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Online Learning Technologies Workshops

Blackboard 9.0 I: Introduction to Blackboard
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General Description: This session is for instructors who have never taught online or know little about Blackboard. Instructors will learn some basics about Blackboard course management system, including managing course design and course menu, adding announcements, uploading course documents, and creating discussion forums.
Course Handout (pdf)

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Change course design and manage course menu
• Add and send announcements to students
• Upload course documents to a Blackboard course
• Create and manage discussion forums

Blackboard 9.0 II: Collaboration and Communication
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General Description: This session focuses on the application of communication tools in the Blackboard course management system. Through the use of email messaging, discussion board, group discussions, and the synchronous communication tools, you will learn more strategies to engage and empower your students to interact with each other in the online learning environment.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Send email messages from within a Blackboard course
• Set up, manage, and moderate discussion board, group discussions, and real-time communication tools

Blackboard 9.0 III: Assignments and Assessment
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General Description: This session will help instructors look at the challenges and benefits of assessments in an online environment. Faculty will also discuss alternative methods, sampling and tests, besides the tried and true multiple choice style. This workshop will also look at using online testing in on-campus courses.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Organize content in an orderly manner
• Deliver or receive assignments and assessments to or from students
• Get familiar with the Grade Center features
• Gain knowledge in technological limitations of an online course

Articulate Presenter
(Due to limited license numbers, we only offer online tutorials or individual assistance for this tool)
General Description: As an online learning presentation tool, Articulate Presenter helps instructors to add audio narration to a PowerPoint Presentation. It reduces the size of the presentations so that they can be downloaded fast and distributed widely in a format that anyone can view. With streaming audio, it also provides accessibility to students with disabilities and meets the needs of students with different learning styles. Furthermore, there are no plug-in hassels or technical challenges for the students. Through either the online tutorial (http://www.fhsu.edu/ctelt/learningtechnology/articulate.shtml) or individual assistance, you will learn how to record and publish audio with your PowerPoint presentations. You can contact CTELT at 785-628-4194 for accessing the Articulate Presenter.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Access Articulate Presenter
• Add or record audio to a PowperPoint presentation
• Publish it in a format for online learning
• Embed it to a Blackboard course

Adobe Connect
(Due to limited license numbers, we only offer individual assistance for this tool)
General Description: Adobe Connect is a desktop videoconference tool that allows for both synchronous and asynchronous online collaboration. It is a powerful tool for online teaching to enhance “presence” between students and their instructor. Adobe Connect incorporates presentation, audio, video, file sharing and desktop sharing technologies. Contact CTELT at 785-628-5721 or 785-628-4194, you’ll have access to Adobe Connect and know the basic usage of this tool.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Access Adobe Connect
• Ulitize Adobe Connect tools such as whiteboard, video and audio conference, recording or editing of sessions, uploading content and and conducting web tours
• Observe Adobe Connect group functions
• Explain potential uses for online collaboration and web based content

Mobile Teaching and Learning Workshops

Mobile Technology Basics
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General Description: This workshop is to help you grasp a big picture of mobile wireless technologies. This session will provide information on four sub-topics: tablet computer hardware basics, working with tablet carts, an overview of mobile wireless technologies and wireless on campus, and mobile computing through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) off campus.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Operate a tablet PC and a digital pen
• Locate and operate tablet carts
• Identify FHSU network and HotSpots
• Utilize the Virtual Private Network (VPN) to connect to the campus network

Hands-On Application of Tablets
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General Description: Microsoft Office 2007 has special functionality for Tablet PCs. PowerPoint presentations can be annotated with the pen, Word documents can be commented on with the pen and OneNote allows the user to digitally take hand-written notes, typed notes, organize files, import content for annotation, and even record audio. This workshop will be a hands-on training on the function of Microsoft Office 2007.
Course Handout (pdf)

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Create and edit folders, sections and pages in OneNote 2007
• Create hand-written and typed notes in Office 2007
• Import content and record audio into OneNote
• Adjust tablet settings with emphasis in Office 2007

Peer Learning Through Technology
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General Description: Ever wish you had more time in class so your students could do things instead of passively sit while being lectured to? Ever get tired of repeating the same lecture over and over again to the same blank faces? Technology has permitted new modalities of peer learning that can have a dramatic impact on teaching quality and student engagement. This workshop will survey the state of the art in peer learning for the post-secondary environment and describe some technology applications that can support peer learning.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Determine if a peer learning approach is appropriate for a particular course
• Develop a peer learning framework for a course
• Manage the unstructured components of peer learning during class sessions
• Develop assessments for courses employing peer learning
• Use the Classroom Response System (CPS) and other technologies to assess student attention and learning in real time

