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.
| iLife and Mac Basics |
January 31, 2012 |
6:00-7:30 p.m. |
| Distance Education Welcome Chat |
February 2, 2012 |
12:00-12:30 p.m. ONLINE |
| Distance Education Welcome Chat |
February 2, 2012 |
7:00-7:30 p.m. ONLINE |
| ANGEL Fundamentals |
February 4, 2012 |
10:00-11:30 a.m. |
| Introducing Blackboard Collaborate |
February 6, 2012 |
6:00-7:00 p.m. ONLINE |
| Office 2010 - PowerPoint |
February 8, 2012 |
12:00-1:00 p.m. |
| Elluminate I |
February 13, 2012 |
6:00-7:00 p.m. ONLINE |
| Clickers |
February 14, 2012 |
2:00-3:00 p.m. |
| Beyond ANGEL Basics |
February 14, 2012 |
7:00-8:00 p.m. ONLINE |
| Building Alignment into Your Course |
February 15, 2012 |
2:00-3:00 p.m. |
| Collaborative Learning with VoiceThread |
February 15, 2012 |
6:00-7:00 p.m. ONLINE |
| Online Lecture Capture Options for ANGEL |
February 16, 2012 |
12:00-1:00 p.m. |
| New Tools for Blogging |
February 16, 2012 |
6:00-7:00 p.m. ONLINE |
| ANGEL Grading and Gradebook |
February 20, 2012 |
7:00-8:00 p.m. ONLINE |
| ANGEL Fundamentals - Easton Campus |
February 21, 2012 |
7:00-8:30 p.m. |
| Creating Your Own Graphics in PowerPoint |
February 22, 2012 |
5:00-6:00 p.m. |
| Embedding Librarians and Research |
February 23, 2012 |
7:00-8:30 p.m. ONLINE |
| iLife and Mac (Laptop) Basics |
February 28, 2012 |
6:00-7:30 p.m. |
| Creating Your Own Graphics in PowerPoint |
February 29, 2012 |
6:00-7:00 p.m. ONLINE |
*These workshops require a familiarity with ANGEL basics and are indicated below.
Note: Click on a workshop title to see its description.
- 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's Collaboration Tools*
This workshop is designed to familiarize you with ANGEL's group collaboration tools as well as related training resources. This workshop covers topics such as:
- using wikis and blogs
- using polls and surveys
- setting up discussion forums
- using the interactive whiteboard and desktop sharing features
- accessing Elluminate Live!
- ANGEL Course Management
This workshop is designed to help you manage course shells, archives, and publisher cartridges. Participants explore the Manage Tab, Toolbox and Courses nuggets to learn how to do the following:
- import publisher PowerPoint files and test banks
- import ANGEL course archives
- merge and manage cross-listed courses
- back up course files
- incorporate media files
- 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.
- ANGEL Mashups for Teaching and Learning
Would you like to incorporate audio and video from your favorite media sites into your ANGEL instruction or assignments? Faculty, did you know that you can incorporate Twitter and Facebook into ANGEL to update pages and announcements? Students, do you know about the popular Web tools for creating mashups? Discover answers to these questions and more during the ANGEL Mashup session. This workshop briefly introduces the new Google Mashup button available in ANGEL 7.4!
- ANGEL Open Workshop
Now that you’ve attended ANGEL Fundamentals workshops, this "drop in" open workshop is intended for faculty who want one-on-one assistance with their ANGEL courses. Faculty can attend this workshop anytime during the posted hours and should bring any source file needed for ANGEL.
- Assignment/Grading and Gradebook*
This workshop is designed to familiarize you with ANGEL assignment and grading-related features and training resources. Assignments: Creating Student-centered Lessons provides examples and guidance for designing interactive, student-centered assignments in ANGEL. Grading and Gradebook focuses on grading with rubrics and setting up the ANGEL 7.4 gradebook. Taking both workshops you will cover the following:
- setting up lessons and assignments
- creating student-centered instructional activities
- using the drop box (including peer review)
- adding assignments to the calendar
- using rubrics
- managing assignments, grades and attendance
- managing gradebook
- Beyond ANGEL Basics*
For those comfortable with ANGEL, this series of workshops teaches you to employ advanced features which help customize, personalize, track and automate instructional messages and content. Some topics covered include Agent technology, tagging, the HTML editor box, embed code, and ANGEL tokens. The "Refresher" series offer participants a chance to review popular features and pick up new tips and tricks.
- Blackboard Collaborate 11
Blackboard Collaborate 11 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Elluminate LIVE!
Elluminate training is divided into several sessions. Elluminate is a virtual classroom which enables you to connect live with your students and speak in real-time while viewing the same content, whether it is a PowerPoint presentation, a software program, a website or screen shots. New this summer is Elluminate v.10! Learn the basics in our Elluminate I workshop. Explore the interface, uploading and sharing PowerPoint presentations, and managing sessions via ANGEL. The Elluminate II workshop explores real-time collaboration tools, accessibility features, break out rooms, polling and quizzing.
- 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.
- Features of ANGEL 7.4 and Teaching within ANGEL 7.4
DEIT will showcase to the DSU community some of the new features in our LMS upgrade scheduled for December. Teaching in ANGEL 7.4 would be a good opportunity to engage faculty ahead of time to get them actively involved and engaged in learning the ins-and-outs of our updated LMS. Faculty can use the ANGEL Test Server to explore new functions and features.
- Features of ANGEL 7.4
- Google mashups
- More custom DSU themes
- Merged courses
- New gradebook interface
- RSS feeds
- Teaching with ANGEL 7.4
- Merged/cross-listed courses
- Gradebook set up
- Lesson plans and rubrics
- Merged/cross-listed courses
- New ANGEL roles and rights
- course export/import (backing up 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
- Incorporating Multimedia Resources in ANGEL
Given the various interpretations of the TEACH Act and fair use, this workshop will explain DSU's stance and familiarize ANGEL users with the various library and open-source media resources available for online courses. Participants will discover how to incorporate resources such as music, pictures, MP3, and video into ANGEL using the new DSU streaming media server, embed code, or Web links.
- 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 to kick off National Distance Learning Week (Nov 7 - 11, 2011, http://www.usdla.org/ndlw/). Bring your questions, meet our team, celebrate distance learning and enjoy some cake!
- 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.
- 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 2007 & 2010/PowerPoint 2007/Word 2007/Excel 2007
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 2007, PowerPoint 2007 and Excel 2007 are introductory level training. Word 2007 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
- 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 for ANGEL
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.
- 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
- 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.
- Testing/Assessment Features*
This workshop is designed to familiarize you with ANGEL testing and quiz features. This workshop covers topics such as:
- creating and managing tests
- adding extra time for students with disabilities
- adding various question types
- copying questions from other quizzes
- exporting submissions and grade data
- using ANGEL's online assessment security features
- randomizing test items
- activating secure browser
- using assessment reports
- 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.
- 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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