CTLA 2009 Fall Schedule

Date	Day	Time	Course	Room
10/6/2009	T	8:30 - 11:30 am	Podcasting: The Basics	KO 068
10/7/2009	W	11:45 - 12:45	Brownbag - Introduction to Technologies to Use for Contingency Planning/H1N1	Online
10/13/2009	T	2:30 - 3:30 pm	Just-in-Time Software Skills for Staff with lynda.com Online Video Tutorials	KO 083
10/14/2009	W	9 - 10:30 am	Using Adobe Connect for Online Lectures	KO 068
10/14/2009	W	11:45 - 12:45	Brown Bag - Just-in-Time Software Skills for Faculty and Students with lynda.com Online Video Tutorials	KO 083
10/15/2009	R	9 - 11 am	Raptivity	KO 068
10/20/2009	T	11:45 - 12:45	Brown Bag: Contingency Planning with Remote Desktop	KO 083
10/21/2009	W	8:30 - 11:30 am	Podcasting: The Basics	KO 068
10/22/2009	R	1:30 - 3 pm	Using Adobe Connect for Online Lectures	KO 068
10/28/2009	W	9 - 11 am	Raptivity	KO 068
10/29/2009	R	1 - 2 pm	Critical New Findings from the "Managing Online Education" Study: an audio webinar	Bogle KO 130
11/4/2009	W	Noon - 1 pm	Turning Point - Using Clickers	KO 068
11/4/2009	W	1:30 - 2:30 pm	Team-Based Learning Special Interest Group	KO-083
11/11/2009	W	9 - 11 am	Oncourse 2-Way Communication (Forums, Chat, Messages, Assignments & Blogs Beta)	KO 068
11/12/2009	R	9 - 11 am	Oncourse 2-Way Communication (Forums, Chat, Messages, Assignments & Blogs Beta)	KO 068
TBD	TBD	TBD	Collaborating Online: Discussions and Collaborative Activities - When four faculty are registered, the class will be scheduled for days and times when participants are not teaching. The class meets once face-to-face, followed by two weeks online, followed by a final face-to-face class.	KO-083 & Online
1/7/2010	R	8:30 - noon	Generation NeXt Comes to College - a Faculty Workshop sponsored by FACET	KC-130
1/9/2010	S	9:00 - noon	Oncourse Essentials	TBD

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Podcasting: The Basics
Connect with your students on another wave-length!  Podcasts can be used to provide informational content or feedback to your students or take them on a virtual tour. This course prepares you in many ways.  Understand what podcasting is and learn common podcasting terminology.  Understand podcasting at IU.   Learn the system requirements for being able to record a podcast.  Record and edit a simple podcast using Audacity.  Publish a podcast using the Podcast tool, available in Oncourse CL Sites.  Subscribe to a podcast using iTunes.   Submit a podcast to the iTunes directory.
Suitable for faculty, especially those teaching hybrid courses.
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Brown Bag: Introduction to Technologies to Use for Contingency Planning /H1N1
What plans have you made to continue you classes without disruption should you not be able to come to campus due to the H1N1 virus?  Come and find out what is available in Oncourse or other IU programs that you could incorporate into your classes to minimize disruption.
Suitable for faculty.
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Using Adobe Connect for Online Lectures
Adobe Connect can be used for:
- live online lectures
- sharing your PowerPoint presentations or showing whiteboard explanations
- sharing your Desktop or applications
- creating online text based or voice enabled student discussions
Come and learn how to use Adobe Connect in your classes.
Suitable for faculty.
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Brown Bag: Just-in-Time Software Skills for Staff with lynda.com Online Video Tutorials
Want to increase your skills in specific software applications at the time that works best for you? Need to move to the next level of Excel or Access skills? Create meetings or share calendars in Outlook? Review Mail Merge? Edit pictures? Whether for yourself or for your student employees, lynda.com is the new answer to the “How do I…” questions about software use. Short video tutorials from lynda.com are available in pilot agreement fee-free this fall semester. Come see how to find the IU front door to lynda.com, how to send students, the extensiveness of the training selection, how it is organized, and what some examples look like.
Suitable for staff.
