Separating your personal profile from your public profile on Facebook was one of the topics during this week's CTC series entitled Creating Your Social Network Presence. Below is the presentation from this workshop:
If you have any questions about the topics in this presentation, please contact Melissa McDowell at melissa.mcdowell@shu.edu .
The fourth workshop in the CTC series entitled " Creating Your Professional Social Network Presence" is:
If you have any questions about this workshop or how to incorporate the resources contact Melissa McDowell at melissa.mcdowell@shu.edu
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:
Facebook Profiles vs. Fan Pages: Separate your public network from your personal network Learn the differences between a private Facebook profile and a public Fan Page. We will discuss the various communication methods for both options and talk about which is the best choice for sharing information with groups and individuals. This workshop will focus on how to create a Fan Page from your personal profile and how to add productivity applications to communicate with your Facebook Fans. Monday, November 16th 10:00 am - 11:30 am CTC Classroom REGISTER NOWWednesday, 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!
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
The topic for the TLTC Technology Summer Series today was Facilitating Assessment thru Technology. One speaker who was not able to make it was Dr. Rosemary Skeele, Director of the Graduate Studies and Special Programs in the College of Education and Human Services. One of her special interests is Peer Assessment and I had the wonderful opportunity to see how she uses peer assessment in her courses this summer. I have to admit that when I first heard about peer assessment I was mildly interested however I am now hooked on the topic.
Peer Assessment is a type of formative assessment meant to improve student learning, either in a current course or for future academic endeavors. This is in contrast to summative assessment which focuses on a grade, often at the completion of the assignment or course. Formative assessment is commonly referred to as "feedback" to students and can be time consuming and overwelming in large-size classes for the faculty member. Dr. Skeele uses peer assessment as one tool to provide this type of feedback to students throughout the semester on their assignments.
One of her current classes is rather large and because of the size it is difficult to provide formative feedback on different parts of a final project that are due throughout the semester. Students divide into small groups and use a rubric she has created to provide feedback to each other on a particular assignment. This technique helps students understand the project requirements and different levels of quality while also providing a greater and more varied amount of suggestions on their work. Collaborative learning is encouraged through this method with the teacher becoming a "guide on the side". Students are then asked to reflect and journal on the peer assessment process and the suggestions given to improve their work.
Dr. Skeele has presented and published on the topic of peer assessment. For more information on her work, please see her most recent published paper. This document also shows how she uses Waypoint, a rubric/evaluation tool in the Peer Assessment process.
A couple of years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a couple of national academic conferences. I was totally fascinated at how the keynote speakers were able to hold the attention of the audience and vowed to become a dynamic presenter to establish some type of professional identity for myself. Well, as life would have it, priorities change however my interest has still been there, just lying dormant. I tell you this story because in doing research for the Summer Technology Series day, Standing out in a Crowd, Wednesday July 15, I discovered that great presenters always start with a story. In fact, presenting is about having a story to tell that matters.
Picasso once said that "computers are useless for they can only give answers". In today's world, Google can give us most of the routine information we need. I would argue that what we really want from people who stand in front of us and give a talk is what data and information alone cannot; meaning. What I learned is that there are some tricks to doing this well.
If any of this peaked your interest, come on July 15. Consider leaving your old ideas at the door; you will want to enter with an open mind. I promise your presentations will never be the same; I know mine will forever be changed as a result of preparing for the day. Topics for the day include Effective Presentations, Graphic Design Basics for Presentations and Posters and PowerPoint Tips. Take a risk .... learn how to stand out in a crowd.
On Tuesday, June 16th the Digital Media Services team conducted a hands-on session entitled: SHU Tube & iTunes U for the TLT Center's annual Summer Series. Practical applications were provided for incorporating video in the college classroom. SHU faculty have an awesome opportunity to take advantage of iTunes U, Seton Hall's personal space on Apple's iTunes. Faculty can request to have a course added and use iTunes U to manage all of their educational video and visual clips. For more inforamtion contact Michael Soupios, Associate Director of the Digital Media Services team at soupiomi@shu.edu or visit: http://tltc.shu.edu/itunesu/.
The TLT Center Summer Series 2009 Schedule
Monday, May 18th
Developing Your Online Course: Are You Ready?
