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Beyond the social networking functionality of Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service can also be utilized as a method for keeping tabs on new product releases, press releases from governmental agencies, and keeping up to date with breaking news.

If you are interested in learning more about Twitter, during the week of November 16th - 19th, the CTC will be presenting a workshop series entitled Creating Your Professional Social Network Presence which includes: Twitter: What do so many people have to say?

As a starting point, here is a list of four Twitter feeds of interest that have more than one million followers:

CDC Emergency

http://twitter.com/CDCemergency
CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response: increasing the nation's ability to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies
http://emergency.cdc.gov/

cnnbrk
http://twitter.com/cnnbrk
CNN Breaking News
CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery.
http://cnn.com/

Downing Street
http://twitter.com/DowningStreet
The official twitter channel for the Prime Minister's Office based at 10 Downing Street.
http://www.number10.gov.uk/

The White House
http://twitter.com/Whitehouse
Official WH twitter account. Comments & messages received through official WH pages are subject to the PRA and may be archived. Learn more at http://wh.gov/privacy
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

click here for a list of additional interesting Twitter feeds to follow.

Students and faculty have the option of hiding and displaying their view of the navigation menu in any Blackboard course in which they are enrolled. To hide the navigation menu, simply click the arrow beside the menu. To display the menu again once it has been hidden, click the arrow again .

DyKnow has recently released a PowerPoint plugin, available as an update, v.5.2.74. The PowerPoint plug-in that adds functionality and increases integration with Microsoft PowerPoint.

Key features include:

• Create DyKnow polls ahead of time in PowerPoint


• Links in PowerPoint will remain active links in DyKnow


• Text builds in PowerPoint will remain in DyKnow


• Start a DyKnow session from PowerPoint

Get ready for the upcoming CTC workshop series entitled Creating Your Professional Social Network Presence November 16th - 19th. This series is in response to the numerous questions and suggestions we have been receiving about creating social professional networks. The series is divided into 4 sessions:

Wednesday, November 18th 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ITV Classroom REGISTER NOW

Twitter: What do so many people have to say?
This workshop will focus on the ins and outs of using Twitter. During this session we will cover how to use the popular social networking tool and why one would even want to use it. Learn how to follow topics that are of interest to you and how to develop a following of your own.
Monday, November 16th 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CTC Classroom REGISTER NOW
Wednesday, November 18th 10:00 am - 11:30 pm CTC Classroom REGISTER NOW

Moveable Type: How your blog sets your online presence apart from the rest
Moveable Type is a blogging tool available to faculty and staff at SHU. During this session we will discuss how to request a moveable Type account, how to add and edit entries, and how to add media such as images, video and audio.
Tuesday, November 17th 10:00 am - 11:30 am CTC Classroom REGISTER NOW
Thursday, November 19th 10:00 am - 11:30 am ITV Classroom REGISTER NOW

Mash It Up! Make Facebook, Twitter and Moveable Type work together for you
With so many social networks how do you make time to use them all? Well, you don't have to! Attend this session to find out how to tie Facebook, Twitter and Moveable Type together and make it easier to manage them all at once. During this session we will share applications that mash your online presence together.
Tuesday, November 17th 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CTC Classroom REGISTER NOW
Thursday, November 19th 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ITV Classroom REGISTER NOW

We look forward to seeing you there. Questions? Contact Melissa McDowell at Ext. 6173 or melissa.mcdowell@shu.edu

On October 15th and 16th, the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center offered its first Online Teaching Boot Camp. This event focused on providing information and resources to faculty who are either interested in, currently developing, or teaching online courses. The sessions offered during Online Teaching Boot Camp were developed based on feedback from faculty during previous online course development projects.

For attending the entire day and a half workshop, Professor Reed Easton and Professor Susan O'Sullivan-Gavin from the Stillman School of Business were awarded a Certificate of Recognition for being our Online Teaching Innovators. When asked what he thought of Online Teaching Boot Camp, Professor Easton said

"I found the Online Teaching Boot Camp to be extremely informative and important to both my understanding of Blackboard Version 9 as well as the mechanics that make up a quality online course. I created the first online courses to be offered at the School of Business and have been involved in online education since 2002. I would strongly suggest that all faculty interested in continual improvement take advantage of this opportunity."

