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Spring 2010
Workshops
Academic Technology will
offer four types of training
opportunities to Palomar College faculty
members in Fall 2009:
-
In-person instructor facilitated
workshops
-
Summer Tech Camp
-
Online, self-paced workshops
-
To-be-arranged individual
training
-
To-be-arranged departmental
training
[Academic
Departments Only]
Resources for the
in-person and online training can be
found in a Blackboard course titled
“Academic Technology Training,” in which
all faculty and staff members are
pre-enrolled. You will find it in the
“My Courses” area when you login to
Blackboard. Each faculty and staff
member at Palomar College has a
pre-created Blackboard login account
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.
The tabular schedule of In-person
and online instructor facilitated
workshops is given below, and can be
found on the web at
http://www.palomar.edu/atrc/attrainingschedule.htm.
Our 3rd annual Summer
Tech Camp will not occur until August,
but is being announced along with the
spring training so that those interested
can sign up early. Space is
limited and the subject is especially
important this year.
The online self-paced
training uses workshops developed in
Blackboard. Login and complete the
assigned reading and other course work
at any time throughout the Fall
semester.
To-be-arranged
departmental training should be arranged
through department chairs. We have
provided a menu of possible training
topics below, from which departments may
select training topics. Groups of
individuals should consult with your
chair to schedule the training at your
location and at the best time for your
department. This training is
intended for academic and not
administrative departments.
To-be-arranged individual
training should be arranged with the
contact person given in the description
of that type of training below.
Workshop Descriptions
A. In-Person
Workshops
Blackboard Essentials
|
Facilitated by: |
Chris Norcross |
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Date: |
Thursday,
January 14 (Part-time pre-plenary) |
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Time: |
3:00 - 5:00
p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
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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.
|
Classroom Technology
|
Facilitated by: |
Lee Hoffmann,
Haydn Davis, Terry Gray |
|
Date: |
Thursday,
January 14 (Part-time pre-plenary) |
|
Time: |
3:00 - 5:00
p.m. |
|
Location: |
MB-8 |
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Description: |
Get a refresher (or first
time) tour of the technology available
in most Palomar classrooms. Learn the
use of the classroom computer and
digital projector, the pixie wall
controls for classroom computer/video
output switching, the uses of the
classroom DVD and VCR, and
considerations for understanding how
audio from media plays in the classroom.
Additional topics will include:
PowerPoint presentation through digital
projectors, remote control of PowerPoint
through wireless controllers, the use of
Classroom Performance System (CPS) Radio
Frequency (RF) polling devices
(clickers) for the classroom, and,
checkout procedures for other AV and
ATRC equipment. Our streaming
video creation procedures have changed,
and the new approach will be described
during the course of this workshop.
|
Academic
Technology at Palomar College
|
Facilitated by: |
Dr. Haydn
Davis and Terry Gray, Academic
Technology |
|
Date: |
Thursday,
January 14 (Part-time plenary
breakout) |
|
Time: |
7:15 -9:00
p.m. |
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Location: |
LL-109 |
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Description: |
Participants will discover the
new features and tools available
for technology enhanced teaching
and learning at Palomar College,
including the Wimba Voice Tools,
Learning Objects, Academic
Technology training opportunities, new
Blackboard Features, the latest software
downloads, new AT equipment, new
streaming media creation
procedures, and more.
