For those of you that don't know, you can get a very good deal on Microsoft
office products if you are an enrolled student with an edu email. Go to this
link and check it out.

http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx

Regards, Sylvia Rogers

Two Research Community meetings have been scheduled for January, 2010:

Wednesday January 20
1130-1230
UCOM 3906
Teachers, Technology, and Learning Environments (TTLE) Group

Thursday January 21
1130-1230
UCOM 3906
Design-Based Research  (DBR) Group

The TTLE Group will discuss the paper "New Learning Environments for the 21st
Century" by John Seely Brown and talk about areas for possible cooperation in
research and scholarship related to learning environments.  A link to the paper
and other information about the group can be found online at:

http://sites.google.com/site/coeresearch/teachers-technology-and-learning-enviro\
nments

The DBR Group will discuss the papers "The Growing Utilization of Design Based
Research" by Chris Dede and "Design-Based Research: An Emerging Paradigm for
Educational Inquiry" by the Design Based Research Collective.  A link to the
papers and other information about the group can be found online at:

http://sites.google.com/site/coeresearch/dbr

We hope you will be able to join us for 1 or both of these meetings.  All COE
faculty, staff, students, and friends are invited to attend. The meetings should
be interesting and could lead to some nice types of collaboration.

If you are unable to attend, you can join the discussion forums for the groups
and participate in the discussion prior to and after the meetings.  It's a great
way to participate even if you can't attend the meetings!

If you have questions or comments about the meetings, the COE Research Community
concept, or if you need any assistance, please contact Dan Surry
(dsurry@... / dansurry@...).

Thanks!

Dan



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Dan Surry
Associate Professor
University of South Alabama
College of Education
UCOM 3700
Mobile, AL 36688
email: dsurry@...
(phone) 251-380-2861 (fax) 251-380-2713
Yahoo IM: dsurry
Skype: daniel.surry
Twitter: dsurry

Assistant/Associate Professor in Education Technology
	 University of Florida
	 College of Education
	 Gainesville, FL
	 Date Posted: Nov. 25th, 2009

	 http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=22730&o=114486&t=ED091211m

There is a really good picture of the 8 Instructional Design and Development
Ph.D graduates and their advisers available on the IDD Facebook site:

http://bit.ly/7dVHrH

We also have a nice picture of Master's Graduate Mathew Mwathi available at the
TwitPic site:

http://twitpic.com/sa53w

Congratulations to all the IDD graduates and their families.  Thanks for all
their contributions to the USA IDD program, good luck with their career plans,
we look forward to staying in touch with them and working with them in the
future.

Dan




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Dan Surry
Associate Professor
University of South Alabama
College of Education
UCOM 3700
Mobile, AL 36688
email: dsurry@...
(phone) 251-380-2861 (fax) 251-380-2713
Yahoo IM: dsurry
Skype: daniel.surry
Twitter: dsurry

This is just my opinion, but I think everyone in the field of instructional
design needs to have a portfolio.

Portfolios are valuable tools for staying organized, encouraging self
reflection, facilitating professional networking, and, of course, getting a job!

These days, most portfolios are online.  There are hundreds of online portfolios
related to instructional design, here are just a couple of examples:

http://www.markpella.com/index.html
http://www.cathy-moore.com/
http://www.ghant.com/
http://www.ryanreilly.com/

If you already have a portfolio, now is the time to update it. If you don't have
a portfolio, then you should start one today.  I recommend Google Sites
(http://sites.google.com/) for top notch free web hosting, but there are many
other free and low cost alternatives.

The best thing you can do to create or improve a portfolio is to take the best
parts of the assignments you turn in each semester and add them to your
portfolio. You don't have to (and probably should not) include every assignment
in whole, but select the best part of each assignment.  A portfolio artifact
could be as simple as a test from an online course, an evaluation rubric, or an
instructional analysis.  Fewer high quality items are better than a lot of
mediocre stuff when it comes to porfolios.

If you view assignments not as busy work or simple hoops to jump through, but as
opportunities to add to your portfolio, grow as a professional, and enhance your
job prospects, then I think you will find courses much more relevant and
interesting.

