e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops
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INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE GRANTS. The Instructional Technology Challenge Grant has been funded for 2010-2011! If you have a compelling instructional technology project idea, but you don’t have the necessary hardware, software, peripheries or digital devices to make it happen, here’s your chance. To find out more about the [...]
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MUSICIANS, COOL AND GEEKY. Faculty: Please mark the date, April 27th, and attend the presentation: “Music To Our Ears: Teaching With Technology and New Media,” from 12:15 to 1:15 pm in the BPAC Recital Hall. Drs. Shelley Collins, Teri Herron, Jung-Won Shin, Christopher Meerdink, and Mark Snyder are ready show [...]
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ORCHESTRATING NEW MEDIA IN EDUCATION; OR, MUSIC TO MY EARS. Next month faculty in the Music Department and the DMI will give a presentation at DSU on how they are using podcasts, screencasts, and web video in their teaching. More information on this presentation is forthcoming. This month, Drs. [...]
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e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops
FEBRUARY IS FOR LOVERS OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA. The Office of Instructional Technology invites faculty to fall in love with a new technology or course development strategy this month. We’re offering workshops that can teach you how to podcast your lectures, automate your research and grading, design hybrid and fully online courses, [...]
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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW. Welcome back, faculty. Now that Spring Term 2010 is up and running on Blackboard-CE6, we will be archiving Spring Term 2009 and removing the year-old courses to make more room for future courses. If you wish to save any courses or course materials [...]
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e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops
NOVEMBER IS VIDEO MONTH. Upon his invention of the kinograph, Thomas Edison felt motion pictures would become the educator’s art form. Attend a workshop this month and learn how many of your peers are using video to enrich their web-enhanced, [...]
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CONGRATS TO THIS TERM’S GANG OF FIVE. Yes, five of your colleagues received Instructional Technology Challenge (ITC) Grant funding for technology purchases for the following projects: Dr. Jan Haynes, Family and Consumer Sciences, for “Teaching Adobe Photoshop to Fashion Merchandising Students for Utilization in Trend Boards and Portfolio Development”; Dr. [...]
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e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops
OPEN HOUSE FOR ONLINE INSTRUCTORS. Been putting off that online course? Well, tarry no longer! The Office of Instructional Technology is making the OIT Lab (Bailey Hall 114) available to faculty who teach online courses all of next week. OIT staffers will be available–August 10th through the 14th, 8:00 am to [...]
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DOWN AND (TEMPORARILY) OUT. Blackboard-CE6 will be offline next week for approximately 12 hours in order to perform upgrades to its Oracle database. The system will be unavailable from 11:59 pm Wednesday, March 18th to 12 noon on Thursday, March 19th. Please check your schedules and make sure that [...]
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e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops
IN YOUR FACEBOOK, FACULTY. The OIT-ELN has set up an account on Facebook, so you social networkers “out there” can make OIT’s Electronic Learning Network your new “friend.” Just search for “DSU OIT-ELN.” We promise to keep the posts short and worthwhile, so the news feeds don’t distract you too much [...]
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