A valuable prize will be raffled off at
the end of the presentation. |
Basic computer basic basics
|
Facilitated by: |
Terry Gray, Academic
Technology |
|
Date: |
Tuesday,
January 26 |
|
Time: |
1:00 - 3:00
p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
No question
is too basic, no observation too
dumb for this workshop. We
will attempt to present the
basic things you should have
learned when you started using
computers, but somehow never
did. Like: 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;
what's the difference between a
favorite and a shortcut, and how
to make them; how do you change
the behavior of your mouse; 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 OS. |
Using SafeAssignment to
Teach About and Detect Plagiarism
|
Facilitated by: |
Dr. Haydn
Davis |
|
Date: |
Wednesday,
January 27 |
|
Time: |
1:00 p.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
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Location: |
LL-104 |
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Description: |
Academic
Technology has deployed the Safe
Assignment Anti-plagiarism tool
through the Blackboard Learning
system. Join Haydn Davis in
discovering how to create a Safe
Assignment “assignment” and how
to control the various settings
to get the most out of Safe
Assignment. Haydn will also
cover how to read the Safe
Assignment originality report,
the pedagogy of plagiarism
instruction, and how instructors
can directly submit single
documents directly for
examination. |
Web Page
Development
|
Facilitated by: |
Chris Norcross |
|
Date: |
Thursday,
January 28 |
|
Time: |
1:00 p.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Introduction
to web page creation and
management. In the workshop each
participant will create a personal
web page on a Palomar College
web server, and is introduced to
the concepts of growing the page
into a site and managing the
site. SharePoint Designer 2007
will be used as a web authoring
tool, but other authoring tools
will be discussed. This
workshop will address the
future of web page
development at Palomar
College also. |
Using Student Wikis
in Blackboard -
Canceled
|
Facilitated by: |
Terry
Gray |
|
Date: |
Tuesday,
February 2 |
|
Time: |
1:00 p.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
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Location: |
LL-109 |
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Description: |
Wikis are the
ideal group project tool. In
this workshop learn how to use
the student wiki tool in
Blackboard to assign and track
group projects. Topics will
include how to set up/configure
a group wiki; how to configure
and monitor contributions and
edits; how to insert links,
graphics, and other media into
the wiki articles; how to assess
participant contributions to the
wiki. |
Using the Wimba Voice Tools in
Blackboard -
Canceled
|
Facilitated by: |
Dr. Haydn
Davis |
|
Date: |
Wednesday,
February 3 |
|
Time: |
1:00
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-104 |
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Description: |
The Wimba
Voice tools give your class
a voice. This hands-on
workshop explains how to use the
Wimba Voice Tools, which are
integrated into the Blackboard
Learning System. The Voice Tools
include Voice Authoring, Voice
Email, threaded Voice Boards
(audio discussion boards), and Voice
Presentation (audio, web-based
slide shows). The Voice Tools
are simple to work with and
engaging for both students and
instructors. |
Using the Blackboard Discussion
Board
|
Facilitated by: |
Chris Norcross |
|
Date: |
Thursday,
February 4 |
|
Time: |
1:00 p.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
This workshop
covers the features of the
Discussion Board in Blackboard
and the abilities it extends to
faculty and students. It
describes how to use the
built-in grader linked to the
Blackboard grade center, and how
to create and manage discussion threads. |
PowerPoint 1: Creating
Basic Presentations with PowerPoint
|
Facilitated by: |
Terry Gray, Academic
Technology |
|
Date: |
Tuesday,
February 9 |
|
Time: |
1:00
p.m. -3:00 p.m. |
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Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Construct a simple PowerPoint
presentation
Modify its design
Add text and graphics
Use SmartArt diagrams
Perform basic drawing tasks
Print from PowerPoint
Present PowerPoint in the classroom
Save presentations for the web
We will be creating a
simple presentation with
PowerPoint 2007 during this workshop.
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Using the
Blackboard Assignment Manager
|
Facilitated by: |
Dr. Haydn
Davis |
|
Date: |
Wednesday,
February 10 |
|
Time: |
1:00
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-104 |
|
Description: |
The “digital
drop box” feature in Blackboard
is obsolete, and will be removed
from our next version of
Blackboard, version 9. It has
been replaced by a much better
Assignment Manager Tool. This
workshop explains how to use the
“assignment” feature and
explains why it is superior to
the drop box in several ways.
Learn to use the assignment
feature now and gain control
over class assignments. |
Using
WolframAlpha: A Treasure Trove of
Answers at Your Fingertips
|
Facilitated by: |
Chris
Norcross |
|
Date: |
Thursday,
February 11 |
|
Time: |
1:00
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Learn how to
take advantage of the
computational engine know as
WolframAlpha, a free web
site which seeks to make it
possible to “compute
whatever can be computed
about anything”. Examples of
use in many different
disciplines will be
demonstrated and the
implications of this new
breed of tool will be
discussed. |
Technology Roundtable: What Works in
Blackboard
|
Facilitated by: |
Dr. Haydn
Davis |
|
Date: |
Wednesday,
February 17 |
|
Time: |
1:00
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-104 |
|
Description: |
Join your
colleagues as they present their
favorite tips & tricks for using
the Blackboard Learning System
to teach effectively.