I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but in this day and age, if you do not
have a professional looking and updated online portfolio, then you really aren't
serious about being an instructional designer, trying hard enough to be a top
graduate student, or adequately preparing yourself for getting a job, finding an
internship, and advancing in this career field. Boom! Simple as that.

Also, contrary to what you may have heard, for those of you who want to go into
academe as a professor, you need a portfolio, too.  Your portfolio might look a
little different, but you have to have one.  Remember, competition for professor
jobs is, I don't know, about 100 times more intense than other ID related jobs.

So, PLEASE, if you do not have a portfolio, start one right now.  If you have
one but haven't updated it in a while, now is the time to do it.  I can't stress
enough the importance of having a portfolio but to your own professional growth
and development and to your future job prospects.

If anyone has a portfolio they would like to share with us, please send a link
to the list.

If you would like to talk about portfolios more, please contact me, your
advisor, or one of the other IDD professors. I know we would all love to talk to
you more about it.

Thanks

Dan





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Dan Surry
Associate Professor
University of South Alabama
College of Education
UCOM 3700
Mobile, AL 36688
email: dsurry@...
(phone) 251-380-2861 (fax) 251-380-2713
Yahoo IM: dsurry
Skype: daniel.surry
Twitter: dsurry

This was posted to ITFORUM this morning:

I have approximately 12 positions open in Alpharetta, GA for instructional
design and development professionals. These positions are required to be on-site
in Alpharetta, GA. All positions can be viewed in detail at www.mckesson.com in
the Careers section. Once on the Career site type in the reference number into
the keyword search to jump directly to the specific job.

All positions titled Technical Course Developer are responsible for developing
highly technical training course materials for internal and external customers
utilizing generally accepted instructional design principles.  Technical courses
and material may deal with complex situations including application development,
software build practices. Develops ILT, CBT, WBT, and blended learning projects,
including courses with complex technical material and design. Courseware may be
developed in a variety of media to support physical and virtual classroom
environments, such as synchronous and asynchronous distance learning, webinars,
and virtual student coaching. Some of the positions have specialist
responsibilities as briefly noted.

(1) Project Manager Instructional Design and Development, reference no. 37807.
Instructional design and development (ID&D) project manager is needed to lead
the development of a full spectrum of training solutions. The ID&D project
manager ensures that courses are developed to high standards on time and on
budget.

(3) Technical Course Developer, reference nos. 37808, 36318, and 36317.
Responsible for the design and development of technical curriculum for customer
base.

(3) Technical Course Developer / Certification Specialist, reference nos. 36314,
36313, and 36312. Responsible for conducting analyses and development of highly
technical certification programs, related training, and assessments.

(3) Technical Course Developer / Front End Analysis Specialist, reference nos.
36310, 36308, and 35782. Responsible for conducting front end analyses to
include job task analysis and job task inventory.

(1) Technical Editor / QA Lead, reference no. 36311. Responsible for leading the
quality assurance (QA) process for technical training products. The position
will report directly to the Director of Training Development. Position will QA
highly technical training course materials for internal and external customers
utilizing generally accepted media QA processes.

(1)Technical Course Developer / Programmer, reference no. 35371. Responsible for
developing and programming highly technical training course materials for
internal and external customers utilizing generally accepted instructional
design principles. Programming  ILT, CBT, WBT, and blended learning projects,
including courses with complex technical material and design. Courseware may be
developed in a variety of media to support physical and virtual classroom
environments, such as synchronous and asynchronous distance learning, webinars,
and virtual student coaching.


Please help me fill these positions. Thanks,


Skip Green

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This is a position working with the Coast Guard.  That's really all I
know about it

http://lsgcareers.l-3com.com/careers/list.html?req=21037&callid=2

Instructional Systems Designer
Location:  Mobile, AL  Req. No.: 9ES-017
Division:  Engineering Services
Engineering Services employs approximately 350 people and is a
department under L-3 Communications Services Group. ESD is a defense
contractor that provides a full range of communication systems support,
engineering services, information technology services, teaching and
training services, as well as intelligence support and analysis
services.

