2010 Workshops for Faculty

by admin on December 14, 2009

3D for Everyone (please note – this is a faculty workshop)
Time: Monday, February, 22nd, 1:00-3:00pm
Room: 203C Mac lab (North Building)
Instructor: Babak Golkar

This intensive workshop starts with SketchUp basics and moves through each step for creating sophisticated 3-D model simulations. SketchUp is the free 3-D surface modeling software offered by Google. It is now widely used by designers, artists, crafts persons and manufacturers for both presentation and production.

Workshops to be presented by the Teaching and Learning Centre
*Please RSVP to tlc@eciad.ca for any workshops you are interested in taking.

Web Conferencing with Elluminate Live
Time: Tuesday, February, 16th, 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Room: 203C Mac lab (North Building)
Instructor: Grant Gregson

This workshop will present an introduction and an overview of Elluminate Live, Elluminate Plan and Elluminate Publish. Elluminate Live enables instructors and students to interact and collaborate in real time to add synchronous content to asynchronous distance learning or combine blended online/onsite learning activities. Elluminate Plan allows you to organize, script, and package content and activities before your live session, automating routine tasks, so you can focus on facilitating real-time interaction. Elluminate Publsh, allows you to create standalone recordings or industry-standard video files from Elluminate Live! session recordings that can be stored on a computer, LMS, website, or CD ROM.

Lecturing with PowerPoint, Keynote and Prezi
Time: Tuesday, February, 16th, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Room: 203C Mac lab (North Building)
Instructor: Grant Gregson, Glen Lowry

This workshop will present an overview and best practices methods for using the PowerPoint, Keynote and Prezi presentation software. Keynote is a presentation software application, developed by Apple as an alternative to Microsoft’s PowerPoint application and is a part of the Apple iWorks suite of applications.  Prezi is an entirely Flash-based app that lets you break away from the slide-by-slide approach of most presentations. Instead, it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images, videos, etc. All three applications allow for presenters to choose from a variety of templates and allows them to embed, audio, video, photos, setup 3D animations and links to websites.

Blogging using WordPress
Time: Tuesday, February, 16th, 2:00 – 3:00pm
Room: 203C Maclab (North Building)
Instructor: Grant Gregson

Emily Carr University has blogs – come to the workshop and get your own personal faculty blog or one for your department. In this workshop you’ll find out what a blog is, what it can do for you, the different ways you can use a blog, and then start adding content to your blog. You can view some of the blogs at http://blogs.eciad.ca/directory

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Keynote and PowerPoint tutorials

by admin on December 14, 2009

This page will provide web resources for the Keynote and PowerPoint presentation applications.

Keynote

Keynote is a presentation software application, developed by Apple as an alternative to Microsoft’s PowerPoint application and is a part of the Apple iWorks suite of applications. The application allows for presenters to choose from a variety of templates and allows them to embed, audio, video, photos, setup 3D animations and link to websites.

Apple’s tutorials on Keynote
http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials/#keynote

lynda.com tutorials (faculty – please contact the Teaching and Learning Centre for the login information)
http://www.lynda.com/home/Search.aspx?q=keynote

WonderHowTo’s collection of free how-to videos and articles
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-keynote-powerpoint/

PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a presentation software application software, developed Microsoft and is a part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. The application allows for presenters to choose from a variety of templates and allows them to embed, audio, video, photos, setup 3D animations and link to websites.

lynda.com tutorials (faculty – please contact the Teaching and Learning Centre for the login information)
http://www.lynda.com/home/Search.aspx?q=powerpoint

WonderHowTo’s collection of free how-to videos and articles
http://www.wonderhowto.com/search/powerpoint/

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Web conferencing coming in 2010

December 11, 2009

Although it’s had it’s flavours at Emily Carr University, web conferencing has not been available institutionally, by the entire community at Emily Carr University, but that’s about to change.
Emily Carr University has just signed up to provide the Elluminate Live web conferencing system to its community, beginning in 2010, through a generous grant provided by [...]

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ePresence beta-testing underway

November 23, 2009

We just had a successful implementation of the system for both the live broadcasting and publishing of events for the Interactive Futures 09: Stereo conference that was held from November 19 to November 21. You can view the archived lectures at http://hosting.epresence.tv/emilycarr/interactive_futures.aspx See the complete information and details of the conference at http://interactivefutures.ca/schedule.htm
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Interactive Futures ‘09 Stereo

November 10, 2009

Interactive Futures ‘09: Stereo (IF’09: Stereo) will be hosted by the Intersections Digital Studios at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver. IF’09: Stereo offers a broad thematic reading of “stereo” to include research and art works that use techniques and devices to lure the body into ephemeral spaces. Examples include stereographic films and [...]

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Google allows users to view, delete personal information

November 6, 2009

Photograph by: Christian Hartmann, Reuters
The article is from this Vancouver Sun Article
Google Inc. on Thursday launched new privacy controls so users can see the reams of personal information the Internet giant is storing about them and insist the data are deleted if they want.
People who have signed up for any of Google’s consumer services, such [...]

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ETUG Fall 2009 Workshop – Reflections

October 23, 2009

The ETUG (Educational Technology Users Group) Fall 2009 Workshop with the theme of Learning Design, was recently held at the Segal School of Business at Simon Fraser University on Oct. 20th and 21st, 2009. Day 1 : Grainne Conole from the Open University, UK, helped participants explore Compendium LD and Cloudworks – tools developed [...]

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Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching

September 30, 2009

This post is a survey of popular Web 2.0 Applications that may assist with teaching classes.

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Education Conferences – Fall 2009

September 27, 2009

Interactive Futures ‘09: Stereo (IF’09: Stereo) will be hosted by the Intersections Digital Studios at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver. IF’09: Stereo offers a broad thematic reading of “stereo” to include research and art works that use techniques and devices to lure the body into ephemeral spaces. Examples include stereographic films and animations, linked interactive performance spaces, simulated touch interfaces, binaural sound works, and mixed-reality art works

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Faculty Fall 2009 Workshops

August 27, 2009

Using Moodle in the Classroom – Forums to Grades

Time: TBA
Room: Mac Lab 203C (North Building)
Instructor: Grant Gregson
This hands-on workshop is intended for faculty who are interested in how to use the Moodle gradebook for online-grading using Moodle.
Please RSVP to tlc@eciad.ca if interested in taking.
Web 2.0 Applications
Time: Friday, September 25th, 10:30am to 12:00pm
Room: Mac Lab 203C [...]

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Interactive Futures ‘09 Stereo

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