Technology Training Program Course Description and Instructors Spring 2013

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1 Adobe Acrobat XI Beginning Blackboard 9 Introduction Instructor: Dan Gambert Blackboard 9 eportfolio Blackboard 9 Grade Center Blackboard 9: Rubrics and Alignment Blackboard 9: Using the Appointment Scheduling Module Blackboard Collaborate Blackboard Exemplary Course Review A hands on introduction to version 11 of Adobe Acrobat. This course will cover the interface changes as well as the new and previous functions of the software. Learn how to use the Blackboard interface, post files, organizing your content, communicate with Students, and customize the look of your course. This seminar is appropriate for all faculty members who have never used Blackboard 9.1 system. It is a pre requisite for Intermediate Blackboard. Electronic portfolios allow students to demonstrate their mastery of content and progress through their learning experiences. Students can compile samples of their work in their portfolios and make these available for comment. During this session, attendees will create their own portfolios. Sample content will be provided, but attendees are urged to bring their own work files. This seminar will cover: entering grades, adding comments, changing grades, grade history, deleting and reverting grades, exempting grades, uploading grades, calculating grades, creating reports, and viewing statistics. Rubrics are used as a method to assess student work. They are a tool for grading and feedback. Alignments are used to assess how the course content meets external expectations (e.g., accrediting agencies). Those of you who used Blackboard CE8 know Rubrics as Grading Forms and Alignments as Goals. These features in Bb 9.1 are far more powerful and flexible. A Stockton customized module has been added to Blackboard to enable you to make appointments with your students or preceptees online rather than posting a sign up sheet on your office door. Once you create a calendar and a block of time for appointments, your students or preceptees can then pull up that appointment block and sign up for an available slot. This module is available for use in any Blackboard section. Collaborate is the next upgrade to Wimba Classroom and It will be officially released here at Stockton in May Like Wimba, Collaborate is a synchronous web based tool for online classes and meetings. It supports audio, video, application sharing, polling, whiteboard, and content display, enabling and promotes live interaction between instructors and students in the online setting. The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program began in 2000 with the goal of identifying and disseminating best practices for designing engaging online courses and courses with online components. Using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric, instructors and Page 1

2 course designers are able to evaluate how well their own course conforms to best practices for Course Design, Interaction and Collaboration, Assessment and Learner Support. Furthermore, they learn and better understand by internalizing the evaluation criteria, what makes an exemplary course. The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric details a range of criteria to rate performance in each component of the course. The performance ratings are Exemplary, Accomplished, Promising, and Incomplete. Detailed feedback on expectations needed to meet to achieve a specific rating for each component in the course is provided. Linda Feeney is serving as a reviewer for this program and will share this experience with all of you as a group activity. Blackboard, the ipad and the Tablet Experience Instructor: Fred Everson We will look at the functional differences between the Blackboard 9.1 experience in a traditional web browser vs. the Mobile Learn App available to Tablet and mobile users. Comparing side by side the ability of the end user to function within Blackboard from a mobile device perspective. We will discuss the pros / cons and limitations of Mobile Learn by the various platforms and mobile broadband carriers that it functions with. Camtasia Studio 8 Creating a PDF Portfolio with Adobe Acrobat XI Customizing Forms in Access 2010 Camtasia Studio allows you to create instructional videos that can be made available online. Record video lessons that demonstrate visual or technical subjects. Record a live presentation or lecture to give learners a rewind button for class. Help them learn at their own pace or catch up from an absence. A PDF Portfolio is an assembly of text, audio and video files integrated into a single PDF file. It can be used to reflect on progress and achievement, and be shared for professional development and even career advancement. Bring student projects, your artwork, class materials into an easy to manage file. Microsoft Access is a database management tool that helps you organize, sort and report information you need to access every day. After form objects are created with the Wizard, the Design View can be used to manipulate the content of these objects to create a more functional and easier to use object. In this workshop you will learn how to change the appearance of a form; Move, size, or align fields; Change label text or a control source; And add a field or control. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Access 2010 e Portfolio Assembly and assessment Electronic portfolios can be created by individuals, groups, or organizations. They can represent academic achievement, professional achievement and organizational achievement. However, eportfolios are Page 2

