FTI
Class Descriptions 
Track 1 – Building Blocks
Designing and Planning for Your Home Page
What to consider when designing your Website - there's a lot more than what information to present. We'll discuss some of the essential aspects of information architecture that should be addressed for a user-friendly site. Added attraction: the Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design and Guidelines for Homepage Usability.
*If you attend this session then continue with Basic HTML (Tues. 9am) and Creating your Home Page in Dreamweaver, parts 1 & 2 (Tues. 10:30, Wed. 9:00) you will end up with a basic Web page for yourself. We will ask you to bring a few things to the Dreamweaver sessions to fill out your page(s).
Basic HTML
This is a peek behind the scenes of Web pages. You'll learn how to read Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), the code used to create what you see when you look at a Web page. You'll get to write some code to create a simple Web Page. We'll also introduce XHTML and XML and discuss what differentiates them.
Creating Your Home Page in Dreamweaver - Parts 1 & 2
Dreamweaver is the Web page creation program of choice for Web design professionals. No other tool comes close to offering such a powerful and broad list of Web design support as Dreamweaver. This class introduces the major design features of Dreamweaver and how to apply them to create Web pages.
Please bring a (digital) picture of yourself and some information about yourself you want to share with the world such as courses you teach, your CV, current teaching schedule & office hours, programs or research, etc.
Quick and Simple Faculty Web Pages Using Trillium
Make a new homepage or update an existing one using the college's content management system, Trillium. This easy to use browser-based program can publish pages with the college's template and requires little (or no) use of HTML. Pages are editable from anywhere there is an internet connection using no extra software.
Beginning PowerPoint - Parts 1 & 2
PowerPoint is a presentation program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. This two-part workshop presents the basic information necessary to create your own presentations for screen or print. General topics covered include: basic PowerPoint environment and tools, using templates, including text, and using graphics.
E-mail Survival Guide
Learn more about how Thunderbird can help you manage your e-mail starting with some of the advanced features of Thunderbird. Advanced Search features will help you find specific messages you’re looking for and Filters will sort and file new messages as they come in. At the risk of being diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder we’ll discuss multiple identities. To keep things interesting we’ll show you how to jazz up your signature. And that annoying Super-User? We’ll reveal who it is and how to end those weekly messages.
WebDisk Basics
More and more often, faculty and students are finding that they need ways to transfer materialsÑfrom their office to the classroom, from home to their office and from one person to another. This class will explore various methods of transferring and storing materials using WebDisk.
Track 2 – Tech for Teaching
Distributing Class Materials
WebDisk? Moodle? Online Course Reserves? Navigating the different ways to distribute course materials can be confusing for students and faculty alike. In this session weÕll provide an overview of different strategies and discuss ways to keep online course materials secure yet still easy for your students to find.
Don't Lose 25 Years of Data!
If your book project, lecture notes, or any other vital data live only on your local computer, you are one hard drive crash away from losing it all. While Information Technology handles backing up all servers, you are responsible for maintaining backups of files living on your local computer.
In this workshop, we'll help you identify what you need to back up, and choose which of the available backup locations and media best suit your data. Then we'll narrow in on the backup software options for the various flavors of mac and pc operating systems. With your backups at hand, you will no more than shrug when the inevitable hard drive crash descends upon you.
Digital Audio - Recording/Processing
Using tools available on campus, we’ll record some audio, import it into a computer, and learn methods for distribution on the Web or to CD.
Photoshop Elements for the Web
Elements, a scaled down version of Photoshop, is aimed at digital photographers and non-professional Web designers. Learn how to use Elements to process digital pictures for the Web and create custom graphics like web banners and other graphics.
How to Put RefWorks to Use
Refworks is a wonderful citation database manager and bibliography creator. We'll show you how to get started with RefWorks and why we think RefWorks is a great way for anyone to organize and track their research materials. Lewis & Clark has a site license for RefWorks which makes it free for faculty and students to use.
Wikipedia - Academically Speaking
While Wikipedia is not a citable source, it is heavily used by students (and faculty) in the research process. This course will explore ways in which Wikipedia is being used effectively in academic courses, including some here at LC! Would a Wikipedia-related assignment make sense in one of your classes? Course participants will explore the possibilities and gain some know-how in the ways of the Wikipedian. Discover resources geared to guide teachers and lecturers using Wikipedia in their classes to demonstrate how an open content website works. Or, conversely, how it doesn't.
Saving Video and Multimidia From the Web
Learn the secret to downloading and saving video files, such as those on Youtube, from the web. We’ll also discuss how to work with these files once you’ve got them.
Web 2.0 - What?
This course will introduce you to a number of cool tools to help manage information for yourself and share information with colleagues and students. First we'll go over the phenomenon of "Web 2.0" (a general idea that the web is now more social and interactive). Depending on the interests of attendees, we will look at specific tools including: social bookmarking (del.icio.us), RSS news readers (bloglines.com), collaborative writing (docs.google.com), and a relatively new multimedia discussion tool (voicethread.com), that permits commentary on an object via video, audio, and text. We'll also discuss how Watzek Library's resources and the College's web presence generally are going 2.0.
Accessing Digital Images for Classroom Teaching and Student Review
This session will demonstrate how to access Watzek Library's growing collection of beautiful, high resolution images of the art, architecture and culture of the world. Available online through MDID (Madison Digital Image Database) and ARTstor, faculty can download these images into presentation software such as PowerPoint, the Online Image Viewer or the MDID Image Viewer. Also, individual images or groups of images created by faculty can be accessed online or inserted into a Moodle page for student review.
