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Conducting Real-Time Online Classrooms Using Elluminate Live! Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Lindsey Mercer (MIT) 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. This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the features and functionality of Elluminate and also shows you how to use the tools to increase interaction in your courses.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Assessment of Student Learning: Basics and Beyond Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Felix Wao (C21 TE) Overview: How do you know your students are learning? Are you aligning your course objectives with your assignments and assessment of student learning? Are your majors leaving USF with the skills they need in the real world? This session will cover basic issues related to assessment of student learning that can contribute to your department’s Academic Learning Compacts.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Enhancing Teaching and Learning with PowerPoint and Active Learning Strategies (Two Incremental Sessions) Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Lindsey Mercer (MIT) Incremental Sessions (best to sign up for both) Overview: Do your PowerPoint presentations enhance teaching and learning or put your audience to sleep? In this two-session intensive hands-on workshop series, find out how to:
1) create enhanced class handouts, and/or multimedia presentations from existing text documents, such as lecture notes, 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. Learn how to create course-relevant PowerPoint presentations and explore ways that PowerPoint can be used to maintain student interest as well as enhance comprehension and retention.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
General Education Proposal Help Sessions Facilitator(s): Diane Williams (C21 TE) Alternate 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 under Workshops, call 813-974-2576, or email Christian@cte.usf.edu.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. Examine how portfolios are best planned, written, and revised.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Understanding 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
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 of cognitive levels of critical thinking.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu 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.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
Copyright Issues and Teaching Facilitator(s): Merilyn Burke (LIB) Overview: Learn about copyright issues facing todays educators - what you need to know when using copyrighted materials. Times are changing and access to published materials has increased tremendously. Bring your questions about copyright issues and find out how they affect the use of published materials in your courses.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
CLAQWA Online Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby Alternate Sessions Overview: Need help grading written assignments? Find out about the Cognitive Level and Quality of Writing Assessment (CLAQWA) now available online. Bring your questions and find out how to use CLAQWA online to embed your own comments in students’ papers as well as to give feedback on any or all of the sixteen writing elements that define CLAQWA.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Leading Online Discussions Facilitator(s): Elizabeth Shaunessy Overview: What are the challenges in leading online discussions, especially asynchronously? How do experienced online teachers handle discussion? Learn methods to assist you in leading and assessing discussions as you meet others also dealing with online teaching issues.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Blackboard Help Sessions Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), 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/Blackboard.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 of the class. Teachers may feel frustrated when dealing with troublesome student behaviors. Ideally, knowledge of effective management strategies should be acquired before such behaviors occur, so that if problems arise in the classroom they can be responded to quickly and professionally. In this workshop, we will describe techniques that can lessen the likelihood of negative student-teacher and student-student interactions and discuss effective ways to respond to problem behaviors before they result in serious consequences for students or teachers.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Blackboard: Adding Content and Effectively Using the Communication Tools Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), 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 how to post content, create basic Web documents, organize content, and more within a Blackboard course. Discover effective approaches to using Blackboard communication tools to promote meaningful instructor-student and student-student interaction. Communication topics covered include effective strategies and best practices with using Blackboard email, discussion boards, chat, and Virtual Classroom tools.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! You can create an e-Portfolio through the Content section of MyUSF/Blackboard or through other means. Participants are requested to bring at least some of their portfolio documents on a CD or thumb drive for use in the workshop.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Latest Library Services for Teaching and Research Facilitator(s): Ilene Frank (LIB), Virginia Cunningham (LIB) 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 that has been licensed for use by students and faculty at USF. Learn about new databases with everything from digitized classical music to psychology resources to women’s studies.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
