Academic Technology Training

Fall 2013 Workshops & Related Training

Academic Technology will offer five types of training opportunities to Palomar College faculty members in spring 2013:

  1. In-person and online instructor facilitated workshops and webinars

  2. Online, self-paced workshops

  3. Individualized Departmental or Personal Training

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 How to sign-up for Academic Technology Training

Faculty members wishing to receive professional development credit should sign-up through the Professional Development Office. Instructions for creating and/or modifying your professional development contract can be found on their web site. Staff members wishing to receive professional growth credit should contact the Human Resources Office with questions.  If you wish to attend but are not interested in PD or PG credit, please contact the workshop facilitator to be sure the workshop is not already full, or to register your email address in case workshop information needs to be sent to you.

How to access workshop training materials

Resources for the in-person and online workshops can be found in a Blackboard sandbox course titled “Academic Technology Training,” in which all faculty and staff members are pre-enrolled.  Here is how to access it:

  1. Login to bbsandbox.palomar.edu to access our training materials.  Each faculty and staff member at Palomar College has a pre-created Blackboard login account for bbsandbox which uses their Palomar userid as username (i.e., the part of the email address to the left of the @ sign is the Blackboard username), and their Palomar email password as the password.

  1. Once logged in, click on the "Academic Technology Training" link in the My Courses area (under "Courses where you are: Student"). 

  1. In the Academic Technology Training course click on the "Enroll in Workshops" menu entry (upper left of the screen).

  1. Click on the workshop name in which you wish to enroll,  and click the Sign-up button.

  1. Click on the "Workshops" menu entry.  You now have access to the workshop materials and will see a folder in the workshops area with the title of your workshop.  Click it to access the materials.

A description of in-person and online workshops is given below. A tabular schedule of in-person person and webinars can be found on the web at http://www.palomar.edu/atrc/attrainingschedule.htm


Workshop Descriptions

A. In-Person Workshops

Workshops to be presented in fall 2013

Part-Time Pre-plenary and Plenary Presentations

Getting Started with Blackboard

Facilitated by: David Gray
Date: Thursday, August 15 (Part-time pre-plenary)
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: MD-157
Description:

Blackboard is the essential tool for conducting technology-enhanced teaching at Palomar College. It is used to organize and present teaching and learning materials, conduct class communications, interact with students, carry out assessments, deliver assignments and perform grade book and other record-keeping functions.  This is a demonstration (hands-off) workshop to introduce participants to the Blackboard Learning System, including how to login to Backboard and review self-help videos.  The range of teaching tools available within Blackboard will be discussed.


Getting Started with WordPress

Facilitated by: Chris Norcross
Date: Thursday, August 15 (Part-time pre-plenary)
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description:

A WordPress site hosted by Palomar College is an easy to use alternative to a “regular” website. How to obtain and manage a WordPress site for individuals, departments, and special programs will be discussed. If you have ever wanted a website but worry that you do not have the technical skills to create and manage one this workshop is for you.


Introduction to Palomar Online Education Training (POET)

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Thursday, August 15 (Part-time pre-plenary)
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: LL-104
Description:

Whether you are new to teaching online or looking for new approaches, the POET series guides you through the process by offering methods, techniques, tools, checklists, and best practices for delivering an effective online course. POET focuses on the pedagogy of online learning, not how to use Blackboard. The face-to-face orientation will get you started, and then you will complete four modules online: Online Learning, Using Blackboard Tools (or other management systems), Effective Design, and Course Management. You will earn a Certificate of Completion at the end of the training.


Coming Attractions at Academic Technology

Facilitated by: Lillian Payn, Terry Gray, David Gray, Chris Norcross
Date: Thursday, August 15 (Part-time plenary breakout)
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: Participants will be treated to a preview of new features and tools available for Fall, 2013 as well as a series of single-concept "how-to" demos that feature training offered during the Fall semester. A valuable prize will be raffled off at the end of the presentation.

Coming Attractions at Academic Technology

Facilitated by: Lillian Payn, Terry Gray, David Gray, Chris Norcross
Date: Friday, August 16 (Full-time plenary breakout)
Time: 10:15 p.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: Participants will be treated to a preview of new features and tools available for Fall, 2013 as well as a series of single-concept "how-to" demos that feature training offered during the Fall semester. A valuable prize will be raffled off at the end of the presentation.

Regular Semester Presentations 

QR Codes for Learning? YES!

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Tuesday, August 27
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description:

You and your students are seeing them everywhere. QR codes. You have probably used them to get coupons or find directions. Certainly your students have! Let's get on the bandwagon and take advantage of this free technology for learning. The uses are limited only by your imagination. Get your students to interact with their learning using smart devices. In this hands-on workshop you will identify ways to use QR codes for your discipline and learn how to create and scan codes.