The primary duties and responsibililities of this position included,
but are not limited to:
● Conduct task analysis, training design, training development, and
support for new modules of established courses or for additional
curriculum.
● Design, develop, and support job and training aids for standalone
use and to accompany classroom instruction.
● Provide task analysis and Instructional Systems Development (ISD)
support for Coast Guard (CG) training courses, and the delivery of those
courses.
● Serve as technical advisor on all ISD issues relating to the
training development, delivery, and evaluation of assigned CG
instruction.
● Work closely with technical and instructional staff in all areas of
course development.
● Recommend appropriate instructional procedures or methods such as
individual training, group instruction, self-study, lectures,
demonstrations, simulation exercises, role-plays and new technologies.
● Develop instructional material for assigned sections of courses.
● Review and observe CG staff instructional techniques, presentation
methods, and training aids.
● Provide counsel on instructional performance, accomplishment of
learning objectives and instructional delivery methods.
● Recommend to supervisors areas for training improvement of staff
members.
● Provide technical assistance and advice to school staff on the use
of current instructional technology in the development of training aids
and delivery methodology, including knowledge on computer-based
training, desktop videoconferencing, multimedia, audio, graphics, and
distance learning technologies.
● Perform final edit on all instructional materials developed for
courses. Instructional materials include course books, simulation
exercises, lesson plans, instructor guides, tests, etc.
● Ensure learning objectives are defined and all terminal performance
objectives and enabling objectives related to job performance are
specifically met.
● Develop measurement tools to evaluate the effectiveness of training
interventions. Compiles and reviews all information. Based on the data
collected, provides recommendations to CG training facility staff for
curricula modifications or improvements.

Minimum Education Requirements:
Either a Master’s degree in Instructional Systems, Instructional
Systems Technology, Instructional and Performance Technology or
Education (with a concentration in Educational Technology) or FIVE years
work experience in a related field or an acceptable equivalent
combination of education and training

Minimum Experience Requirements:
A minimum of TWO years experience in Human Performance Technology and
TWO years experience using Dr. Joe Harless - Accomplishment Based
Curriculum Development (ABCD) curriculum development methodology and
THREE years experience using Instructional Systems Development (ISD)
process in the development of courses and training interventions.

Special Skills or Training:
Proficient in the following Microsoft applications: Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Computer Graphics programs.

Apply online at http://lsgcareers.l-3com.com/careers/list.html enter
keyword 9ES-017. L-3 is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer, M/F/H/V. L-3 complies with the Drug Free Workplace Act of
1988. Candidates selected for hire will be subject to L-3’s
pre-employment requirements which include substance abuse testing as
well as employment and education verifications.

Just a reminder, there are 4 ways to stay in contact with the University of
South Alabama's Instructional Design & Development program:

1) The IDD Home Page - http://idd.southalabama.edu/

2) The IDD Yahoo Mailing List / Archive -
http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/idd/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir\
&slk=2

3) The IDD Group on Facebook -
http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=69665445741

4) USAIDD Twitter Account - http://twitter.com/USAIDD

Whether you are a current student, a graduate, or just interested in finding out
more, you can use these resources to keep in touch with the program and stay up
with the latest happenings.

Also, if you are interested, I will be Tweeting updates and sending pictures of
IDD graduates during the USA Graduation Ceremony this Saturday (Dec. 5) from
about 1:30 until about 3:30. You can follow the Tweets from the IDD Home Page or
by following USAIDD on Twitter.

Thanks

Dan




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Dan Surry
Associate Professor
University of South Alabama
College of Education
UCOM 3700
Mobile, AL 36688
email: dsurry@...
(phone) 251-380-2861 (fax) 251-380-2713
Yahoo IM: dsurry
Skype: daniel.surry
Twitter: dsurry

Hi Everyone!