Refreshments will be served and
a valuable prize will be given
away. |
PowerPoint 2: Advanced PowerPoint
Techniques
|
Facilitated by: |
Terry Gray |
|
Date: |
Tuesday,
February 23 |
|
Time: |
1:00
p.m. -3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
This hands-on workshop explains how to:
Animate
slides and objects on slides in
PowerPoint
Control animation triggering and
timing
Add audio and video to
PowerPoint slides
Animate SmartArt diagrams
Group, order, align and apply
special effects to graphics in
PowerPoint
Hyperlink from slide to slide;
slide to file; slide to media;
and presentation to presentation
Use hidden slides during a
presentation
Handle footnotes and references
within PowerPoint
Save presentations for the web
or publish to CD or DVD |
We will be creating
and animating a presentation in
PowerPoint 2007 during the course of
this workshop.
|
Blackboard 9 Training Postponed
The Blackboard 9 training
that we had scheduled for the spring
semester has been postponed. We
had depended on our IS department to
prepare a hardware platform for us to
run the Blackboard 9 system on, and they
have informed us that it will not be
ready in time to deploy Blackboard 9 in
the fall of 2010. Its deployment
will be delayed until the spring of
2011, and therefore the training we had
planned will be postponed until the fall
semester of 2010. For anyone who
has signed up for this training already,
please contact the PD office to adjust
your PD contracts.
Teaching With The New Blackboard -
version 9: Part 1: Getting Ready for Day
One - Postponed
|
Facilitated by: |
Academic
Technology Staff |
|
Date: |
Friday,
February 26 |
|
Time: |
9:00 a.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
This is part
1 in the 4-part "Teaching with
the New Blackboard - version 9" series.
Currently we use Blackboard
version 8, called "Blackboard
Classic." Beginning fall 2010 Palomar
College will use Blackboard 9,
called "Blackboard Learn."
Blackboard Learn is
the next generation Learning
Management Software licensed by
the District. This four
part series is intended to teach
how to use the new version of
Blackboard.
The series of
workshops may be taken
independently of each other,
although it is highly
recommended that you take the
“Getting Ready for Day One”
workshop before any others.
Completion of all four sessions
will entitle attendees to a
certificate of proficiency in
using version 9 of Blackboard.
Morning beverages, rolls and
fruit, and lunch will be
provided for each of the 4
workshops. A valuable
prize will be given away at the
conclusion of each workshop.
Getting
Ready for Day One:
Whether needing to get a
course site ready at the last
minute, or planning ahead for
the next semester, there are
several things that should be in
a Blackboard course before it is
ready for Day One with the
students. In this workshop we
will discuss and create samples
of these core elements of a
Blackboard course.
This workshop
is suitable for faculty of both
online classes and on-campus
classes using Blackboard to
augment traditional class work.
However, this workshop does not
assume any prior experience with
using Blackboard. It is highly
recommended that you complete
this workshop before any of the
other Teaching with “Blackboard
Learn” Series. |
Using Google Earth
|
Facilitated by: |
Terry Gray |
|
Date: |
Tuesday,
March 2 |
|
Time: |
1:00 p.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Google Earth
is a revolutionary new, FREE
tool for exploring and teaching
about the earth. In this
workshop we will learn how to
use Google Earth, how to
navigate about the planet (and
the heavens), how to create
custom placemarks and combine
them into earth tours and
instructional presentations that
can be viewed by your students,
and how to use the many Google
Earth layers most effectively. |
Teaching With The New Blackboard -
version 9: Part
2: Building Your Course -
Postponed
|
Facilitated by: |
Academic
Technology Staff |
|
Date: |
Friday,
March 5 |
|
Time: |
9:00 a.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
This is part
2 in the 4-part "Teaching with
the New Blackboard - version 9" series. Beginning
fall 2010 Palomar College will
use Blackboard 9, the next
generation Learning Management
Software licensed by the
District. This four part
series is intended to teach how
to use the new version of
Blackboard.
The series of
workshops may be taken
independently of each other,
although it is highly
recommended that you take the
“Getting Ready for Day One”
workshop before any others.
Completion of all four sessions
will entitle attendees to a
certificate of proficiency in
using version 9 of Blackboard.
Morning beverages, rolls and
fruit, and lunch will be
provided for each of the 4
workshops. A valuable
prize will be given away at the
conclusion of each workshop.
