Bruce Harris, Instructional Design and Technology, and Reinhard Lindner, EIS, had the book chapter,Promoting Self-Regulated Learning Strategies in Online Learning Environments, accepted for publication in the book, Fostering Self-Regulated Learning Through ICTs.

Johanna Rosson, RPTA student, was featured on the cover of Country Woman, December/January issue. Rosson is completing her internship with the DFMWR at Ft. Hood, TX. To read the article visit countrywomanmagazine.com

A number of Curriculum and Instruction faculty presented at the 2009 Illinois Science Teachers Association (ISTA) Conference in Peoria on November 13. Abha Singh presented, Movement to Engage Learners for Science; Barbara Sandall presented, That’s Pretty Slick and One Well; LaVerne Logan presented,Color Wheels, Color Investigations for Early Childhood; and Don Powers and Megan Yocum, Curriculum and Instruction student, presented, Science Inquiry Activities. During the conference, ISTA honored the association’s past presidents, three of which were from WIU: Maurice Kellogg, Don Hamilton, and Don Nelson.

Debra Allwardt, Social Work, attended a one-day training workshop for primary investigators of Curriculum Development Grants awarded by the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Gero-Ed Center and the Hartford Foundation. The workshop was part of the CSWE’s Annual Program Meeting in San Antonio, TX.

Three EIS faculty members recently presented at the American Educational Studies Association conference in Pittsburgh. Andrea Hyde, presented Academia and Constraints on Intimate Relationships: Framing the Issues; Deb Miretzky presented, She Has Her Opinion and She Sticks With It!: Social Foundations and Undergraduates; and James Cohen presented Raising a Toddler Bilingually in a Monolingual Society with Both Parents in Academia: Cake Walk it is Not. Hyde also chaired several sessions at the conference.

Pamela Godt, Curriculum & Instruction, was presented with the O.L. Davis, Jr. “Counselor of Distinction” Award at the Biennial Convocation of Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, held in Orlando, Florida. This award is the highest honor that Kappa Delta Pi presents to its Counselors. To earn this distinction, one had to meet stringent criteria for excellence in Chapter Leadership, Scholarship, Service, and Professional Development over the past five years. At the same conference, she was also honored for fifteen years of service to Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education as a Chapter Counselor.

Melissa Stinnett and Pamela Godt, Curriculum and Instruction, presented the workshop, Coping with Stress, Burnout, and Anxieties in the Classroom at the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education’s 47th Biennial Convocation in Orlando.

Don Healy, Special Education, will publish Rediscovering the Mysteria: Sacramental Stories from Persons with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Faith Communities in the Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health, July-December 2009.

Congratulations to Horn Field Campus’ H.E.L.P. The organization was named the Inter-Hall Council’s Community Group of the Week!

Darlos Mummert, Special Education, was asked to serve on the Human Rights Advisory Committee for Mosaic of Macomb.