The IDDGA will be sponsoring a Vita Workshop, Thursday, November 19th, in COE,
Room 3214, at 4:30 p.m.  We would like to invite all interested individuals to
join us!  Our guest speaker is Ms. Nicole Schultz, with USA's Career Services
Department.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks!
Maggi Fields
IDDGA President

Congratulations to Dr. Joe'l Lewis.  Mobile Bay Magazine has named her one of
Mobile Bay's "40 Under 40" - "the top individuals younger than age 40 who
demonstrate leadership, professional excellence and a commitment to the Bay area
community."

Dr. Lewis is a great asset to the IDD Program, the College of Education, and the
entire University of South Alabama and we are all very lucky to have benefit of
her talents in all of her roles as colleague, collaborator, teacher, and mentor.

Great job Dr. Lewis!  Keep up the good work!

Dan



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Dan Surry
Associate Professor
University of South Alabama
College of Education
UCOM 3700
Mobile, AL 36688
email: dsurry@...
(phone) 251-380-2861 (fax) 251-380-2713
Yahoo IM: dsurry
Skype: daniel.surry
Twitter: dsurry

New job posting for an assistant professor. See forwarded message. Thanks, gvds

Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers, Ph.D.
Professor
Instructional Design and Development Program
Program Coordinator for EDF, EPY, & IDE Areas
Dept. of Professional Studies
UCOM 3800
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
gvds@...
phone 251-3802861
fax 251-3802713

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Elizabethtown College
Department of Communications


Assistant Professor of Communications



Corporate Communications. Elizabethtown College is seeking an Assistant
Professor of Communications. Tenure track, nine-month position beginning in
August 2010. Doctorate in Communications or related area expected, but ABDs
will be considered. The successful candidate should have college teaching
and professional experience as well as a research agenda.

Primary teaching responsibilities will be in the area of marketing
communications and public relations.  Candidates should also be able to
teach in a second area in the curriculum, preferably international
communication, reporting & news writing, video applications, or audio
applications. Faculty members are also expected to advise students and
provide service to the college.

Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College offers its 1,900
students more than 47 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and
professional studies. Driven by its motto to �Educate for Service,�
Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom
instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and
cross-cultural perspectives and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose
and leadership as global citizens.  For more information, consult
www.etown.edu <http://www.etown.edu/> .

To apply, candidates should send a letter of interest, the College�s faculty
information form (found at www.etown.edu/humanresources)
<http://www.etown.edu/humanresources>  - Job Opportunities), curriculum
vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests, and three
letters of recommendation to: hr@... (preferred)

Elizabethtown College

Attn: Human Resources

One Alpha Drive

Elizabethtown, PA 17022



Applications will be reviewed as received until the position is filled.


AA/EOE


--
Hans-Erik Wennberg, Ph.D.
Department of Communications
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022-2298
717-361-1259
717-361-1180 (fax)

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In case you didn't receive this. Here is information on a Pet Food Drive
starting Monday, Nov. 16.
Thanks,
gvds

Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers, Ph.D.
Professor
Instructional Design and Development Program
Program Coordinator for EDF, EPY, & IDE Areas
Dept. of Professional Studies
UCOM 3800
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
gvds@...
phone 251-3802861
fax 251-3802713

Dear USA teachers and staff!!!=20

If you are interested in getting your students involved in something bigger and
better than whats going on in the classroom, please read this!!

The Gerontology club has teamed up with Via! Health Fitness & Enrichment Senior
center (Dauphin St) for a PET FOOD DRIVE helping local senior citizens feed
their most lovable companions this holiday season. We will be collecting the pet
food the whole month of November and will distribute the pet food at the end of
the month to the low and/or fixed income seniors that have been approved by the
city of Mobile to receive assistance.

Starting this Monday Nov 16th, Our drop boxes will be located in the main lobby
of both the - HUMB building (Sociology/Anthropology/Social work dept)& the
College of Medicine. The other two drop boxes are located in the Student Center
under the Gerontology board (right below the double stairwell).

This is a great oppurtunity for extra credit... and mainly something we can do
for our furry friends in need!! If you know of anyone who wants to join in this,
please refer them to the below address/phone number!

Thanks for your consideration and any questions concerning this event please
respond to grn@... or by calling 461-1623.

Sincerely,
USA Programs in Gerontology
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