The TLT Center crogratulates Professor Reed Easton and Professor Susan O'Sullivan for their accomplishments and dedication to developing and teaching quality online courses and thanks all of the attendees for their participation and making the first Online Teaching Boot Camp a success!

Faculty: Dongdong Chen, Ph.D
Department: Asian Studies
Project: Engaging the Learning of Chinese Language and Culture in Second Life

This semester Dr. Chen has embarked on incorporating the virtual world Second Life into two sections of Introductory Chinese I (CHIN 1102). Dr. Chen is using the Second Life School on Chinese Island, created by the Confucius Institute at Michigan State University.

The following abstract describes Prof. Chen's virtual world project:

Along with face-to-face instruction, students will engage with their peers in the virtual world Second Life to learn about and practice the Chinese language and culture. 30 Students in this course have created virtual representations of themselves in the form of avatars and will navigate their way through the Second Life Chinese School, built by the Confucius Institute at Michigan State University. Using the resources provided by the Second Life Chinese School, 8 learning tasks were designed to accompany the teaching throughout the semester. Students are required to complete these 8 tasks individually and collectively. By exploring the learning activities, some of which are built into the school, students will acquire basic concepts and elements of Chinese cultures. They will also engage in conversation using the voice chat feature of Second Life through a number of assignments outlined in the course syllabus. The voice chat will be recorded and submitted to the professor for a grade. In this presentation we will discuss the Chinese virtual learning spaces within Second Life, the logistics of creating student accounts, the learning tasks, and students learning experience of Chinese within this virtual space.

Prof. Chen will be presenting this project at the end of this month at Yale University for the Northest Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) and the New England Regional Association for Language Learning conference.

Phone support is now available for the SHU Mobility Pilot Program!

If you are participating in the Seton Hall University Mobility Pilot Program and have a question about your device, support is now available by calling 973.275.2222 and then selecting option 4.

On October 6, 2009 representatives from NMC's virtual world building team gave a tour of a project that they created for the University of Washington's Psychology department. The goal of this project was to recreate a real-life experiment space using a virtual environment. The real-life experiment seeks to evaluate people's responses to office and classroom environments that are decorated in a stereotypical computer "geek" way (e.g. Star Trek posters) versus more neutrally decorated rooms. The research team is specifically looking at how long people spend and interact with objects in a room and if there are any gender differences.

The tour began with an explanation of how the subjects of the experiment were trained in how to navigate through the Second Life environment. A maze was created that tested a user's ability to navigate through the space, once a user was able to successfully complete the maze three times they were thought to have mastered the necessary skills needed to continue with the study. The hosts of the tour then explained how objects were quickly rezzed so that rooms can be quickly changed into tech-geek or genre neutral. They made an important point of noting that Second Life is not a photo-realistic environment and that the goal of this project was to make the environment as realistic as possible in the placement of items that were identical to the real-life conditions but not to reach the same level of graphic realism.

When subjects enter the experiment rooms in Second Life using their avatars a sensor is used to detect what direction they were facing, this information is then emailed to a specific account for data collection.

Is Second Life even suitable for this kind of research? The research team found that results from the Second Life experiment were very similar to real-life results. What does this mean for researchers? Using a virtual world such as Second Life allows researchers to conserve resources in both finding and building out real-life spaces which costs money and time.

For more information visits the description of this build available on the NMC web site at: http://sl.nmc.org/2009/10/06/october-vwex/

An article on this study can be accessed at: http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/pages/geeks/geeks.html

Over the past couple years we have been supporting faculty in their use of digital story assignments to promote deep learning and reflection for students. Many of these efforts have been in undergraduate courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. On October 15th, Jane Leng, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Surrey, will be hosting a seminar on the use of digital stories for nursing students.

