Academic Technology Training Opportunities

Academic Technology focuses on faculty training, but both faculty and staff can sign-up for the workshops, including any of the workshops listed below.  This page lists the schedule for all in-person or online instructor facilitated workshops. If you are a Palomar faculty member, use our help center to schedule personal, one-on-one training, or departmental training for your department.

Each in-person workshop listed below has a related Blackboard Sandbox course component, which contains the course outline, handouts, screen videos, illustrations, external resources, and other materials.  Click here for instructions on how to access these courses.

Important Note:  Faculty members can sign-up for PD credit for these workshops listed below.  If you do not sign-up with the PD office, please contact Academic Technology to let us know which workshops you will be attending in case we need to communicate with you.

Symbols in the "Type" column below represent the competency the workshop is intended to address, as follows:

Technology Essentials Communication Skills
Presentation Skills Assessment Skills
Document Preparation Skills Teaching and Learning Strategies
  Webinar  Blackboard Training
 
The General Schedule - In-person instructor facilitated workshops and topical webinars

Type

Date

Description

Time

Room

Facilitator

January 2012
Thursday
January 12
Blackboard Essentials (pre-plenary) 3 - 5pm MD-157 Chris Norcross
Thursday
January 12
Introduction to Palomar Online Education Training (POET) (pre-plenary) 3 - 5pm LL-104 Lillian Payn
Thursday
January 12
Academic Technology at Palomar College
(plenary breakout)
7 - 8:30pm LL-109 Lillian Payn
Terry Gray
David Gray
  Tuesday
January 17 
Your New Semester Blackboard Checklist   2 - 3pm  Online  David Gray 
  Tuesday
January 24 
What to Tell Your Students About Blackboard 2 - 3pm  Online David Gray
  Wednesday
January 25 
Best Practices for Online Teaching  3 - 5pm MD-322 Panel:
Lillian Payn
Linda Locklear
Teresa Pelkie
Al Trujillo
Roger N. Morrissette
Friday
January 27
PowerPoint 1: Creating Basic Presentations with PowerPoint 2010 9 - 11am LL-109 Terry Gray
Friday
Jaunaury 27
Introduction to Palomar Online Education Training (POET) 9-11am LL-104 Lillian Payn
  Tuesday
January 31 
How to Post Your Own Video to YouTube 2 - 3pm  Online David Gray
February 
  Thursday
February 2 
Getting Started with WordPress  2 - 4pm  LL-109 Chris Norcross 
  Friday
February 3
PowerPoint 2: Advanced PowerPoint Techniques Using PowerPoint 2010  9 - 11am LL-109 Terry Gray
  Tuesday
February 7 
Using the Visual Textbox Editor in Blackboard 2 - 3pm  Online David Gray
  Wednesday
February 8 
Strategies for Retention in Online Classes  3 - 5pm  LL-109 Lillian Payn 
  Tuesday
February 14 
Test Deployment Options in Blackboard  2 - 3pm  Online David Gray
  Thursday
February 16 
Using Google Earth  1 - 3pm  LL-109 Terry Gray
  Tuesday
February 21 
Curious Question Types 2 - 3pm  Online David Gray
  Friday
February 24 
Elluminate Live! Synchronous Interactive Blackboard Tool 9 - 11am  LL-109 Lillian Payn
Tuesday
February 28
Using Google Scholar 2 - 3pm Online Chris Norcross
March 
  Friday
March 2 
Streamlining Media Resources  9 - 11am LL-109 Lillian Payn
  Tuesday
March 6 
The Blackboard Early Warning System 2 - 3pm  Online Chris Norcross
  Wednesday
March 7 
Web Page Development: The Basics  10am - 12pm LL-109 Chris Norcross
  Thursday
March 8 
Using SnagIt to Capture and Edit Images 1 - 3pm LL-109 Terry Gray
  Friday
March 9 
Instructional Approaches for eLearning 9 - 11am LL-109 Lillian Payn
  Tuesday
March 13 
Using Groups in Blackboard  2 - 3pm  Online Chris Norcross
  Wednesday
March 14 
Web Page Development: Advanced Topics 10am - 12pm LL-109 Chris Norcross
Friday
March 16
PowerPoint 3: Narrate and Create Online Video from Your PowerPoint Presentations 9 - 11am LL-109 Terry Gray
  Tuesday
March 27 
Copying Blackboard Courses to Beat the Summer Heat  2 - 3pm  Online David Gray
Friday
March 30
How to Edit Video with Camtasia 9am - 11am LL-109 Terry Gray
April
  Tuesday
April 3 
No Fooling, Archive Your Course  2 - 3pm  Online David Gray
  Tuesday
April 10 
Google Docs  2 - 3pm Online Chris Norcross
  Tuesday
April 17 
Remember Everything with Evernote  2 - 3pm  Online Chris Norcross
  Friday
April 20
eTexts, eReaders and eTextbooks 9 - 11am LL-109 Terry Gray
  Tuesday
April 24
Blogging & Journaling in Blackboard   2 - 4pm LL-109 Chris Norcross
  Friday
April 27 
Getting Started with WordPress   9 - 11am  LL-109 Chris Norcross
May 
  Tuesday
May 1
Easy Web Sites with WordPress  2 - 3pm  Online Chris Norcross
  Tuesday
May 16 
Finalizing Grades in Blackboard   2 - 3pm  Online Chris Norcross 
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