Letizia Guglielmo has industriously gathered and organized some helpful technology workshops, which she emailed to everyone Wednesday, January 5. However, for the convenience of freeing up precious space in your email boxes, the information is posted here for later reference.
Dr. Guglielmo suggests that “as you continue preparing your syllabi and course activities for the semester, [use] the wealth of technology resources we have available in the department and college.” She reports that a series of useful technology workshops are scheduled in order to help you plan for your face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses and your professional work. Below is a list of workshops and further resources available to you through the university. They are listed in the following categories: Equipment and Digital Tools, English Department Workshops, CHSS “Brown Bags,” KSU technology workshops, and ITS Outreach learning seminars.
Equipment and Digital Tools
Camcorders and tripods, Digital Voice Recorders, Headsets with mics (enough for student use in the classroom), External Hard Drives for backing up projects and transferring work from the classroom to your office computer, Digital Cameras, as well as Laptops and Projectors. Please see Rhonda or a student assistant for details.
Additional digital tools are also available in the Dean’s Office including:
iPads, Flipcameras, additional Headphones with mics, Podcasters, Webcameras, and Flash Drives preloaded with hundreds of Power Point Templates and Images for your use. You may contact Nikki Hill (rhill23@kennesaw.edu), our CHSS Administrative Specialist for Online Services, for more information or simply drop by the Dean’s suite to sign out equipment.
Department Technology Blog
Over the course of the semester, I will continue to post all technology-related information to our department technology blog:
http://techtipsbits.wordpress.com/
You’ll see that the site includes information about campus workshops, articles on technology and pedagogy, scholarship opportunities, and, most importantly, resources for teaching with technology (under the Teaching tab: Try This in Class). I will post to the blog regularly to avoid flooding your inbox with messages, and remember that you may subscribe to the blog to receive messages/digests via email as often as you wish. To do so, scroll to the bottom right of any page on the site, and enter your email in the subscription box.
English Department Workshops
(Today) GeorgiaView Vista Basics –
Thursday, January 6, 3 pm – EB 235
Please join me for a Blackboard Vista Basics workshop as you prepare your course materials for the new semester. In this hands-on session, we’ll review the basic features of the system and will begin uploading documents to your course site(s). Even if you have been using the system up to this point, please feel free to attend if you’d like a refresher and/or help uploading your syllabus.
Prize-winning Presentations with Prezi –
Friday, January 28, 11 am – 1 pm – EB 266
Tired of the same flat Power Point slides? Looking for a way to enhance your next conference presentation or classroom lecture? In this hands-on workshop participants will learn the basics of Prezi presentation software and create their own “eye-popping” and “astonishing” presentations to be used in the classroom and/or in professional work.
Tech Tips and Bits: English Department Technology Lecture and Workshops
Following up on our excellent presentations during the Fall 2010 semester by colleagues Carola Mattord, Melanie Sumner, and Michele Medved, the next installment of our series will include three presentations highlighting innovative uses of technology in the classroom and in professional work, inviting you to explore how these pedagogical strategies and professional tools can enhance your own teaching and scholarship. The workshops are generally held on Wednesdays from 2—3 p.m. The Spring 2011 workshop descriptions are listed below:
Wednesday, February 9, 2 – 3 pm –EB 053
(Coffee & Snacks provided)
Anne R. Richards will present Building Final Exams on Student-Created Content: An Attempt to Decenter Learning in Online Courses
Wednesday, March 2, 2 – 3 pm – EB 053
(Coffee & Snacks provided)
Patty Cardona will present Innovative Uses of PowerPoint in the Classroom
Wednesday, March 30, 2 – 3 pm – EB 053
(Coffee & Snacks provided)
Amy Sandefur will present Using WebEx Meet© for Teaching and Professional Collaboration
Upcoming CHSS Brown Bags
Organizing Hybrids January 13, 11:30 am – 1 pm SO 1020A
Considering teaching Hybrid courses? Come learn how to organize them. If you are considering teaching a hybrid course, but don’t know where to start, this Brown Bag is for you.
Best Practices in Hybrid Courses
January 20, 11 am – 12:30 pm SO 4060
Learn best practices for teaching a hybrid course as well as mechanisms for online quizzes and tests and strategies for counting participation in an online course.
What Tools, What Task
January 27, 11 am – 12:30 pm SO 5074
In this session, several demonstrators will show you how to use social tools, Camtasia, Wimba, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Audition, Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, SecondLife, and Go To Meeting when teaching an online or hybrid course.
Best Practices in Powerpoint
February 3, 11:30 am – 1 pm SO 1020A
In the final session of the Distance Education Brown Bag Series, come learn the best practices in effective PowerPoint design.
Additional University Workshops
(complete details included on our tech blog: http://techtipsbits.wordpress.com/)
KSU/QM Online Course Development Workshop:
Friday, January 14, 9 am – 2 pm CETL House #54: Lab
Using VoiceThread to Extend Discussions Beyond Vista:
Wednesday, January 26, 1 – 2:30 pm – CETL House #54: Lab
ITS Outreach & Distance Learning Technologies
First Fridays –
First Friday of each month, drop-in 9 am – 4 pm – BB 477
First Fridays is a collaborative effort of ITS, MDG, and ODG. Trainers from the ITS Outreach & Distance Learning Technologies department, as well as GeorgiaVIEW Vista administrators from the Online Development Group, will be available throughout the sessions to provide technical assistance with various computer applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Zimbra, Dreamweaver, GeorgiaVIEW Vista, Wimba, Respondus, Drupal, Camtasia, Captivate, Podcasting, KSU Wireless, etc.).