Hands-On Application of DyKnow
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General Description: If you teach in a computer lab, have access to a mobile computer cart, or would like to increase contact in a virtual class, then DyKnow may be a solution for you. DyKnow enables instructors and students to interactively share, annotate, save and retrieve material during and after a class. It turns the classroom into a collaborative learning environment where the instructor has control over the other PCs in the room. Come and experience how this software can transform the dynamics of your classes.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Login and host a class
• Insert a presentation into DyKnow
• Operate DyKnow tools and admin console

Teaching with DyKnow
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General Description: This session introduces pedagogies related to DyKnow: enhanced presentations, collaborative note taking, classroom interactions, and after class activities. Through hands-on exploration and practice, participants will learn strategies to empower teaching and enhance students’ learning.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Enhance presentations and illustrations with multimedia components
• Plan a group project through collaborative note taking
• Engage students and increase interaction through polling, private notes, shared whiteboard control, chat, and streaming audio

Online Course Development Workshops

I am New to This: Basic Course Design for Online Teaching
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General Description: Targeting faculty who has never taught online, this workshop is a starting session about designing an online course. Participants will learn about significance of online teaching, course development standards, differences between classroom teaching and online teaching, course design planning, online learning syllabus, common issues and resources available for online course development. Examples will be also shared during the session.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the national and local level course development standards
• Explain the stages of online learning and differences between classroom and online teaching
• Organize course content for online delivery and create an online learning syllabus
• List common issues in the online learning enviroment, with a focus on copyright issuest
• Locate resources available for online course development

Now What: Creating and Adapting Course Materials for Online Teaching
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General Description: Whether you are new to online teaching or you have already taught online for a while, this session would help you to create and develop digital learning objects to accommodate the different learning styles of online learners. Methods and ideas will be introduced for participants to create course materials to engage online learners. Skills will be developed and examples will be shared during the session.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the characteristics of adult learners
• Explain different learning styles
• Create and develop a learning module
• Create and develop digital learning objects using several methods

Let’s Chat: Strategies for Promoting Online Communication
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General Description: With a focus on a variety of tools and techniques, which is useful in improving the overall interactivity of an online classroom, this session will show participants how to make students more involved in the class activities, specifically discussions.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Make your online class more interactive
• Motivate students to actively participate in class activities
• Effectively and efficiently utilize synchronous and asynchronous communication tools

Surviving in the Jungles of Academe
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General Description: Dr. Robert Luehrs has been part of FHSU for more than 40 years, as a history professor and occasionally as an administrator. Even now, in semi-retirement, he continues to offer Virtual classes and serve as Teaching Excellence Coordinator. In this session he draws on his decades of experience to offer suggestions and warnings to those who wish to have successful careers at our university. His remarks are especially meant for newer faculty, those seeking tenure or promotion, but others are certainly welcome to attend this presentation.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants will:

• Recognize dangerous and potentially self-destructive pitfalls to be avoided
• Recognize what is possible at this point in their professional life and what is highly unlikely
• Know how to advance oneself without alienating everyone else
• Be given examples of how FHSU actually (and secretly) works

What’s a Rubric: Strategies for Enhancing Online Learning Assessment
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General Description: If you want to learn how to create online tests that challenge your students, encourage reflective learning, and are secure, then this session would be good for you. You will learn to communicate your expectations about papers to students and follow through. This session will explain online assessment and show you how to effectively assess student learning online.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the need for learning outcomes assessment
• Identify best practices in online learning assessment
• Create rubrics to assess student learning outcomes
• Create peer review mechanisms for online learning
• Edit and comment on papers submitted online

Creating Interaction in Your Classes
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General Description: Are you looking for ways to get students involved in face-to-face classes, hybrid classes, or online classes? Find out about MERLOT and how you can easily find free, online resources to add interactive activities, simulations, and other resources for either you or your students to use. We will discuss where and how these resources can best be implemented.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Add materials to their current courses that will enhance interaction and student learning

Web 2.0 Tools Workshops

Integrating Blogs into Teaching
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General Description: This workshop will introduce some important concepts related to blogs, including RSS and syndication. It will also show some blog examples in teaching as well as teach participants how to create a blog using Blogger and utilize RSS aggregators such as the Google Reader.

