Our current workshop offerings are listed in the table below.
Upon registration, participants receive a confirmation with specific instructions for participating in face-to-face or online workshops. Please print this confirmation for your records.
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Lecture Capture with Panopto |
April 29, 2013 |
7:00-8:00 p.m. ONLINE |
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ANGEL Fundamentals |
May 1, 2013 |
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ONLINE |
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Distance Education Faculty Welcome Chat |
May 2, 2013 |
12:00-12:30 p.m. ONLINE |
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Distance Education Faculty Welcome Chat |
May 2, 2013 |
7:00-7:30 p.m. ONLINE |
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Blackboard Collaborate 12 |
May 6, 2013 |
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. ONLINE |
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Blackboard Collaborate 12 |
May 11, 2013 |
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. ONLINE |
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SmartClassroom Overview (Center Valley) |
May 16, 2013 |
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. |
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Blackboard Learn Fundamentals |
May 20, 2013 |
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ONLINE |
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SmartBoard 101 |
May 23, 2013 |
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
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Blackboard Learn Fundamentals |
May 28, 2013 |
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. ONLINE |
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Blackboard Video Everywhere |
May 29, 2013 |
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ONLINE |
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Distance Education Faculty Welcome Chat |
June 4, 2013 |
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. ONLINE |
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Distance Education Faculty Welcome Chat |
June 4, 2013 |
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. ONLINE |
Note: Click on a workshop title to see its description.
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- Academic Integrity in Online Courses
With the increase of hybrid and online classes, faculty have an increased concern about student cheating and plagiarism. This session will give practical tips on prevention and detection.
- ANGEL Fundamentals
ANGEL, DSU's learning management system, was adopted in 2009. This workshop is designed to familiarize you with ANGEL and guide you through basic course design decisions and provide you with training resources. This workshop covers topics such as:
- logging into your ANGEL course
- organizing and adding content
- navigating around your course
- customizing your course-Preferences/Themes/System Settings
- orienting students-- providing tutorials, technical requirements, help info.
- Blackboard Collaborate 12
Blackboard Collaborate 12 is the newest version of Blackboard's web conferencing technology that combines the best features of Elluminate with Wimba Classroom. Come learn about the new features and redesigned interface.
- Blackboard Collaborate "Plan"
Blackboard Collaborate Plan enables you to organize, script, and package content and activities BEFORE your real-time, online session. Come learn how to create reusable learning objects and outlines that automate many of the routine tasks of running sessions, so you can deliver content and interact with students with ease, all in a drag & drop interface that results in a session in which you can trigger each action, like starting the recording, advancing to the next slide, creating breakout rooms, loading and presenting a quiz, or playing a multimedia file, with a single click.
- Blackboard Fundamentals
During this hands-on session, we will be exploring Blackboard's interface, adding and organizing content, including multimedia. We will also cover how to communicate with students and encourage participation and collaboration with various tools.
Skill Level: Beginner
Interaction Level: Demonstration and Hands-On with Demonstration
- Blackboard Video Everywhere
This session informs participants about the various video integration tools available in Blackboard. The new Video Everywhere feature allows faculty to seamlessly record videos from YouTube using the Content Editor anywhere in a course.Other video integration opportunities include: Blackboard Collaborate, Panopto, DeSales streaming media server and Films on Demand.
Skill Level: Beginner
Interaction Level: Demonstration and Discussion
- Building Alignment into Your Course
Write course outcomes and lesson objectives, prepare instructional materials, upload files to ANGEL, organize content and layout, align to program or state standards, create curriculum alignment reports ? Join this session and learn the lesson plan builder in ANGEL makes completing those tasks easier!
Topics include:
- Create, customize, and reuse lesson plans
- Upload and organize materials
- Map program standards, course outcomes, and course content
- Create alignment reports
- Building Interactivity into Your Online Course
With the growth of hybrid and online courses, many faculty recognize the need to use online technologies for meaningful interactive learning. In order for students to engage and connect effectively with course content, other students, and their instructors, faculty are challenged to transfer instructional activities to the Web that match the interaction typically found in traditional classrooms. This workshop explores strategies that faculty might employ in online environments to foster greater student engagement, collaboration, and interaction.
