What do you do if a student requests to zoom in to your class, due to illness, travel, or for other reasons, when the course is not designated or designed as a hybrid course? Some course instructors permit virtual student access to their in-person courses, allowing them to continue to learn and participate with their peers. How can such an “ad hoc hybrid” class function smoothly? What technologies and tactics can support learning and interactions under these conditions? And what are the costs and benefits that instructors should keep in mind while deciding whether to allow students to zoom in? In this interactive session, two educational developers from MSU's Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation will demonstrate and lead participants through several easy ways to adapt course activities to allow synchronous, hybrid student participation. Using MSU tech tools including zoom chat, polls, reactions, and breakout rooms; google docs and slides; online whiteboards; word clouds; and D2L, we will focus on low-barrier ways that instructors can translate effective in-person activities for virtual students. Participants will have the opportunity to share tactics that have worked in their own courses and discuss the costs and benefits of increasing virtual access to course environments. The session will conclude with a QnA and connection to further educator resources from MSU and from the CTLI. No prior experience with these technologies is required. Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will be able to: learn to design and modify course activities that effectively accommodate both in-person and virtual students gain practical experience using a variety of tech tools to facilitate synchronous learning across modalities be equipped to evaluate the potential costs and benefits of allowing virtual participation classes designated to be in-person The in-person location for this session is: the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Please join us in the Main Library, Room W206G. For directions to Room W206G, please visit the Room Locations page.

Immersive data is everywhere. It's in every digital asset you see in a video game, a YouTube 360 video and the panoramic pictures you take with your mobile device. Drop in to learn about how 360 cameras, 3D scanners and our digitization equipment is used to create these new experiences and apply them to your research, assignments and presentations.

Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), winner of the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards (2025), tells the powerful true story of Rubens Paiva’s arrest and disappearance in 1970s Rio de Janeiro and his wife Eunice’s relentless fight for the truth amid Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985). Based on the novel by Marcelo Rubens Paiva—son of Rubens and Eunice—the film portrays the Paiva family’s struggle to uncover Rubens’ fate in a nation gripped by political repression. The trauma of her husband's disappearance drives Eunice to study law, ultimately becoming a leading advocate for Indigenous rights in Brazil. We invite the MSU community and the general public to a free screening and discussion on political oppression, censorship, fear, trauma, democratic challenges, and social upheaval. Faculty members will facilitate the conversation, encouraging critical engagement with the film’s historical and contemporary relevance. This event is free and open to the public. Agenda 5:30 PM: Screening to be presented by Janette Nuñez (MSU Libraries) and Saulo Gouveia (Romance and Classical Studies) 7:45 PM (immediately after the screening): Discussion panel featuring: a.     Peter Beattie, History b.     Saulo Gouveia, Romance and Classical Studies c.     María Isabel Espinoza, Sociology  d.     Rocío Quispe Agnoli, Romance and Classical Studies

Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives - Fall 2025 Brownbag Series DAVID MCCARTHY MSU RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES Good Workers, Government Workers: Public Memory and the Murrah Building Bombing A monumental twelve-foot-by-fifteen-foot quilt commemorating eighty-nine federal workers murdered in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in 1995 was the result of a collaborative, nationwide effort organized by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). Originally intended for the newly rebuilt federal building in Oklahoma City, the quilt was instead added to the collections of the MSU Museum, where it has been stored for twenty-five years. A new exhibit of the quilt opens this October at the MSU Union. Join online here. The password is odwodl.

To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month we are showcasing decades of queer activism at MSU. This pop-up will feature materials documenting the early years of the student-led gay liberation movement and the range of issues that inspired advocacy work among students and employees.  The spirit of LGBTQ+ activists spans over half a century.  The work continues, and we can look to yesterday’s Spartans for inspiration.

Learn the basics of QGIS, the free open-source geospatial software—this workshop will demonstrate how to make a choropleth (color shaded) map and place graduated symbols representing data on it, load shape-files and .csv table files into QGIS, join data to spatial information and edit features. No experience with QGIS or Geographic Information Systems is required.

Discover the joy of sewing! This beginner-friendly session will guide you through the essentials of how a sewing machine works, using a mechanical sewing machine. Learn valuable skills while creating a project to take home. Perfect for anyone eager to learn the basics, this workshop is designed to boost your confidence and spark creativity!