C21 TE
Getting Started with Blackboard Facilitator(s): Luis Perez (FCIT), B.J. Bryant (FCIT) Overview: Jump-start your use of Blackboard as a teaching tool by discovering relevant features and learning how to initiate and develop your course site. Gain experience using Blackboard as an instructor; learn to upload a syllabus, manage students and grades, add links, and much more for your face-to-face and online classes.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu
Assessment Process at the Program Level Facilitator(s): Steve RiCharde, Felix Wao Overview: PLEASE NOTE: These workshops have been cancelled for this semester and might be available next semester. We apologize for the inconvenience.
This hands-on session will focus on USF’s Assessment Process and Management System. We will provide an overview of the assessment process. Participants will then be taken through the process of program/unit-level assessment at USF and how to input assessment information for their respective programs/units in an online assessment template. The session is meant for i) chairs of departments
and/or those charged with assessment at the program level and ii) unit directors charged with assessement
in their respective areas. Reservations are required for these sessions. Please reserve
a space online at www.c21te.usf.edu/workshop, call 813-974-2576 or email christian@cte.usf.edu.
Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Converting Courses to Online Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Bridget Patel (MIT), Lindsey Mercer (MIT) Overview: How do you convert your face-to-face course to an online or blended course? This workshop will provide answers to this question through a quick overview of instructional design and pedagogic techiques unique to the online/blended learning environment and by focusing on several instructional technologies that can help you make the transition. You will also be provided with a suggested list of other related workshops that you could attend in this workshop series.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Blackboard Help Sessions Facilitator(s): C21 TE Staff Open Lab Sessions Overview: Whether you are new to Blackboard or an experienced user, you probably have questions. Bring
your questions and problems to find answers and learn valuable tips on using MyUSF/Bb.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu
Institutional Effectiveness Facilitator(s): Steve RiCharde, Marvin Moore Overview: PLEASE NOTE: These workshops have been cancelled for this semester and might be available next semester. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Institutional Effectiveness Sessions for re-accreditation. Reservations are required for these sessions. Please reserve a space online at www.c21te.usf.edu/workshop, call 813-974-2576 or email christian@cte.usf.edu.
Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Facilitator(s): Carlos Zalaquett Overview: Why is it that students often prefer receiving crisp right answers rather than grappling with the gray areas of course content? This session will explore approaches to teaching and learning that take students to a higher level of critical thinking. Classroom and laboratory applications of these ideas will be explored with reference to Bloom’s taxonomy.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Creating a Teaching Portfolio Facilitator(s): Carol Harneit (C21 TE) Repeat Sessions Overview: Can you document your teaching expertise beyond student evaluations, guide yourself toward instructional improvement and strengthen applications for employment, tenure, or teaching awards? A Teaching Portfolio can assist in all these areas. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Dealing with Challenging Student Behaviors Facilitator(s): Lisa Brown Overview: Many faculty have encountered challenging student behaviors, ranging from sleeping during lectures
to aggressively challenging the teaching methods or course content. Learn classroom management
strategies before problems arise in the classroom to respond quickly and professionally.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Assessment Online: Developing Interactive Exercises, Surveys, & Tests in Blackboard Facilitator(s): B.J. Bryant (FCIT), Luis Perez (FCIT) Overview: Understand the possibilities and limitations of online assessment by learning to create online tests and
surveys in Blackboard. This workshop covers the use of all types of test/survey questions in Blackboard
and addresses other assessment topics that will advance your use of online assessment.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Active Learning: Practical Applications to Promote Passion and Ration Facilitator(s): Jennifer Baggerly Overview: I love your class! Student responses such as this can be promoted through active learning strategies that engage the hearts and minds of the students. In this session, participants will learn numerous creative active learning strategies that 1) promote passionate learning, 2) increase rational thought, 3) encourage openness to others, and 4) facilitate involvement of all students.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Conducting Real-Time Online Classrooms Using Elluminate Live! (2nd Session Moved from Monday, Oct 19 to Thursday, Oct 22) Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Repeat Sessions Overview: Learn how to add the dynamic interaction of the traditional classroom to your online course or enhance
a face-to-face course with synchronous tools such as Elluminate. Elluminate is a virtual classroom
tool that allows you to conduct a live, real-time class (with audio, video, etc.) online. USF now has
unlimited seats in Elluminate, and it is available through Blackboard.