3 far more than just a random collection of artifacts. Artifacts must be assembled with a specific purpose in mind and assessed according to their intended purpose. In this non technical session we will discuss the assembly process and the assessment process, including sample assembly recommendations and sample assessment rubrics. Formulas and Functions in Excel 2010 Formulas are the heart and soul of a spreadsheet. Without formulas, Excel would be nothing more than a grid you could use to enter numbers and text. In this session, you ll learn how formulas can do a lot more than just adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. The instructor will also go over a selected number of Excel formulas you can use to create statistical, financial, and scientific calculations. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Excel 2010 IBM SPSS (Updated) Increasing Editing Productivity in Word 2010 This session is a brief overview of IBM SPSS. Topics include a tour of the various menus and data views, using the data editor, importing and exporting data files, transforming data values, applying variable and value labels, and a brief overview of the data analysis process. In this course, you'll learn how to take advantage of advanced editing and formatting techniques to speed up the creation of your documents. The following commands, discussed in class, will provide you with the tools needed to use Word more efficiently: Finding & Replacing, AutoCorrect, Format Painter, Styles, Templates & Wizards, and Tables & TableAutoFormat. Prerequisite: knowledge of Word 2010 InDesign: Creating a Digital Syllabus Intermediate Blackboard 9 Groups, Assignments and Tests Instructor: Dan Gambert Intro to Access 2010 Nooks, Kindles, and ipads are becoming increasingly common. Content for these digital devices is evolving beyond a simple page of text. There is an expectation that our public school students will be using exclusively digital textbooks by This session will help you start small by transforming a document that every instructor provides in every class the syllabus. Bring your syllabus with you and any digital content (e.g., images, audio clips, video clips) that you might wish to include. If you don t have digital content, join us anyway. Practice files will be available. See your syllabus transformed! Learn how to set up student groups, assignments, and create and administer online tests. Prior knowledge of Blackboard 9 required. Microsoft Access is a database management tool that helps you organize, sort and report information. Newly added features make this application easier to use. The instructor will show you how to combine these new options with old database concepts to quickly create Page 3

4 database systems. The course will cover: understanding Objects, filtering information, manipulating Tables, designing simple Forms and Reports. Prerequisite: Familiar with Excel 2010 Intro to Dreamweaver CS6 Dreamweaver is probably the most popular Internet site building tool for serious web site designers. It is a powerful tool that easily integrates with other Adobe applications such as Fireworks and Flash. In this session, the instructor will guide you step by step through the process of creating a basic web site in Dreamweaver. Familiar with MS Word and the Internet. Intro to Excel 2010 This introductory course will cover the basics of Excel. The course will cover: Retrieving and Saving a File, Formulas, Formatting (inserting, copying, moving and erasing data), Adjusting Rows and Columns, Creating a Chart, Printing and Quick Cursor Movements Around Your Worksheet. Prerequisite: knowledge of Windows Intro to PowerPoint 2010 Instructors: Roberto Castillo This workshop will help you get started working with PowerPoint, to quickly and easily create presentations. You will learn how to use & manipulate templates, outline your ideas, add & modify text, insert clip arts and add animation to your presentations. Prerequisite: Familiar with Word 2010 Mail & E Mail Merge in Word 2010 The Mail Merge Wizard lets you create customized letters, labels, envelopes, directories, e mail messages, and faxes. It allows you to produce multiple documents by combining data (created in Word, Excel, Access or Banner) such as names and addresses with a merge template that the user creates. The instructor will show you how to create different kinds of templates and how to merge the templates with a data file to generate letters and labels or e mail messages. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Word 2010 Making your PowerPoint 2010 Presentations More Visual and Dynamic Managing your E mails in Outlook The instructor will show you how to use the Chart and SmartArt tools in PowerPoint 2010 to convert text into graphics to give rich visuals and variety to your presentations Prerequisite: Intro to PowerPoint 2010 Learn how to organize your Outlook information, your Mailbox. Outlook provides you with the tools you need to manually or automatically group and organize similar information. Some of the features covered in Page 4

