When: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Where: Computer & Space Science : 4400
Event Type(s): Forum,Meeting,Special Event

Conducting a Successful Online Session Using Wimba Classroom

Do you want to hold engaging online classes and add real-time interaction to your ELMS course? Do you want to see how other faculty members use Wimba Classroom to achieve instructional goals?

Come join our discussion on how Wimba Classroom, a live, virtual classroom environment with robust features that include audio, video, application sharing and content display, enables Dr. Patricia Richardson (faculty, College of Education) to engage and interact with both her students in Germany and on-campus. She will share her experiences, tips, tricks, successes, and challenges with teaching using Wimba Classroom.

This event is open for all faculty and staff who enjoy participating in a lively discussion.

No registration is required.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Website: otal.umd.edu/lt-brown-bags

When: Monday, February 15, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: 1102 South Campus Commons, Building 1
Event Type(s): Seminar

What motivates people to take collective action to improve their food security? This seminar will examine the work of a Buddhist agrarian social movement that mobilized citizens to ensure the right to food for all in Sri Lanka from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Seeking to integrate and to act on Buddhist and Gandhian principles, the National Heritage Movement supported a rural revival of hundreds of villages by engaging Buddhist monks and the people to recognize publically the right to food, to improve the availability of food, and to ensure access for all people. What are the lessons for ensuring the right to food and for promoting sustainable agriculture in Sri Lanka and other developing countries today? Come hear Dr. James V. Riker, Director of Beyond the Classroom, share his perspective on this important example of "people power."

Beyond the Classroom Series on "People Power: Activism for Social Change"

Website: www.BeyondTheClassroom.umd.edu

For more information, contact:
Dr. James V. Riker
Beyond the Classroom Living and Learning Program
+1 301 314 6622
jriker@umd.edu
www.BeyondTheClassroom.umd.edu

When: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: 1103 BioScience Research Building
Event Type(s): Seminar

How do we understand the possibilities for promoting change in Burma today? Burma is ruled by a military-led government that refused to recognize the landslide electoral victory of the National League for Democracy in 1990. Aung San Suu Kyi, who led Burma's pro-democracy movement and received the Noble Peace Prize for her efforts, has been detained by the government for 14 of the last 20 years. In 2007, Buddhist monks led nonviolent demonstrations, known as the "Saffron Revolution," to protest the government's policies that led to a military crackdown. What are key insiders trying to do to promote political reform in Burma? What is the international community doing to support human rights and change in Burma? With new parliamentary elections expected to be held later this year, what steps are necessary to ensure that meaningful political change occurs in Burma? Ian Holliday is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at The University of Hong Kong.

Website: www.BeyondtheClassroom.umd.edu

For more information, contact:
Dr. James V. Riker
Beyond the Classroom Living & Learning Program
+1 301 314 6622
jriker@umd.edu
www.BeyondTheClassroom.umd.edu

Where: Clarice Smith PAC : Kogod Theatre
Event Type(s): Special Event

Artist Joseph Cornell lived a magical life of the mind in his mother's basement in Queens, caring for his invalid brother and collecting castaway items he used to create his assemblage boxes. Cornell's correspondence and journals  filled with observations and obsessions  reveal his desire to capture through his work the intense feelings of a hidden moment. Playwright Charles Mee, discussing his play, wonders how it would be if Cornell's boxes could speak: "About art, about America, about compassion and longing and loneliness and heartbreak."
February 12 . 8Pm
February 13 . 8Pm
February 14 . 2Pm
February 17 . 7:30Pm
February 18 . 7:30Pm
February 19 . 8Pm
February 20 . 2Pm and 8Pm

Website: claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2009/c/performances/performance?rowid=9177

Ticket Information:
Charges: Student $9; Public $26;
Available at: Clarice Smith Box Office
Phone: 301405ARTS
Website: http://www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu

When: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: Comcast Center
Event Type(s): Athletics

After a decisive victory against perennial power North Carolina Sunday, the Terps now sit in second place in the ACC conference. Next up, Maryland hosts border-rival Virginia tonight, Wednesday, February 10 at 7:00pm.

Only a limited number of tickets remain available for this much-anticipated match-up. Guarantee your seat today by ordering your tickets at umterps.com or by calling 1-800-IM-A-TERP.

Website: umterps.com

Ticket Information:
Charges: ALL $45; ;
Available at: Terrapin Ticket Office at Comcast Center
Phone: 1-800-IM-A-TERP
Website: http://umterps.com

When: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Where: Hornbake : H
Event Type(s): Lecture

Presentation and Screening of Videos "Sembrando Futuro" and "Historias Verdaderas".
Roberto Olivares graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico in Social Communication and has dedicated ten years to television and video production, especially in indigenous communities in the state of Oaxaca. Olivares is founding member of the organization "Ojo de Agua Comunicación," which is dedicated to helping strengthen communication processes in indigenous communities. He is also a member of "Mal de Ojo TV," a group of independent non-profit producers whose fundamental objective is to create materials that can be an alternative to information on Oaxaca produced by the mass media.

Website: www.lasc.umd.edu/Events/currentevents.html

For more information, contact:
Leticia Goulias
Latin American Studies Center
+1 301 405 8961
lgoulias@umd.edu
www.lasc.umd.edu

Event Type(s): Other

* Spring 2010 Event Grants Competition deadline POSTPONED to February 22*
The Latin American Studies Center is pleased to announce its Spring 2010 Event Grants Competition for individual undergraduate students and student organizations. This grant competition will support events that promote knowledge of Latin America and Latin American peoples, broadly conceived. Please, help us spread the word by sharing this information to fellow colleagues, students and classmates on campus.

For more information contact Dr. Ivette Rodríguez Santana at rivette@umd.edu, telephone (301)405-9626 or visit our website:
http://www.lasc.umd.edu/funding/undergraduategrants.html

Website: www.lasc.umd.edu/funding/undergraduategrants.html

For more information, contact:
Ivette Rodriguez-Santana
Latin American Studies Center
+1 301 405 9626
rivette@umd.edu
www.lasc.umd.edu