As the warm weather of summer fades to the cool breezes of autumn, it's time to start focusing on our studies once again, with the fall 2007 semester at the University of St. Francis.
If you should find you need any assistance this semester, please don't hesitate to contact us at 815-740-5080 or toll free 1-866-337-1497.
Good-bye &
Good Luck
Brandy!
The Center for Instructional Delivery would like to bid a fond farewell to its Instructional Support Specialist, Brandy Perona-Bollino.
Brandy has been with the Center for Instructional Delivery since July 2004 and has worked closely with both faculty and students. She has earned both her Bachelor of Science and Technology Management and her Masters of Science and Management degrees from USF.
Brandy is a newlywed and lives in Godley with her husband, Nate, and two furry friends, Frankie and Ollie.
We wish her luck in her new position - she will be missed!
Meet the CID Staff
Dr. Kickul
Assistant Vice President
Acadmic and Information Support Services
Dr. Gerard Kickul is the Assistance Vice President of Academic and Information Support Services and is responsible for the information technology at the University of St. Francis. Previous to this position, Dr. Kickul was an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of St. Francis teaching courses in Management Strategy and was the Director of the University’s Center for Instructional Delivery. He has served the USF on numerous committees and chaired the Faculty Affairs Committee, Academic Assembly, and most recently as co-chair of the Campus Master Plan committee.
Dr. Kickul’s research interests include self-managed work teams, simulation gaming, collaborative learning, and distance education using the Internet. His research has been published in the Association of Business Simulations and Experiential Learning, The Business, Education and Technology Journal and the International Journal of Management Education. He has presented at both national and international conferences including the Academy of Management, Midwest Academy of Management, Management Education, Entrepreneurship, and the Operations Management Divisions of the Academy of Management Conference, British Academy of Management, EduCause, WCET, Midwest American Accounting Association, Ed-Media 2000 World Conference, Midwest Business Administration Association, Association of Educational Communications and Technology, and The National Conference on Successful College Teaching. He has worked as a technology consultant in the areas of technology integration in the classroom and in distance and online education.
Help for the Online Students
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Helping Others is
Just a Click Away
Donate your PC's power to the climateprediction.net experiment and be one of thousands around the world contributing to global warming research. Click above to learn more about this and other volunteer computing projects.
Tips for the Online Student
as taken from "100 Things Every Online Student Ought to Know" by Frank L. Christ and Loy R. Ganey Jr., PhD.
Copyright 2003 The Cambridge Stratford Study Skills Institute
Online Students Ought to Know:
that your local time may not be the same as your instructor's local time.
This is very important for those live synchronous events and good to understand when taking an online course. To make it easy on yourself, just open up your phone book and flip through the front. There is usally a map of the USA and the time zones that display the time differences. Don't forget the annual time changes. In the spring, you spring forward an hour and in the fall you fall back an hour. This applies in most of the USA unless you live in Arizona, Native American reservations, and some local areas.
Green Downloads
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