Workshops and Brown Bags in February

By: Jan Jones

February 4th, 2008

This month, the Instructional Design Team of Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) is holding ten informative workshops and two Brown Bag Lunches.  Several workshops help you create or manage a website, others introduce you to WebCampus tools, and still others focus on clickers or social networking.  The two brown bag lunches give faculty a chance to network with others who are using clickers or teaching online with WebCampus.

To register, go to http://teaching.unr.edu/idt/workshops/. Here are the topics being offered in February:

Administration for Contribute Sites 
Mon, Feb. 4 , 11 a.m. – Noon
If others will make changes to your website using Adobe Contribute, this workshop teaches you administration procedures/coordination with campus support personnel, site design using templates, and information to share with the Contribute user. 

Designing E-Portfolios with Lectora
Tues, Feb. 5, 3 – 5 p.m.
Learn to use Lectora to create an e-portfolio and to publish it to the Web (HTML) or a CD. 

Brown Bag Lunch - Clicker Series 
Wed, Feb. 6, Noon – 1 p.m.
First in a series of brown bag lunches designed to promote communication and sharing among faculty using clickers in their classrooms and beyond. 

Introduction to Webpage Design with Dreamweaver 
Fri, Feb. 8, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Learn to create single-column accessible webpages with Dreamweaver CS3. Skills include: adding text, inserting images, creating links, inserting tables, and creating simple styles using the properties panel. 

Designing Effective Webpages 
Tues, Feb. 12, 2 – 4 p.m.
Effective and visually appealing websites require thought and planning. Learn strategies for preproduction that will help you design a website that users will want to return to! 

Wimba Voice Tools for WebCampus  
Wed, Feb. 13, 1 – 4 p.m.
This 3-hour hands-on workshop will teach you all you need to know about adding a voice to your WebCampus class with 6 voice tools, including 2 new ones. 

Wikis and Social Bookmarking  
Thurs, Feb. 14, 1 – 4 p.m.
On Valentine’s Day, learn how to use wikis (to create, edit, and link web pages easily) and social bookmarking (”a way to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages”) to engage students and enhance learning. 

Intermediate Webpage Design with Dreamweaver (Pt 1) 
Fri, Feb. 15,  9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Learn to build a standards-compliant website with Dreamweaver CS3.  Concepts include: document flow, cascading style sheets, multiple column pages using floats and positioning, and templates. Prerequisite: Introduction to Webpage Design workshop and/or a thorough understanding of the concepts presented in that workshop. 

SafeAssign, a WebCampus Plagiarism-Prevention Tool 
Friday, Feb. 15, 2 – 4 p.m.
SafeAssign by Blackboard helps prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. It also educates students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content. In this workshop, you will learn how to create and manage SafeAssign assignments in WebCampus. 

Brown Bag Lunch - Teaching Online with WebCampus
Mon, Feb. 18, Noon – 1 p.m.
WebCampus topics are determined by the previous month’s participants. Intended for faculty who teach or plan to teach a Web-based or hybrid course. 

Windows Media Encoder
Wed, Feb. 20, 1 – 4 p.m.
Windows Media Encoder is a free application with screen-capture and voice-recording capabilities.  In this workshop, you create your own software demonstration that can be viewed in Windows Media Player. 

Intermediate Webpage Design with Dreamweaver (Pt 2)
Fri, Feb.22, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Learn to build a standards-compliant website with Dreamweaver CS3.  (See description of Part 1 above.) 

Advanced Clickers
Wed, Feb. 27, 1 – 4 p.m.
This 3-hour hands-on workshop for experienced clicker (PRS) users introduces more advanced features, including creating quizzes and multiple-version exams, using PRS homework mode, using confidence level option, advanced on-the-fly questions within and without PowerPoint, advanced reporting options and Virtual PRS. Prerequisite:  Introduction to Clickers workshop 

Intermediate Webpage Design with Dreamweaver (Pt 3)
Fri, Feb. 29,  9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Learn to build a standards-compliant website with Dreamweaver CS3.  (See description of Part 1 above.)

Introduction to Photoshop (Pt 1)
Fri, Feb.  29, 1 – 4 p.m.
Participants learn the basics of Adobe® Photoshop in this two-day introductory workshop: overview of the program, basic operations of Photoshop, and creating and manipulating images.

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