The seminar presents the results of a Fellowship project which was stimulated by a concern that some student nurses underestimate the learning that takes place in practice and have limited awareness of their own tacit knowledge. Drawing on the work of Michael Eraut into how professionals learn through work, I investigated the power of stories to capture and articulate deep professional learning and the added value there may be in using emerging technologies to assist story telling. A group of final year undergraduate student nurses focussed on an experience from practice which had been important in their professional development and created a digital story to explain what they had learnt. The students' own evaluation of both the process and outcome of this work has been highly positive. Clinical educators and university teachers also recognised the stories as both inspiring and instructional. It is now intended that the stories be used as learning objects for both pre registration students and those learning to be mentors of students in practice. The lessons learnt from this project can inform the use of digital stories in other professional training contexts.

If you are interested in attending the seminar from a distance visit this link: http://learningtobeprofessional.pbworks.com/Jane-Leng

DyKnow has recently released an update to their v5.2 release (v.5.2.74), which includes a PowerPoint 2007 Add-in. Click Here to download the latest release of the DyKnow software.

An overview of the DyKnow PowerPoint 2007 add-in is available by clicking here.

The PowerPoint 2007 Add-in includes the following enhancements:

• Reveal bullet points and other objects one at a time


• Insert hyperlinks in PowerPoint that will remain clickable in DyKnow


• Insert and edit a poll within PowerPoint


• Start a DyKnow session from PowerPoint


• Edit your PowerPoint Presentation within DyKnow

Click here for a self-paced, interactive training modules that teach how to use DyKnow's PowerPoint Integration feature.

On October the 8th, the TLT Center presented RSS & Google Alerts as a Virtual Research Assistant. Included below are links to the presentation and to a document regarding RSS generated by Educause

RSS Google Alerts Presentation

Educause Learning Initiative: 7 things you should know about... RSS (April 2007)

RSS (really simple syndication) allows individuals to 'subscribe' to a web page (typically news outlets, journals, and blog sites), and have any new content delivered to you! This session will focus on setting up an RSS Reader (used to collect 'RSS feeds'), locating sources of information, and subscribing to RSS feeds. We will also discuss how RSS feeds can be utilized for instructional purposes. This session will also cover Google Alert - what it is, how to create an alert, and how to manage alerts.

Facebook just announced that they have added Latin to the list of over 70 supported languages. For educators this could be a creative way of bridging the gap between teaching students a language that may seem distant from their everyday lives. Outside of the classroom, this is also interesting for someone interested in Latin and would like to be immersed in an environment that can facilitate the practice of this language.


Elizabeth Linder, Facebook representive, states:

To students of Latin, the availability of the language on Facebook may be just what's needed to narrow the distance between themselves and the venerable language. After all, the experience of studying Latin can frequently seem somewhat far and away. Even the readings prescribed by Latin teachers have an air of detachment about them: Cicero and Demosthenes, Caesar and Virgil. While students of "living languages" practice on subtitled films and in conversation groups, on vacations and with exchange students, Latin scholars soak in rare living breaths of their studied language, satisfying themselves with the occasional legal phrase, nursery plant, benediction or school motto. Recognizing verb stems and identifying vocabulary roots just somehow aren't quite the same as ordering off a menu or asking for directions.

Considering the amount of time people spend in facebook this could provide a rich practice environment for language learning.

As we move into the month of October, most of the SHU community has now had MS Outlook for about 6 months or so. Some of you may have begun receiving the message that you are approaching the space quota for your file and that you need to take action. Please take that warning seriously, because if you ignore it and exceed your limit, you will not be able to send or receive any e-mail until the condition is cleared up.

Each Seton Hall user is allotted 500mb of space in their e-mail file. This space can get eaten up quickly if you generally receive a lot of mail and just leave it in the file. There are three things you can do right now to reduce the overall size of your e-mail file and keep you from approaching your limit.

First, delete any message you do not need to hold onto. Look through your Inbox, all of your folders and especially look at the Sent folder. I'm sure there are plenty of documents in there that you don't need anymore.

