OIT-ELN Blog Project

e-Learning Snippets, Tips and Workshops

• HOW MANY MUSIC INSTRUCTORS DOES IT TAKE TO TURN ON A PROJECTOR? The answer is five, and the result is one very turned-on projector. 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 you that musicians are not only cool and hip, but seriously geeky. DSU’s Music and DMI faculty will be on stage to demonstrate and discuss how they use various strategies and technologies—screencasting, podcasting, and web video—in class and online to improve upon teaching and learning.
• A TOUCH OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH IN YOUR ONLINE COURSES. If you teach online courses, you may see the profile IRSURVEYS enrolled in your courses for approximately one week this spring. Institutional research has requested staff-member access to facilitate end-of-course evaluations.
• STILL CLEANING UP…FOR SPRING AND BEYOND. Please help OIT avoid quotas on space usage in Blackboard-CE6 and on the Faculty/Staff NT server by carefully reviewing what you are storing in these spaces. Please delete or remove 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.
• THE HOME STRETCH. The Office of Instructional Technology has six more workshops scheduled—and one presentation—before the end of the semester. If you wish to learn more about screencasting, ebooks, social networking, syndication, web video, bot research, and learning objects, April is your month! Go to: http://eln.deltastate.edu/workshops.htm for more information, and 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.

• Monday, 4/5, 12-2 pm
  ELN 303: Beyond Powerpoint: Screencasting
• Wednesday, 4/7, 12-2 pm
  ELN 304: Leveraging eBooks in Your Courses
• Tuesday, 4/20, 2-4 pm
  ELN 401: Social Networking, Syndication and Research Automation
• Thursday, 4/22, 2-4 pm
  ELN 402: Basic Video Editing
• Monday, 4/26, 2-4pm
  ELN 403: Web Video Post-production and Distribution
• Wednesday, 4/28, 2-4 pm
  ELN 404: Embedding Learning Objects

Volume 4, Issue 4.1. 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.