LTC Workshops

Managing Grades in Blackboard (W01-MG)

Do your students call or stop by your office wanting their grades? Did you know that you can post grades in Blackboard's gradebook for assignments, projects, homework, and quizzes not taken via a Blackboard assessment? Students can view their own grades for the course by accessing your Blackboard course site. Blackboard can export your online grades to a comma-delimited file, readable by all spreadsheet programs, for statistical analysis, reordering or further processing in a spreadsheet or statistical application

Smart Classrooms Demo (W02-SC)

This demonstration will introduce you to the "smart classroom" technology available in a number of classrooms across campus. Depending on the specific equipment available, the Sympodium, Smart Cart and/or interactive whiteboard (Smart Board) will be demonstrated at this workshop. Learn to control your applications directly from the board's touch-sensitive surface, write notes over your applications in electronic ink and save or print your notes. The Learning and Technology Center staff is also available for one-on-one sessions with faculty for additional training on the pedagogical uses of the smart classroom tools. To schedule an individual appointment, please contact Darla Ausel at x1848 or submit a request form.

Creating a Banner for the Web (W03-CB)

Need a course banner for your web-page or Blackboard course site? This workshop shows you how to create a simple web-ready banner using Microsoft Word. The banner includes a background, course title and clip art.

Managing Communication in Your Course (W04-MC)

Communicating with your students is an everyday task. In this workshop you will learn how to manage the volume of email from students and ways that you can communicate through discussion boards, chats and listservs. We'll also discuss "The dangers and pitfalls of communicating with students or what not to do when communicating with students on the Internet" according to Dr. Judith Boettcher, Executive Director of Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) and former faculty member at Florida State University.

Integrating PowerPoint into Your Classroom (W05-IP)

PowerPoint can be an effective tool in preparing materials that enable you to present information more effectively to your students or used by your students to demonstrate competence in the content area. This topic is presented in two types of workshops. One workshop is an intermediate workshop that will provide experiences in designing presentations as a(n):

A second workshop focuses on using voice annotations to supplement PowerPoint presentations. The annotation workshop is based on delivery of voice annotation in PowerPoint. Audio can be combined with images or text to provide a powerful learning tool. For example, an instructor might annotate art history slides, biological data or events in history within a PowerPoint show.

*Prerequisite: Beginning workshop or demonstrated experience in using PowerPoint

Moving from Web-Enhanced to Online Instruction (W06-MW)

Are you ready to move to a totally online teaching environment? Come to this lively discussion of how faculty have moved from using Blackboard as a supplement to a totally online environment. You will also learn how you can put your course online through the Distance Education office. Refreshments will be served at this session.

Creating Web Pages in Word (W07-CW)

If you would like to develop a Web page but do not have the time to learn FrontPage or DreamWeaver, this workshop is for you. If you can use Word, you can create a Web page. (Faculty, students and staff have Web space on our Jupiter server for personal and class pages.) You'll learn how to create a page and upload it to the Jupiter server. If you would like to put your syllabus or other materials online, sign up for this workshop.

Getting Connected at Clarion (W08-GC)

Do you have a laptop but you're not sure how to get connected in your office or your classroom? Mike Phillips from the Center for Computing Services and Bill Trimble from the Carlson Library will conduct a workshop for faculty and others interested in learning how to connect to Clarion's network, in the classroom or through wireless. They will demonstrate the process of registering your computer on the network and the locations of wireless networks on campus.

Blackboard Demo (W21-BD)
Introduction to Blackboard (W09-IB)

If you want to learn how to apply Blackboard to your face-to-face (F2F) class but don't want hours of training, this introduction session may be for you. You will learn how to put a handout on your Bb site, create announcements and add links to other websites. General computing skills required. For the Blackboard demo register for W21.

Exploring the iClarion Portal (W10-EP)

In this workshop participants will explore the iClarion portal: create mailboxes, filter mail, block addresses and other email functions; subscribe to, share, and create calendars.

On Request: Contact the Learning and Technology Center

Exploring iClarionMy Courses (W11-MC)

Faculty will be learn how to use the communication and collaboration tools in the iClarion portal to email students in each course, develop discussion forums, post calendar items, and schedule synchronous chats. Workshops will be held in the Learning & Technology Center in 102 Becht Hall.