Second, when you delete an item, it goes to the Deleted Items folder and stays there until you empty it. Please, get in the habit of clearing out the Deleted Items folder once a week by clicking on Tools - Empty Deleted Items folder and click Yes to confirm.

Third, when a message arrives with a file or files attached, that message's size is probably quite large and eating up your e-mail file space. A good thing to do is open the message by double-clicking it, then double-click the attachment and save it to a drive of your choice. Then right-click the attachment and Remove it from the message. You may still save the message if you'd like, but its size has been substantially reduced by removing the attachment.

You should then think about setting up archiving as a way of keeping the file under control. To get to the settings in Outlook, select Tools - Options - click the Other tab - Auto Archive. The dialog box that appears enables you to set up archiving to your own requirements.

The first field asks how often to run the archive. If you are nearing the file space allotment, I would suggest running the archive every day. In the middle of the box you would designate how old an item has to be to be archived. You can select a certain number of months, weeks or days. You have to determine what setting you are comfortable with. The archived items are stored in a personal folder under your Documents folder and it will display in your Outlook navigation pane, so you can quickly access it if need be.

I hope these tips will help and I hope everyone realizes that we all have to work at keeping our e-mail files under control. If you need help or have questions concerning your e-mail/archiving, etc., please contact me at x2161 or at otskeybi@shu.edu.

Together with The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, the Stillman School of Business launched the development of five online courses on September 29, 2009. The five grant awardees were the result of the call for proposals, sent to business faculty over the summer. The grant recipients and their courses are:

• Stephen Pirog: BMBA 9114 Organizational and Marketing Dynamics
• John Shannon: BLAW 2301 Legal Foundations of Business
• Penina Orenstien: BQUA 2812 Quantitative Methods for Business
• Sue O'Sullivan: BLAW 7313/BLAW 4321 Uniform Commercial Code
• Paula Alexander: BMGT 7526 Diversity and Gender Issues in Management

With the exception of Dr. Shannon's Legal Foundation of Business course, which is planned to run in Summer 2010, the courses will be developed during the fall and spring semesters and offered in their online format in Fall 2010.

The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center's online course development initiative, now in its fifth year, provides funding for faculty interested in offering their face to face course in a virtual format. The College of Arts and Sciences has been participating in this initiative for a few years and now boasts over 25 online courses.

Congratulations to all of the Stillman School of Business online course development grant awardees!

Click here to download the presentation from the September 28, 2009 TLT Center Boot Camp session: Tablet PC's and DyKnow.

Click Here to download the presentation from the September 28, 2009 TLT Center Boot Camp session: Utilizing RSS as a Virtual Assistant

The availability of on-demand educational video continues to grow with sites such as:

http://video.pbs.org/
http://www.ted.com/
http://fora.tv/
http://academicearth.org/

The Chautauqua Institution brings in two historical character-interpreters to perform a play and discuss colonial America. Jim Lehrer, veteran newsman and host of "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," moderates the discussion.

Bill Barker and Richard Josey are the two character-interpreters. Barker portrays former President Thomas Jefferson at Colonial Williamsburg; Josey plays the role of Jupiter, Jefferson's manservant.

For additional information on the potential for incorporating video into your courses, please contact your instructional designer.

1. Downloading files from Blackboard using Internet Explorer:
To download files (i.e., Word or PowerPoint) from a Blackboard course using Internet Explorer, follow the instructions below:

1. Within Internet Explorer, click Tools on the main menu bar, and then click Internet Options.


2. Click the Security tab and then click Custom Level.


3. Scroll to the Downloads section of the list. Under Automatic Prompting for File Downloads, click Enable.

3. Displaying a list of users enrolled in a course or organization:
Within the Course or Organization Management area, click the heading "Users and Groups" and then click "Users". Type the percent symbol (%) in the Search box and click Go.

4. Sorting Discussion Board forums:
By default, Discussion Board forums are listed in alphabetical order, rather than in the order you specify. Sorting alphabetically is a new feature in the Discussion Board. If you prefer a different order, you can precede each forum title with a number (01, 02, 03, etc.), a letter (A, B, C), or the date (2009-09-02).