Track 3 – Moodle
Introduction to Moodle
Moodle is a web-based content management system that makes it easy for groups to securely interact, collaborate, communicate and share materials on the web. Moodle's focus is to support curricular classes, however, there are plenty of ways to use Moodle beyond the classroom as well. This demo will introduce you to Moodle and the features it offers.
Setting Up Your Moodle Course
This workshop will focus on configuring your overall Moodle course settings and looking at different ways to organize your Moodle course page. Learn how to customize course settings and assign roles, set up groups and track student activity in your Moodle Course. We'll look at different course page designs with an eye towards developing a design that will fit your specific needs and is appealing and easy to use for your students.
Adding & Managing Content in Your Moodle Course
Moodle is a great way to deliver course content online. Articles and book chapters in word or pdf format, audiovisual files, even research data if it exists in a digital format, you can distribute it using Moodle.
Moodle courses are secure so only your class participants can access online content. This session will cover the ins and outs of adding and managing content files you upload, links that point to other web pages, and how to type (or copy and paste) directly into Moodle.
Student Interaction With Moodle
While Moodle is often described as a "learning management sytem" that does not mean that it is a one-way communication medium. There are many tools in moodle that allow for interactive communication between and amongst you and your students.
This workshop will get you on your way with synchronous or asynchronous written communication in chats and forums. You'll learn how to set up collaborative editing activities using Moodle's wiki module. And we'll discuss ways for students to upload and comment upon files shared with the class, using the forum and database modules.
Assignments in Moodle
Moodle's Assignment activity makes completing, receiving, grading and providing feedback on electronically submitted assignments easy. In this session, we'll cover how the different types of assignments in-depth from creation through grading, both from the teacher's and the student's viewpoint.
Quizzes in Moodle
Explore the versatility of Quizzes and the Question Bank in Moodle. Moodle Quizzes offer a variety of options for displaying questions, grading and security. You can customize your quizzes to allow students multiple attempts and determine whether they receive special feedback or see the correct answers (after they’ve taken the quiz, of course). Creating a quiz is a straightforward process once you have a question bank. Creating your Question Bank is just as simple, with a bonus: a single Question Bank can be created for all quizzes within the course and can be shared across courses.
Dynamic Content and HTML Customization in Moodle
Are you ready to bring streams of live information generated in the outside world into your moodle course?
This course will explore ways to link your students into the most recent headlines in your field, to images uploaded to flickr or other online photo services, to relevant audiovisual podcasts, or just to your course reserves.
Moodle 1.9 - What's Coming
IT has started testing Moodle 1.9 and plans to upgrade in time for Fall 2008 classes. After a short overview of new features, weÕll explore the completely rewritten Gradebook module in depth. If you currently use the Moodle gradebook, youÕll want to attend this session or chat with your IT partner to get a preview.
Web Surveys in Moodle
Moodle makes it easy to survey or poll your students online without having it tied to a graded activity. WeÕll introduce you to the Choice and Feedback activities and different ways you might use these tools both inside the classroom and beyond. Examples include sorting students into groups, conducting quick polls, holding elections, and in addition to gathering feedback and traditional survey data.
Track 4 – Cool Tools and New Technology
Cmap Tools
Cmap Tools is a free, powerful concept mapping application (see http://cmap.ihmc.us) available for Mac or PC that allows users to sketch ideas, illustrate a process, and link to related digital resources. The resultant Cmaps can be stored on a server at LC and easily shared online with others. We'll learn the basics of Cmap Tools, then work together to explore applications in a variety of fields.
Google Earth Basics
According to their website, "Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips." This workshop will give you the basics that you need for navigating and exploring in Google Earth. Where in the world do you want to go today?
Cool Things With Google Earth
This seminar focuses on the capabilities of Google Earth Plus or Pro to import GPS data as a simple GIS, and for all versions of Google Earth to display ArcGIS data as a network link. With these capabilities, Google Earth can provide a readily-available means to share GIS data and display GPS data collected in the field. We'll learn how this is done, then discuss applications for a wide range of student course projects.
Desktop Video Conferencing with MIV
Come and learn about the Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing (MIV) service offered through NITLE. Lewis & Clark has a dedicated 10 seat meeting room where you can connect with students and colleagues directly from your personal computer using web-based video and audio. Additional tools such as a shared whiteboard, shared web browser, group and private chat, and application-sharing help foster interaction and collaboration across distance. Used well, MIV can enable lively discussion, creative flow, and substantial collaborative activity.
Photoshop Express
Adobe has released a free online version of their famous Photoshop software. We’ll learn how to setup an account and perform basic image management and manipulation.
What's Cool and New in PowerPoint
Once we recoverd from the shock of the dramatic interface changes in Powerpoint 2007, we realized there are a quiet a few nifty new features plus others that are just plain useful. In this session weÕll demo and discuss what we like about PowerPoint 2007.
Take it for a Test Spin: blog.lclark.edu
Information Technology is sponsoring a blogging test server as a first step in developing a centrally-supported blog service for the College. We are actively seeking testers who are willing to help us evaluate the feasibility of centrally supporting blogs for teaching, research, and communication. A short demo of blog.lclark.edu will be followed by a general discussion on how this service might be used at Lewis & Clark College.
DVD Ripping and Burning
Entering the vast gray area of copyright infringement, we’ll discuss methods for extracting DVD content to reburn to disc or incorporate into a presentation.
The Social Side of Web 2.0
We’ll continue our exploration of the Web 2.0 phenomena with a trip outside academia to look at how our students are using social networks like Facebook and content sharing tools like Flickr to build, share and stay in touch with increasingly diverse communities. Many in the Net Generation move seamlessly between physical and virtual world and expect to be constantly connected to social communities, information and entertainment. We will look at what "being connected" means to our students.