What is Inquiry-based Learning? Facilitator(s): Drew Smith (LIB) Overview: What is inquiry-based learning and how does it differ from traditional methods of instruction? How does this approach to teaching and learning reflect USF’s priorities for enhancing the research experience of undergraduate students? Find out how to integrate inquiry-based learning in your course.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Student Learning Outcomes: Identifying, Articulating, and Achieving Them Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Felix Wao (C21 TE) Overview: Define expectations and standards as you generate measurable student learning outcomes for your program. By the workshop’s end you will be able to: i) recognize that a student learning outcome describes a required learning achievement, ii) identify the vital benefits of articulating student learning outcomes, iii) develop learning outcome statements specific to your program, iv) write effective learning outcome statements that describe intended outcomes, and v) recognize the importance of focusing on a few outcomes that can lead to program improvements. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
As I See It: Views of Students on Synchronous Online Education via Elluminate at USF (Workshop Cancelled) Facilitator(s): Student Panel Overview: Our series continues with an opportunity to meet a distinguished panel of students from online classes using the synchronous software Elluminate Live!; they will share their insights and perceptions about online 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
Assessment Online: Developing Interactive Exercises, Surveys, & Tests in Blackboard Facilitator(s): Luis Perez (FCIT), B.J. Bryant (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
Teaching Portfolios — A Discussion Facilitator(s): Carol Harneit (C21 TE) Overview: Looking for peer feedback on your portfolio in progress? Or is something keeping you from starting or completing your teaching portfolio? Today’s informal discussion will give you an opportunity to present your questions, make valuable connections with colleagues interested in improving teaching and learning, and receive feedback on your work-in-progress. Please bring your portfolio for peer comments, if desired, or bring your questions to find out how others might resolve your issues.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Writing Successful Grants for NSF Educational Funding Opportunities (Newly Added) Facilitator(s): Jeff Ryan Overview: USF’s Professor Jeff Ryan was Program Director for NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education for
two years. He will provide information about funding programs for college classroom innovations and
also information about what makes a successful NSF educational proposal.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Writing and Peer Review Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Philip Bishop Alternate Sessions Overview: Peer review is an effective method to improve students’ writing. Learn how to implement a systematic peer review process, where students review each other’s writing. The process is based upon the Cognitive Level and Quality Writing Assessment (CLAQWA) writing and thinking rubric, for a range of writing assignments. Useful for lab reports, as well as essays and research papers; students and faculty alike have found this method to be beneficial.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Teaching Students with Disabilities Facilitator(s): Office of Academic Support and Accomodations for Students with Disabilities Overview: What am I supposed to do when my student needs an accommodation due to a disability? What must my student do? This workshop will address common faculty concerns about working successfully with students with disabilities. Bring your questions and learn about resources available at USF to support you and your students.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Second Life at USF: Educational Possibilities Facilitator(s): Drew Smith (LIB), Ilene Frank (LIB) 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? How have other universities created and used virtual classrooms, given lectures and collaborated on projects within Second Life®? What are the possibilities at USF?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
Multiple Choice Exams: Not Just for Recall Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby Overview: Multiple choice tests often have the reputation for measuring only recognition. Because students study based on the test they expect, developing tests that reflect higher levels of thinking may lead to deeper understanding of course content. Learn ways of constructing multiple choice tests to tap higher levels, as well as strategies to demonstrate to students that you are not trying to ‘trick” them. Finally, discover various uses of multiple choice test results. 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 real-life classroom experiences. Through small group activities designed to simulate and replicate classroom problems, challenges, and decisions, participants will be able to apply the techniques presented to specific situations. In addition, participants are encouraged to bring their actual examples, present scenarios and/or specific problem areas for discussion.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Active Learning with High or Low Technology Facilitator(s): Fran Hopf Overview: How can your students participate in interactive online learning when your technology skills are limited? Come to this workshop and find out what kinds of online software are available from book publishers so that your students can experience videos, interactive tutorials, flash cards, gap testing, and other activities with minimum technical skills required of you. Also, included will be examples of the reporting and statistics that accompanies this type of publisher-made software. If you would like to bring a technology to share, please forward a description to Dawn Christian [christian@cte.usf.edu] in advance and we will get back to you.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Help with Assessing Students’ Writing Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby Alternate Sessions Overview: Are you looking for a framework to assess student writing? Find out how CLAQWA (Cognitive Level and Quality of Writing Assessment) can help you assess student writing consistently, judge the cognitive levels students attain, as well as help your students effectively peer review each others’ writing. Learn how this tool assists you with the assessment of students’ writing and thinking, and provides language for communicating students’ strengths and weaknesses. Equally important, you will learn how to teach your students to use CLAQWA for the peer review process, resulting in better papers for you to grade.