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM BECK Rooms (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Tuesday, June 2nd
Sakai@SHU
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Tuesday, June 9th
Web 2.0 Tools for Blog, ePortfolio and Website Design:
What's Writing Got to do With It?
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Tuesday, June 16th
SHU Tube & iTunes U
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM ITV Room (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Wednesday, July 1st
Microsoft Day: Office 2007, Outlook 2007 & Live Resources
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Wednesday, July 8th
Web 2.0 Storytelling: The Tools, The Ease, The Magic
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Wednesday, July 15th
Standout in a Crowd: Creating Effective Posters & Presentations
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Wednesday, July 22nd
Assessment Day
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Beck Rooms (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Wednesday, July 29th & Thursday, July 30th
Electronic Survey Research Day 1 Register for Day 1 HERE!
Electronic Survey Research Day 2 Register for Day 2 HERE!
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Tuesday, August 4th
DyKnow
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM ITV Room (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
Tuesday, August 11th
What's New in Blackboard 9?
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Register HERE!
If you have any questions, please contact Melissa McDowell at mcdoweme@shu.edu or Ext. 6173
READING DAY WORKSHOPS
Thursday, April 30th
All sessions will take place in the ITV Room (Lower level of Walsh)
The Blackboard Grade Center 9:30 - 10:30 AM
Learn the basics of the Grade Center, including creating, modifying, and grading assignments, sending feedback to students, and using the Grade Center to help manage your course.
Click HERE to register for this session!
**Please bring your laptop to this session**
Spring Cleaning for Your Course 10:45 - 11:45 AM
Are you teaching the same course again next semester? Do you want to reuse Blackboard content, assignments, and other features including the Grade Center, Discussion Board, and Group pages? Explore the Blackboard Archive, Export, and Course Copy features in this class designed to give you all the tools you need to clean up your current course shell in preparation for the end of the semester. Whether you choose to recycle your course again or not, this class will be particularly helpful in organizing content and saving student work by creating a permanent record of your Spring 2009 course.
Click HERE to register for this session!
**Please bring your laptop to this session**
Blackboard Open Lab 2:00 - 4:00 PM
This session is an opportunity for faculty to come in and work on or discuss Blackboard course issues. Click HERE to register for this session!
**Please bring your laptop to this session**
If you have any questions, please contact your Instructional Designer or Melissa McDowell at mcdoweme@shu.edu
The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center has begun planning for the 2009 Summer Series. The Summer Series takes place after the Spring semester ends, starting in May and runs through August. During each week we hold a full-day workshop on various technology workshops related to teaching and learning. The full schedule will be published soon and the series will start on May 18th. Starting in April, you will be able to register at: http://tltc.shu.edu/register.
If you have any questions about the Summer Series, please contact Melissa McDowell at mcdoweme@shu.edu
On February 25th the TLT Center will be offering a half-day session entitled "Wiki Day". During this workshop, attendees will learn what a wiki is, explore examples of wikis in higher education, learn how to request a Media Wiki through the TLT Center for a course, hear from faculty members who have successfully integrated wikis, and participate in hands-on excercises. If you are interested in attending this workshop, it will take place in the CTC Computer Lab (ground floor of Walsh) on Wednesday, February 25th from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. Breakfast will be served. Click HERE to register today!
On Wednesday, January 7, 2009, a Digital Storytelling Workshop was conducted by the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center. Although the weather prevented many people from attending, the participants who were able to come learned about several aspects of digital storytelling. We discussed the 7 elements of a good story, defined what a digital story is, viewed examples of a variety of types of digital stories, learned how to use Microsoft MovieMaker, and discussed storyboarding and citing resources. All workshop materials can be found on our digital storytelling wiki at http://tltc.shu.edu/digitalstorytelling/wiki/. We plan to conduct the same workshop soon for those who were unable to make it to this session due to weather. We hope you can join us then!