 

PowerPoint 1: Creating Basic Presentations with PowerPoint 2013

Facilitated by: Terry Gray
Date: Friday August 30
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: LL-109
Description:

In this hands-on workshop we will be creating a basic PowerPoint presentation using the new PowerPoint 2013. First, for those who know a bit about PowerPoint, we will cover what’s new in the 2013 version. Then we will get to work creating our sample presentation. Learning objectives for this basic workshop will be to:

  • Understand the PowerPoint user interface
  • Add slides and modify slide layouts
  • Understand the elements of presentation design
  • Add, format and align text and graphics
  • Insert objects on slides, including SmartArt and Excel charts
  • Create web links on slides
  • Print custom handouts from PowerPoint
  • Learn presentation delivery techniques

A Website in a Month—a four week series

Facilitated by: Chris Norcross
Date: Fridays, August 30, September 6, 20 and 27
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: Don't have a website? Is your existing website in need of a renovation? Whatever your needs are, this series of workshops is meant to get your website project started and finished in just 4 weeks. Using WordPress, you will learn how easy it can be to setup and manage a website. Whether you're on your own or you have a team of people to work with, you will have a site that you can be proud of. The first meeting will cover how to get your site started and explain how the 4 week program will work.

Introduction: Palomar Online Education Training (POET)
(Orientation to Online Series)

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Thursday, September 5
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description:

Whether you are new to teaching online or looking for new approaches, the POET series guides you through the process by offering methods, techniques, tools, checklists, and best practices for delivering an effective online course. POET focuses on the pedagogy of online learning, not how to use Blackboard. The face-to-face orientation will get you started, and then you will complete four modules online: Online Learning, Using Blackboard Tools (or other management systems), Effective Design, and Course Management. You will earn a Certificate of Completion at the end of the training.


PowerPoint 2: Animation in PowerPoint

Facilitated by: Terry Gray
Date: Friday, September 6
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: One of the strengths of PowerPoint is its ability to animate objects. This workshop will explore animation in depth. We will build a sample presentation that will teach the skills of using appearance, emphasis, disappearance, and custom effects, along with Effect Options, multiple animated objects, and animation triggers, timing and special effects. This workshop builds on the basic skills of the PowerPoint 1 workshop. We will be using PowerPoint 2013.

Getting Started with WordPress

Facilitated by: Chris Norcross
Date: Wednesday, September 11
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: A WordPress site hosted by Palomar College is an easy to use alternative to a “regular” website. How to obtain and manage a WordPress site for individuals, departments, and special programs will be discussed. If you have ever wanted a website but worry that you do not have the technical skills to create and manage one this workshop is for you.

Graphics and Multimedia for Learning

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Thursday, September 19
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Online Webinar
Description:

By delivering content with optimal message design, we can improve comprehension. In this online session, you will see what research tells us about the impact of a multi-sensory learning experience and hear some basic recommendations for implementing an enhanced learning environment.



PowerPoint 3: Multimedia in Depth
Facilitated by: Terry Gray
Date: Friday, September 20
Time: 9:00 a.m.. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: In this workshop we will be building a presentation that will teach the basics, and then the more advanced techniques of handling multimedia in PowerPoint 2013. We will work with various audio and video formats, embedding and/or linking to multimedia within PowerPoint. We will also work with audio/video editing, triggering events within audio and video files, and the related concepts and tools that permit for a rich, multimedia presentation.

YouTube Browser-based Tools

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Tuesday, September 24
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: The world’s most popular video sharing site has its own suite of tools to help you improve your videos right in the browser. YouTube Video Editor is a simple and easy way to add text, trim clips, add music, insert transitions and even stabilize clips. In this hands-on workshop we shall use these free tools to edit and post a video.

Prior to the workshop, please register for g-mail and YouTube accounts if you don’t already have them so you can participate fully.

PowerPoint 4: PowerPoint to Video: Narrate and Create Online Video from Your PowerPoint Presentations

Facilitated by: Terry Gray
Date: Friday, September 27
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: In this workshop you will create a video from a PowerPoint presentation using the tools built-in to PowerPoint. We will then discuss three strategies for making the video available to your students: 1) through YouTube; 2) using your Palomar web space; 3) in Blackboard. We will provide the presentation with script for you to narrate during the workshop. Though the emphasis will be on PowerPoint tools, we will also describe how to create a PowerPoint video by using Camtasia Studio.  We will be using PowerPoint 2013.

Palomar College's Best Practices Checklist (for Online Classes)

Facilitated by: Lillian Payn
Date: Thursday, October 3
Time: 3:00 p.m.. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description: This checklist, developed by the Academic Technology Committee in collaboration with the Palomar College Faculty Senate and TERB, is one of the approved methods to become a “Trained Instructor” for online teaching. It provides a roadmap to developing a high quality course beginning with the online syllabus and continuing with course design/organization, aesthetic design, interaction and collaboration, effective use of technology and assessments. It also includes compliance with Section 508 standards of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in order to provide universal access for all students. Participants in this session will apply the checklist to their own courses as well as explore how to use it as a peer reviewer.

