing you there.

You have a great day!

ISSA Board

ISLT Newsletter

Thank you to all of the students, alumni, and the faculty who contributed to this year's ISLT Newsletter. Thank you to Michelle Cates, managing editor, for her time and effort in producing the newsletter.

Download and view the newsletter. 

Articulate Storyline Workshop

Dear ISLT Students:

Please mark your calendar: ISSA will facilitate one free workshop to introduce Articulate Storyline and basic features. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to create a basic lesson with Articulate Storyline.  

Time: Feb 16th from 1:30-3:30 pm EST

Location: TBA

Please register for this workshop ASAP via the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/articulate-storyline-101-2018-spring-tickets-43036959705

Only 15 face-to-face slots are available and we are not steaming this workshop online this time. 

Note: Please bring your own laptop (BYOC) with storyline installed (optional). If you need a laptop or have any other question, please contact us. Articulate Storyline does not work with Mac. Please bring a PC if possible. If you want to learn about authorware that works on both Mac and PC, we have a Captivate workshop coming up in March.

Look forward to seeing you there.

You have a great day!

ISSA Board

11th Annual Dean's Symposium

On Monday, February 5th, the College of Education hosted the 11th Annual Dean's Symposium at the FSU Convention Center. The symposium topic this year was Public Scholarship. The presenters shared with us how they have conducted research with community partners and used their research to make a difference in people’s lives.

One presentation focused on The SHED - Center for Sport, Health, & Equitable Development
https://education.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/SHED-Executive-Summary.pdf

Dr. Brad Cox, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University delivered a great TED-style talk on autism and his work with College Autism Network 

https://collegeautismnetwork.org/

Dr. Dave Gussak, Chair and Professor of Art Therapy at Florida State University, delivered a keynote presentation titled “Creativity Heals in an Uncreative Place: Art and Art Therapy in Prison.”

Several ISLT program students volunteered at the event. We enjoyed learning from the presenters, and meeting new people.

ISLT Orientation & ISSA Beginning of Semester Potluck Dinner, This Friday

ISSA is hosting an ISLT orientation session for new students(3pm) and potluck dinner (6pm) to start off this new semester in Morgan Studio on Jan 19th.

For orientation, please join us in welcoming our new students to this amazing program at 3pm. Dr. Klein will give us a presentation about the program and we will have a Q&A session. To join us virtually, please use this link (http://meet93404893.adobeconnect.com/isltsp18/).

For the potluck, please feel free to bring whatever you’d like to share with the ISLT community. Any types of food items (homemade or purchased) are welcome! We will also be having an activity at the beginning for all participants to get to know each other. Also, after dinner, there will be a number of games available for those interested in playing. Here are the details for the event (please also see the flyer below):

• When: January 19, 2018; Orientation @ 3:00pm; Potluck @ 6:00 pm 
• Where: Morgan Studio (STB 3211) 
• Who: ISLT students, alumni, faculty/staff, and any friends or family! 

RSVP:
To attend the orientation, please contact Lukas (zl14@my.fsu.edu); \
To attend the potluck or if you have any concerns about our events. Please fill out this survey:(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKXUTahjn2DgwPQpqmQ6hlq2bQZEUviBuoJ5zlPl9Lyrkr0A/viewform?usp=sf_link)

We hope that you all can join us! If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to contact Lukas (zl14@my.fsu.edu).

We hope to see you there,

ISSA Board