Kitchen Table is a casual, social, and safe space for women of color and multi-ethnic women on campus. Students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend. Come and enjoy free food, music, and good company! Join us for our first meeting of the semester on Feb. 6 from 5 - 6:30 p.m. in the Women's Resource Center, UMC 416!

Boulder Campus Faculty are reminded that the DEADLINE for receipt of all BFA Excellence Award nomination materials is Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, at 5 p.m. Nomination packets may be delivered in either electronic format or in paper format. Complete details are available on line at http://www.colorado.edu/BFA/awards/ Please contact sierra.swearingen@colorado.edu or 2-6271 if you have any questions or need more information.

The Friends of the Libraries invites you to an author presentation and book signing for local educator and writer Sandra Bornstein and her newly published book "May This Be The Best Year Of Your Life: A Memoir." Sandra describes how her peaceful and predictable life is forever changed when she relocates to Bangalore, India with all its unfamiliar customs, sights, sounds and smells. This is the story of her journey of discovery and what she learns as wife, mother, teacher, traveler, expat and friend. Feb. 9, 10 a.m., Eaton Humanities 150

Getting the most from D2L Discussions Maybe you’ve used online discussion tools for years, but you are looking at how to take the conversation beyond prompts and responses. D2L discussions can create opportunities for peer feedback, multimedia sharing, and vigorous, student-driven debate. Learn more and sign-up here!

Conversations with VoiceThread In this 30 minutes, you will see how to create media based dialogue with your students using the online program VoiceThread. Learn how to upload pictures, digital video clips, PowerPoints and other documents into your VoiceThread digital slideshow, record comments and then share the conversation with your students! Learn more and sign-up here!

Adobe Connect: Online Rooms, Classroom Meetings & More! Connect, Adobe’s industry-leading web conferencing system is now available to all campus users. Learn what Connect offers as a solution for online office hours, one-off meetings with international colleagues (or just across campus), and as an integrated tool within Desire2Learn. Learn more and sign-up here!

Google Docs allows up to 50 users to easily collaborate on a single document in real time from any location in the world. Now, this powerful technology is available to all CU-Boulder users through the new Google Apps for Education service! Come learn how easy it is for you to break free from the old desktop model and get work done faster, easier, and more collaboratively than ever. Learn more and sign-up here!

Desire2Learn is one of the industry’s fastest growing learning management platforms. Google Apps is reinventing the ways that businesses and educators think about collaboration, resource sharing and creative works. This 30-minute presentation will look at how these two industry leaders can support, improve, and even remake teaching and learning at CU-Boulder. Learn more and sign-up here!

Going Google! The University of Colorado Boulder has Gone Google! Come join us and learn what Google Apps for Education, CU’s powerful new collaborative software package, means for you. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 3:30-4:00 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2-2:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2-2:30 p.m. All events can be joined at http://meeting.colorado.edu/goinggoogle. Visit the OIT Calendar to sign-up.

Technology Flash Events are 30-minute webinars designed to provide busy university professionals with quick, high level introductions to powerful technologies. Skip the snowy walks to obscure classrooms; flash events provide you both with core “what can it do?” answers, as well as examples and ideas of “how can this change the way I teach, learn, and work?” Click to learn more about Technology Flash Events offered this week!