The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center is once again holding its Winter Workshops in January 2009. This year we will be offering Web 2.0 Tools, Digital Storytelling, and Blackboard. Follow the links below to register for a workshop:
Web 2.0 Tools for 21st Century Teaching & Learning
Tuesday, January 6th 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Click HERE to register for this workshop
Digital Storytelling
Wednesday, January 7th 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Location: ITV Room (Ground floor of Walsh)
Click HERE to register for this workshop
Preparing your Blackboard Course for the Spring Semester
Thursday, January 8th 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Location: CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Click HERE to register for this workshop
Blackboard Grade Center
Thursday, January 8th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: CTC (Ground floor of Walsh)
Click HERE to register for this workshop
Blackboard Open Lab
Thursday, January 8th 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: ITV Room (Ground floor of Walsh)
Click HERE to register for this workshop
**Please bring your laptop to this session**
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Preparing your Blackboard Course for the Spring Semester (CTC Lab)
Click HERE to register for this session
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Blackboard 8 Grade Center (CTC Lab)
Click HERE to register for this session
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Blackboard 8 Open Lab Session (ITV Room)
Click HERE to register for this session
**Refreshments will be served**
The TLT Center will be hosting a Web 2.0 half-day workshop entitled: Web 2.0 Tools for 21st Century Teaching & Learning. It will take place on Tuesday, November 11th from 12:00 - 3:00 PM. This workshop is great for faculty who are looking to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies into their courses. Following is a description of the workshop:
Web 2.0 has produced an explosion of innovative and exciting online technology tools that can be implemented by both educators and students. This course will provide participants with an abundance of the coolest and the newest online tech tools to date. A variety of tools will be explored (both demonstration and hands-on) including those that may be used for personal productivity, social networking and collaboration, online organizing, multimedia creation, editing and presentation.
Click HERE to register today!
We all have them. We include them in our syllabi. They are course objectives: a simple statement of what students are expected to know, master, learn. As part of the Quality Matters rubric, course level and unit(module) level objectives are required and are a best practice for online teaching and learning. Most would agree that objectives are an essential part of a solid course and aids in the evaluation of student progress. However, a survey done by Quality Matters showed 27% of the courses do not pass the QM review because they lacked unit(module) level objectives or the objectives were not measurable.
S.M.A.R.T. Objectives
SMART objectives are Specific; Measurable, Achievable; Relevant, Timely. There are other terms which can be substituted for SMART but these align nicely with the Quality Matters standards.
While developing your online course objectives keep these questions in mind:
Remember that an objective has three major parts:
At the end of this module you will be able to: (action verb) + (one focused result) + (set date)
A list of action verbs as well as examples based on Bloom's Taxonomy can be found at this great site!
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"
Become a "Fan" today at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ePirate/24356802799
By becoming a "Fan" of the Epirate page, you can keep up with our latest events, faculty development oppourtunities and follow our blog. We look forward to seeing you on Facebook! Also look out for our upcoming Facebook classes on October 28th and 30th. Click here to register.
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
Back by popular demand....
Create Files That Do Flips With Adobe Acrobat 8!
This workshop will introduce you to some of the features of Adobe Acrobat 8, a software product that allows you to create and edit pdf documents. Learn how to convert webpages, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files to pdf format with the click of a button. This session will also illustrate how to add comments and other editing notations to pdf documents. These edits can be saved with the pdf file so that students can easily view faculty comments and feedback. We will then demonstrate how to add pdf documents to a Blackboard course and provide ideas for using pdf documents for assignments and class activities.
Monday, October 27th 12:00 - 1:30 PM Click HERE to register for this session
Wednesday, October 29th 3:00 - 4:30 PM Click HERE to register for this session
Facebook: Meet Your Students Where They Are (Beginner)
Join us as we discover Facebook, a social networking site, and it's implication in higher education. While student profiles are ubiquitous on Facebook, more and more faculty are joining the popular site. During this hands-on workshop we will create a Facebook account, explore ways to push content and announcements to your students, discuss how to create a Fan page for your course, and review the new Sync feature in Blackboard that synchronizes Facebook with your Blackboard course and allows you to send announcements to students.
Tuesday, October 28th 12:00 - 1:30 PM Click HERE to register for this session
Create a Facebook Page For Your Course (Intermediate)Come and learn how to create a Facebook page (that is separate from your Facebook profile) for a course or department, We will discuss the implications of using Facebook in your course, view examples of Facebook pages, and discuss how other universities are using Facebook.
Thursday, October 30th 3:00 - 4:30 PM Click HERE to register for this session
Learn some of the features of Adobe Acrobat 8, a software product that allows you to create and edit pdf documents. Learn how to convert files to pdf format with the click of a button.
