- *Elluminate for Students
Want to get up to speed with Elluminate Live? This web conferencing
learning suite can help you "meet" with instructors, advisers and group
members in a collaborative space... and even has the capability to
record a class lecture or meeting with your own notes incorporated for
playback!
- *How to be a successful online learner
Online courses are becoming more convenient and popular. With this
in mind, it is very important that the online student possess unique
qualities in order to become a successful online learner. Learn useful
tips on how to effectively participate in discussion boards using
Netiquette; use the technology properly; complete assignments on time;
and participate in virtual groups.
- Blogs and Wikis
Ready to implement Web 2.0 tools in your courses? Wikis and Blogs
are the perfect tools to share information regarding your courses and
the perfect opportunity for students to learn from each other. This 20
minute session will initiate you on how to apply different learning
tools and have the opportunity to network with different students’
ideas and many other online functions.
- Copyright & Digital Rights Management
Today’s dissemination of information and resources by instructors
and students in the classroom is getting serious attention from
publishers and other institutions working closely with copyright law.
Digital distribution, in particular, is receiving special importance
due to easy sharing capabilities students have through the use of the
Internet, affecting organizations that profit from royalties or fees
derived from the publishing process. Join us for an informative and
collaborative discussion about this critical issue.
- Elluminate for Faculty
You need to Elluminate your life!
Tired of on-campus meetings taking too much time from your schedule
because of transit issues? Would you like to hold office hours from
home? Do you need an additional means of connecting with your online
and blended-learning students, a "creative workspace" for your students
to collaborate, or an efficient tool for providing tutoring?
Join us to learn how UTEP faculty are maximizing virtual meetings
using Elluminate Learning Suite, provided at no extra cost for all UTEP
faculty, staff and students. For more information:
http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=56616
- How to put your Course Online
Frustrated with the limitations of a classroom and wishful thinking
about conveniences of teaching online…from your home or office? Has
demand for more hands-on activities—or perhaps lack of thoughtful
discussion by students—in class caused you to wonder if there is
another way to engage your students and maximize time investments for
both yourself and your students? Maybe online teaching is for you! Join
this session to get the basics about how to begin planning your online
course, and just what the development process entails!
- iMovie
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Creating Downloadable MP3’s
Add zest to your lectures! Deliver lectures that are more appealing
for multiple learning style audiences by adding engaging audio clips
with interesting tidbits or “possible quiz” material. Score points by
delivering audio-lectures outside of class meetings and maintaining a
resource area for students who missed class. If you are looking for
flexibility for both you and your students, go to the head of the
class! Create downloadable MP3 files using free software and affordable
equipment with ease at home or at your office. Offering access to your
MP3’s to students through UTEP MySpace, Coursemine, or other delivery
methods can bring the world into your classroom… while taking your
classroom to the world!
- iPeer
Would you like to track individual contributions of team members
based on peer evaluations, and even automate the feedback process?
iPeer is an application for developing and delivering rubric-based peer
evaluations. It facilitates team based learning by managing
evaluations, team member submissions, and email reminders to team
members, using custom rubrics or simple evaluations. Join us to learn
how to incorporate this into your course!
- Raptivity
Using Raptivity, you can create learning interactions that appeal
to different learning styles, incorporate immediate feedback to
learners, and promote increased interaction between learners and course
content for both online and classroom teaching. These learning
interactions can be customized and integrated with eLearning tools such
as Flash, Captivate, PowerPoint, etc. as well as deployed as
SCORM-trackable interactions in Blackboard and other Learning
Management Systems.
- Second Life
Create your own Virtual Simulation!
With emerging technologies such as Second Life, you have the power
to create virtual worlds, interactive simulations and teaching
environments all in 3D.
In just a few minutes, you can join Second Life, create your own
avatar, and start collaborating with people around the world without
ever leaving your desk. And, here's the best part. It's free.
Here at ISS we work with faculty to design, create and customize
virtual simulations in Second Life for a wide variety of classes. Come
join us as we demonstrate the use of virtual reality in education.
- Synchronous Learning Tools - Elluminate, Wimba
Worried about students who just don’t seem to connect, as if your
class is the last thing on their mind? Do you wish there were ways to
make your office hours more productive, and accessible to all? Are you
teaching online and feeling that some students just need a more
personal connection, or that a real-time lecture session would be
helpful to all? Attend this session for an overview of how to use
synchronous communication tools such as Elluminate and Wimba for more
effective teaching. (Note: This session is a discussion about
integrating instructional technology in the teaching process; it does
not cover the technical how-to for using the tools. Please attend the
Elluminate session for how-to basics.)
- TurnItIn
Help your students become better writers and researchers with a
tool that helps prevent plagiarism. Copy & paste keys have become
increasingly used to compose an essay or paper for class assignments
and it becomes difficult for faculty to vet every text, especially in
larger classes. This 20 minute session will introduce you to the use of
Turnitin, and how it helps you create a report showing how students are
researching and using their references.
- Using Discussion Boards Effectively
Do you have the feeling that your students are bored with the
discussion board activities, that they are “just posting to meet the
requirements of the assigned task” instead of truly engaging in
thoughtful discussion and building a learning community that they can
reach out to for help and insightful discussion? Join us to discuss
strategies for converting typical discussion activities into something
more exciting! Learn how to structure your discussion boards to
maximize your time investment, and help students utilize the discussion
board potential as well!
- WYSIWYG Editor in Blackboard 8 (UTTC)
Learn the capabilities of What You See Is What You Get! A WYSIWYG
editor makes it very simple to create formatted and appealing content
in any text area of Blackboard, Blogs, and Wikis. You will learn how to
use familiar tools including how to format text; insert images and
links; spell check; attach documents; and to copy/paste text from
Microsoft Word while retaining its formatting.