Faculty/Staff Training Schedule

Academic Technology offers training for faculty and staff in:

• Blackboard for online and web-enhanced course  management,
• FrontPage 2003 for web site creation and management, 
• Adobe Photoshop for web graphics,
• Adobe Acrobat for document distribution,
• MS PowerPoint for classroom/web presentations,
• MS OneNote for note taking and research,
• MS Outlook for email and personal information management,
• MS Producer for rich media presentations,
• CCC Confer for web meetings
• Streaming media for the web, featuring Real and Windows media, and other web development technologies.

Other departments provide training in other areas.  The complete listing by department can be found at the Professional Development web site.  Academic Technology focuses on faculty training, but both faculty and staff can sign-up for the classes, including the AT classes listed below, at the Professional Development web site. 

Important Note:  If you do not sign-up for one of our classes with the PD office, please contact Academic Technology to let us know which classes you will be attending.  If you do not, we cannot contact you if a class is cancelled, rescheduled, or relocated.

The following lists our Spring training by month.  All classes will be held in the Academic Technology classroom lab, room LL-106, ground floor of the main campus Library building, unless otherwise noted. 

Click the information icon after the course title below to read a pop-up description of the course.  The icon means that the class is new.

There will be new classrooms, labs, and a new numbering scheme for the rooms on the first floor of the library for Fall 2005.  Click here to see an outline map of the new layout for room scheduling purposes.

Wednesday

8/31

Introduction to Using Blackboard

noon-2pm

SU-30

B. Dowd & D. Gray

Tuesday	9/6	PowerPoint 1: The Basics of Making Presentations Using MS PowerPoint	2-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Wednesday	9/7	Blackboard Certificate Program Teaching On-line with Blackboard	1-3pm	LL-111	B. Dowd & D. Gray
Monday	9/12	FrontPage 1 - 2 Hours to Your Own Web Site	2-4 pm	LL-104	Chris Norcross
Tuesday	9/13	PowerPoint 2: Using Advanced Features of PowerPoint to Create Classroom/Web Presentations	2-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Wednesday	9/14	Interacting with Students Using Blackboard	8-11am	LL-104	B. Dowd & D. Gray
Tuesday	9/20	Blackboard Special Topic - Using Meet & Confer to Communicate with Your Students	2-4pm	LL-109	Blaine Morrow & Terry Gray
Monday	9/19	FrontPage 2 - Tables, Page Layout & Interactive Forms  in FrontPage	2-4 pm	LL-104	Chris Norcross
Tuesday	9/27	Using MS OneNote - Taking Notes & Doing Research with OneNote	2-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Thursday	9/29	Interacting with Students Using Blackboard	1-4pm	LL-109	B. Dowd & D. Gray

Monday	10/3	Photoshop 1: Editing Photos for the Web Using Photoshop	2-4pm	LL-104	Chris Norcross
Tuesday	10/4	Communicate with CCC Confer	1-4pm	LL-109	Blaine Morrow & Terry Gray
Monday	10/10	Photoshop 2: Creating Graphics for the Web Using Photoshop	2-4pm	LL-104	Chris Norcross
Tuesday	10/11	Using MS Outlook to Get/Stay Organized	1-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Thursday	10/13	Basic Test and Survey Design in Blackboard	1-3pm	LL-109	B. Dowd & D. Gray
Tuesday	10/18	Acrobat 1: How to Use Adobe Acrobat	2-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Tuesday	10/25	Best Practices for Web Documents	2-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Thursday	10/27	Advanced Test Design and Question Pools in Blackboard	1-3pm	LL-111	B. Dowd & D. Gray

Tuesday	11/1	FrontPage 1 - 2 Hours to Your Own Web Site	2-4 pm	LL-104	Chris Norcross
Thursday	11/3	Placing Your Audio on the Web	2-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Tuesday	11/8	FrontPage 2 - Tables, Page Layout & Interactive Forms  in FrontPage	2-4 pm	LL-104	Chris Norcross
Thursday	11/10	Using PhotoStory 3 to Tell a Story with Your Pictures	2-4 pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Thursday	11/17	How to Add Streaming Media (Audio and Video) to Your Web Site	2-4pm	LL-109	Terry Gray
Wednesday 11/30 Introduction to Using Blackboard noon-2pm SU-30 B. Dowd & D. Gray

Friday

12/2

Using MS Outlook to Get/Stay Organized

9am - Noon

LL-109

Terry Gray

Academic Technology offers special topics training on a To-Be-Arranged basis.  Contact the facilitator indicated below, and she/he will arrange times to provide one-on-one or small group training in these topics.  Credit should be arranged with the Professional Development Office  (ext. 2250).

Technical Topics in Blackboard - David Gray - ext. 2862 - TBA
 Spend time with the Blackboard technician working out your problems and enhancing your courses.

Departmental Blackboard Training – Bonnie Dowd – ext. 3626 – TBA
We will custom design Blackboard training for your department and deliver it in your location.

Digital Video and Streaming Media - Terry Gray - ext. 2877 - TBA
 Learn to capture/digitize/stream media for the web or CD.

Using MS-Producer - Terry Gray - ext. 2877 - TBA
Learn how to use the free Microsoft "PowerPoint add-in" to produce rich media materials that can be saved to disk, CD or streamed from the web.  Linking offline content from Blackboard is included.

Using Hot Potatoes to Create Interactive Quizzes for the Web – Terry Gray  ext. 2877 – TBA. Create and upload to the web multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, crossword puzzle, or matching interactive quizzes.

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