Building
Your Course:
Handouts, videos, lectures,
PowerPoint slides; there are
many things which can be
distributed to students through
your Blackboard course. In this
workshop we will discuss several
different best practices for
distributing handouts and
PowerPoints, and create some
samples for uploading into
Blackboard. We will also discuss
the process of adding audio and
video content to a Blackboard
course, and do a hands-on
exercise in organizing materials
in a Blackboard course into one
of several pre-made course
templates.
This workshop
is suitable for faculty of both
online classes and on-campus
classes using Blackboard to
augment traditional class work.
It is highly recommended that
you have already completed the
“Getting Ready for Day One”
workshop in the Teaching with
“Blackboard Learn” Series. |
New - Added
Workshop
Basic computer basic basics
again
|
Facilitated by: |
Terry Gray, Academic
Technology |
|
Date: |
Friday, March
5 |
|
Time: |
10:00 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Back by
popular demand. We will
repeat the workshop given
earlier in the semester.
No question
is too basic, no observation too
dumb for this workshop. We
will attempt to present the
basic things you should have
learned when you started using
computers, but somehow never
did. Like: 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 control windows and
arrange them on screen; how to change
the behavior of your mouse; 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 OS. |
Teaching With The New Blackboard -
version 9: Part
3: Communicating with Your Students -
Postponed
|
Facilitated by: |
Academic
Technology Staff |
|
Date: |
Friday,
March 12 |
|
Time: |
9:00 a.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
This is part
3 in the 4-part "Teaching with
the New Blackboard - version 9" series.
Beginning fall 2010 Palomar
College will use Blackboard 9,
the next generation Learning
Management Software licensed by
the District. This four
part series is intended to teach
how to use the new version of
Blackboard.
The series of
workshops may be taken
independently of each other,
although it is highly
recommended that you take the
“Getting Ready for Day One”
workshop before any others.
Completion of all four sessions
will entitle attendees to a
certificate of proficiency in
using version 9 of Blackboard.
Morning beverages, rolls and
fruit, and lunch will be
provided for each of the 4
workshops. A valuable
prize will be given away at the
conclusion of each workshop.
Communicating with Your
Students:
Synchronous and asynchronous
tools, e-mail, chat and
discussion boards, even social
networking sites; communicating
with students can be far more
than holding office hours on
campus. In this workshop we will
explore several of the core
communication tools built into
Blackboard, then consider the
virtues of adding other
communication avenues to your
course site.
This workshop
is suitable for faculty of both
online classes and on-campus
classes using Blackboard to
augment traditional class work,
although many of the topics will
be more applicable for online
instruction. It is highly
recommended that you have
already completed the “Getting
Ready for Day One” workshop in
the Teaching with “Blackboard
Learn” Series. |
Teaching With The New Blackboard -
version 9: Part
4: Evaluating Learning-
Postponed
|
Facilitated by: |
Academic
Technology Staff |
|
Date: |
Friday,
March 19 |
|
Time: |
9:00 a.m.
- 3:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
This is part
4 in the 4-part "Teaching with
the New Blackboard - version 9" series.
Beginning fall 2010 Palomar
College will use Blackboard 9,
the next generation Learning
Management Software licensed by
the District. This four
part series is intended to teach
how to use the new version of
Blackboard.
The series of
workshops may be taken
independently of each other,
although it is highly
recommended that you take the
“Getting Ready for Day One”
workshop before any others.
Completion of all four sessions
will entitle attendees to a
certificate of proficiency in
using version 9 of Blackboard.
Morning beverages, rolls and
fruit, and lunch will be
provided for each of the 4
workshops. A valuable
prize will be given away at the
conclusion of each workshop.
Evaluating
Learning:
Students need some way to
turn in work, and get assessed;
Blackboard has tools to allow
students to turn in work and get
assessed! In this workshop we
will create samples of several
of the tools Blackboard makes
available for assessing
students, ranging from Surveys
and Tests all the way to
plagiarism detection of essays.
We will also explore the tools
for managing grades in the
Blackboard Grade Center.
This workshop
is suitable for faculty of both
online classes and on-campus
classes using Blackboard to
augment traditional class work.