Adobe Acrobat Creator (W12-AA)

In this workshop participants will learn how to create presentations using Adobe Acrobat Creator 5.0 software. Adobe Acrobat enables you to create PDF files from the Web, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. You will learn how to use commenting tools, import documents, create bookmarks, and insert graphics or video.

Online Communication and Collaboration (Discussion Boards) (W13-OC)

Engaging students in an online course can be challenging. Research supports the need for meaningful interaction and communication among students and the instructor in an online course. Online discussions can also enhance and extend your in-class course. Attend this workshop to learn how you can use discussion boards to foster a collaborative learning experience for your students.

Digital Imaging for the Web (W14-DI)

Digital Imaging is a workshop on optimizing digital images for the Web, PowerPoint presentations, or other documents. You will learn the importance of file size and resolution, how to compress images in PowerPoint, and how to scan images for the web. This is a workshop for faculty, seats available for staff if the workshop is not full.

File Sharing on the Network: WebDrive/Samba/WS_FTP/Fetch (W15-FS)

Have you ever needed to have your files available to you from another room on campus? Clarion has space available to store documents that can be accessed via the network. All that is needed is a computer with Internet access. In this workshop you will learn how to access your Jupiter account using WebDrive, Samba or WS_FTP (Windows).

Microsoft Photo Editor (W16-PE)

To learn more, attend the Microsoft Photo Editor Brown Bag and learn what types of digital cameras are available and how to use image editing software that comes with Microsoft Office (Windows).

Tablet PC Demo (W17-TP)

Creating Web Pages in Netscape 7 (W18-WN)

If you would like to develop a Web page but do not have the time to learn FrontPage or DreamWeaver, this workshop is for you. Netscape is an easy to use tool for creating Web pages. (Faculty, students and staff have Web space on our Jupiter server for personal and class pages.) You'll learn how to create a page and upload it to the Jupiter server. If you would like to put your syllabus or other materials online, sign up for this workshop.

Turnitin and Grademark Anti-Plagiarism Tools in Blackboard

Turnitin anti-plagiarism tools are now available in Blackboard. In this workshop you will learn how to create a Turnitin Assignment, view originality reports, and enter Turnitin assignment grades in Blackboard. This workshop will also highlight the Grademark feature.  Grademark provides functionality for instructors to read, comment, and grade student papers online without having to download the papers to your computer.  Students can also access the comments from within your Blackboard course.  For more information on Turnitin, click here.

Teams LX (Wikis) in Blackboard

Not familiar with a Wiki?  Teams LX (Wiki) is a Blackboard building block which promotes collaborative learning. The Teams LX feature makes it easy for groups to create and jointly edit shared web pages. In addition to editing content, users can provide feedback and comments on posted material. Instructors can use Teams LX to incorporate problem-based learning strategies into their courses. In this hands-on session participants will learn what a Wiki is, how to set-up a Team (Wiki) in Blackboard, and how it can be used to allow students to collaboratively work on team projects.

Journal LX (Blogs) in Blackboard

Journal LX (Blog) gives instructors and students the tools to create rich media journals within a Course and provides the classroom community a forum to reflect on course- related topics, projects, thoughts, and ideas.  Using Journal LX for group or course-wide blogging fosters lively discussion of course topics and concepts. When engaged in written debate, students are motivated to sharpen their critical-thinking and rhetorical skills.

Wimba Classroom in Blackboard

Teach and meet live online

Personalize your online courses by holding live, online classes, office hours, guest lectures, webcasts, and meetings using Wimba Classroom.  During this workshop, users will actively participate in a live session using two-way audio and application sharing.

This session is also valuable for staff and administrators who would like to collaborate and/or meet online with other participants.

TurningPoint Introduction (Clickers)

Interested in using personal response systems (clickers) in the classroom?  A trainer from Turning Technologies will be presenting a workshop for new users (introduction to TurningPoint software and the new XR clicker).

For more information or to request group training, contact Darla Ausel (x1848).