Google Search Tips & Tricks

Facilitated by: Terry Gray
Date: Friday, October 4
Time: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Location: LL-109
Description:

Do you use Google to search the Internet every day? Of course, but do you know how to focus your searches and find exactly what you are looking for? Perhaps not. Come to this workshop to learn how to find only specific document types, find documents filtered by domain, search for text in online books, search blogs and news sources for up-to-the-minute results, find images and videos relevant to your search, geo-focus your search, define words and calculate/convert on the fly, and much more. Become a pro at Google Search in 60 short minutes.  A prize will be awarded to the winner of a search contest.


Best Practices Showcase

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: October 7 - 11
Location: Online
Description:

Online learning is as good as, if not better, than face-to-face learning. In this session, a panel of your Palomar College colleagues from a range of disciplines will share their best practices for delivering an online course that is effective, efficient and satisfying for the student and the instructor. This multimedia workshop is asynchronous, and attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and interact with each other.


Strategies for Retention in Online Classes

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Thursday, October 17
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description:

The flexibility of online learning attracts many students who already are facing many challenges. What strategies can we incorporate to keep our courses relevant and appealing to increase motivation and student success? Let’s review existing research, make recommendations at the college level, and explore practices within our various disciplines for improving online class retention. In this workshop, you will leave with a list of specific retention techniques you can use in your online classes.


Language Instruction with Blackboard

Facilitated by: Manuel Cortés and Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Friday, October 18
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: LL-109
Description:

Are you teaching World Languages or English as a Second Language? To cater to different learning styles and levels of language proficiency, you can use text, audio, and video techniques without the need for expensive or complicated equipment. Blackboard makes it convenient to learn a language anytime or anywhere, while increased participation and interaction motivates students. In this workshop, attendees will learn specific tools and techniques to improve language acquisition in the virtual classroom.

 

Mashup Tools in Blackboard

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Date: Thursday, November 7
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Online Webinar
Description:

Mashups are Web application hybrids that combine data and presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services. Blackboard has a number of mashup tools to incorporate audio, video, and content from other sources such as MS Word. Participants in this workshop with explore the various mashup tools in Blackboard and produce content using them.


B.  Online Self-Paced Workshop

Palomar Online Education Training (POET)

Facilitated by: Dr. Lillian Payn
Time: Self-paced
Location: Online
Description: Whether you are new to teaching online or looking for new approaches, the POET series guides you through the process by offering methods, techniques, tools, checklists, and best practices for delivering an effective online course. POET focuses on the pedagogy of online learning, not how to use Blackboard. The face-to-face orientation will get you started, and then you will complete four modules online: Online Learning, Using Blackboard Tools (or other management systems), Effective Design, and Course Management. You will earn a Certificate of Completion at the end of the training.

Please see the following website for an orientation to the series and instructions for self-enrollment: http://www2.palomar.edu/poet/ Please contact Dr. Lillian Payn if you have any other questions: lpayn@palomar.edu or ext. 3626

 

Getting Started with WordPress

Facilitated by: Chris Norcross
Date/Time: Self-paced, 3 hours of PD credit
Location: Online
Description:

A WordPress site hosted by Palomar College is an easy to use alternative to a “regular” website. How to obtain and manage a WordPress site for individuals, departments, and special programs will be discussed. If you have ever wanted a website but worry that you do not have the technical skills to create and manage one this workshop is for you.


Basic Computer Basic Basics

Facilitated by: Terry Gray
Time: Self-paced, up to 6 hours of PD credit.
Location: Online
Description: We will attempt to present the basic things you should have learned when you started using computers, but somehow never did. Like: an outline of how your computer actually works, de-mystifying some of those confusing acronyms; keystroke shortcuts to make your life easier; how to change the view of files and folders; how to find files once you have filed them (!); how to change your screen resolution, and just what is screen resolution, anyway; how to create shortcuts to programs and documents; how to change the behavior of your mouse; backup and anti-virus strategies, and so on... We will be using Windows 7 for this workshop, but concepts presented are, in most cases, so basic that they should be relevant across any operating system.

The material is now presented online, with audio introductions to each module, videos and documents for you to consume, and quizzes at the end of each module for self-testing.  Quiz scores are NOT stored.

Copyright for Professors

Facilitated by: Terry Gray
Time: Self-paced, up to 4 hours of PD credit.
Location: Online
Description: This online, self-paced workshop presents the basics of copyright use of educational materials. The discussion will emphasize concepts of Fair Use and place special emphasis on the TEACH Act of 2002. Anyone who uses copyrighted handouts or other materials in their in-person classes, and especially those who use copyrighted digitized audio and video files, can benefit from this workshop.  A discussion of the Academic Technology TEACH Act checklist and Fair Use worksheet will be included, along with Academic Technology policies on copyright and intellectual property.

C. Individualized Training

Individuals can make appointments via our help system for individualized training (PD code 14) on any educational technology or project-based training.  Academic departments can do the same (PD code 15) when a number of persons in the department are interested in obtaining group training in a specific educational technology topic.

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