5. Course copies must be done twice:
Temporarily, you must do the steps for course copy twice in order for it to work. A fix for this is in progress, but the current process for performing a course copy is described below:

1. First, go to the old course that contains all of the materials you want to copy.


2. Click Packages and Utilities in the Control Panel area.


3. Click Course Copy.


4. Complete the fields, and then click Submit.


5. Blackboard will clear the form and take you back to the page to complete for the Course Copy.


6. Complete the fields again, and click Submit.

Additional Note: To access old documents that you had in the digital drop box, log into Blackboard and then click the following link: http://myweb.shu.edu/webapps/blackboard/execute/ddb.

The Nokia N97s were shipped bundled with many useful and interesting applications. When they arrived on campus, several additional applications were added to the devices in order to provide a breadth of resources for all students. Below is what is loaded on all student devices plus a description of each application.

Notes - create and send notes
Camera - output file is .jpg, video output is .mpeg4
Office Folder
File Manager - allow you to see what files are on your device
C: Phone Memory
E: Mass Memory
F: Memory Card (if you have one, device does not come with one)
Backup - allows you to make a backup of what's on your device
Dictionary - semi-bilingual
Quickoffice - read only version, cannot edit or create any files
Share Online - OVI by Nokia application, free, unlimited storage for photos and video to be shared with whomever you wish or can be private. Upload media from the N97 to an online service.
OVI Share: http://share.ovi.com
Other services: Vox and Flickr
Recorder - records audio, output file is mp4
Location - OVI Maps
SW Update - application that allows you to update your device software either automatically or manually
Message Reader - text-to-speech reader that can narrate out loud both SMS text messages and email messages
Podcasting - enables you to subscribe to and download podcasts using either wifi or 3G connection
MfE - Mail for Exchange
Nokia Drawing - simple drawing program
FM Transmit - lets you broadcast music from your device, via an FM Signal - great for the car
JoikuSpot - app that turns your device into to a wifi hotspot
Boingo - identifies hotspots that are part of the Boingo wifi network and automatically authenticates users. Boingo's network includes more than 500 airports - including 85 of the top 100 airports worldwide - as well as hotels, coffee shops, restaurants, cafes and retail locations (3 months free wifi, after that, flat monthly service fee)
Qik - mobile utility that enables anyone to share live video from their mobile devices
AccuWeather - hourly and daily forecasts, weather charts, maps, and GPS integration, to query the exact forecast for your current location
Elements - periodic table of elements with information about each element
Google Maps - search for locations and businesses, see traffic info, transit and walking directions, street view
Facebook - social networking application
Mobbler - internet based application that allows you to stream music on your device
Nimbuzz - IM, VoIP and social messaging application
Photo Browser - 3D photo browser
YouTube - watch YouTube videos on your device
iSearch - web search launcher, speeds up search time by searching multiple search services at the same time (Google, Bing, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
emoze - application that pushes your email and social community messaging to your mobile device - Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, personal mail and Facebook pushed to your mobile device in real time
Handwriting Training - N97 offers handwriting recognition, handwriting training is an app where you show the handset how you write each different letter
DeviceInfo - displays system information such as IMEI code, amount of free RAM and firmware version in both text and graphical display
Dr.Jukka.com - includes Y-Browser, a detailed file manager application

The TLT Center Announces Fall Faculty Boot Camp 2009

Monday, September 21st - Thursday, September 24th
Monday, September 28th - Thursday, October 1st

Join us for 2 weeks of workshops!

Click HERE to register today!!!

Topics to be covered include:

Twitter this, Twitter That, What's it all About?
9/21/09 & 10/1/09

Make Your Lectures Available 24/7
9/22/09 & 9/30/09

Manage Your Email
9/21/09 & 9/29/09

Using Rubrics to Score and Grade Individual and Peer Assessment
9/28/09 & 9/30/09

Collaborative Learning and Journaling Using Blackboard Blogs
9/23/09 & 9/29/09

Utilizing RSS as a Virtual Assistant
9/28/09

Tablet PC's and DyKnow
9/28/09

Creating Measureable Learning Objectives
9/24/09 & 10/1/09

Similarities and Differences between teaching Face-to-Face and Teaching Online
9/22/09 & 9/24/09

Mobile Devices for Teaching and Learning
9/22/09 & 9/30/09

Blackboard Essentials
9/21/09 & 9/29/09

Blackboard Assessment
9/23/09 & 10/1/09

Click HERE to register today!!!