It is highly recommended that
you have already completed the
“Getting Ready for Day One”
workshop in the Teaching with
“Blackboard Learn” Series. |
New - Added
Workshop
Twitter for Academics
|
Facilitated by: |
David Gray |
|
Date: |
Friday,
March 19 |
|
Time: |
1:00 - 3:00p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Have you
heard of the communications tool
“Twitter” and wonder what it’s
all about? Are you teaching on
campus and want to expand your
students learning environment
outside the classroom? Are you
teaching online and want to help
your students feel socially
connected to the class
experience? Stop by and learn
about using this simple and
powerful form of communication,
140 characters or less at a
time. |
Using the Flip Video Camera and Windows
Movie Make
|
Facilitated by: |
Terry Gray |
|
Date: |
April 2 |
|
Time: |
10:00 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Academic
Technology checks out Flip video
cameras, the easy to use point
and shoot flash-memory
USB-connected video cameras from
Digital Magic, for professor and
classroom projects. This
workshop will describe how to
use the camera, how to install
and use the software that comes
with it, how to upload your
videos to your web site or
YouTube, and finally how to edit
several videos together
into a final project in Windows
MovieMaker. |
New
to Nine: Coming Changes to Blackboard -
Postponed
|
Facilitated by: |
AT Staff |
|
Date: |
April
7,8,9,10,12,13,14 |
|
Time: |
As indicated
on the schedule |
|
Location: |
LL-109 or
LL-104 |
|
Description: |
The “New to
Nine” workshops are
demonstration only, and intended
to help faculty decide where
they will need help in
converting their version 8
Blackboard courses over to begin
using the version 9 system.
Attendees will have an
opportunity for priority
scheduling of one-on-one
appointments with Blackboard
technicians for assistance with
converting course materials over
to version 9 for the Fall 2010
semester. A prize ticket
will be given at each session,
and the grand prize winner (a
120GB iPod) will be drawn at the
conclusion of all the workshops.
It is important that all
current and potential Blackboard users attend one of
these workshops. We will be
offering them in such a way as
to meet most professors'
schedules. |
B. Summer
Tech Camp
Join us for summer
tech learning fun - food, prizes,
technology provided...
|
Facilitated by: |
AT Staff |
|
Date: |
August 3-6 |
|
Time: |
9:00a.m. -
3:00p.m. each day |
|
Location: |
LL-109 |
|
Description: |
Join the
Academic Technology staff for
the third annual Summer Tech
Camp.
As always, the
event will be catered, with
morning coffee, fruit and rolls,
and a full lunch provided for
attendees. Again, as
always, there will be valuable
giveaways at the end of each day
and a grand prize at the end of
the event. |
C. Online,
Self-Paced Workshops
If you
wish to access the Academic Technology
Training Blackboard site in order to
take online, self-paced training, (or
simply to review the materials there),
follow this procedure:
1. Login
to Blackboard—all faculty and staff
members at Palomar College have a
Blackboard account and are pre-enrolled
in Academic Technology Training as
students. To login, open a web browser
and go to http://www.palomar.edu/blackboard.
Click the "User Login" button. Use your
palomar email ID (without the @palomar.edu
part of it) as your Username and your
Palomar email password as password.
2. In
the My Palomar tab area of Blackboard,
in the "My Courses" box, scroll if
necessary until you see the "Courses in
which you are enrolled" section, and
click on "Academic Technology Training."
3. Click
on the Folder labeled "Online Self-Paced
Training."
4. Click
on the link for the course in which you
are enrolled. We are offering 5 online,
self-paced workshops this semester:
Detailed Descriptions of
Self-Paced Workshops
Copyright Essentials
Facilitated by:
Haydn Davis & Terry Gray, Academic
Technology
Location: Internet
PD Hours: 4 Hours
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.
Blackboard Essentials
Facilitated by:
David Gray, Shay
Phillips & Chris Norcross, Academic
Technology
Location: Internet
PD Hours: 2 Hours
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. You
will review screen videos and printed
materials to learn basic Blackboard
concepts and practices. A discussion
board will be maintained for Q&A.
Adding Content to Your
Blackboard Course Site
Facilitated by:
David
Gray & Shay Phillips, Academic
Technology
Location:
Internet
PD
Hours:
2 Hours
Description:
This self-paced Internet workshop uses
screencasts and written materials to
demonstrate the process of adding
different types of materials to your
Blackboard course sites, and makes best
practice recommendations for methods and
practices.
