May 20th, 2013

• Faculty Technology Institute 2013

  All Day Kick off the summer with a fun filled week exploring technology you can use in teaching and research.  With over 40 workshops on everyday topics such as tech for sharing course materials to emerging trends like 3D printing there is something for everyone.  Visit us at go.lclark.edu/fti to register or for more information.

May 24th, 2013

• Quick Bytes – Office 2013

  9:00am - 10:15am Word (9:00 – 9:25)
  Excel (9:30 – 9:50)
  PowerPoint (9:55 – 10:15)

• Quick Bytes – Moodle Favorites

  9:00am - 10:15am Connecting to Flickr (9:00 – 9:25)
  VoiceThread (9:30 – 9:50)
  YouTube (9:55 – 10:15)

• Quick Bytes – Presentation Tools

  9:00am - 10:15am Tired of PowerPoint?  We’ll review popular alternatives.  Check back for specifics.

• Quick Bytes – The World of Tomorrow

  9:00am - 10:15am 3D Printing (9:00 – 9:25)
  Augmented Reality (9:30 – 9:50)
  Wearable Technology (9:55 – 10:15)

• Lab Session: Google & Everyday Tech

  10:30am - 11:45am Join us for our last lab session to check in on computer backup and security, connecting from home, hooking up your Smartphone to email and online calendars and more.  Take this time to finish up other projects or get an overview of sessions you may have missed!

• Collecting Student Work in Moodle

  10:30am - 11:45am Moodle supports several methods for collecting student work electronically. The Assignment activity makes completing, receiving, grading and providing feedback on electronically submitted assignments easy. You can create and reuse Grading Rubrics and Marking Guides as well.

• Video Conferencing Tips & Tricks

  10:30am - 11:45am Come hear best practices for conducting a successful videoconference on topics including pre-meeting preparations, communicating effectively, and videoconferencing etiquette.

• eReader Book Club

  10:30am - 11:45am Your experience with an electronic text will vary depending on both the physical eReader and software you use to access the material.  In addition, how we interact with academic texts can be quite different from texts we read for pleasure.  All these factors can impact your and your students experience when accessing materials through Watzek’s Ebook Collections.  Of the course of the Institute, we’ll ask participants to interact in specific ways with our selected digital texts.  In this session, we’ll share our experiences and hear from Jim Bunnelle and Dan Kelley about how others are using these collections.