Questions? Contact Melissa McDowell at melissa.mcdowell@shu.edu

Disruptive Technology has been the game changer from education to business. A quick look at the past four decades shows this change:

1970's - Mainframe Computing
1980's - Desktop Personal Computer
1990's - Internet / WWW
2000's - Online Social Networking

In this Fora video, Clara Shih (creator of Faceconnector, the first business application on Facebook) presents The Facebook Era at the Association for Computing Machinery in August 2009.

The Facebook Era is a newly released book about how social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are ushering in a new era of business, relationships, and culture. Additionally, it discusses what companies need to do strategically and tactically to adapt and thrive in this new environment.

...

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are changing everything we thought we knew about sales, marketing, and product development -- and empowering companies with new tools, insights, and ability to transform customers into true partners and your most effective sales force yet.

Clara Shih provides a look into how business utilize Online Social Networking to enhance business practices. The question is how can educators utilize Online Social Networking to enhance education!

To download files (i.e., Word or PowerPoint) from a Blackboard course using Internet Explorer, follow the instructions below:
1. Within Internet Explorer, click Tools on the main menu bar, and then click Internet Options.
2. Click the Security tab and then click Custom Level.
3. Scroll to the Downloads section of the list. Under Automatic Prompting for File Downloads, click Enable.

Faculty can use the Assignment Tool within Blackboard to allow students to upload a document that is required for one of the course assignments. The tutorial link below will guide students through the steps of submitting their documents through Blackboard to ensure that the instructor receives it.

Assignment Tool Tutorial for Students

The basic process involves students locating the link in their Blackboard course (instructors should provide this information to students). Once students have located the link, they will click on the link and read any instructions that the instructor has provided. Finally, students will browse to locate the file on their computer and then select it. An important step to remember is to click the "Attach File" button below the name of their file that they have browsed and selected. The file will not be attached to the assignment unless students click this button. Students will also have the opportunity to send comments to the instructor on this page. The last step is to click the Submit button. Students will retrieve their grade for the assignment and any instructor comments and feedback by going to the My Grades area in Blackboard.

Since IBM's handed control of its PC division over to Lenovo 4 years ago, the subsequent question on everyone's minds was what was IBM planning to do next. They have a hand in nearly all of the world's computer-related activities, so why give up one of their powerhouse divisions? The answer may be in their recent acquisition of SPSS for the cool sum of $1.2 billion dollars. SPSS has been a leader in statistical analysis for decades and is now in the posession of a company who main goal is to optimitize the business world.

Click Here to Read More -> Techspot News

Last week I attended the first part of the Institute for Emerging Leardership in Online Learning offered by Penn State and the Sloan Consortium. 33 faculty, administrators, and designers came together for an emersive (and intensive) three day workshop based on Sloan-C's Five Pillars of Quality Online Education (Access, Learning Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Faculty Satisfaction and Student Satisfaction). It was a great opportunity to see how other institutions were developing or developed successful online programs as well as hear the challenegs they faced and lessons learned along the way. I thought I would share a few statistics from "Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008" by I. Elaine Allen, Ph.D. and Jeff Seaman, Ph.D.- Sloan-C

• Almost 4 million students took atleast one online class during the Fall 2007 semester. This is a 12% increase from the previous year.
• The 12.9% increase of online courses exceeds the 1.2% growth rate of the higher education student population.
• Online student distribution per course is very similar to those of traditional face to face courses.
• 20% of all higher education (U.S.) students took atleast one online course during the Fall 2007 semester.
• Based on the data provided in the report, enrollments are expected to increase with no signs of slowing.
• Seven of the eight major disciplines (Business, Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, humanities, Health professions and related sciences, Education, Computer and information sciences, Social sciences and history, and Psychology) each showed between a 25% - 35% penetration rate of online courses/programs.
• The top three motivators for faculty teaching online are; meet student needs for flexible access (62%); best way to reach particular students (56%); and presonal/professional growth (32%).

