Keep abreast of SCHOOL DELAYS or CLOSINGS due to inclement weather, by opting into SHU's Mobile Messaging*.
For more information, visit mobile messaging These directions will step you through the process of choosing the types of messages you would like to receive as alerts on your cell phone or in your email.
What is SafeAssign?
SafeAssign allows you to protect the originality of work and ensure a fair playing ground for all of your students. SafeAssign is integrated with the Blackboard Learning System products, enabling you to prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers right within your existing teaching and learning environment. SafeAssign can also further deter plagiarism by helping to create opportunities to educate students on proper attribution and citations and help them to effectively take advantage of the wealth of information out there.
How Can I Find Out More?
To learn more about SafeAssign please visit the website - Faculty Resources
The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center is delighted to announce an enhanced social learning tool that will allow you to use Podcasts in MyWeb@SHU. With the new Podcast, tool you can easily add audio and video content to your course and deliver that content to your students via a podcast subscription.
Click to create, click to subscribe
Faculty can simply click to create and add episodes (i.e. content). For students it is just as simple to click and subscribe. Students and faculty can listen to the uploaded episodes from within MyWeb@SHU or offline. The material can also be downloaded to almost any portable device.
Podcast tool is fully integrated with course materials
Since Podcast is fully integrated within MyWeb@SHU, this content resides right alongside other course content. Students have access to the audio and videos without having to search in external locations or learn new software interfaces.
To learn more about the exciting new Podcasting tool visit - Faculty Resources , or feel free to contact your Instructional Designer at the Teaching, Learning & Technology Center.
The TLT Center and the Computer Training Center (CTC) have been hard at work to provide a variety of quality faculty development opportunities for the Seton Hall community. We started the 2007 Fall Semester with the TLTC Faculty Boot Camp that encompassed twelve different sessions over a two-week period. The goal of Boot Camp was to give participants a taste of what the TLTC has to offer and to introduce and provide instructional design support. The sessions included everything from Creating PDF Documents, Using Safe Assign to check for student plagiarism, to Using the Google Calendar to organize groups. Boot Camp was well attended and four faculty members won a color printer for attending the most sessions (six or more). The winners were: Yong Hong Li, Yufeng Wei, Margaret Farrelly, and Jeannine Ruggiero.
Other faculty development opportunities that were offered in the 2007 Fall semester included, Dyknow: Engaging students via collaboration and Tablet PC's: Teaching with digital ink. In December we hosted Blackboard Days that consisted of a variety of sessions to help faculty prepare for their Spring 2008 courses.
Moving into the New Year, we are excited about our plans for the Spring. We will be repeating Blackboard days in January, providing a Digital Storytelling workshop, and we are in the planning stages of organizing mini-conferences spotlighting Dyknow, Tablet PC's, Online Learning, Multimedia, and Google tools. We are excited to announce that starting January 18th, The TLT Center is offering six sessions of SPSS taught by Dr. Wendiann Sethi, Director of Developmental Math. These sessions were very popular and filled up within a 24-hour period of the broadcast announcing the series.
The TLT Center and the CTC are looking forward to working with you this semester. We have a wonderful staff of Instructional Designers ready to help you integrate technology into your courses, so please do not hesitate to contact us. While we will be advertising upcoming faculty development opportunities, you are always welcome to visit the CTC registration site to view our scheduled sessions as well as register for a class at http://tltc.shu.edu/register. If you have questions or suggestions related to faculty development, please contact Melissa McDowell, Senior Instructional Designer at mcdoweme@shu.edu or at Ext. 6173.
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.
Turn the chalkboard into a smartboard with the digital ink functionality of the TabletPC. Handwritten notes, diagrams, and mathematical equations can be developed prior to class or created on the fly. This material can then be distributed to students via Blackboard, and can be viewed by students using a traditional laptop or a TabletPC.
Incorporating the power of the TabletPC into your teaching can be quickly started by replace the series of blank overhead transparencies with a series of blank PowerPoint slides, and a clean digital blackboard is just a click away!
You can also annotate an existing Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on the fly, just be sure to give yourself space to write on the slide. The presentation can then be distributed to students for review either as a PowerPoint file or converted to a PDF format via Primo PDF Writer (available for free download).
For additional information, please contact your Instructional Designer Liaison or see the TabletPC Users Organization on Blackboard.
