By: Angel Peterson

Community • Connection • Collaboration

We hope this post finds you doing well and staying healthy. Now, more than ever, we want to prioritize the importance of community.

The All Staff Conference would like to announce that due to Covid-19 and the remote learning environment that we find ourselves in, we are postponing the All Staff Conference until June 2021. The committee continues to prepare for this future event.

The Nittany Lion Inn took care of cancelling all room reservations for our block. You don’t need to do anything else.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the planning committee at 2020Staffretreat@psu.edu.

Wanting to know whether the audiences are ready to move on or if they have any question without asking them to talk over each other, you may consider turning on the Nonverbal Feedback feature in Zoom.  Nonverbal feedback feature allows participants/students to click an icon to provide nonverbal feedback such as Raise Hand, Yes, No, Go Slower, Go Faster, Agree, Disagree, etc.

As a presenter, nonverbal feedback feature allows you to quickly and efficiently receive participants’ feedback without any interruption, especially in large class meetings.

To use the feature as a host, you first need to make sure its enabled:

1.Sign into the Zoom web portal and click Settings 

2. Scroll down and verify that the Nonverbal Feedback setting is enabled.

3. If the setting is disabled, click the Status toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, choose Turn On to verify the change.

Note: To use Nonverbal Feedback during a meeting, a participant must select the Participants button.

Spring 2020
Academic calendar information for all campuses is available online.

UPDATE: In light of the University’s March 11 announcement regarding measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic, nonessential events and meetings scheduled at University Libraries locations throughout the spring semester have been canceled, rescheduled or will be offered virtually. 

EXHIBITION: Earth Archives: Stories of Human Impact. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Earth Archives explores the intersection of the environment, human activity, and the documentary record. Highlights of the virtual exhibition include representations of varied print, manuscript, and art works that invites the viewer to consider a range of environmental-related topics and will serve as a growing, centralized resource. 

Wednesdays, Apr. 22-June 10, Remote Research Webinar Series. Free webinars to assist Penn State researchers with shifting their research from onsite to offsite. The series highlights various University services and infrastructure to support remote research. All sessions will be held via Zoom. Additional resources for remote research may be found at https://remoteresearch.psu.edu.