September 2009 Archives

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.

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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!