- Bulletproof Your PowerPoint - S3
Ever sat through ?death by PowerPoint?? Want to find ?life by PowerPoint? when you present? Join this session and learn simple tips on creating bulletproof, visually appealing slides! (Prerequisite: Basic PowerPoint skills)
- Clickers
Increase student engagement in your classes through the use of eInstruction’s Classroom Performance System and student-response system hardware. Known as “clickers”, the eInstruction student-response system involves the use of a radio frequency receiver and student handheld devices to create additional interactivity in PowerPoint and the creation of quizzes. Come and learn how to set up a class in CPS and start engaging students in a whole new way.
- Collaborative Learning with VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a free web-based application that allows images, documents, audios, and videos to be added to create a digital presentation. Join this session and learn how VoiceThread can help with student collaboration in your online and hybrid courses.
- Creating e-books with Pages
Have you always dreamed of creating your own interactive e-book for your students? Come learn how to create an ePub formatted book using iWork Pages ?09. This hands-on workshop will show you how to add audio, video, and photos to your book, how to export as an ePub file, and how to import to iTunes for students to download. Come with your Mac laptop or borrow one from us!
- Creating Your Own Graphics in PowerPoint
This workshop covers simple ways to create your own graphics in PowerPoint by drawing, modifying existing images, and using shapes, gradient and other formatting tools.
- Designing Hybrid Courses
Research shows that with proper design, hybrid courses can make the best of both the classroom and the online environment. Join us to learn about proven design strategies and practices to create effective hybrid courses that include a variety instructional activities.
- Digital Story Telling: Mac & PC
This workshop will discuss digital storytelling and storyboarding, will show various ways to tell your story on a Mac or PC, and then give you a chance to create a short piece using iMovie or iPhoto on the Mac, or Movie Maker or Photo Story 3 on the PC. This is a 2-hour workshop with one hour of demonstration and one hour of hands-on creation.
- Distance Education Welcome Chat
This session is repeated monthly and provides an orientation for those teaching an online or hybrid format. Get an overview of the professional development and library resources available to you at DeSales University. Meet colleagues, DEIT staff and library staff over lunch on the first Thursday's chats.
- Effective Online Discussions
Enthralling discussion forum interactions are a workshop away! The workshop covers writing effective discussion forum topics, incorporating multi-media, various ANGEL modes, moderating discussions, and guiding students' posts and interactions. Time for questions and idea exchanges included.
- Embedding Librarians and Research
Help your students become better researchers by providing them with numerous points of access to librarians and library resources within your ANGEL course. Tutorials, subject guides, library instruction via Elluminate, personal research assistance, and more will be presented in this session.
- Equivalency of Instruction for Hybrid and Online Courses
In keeping with the University policy, hybrid and online three-credit courses must demonstrate 45 hours of instruction. This workshop will introduce you to the online equivalency rates mode to help guide your course design and development and meet the requirement for instructional time. Specifically, we will go over essential lesson plan components, examples of asynchronous and synchronous instructional activities, their descriptions and supportive technologies, and the rates of instructional time.
- From TIP Review to Jaw-dropping Design
Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? Is designing a hybrid course an art, a science, or both? This workshop is for faculty looking to improve their current courses. We cover: Three keys to effectively giving and using TIP feedback and DEIT?s top design elements found to increase student persistence and satisfaction in your course.
- Graphic Design for Meaningful Learning
This workshop is designed to introduce you to the basic graphic design principles and to provide you with resources and tools for applying these principles in your work. This workshop covers topics such as:
- The Big Four Principles in graphic design
- Ways to find free/affordable images and clip arts for your course
- Simple steps to create your own graphics using PowerPoint
- iLife and Mac (Laptop) Basics
These workshops are tailored to beginners. During these sessions, attendees will be introduced to the MacBook laptop and will utilize iPhoto and Garageband, and the iMovie software on the laptop to capture, upload, modify and export a movie to iDVD or the Web.
- Mac Basics and iPhoto
- Garageband
- iMovie and iDVD
- iMovie and GarageBand
This workshop is tailored to beginners. Attendees will be introduced to iMovie software to create and edit video, then compose your own music with GarageBand.
iMovie '09 is a powerful video editing tool that is part of Apple's iLife suite. In iMovie and GarageBandTraining, we will take new and intermediate users through the steps to create professional-looking video. We will cover the editing process, use GarageBand to create music from scratch, and finish up by adding the music you created to your video.
