CTL Events Calendar & Sign up
Sign up links and additional information about our classes can be found by scrolling below the calendar. The tabs along the top of our calendar will allow you to view by week, month or as a list using agenda. Scroll arrows will progress you forward & backward.
Technology Luncheon Series: Spring 2011
The Spectrum of Technology Adoption: A Blended Learning Approach
Discussion, demonstration, and participation with contemporary technologies.
February 18th, 2011
12:00pm-2:00pm
Wilson Lib Room 172
Screencasting: Capture Your Content
Easy to create, streaming video screen capture of course materials with your narration.
Presenter: Nori Murphy
February 25th, 2011
12:00pm-1:30 pm
Campus Center-Ballroom A
CaféScribe: Green & Social
Text books in electronic format with a new generation of interactive, social note-taking tools
Presenters: Derek Dioses & George Saenz
March 10th,2011
12:00pm-1:30 pm
Campus Center- Ballroom A
YouTube: Channel Student Work
Broadcast yourself and your students using copyright free channels on YouTube.
Presenter Erin Gratz, Mike Mastagni & Nori Murphy
April 1st, 2011
12:00pm-1:30 pm
Campus Center-Ballroom A
Laptops & Mobile Devices in the Classroom:
Learning Opportunities & Classroom
Management Challenges
Discussion, demonstration, and participation with mobile devices.
Presenters: Dr. John Bartelt & Dr. Kathy Duncan
April 8th, 2011
12:00pm-2:00pm
Wilson Library Room 172
To sign up for Technology Luncheons Spring 2011 click here
Blackboard: Spring 2011 Sessions
Need better Blackboard skills? Want to learn more engaging tools for your hybrid courses? Have students who ask for course materials to be available online? Attend
our Spring sessions that are now organized by instructional purpose.
Learn to make the most of our course management system.
- Keeping Students on Track: Using tracking tools (Adaptive Release, Performance Dashboard, Early Warning system) to monitor student progress, control content and differentiate instruction
- Communicating with Students: Using Tasks, the Calendar, and Email contact students
- Creating & Managing Assignments: Using the Assignment tool and SafeAssign to organize assignments and check for plagiarism. Librarian Erin Gratz will answer questions about plagiarism and databases searched by SafeAssign
- Making the Most of Discussion & Reflection: Using Blogs, Private Journals and Discussion Forums to promote course dialogue and reflection (recommended for engaging hybrid course design)
- Making the Most of Wikis: Using Wikis for adding, editing, and deleting to construct group knowledge as well as creating individual course portfolios
- Assessment: Using surveys, tests, and textbook question pools to assess students
- Self & Peer Assessment: Create self-based or peer-based assessments on for course assignments. Assessments criteria are created by the instructor.
- Using Groups to Promote Student Engagement: Organizing students in Blackboard, creating virtual meeting space, chat area, group specific discussion forums. Samples of activities that engage groups will be highlighted in this session (recommended for engaging hybrid course design)
Seeking Evidence of Impact
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2011 Online Spring Focus Session
April 13 & 14
9:00am - 3:00pm
Library 151
As the rapid pace of technology change continues unabated, institutions are faced with numerous decisions and choices to support teaching and learning. Amid many options and constrained budgets, faculty and administrators must carefully choose which practices to adopt and where to invest their time, effort, and financial resources. As critical as these decisions are, the information available about the impact of these innovations is often scarce, scattered, or both. What evidence do we have that these changes and innovations are having the desired impact? What current effective practices would enable us to collect that evidence?
- Examine research strategies designed to evaluate teaching and learning innovation and practice
- Review various approaches and designs for collecting evidence
- Explore evaluation tools and methodologies and how they can be used to effectively measure the impact of our innovations and practices
- Discuss evidence-of-impact challenges and opportunities at various institutional levels and across various institutional types and controls (public, private, two year, four year)
- Learn how to infuse instructional objectives and pedagogy into the evidence-seeking process
- Tour institutional case studies and the research frameworks that have been used to evaluate their effectiveness and construct future improvements
