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October Workshops
CELT events are open to IPFW and Ivy Tech staff, full and part-time faculty, and graduate students.
Take Five. A “Take Five” workshop can be arranged for anyone who has at least five people who are interested in a workshop on a particular topic. Like an improvised jazz arrangement, we can begin the planning when our office is notified and together create a time, place, and activities customized to your interests and needs.
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ITS conducts training in a wide variety of software, including Blackboard Vista. Register for ITS workshops by clicking here. CELT’s workshops will help you apply the software to support specific teaching and learning opportunities.
Excellent Blackboard Tutorials are available from the elearning.ipfw.edu page.
Online tutorials in all of the software you want to use are now available by clicking on this special link to Lynda.com . CELT also provides “how-to” information about instructional software such as Safe Assign, ScreenCorder, Adobe Connect and others on its "Instructional Software” page.
Re-visioning Course Design I: Re-visioning the Course Syllabus
Monday, October 3, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT 243
Facilitators: Ludy Goodson, CELT and Linda Lolkus, CFS
Does a syllabus just provide information to comply with departmental guidelines, or is it also a message for students? Could it express a vision of how course objectives relate to content and sequence? We will discuss answers to these questions and how to transform a syllabus. Registration is required.
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Introducing IPFW's Media Vault
(a pilot project for streaming media)
Facilitators: Samantha Birk, CELT and Mike Phillips, ITS
Tuesday, October 4, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, in KT 205B (ITS training room)
A repeat of this session will be offered again on:
Friday, October 14, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B
Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am - 11:00 am in KT 205B
Thursday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B
Got Media? From audio to video, IPFW's Media Vault is the campus solution for housing and making available to your students media via the Internet. In this session you will be introduced to IPFW's Media Vault and shown how it can be used to distribute media to your students. Participants will see how easy it is upload media, do simple edits to create clips, create play-lists and how to integrate them into your Blackboard course or into a web page. Registration is required.
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Online Teaching Interest Group (OTIG)
Facilitators: Faculty members of the Online Course Design Review Team and Ludy Goodson, CELT
Tuesday, October 4, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
This group will also meet on :
Friday, November 4, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT 243
Wednesday, November 30, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
Join us to share ideas, talk about what works, or solve problems of student engagement in online learning. Although our discussion may involve some talk about how to use online tools, we will focus on how to make the technology work for you to express your model of teaching, and to improve student learning and excitement about participating in your online courses. Registration is required.
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iPhone/iPad App Development Basics: An information session
Presenter: Jason Bruder, Systems Engineer, Apple, Inc.
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Wednesday, October 5, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in LA 328 or Thursday, October 6 at 9:00 am - 10:30 am in LA 328 (This workshop is open to IPFW/Ivy Tech faculty, staff and students)
With mobile devices everywhere, the ability to develop apps for the iPhone, iPod and iPad can be exciting and rewarding. Join Jason Bruder, Apple Systems Engineer, for a look at what you need to get started with iOS app development. Jason will demonstrate developer tools like Dashcode, a powerful tool for building graphical mobile interfaces for the web user interfaces. This session will also provide an overview of the tools available to build native applications for iOS devices, as well as the iOS Developer programs. Registration is required.
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iPhone/iPad App Development Basics: An information session
Presenter: Jason Bruder, Systems Engineer, Apple, Inc.
This session is repeat of the session on Wednesday, October 5th. Please select one session.
Thursday, October 6 at 9:00 am - 10:30 am in LA 328 (This workshop is open to IPFW/Ivy Tech faculty, staff and students)
With mobile devices everywhere, the ability to develop apps for the iPhone, iPod and iPad can be exciting and rewarding. Join Jason Bruder, Apple Systems Engineer, for a look at what you need to get started with iOS app development. Jason will demonstrate developer tools like Dashcode, a powerful tool for building graphical mobile interfaces for the web user interfaces. This session will also provide an overview of the tools available to build native applications for iOS devices, as well as the iOS Developer programs. Registration is required.