DyKnow software fosters interaction through collaborative note taking, student response tools, content replay, and anywhere, anytime access. Instructors can use DyKnow to transmit content instantly to student screens for annotation and to limit distracting programs (i.e. instant messenger) with its powerful classroom management capabilities.

Teachers can create content in PowerPoint, then import that file into DyKnow. During a class session, the content is then displayed on the student's screen, where they can then either annotate directly on the slide, or add their own notes in a side-panel. Any annotations that the instructor makes during the session are automatically transmitted to the student's screen.

Interactivity is supported via Polling, Panel Collection, and Student Status. Polling allows students to respond to multiple choice questions, the instructor can quickly create a pie-chart to share the results. Panel Collection allows the instructor to collect student work during class for review, and the Student Status feature allows students to self-report their current level of understanding via a green / yellow / red analogy. This information is reported to the instructor as a pie chart for quick reference.

For additional information regarding DyKnow, please contact your Instructional Designer Liaison.



Click Here for additional information on DyKnow, available from previous ePirate blog posts, for previous ePirate DyKnow posts.




Handouts from Tuesday August 4, 2009

• DyKnow Agenda.pdf



• DyKnow Presentation



• DyKnow 52 Installation.pdf



• DyKnow Activity 1.pdf



• DyKnow Activity 2.pdf



• DyKnow Faculty Guide v5.1.pdf



• DyKnow Student Guide v5.1.pdf



• DyKnow Resources.pdf

On Wednesday and Thursday, July 29-30, 2009, the TLT Center hosted its weekly Summer Series event. This week's event was entitled "Electronic Survey Research Days" and involved hands-on workshops on creating an electronic survey in Asset, the online survey creation tool available at SHU. During the first day, participants learned about some of the features of Asset and other online survey tools. Dr. Wendiann Sethi, director of Developmental Math, also provided some tips and best practices for creating electronic surveys, including question types, survey methods, sample considerations, and question content. Participants were given the opportunity to create their own electronic survey in Asset, and share it with others. Finally, participants were led through the process of exporting their data from Asset into Excel and SPSS for further statistical analysis.

The second day of this week's event was focused on analyzing survey data using Excel and SPSS. Dr. Wendiann Sethi led the session and guided participants through the process of using SPSS to conduct statistical analyses with data collected through Asset or another survey research tool. We hope you will join us next week for a session on DyKnow, a software tool that fosters interaction through collaborative note taking, student response tools, content replay, and anywhere, anytime access to course content.
Resources used in the Electronic Survey Research Days event:

Asset User's Manual

Asset Quick Start Guide

In MS Outlook 2007, we all use the Global Address List to help us address our emails with the correct names. For some of us, however, the default address book is not set correctly within our individual system, so there is an extra step to perform.

Perform the following procedure to set the Global Address List as your default address book.
1. from the menu, select Tools - Address Book
2. on the dialog box menu, select Tools - Options
3. on the Addressing dialog box, in the first field select Global Address List
4. click Apply, then Ok

From now on, when you need an address for an email, the Global Address List will be the default.

Remember, when working with the Global Address List, it's best to have the More Columns button clicked to obtain an efficient search.

A recent analysis from The United States Department of Education on online learning shed light on some very interesting elements in online teaching and learning. First, teachers always have and will remain a critical element in the success of student learning whether classes are online, hybrid or face to face. Second, the findings released this July, "found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." To find out more of what was in the report, it is available on the MVU Web site .

Coutesey of MVUAbout MVU
MVU is a private, nonprofit Michigan corporation established in 1998 by the State of Michigan to serve as a champion for online learning. It is the parent organization of the Michigan Virtual School(TM) and Michigan LearnPort(R), an online learning portal that delivers professional development opportunities and more to the Michigan education community.)