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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!

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.

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

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

The Spring semster is finally over and it's time to gear up for the TLTC Summer Series. Every Summer the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center holds a series of day-long workshops centered on technology in teaching in learning. The series starts on Monday, May 18th and runs through August 11th. To register today go to http://tltc.shu.edu/register !
We hope to see you there.

The Best Practices committee of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable offered a digital media copyright symposium on March 5, 2009. The three panelists provided a variety of views and many years of experience in copyright laws, intellectual property concerns and research in academic integrity. Our panelists included Linda K. Enghagen, JD, a Professor of Information Technology and the Law at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her presentation focused on copyright compliance for educators and course designers. Don McCabe, Ph.D., a professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers University focused on his extensive research on college cheating throughout 170 universities. The last panelist, Lori Patrick, Esq. is an associate at a law firm where she practices commercial litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property. She has had the unfortunate experience of representing a teen that had illegally downloaded music from the internet.

The symposium was well attended by students, administrators and faculty who had plenty of questions for the panelists!

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center held its 2nd Annual Boot Camp in September to kick off Faculty Development for the Fall 2008 semester. This year we provided 12 different technology workshops over the course of two weeks. A total of 80 unique faculty members attended Boot Camp, with 46 of them attending at least 1 workshop, 20 attending 2 workshops and 14 attending 3 or more workshops. Prizes were given to the top attendees, who won a Flip Video recorder. The winners were Nancy Cherilus, Shigeru Osuka, and Rev. Forrest M. Pritchett. Here is how they plan on incorporating the video recorder in their course:

Nancy Cherilus, Mentor
Freshman Studies
University Life: CORE 1001 AB, AG, BL, and CA

"My students are currently working on their portfolios. One of the items that they will include is a page titled My Thoughts. This page is a reflection of their first semester experience. I would use the camcorder to capture either video or still photos of each individual class to be shared and posted on the page. Each student will then write a brief reflection of their own experiences in my class.

Shigeru Osuka, Associate Professor
Asian Studies
Japanese Language & Japanese Graduate History and Culture

"For Japanese language courses, I would like to record my teaching and student's Japanese presentations. Each summer, moreover, I am taking SHU students to Japan where I would like to use the camcorder for recording Japanese society, custom, food, and cultural events for both of my courses. I will post the videos/photos into my private personal homepage."

Rev. Forrest M. Pritchett
University Life, African Religions, African Cultural Philosphy, The Black Church, Peoples and Cultures of America

"I will use the camcorder for photo journalism"

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Conference 2008: Leading and Inspiring Change for Successful Learning!

When: Friday, November 14
Where: Montclair State University Conference Center

Early bird registration ends October 20, 2008

Why attend:
1. Keynote Speaker Curt Garbett Vice President from Spencer Johnson Partners,
Using principles and ideas from the bestselling book Who Moved My Cheese? offering a unique approach for individuals
and businesses facing changing times
2. Dynamic Presentations from faculty and colleagues on a) Technology Literacy, b) Social Networking and collaborative tools, c) Assessment and Digital Competencies, and d) Second Life
3. Networking opportunities
4. "Birds of Feather" round table discussions
5. Vendor displays
6. After party

For additional information, click here

On Thursday, September 18, a session on Student-Created Audio Projects: Opportunities for Perspective and Analysiswas held as part of the TLTC Fall Technology Bootcamp. During this workshop, we examined the characteristics of audio essays and defined podcasting. Faculty were then given a script to create their own audio essay, recording the narration, adding sounds and music. We finished up by discussing ways of publishing audio essays on the web and within a Blackboard shell. Many handouts were provided, some of which are included below.

The next offering of this session is on Wednesday, September 24 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am. Would love to have you join us!

audio_essays_agenda.doc

How can podcasts be used.doc

The first fall TLTC Faculty Bootcamp sesson on Creating your Second Life was held on Tuesday, September 16 in the new CTC classroom in the Walsh Library. After a short introduction and discussion on virtual worlds and their use in education in general and at Seton Hall, participants practiced basic skills in movement, navigation and communication within the virtual world of Second Life. Fun was had by all as attendees customized their "virtual" selves. If you missed this session, you have another chance on for Monday, September 22 from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Handouts for the session are attached below. See ya there!

second_life.doc

SL_Avatar_ed.pdf

Second_Life_Essentials_Basicsv2.pdf

The Fall semester is upon us and it's time to whip your course into shape! Get ready for the TLT Center's Fall Boot Camp 2008. This year's Boot Camp will take place September 15th - 18th and 22nd - 25th and will feature 12 unique sessions on topics that are relevant to teaching and learning. Each workshop will be offered twice to accommodate your busy schedule. Prizes will be given to faculty members with the highest attendance to Boot Camp! Follow the link below to see the full schedule and to register:

Join us on February 14th from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm for the TLTR/TLT Center Grant Launch and Showcase. Learn about internal grant opportunities available through the TLT Center. This event will take place in the Beck rooms on the ground floor of Walsh Library.

Grant opportunities include:

- Faculty Innovation Grants (FIG's)

- A&S Online Course Development Grants

- ReSoft (Research Software) Grants

Current grant recipients will showcase their projects and share their experiences. Lunch will be served. Click here to register for this event today!