Lunch & Learn: Tuesday, April 29 11:30am

Lunching! Learning! Laughing?

For tomorrow's Lunch & Learn, we're going to watch the 1995 medical disaster film "Outbreak" which stars a white-headed capuchin monkey who learns to play the 1976 Atari game "Breakout," built by Steves Wozniak and Jobs. The film will be followed by a discussion of other possible combinations of the words "out" and "break." It will be a short discussion.

Just kidding! Dr. Matt Freeman, the esteemed Director of the PLU Health Center is going to be speaking. The topic is outbreaks, not the film Outbreak or the game Breakout. Here's how Matt describes his presentation:

"From the CDC core curriculum in epidemiology. Two cases of microbial disease outbreaks. What are the questions that epidemiologists need to ask in the event of a microbial disease epidemic? What lessons can be learned? How do individual providers contribute (or undermine) efforts to study diseases. The two famous cases are a Salmonella outbreak in Florida and a Legionella outbreak in Philadelphia."

So please join your colleagues and special guest Matt Freeman in LIC-B on Tuesday, April 29, at 11:30am for pizza and disease.

Lunch & Learn recap | Upcoming lecture

Thanks to Gail and Pam for presenting at last week's Halloween Lunch & Learn, to everyone who dressed up, and to everyone for attending. If you have an idea for a Lunch & Learn topic, an opinion on the event, or any other feedback please use this form: L&L Feedback

Please enjoy these photos of the event, and be sure to attend the next one:

Gail talked about the Green Dot campaign

Pam told us all about True Norwegian Black metal

Patrick moonlights as a funky robot. A funky robot that loves pizza.

Sue as Susie, Diane as a baseball player, and Frank as Associate Provost

Everyday Steve treats student workers well, but ninja Steve...

More photos available here: Halloween album

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Upcoming lecture: Dr. Heidi Beebe - "Health related knowledge in a rural Maasai village:  What is learned, who is sharing it?" 

Special Lecture - Department of Psychology Colloquium Series

Dr. Heidi Beebe

"Health related knowledge in a rural Maasai village:  What is learned, who is sharing it?"

November 8, 2013

2:00 p.m. - Xavier Hall, Room 201

Increased availability of formal education in rural developing communities creates differential health knowledge, which may introduce knowledge disparities between younger and older community members.  Dr. Beebe will discuss how a new secondary school in a rural Maasai community in East Africa may impact health knowledge of adolescents.  In turn, these adolescents are sharing their knowledge with other children in their homes and communities.

We Lunched and Learned

Thank you everyone for attending yesterday's Lunch and Learn. And a special thank you to our presenters, Diane Harris, Chris Ferguson, Jason Gauthier, and Nicole Jordan.

Please take a moment to provide some feedback for this event and help us plan for the next one: http://goo.gl/s9odvz

Without further ado, here are some photos of our presenters receiving their gift cards to 208 Garfield! (and Greg and Josh)

Diane Harris made sure we all know our emergency procedures.

Jason Gauthier, Chris Ferguson and Nicole Jordan (not pictured) told us about Habitat for Humanity.

Thanks to everyone who's presented so far. Here they are, except for JP Avila, who told us about the reDesign House.

Chrissy Cooley talked about sustainability and answered questions about garbage.

Gail Egbers spoke us about her experience in China.

 

Randy Ainsworth gave some photography tips and doesn't like it when you mess with his gift cards.

Lunch & Learn tomorrow!

Don't forget to come to LIC-B at 11:30AM tomorrow for September's Lunch & Learn! There will be plenty of pizza and presentations to go around so come one, come all! And don't forget to invite your student workers as well.

Featured this week:




Diane Harris - Emergency Procedures 

Diane, Director of Circulation and Building Services, will talk about PLU’s Emergency Procedures and how having a plan of action is important when responding to an actual emergency or disaster. She will also touch on “things you should know” about the building we work in and the I&TS folks that are trained to respond in a crisis.



Chris Ferguson - Habitat for Humanity 

Chris, our recently retired Associate Provost, will be speaking about Habitat for Humanity. He will cover his own experience with Habitat, as well as bringing a guest or two who will talk about PLU involvement and provide general information about the program.

The Importance of Communication

J-Term/Spring Technology Workshops

The Lunch & Learn was born out of an effort to increase internal communication among the diverse groups which make up the I&TS organization. The idea was that through the sharing of food and ideas we could create an environment to foster conversation. You can help us expand the conversation through sharing your ideas through presentations and digital stories. I will highlight some alternative presentation formats and provide links to User Services learning opportunities. Workshops on digital storytelling, presentation software and audience response systems will help you create effective and engaging presentations.

Why should you present? Well it’s simple; communication. We want to share the Why, What and How of what we do. The best way to share these ideas is through story. These stories can be about anything that relates to what you do that you think people will find informative. The more you communicate the more others can understand what you do which allows everyone to see how our groups and services align to better serve our customers.

The slide presentation is most common, but you are not required to stand up infront of an audience. There are lots of ways to share and here are just a few:

• Digital Storytelling
• This is the use of computer based tools to tell stories that include multimedia content.
• Panel Discussing
• A discussion of a subject of public interest by a group of persons forming a panel, often before an audience.
• Video Presentation
• Producing a video that is shown via web or in front of a live audience

If you are interested in presenting we have workshops to help. You can register for these workshop at our I&TS Instruction Website.

Creating Dynamic Presentations with Powerpoint
Adding Media to Powerpoint
Image Editing with Photoshop
Digital Storytelling which incorporates

• Recording Audio with ProTools
• Movie Making with Premiere 

Website: http://community.plu.edu/its-instruction

We look forward to hearing your suggestions for topics. If you would like to present contact
connections-group@plu.edu, and we will work with you to schedule your presentation.

Thank you,
I&TS Connections