Congratulations to Lucia Bushway from the Math Department for winning the grand prize Sony CyberShot digital camera .
Ms. Bushway attended all 8 sessions.
ATC and ITS would like to thank all of the faculty who atttended Learn 8 in '08 and made it such a success!
Remember to check Argus Today Annoucements and the ATC web site for workshops on these and other tools.
Previously on "Learn 8 in '08"...
- Second Life and Kick-Off Party! (Friday, February 8)
- Elluminate (Friday, March 7)
- Elluminate, a real-time virtual classroom environment designed for teaching and learning and collaboration. Elluminate is used by instructors to connect with online learners or guest speakers by adding live discussion and dynamic interaction, resulting in engaged students and enhanced learning.
- Guest speakers Lucia Bushway, Mathematics Lecturer, and Stephen Morris, graduate math major, gave a great presentation on innovative uses for face-to-face and online uses of Elluminate.
- Presentation Videos:
- eDesktop (Friday, April 11)
- eDesktop is UWF’s only virtual computer lab environment. eDesktop enables students to have access to university-licensed software, such as Microsoft Office, SPSS, and EndNote, at their convenience—home, residence hall, Starbucks, or any place that has connectivity to the Internet.
- In addition, faculty can access Adobe Presenter to convert narrated PowerPoint files into small, easily played Flash files.
- Come see a demonstration of eDesktop and learn how UWF faculty and students are using this virtual computer lab environment.
- Presentation videos:
- Pod Casting (Friday, May 16)
Pod casting is a great way to keep students engaged and provides a convenient study tool for those brief "learning moments". Come hear how easy this is to do and how best to incorporate this technique into your classroom - whether face to face or online, or anything in between!
- Digital Storytelling (Friday, June 6)
Storytelling is one of the most fundamental ways humans teach and communicate with each other. In this session you will see how this ancient tradition has moved into the digital age and has become a powerful tool for both faculty and students. The main emphasis in this session will be how you can use digital storytelling as a truly engaging homework assignment.
- Guest Speakers Dr. Wendy Shapiro and Sue Shick from Case Western University and Kassy Tyler, UWF.
- Wikis, Blogs: Your Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools (Friday, September 12)
Wikis and Blogs are easy to use collaborations tools that are a great way to increase student engagement, improve writing, reading, critical thinking and more. This session will cover the latest research on these tools as well as a brief "how to get started" segment.
- Animations, Simulations, & Other FREE Stuff! (Friday, October 3)
Are you looking for that perfect animation or simulation to get your point across? Did you know that there are thousands of peer reviewed objects that you can add to your course for FREE? Come to this session to learn how and where to find these valuable teaching aids. Presntations will also include tips on getting the most from text book publisher resources.
- Game Time! (Friday, November 7)
Games are a great way to engage students and you don't need a million dollars to use games to engage your students. This session will cover how to implement casual games for practice to incorporating the concepts complex games for skill building and critical thinking into your course. Don't miss this last in the series and the grand finale party!
