The Daily Bulletin will take a holiday break from December 25, 2017, to January 1, 2018. The deadline for submissions for the January 2 issue is 3:00 p.m. Friday, December 22. During the break, users may submit items for Wednesday, January 3, and beyond. Happy holidays from College Relations.

The Daily Bulletin will take a holiday break from December 25, 2017, to January 1, 2018. The deadline for submissions for the January 2 issue is 3:00 p.m. Friday, December 22. During the break, users may submit items for Wednesday, January 3, and beyond. Happy holidays from College Relations.

Learn how to strengthen your online and hybrid skills to enhance your course design and increase student engagement with the Online Course Development Certificate Series. This series prepares instructors to design, teach, and enhance online or hybrid courses?using?best practices?of online teaching and learning.

Workshop Information
Both the basic and advanced Online Course Development Series will be offered during J-Term in an online asynchronous format. All learning and instructional activities will occur in Blackboard for the duration of the series.

The basic Online Course Development Series is composed of the following six modules: 

1. Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning 
2. Backward Design Step 1: Developing Course Objectives and Priorities 
3. Backward Design Step 2: Developing Course Assessments 
4. Backward Design Step 3: Developing the Learning Plan 
5. Designing and Organizing Your Online Course 
6. Interaction: Communication and Collaboration 

The Advanced Online Course Development Series is composed of the following four modules:

1. Creating Interactive Content for Your Course
2. Authentic Assessment
3. Universal Design for Learning
4. Open SUNY COTE Quality Review (OSCQR) Rubric

Both of these asynchronous courses will begin Wednesday, January 3, and will end Tuesday, January 23. Participants may enroll in one or both series.

For more information about the Online Course Development certificates, please visit the?Instructional Design and Training website. If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Brooke Winckelmann, instructional designer.

Register for the Online Course Development Certificate Series.

Since fall 2016, all reports to the College Senate have been posted on the College Senate website. The most recent reports are from the November 10, 2017, Senate meeting.

Podcasts are now the official audio record of each College Senate meeting. If you missed a Senate meeting and want to catch up, podcasts are posted to the Senate's podcast web page. Senate meeting summaries are also posted to the website after they are presented to the Senate.

The Buffalo State Fitness Center will host a one-day sale for all new members today during the NYS Employee Health Benefits Fair between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Butler Library 210. We will have our new online membership application available for your convenience. Just $120 for the year! What a great gift idea for someone special, like yourself. We hope you will join us and start the new year off with a healthy habit—exercise!

Thanks and again, happy holidays!

The National Institute of Standards and Technology published six steps for staying safe. You can take these steps immediately: (1) Close old accounts. (2) Secure your active accounts. (3) Protect your information. (4) If it looks fishy, it's probably "phishy." (5) Secure your mobile device. (6) Update. Update.

Read the full article here and protect yourself at all times.

Join Lorena Mathien, assistant professor of business, for a showcase webinar on how she shaped existing open educational resources to fit upper-level business courses and the impact they have had on student learning on Wednesday, December 13, from noon to 1:00 p.m. The webinar is hosted by SUNY OER Services.

Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use. These can include textbooks, readings, syllabi, multimedia, and assessments. 

Register for this free webinar.

Flags will be flown at half-staff on Thursday, December 7, for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, during World War II. Many American servicemen and women lost their lives or were injured on December 7, 1941.

We have received notification from SUNY of an increase in phishing e-mail sent to individuals at educational institutions for the purpose of altering direct deposit accounts. Please do not give private information via e-mail, no matter who is asking. Never enter private information on a form from an e-mail link, no matter who is asking. This includes social security numbers and bank account numbers. Instead, phone the office that you believe sent the e-mail and ask if it’s legitimate. If you don’t recognize it, delete it.

Each year, faculty and staff in higher ed are successfully phished for private, payroll-related, personal information. It happens year-round but spikes at holidays and during income tax season. Protect yourself at all times.

Thank you to those who contact the RITE Support Desk about suspicious e-mail or forward suspicious e-mail to phishreports@buffalostate.edu.

Winterim, the period between fall and spring semesters when a variety of activities are held on campus to support the intellectual, personal, and professional growth of faculty and staff, will be held January 16-19, 2018. Winterim is a great opportunity to connect with colleagues and learn from one another. If you have a skill or talent you would like to share with the campus community, please complete and submit the Winterim Session Submission form by Friday, December 8. Please contact the Professional Development Center, 878-5364, with questions.