On Wednesday December 14th, Come stop by OCSS to fuel your brain and feed your soul! Snack will be out all day or while supplies last.
Please only take two items and be mindful of others.
Wednesday 12/14 8am - 8pm
Thursday 12/15 8am - 8pm
Friday 12/16 - 8am - 8pm
Saturday 12/17 - 12 noon - 6pm
Sunday 12/18 - 12 noon - 6pm
Monday 12/19 - 8am -8pm
Tuesday 12/20 - 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 12/21 - 8am - 8pm
THE RAC WILL BE CLOSED Thursday, December 22, 2022 - Tuesday, January 2, 2023.
The RAC will reopen on Tuesday January 3 @ 8am
The Winter Session hours will be as followed:
January 3rd - 29th
Monday - 8am -8pm
Tuesday - 8am - 8pm
Wednesday - 8am - 8pm
Thursday - 8am - 8pm
Friday - 8am - 8pm
Saturday - 12 noon - 6pm
Sunday - 12 noon - 6pm
THE RAC WILL BE CLOSED Monday January 16th in observance of MLK Day.
For additional information please check the UMBC Recreation website recreation.umbc.edu
]]>DIRECTOR, AFTER SCHOOL ARTS FOR LEARNING ACADEMIES
About Us
Arts for Learning Maryland (formerly Young Audiences of Maryland) is devoted to enriching the lives and education of Maryland’s youth through educational and culturally diverse arts programs. Through Arts for Learning, professional teaching artists from all disciplines partner with educators, schools, and school districts to provide—on average—over 300,000 hours of learning in, through, and about the arts to more than 185,000 Maryland students annually.
]]>DoIT is pleased to announce the availability of Poll Everywhere, which now includes the ability of students, faculty and staff to login with their UMBC credentials. Many UMBC faculty are already leveraging Poll everywhere in their teaching. Through the Fall 2022 term, nearly 2,000 students have participated in at least one Poll Everywhere activity.
Poll Everywhere is an audience response system that presenters can utilize in both face-to-face and online courses instead of traditional, physical clickers. There will be no cost to members of the UMBC community to use this platform.
Poll Everywhere is web-based and can be managed both through a web browser or through the Poll Everywhere application. Poll Everywhere allows you to ask questions of your students, collect their responses by inviting them to respond through a website or phone text link, and share their collective responses in a variety of formats that update in real-time for everyone to see. It encourages all students to engage with learning content in an interactive way, using a tablet, laptop or mobile phone. Poll Everywhere questions can be launched from a browser or integrated in slide presentations such as Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. Questions and results can be shared with other colleagues as well. Additionally, Poll Everywhere can be used during synchronous, online class meetings since no other hardware is needed, and the response system integrates with Blackboard allowing instructors to assign points and grade responses.
Please note that on Jan. 15, 2023 all existing Poll Everywhere accounts with a UMBC email account will be updated to require UMBC SSO access and that instructors and students will need to access Poll Everywhere via UMBC Single Sign On (SSO). Instructors will need to submit an RT ticket to request UMBC presenter access.
DoIT will host a 1-hour Clicker Faculty Coffee Break and Town Hall on Wed. Dec. 14th from 10-11 to discuss:
the PollEverywhere Pilot including myUMBC login & converting free accounts.
Turning Point (now Point Solutions) pricing & proposal
Next steps
Please also join a 1-hour Poll Everywhere training and demonstration on Thursday Jan. 12th from 12-1 for an introductory training session to learn how to:
Navigate the presenter dashboard
Create and present activities
Collaborate with teams
Generate reports
Integrate Poll Everywhere in slide presentations
DoIT has prepared a FAQ collection on Poll Everywhere including a getting started checklist for instructors. In addition, please follow our myUMBC group for upcoming training on Poll Everywhere.
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
]]>This is an excerpt from UMBC Magazine, December 1st 2022
Double-majoring in dance and math, Fuller is a Linehan Artist Scholar - part of a selective program endowed by Earl and Darielle Linehan that has launched the careers of more than 300 Linehan Artist Scholar alumni in dance, music, theatre, and other creative disciplines.
