On Wednesday, Feb. 4, Dr. Janet Heukeshoven guest-conducted and rehearsed four regional high school bands at the Hiawatha Band Festival. The ensembles included bands from Byron, Hayfield, Stewartville and Rochester Lourdes high schools. This event assists ensembles as they prepare for the MSHSL large group contest next month.
The Faculty Development Committee invites the faculty and academic staff to another minigrant-sharing luncheon, Monday, Jan 26, at 12:15 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room. Lunch is provided (tell the Chartwells employee in the front that you are with the FDC lunch), and you may get your lunch starting at noon. The talks and discussion will likely go until 1:10 p.m., but the rule is to come when you can, and leave when you must.
This luncheon features the work completed by two summer 2014 minigrant groups:
• Dr. Roger Peckover (facilitator), et al. “Metacognition: The Value of Thinking About Thinking” — During the summer of 2014, Dr. Joshua Lallaman, Dr. Nathan Lien, and Dr. Joseph Dulak, (participants), and Dr. Peckover (consultant) engaged in thoughtful discussion on student learning through metacognition, or more specifically, thinking about thinking. Through discussion on teaching styles and scholarly perspectives of metacognition they are developing practical strategies to facilitate a deeper level of learning across a variety of student experiences. The implementation of these strategies will allow multiple opportunities for scaffolding the development of cognitive skills and assessing the utility of these thinking skills. These methods for deeper student learning may be applied by teachers within the classroom setting as well as the Student Success Center.
• Lisa Truax (lead), et al. “Utilizing E-Folios to Advance Student Learning and Development” — Many departments and faculty members are using different types of e-folios for different purposes. Truax will share her own and other’s research from the summer mini-grant on e-folio use including how-to’s on a variety of e-folio and website options.
The School of Humanities and Sciences is hosting the Celebration of Faculty Scholarship Tuesday, April 29. Invites have been distributed. The event begins at 3:15 p.m. in the President’s Room, with presentations by Rose Beal, Demian Cho, Brooke Lenz and Matthew Rowley at 3:30 p.m. RSVP by April 14 to tpape@smumn.edu.
The Faculty Development Committee has rescheduled the mini-grant luncheon presentations by Dr. Janet Heukeshoven and Lisa Truax for Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Toner Student Center faculty dining room.
Faculty are invited to hear Dr. Heukeshoven talk about the Alexander Method, an approach to health, wellness and better living for all people, especially embraced in the arts. Musicians’ health and wellness is a major initiative by NASM (National Assoc. of School of Music), which is required by our accreditation. Diane Foust (certified Alexander practitioner) is also working with SMU music students to provide an introduction to body awareness and mapping, preventing and correcting common problems related to body alignment, proper use and function to both heal and prevent injuries common to musicians.
Lisa Truax will talk about a mini-grant the Department of Art and Design received to develop materials and examples for both the planned summer Animation Camp and the new Interactive Multimedia and Web Design 2 courses. Faculty developed two demonstration animations, one using Adobe Flash and another using stop motion photography as well as a step by step handout in beginning to intermediate level Flash animations.
Dr. Janet and Eric Heukeshoven (Music Department) will be presenting special interest sessions at this year’s Minnesota Music Educator’s Association conference. Eric’s (Friday afternoon) is a music technology session, “Sibelius notation program, iPad use, etc.,” and Janet’s Thursday afternoon session was about flute tone and vibrato teaching and learning pedagogy.
Two faculty reports will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in Salvi Lecture Hall. Judy Myers, Department of Theatre and Dance, will present “All Aboard for Broadway via Alaska” and Jeanne Minnerath, Biology Department, will present “Case Studies in the Classroom.” Refreshments will be provided. The event is sponsored by the Faculty Development Committee, in conjunction with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Two faculty reports will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in Salvi Lecture Hall.
Judy Myers, Department of Theatre and Dance, will present “All Aboard for Broadway via Alaska” and Jeanne Minnerath, Biology Department, will present “Case Studies in the Classroom.” Refreshments will be provided. The event is sponsored by the Faculty Development Committee, in conjunction with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.Publish Post
Two faculty reports will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in Salvi Lecture Hall. Judy Myers, Department of Theatre and Dance, will present “All Aboard for Broadway via Alaska” and Jeanne Minnerath, Biology Department, will present “Case Studies in the Classroom.” Refreshments will be provided. The event is sponsored by the Faculty Development Committee, in conjunction with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Janet Heukeshoven spent Friday, Feb. 19, working with band students in Randolph, Minn., as guest clinician. She worked with three bands: Beginning Band, grades five and six; Intermediate Band, grades seven and eight; and grade nine through 12 Concert Band. She also worked with all of the school’s flute players in special flute workshops.