If you were able to join us for the sessions on Adobe Acrobat 8 as part of the TLT Center Fall Faculty Boot Camp, we're glad you could make it! For those of you unable to attend, you can view the session materials by clicking on the links below. We will be offering this workshop again in the future, so keep checking the blog for updates on future training offerings!
Below is a pdf version of the course outline and presentation.
Here is a helpful link to video tutorials on the Adobe Acrobat software:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
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:
Cheating on exams, activities and plagiarized papers are always a concern for those teaching online courses. Is there anything we can do to prevent or reduce the temptation of cheating? The good news is yes; there are things we can do to build an environment in which students are less likely to cheat. The bad news is it takes a little more work on our part and it's not 100% fail proof. Studies have shown there are many reasons why students cheat, ranging from trying to maintain their scholarship, task overload and external factors (family, work, life pressures, time management). How can we foster academic honesty in our classes? While there are several models for plagiarism prevention, they all have three things in common. It is important to note that these items are also best practices when building an online course.
MERLOT ELIXR sounds like a delicious drink but it???s really a site dedicated to the sharing of resources within the higher education community. You might be familiar with MERLOT, a collection of learning objects created by faculty and peer reviewed in order to provide feedback on quality of content and instructional delivery. ELIXR is based on a similar idea except that instead of learning objects faculty are sharing stories of the adoption on new teaching practices. As described on the ELIXR website,
The ELIXR program team supports faculty creating case stories for target themes in high priority areas of faculty and professional development in higher education, and also supports theme leaders who champion and coordinate a particular theme topic.
Case stories are currently organized into the following topics, but additional topics are welcome:
Digital case stories can be located at http://elixr.merlot.org/. The TLT Center would like your feedback on the use of such case stories for our faculty ??? please contact Danielle Mirliss with any comments or suggestions.
The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center's Faculty Innovation Grant program, now in its 5th year, complements CDI in achieving the objectives of the TLT Center's internal grant programs by providing small short term (up to one year) grants to individual faculty to explore how technology can improve student learning in one particular course. This year we received a tremendous amount of proposals from a variety of departments. The faculty review committee had a difficult time narrowing down the pool of applicants to eight outstanding proposals.
We are pleased to announce the award winners, the titles of their projects and their department/colleges.
While taking a Copyright Compliance for Online Educators course, I learned about something called "deep linking". Deep linking occurs when you directly link to an article (for example) located within a website while bypassing the homepage. My first thought was "what's the problem". After further research, I learned that by linking directly to an article within a site, the viewer is skipping valuable information such as advertisers, possible copyright information, legal and contact information. Currently, the law in this area is muddy but lawsuits regarding deep linking are possible and have been happening. How does this impact education? Luckily the majority of complaints so far involve commercial sites where the link bypasses strategically placed advertising and branding however it is important to be aware of this possible infringement.
For faculty and students, directly linking (deep linking) to an article is the easiest and most efficient way to get to the source. However, some publishers and news agencies are claiming that deep linking is a violation of United States copyright law. Fair-use tends to protect educators a bit more from these suits but deep linking could become problematic. So what are we to do? A safe practice would be to provide a link to the homepage followed by instructions to get to the article.
The Multimedia Series
** Click on a class to register **
Intro to Digital Images & Photoshop Elements
Monday, March 24th 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Intro to Video Editing
Monday, March 24th 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Intro to Audio Editing & Podcasting
Tuesday, March 25th 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Advanced Digital Images & Photoshop Elements
Wednesday, March 26th 10:30am to 12 noon
Advanced Digital Video Editing
Wednesday, March 26th 1:00pm to 2:30pm
On Friday, February 29th faculty at Seton Hall participated in the "Leap into Second Life" workshop. Ten participants enjoyed a fun filled day learning about how to fly, walk, chat, change their appearance, make notecards and take pictures.
Google Earth is an amazing 3D tool that provides the benefit of traveling the globe without ever getting on a plane.You can search for any address or keyword and Google Earth will fly you to the location. Including your house!
Who do you call on when you need help determining the best technology tool for a course project? Who can support you with the implementation process and see you through to the end? The TLT Center's Instructional Design Team! We are the primary point of contact for faculty technology projects, including support for teaching and learning initiatives. Each Instructional Designer is assigned to a number of departments. So, who's YOUR instructional designer?