Note: The November 17 session is online
via Elluminate Live! For Nov. 17 participation instructions,
visit http://www.c21te.usf.edu/workshops/#elluminate
Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Wikis and Blogs to Enhance Teaching and Learning Facilitator(s): Eleni Manolaraki, Quentin Vieregge, Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Ever think about how Wikis and Blogs could be used to enhance teaching and learning? This workshop provides you with a detailed understanding of these revolutionary collaboration and content presentation tools and their application to academia. Learn to create and publish Wikis and Blogs.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Writing Successful Grants for NSF Educational Funding Opportunities Facilitator(s): Jeff Ryan Overview: Find out how USF Professor Jeff Ryan’s experience as a Program Director for NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education can help you discover what makes a successful proposal. Learn about funding programs for college classroom innovations and what is needed for successful NSF submissions.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Blackboard and Elluminate Basics: Preparing for a Disruption to Academic Continuity Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Bill Biersdorf (C21 TE), Diane Williams (C21 TE) Overview: The C21TE will offer open workshops with basic information for continuing to teach online in the event of a disruption to academic continuity. (These are in addition to the sessions scheduled for specific colleges and departments so if you have attended a session in your college, you do not need to attend this workshops unless you want more detailed, hands-on experience.) Information about both Blackboard 9 (new version) and Elluminate will be included, with references to links for further information. We are also developing online tutorials for those who do not feel the need or have the time to come in person. Blackboard and Elluminate are just two among the options that faculty may choose as they prepare for the possibility of a disruption to academic continuity.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
General Education Proposal Help Sessions Facilitator(s): Diane Williams (C21 TE) Repeat Sessions Overview: These help sessions are designed to assist faculty in submitting general education course proposals for recertification in the new Foundations of Knowledge and Learning Core Curriculum. Reservations are required for these sessions. Please reserve a space online at www.c21te.usf.edu/workshop, call 813-974-2576 or email christian@cte.usf.edu.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Leading Class Discussions Online Facilitator(s): Deoksoon Kim Overview: Online discussion helps promote an inventive, creative, and committed learning community and student ownership of learning in a rapidly changing world. Explore the benefits and challenges in leading online discussions, especially asynchronously, discussing such points as “How do experienced online teachers handle discussion?” “What kinds of online discussions are available?” “How do students participate?” “How do we facilitate not only students’ knowledge construction, but also critical thinking skills as we implement class discussions online?” Learn contemporary methods to assist you in leading and assessing discussions as you meet others also dealing with the issues surrounding online teaching. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Enhancing Teaching and Learning with PowerPoint and Active Learning Strategies Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: In this intensive hands-on workshop, find out how to: 1) create enhanced class handouts, and/or multimedia presentations, 2) enhance text-based PowerPoint presentations by adding graphics, clip art, and materials downloaded from the World Wide Web, and 3) integrate basic instructional design principles and active learning strategies into PowerPoint presentations for classroom use or online teaching. Learn how PowerPoint can be used to maintain student interest as well as enhance comprehension and retention. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Defining, Assessing and Documenting Student Learning: Basics and Beyond Facilitator(s): Felix Wao Overview: How do we define the body of knowledge students should gain through an educational experience? How do we know what students know? How do we formulate a systematic approach to yield information on what students are learning and responsive changes made to courses and curricular? In this interactive workshop, participants will address these three questions and discuss how effective approaches may be used to enhance student learning at the classroom level. Documentation of student learning in the context of online courses and curriculum will also be included in this session.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Creating a Teaching Philosophy Statement Facilitator(s): Carol Harneit (C21 TE) Overview: Present yourself and your teaching beliefs in a powerful, clear statement of your teaching philosophy for applications, interviews, teaching awards or your teaching portfolio. But how to get started? What to include? Come to today’s session and begin the process.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Student Learning Outcomes: Identifying, Articulating, and Achieving Them Facilitator(s): Felix Wao Overview: This interactive workshop will emphasize the importance of defining expectations and standards for your course(s) through (i) writing clear, concise, measurable, and meaningful student learning outcomes easily understood by students in your course and/or program, faculty, parents and employers, and (ii) focusing on a few outcomes that can lead to improvement of student learning at the course and program levels.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Cooperative Learning Groups in Large and Small Classes (New Location) Facilitator(s): Cheryl Ellerbrock Overview: Do your students complain about group work? Would you like to avoid problems with group work without losing the benefits? Cooperative Learning is a successful approach to the use of structured small groups to maximize students’ learning. Responsibility for learning is shared by all! This interactive session will demonstrate cooperative learning activities and will introduce several cooperative learning techniques. You will learn to design activities to teach course-specific content using cooperative learning groups.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Writing Case Studies Facilitator(s): Grandon Gill Overview: Learn how to write and use case studies to stimulate active discussion in the classroom. This workshop shows how to organize and format ideas as well as write the case. In addition, find out more about the case method as a pedagogical tool for active learning and how you can create and then use cases to meet your teaching and learning needs.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Intermediate PowerPoint: Further Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Multimedia Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Are you already familiar with PowerPoint? Explore how to use PowerPoint’s multimedia features and learn how to add audio narration, embed video and audio clips, automate slide shows based on timing, and much more; all in concert with active learning strategies to increase student learning.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu
Developing Online Learning Communities in Online (and Traditional) Classrooms Facilitator(s): Fred Steier, Daniel Blaeuer Overview: How imperative is a sense of group or community for success in the classroom—virtual or traditional? How do faculty foster a sense of community in the face-to-face classroom? What tools, e.g., asynchronous discussion forums, synchronous online software, and others, are available to assist faculty to build and sustain a sense of community in the online classroom as a framework to support and guide online learning? How can faculty best use these tools and others to foster engagement among students, with the instructor and with the course materials and subject? This workshop will discuss these questions and other related questions as we explore possibilities afforded by new social media to develop collaborative learning (as well as individual learning), in the classroom—both online and face to face.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Online Teaching Portfolios: Blackboard and Beyond Facilitator(s): Carol Harneit (C21 TE) Overview: If you’re already familiar with the creation and organization of a traditional hard-copy teaching portfolio, find out how to take it up a digital notch. Put the documents you already have into an online format. Have the flexibility of both formats available to you! Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Clickers in Small & Large Classes: Solving Learning Issues with Clickers Facilitator(s): Johnny El-Rady, Kathleen Heide, Fran Hopf, Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Learn more about how Audience Response Systems (clickers) are being used increasingly in USF classes. These devices allow students to send communication to an instructor device that then
records student responses. Instructors see instantly what students are thinking. This session covers
the various purposes for clickers in a teaching/learning setting and the logistics of using clickers.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Blackboard: Adding Content and Effectively Using the Communication Tools Facilitator(s): Luis Perez (FCIT), B.J. Bryant (FCIT) Overview: Learn how to improve collaboration and enhance learning using the communication tools in Blackboard while also increasing student access to course content. Learn to post content, create basic Web
documents, organize content, and more. Discover effective approaches to using Blackboard
communication tools to promote meaningful instructor-student and student-student interaction.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Creating Digital Content to Enhance Courses Facilitator(s): Grandon Gill, William Cummings, Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Create professional, interactive content without learning to program! Use software such as Camtasia
and Softchalk to easily create online interactive content such as presentations with audio, screen
simulations, interactive learning games, customizable fl ashcards, word searches, etc.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Service Learning: Engaging Students Through Community-Based Learning Facilitator(s): Robin Jones, Patricia McHatton Overview: Service Learning, a growing movement among college instructors, is a teaching approach that enriches course work by allowing students the opportunity to include community service. Students also participate academically, building in reflective time through their community experiences, applying classroom concepts by researching, writing, and evaluating their community learning as part of their coursework. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu
Could Feedback from Students Help Inform My Teaching? Introducing SelectSurvey... Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: SelectSurvey is a dynamic, easy-to-use, web-based survey tool that does not require any programming or technical background to create powerful customized surveys quickly and easily. Faculty can also
create conditional survey questions, collaborate on the development of a survey, pipe responses from one question to the next, administer surveys via email, etc. using SelectSurvey. SelectSurvey is
available to USF faculty via the C21TE at no cost. Learn how to use this tool to inform your teaching
with valuable student feedback. This session will also include information on the design of effective
surveys for periodic student feedbackContact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Promoting Active Learning in Large Classes Facilitator(s): Marilyn Myerson, Leisa Clark Overview: Are your classes LARGE? Talk with veteran large class instructors who have met the challenges of teaching large classes. Find out how they actively engage students in the learning process in their large classes. This session will identify several low-risk, high-impact instructional strategies for increasing in-class participation to help make large classes as exciting and effective as small classes.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu
As I See It: Views of Student Veterans on Teaching and Learning at USF Facilitator(s): Student Panel of Veterans Overview: Our series continues with an opportunity to meet a distinguished panel of students who are also veterans. They will share their insights and perceptions about teaching and learning at USF. For
this interactive session, come prepared for a lively question and answer exchange with colleagues
and students.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Classroom Level Assessment Results to Enhance Student Learning Facilitator(s): Felix Wao Overview: PLEASE NOTE: This workshop has been cancelled for this semester and might be available next semester. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Learn how you can use your students’ assignments and tests to improve your curriculum and instructional methods. This hands-on workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to share effective methods of using assessment results to improve student learning, including involving students in all stages of the assessment process. This means, developing objectives, mapping objectives to student learning experiences (in and out of class), selecting appropriate assessment methods, data collection strategies, analysis of data, and most important, interpreting results.
Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Copyright Issues and Teaching Facilitator(s): Merilyn Burke Overview: Learn about copyright issues facing today’s educators-- what you need to know when using copyrighted
materials. Access to published materials has increased tremendously. Bring your questions about
copyright issues and find out how they affect your use of published materials in your courses.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu
A Discussion for Online Instructors Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Elizabeth Shaunessy Overview: What concerns do you have about teaching online? Are you wondering if your students are really
grasping the material? How do others grade discussion contributions? Has your online teaching changed over time? Share your knowledge and learn from the experience of other faculty. Network with colleagues about online teaching and learning issues. Learn about resources for online teaching.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu LIB
Beyond the Basics: Researching the Literature in the Social Sciences Facilitator(s): Susan Ariew Overview: You know the basics—the library catalog, the databases in your discipline and many of the tools for coursework and basic projects, but now you want to go deeper either because you are getting ready for writing your thesis or you want to submit a manuscript for publication. This workshop will cover the tools researchers use to go beyond the basics to do an exhaustive review of the literature. Learn how to follow the bibliographic trail by using super-Googling techniques, World Catalog, cited author references, and online dissertations. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Reaching Students with Appreciative Inquiry in the Classroom Facilitator(s): Liliana Rodriguez Overview: Learn how Appreciative Inquiry can help create more successful outcomes for your students by providing a vision of what can be, based on the use of affirmative language to reframe common issues. Using highly interactive discussion, demonstration, and hands-on exercises, this workshop blends theoretical grounding with the application of Appreciative Inquiry to classroom experiences. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
New Features in Blackboard Facilitator(s): Luis Perez (FCIT), B.J. Bryant (FCIT) Overview: Find out about new Blackboard features that enhance teaching and learning as they facilitate course management including: Student Performance Assistant, Discussion Grader, Wikis and Blogs, SafeAssign(plagiarism detection), and the Blackboard Content Management System. Content posted in the CMS can be linked to courses, so changes made to content in the CMS are reflected in all courses.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
How Experienced Teachers use Elluminate Live! (Synchronous Software) Facilitator(s): Denise Passmore, Jeffrey Hall Overview: This session is not for beginners. In today’s advanced workshop, you will learn the techniques of experienced faculty using the synchronous software Elluminate Live! as they share Web-based learning environments and online teaching strategies. Find out how courses and learning strategies can be more interactive and engaging while building community.
If you are new to online synchronous teaching, you might want to participate in Conducting Real-Time, Online Classrooms Using Elluminate Live! before taking today’s workshop. Sessions are available on 9/15, 10/22 and 11/17 (via Elluminate) to teach basic use of this synchronous online software for the classroom.
Note: Visit http://www.c21te.usf.edu/workshops/#elluminate for participation instructions.
Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using the Ideas of Others: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Facilitator(s): Matt Torrence, John Abresch Overview: Almost all fields of research involve the intensive tracing of theories and ideas already authored. As
critical thinkers, we are invited to evaluate, extend, and create our own ideas by examining the fine
research available. There’s always an art to science, however, and part of this art involves using
the right sources and giving proper credit to the academic achievements already published. This
workshop will explore the basics of citation and its many styles, as well as how to avoid plagiarism
and use new tools, like RefWorks.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Teaching Students with Disabilities Facilitator(s): Deborah McCarthy Overview: National statistics report that 1 out of 7 students may be eligible for disability accommodations. What am I supposed to do when a student needs an accommodation due to a disability? What do students need to do? How can I incorporate accessible methods and universal design in all my courses? This workshop will address common faculty questions about working successfully with students with disabilities.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Reflecting Your Course in a Learning-Centered Syllabus Facilitator(s): Carol Harneit (C21 TE) Overview: How can your syllabus design bring out the best in your students? What are the essential components of a good syllabus, and how can you enhance a good syllabus to make it even better? Are your course goals and teaching philosophy reflected? How can your syllabus help students to learn subject matter?