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Brown Bag: Just-in-Time Software Skills for Faculty and Students with lynda.com Online Video Tutorials
Need to bring a subset of students up to speed on software skills without taking class teaching time? Want to have all your students review how to create a PowerPoint? Interested in editing pictures with Photoshop Elements or Photoshop? Need to move to the next level of Excel skills? Whether for yourself or for your students, lynda.com is the new answer to the “How do I…” questions about software use. Short video tutorials from lynda.com are available 24/7 through a pilot agreement fee-free this fall semester. Come see how to find the IU front door to lynda.com, how to send students, the extensiveness of the training selection, how it is organized, and what some examples look like. Suitable for faculty.
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Creating Interactive Case Studies or Other Interactive Learning for a Hybrid Course using Raptivity
Come and learn how to use the Raptivity software to easily create online interactive case studies to engage your students in deeper learning.  We have 175 Raptivity templates (models) to provide many ways you can accomplish the creation of interactive learning activities for your students. Raptivity won the 2008 Educause Software Satisfaction Award in Learning Software. “Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. These interaction models are based on the best practices in instructional design.” http://www.educause.edu/CorporatePressReleaseService/RaptivityWinsSoftwareSatisfact/137442
Suitable for faculty, especially those teaching hybrid courses.
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Brown Bag: Contingency Planning with Remote Desktop
Be prepared to continue using your office computer from home with Remote Desktop over the Internet. With some advanced preparation and a good connection speed, you can use your home computer to connect with work, access documents on your work computer, and work with your files remotely. Come see what you need and how to connect through the Internet so you don’t lose your stride if unable to get to campus.
Suitable for faculty or staff.
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Critical New Findings from the "Managing Online Education" Study: an audio webinar
Previously colleges have not had guidance of reliable data or clear benchmarks for operating online programs. Many struggle with demands on their programs and rapid innovations. Dr. Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project, will present the first national survey data about online education management issues in this audio seminar. The study—which included public and private two-year, four-year, and graduate schools—covered benchmarking data, marketing strategies, instructional technologies, faculty training, support services, assessment practices and tuition and fees. The Campus Computing Project can provide information to support planning efforts. Suitable for faculty, administrators, and information technology staff and any others involved in distance learning.
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Turning Point – Using Clickers
Clickers can be used for actively engaging more students in the classroom, Just-In-Time teaching and attendance. Quiz questions can be entered into your PowerPoint presentation and the student results can be uploaded to Oncourse. IU has a contract with Turning Technologies to use clickers in the classroom.  Please join us if you are interested in learning more about clickers or how to incorporate them into Oncourse in Spring.
Suitable for faculty.
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Team-Based Learning Special Interest Group
This semester’s meeting for the TBL Special Interest Group welcomes those using TBL, interested in trying TBL, or just curious about it. This meeting will feature Test-Maker, a technology that helps format Readiness Assurance Test questions for use with IF-AT forms. Readiness Assurance Tests motivate students to complete their reading assignments in order to be ready to apply concepts they learn. A peer evaluation technology, Expertiza, will also be introduced as a way to review contributions of team members to minimize tendencies to be slackers or domineering team members.
Suitable for faculty.
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Oncourse 2-way Communication
In this workshop we will look at the various methods of 2-way communication between faculty and students in Oncourse.  We will show you how to set up group forums and permissions, how to add additional chat rooms, the Messages tool, the Assignments tool, and Blogs Beta. Many of these make good contingency alternatives for learning to continue even if you or students must miss a class.
Suitable for faculty.
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Collaborating Online: Discussions and Collaborative Activities
Looking for ways to increase student involvement between class times? Need a way to facilitate a discussion or group activity online instead of in the classroom? Whether you are just starting out using online discussion and collaboration or whether you want to improve the quality of what students can accomplish working together online, this hands-on workshop is for you! It’s about online collaboration, so most of the workshop will be online. We will start and end with face-to-face sessions and use online work to create online discussions/collaboration activities for your courses. Register if you are interested. Minimum size of 4 is needed to enable collaboration, so sessions will be custom-scheduled after four faculty register. The class meets once face-to-face, followed by two weeks online, followed by a final face-to-face class.
Suitable for faculty, especially those teaching hybrid courses.
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Oncourse CL: Essentials
This Saturday workshop will give a quick start to using Oncourse CL. Learn how to use the most common features faculty typically choose:  easily viewing your fall Oncourse sections, setting up your sites to display only the features you wish to use, posting a syllabus, posting an announcement, posting a resource document and/or a web page for students to access, and setting up a basic gradebook.
Suitable for faculty.
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