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Available Workshops
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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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New Graduate Student Orientation |
June 27, 2013 |
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. ONLINE |
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New Graduate Student Orientation |
August 22, 2013 |
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. ONLINE |
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New Graduate Student Orientation |
January 2, 2014 |
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. ONLINE |
Note: Click on a workshop to see its description.
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- 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.
- Using Word for Research Papers
MLA and APA formatting of papers can be very specific. Come learn how to make a properly formatted document that obeys the restrictions of the MLA and APA style guides. Included will be headers & footers, page numbering, tables of content, footnotes, and endnotes.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Microsoft Office 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 2010 and 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 Blackboard. 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 Graduate Student Orientation
This session is repeated monthly and provides an orientation for new graduate students. 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 these Thursday chats.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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 specific 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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