Then consider the potential of the online syllabus to further enhance your course.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Academic Honesty: Approaches, Policies, and Tools Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Ava Chitwood Overview: This session will explore plagiarism issues, SafeAssignment plagiarism detection software, USF
academic dishonesty policies, Blackboard testing features that help prevent academic dishonesty,and external proctoring of tests for distance learning students.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Latest Library Services for Teaching and Research Facilitator(s): Virginia Cunningham, Barbara Lewis Overview: Let us introduce you to the newest library services and resources for your teaching and research. Learn how to request electronic copies of articles from journals found in the Tampa Library. Learn about RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management program and new databases with everything from digitized classical music to psychology resources to women’s studies.
Note: Visit http://www.c21te.usf.edu/workshops/#elluminate for participation instructions.
Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Fostering a Positive Learning Environment for all Students Facilitator(s): Deidre Cobb-Roberts, James Cavendish Overview: How can we as instructors foster a respectful, inclusive, and professional learning environment for
our students? This session will focus on how instructors can enhance students’ motivation and utilize
diversity as an asset that facilitates positive educational outcomes, including increased cultural
awareness and critical thinking.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
The Impact of Online Social Networking on Teaching and Learning Facilitator(s): Christina Partin Overview: MySpace, Facebook, instant messaging, omnipresent cell phones: immediate online communication has created powerful online communities that can affect students, TAs and faculty in positive and negative ways. Come discuss the impact these online communities are having on teaching and learning in an exciting informal discussion.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Multimedia to Enhance Teaching and Learning (Rescheduled from Tuesday, Nov 3, to Thursday, Nov 12) Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), C21 TE Staff Overview: Recent advances in digital technology have made it easier than ever before to develop multimedia for instruction. In this workshop, you will learn to use the latest, easy-to-use multimedia technologies available at USF and elsewhere, such as: MovieMaker, PhotoStory, CMap (Concept Mapping software), Camtasia, Articulate Presenter, etc. to enhance online teaching and learning. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Second Life at USF: Educational Possibilities Facilitator(s): Ilene Frank, Joe Floyd, Bill Biersdorf Overview: What is this virtual 3D world called Second Life? How is it different from other online simulation sites? Explore the nature of this global resource. What are some of the educational possibilities for this and/or other simulation sites? Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
eduCasting: Developing Podcasts for Instruction (Rescheduled from Thursday, Nov 5, to Friday, Nov 13) Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Bill Biersdorf (C21 TE) Overview: Podcasting is a medium for presenting (and broadcasting) multimedia content. This exciting medium
has found many creative instructional applications in academia and has become more accessible
to USF faculty via the Blackboard Podcast feature and other podcasting services such as iTunes U.