Click here to fill out the online evaluation for this session>>
Re-visioning Assessments I: Plagiarism-Proofing Online Course Assignments
Facilitator: Ludy Goodson, CELT
Thursday, October 6, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
This workshop focuses on the design of assignments in online courses. It will include discussion of ways to support student behaviors of academic integrity. We'll discuss concerns about plagiarism, how students plagiarize, reasons that they do so, research on practices to minimize plagiarism, and examples of assignments. Registration is required.
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Using the Web to Build Course Content
Tiff Adkins, LIB; Kathie Surface, ITS and Ludy Goodson, CELT
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Friday, October 7, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Tuesday, November 1, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will take place in LB 440A.
What search strategies will help you to find web resources to enrich course content? We will discuss and demo searches with key words (search terms), file endings (youtube, aspx, and more), and different search engines (Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo and others). We also will explore URLs (uniform resource locators, like com, net, edu, and org) and how they can help in finding resources. Participants will be able to apply these search strategies during the workshop and discuss their results. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Course Design II: How the ARCS Model Can Help to Increase Student Motivation
Facilitators: Ludy Goodson, CELT; Deb Huffman, ENGL and Gail Rathbun, CELT
Wednesday, October 12, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
What is Keller's ARCS model? How does it work? What are the applications in individual courses, in the classroom, or online? We will review examples in actual teaching practice and discuss how purposeful presentation and facilitation can gain and sustain student attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Assessments II: Rubrics for Learning and Grading
Facilitator: Gail Rathbun, CELT
Thursday, October 13, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
Well-constructed rubrics help your students better understand what you expect of them and provide scaffolding for their learning, while reducing the amount of time you spend grading, and making it more consistent. In this workshop you will learn to build rubrics for different types of assignments and learning objectives. Common problems in developing and using rubrics will be addressed. Participants may bring their own rubrics to work on. Registration is required.
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Introducing IPFW's Media Vault
(a pilot project for streaming media)
Facilitators: Samantha Birk, CELT and Mike Phillips, ITS
Friday, October 14, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B (ITS training room)
A repeat of this session will be offered again on:
Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am - 11:00 am in KT 205B
Thursday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B
Got Media? From audio to video, IPFW's Media Vault is the campus solution for housing and making available to your students media via the Internet. In this session you will be introduced to IPFW's Media Vault and shown how it can be used to distribute media to your students. Participants will see how easy it is upload media, do simple edits to create clips, create play-lists and how to integrate them into your Blackboard course or into a web page. Registration is required.
Click here to fill out the online evaluation for this session>>
Teaching "here" vs. "there": Cultural differences in student and professor expectations about teaching
Facilitator: Suin Roberts, ILCS
Tuesday, October 18, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
Dr. Roberts will address issues such as differences in teaching and student expectations, accented English of non-native speakers, student evaluations, as well as provide hands-on tips on how to improve classroom communication between international faculty and students. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Course Design III: Content, Presentation and Learning
Facilitators: Ludy Goodson, CELT and Debrah Huffman, ENGL
October 26, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
What does research tell us about the three priorities for effective instructional materials: (1) content, (2) presentation, and (3) learning and assessment strategies? We will compare examples in each priority area and discuss how different teaching models change the standards. We will discuss and give examples of how previews, overviews, transitions, and course welcomes can be used to enhance content, presentation, and learning. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Assessments III: Making Evaluation Easier with Rubrics in Blackboard Learn
Facilitator: Samantha Birk, CELT
Thursday, October 27 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
Do you hesitate to include writing assignments in your courses because of the workload they create? Are you tired of writing the same thing on every paper you read? Do you want to return papers to students more quickly? Facilitator will demonstrate how a good rubric applied to assignments via the Blackboard Vista Grading Form can streamline the feedback and grading process. Registration is required.
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12 O'clock Scholars Brown Bag series: Promotion and Tenure - Scholarship in the Classroom
Monday, October 31, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Thursday, November 3, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will be held in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Helmke Library. *Please note the change in location from what was previously publicized. Participants are welcome to attend both sessions.
Facilitator: Yvonne Zubovic, MATH
The promotion and tenure process is the subject of CELT's brown bag discussion series during the fall 2011 semester. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your own experience to this freely flowing discussion facilitated by CELT Board members. Offered twice a month at noon on a Monday and a Thursday. Registration is required.
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