The Faculty Development Committee, in conjunction with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, is sponsoring a sabbatical presentation by Dr. Kenneth Stenstrup, “Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Undergraduate Academic Scripture,” on Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Salvi at 3:30 p.m.
Congratulations are in order for Shelly McCallum, Business Department, who finished her doctoral work and successfully defended her dissertation. Her dissertation is titled: “An Examination of Internal and External Networking Behaviors and Their Relationship to Career Success and Work Attitudes.” McCallum has been on educational leave for the past three years to complete her doctoral program at St. Ambrose University in Davenport Iowa. She earned her Doctor of Business Administration degree. Saint Mary’s welcomes her back.
Kevin Dennis and Paul Weiner attended and presented at MathFest, the national summer math meetings of the Mathematical Association of America, in Madison Wis., in August. Dennis presented (coauthored with Chad Kjorlien) “Capturing a Class: Adventures with Tegrity.” Weiner’s talk was titled “Viewing the Hamming Code in its Natural Habitat.”
During the summer, Sister Judith Schaefer, Theology Department, had two articles published in Horizon magazine. The first article, titled “Lessons Learned from Letting Go,” was a review of Patricia Wittberg's book, “From Piety to Professionalism — and Back?". The second article was on a Saint Mary’s program for women, called Women of Faith.
Sister Judith also submitted for publication a book titled “The Evolution of a Vow: Obedience as Decision Making in Communion.” The book is due out in the fall and is being published by LitVerlag, Munich, Germany, and will be one in a series titled, “Communicative Theology - Interdisciplinary Studies.”
Dr. Greg Gaut, Department of History, and his co-author Marsha Neff, received the David Stanley Gebhard Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians at their annual meeting and banquet on March 26 at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul.
The Gebhard Award is given biannually to the best book or article on the subject of Minnesota's built environment. The major criterion is how well the work strikes a balance between scholarship and accessibility. Their article is entitled “‘Save the Lady’ — The Struggle for the Winona County Courthouse,”and appeared in Minnesota History, Vol. 59, No 7 (Winter 2005-2006).
Go to: www.mnsah.org/gebhard.php or www.mnhs.org/market/mhspress/MinnesotaHistory/backissues.html.
Dr. Steve Pattee (Interdisciplinary Studies) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning. The Collaboration is an alliance of colleges and universities that supports and promotes outstanding college teaching and learning. Saint Mary's is one of the organization's charter members.
Dr. Roger Peckover, Suzanne Peterson, Pat Christiansen, and Brenda Fischer, members of the Development Team of the Master of Education in Teaching and Learning program (M.Ed.), have had their research accepted for presentation at the 2008 annual national meeting of the America Research Association in New York City.
The paper, titled, “Yes, But How Do We Help Teachers Build Generative Communities of Practice in Their Own Workplace,” reports results of an ongoing programmatic study of teachers “apprenticing” as teacher leaders using principles of social constructivist learning to build transformative communities of practice in their workplace. Implications will be reported for helping teachers engage their workplace communities in ways that scaffold participatory engagement, intellectual confidence, collaborative visioning, classroom inquiry-based praxis, and an inner life grounded in a shared learning and a spirit of mutual care.
Dr. Steve Schild, Social Sciences, has been named to the Complaints Committee of the Minnesota News Council. After reviewing complaints from citizens who believe they have been unfairly or inaccurately portrayed in news stories, the committee formulates questions that will be the basis for hearings to determine whether the citizen complaints are upheld or denied.
The news council, one of only two of its kind in the country, seeks to promote high standards in journalism.
A multimedia work by A. Eric Heukeshoven, lecturer in music, will be one of the featured presentations at Indiana University/Purdue University in Indianapolis on Monday, Nov. 19.
For this event, Heukeshoven synchronized computer generated images created with custom visualization software to the soundtrack of his original composition, “Alternating Currents” for soprano saxophone and synthesizer accompaniment. The recording features Dr. John Paulson on saxophone.
Heukeshoven is currently completing a Master of Science degree in Music Technology at IUPUI. The presentation at next week's graduate recital will be his second work selected for this series.
The event combines live performances with works such as Heukeshoven’s that are submitted electronically. Details about this event can be found online at www.music.iupui.edu/events.htm
A poem of Dr. Steve Schild’s, Social Science, has been named the Editor’s Choice for November by Serengeti Press, Waterton, Ontario, Canada. The poem, titled “Armistice,” can be viewed at www.serengetipress.ca.
Swing Inc., which includes Eric Heukeshoven of the Music Department, will perform 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at the Canadian Honker Restaurant in Rochester.
Swing Inc. will also perform 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Waterfront Restaurant in La Crosse.
The John Paulson trio will perform 8 to 11 p.m. today, Nov. 16, at the Waterfront in La Crosse.
The John Paulson with Miles Johnston Quartet performs 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Canadian Honker in Rochester.