Fuller is focused on commercial dance - a highly competitive field that's principally centered in New York and Los Angeles - which would put a career in his chosen field effectively out of reach were it not for the Linehans.
Thanks to the scholarship, Fuller said, he was able to join a New York-based dance training company in his sophomore year, take classes at local studios with accomplished touring commercial dancers, and enjoy other unique opportunities. The fact that the Linehans are "recognizing dance as a serious career...is just such an amazing thing," Fuller said.
Most recently, with a Linehan Summer Research Award, "I was able to travel and do a certificate program at one of the most prestigious studios in the world for commercial dance. ...I was very lucky to have the grant to be able to branch out in that direction."
Read the complete article here. Scroll to "Transforming Lives"
]]>"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha
You are a miracle. When is the last time someone told you that? I mean before today, obviously. Well, you are. And before you stop reading for fear that I am about to spend 1,000 or so words proselytizing, I am not. I'm not trying to lure you into a religion or tap into your spirituality or open your third eye. The basis for this is factual. It's science. Of the millions of possible chromosome pairings (8,324,608 to be exact) and over 67 trillion possible genetic combinations from just one couple (shoutout to the google for the stats), the fact that everything came together just right, at just the right time to make you, well, you, is nothing short of miraculous. Whether you are religious or spiritual, agnostic or atheist, it is hard to deny the scientific uniqueness that is your genetic makeup. Take a moment to bask in that. Celebrate it.
"Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you." - Deborah Brodie
"Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you don't know your true value, you see the world through the lens of how you don't measure up." - Cicely Tyson
Some of you have been told that you hit the genetic lottery. While others may not be happy with your genes. You may even have some beef with your chromosomes. It may be that your particular genetic code has made your life more problematic than it could have been. Or you may be convincing yourself that you aren't living up to the genetic legacy of your ancestors. Either way, I feel you. As challenging as it has been, you are still here. Not only that, you are doing you, whatever that looks like. As long as you are not doing yourself harm, keep doing it. Challenge prompts change. That reads trite and maybe I am oversimplifying it, I recognize that. But am I though...? We want you to get to your greatness, wherever that is, whatever that looks like; the best you that you can be until you can be an even better you. The process of improving doesn't stop even amid uncertainty about the destination, you can keep going, one choice at a time, one act at a time, one step at a time along the path of your uniquely miraculous journey.
"It's okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world." - Janet Mock
"Don't sell yourself short. You will meet people along the way who will be lining up to place limits on you. You don't need to beat them to the punch." - Leslie Odom Jr.
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller
What you may not see is that each and every one of you are setting a precedent. Whether you are the first generation to do what you're doing or the fifth, there is power in that precedent, for you and for others.
Precedentshows possibility.
Possibilityunlocks potential.
Potentialfuels performance.
Performancesets precedent.
Embrace being the precedent for those you know, and for those you may never even meet. We can't wait to see you walking in your purpose and shining a light for others to follow. Believe that you have everything you need within you to get there because you do.
"Never let anyone - any person or any force - dampen, dim or diminish your light." - John Lewis
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali
What are we asking you to do?
1. Finish STRONG! The semester is almost over, but it isn't over yet. Play through the whistle, run through the tape (or insert your own metaphor here) to set yourself up to start strong in the spring.
2. Be extraordinary. Even if it is in one tiny facet of one particular context, do it. Once you know you can be extraordinary at something, you can be extraordinary at anything.
3. Stop and smell the proverbial roses. No matter what is happening, it is not too much. You can get through it. When the anxiety mounts and the fear creeps in, start with the thing so simple that your body does it all on its own, take a long deep breath. And then find something that brings you joy and appreciate it.
4. Take care of YOU. The world has reopened, but that doesn't mean it feels or is safe. As you move, take care of your whole self in real and tangible ways. If you need help, get help. If you need help finding help, just say something, we are here for you.
5. Take care of your business. You are here to get your degree. Life requires balance for sure but keep the main thing the main thing. You have persevered through the pandemic, campus closure, zoom, all of it. Keep that same energy and get this done. The world needs to see the brilliance you have to offer.
Now go be great!
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