OIT-ELN Blog Project

e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops

• 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. Shelley Collins, Jung-Won Shin, and Christopher Meerdink (pictured right) traveled 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.

• 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.
• FOUR WORKSHOPS REMAIN IN MARCH. Workshops on learning objects, podcasting, and the design/development of hybrid and fully online courses are on the schedule for what remains of March. Times and dates are listed below. Visit http://eln.deltastate.edu/workshops.htm for more information and to sign up.
• SHOULD PROFESSORS SHARE LECTURES ONLINE? If you’re already podcasting or just thinking about it, you may want to review the article in the March 7th Chronicale of Higher Education by Jeffrey Young, “College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They?” Visit: http://chronicle.com/article/More-Professors-Could-Share/64521/

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.

• Wednesday, 3/24, 2-4 pm
  ELN 203: Web Design 2: Designing Learning Objects
• Thursday, 3/25, 2:30-4:30 pm
  ELN 302: Lecture Online: Podcasting for Professors
• 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 3.2. 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.