Events for Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 20135:30 AM
Wellness Center 801 Princeton St. - Grand Forks, ND 58202
Ski UND is a great opportunity for UND students, faculty, staff, and Wellness Center members to get outside and get active on these cold winter days!
Tuesday, January 8, 20139 AM - 5 PM
North Dakota Museum of Art 261 Centennial Dr. - Grand Forks, ND 58202

Born in Valley City in 1972, Todd Hebert spent his early years in McHenry, North Dakota. His father, a high school teacher, moved the family to Dickinson in 1980 to accept the job at Dickinson High School coaching basketball and teaching social studies.
Todd played football, basketball, and baseball. He also drew and painted and took art classes from Michael Dunn, a wildlife watercolorist. According to Hebert, “Dunn made watercolors by carefully observing the outdoor…
Tuesday, January 8, 201310 AM
Grand Forks Public Library Story Room2110 Library Circle - Grand Forks, ND 58201

Preschool Storytime at the Grand Forks Public Library. Storytime includes picture books, finger plays, songs, and puppet plays. It lasts about 30 minutes.
Tuesday, January 8, 201310 AM - 11 AM
Robertson-Sayre 204370 Oxford St. - Grand Forks, ND 58202
Blackboard Collaborate gives you the functionality you need to support a 21st century teaching and learning environment, such as two-way audio, multi-point video, interactive whiteboard, application and desktop sharing, web tours, breakout rooms, and session recording. Educators and students can engage as if they were in a traditional classroom, with as good as, or even better, outcomes.
Tuesday, January 8, 201310:30 AM - 11:30 AM
McCannel 2802891 2nd Ave N - Grand Forks, ND 58202

Everything you always wanted to know about Resume and Cover Letter Writing - and more! Come and join us for some helpful tips on putting together the resume and cover letter that will help you land your dream job.
Tuesday, January 8, 201310:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Grand Forks Senior Center Library620 4th Ave S - Grand Forks, ND 58201
The Bookworms Book Club at the Grand Forks Senior Center is open to adults 55+.
Join us on January 8 to disucss the December book, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford.
Looking ahead, the February book discussion will be to choose a non-fiction book about an American President or First Lady.
Tuesday, January 8, 201312:30 PM - 1:30 PM
McCannel 2802891 2nd Ave N - Grand Forks, ND 58202

Everything you always wanted to know about Resume and Cover Letter Writing - and more! Come and join us for some helpful tips on putting together the resume and cover letter that will help you land your dream job.
Tuesday, January 8, 20131 PM - 2 PM
Robertson-Sayre 204370 Oxford St. - Grand Forks, ND 58202
In December 2012, UND’s Blackboard System upgraded in order to take advantage of new features. These features include auto-regrading of assessments, quick navigation to switch courses, negative scoring options, course themes, and more. Faculty will benefit from the easy-to-use intuitive interface, enhanced workflows, and an extended tool set of capabilities to improve their teaching with Blackboard.
Tuesday, January 8, 20132:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Robertson-Sayre 204370 Oxford St. - Grand Forks, ND 58202
Adobe Connect for Instructors reviews the basic features of Adobe Connect. This workshop covers the various types of pods and how they work, creating/modifying layouts, recording sessions and more.
Tuesday, January 8, 20134:30 PM - 6 PM
Sharon Lutheran Church 1720 20th St. S - Grand Forks, ND 58201

This is a wonderful opportunity to come together to enjoy food and refreshments, and visit with the OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) instructors about the courses they will be teaching this winter.
A 5:15 p.m. presentation, titled “We Don’t Need (or Want) No Stinkin’ Senior Discounts” will be given by F. Richard Ferraro, professor of psychology.
OLLI@UND is making a difference in the community and in people’s lives as the leader of lifelong learning. Bringing…
Tuesday, January 8, 20134:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Merrifield 212276 Centennial Dr. - Grand Forks, ND 58202
UND has two meeting locations on campus (open to anyone). Meetings are:
Tuesdays 4:45pm-5:15pm, Twamley snack bar, 4th floor
Wednesdays 12:15pm-12:45pm, EERC Lewis and Clark room
You can enroll online for a cost of $39.95/month. Staff and Faculty are eligible for a $50 return 3 times a year for attending 80% of meetings.
For more information, visit the Work Well website at:
www.und.edu/workwell
or directly at http://und.edu/health-wellness/workwell/programs/weight-watchers.cfm
For general questions about the program at UND,…
Tuesday, January 8, 20137 PM - 8 PM
Grand Forks Public Library Meeting Room2110 Library Circle - Grand Forks, ND 58201

Are you a mystery buff? Sci-Fi fan? Horror aficionado? The This & That Book Club is for you. Each month, we will read a book from a different fiction genre and get together for a lively discussion. Don't like a particular genre? Give it a try, or just skip that meeting that month - the goal is to have fun!
The title this month is "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tuesday, January 8, 20137 PM
Grand Forks Public Library Teen Haven2110 Library Circle - Grand Forks, ND 58201

The Teen Advisory Board promotes: Advising, planning, and implementing teen programs, promoting ideas, reading, programming, and communication with other teens through the creation of displays in the library, recommends books, movies, music, and magazines for the teen collection, writes articles, reviews, and other creative works for the library newsletter. Open to all teens from grades 7-12 (public, private, or home schooled). For more information about TAB visit www.gflibrary.com, or the GFPL Teen Department on Facebook.…