Learning Objectives:After this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain RSS and syndication
• Create a blog using Blogger
• Locate some free blogging tools
• Utilize RSS aggregators such as the Google Reader

Creating a Podcast
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General Description: This workshop will define podcasting and show how both pre-produced and self-produced content can be used to supplement classroom and online learning. Participants will learn the basics of how to produce an audio podcast using a variety of methods. The workshop will also touch on how to publish a podcast using iTunesU.
Course Handout (pdf)

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Provide a definition of podcasts
• Utilize pre-produced podcasts
• Create a podcast using iPod microphone, digital audio recorder, and Audacity
• Publish on iTunesU

Twitter and Ning
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General Description: Twitter is exploding onto the Web 2.0 forefront and it isn't just for celebrities. For educators, it is a great tool to expand your personal learning network. From breaking news to updates from friends, people can also access information via Twitter as it happens. Ning is a social networking tool through which you can create your own social networking site to present information in text, images, audios, and videos. Ning is also a great addition to any classroom, either face-to-face or online. Come join us to explore the great potential of these two tools in teaching and learning.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain Twitter and Ning
• Create a free account for Twitter and Ning
• Domonstrate basic skills to utlize Twitter and Ning
• Locate some good resources about integrating Twitter and Ning into teaching

Integrating Wikis into Teaching
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General Description: Designed for people with little or no experience in using wiki as a taching tool, this worksop will introduce various strategies needed to integrate wikis into instruction. Basics, such as definition and common features of a wiki, will be explained. Examples of student work and popular wiki sites will also be shared.

Learning Objectives:After this session, participants will be able to:

• Define a wiki
• Explain the common features of a wiki
• Domstrate skills needed to integrate wikis into instruction
• Locate some popular wiki sites

Google Tools in Teaching
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General Description: A set of free tools, such as iGoogle, Google Reader, Google Docs, and Google Sites have made information sharing and collaborative projects much fun and easier. With a focus on hands-on learning, this session will show you how to create or upload a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation online, edit it individually or collaboratively any time and from anywhere, and share online with anyone you would like to give access. It will also show you how to create a simple website without any concern about lack of the server knowledge. All demonstrated tools can provide some new ideas for designing learning activities and foster productivity in the workplace.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate basic skills about some Google tools
• Upload or create a document online
• Edit the document online
• Invite collaborators for editing or sharing
• Create and manage a simple website

Basic Digital Skills Workshops

Digital Photography
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General Description: Targeting faculty and staff, this workshop provides information on the digital cameras of today and some tips and tricks from the FHSU photographer. Participants will gain knowledge of what is available on the market and what type of camera may be best for them. There will also be a chance to practice basic photography and digital editing as well as discuss scanning analog images and working with the digital media.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Operate a camera
• Enhance image composition and image quality
• Manage file type or storage

Basic Image Editing
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General Description: This workshop provides faculty and staff a chance to learn some basic tips and tricks to fix some simple problems with your photos. This workshop will help your personal photographs reach a high degree of quality for web and/or prints. Learn the basics of correcting photos such as correcting red-eye, adjusting the color levels, setting the contrast and much more.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain file size or type
• Use photo restoration and enhancement tools

Advanced Image Editing
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General Description: This follow-up workshop to Basic Image Editing is excellent for anyone who wants to take their basic skills one step further. Go beyond the basic photo touch-up techniques and learn about more serious color correction, adjusting image levels, digital photo repair and image restoration on your computer. This workshop will give you the opportunity to work with layers, add text and graphics, and enhance your photos with some of the enhanced tools.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Control layers
• Apply filters, effects and type
• Add graphic elements

Digital Video Editing
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General Description: This workshop will show participants how to transfer their digital video into a computer, edit it into a more presentable form, and then output it to a variety of different formats.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Capture footage from a digital video camera into computer editing software
• Place, order, split and shorten raw clips on a timeline
• Add transitions such as dissolves and wipes
• Add audio including music, voiceovers and sound effects
• Add graphics and photos
• Prepare a DVD menu
• Output to AVI, iPod, Podcast, Real Player Stream, Windows Media, .mpg, or DVD

Web Survey
General Description: In the digital age you no longer need paper and pencils to conduct a survey. With a free account to the institutional web survey tool, you can create and administer a survey online efficiently and effectively. Through either the online tutorial (Choose the four-part tutorial Online Survey System at http://www.fhsu.edu/ctelt/itresources.shtml) or individual assistance, you will learn how to access the web survey tool, create an online survey, activate the survey, and download the survey data. You can contact CTELT at 785-628-4194 for a username and password to access the web survey tool.

Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

• Access the institutional web survey tool
• Create an online survey
• Administer the online survey
• Download the survey data