Tech Times

Category: General

  • Implementing Critical Thinking in Your Course

    Join the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) as we discuss the importance of critical thinking within your course. We will discuss what questions to ask and assignments to implement to promote critical thinking and how to teach critical thinking skills such as discussing various points of view, asking questions, decision making, creativity, and connecting ideas. Join us Tuesday, February 22nd at 11 am. For more information, you can visit the CITL website or email us at CITL@tntech.edu.

    Register!

  • CSB Black History Month Trivia Questions for Feb. 21 & 22

    See below for Monday and Tuesday’s questions. Thanks again to last week’s sponsors, Lamp and Lighthouse and Cumberland Outdoor Mountain Sports, and to our last round of sponsors: Zag Swag, the College of Education, and Chik-Fil-A. Don’t forget, next Monday (the 28th) there will be not only a daily winner but a Grand Prize Winner.

    Thanks to everyone who has been playing!

    Feb, 21- https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-Mr-ZsA9LE24uO_w3epG8B0dSLU73xxJmikEYDeMYmNUMlE5UEMwMkFJNUJGSzRJNTc3VU1PQUMxWS4u

    Feb. 22- https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-Mr-ZsA9LE24uO_w3epG8B0dSLU73xxJmikEYDeMYmNUQ1NIV1BUSjhQNUY3OTk3NFI0UE5ZQTlHQy4u

     

     

  • Center Stage presents Lily Hoang

    Center Stage presents Lily Hoang

    Center Stage visiting novelist Lily Hoang will be conducting a generative writing workshop, “Mirror, Mirror, Science and Magic,” for campus writers from across campus, Thursday, Feb.24, from 3-4pm, in Henderson 305. No experience is necessary. Sponsored by the Creative Writing program of the English department.

    Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (finalist for a PEN USA Nonfiction Book Award) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She has been a Mellon Fellow at Rhodes University in South Africa, a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell College, and a Cultural Exchange Faculty Fellow at Wuhan University in China. To date, she has taught creative writing on five continents. She currently teaches in the MFA Program at UC San Diego.

  • CITL Faculty Excellence Awards

    CITL Faculty Excellence Awards

    Nominations are now open for the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Faculty Excellence Awards. These two awards, Faculty Excellence in Course Design and Faculty Excellence in Online Teaching, are designed to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated exemplary course design in any modality or specifically created innovative online learning environments. Nominations for both awards close on Friday, March 11th. You can nominate using the form below. Please note, you will only be able to complete one nomination per form. For more information, contact the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at citl@tntech.edu or 931-372-3675.

    Nominate today!

  • Reserved Parking Permit Update/Correction

    Reserved Parking Permit Update/Correction

    We apologize that our pricing table for the available reserved parking permits did not format correctly yesterday in Tech Times.  To see more information about these permits, including the pricing information, please visit our website:  https://www.tntech.edu/parking/reservedparking.php

  • CSB Black History Month Trivia Questions for Feb. 17 & 18

    Thanks to this week’s trivia sponsors, Lamp and Lighthouse and Cumberland Outdoor Mountain Sports Stores!

    Question for Thursday, Feb. 17: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-Mr-ZsA9LE24uO_w3epG8B0dSLU73xxJmikEYDeMYmNUMTdIREI1OUs4UjVOTE5ZUVRFUUVWM0lLMy4u

    Question for Friday, Feb. 18:  https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-Mr-ZsA9LE24uO_w3epG8B0dSLU73xxJmikEYDeMYmNUOTZES1dOVzE0MlQ1T080U09OUUlBOFc3My4u

     

  • Daily CSB Black History Month Trivia- Feb. 16 question and more

    Thanks to this week’s trivia sponsors, Lamp and Lighthouse and Cumberland Outdoor Mountain Sports Stores!

    Today we have the link to today’s trivia question, plus two from last week that -due to a glitch -received no answers. Try them all!

    Feb. 16 question: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-Mr-ZsA9LE24uO_w3epG8B0dSLU73xxJmikEYDeMYmNUNVc2UkJUT0NFRkozRUZVWTBINVg2OUhZUy4u

    Feb. 7 question: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-Mr-ZsA9LE24uO_w3epG8B0dSLU73xxJmikEYDeMYmNURUdUTVpESTFQTFBSWklMRU5CUVVIRE1OQS4u

    Feb. 8 question: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-Mr-ZsA9LE24uO_w3epG8B0dSLU73xxJmikEYDeMYmNUOTdXRUZMTjZRNTNHVUlKRlVaTVBDNFFKUC4u

     

  • Tornado Drill Scheduled Feb. 21, 2021

    Tennessee Tech University will conduct a tornado drill Monday February 21, 2022 at 3 p.m. barring inclement weather. The drill is an important exercise that allows the TN Tech community to test its readiness in the case of emergency conditions.

    Once the tornado “warning” message is received, ALL members of the campus community should quickly and safely evacuate to the designated areas within each respective building and wait for the “All Clear” to be issued. Once the all clear has been declared you may resume normal operations.

    Although this is a drill, participation is a must! Building Coordinators will be evaluating and reporting student, faculty and staff response.

    To register for the university’s emergency alerts, visit Environmental Health & Safety – Mobile Phone Text Messaging System.

    If you have any questions or concerns please contact your building coordinator, Environmental Health and Safety at (931) 372-3587 or University Police at (931) 372-3234.

  • Interview Sessions with the AVP of ITS Candidates

    You are invited to participate in a question and answer session with the candidates interviewing to be our next AVP of ITS.

    For faculty, staff and students the sessions are scheduled for the following dates in Derryberry Auditorium:

      • Wednesday February 23rd 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.- Christian Presley
      • Friday February 25th 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.- Ron Horn

    Tuesday March 1st 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.- Troy Adair

    Candidate information is provided at https://www.tntech.edu/private/hr/avp-candidates.php . A survey will also be posted to this page for you to use to evaluate the candidates.

    We appreciate your attendance and look forward to hearing your feedback on each of the candidates.

  • TN Tech Counseling Center: Questions Persuade Refer

    TN Tech Counseling Center: Questions Persuade Refer

    Aiming to provide effective skills to educate students/ faculty on suicide prevention, the Counseling Center will be hosting the Question, Persuade, & Refer event! The training will take place on February 17th and March 24th in the Tech pride room, as well as on April 14th in the Multi-purpose room (located in the Roaden University Center). The event will begin at 11:00 am in February and March, and 3:00 pm for the April training. If you have any questions, contact the counseling center at 931-372-3331 or counsel@tntech.edu.