ETUG Spring 2010 Workshop

by admin on March 2, 2010

3 Cups of T: Teaching, Technology & Transformation
ETUG Spring 2010 Workshop
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
June 7 & 8, 2010 (Monday & Tuesday)
Deadline for proposals: March 16th.

We welcome proposals from faculty, staff and students interested in presenting at the ETUG Spring 2010 Workshop. The theme this year is “3 Cups of T: Teaching, Technology & Transformation”. This alludes to the bestseller, “Three Cups of Tea” – an inspiring story of a brave, pioneering educator in a hostile situation who, against great odds, makes a big difference in the world. He did this in small increments, by working “failures” into successes, and by learning to really listen and consider stakeholders and their needs. The power of patience and building relationships in order to innovate and bring about change are themes we can relate to in our work in education and technology. Not to mention, our workshop is taking place in Victoria, BC (a high-tea hotspot). It will be a tea-riffic event!

We invite you to share your challenges and triumphs of teaching with technology and explore together our views on system trends and changes.
Ideas for Session Topics
Details on Session Formats
Submit a Proposal!

Expenses for Presenters at ETUG: BCcampus/ETUG will be pleased to cover the cost of registration for presenters at the workshop and the cost for travel and accommodation for BC-based presenters who live outside of the Greater Victoria area.

BC Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG)
phone: 604.517.6363
email: leva.lee@bccampus.ca
web: www.etug.ca
community: community.bccampus.ca/etug

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2010 Workshops for Faculty

by admin on February 15, 2010

*Please RSVP to the Teaching and Learning Centre 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. For more specific Emily Carr integration and documentation please visit the Elluminate documentation section of this blog.

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. Engage more people in more ways to promote active learning and improve student performance. Training for Elluminate Live.

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. Now, instructors with any level of technical proficiency and comfort can navigate the virtual classroom with confidence by just clicking the next button. Training for Elluminate Plan V2

Elluminate Publish! 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. Playback the video files on your iPod or view the standalone recordings even when not connected to the Internet. Training for Elluminate Publish

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

Find online account support and tutorial information here.

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.  Here students and faculty can sign up for a free Prezi account by going to http://prezi.com/profile/signup/edu/

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

Other Faculty Workshops

Digital Identity and You
Time: Wednesday, February, 17th, 1:00 – 3:00pm
Room: 113  (North Building)
Presenter: Trish Rosseel, Co-Coordinator, Digital Tattoo Project, http://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/, Teaching & Learning Librarian, UBC

All of us have a digital tattoo – an online expression of ourselves that may or may not reflect who we are, the scope of our work, the nature of our relationships with others.  Our digital identity can be the first glimpse others get of us.  What does it tell them?

Come to this faculty development workshop to:

  • learn about issues of digital identity and what the Internet says about you
  • share what you are doing to manage your digital tattoo
  • discuss how to make your digital tattoo more reflective of your role as an instructor and artist
  • learn how others are connecting with students online using social media tools and technologies

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.

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2010 Horizon Report

February 12, 2010

View the 2010 Horizon report
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within [...]

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Keynote, PowerPoint and Prezi tutorials

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 [...]

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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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Elluminate Live: Training Overview

December 10, 2009

Elluminate Moderator Training
Elluminate Live is now fully integrated into our Moodle website and may be used by faculty to setup online office hours, presentations or demonstrating applications from their own computers, incorporating live audio, video and chat – it will work with low-bandwidths in more remote communities. It’s important to review the following training [...]

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Level 1: Participant Basic Training

December 10, 2009

What you need:

headset with mic to ensure a good experience participating in an interactive Elluminate session (you will definitely need one later, to effectively moderate a session).  These can be purchased for as little as $20-25 at places like London Drugs, Future Shop, The Source, Walmart, etc.   Look for one with  [...]

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Level 2: Moderator Basic Training

December 10, 2009

Prerequisite: Level 1: Participant Basic Training

What you need:

Headset with mic. Recommended: one with “noise cancelling” capability.
Computer with internet connection

Activities:
If you already have some experience moderating you can select and complete the activities that will best help you reach the compentencies at the bottom of this page.

Getting Started – download [...]

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Elluminate Plan and Elluminate Publish: Training

December 10, 2009

Use the following links to get the software, documentation and training for the Elluminate Plan and the Publish systems
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. Now, instructors with any level of [...]

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Elluminate Troubleshooting Guide

December 10, 2009

Here are the basic things you need to know to help yourself and your participants:
I can’t connect to the Elluminate session
Solution/What to Do
Check to see that you are using the correct URL, and try again
Check the Elluminate Help Desk Knowledge Base for suggestions
Check this information on pop-up blockers
Problem: I can’t hear or be heard
Solution/What to [...]

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