EMU Distance Education

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print has descriptive listings of commercially published educational and psychological tests and scales as well as reviews of many of those tests and scales. Up to 4 users at a time.

The tutorial is at http://guides.emich.edu/nursingorientation

Each October we are reminded to be e-Safe. The EMU Division of IT would like to remind you to be on the look-out for Phishing attempts in emails. Watch Ben, Benji and Benny in the animated "E-Safe: Phishing Emails - Internet Safety" YouTube video to learn how to avoid becoming a victim

The Writing Center staff provides online students in many programs help with their writing. See http://www.emich.edu/uwc/uwc-online/for details.

The tutorial is at http://guides.emich.edu/education-databases

Watch the new television commercial for EMU at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpAmvj_gLz0&list=UUqZjN5Tj1qB-kdwBVB_argQ

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access.

Educational Assessment Books and Articles

The tutorial is at http://guides.emich.edu/edstats

The EMU Graduate School is pleased to present Prezi for your GRC presentation or for a future presentation on Monday, Nov. 3, 4 - 5:30 p.m. in the Bonisteel Lab in Porter Building. Presented by professor Michael McVey. To register for the workshop, please go to http://goo.gl/ub1Od2. For questions, please send an email to: emu_grc@emich.edu.

SPSS I Training (for faculty, lecturers, staff, and graduate students) Wednesday, October 22nd from 10:00am-12:00pm in Halle Library Room 110 Thursday, October 23rd, from 10:00am-12:00pm in Halle Library Room 110 (Same workshop repeated on both days) Led by: Joe Scazzero This "hands-on" workshop is for participants who have never used or feel out-of-date with the statistics package SPSS. The menu-driven system of the Windows version of SPSS 18 will be demonstrated for performing common tasks such as: entering data into SPSS, creating variable and value labels, computer new variables, recording values, running selected statistical procedures, and saving data and output files. The SPSS I Workshop will cover the basics of this package. Walk-ins are welcome! SPSS II Training (for faculty, lecturers, staff, and graduate students) Wednesday, October 29th from 10:00am-12:00pm in Halle Library Room 110 Thursday, October 30th from 10:00am-12:00pm in Halle Library Room 110 (Same workshop repeated on both days) Led by: Joe Scazzero This "hands-on" workshop is for participants who want to know how to create and use syntax files for the statistics package SPSS 18 for Windows. The SPSS II Workshop will cover selected advanced features and syntax files. Syntax files are text files that allow the user to run programs on a SPSS data file. The advantages of using syntax files rather than menu-driven systems will be discussed and demonstrated during the workshop. Walk-ins are welcome! TO REGISTER for any of the SPSS I and SPSS II workshops,please use the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KbW_zXv_zSlNi0p4syOYKoaaTETm7W5i7-r_QkJWtf0/viewform . Walk-ins are also welcome.

Scholarships to apply for are at http://www.emich.edu/finaid/scholarships.php

The EMU Graduate School is pleased to present the workshop “Academically Speaking,” which will provide oral communication techniques that can assist students in professionally presenting their research and creative activity. The workshop is designed to support graduate student research and the Graduate Research Conference (GRC) and is open to all graduate students. The workshop will be held on the following dates and times: •Monday, Oct. 13, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. in the Halle Library Auditorium. Presented by Professor Doris Fields. •Wednesday, Oct. 22, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. in the Halle Library Auditorium. Presented by Professor Don Ritzenhein. •Monday, Oct. 27, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. in the Halle Library Auditorium. Presented by Professor Doris Fields. •Tuesday, Nov. 11, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. in the Halle Library Auditorium. Presented by Professor Don Ritzehnein. To register for the workshop, please go to http://goo.gl/ub1Od2. For questions, please send an email to: emu_grc@emich.edu.

The EMU Department of World Languages will host its 10th anniversary of EMU German-American Day today, Oct. 6, in the Student Center Auditorium

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The library will be having a display.