February 6, 2009 Contents Technology News Briefs Training Opportunities The Blackboard Feature of the Week: "Cirque du Soutien" Teaching with Technology: "Tips for Starting the Semester Right" Tech Talk Topic: "Jing" For more, see podcast notes page for Episode 99

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Technology News Briefs

Training Opportunities

• Academic Technology Workshops
  • The Academic Technology training schedule has been published for the spring 2009 semester.  Click here for the schedule, and here for the training description page.  New this spring will be four "technology Fridays" where a topic will be pursued by a limited number of participants (15) in depth for six hours (including an hour for lunch, which will be provided free).  Those interested in technology Fridays are encouraged to sign-up early, since seating and lunch reservations are limited.

    Upcoming in-person workshops include:

    • "PowerPoint 1:  Creating Basic Presentations with PowerPoint 2007" conducted by Terry Gray on Thursday, February 12, from 1-3pm in room LL-109.
    • "The Wimba Voice Tool" conducted by Dr. Haydn Davis and Terry Gray on Thursday, February 19, from 1-3pm in room LL-109.
    • "Blackboard Tools and Best Practices for Online Instructors" conducted by Dr. Haydn Davis and the Blackboard team on Friday, February 20, from 9am to 3pm in room LL-109.  Lunch will be included and a raffle giveaway technology prize will be awarded.
       
  • In addition, we have developed a set of self-paced, online workshops on various technology essentials topics in the Academic Technology Training Blackboard course.  All faculty and staff members are pre-enrolled in this course.  You will find it in the My Courses area when you login to Blackboard under the "Courses in which you are enrolled" section.
     
  • We have also developed (or linked to) sets of screen videos that teach how to use the features of the various technology tools available to faculty members through Blackboard:
     
    • Teaching with Blackboard
    • Using Safe Assign Anti-Plagiarism Service
    • Using the Wimba Voice Tools
    • Using Learning Objects
    • Using Elluminate eConferencing Tools
    • Using StudyMate Learning Activity Builder

The Blackboard Feature of the Week - David Gray

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	See the index of Dave's previous "Blackboard Feature of the Week" segments.

Teaching with Technology - Dr. Haydn Davis

	Listen to this segment only [mp3 - play time = 11:59]
	See the index of Haydn's previous "Teaching with Technology" segments.

Tech-Talk-Topic - Terry Gray

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	See an index of previous "Tech Talk Topics" segments.

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