January is not too far off and that means it is once again time for our January Technology Workshops for faculty. Most of these workshops allow you to learn new technologies while working hands-on with content from your own courses.
For workshop schedule, descriptions, and online registration, go to:
Academic Computing Faculty Workshop Registration
Workshop topics include:
Emerging Technologies:
Find out about the latest tools being used for teaching and learning, from online collaboration tools in Google to virtual online environments.
Basic technology tools for teaching:
Learn how to effectively use the basic tools to create course content or manage student data. These workshops cover digital images, PowerPoint, PDFs, and grade management in Excel.
Public course Web sites:
The new OIT blog tool makes it easy to post announcments and course materials on a public Web site. (A simpler alternative to using Dreamweaver.)
Course Web sites in SPARK:
SPARK provides an easy Web-based way to build a course site that is available only to the students registered for your class. In addition to posting basic course information, you can use SPARK to create interactive elements such as discussion spaces, online quizzes, and assignment drop boxes.
Digital audio & video:
If you want to create media-rich content for your courses, these workshops will show you how to capture, convert, edit and post digital audio and video files. These workshops cover audio and video editing on both Mac and Windows, as well as a new workshop on Screencasting using Camtasia.
We hope to see you there!