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Technology Short Courses
The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center offers a number of regular and custom technology short courses related to improving classroom instruction and distance learning.
Breeze Meeting (Acrobat Connect)
Breeze Presenter (Adobe Presenter)
Online Surveys
Polling Systems
Poster Design
WebCT
Regular Courses
WebCT Series
WebCT: Basic Training (prerequisite to other WebCT courses)
Overview of the basic functions of the WebCT course tools (content management, communication, gradebook, and evaluation) for use in both Distance Learning and Face-To-Face courses. Learn basic course maintenance and administration.
WebCT: Communication Tools
Learn to create and manage threaded discussion, email, chat rooms, and the built-in calendar tools within WebCT. These tools work equally well for distance or face-to-face courses.
WebCT: Creating Content Modules
This course shows the designer easy and effective methods for creating content modules. A Content Module is a series of pages of content such as lecture notes, multimedia presentations, assignments, and quizzes.
WebCT: Using the Quiz Tool
Step by step instructions for creating a WebCT question database, creating and importing questions, creating and configuring online quizzes through WebCT.
WebCT: Assignment Tool
Join us for an overview with hands-on exercises for the WebCT Assignment Tool. Learn how to create and manage online assignment submission "dropbox" in WebCT.
WebCT: Gradebook Tool
Join us for an overview of the WebCT Gradebook Tool. We will go over how to manually add grades, how to use existing grades to create a calculated course grade, and how to download the gradebook to Excel.
Creat Online Lectures: Mesh Your Voice and PowerPoint Using Adobe Presenter (Breeze)
Are you looking for an easy way to add your voice to a PowerPoint to enhance online lecture delivery? This shortcourse walks through the step-by-step instructions to use Adobe Presenter (formerly Macromedia Breeze) to add audio to PowerPoint to create a Flash Presentation for online lectures and other presentations.
A brief introduction to and pedagogy of teaching synchronous distance learning courses via the Internet and web conferencing technology that allows to add interactivity and old face-to-face classroom feel to an online distance learning course.
Publishing Course Materials Online Using Microsoft FrontPage
An in-depth course on using Microsoft FrontPage as an online course content editing and publishing tool. We cover a variety of topics from conceptual planning to implementation and encourage faculty to bring their own materials to create course pages. As part of the course, we will provide space on our servers for practice and hosting academic (for-credit) courses.
Online Course Content Delivery Using Adobe Dreamweaver
An introductory class on pedagogical issues involving web development and designing instructional web sites using Adobe Dreamweaver - a platform-independent tool for creating sophisticated interactive web environments. As part of the course, we will provide space on our servers for practice and hosting academic (for-credit) courses.
Enhancing Student Participation with Polling Systems
Learn the basics of integrating the polling systems into your presentations as either a stand-alone system or with PowerPoint presentations. Find out about classroom techniques and assessment with student polling systems. Learn how to get the most out of the system and increase student participation while gaining an accurate picture of your students' knowledge.
Custom Courses
Creating Online Surveys
This shortcourse explores the pedagogy behind the development of surveys. Whether you are surveying your students, doing student assessments, or conducting research, this course will provide important information, tips, and hints on how to create a survey. You will also be introduced to the SelectSurvey tool available at the TLTC.
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Creating Instructional Materials with Camtasia
With the demand of online services increasing rapidly, a need for round-the-clock help, lends itself nicely to the development and use of online tutorials. Camtasia is a video screen recording program that records, edits and shares videos of any action on your Windows desktop. This session will demonstrate the use of Camtasia and show how to create video screen captures, shockwave files to use online, animated images for icons, and streaming video files.
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Enhancing Your Course Materials with Flash
Adobe (Macromedia) Flash allows you to create animations and multimedia to enhance your course materials. You will learn to create interactive learning modules for your students.
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Basic Poster Design using PowerPoint
This 1-hour class is designed to equip faculty with basic poster design techniques. PowerPoint is the preferred software used to create posters, and hands-on instruction is included. Setting up page sizes, utilization of text boxes, fonts, backgrounds, and images will be the major focus areas. Basic page layout aimed at attracting viewers will also be discussed as well as examples of good posters.
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