OIT-ELN Blog Project

e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops

• THE SOUND OF MUSIC IN BILOXI. This week three faculty members from the Department of Music—Drs. Shelley Collins, Jung-Won Shin, and Christopher Meerdink—will travel to Biloxi to present “Technology in Music Education: Video Self-Assessment and Podcasting” at Mississippi’s largest educational technology gathering, the 2010 Creating Futures Through Technology Conference. The university will also be represented by Dr. Susan Hines, who will present “eBook rEvolution.” For more information on the annual Biloxi-based conference, visit: http://sbcjcweb.sbcjc.cc.ms.us/conf/.
• SPRING CLEANING. This spring OIT is on an all out mission to get faculty and staff members to tidy up their the online lives. So that we can avoid exacting quotas on space usage in Blackboard-CE6 and on the Faculty/Staff NT server, we are asking faculty to review carefully what they are storing in these spaces and to remove or delete any files that are obsolete or not in use. In Blackboard-CE6, please be sure to clean up your “my files” and course “file manager” spaces, and to download (to your desktop) then delete any backed up courses. Yes, shed the old syllabi you’ve recopied from previous courses and purge all those PowerPoint presentations you no longer use! You will feel liberated. Space is at a premium, folks, but I think we will all have enough if we institute some tidier practices.
• IN LIKE A LION, OUT LIKE A LAMB WORKSHOPS. This month, the Office of Instructional Technology will provide workshops on cloud computing, graphic imaging, learning objects, web design, podcasting, online test creation, and the design/development of hybrid and fully online courses. If your schedule does not permit you to attend a workshop, we are happy to schedule one-on-one and small-group sessions tailored to your interests. Workshop times and dates are listed below. Visit http://eln.deltastate.edu/workshops.htm for more information and to sign up.
• WORK BREAK, NOT. The OIT Lab will be open and available for faculty use during the Spring Break, March 15-19th, Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm. If Cancun or Aspen are not in the picture this year, you are more than welcome to visit with us on your staycation.

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, 3/2, 2-4 pm
  ELN 404: Embedding Learning Objects
• Thursday, 3/4, 2-4 pm
  ELN 104: Graphic Imaging for the WWW
• Monday, 3/8, 12-2 pm
  ELN 103: An Introduction to Web Design
• Wednesday, 3/10, 12-2 pm
  ELN 105: Configuring Your Virtual Desktop
• Monday, 3/22, 2-4 pm
  ELN 201: Effective (and Efficient!) e-Pedagogies
• Wednesday, 3/24, 2-4 pm
  ELN 203: Web Design 2: Designing Learning Objects
• Friday, 3/26, 8-10 am
  ELN 301: Designing Hybrid and Fully Online Courses.
• Tuesday, 3/30, 2-4 pm
  ELN 302: Lecture Online: Podcasting for Professors

Volume 4, Issue 3.1. 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.