- Understanding basic editing techniques
- Creating your own music and using loops for your video
- Adding music to your video
- Increase Social Presence in Online Courses
Research has shown that social presence is one of the most significant factors in building a sense of community in online education. This workshop introduces strategies and tools to establish and improve social presence in online and hybrid courses. Ideas include online social techniques, use of customized multimedia, ANGEL communication tools, and Web 2.0 technologies. Join us to learn how you can build a lively online community in your course.
- Instructional Design Open Workshop
We would like to invite you to an open workshop. Bring your questions, meet our team, and explore distance learning.
- Introducing Blackboard Learn
Blackboard will replace ANGEL as DeSales University’s LMS in fall of 2013. This workshop is designed to introduce faculty, staff, and students to the features and navigation of this new learning management systems.
- Introduction to HTML
Using the power of HTML to further customize your course. Cut down on the amount of “clutter” in your online course by using and coding Pages in ANGEL. For example, using one page for all the links you would like to make available to your students (using heading for organization) instead of posting individual links within the Lessons homepage or sub-folders.
- iPads in Education
The iPad changes the way teachers and students access the web, share media, and learn on the go. Bring your iPad to this hands-on, interactive workshop as together we explore the initial setup of the iPad, how to add content to the iPad, how to make the most of iTunes, and how to find the best educational Apps available.
- iPads for Healthcare
More and more health care organizations are turning to mobile devices such as the iPhone and the iPad. This workshop will cover many of the apps that can be used by nursing instructors and students in the classroom and in the field.
- Media and Copyright
This workshop will provide an update on the revised DeSales copyright policies in regard to using media in online and face to face courses.
- Microsoft Exchange and Outlook
All DeSales staff will be on the new DeSales Exchange server by the end of September with faculty migrations beginning over the next year. Come learn about the new functions available in Outlook and Outlook Web Access in the new Exchange environment.
- Microsoft Office 2010 & 2010/PowerPoint 2010/Word 2010/Excel 2010
During these sessions, participants will be introduced to Office 2010, the latest version of the Microsoft Office system, formerly referred to as a suite. Microsoft Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010and Excel 2010 are introductory level training. Word 2010 and the PowerPoint Plus series are advanced sessions covering tables, formatting, review tab options. This session is especially helpful for syllabus formatting
Advanced Word
Going beyond basic document creation and formatting, Advanced Word covers various features under found under the Insert, References, Mailing, and Review tabs. Attendees will learn to create forms, templates, and digital signatures as well as add document security mathematical equations.
Introducing Office 2010
Participants will be introduced to the new features and major differences between the 2007 Microsoft Office system and the new 2010 system. The workshop focuses on Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
PowerPoint Plus Series Advanced PowerPoint explores the various functions found under the Insert and Animations tabs. Advanced PowerPoint: What IS the Point? covers instructional design best practices used to reduce text and increase visuals and interactivity. The Narrating PowerPoint demonstrates how to add narration to PowerPoint presentations utilizing free online tools such as Screentoaster, Jing, and the new Panapto Socrates Pilot. The workshop also includes best practices for both faculty and students seeking to compress and upload narrated PowerPoint presentations in ANGEL. Advanced PowerPoint: Design for Interaction takes PowerPoint to the next level! Learn how to add hyperlinks to objects in your presentations that will allow students to interact with the information in brand new ways! Bring your own presentation and get advice and practice adding interactivity.
- Advanced PowerPoint
- Advanced PowerPoint: What IS the Point?
- Narrating PowerPoint
- Microsoft Publisher
With Microsoft Publisher 2010, you can create, design, and publish marketing and communication materials quickly and easily. In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to find and apply built-in Publisher templates, create a blank publication template, work with text and graphical elements, and print your publication.
- New Tools for Blogging
Did you resolve to put more of your ideas and thoughts down in writing to share with others? If so, then this workshop is for you! We will cover a few different blogging tools and applications that will appeal to your specific needs. This workshop demonstrates blogging tools suitable for the verbose and the terse. We will explore tools built inside and outside of the LMS.
- Online Lecture Capture Options
Is lecture capture for you? If so, what options are available for instructors at DeSales.
- Online Tools for Math, Statistics, and Business Applications
DEIT staff and online faculty share Web resources and successful software applications and computer peripheral devices. Some examples are SmartPen, Whiteboards, Wacom tablets, Adobe Acrobat, and Elluminate.
- OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite with many of the same features as Microsoft Office with one key difference - it’s free! Come find out more about this exciting suite of programs including Writer, Impress, Math, Calc, and Draw.
- Podcasting on a Mac
Use GarageBand on your Mac to create an audio podcast. Come get simple step by step, hands-on instruction so you can start creating!
- PowerPoint Basics
Do you want to avoid causing a “death by PowerPoint” situation? Come learn the fundamentals of PowerPoint and gain the confidence and knowledge needed to keep your audience engaged. Many of the menu options under the Home and Insert tabs in PowerPoint will be covered in this workshop.
- S3 (Staff Software Series)
DEIT introduces the S3 (Staff Software Series), a professional development series especially designed with DeSales professional and support staff in mind. The series features workshops on a wide selection of productivity software tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. All are welcome.
- SMARTBoard 101
SMARTBoard 101 is designed to give participants a chance to become more comfortable utilizing interactive whiteboards such as the SMARTBoard in Dooling 128. Topics include:
- Using the SMART Notebook software
- Using the SMARTBoard with Ink Aware applications like Microsoft Word and Excel
- Smart Classroom Overview
Ask questions and get a hands-on overview of the instructional media available in our various Smart Classrooms located at the Gambet Center for Business and Health Care at Center Valley, the Easton Campus, and Lansdale Campus. Participants will also be introduced to the www.deit.desales.edu resource that contains a wealth of detail about our class design, hardware, and software.
- Successful Video Conferencing
This workshop introduces the new quality assurance process for conducting video conferencing. We present tips to the instructor for working with the technician and understanding the technology capabilities. The workshop on implementing video conferencing focuses on the operation of the new HD mobile video conferencing unit and its use in classroom instruction.
- Take Five! New Online Activities
Participants will take away five interactive instructional activities they can customize and incorporate into their own hybrid or online classes. Activities include ideas for course orientations, assessments, and group projects.
- TIP Review Process Overview
A Technology Integration Partner or TIP is assigned to all online and hybrid faculty. TIPs play an important role in the course design and review process. This session explains the activities and tools utilized by TIPs and distance education faculty.
- Using Exchange to Take Control of Your Schedule
The switch to Microsoft Exchange at DeSales has made a number of new features available to users. Come learn about mailbox organizational features such as rules and categories to reign in an overcrowded mailbox. Create and manage contacts and tasks. Use calendar sharing and the scheduling assistant to ease the planning of meetings.
- Using Panopto for Lecture Capture
The Panopto CourseCast system can be used to quickly and easily record a lecture or presentation and then play the recording back in a streamlined interface that allows students to take notes and jump to specific points of a recording. Come learn how to use Panopto in both an office and classroom setting.
- Using Prezi as a Teaching Tool
Prezi is a web-based presentation tool with a zoomable canvas which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media. Prezi allows you to ad images, videos, YouTube videos, PDFs, or other media to make your presentation highly visual. Join this session to learn about the many features of Prezi and ideas for using it as a teaching tool.
- Visually Speaking: The Power of Infographics in Teaching
Information graphics, or infographics, are gaining popularity day by day and are wonderful tools to communicate ideas in visually appealing ways. Join this session to explore how you can find, create, and share great infographics for teaching and learning.
- Web Resources/iTunes/Web 2.0 Tools
Faculty often seek quality open source and content-specific resources to enhance teaching and learning. Come ready to share your discoveries with colleagues and take away some web-based tools and artifacts to increase interaction in your course.
- iTunes and podcasts: how to create and upload them
- Google tools: calendar, documents, reader, Google Voice, Picasa, Sites, SketchUp
- Web 2.0 Tools: various interactive and social networking tools that can be used in ANGEL
- Free Web tools to organize documents, appointments, photos, Website subscriptions
- Windows 7
Microsoft's newest operating system will be coming to campus computers starting in November of this year and continuing throughout 2011. Join us for a demonstration of some of the new features and functions in Windows 7. From the Aero Peek to Windows Shake, you'll learn how Windows 7 puts you in control of your computer more than ever before.
To attend a workshop, register here.
For more information about workshops, please email deit@desales.edu
or call DEIT Support 610.282.1100 x2290.
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