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Creating Rubrics that Define Expectations and Make Grading Faster, Fairer, and More Effective Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Felix Wao (C21 TE) Overview: A scale that describes levels of proficiency for a learning performance, the rubric can help you define and communicate expectations to your students. It is also a great tool in grading papers, and presentations quickly, fairly and effectively. Learn the stages of rubric development and receive resources and ideas for developing rubrics. Bring your course syllabus and an assignment, exercise, or learning outcome for which you would like to create 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
Intermediate PowerPoint: Further Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Multimedia Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Daphine Washington (C21 TE) Overview: In this hands-on workshop, created especially for instructors who are already familiar with PowerPoint, you will 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 C21 TE
General Program Assessment Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Felix Wao (C21 TE) Overview: This general workshop will focus on various elements of program level assessments. Participants will learn how to conduct program assessment, the importance of program assessment, how to embed the Academic Learning Compacts within the existing program assessment processes, how to develop student learning outcomes and identify methods of assessment, and how to use assessment results for program improvement. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Wikis and Blogs to Enhance Teaching and Learning Facilitator(s): Laura Runge, Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Wikis and Blogs… ever wonder about these buzzwords and what they mean? Ever think about how they 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. In addition, you will create and publish Wikis and Blogs.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
New Features in Blackboard Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Luis Perez (FCIT), B.J. Bryant (FCIT) Overview: What’s New in Blackboard? Find out about exciting features that enhance teaching and learning as they facilitate course management. Features include: Student Performance Assistant, Discussion Board Grader, Campus Pack (Wikis and Blogs), SafeAssign (plagiarism detection tool), and the Blackboard Content Management System (including Digital Portfolio). Content posted in the CMS could be linked to courses, so that changes made to content in the CMS would be reflected in all areas where it was used, reducing time spent updating all courses separately. See overviews and learn to use these Blackboard tools effectively.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Creating Digital Content to Enhance Courses Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), William Cummings Overview: Create professional-looking, interactive content without learning to program! View and use software that allows you to create online interactive content such as presentations with audio, interactive learning games, customizable flashcards, matching games, word searches, pop-up text annotations, etc. Using programs such as Camtasia, Softchalk, Adobe Acrobat and others, you will learn to generate interactive activities and presentations in minutes. And it’s all easily uploaded to Blackboard!Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) to Create Effective Web Pages Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Atma Bellamkonda (C21 TE) Overview: Want to create Web pages using HTML code, the primary language of the Internet? Find out how this core process of Web design will enable you to read, understand, manipulate, and extend the code that popular HTML editors like FrontPage and Dreamweaver generate. Learn to publish your own Web pages on the Web or to Blackboard.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
How Experienced Teachers use Elluminate Live! (Synchronous Software) Facilitator(s): Barbara Little, Denise Passmore Overview: 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.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Cooperative Learning Groups in Large and Small Classes Facilitator(s): Judith Ponticell, Naomi Boyer Overview: Cooperative Learning is the instructional use of structured small groups to maximize students’ learning. Responsibility for learning is shared by all! This online session will demonstrate cooperative learning activities and will introduce several commonly used cooperative learning techniques. Participants will learn to design activities to teach course-specific content using cooperative learning groups.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. This session will help you get started with Service Learning and introduce faculty who will share their experiences incorporating Service Learning in their courses.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, Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Want to know 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 can see instantly what students are thinking. This session will cover the various purposes for clickers in a teaching/learning setting and the logistics of using clickers. Faculty will share their experiences with clickers in the classroom.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Developing Program Level Student Learning Outcomes Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Felix Wao (C21 TE) Overview: Defining student learning outcomes is an integral part of the program assessment process. In this hands-on workshop, participants will: i) identify the importance of and benefits associated with articulating student learning outcomes, ii) learn how to develop learning outcome statements that are specific and distinctive to their respective programs, and iii) write effective program level learning statements that describes intended outcomes. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Creating Web Pages with Dreamweaver Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Todd Lincoln (MIT), Atma Bellamkonda (C21 TE) Overview: Learn to create Web pages using Dreamweaver, the most popular Web design application. Familiarize yourself with the Dreamweaver design interface; set up a Web site; modify Web page properties; add and edit text and images; create links and image maps; work with tables and much more. Your new skills will enable you to develop Web sites and engaging Web pages for your courses. It is recommended (not required) that you attend the “Using HTML to Create Effective Web Pages” workshop before this workshop. It is suggested that you attend the “Developing Efficient and Interactive Web Pages with Dreamweaver” workshop after this workshop.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Reflecting Your Course in a Learning-centered Syllabus Facilitator(s): Carol Harneit (C21 TE) Overview: Focus on designing hardcopy and online syllabi that establish a framework for instructors to teach students how to learn subject matter. Discuss the essential and optional components of a good syllabus, the relationship of the syllabus to the course goals and the instructor’s teaching philosophy and the potential of the online syllabus by using examples from several disciplines.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Developing Efficient and Interactive Web Pages with Dreamweaver (Workshop Full - Registrations Closed) Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Atma Bellamkonda (C21 TE) Overview: Is your web page missing interactivity? Remedy that as you extend your Dreamweaver skills. Learn to embed audio, video, and Flash files in Web pages; increase Web development efficiency and facilitate global site design changes using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and templates; insert Flash Text and Flash Buttons; create lists; add the USF header; and upload your Web site to your personal USF Web space. It is recommended (not required) that you attend the “Using HTML to Create Effective Web Pages” and “Creating Web Pages with Dreamweaver” workshops before this workshop.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Promoting Active Learning in Large Classes (Date Changed) Facilitator(s): Marilyn Myerson Overview: Do you consider some of your courses to be 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. Share tips and concerns with other faculty.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
eduCasting: Developing Podcasts for Instruction Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Podcasting is a medium for presenting multimedia content. This workshop provides you with a detailed understanding of Podcasting and how iTunes U and/or the USF Blog can be used to deliver Podcasts. You will also learn how to create and record your own Podcasts.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Multimedia to Enhance Teaching and Learning (Workshop Full - Registrations Closed) Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE), Daphine Washington (C21 TE) 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, free, easy-to-use multimedia technologies to create movies (MovieMaker), photo-stories (PhotoStory), concept maps (CMap), and audio/video-based presentations and computer simulations (Articulate & Camtasia) to enhance teaching and learning. The workshop will also include a demonstration of the process of capturing and digitizing video and an introduction to various organizations at USF that assist instructors with using multimedia in their courses.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Developing Assessment Methods (e.g., rubrics for capstone courses), Documenting Assessment Results and Using Assessment Results for Program Improvement Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Felix Wao (C21 TE) Overview: Are you looking for ways of identifying assessment methods for your department or program? Would you like to learn more about documenting program assessment results and using assessment results for program improvement? This hands-on workshop will focus on how to identify assessment methods, document and use assessment results to improve programs through an interactive, shared reflection. In this workshop, you will learn how to i) identify program level assessment methods, ii) interpret assessment results, iii) evaluate the match between results obtained to stated intended learning outcomes, iv) document assessment results, v) develop recommendations and articulate a process for monitoring implementation of change, vi) determine if and when to use new assessment methods, and vii) use assessment data to make informed decisions for the program.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Using Classroom Level Assessment Results to Enhance Student Learning Facilitator(s): Teresa Flateby, Felix Wao (C21 TE) Overview: Learn how you can use your students’ assignments and tests to improve your curriculum and teaching methods. Participants in this workshop will reflect and share some important questions to consider relative to classroom-level assessment results, including feedback from students. Through hands-on exercises during the workshop, participants will brainstorm ways to solve the dilemmas encountered when assessment results are used to improve teaching and learning.Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
New Technologies for Instruction Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: Innovative uses of Tablet PCs, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and Digitizer/Graphics Tablets to enhance instruction, learning, and productivity are now available! Explore these technologies in a hands-on environment and learn about effective applications of these tools in the physical and virtual classroom. Contact: Please email christian@cte.usf.edu C21 TE
Microsoft Office 2007 for Education Facilitator(s): Neil Gomes (C21 TE) Overview: How do the new features in Office 2007 impact teaching and learning? Learn tips for using this new version inside and outside the classroom. Also learn how to transition from older versions of Office.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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