5 this course are creating folders, moving items manually or automatically to folders, using Categories, color coding e mail messages and Archiving information. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Outlook. Managing your Workbooks in Excel 2010 Notability for the ipad: an app for taking notes and annotating PDF documents Instructor: Michael Rodriguez In this class, you ll learn how to work with and manage workbooks. You ll learn how to move between the worksheets, add, rename, move, and delete worksheets, split and freeze worksheets, add headers, footers, and page numbers, adjust the margins, page size and orientation, and how to create formulas that reference information from several different worksheets. Notability is a note taking app loaded with handy features that could potentially eliminate the need for printouts. It offers word processing capabilities: You can create new documents for class or simply jot down ideas in a handwriting mode. Users can choose fonts, sizes, styles, and colors of the type they see on the screen. Record live audio while you re taking the notes. Once recording is complete, you can go back into your notes later and tap a word; the app will start playing what was being said into the recorder at the exact moment you typed that word. Notability lets you pull up PDFs and annotate them, either to fill out forms or to provide feedback to student s papers. Share your files in either PDF, RTF, or audio note formats using itunes, Dropbox, idisk, or WebDav services. Subforms and Multiple Table Queries in Access 2010 In this workshop, the instructor will show you how to link multiple tables by creating relational databases (one to many) and use Forms and Queries to manipulate data store in these tables. Prerequisite: basic knowledge of Access 2010 The VLOOKUP Function in Excel 2010 If you use Excel frequently, sooner or later you are going to need to look up values in a table. Instead of scrolling through layers and layers of text to find your answer, the VLOOKUP function allows you to quickly and easily find values which are linked to a table. This way, Excel can do most of the work for you and you can get to the more difficult task of actually analyzing the data you find. Prerequisite: familiar with formulas and functions in MS Excel 2010 Understanding Field Properties in Access 2010 A property is an attribute that defines an object s appearance, behavior, or characteristics. For example, a car s properties would include its color, make and model, and shape. A property for a numeric field might be the Page 5

6 number of decimal places displayed or the maximum number of characters a field can hold. The instructor will show you how to work with a Table s Field Properties to specify the kind of information the table can store. Prerequisite: knowledge of Access 2010 Using the Data Tool to Manage Lists in Excel 2010 The instructor will show you how to create an interactive table in Excel which will allow you to classify and summarize information. Topics covered in the course: Sort, AutoFilter and Advance Filter, Form, Subtotals, the PivotTable, and Data Validation. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Excel 2010 Using your ipad Working with Queries in Access 2010 The ipad is a multitouch display tablet computer designed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for apps to run audio visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. In this class, we ll discuss basic configuration settings, managing apps, setting up your Stockton e mail, using the touch screen display and customizing the Home screen. In this session you will learn how to harness the power of queries. You will learn about all the different types of queries: simple select queries, parameter queries that prompt you for more information, crosstab queries that summarize records in an easy understand format, action queries that actually modify the records in your database. Prerequisite: knowledge of Access 2010 Working with Reports in Access 2010 If you have worked with forms in Design View, you are in somewhat familiar territory. The Design View of the Report Object allows you to change text properties; add lines, boxes, and graphics; summarize and organize information by adding totals by day, week or month to your report; and group your data. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Access 2010 Working with Tables in Word 2010 Tables allow you to present information in an organized, attractive manner. In Microsoft Word, a table is a grid of rows and columns containing boxes (called cells) of text or graphics. Unlike a table that you might create with tabs, you can easily add or delete text in a gridbased table without affecting the arrangement of text in columns. Learn how to sort your information, add and delete columns and/or rows of data, and make your table stand out with borders, shading and coloring options. Find out how many ways in which you can use tables. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Word 2010 Page 6