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Faculty Workshop Descriptions
Create a Narrated PowerPoint Presentation
Create Web-Based Surveys in WebCT
Create Video Introductions for the Web
Easy Games to Foster Interactivity
Explore Word & PowerPoint 2007
Exploring Pipeline Course Tools
Producing Instructional Videos
Create Video Introductions for the Web
Have you often wished there was a way to introduce your course to prospective
students? Do you teach a course online that you'd like to market to students? Then this workshop is for you! Join Norm
and Gene in creating a short (1- or 2-minute) streaming video introduction to
your course.
View examples of CCRI
faculty video
introductions
Edit/Update Faculty Web Pages
Do you have a faculty web page that is outdated or needs sprucing up? Here is your opportunity to
delete old content and/or add new content to make your faculty web pages current
for Spring semester. We'll even take some new pictures to add if you'd like. (Bring any
documents or graphics you would like included on your page on a disk with
you.)
View CCRI Faculty Web Pages
Easy Games to Foster Interaction
Games are a natural choice for faculty who are trying to bring more interactivity and fun into their courses, provide an alternate way to review material before an exam or utilize formative assessment. Games involve friendly competition and cooperation as students apply what they've learned on a topic. This session will cover the use of a games based in PowerPoint, Excel, Word and free software. Bring your course materials with you to start on your first game.View handouts, templates and many more game ideas on the IT For Faculty website
MS Office 2007
Create A Narrated PowerPoint Presentation
Audio is a powerful tool for enhancing learning. In this workshop you
will learn a couple of different ways to add audio narration to a PowerPoint presentation and
display it on your faculty web page, in your WebCT course, in your
Pipeline course or on CD.
View handouts for
Adding Audio to a PowerPoint Presentation on the
IT for Faculty website
Explore MS Word & PowerPoint 2007
Office 2007 is here with a very different look. This session will
present an overview of the changes to Word and PowerPoint 2007 and
discuss how to handle files from students or colleagues who are
using this new version. All of these programs are on
the classroom instructor units and are also being installed on
faculty computers on request so this workshop will
give you an opportunity to learn about navigating these new
versions.
Learn more
about CCRI's eLearning opportunities for Office 2007
Pipeline
Pipeline offers a wealth of tools to make your interaction with students easier and more productive. This session will focus on the course tools available on the My Courses tab in Pipeline. These include:
- Sending e-mail to your entire class simultaneously (with or without attachments)
- Distributing documents through your Pipeline course (e.g. syllabus, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, etc.)
- Managing a Course Message Board to extend discussion beyond your class
- Sending instant announcements to your students
- Using a course calendar to keep students on track
- Consolidating several sections of a course into a consolidated course for ease of communication and distribution of files
See handouts on all these tasks on the Pipeline Documentation page on the IT website
Project Time
Here’s the perfect time to work on those New Year’s Resolutions! Have you been meaning to finish or update your faculty web page? Do you need time to prepare your WebCT class for Spring semester? Do you plan on putting some new discussion questions, files (e.g. updated syllabus) or links into your Pipeline courses? How about creating more of those PowerPoint presentations, crossword puzzles, flash cards, etc. Do you need to scan some great graphics to add to your handouts? Well then, this session is for you! IT staff will be available for consultation and individual help with the project of your choice. This is a drop-in session so you can come in anytime during the session and stay for as long as you’d like
Producing Instructional Videos
Tired of fast forwarding thru videotapes or searching DVD chapters for the scene you need to show students? Do you need to produce an instructional video for your students? This session will show you how to plan, shoot, and download video from various types of media to a computer. You will also learn how to edit the scenes needed for student viewing. These edited video clips can be streamed from the CCRI video server and linked to your web page, or viewed from your WebCT course. This allows students to view from home, class, or on campus at a CCRI computer lab. Video clips can also be added to PowerPoint slides and your lecture.
WebCT
Create Web-Based Surveys
One of the strengths of WebCT is the ability to do online assessment.
You can conduct anonymous electronic student surveys that compile
responses into multiple reports. This session will cover the steps in creating surveys
in WebCT. Although there are five different types of question formats
available for WebCT this session will focus on the use of multiple
choice and paragraph question types. In addition, you will learn how to view submissions and generate detailed
statistics.
View extensive handout on creating WebCT surveys (on-campus only)
View extensive handout on viewing WebCT survey results (on-campus only)
Update Your WebCT Course
This session will help you get your WebCT course ready for
Spring semester. We will review the process of backing up your
student data from Fall semester, downloading that data for safe
keeping, resetting your course, updating your sylllabi and handouts,
opening self registration and adding any new content.
View handout on these tasks at:
http://it.ccri.edu/Documentation/webct/Starting_New_Semester.shtml
See complete
WebCT documentation and
step-by-step instructor's manual.
Wikis as a Collaborative Tool
A wiki is a set of web pages editable by anyone. No special knowledge of HTML is needed nor is it necessary to access a web server to upload pages. Every page in a wiki can be amended, edited, or even deleted by anyone with a web browser and every change is tracked and documented. The flexibility and accessibility of a wiki makes it a wonderful online collaborative tool. It enables groups to work together on documents and projects. Come and see how your colleagues are using some of these new tools to benefit their students. Gaining a better understanding of how these work may give you some new ideas to use with your classes.