Windows Vista Essentials
Facilitated by:
Terry Gray, Academic
Technology
Location: Internet
PD Hours: 4 Hours
Description:
This workshop is designed for those who
need to know the basics of working with
Windows Vista. Screencasts and written
materials provide instruction in the
following:
Create
and manage files and folders
Manipulate multiple windows
Use the
task bar
Create
shortcuts and quick links
Change
the display properties and
personalize Vista
Perform
basic computer maintenance tasks
Improve
system performance
Zip and
unzip files in compressed folders
Save
files to USB drives, CD-R, and DVD-R
discs
Use
network drives
Install
and configure media players and
other common software
Uninstall software
Schedule automatic updates
Learn
the basics of Vista security
including the new Security Center
D.-E. To-be-arranged
Personal Training and
To-be-arranged Departmental Training
The Academic Technology
department is prepared to offer the
following training topics on a
to-be-arranged basis for any department
who requests it. To schedule training,
the department chair should contact Dr.
Haydn Davis at hdavis@palomar.edu or
call at ext. 2341.
Please Note:
Departmental training is intended for
Academic Departments only.
Menu of available
training topics
Blackboard topics
Blackboard essentials
Adding Content to
a Blackboard Course Site
Using the
Blackboard Grade Center
Placing Audio
Recordings in Blackboard
Placing
PowerPoint Presentations in
Blackboard
Adding Publisher
Content to Blackboard
Using the Oscelot
Podcaster in Blackboard
Using the
Blackboard Assignment Manager
Using the
Safe Assignment Service
in Blackboard
Using the
Blackboard Discussion Board and
Discussion Board Grader
Using Assessment
Tools in Blackboard
Using Advanced
Assessment Tools in Blackboard
Using the Survey
Tool in Blackboard
Using Adaptive
Release in Blackboard
Using the
Blackboard Performance Dashboard
Using the
Blackboard Early Warning System
Using the
Elluminate eConferencing Tool in
Blackboard
Managing a
Blackboard Course (course
settings, organization, backup,
and life cycle management)
Engaging the
Online Learner
The Exemplary
Blackboard Course
PowerPoint Topics
PowerPoint 1:
Creating Basic PowerPoint
Presentations with PowerPoint
2007
PowerPoint 2:
Advanced PowerPoint Concepts
Presentation
Technology: Digital Projectors,
Sound, DVD/CD/VCR, Remote
Control, and PowerPoint
Presentations
Using Classroom
Performance System Remote
Polling Devices (clickers) with
PowerPoint
Animating Objects
in PowerPoint
Using Audio and
Video in PowerPoint
Uploading a
PowerPoint Presentation to
Blackboard
Converting a
PowerPoint Presentation to PDF
Drawing in
PowerPoint 2007
Creating SmartArt
Diagrams in PowerPoint 2007
Creating Charts
in PowerPoint 2007
Publishing Your
PowerPoint Presentations
Narrating Your
PowerPoint Presentations
Converting Your
PowerPoint Presentations to
Flash with Camtasia
Other Office 2007
Programs
The Office 2007
Fluent User Interface: The
Ribbon and More (with examples
from Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Outlook 2007
Email Skills
Outlook 2007
Calendar and Scheduling Skills
Backing up
Outlook 2007 Data
Web Authoring Topics
Creating Your Own
Web Site
Styling Your Web
Site with CSS (Cascading Style
Sheets)
Creating
Interactive Forms for Your Web
Site
Preparing Photos
for the Web
Making Banners
and Buttons for Your Web Site
Document Preparation
Topics
Using Acrobat to
Create/Edit PDF Documents
Document Formats
Online: HTML vs. PDF vs. DOCX
Using Word formatting tools
Teaching/Learning
Strategies
Using Google Apps
Creating an
Academic Blog
Creating Podcasts
Catching Podcasts
Using Google
Notebook
Using Google
Earth
Using Google Book
Search
Using WebQuests
Using Classroom
Performance System RF Polling
Devices (clickers)
Using Digital
Audio Recorders
Creating
Streaming Media Files
Creating
Streaming Video Files
Copyright
Essentials
Windows Vista
Essentials
Windows XP
Essentials
Using Internet
Explorer 7
Creating
Persistent Links to Journal
Database Articles
Using iTunes
You and Your iPod
Using the Windows
Media Player
Basic Uses of
Photoshop
Related
Resources
Adobe Online Training
Microsoft Newsgroups
MS Office Webcasts
MS Office System Webcasts
Microsoft Training Home PageTraining
Presentations from
Microsoft
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