Learn how to plan, create, and record engaging Podcasts using Audacity, GarageBand, ProfCast, and
Camtasia Studio and how Blackboard and other podcasting services can be used to deliver Podcasts.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Microsoft Office 2007 for Education Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: What impact do the new features in Office 2007 have on teaching and learning? Learn tips for using this new version inside and outside the classroom; learn to transition from older versions of Office.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Second Life at USF: Next Steps Facilitator(s): Bill Biersdorf (C21 TE) Overview: Learn about how the virtual 3D world of Second Life is being used at USF, the Center for 21st Century
Teaching Excellence, and beyond to enhance teaching and learning. Also take the next step in using
Second Life by creating an avatar and undertaking some basic building projects. This follows the
November 3 session on Second Life facilitated by Ilene Frank, Joe Floyd and Bill Biersdorf.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Working with Students in Interdisciplinary Courses Facilitator(s): Maya Trotz, Fenda Akiwumi, Amy Stuart Overview: Knowledge is traditionally organized in academic disciplines, but interdisciplinary courses can offer students a rich and diverse experience with a larger perspective. What are the challenges of team teaching in an interdisciplinary course? What happens when students are from a variety of academic backgrounds? This session will offer a discussion with faculty who have team taught in an interdisciplinary course. They have experienced the dynamics first hand and are willing to facilitate a discussion with others interested in this topic. Bring your questions and your experiences for this lively discussion.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Developing and Using Rubrics for Assessing, Grading, and Improving Student Learning (Original workshop dates rescheduled to Nov 17) Facilitator(s): Felix Wao Overview: Rubrics describe levels of proficiency for a learning performance. They delineate the criteria for assessing evidence for student learning, but they also can be fair and effective tools for grading and improving student learning at the course and program levels. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn stages of developing and integrating rubrics into assessment plans and into the classroom to expedite grading, provide formative feedback, and encourage learning. Please bring your course syllabus or an assignment for which you would like to develop a rubric and you’ll leave with rubric examples and the energy to try them out.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
The “Next” Step in Elluminate Use – Introducing Elluminate Next! Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Ready to move to the next level with the Elluminate Live Virtual Classroom or simply interested in
knowing about what else you could do with Elluminate Live? Learn about two new Elluminate-related
tools - Elluminate Plan and Elluminate Publish. Elluminate Plan! enables users to organize and package
content and activities before the real-time Elluminate Live! session, automating routine tasks and
allowing instructors to focus on delivering material, facilitating interaction, and optimizing the online
learning experience. Elluminate Publish! creates portable, “podcastable”, reusable learning content
from Elluminate Live! session recordings as audio files or standalone multimedia recordings.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
New Technologies for Instruction Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Bill Biersdorf (C21 TE) Overview: Innovative uses of Tablet PCs, PDAs, and Digitizer/Graphics Tablets to enhance instruction, learning,
and productivity are now available! Explore these technologies in a hands-on environment and learn
about their effective application in the physical and virtual classroom.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu Making the Case Against Plagiarism Self-paced online workshop Perpetual Online Availability | http://www.c21te.usf.edu/plagiarism/index.html Overview: Available online when you and your students need it! This interactive online workshop presents instructors with materials for teaching students about the awareness, prevention, detection, and consequences of plagiarism. Learn about techniques and tools for teaching professional integrity, dealing with plagiarism in the classroom, and using SafeAssign, a plagiarism detection tool that is an integral part of MyUSF (Blackboard).Contact: Please email ngomes@cte.usf.edu Flashlight Online: Lighting the Way to Student Assessment Self-paced online workshop Perpetual Online Availability | http://www.c21te.usf.edu/flashlight/index.html
Overview: Available online when you need it! Flashlight Online is a dynamic, easy-to use survey and assessment tool that offers a large database of survey templates, the ability to collaborate on the development of a survey, as well as a variety of options for designing customized surveys. Learn the basics through this online, video-based tutorial. Respondents can easily access and submit these surveys using any Web browser. With Flashlight Online you will be creating simple online surveys for your class and collecting data in minutes without any programming or database development experience and without any additional software or hardware.
Contact: Please email ngomes@cte.usf.edu
Synchronous software allows faculty to participate in a professional
workshop/discussion or teach distance students simultaneously. The interactive
product currently licensed by USF, Elluminate Live!, allows participants to view
presentations and participate in ?real time? in audio discussions and online
chat. A computer equipped with a headphone, microphone, and an Internet
connection is required; C21TE (SVC1072) has headphones for loan to participants
who do not have their own. Participants can also request (depending on
availability) the use of a computer at the C21TE (SVC1072) Faculty Teaching Lab
for these sessions. Please contact Dawn Christian at (813) 974-2576 at least
five working days prior to the event to schedule the use of a computer in the
Faculty Teaching Lab.
To participate in an Elluminate Live! synchronous session:
Register for the workshop as usual through http://www.cte.usf.edu/workshops
Download and install Java Web Start on the computer you plan to use during the session from
http://www.elluminate.com/support/ (20-30 min. on a 56K dial-up connection; less on faster connections)
Check your computer before the day of the session to ensure that Elluminate works. Go to: http://www.elluminate.com/support/ and click the
Configuration Room link and follow instructions. Call 813-974-7899 or email elluminate@lists.acomp.usf.edu for assistance.
A day or two before the scheduled session, you will be sent (via email - at the address you supply at registration) a link to join an Elluminate session.
Wait for the email and follow the instructions in it to connect to the session.
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