OIT-ELN Blog Project

e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops

• RESOURCEFUL LIAISONS. This year the Office of Information Technology has selected 8 faculty liaisons who will work closely with OIT to raise awareness of OIT services, projects and programs among their colleagues across campus. Liaisons have been selected to represent a broad array of academic disciplines. Please be aware of the liaison(s) within your college, division or department; they are your representatives as well as OIT’s. Their charge is share with OIT your ideas for improving OIT services as well as to direct and encourage faculty members who wish to (or need to) learn more about the technologies that facilitate teaching and learning at DSU. To find out more about the Faculty IT Liaison program, visit http://eln.deltastate.edu/liaisons.htm. The 2010 Liaisons are listed below:

• AND THE DELETING BEGINS! This week the Office of Instructional Technology will begin deleting Spring 2009 courses from the Blackboard-CE6 server. The courses were archived in the previous week. Server space is at a premium these days, so online courses from the previous year are now archived at the beginning of every semester. Please be aware that no more than a year’s worth of courses remains on the server at a time. If you need to save a copy of your course for reuse, you are encouraged to set up a master copy or to download a back-up copy of your course. For more information on master copies, visit http://eln.deltastate.edu/forms/master_copy.htm.
• JUST FIVE MORE WORKSHOPS IN FEBRUARY. The remaining workshops this month teach screencasting, web video editing and postproduction, and e-book utilization. See the list below, and visit http://eln.deltastate/edu/workshops.htm to sign up.

Workshops for Faculty

Instructional technology workshops are
offered in the OIT Lab in Bailey Hall 114. Each workshop is limited to 8
participants. To sign up for a session, go to: http://eln.deltastate.edu/workshops.htm.

• Tuesday, 2/16, 2-4 pm
  ELN 303: Beyond Powerpoint: Screencasting
• Thursday, 2/18, 2-4 pm
  ELN 304: Leveraging eBooks in Your Courses
• Wednesday, 2/24, 12-2 pm
  ELN 402: Basic Video Editing
• Friday, 2/26, 8-10 am
  ELN 403: Web Video Post-production and Distribution

Volume 4, Issue 2.2. The OIT-ELN Bi-Monthly is published by the Office of Instructional Technology’s Electronic Learning Network. For additional information contact Dr. Susan Hines, Director of Instructional Technology (shines@deltastate.edu or x4038). Find the “blogged” back issues at http://eln.deltastate.edu/wordpress.