Past Technology Workshops
June 11
229 ATLAS
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Introduction to Excel 2008
Erica Brandon, Faculty/Staff Trainer, ITS
This introductory workshop teaches the basic skills needed to use Microsoft Excel 2008 for the Mac. This is a great class for beginners, or anyone who is switching to the newer version of Microsoft Office and would like to learn more about the interface. Topics covered include: entering/editing information, working with formulas, formatting and filtering your data, and creating a basic chart. |
June 25
200 ATLAS
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Introduction to PowerPoint 2008
Erica Brandon, Faculty/Staff Trainer, ITS
PowerPoint is a powerful tool for displaying visual information — text, pictures, graphs, and multimedia — to an audience. Learn how to use PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac to aid in a presentation or lecture. During this introductory workshop we will create a presentation from scratch, save valuable time with built-in templates, and use presentation features to show our creation. No prior experience necessary.
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July 9
200 ATLAS
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Introduction to CULearn
Erica Brandon, Faculty/Staff Trainer, ITS
This hands-on workshop will get you started with CULearn, our campus course management system. During this introductory workshop you will learn how to get started with CULearn, post a syllabus and other course materials, and use the built-in grade book. |
July 23
200 ATLAS |
CULearn: Assessments, Assignments, and Groups
Erica Brandon, Faculty/Staff Trainer, ITS
This session is designed for CULearn course designers who want to learn about some of the other tools available within CULearn. We will look at tools not covered in the Introduction to CULearn class such as quizzes and assignments, and have more hands-on time to create a course. Bring your questions and ideas for this more in depth look at CULearn’s functionality.
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Spring 2007
February 20: Virtual Globes (Google Earth)
Tues., 11:00 - 12:00
ATLAS 200
Craig Lee, Anthropology
Virtual globes, such as Google Earth, are fast becoming the news media’s tool of choice for depicting geographic relationships and navigating the audience to “hotspots.” This technology is widely available and largely free, but strikingly underutilized in the college classroom. The workshop will trace the development of virtual globes from their futuristic roots in Buckminster Fuller’s “Geoscope” through today’s digital depictions of our rotating planet. The workshop will introduce two different virtual globes, Google Earth and NASA’s World Wind, discuss their pedagogical value, and provide some real time exploration to illustrate how they can be integrated into the college classroom in a variety of courses.
*If you are planning to attend this workshop, please email Craig.Lee@colorado.edu, so he can design the workshop based on the interests of the attendees.*
February 20: "90 Minute" Talk on Teaching: PowerPoint for Teaching and Learning - Beginners
Tues., 3:30 - 5:00
ATLAS 200
Michael Lightner, Electrical & Computer Engineering
This class is intended for those who have very little or no experience with PowerPoint. We'll begin with the basics of how to create a presentation containing text, tables, and graphics. We'll cover how to display the presentation and how to navigate between slides and to outside sources. We'll also look at various ways to view and organize slides within PowerPoint. We'll close with a brief look at animations and transition effects. Familiarity with Microsoft Word is required.
March 14: Website Basics: Building Your Own Course Website
Wed., 1:00 - 3:00
Stadium 350
Tim Cowan and Staff, ITS
Want to learn how to make a course webpage? This workshop focuses on how to create and post a webpage easily on the university’s server. Discussion centers on how to use a course webpage to enhance your teaching and classroom time.
April 3: "90 Minute" Talk on Teaching: PowerPoint for Teaching and Learning: Part II - Advanced PowerPoint
Tues., 3:30 - 5:00
ATLAS 200
Michael Lightner, Electrical & Computer Engineering
This class is intended for those who have solid basic experience in PowerPoint but want to learn some advanced techniques. Advanced techniques could include the use of links, creating your own styles, protecting your IP so they won't be transferred to other presentations, live links to Excel and Word documents, including music and video, custom animations, timing and effects, among many.
April 10: Pitfalls of PowerPoint
Tues., 11:00 - 12:00
ATLAS 200
Lisa Leininger, GTP Webmaster, Philosophy
If used well, PowerPoint can be a tremendous teaching tool. In this workshop, participants learn how to use PowerPoint, and compare good PowerPoint presentations with bad ones. Additionally, we discuss ways in which PowerPoint can enhance student learning.
April 11: Using the Internet as a Collaborative Learning Environment
Wed., 3:00 - 4:30
ATLAS 200
Mark Amerika, Art & Art History
Using CU's TECHNE research initiative in the digital arts as our starting point, this presentation will look at how an emerging interdisciplinary model of practice-based research that investigates the intersection of the arts, science, and technology, challenges conventional disciplinary agendas and opens up the possibility to discover alternative approaches to learning. Some questions that we will address include: What is digital pedagogy? How does the emergence of new media technologies change the way we teach, compose, and go public with our creative and scholarly work? Should all students have basic new medica literacy skills in place by the time they graduate? What forms of electronic publishing are becoming embedded in contemporary culture and how do we begin to assess their value both in academia and student work? How can we use the Internet, and all of developing genres and formats associated with it, to encourage a more collaborative learning environment for students hoping to transfer their creative and critical skills-set into the new media economy?
April 13: Top Five Things to Make Your Digital Materials Accessible
Fri., 11:00 - 12:00
ATLAS 200
Howard Kramer, Disability Services,
Though a Web page (or a WebCT page) may have an excellent visual user interface, it may not be accessible for users with disabilities. Streaming multimedia might be a great complement to course materials but how will a deaf person access the audio or a blind person access the video? What about students with learning disabilities? This presentation will review guidelines and tools for creating accessible Web pages and other media, particularly for uses with vision impairments. Features that can inhibit access will be discussed along with corresponding work-arounds and solutions. Tools for validating the accessibility of media and concepts of Universal Design will also be discussed.
April 19: Using Clickers Wisely
Thur., 2:00 - 3:30
ATLAS 200
Michael Dubson, Physics
Clickers are hand-held electronic devices which many faculty are using to solicit and collect feedback from their students during lecture. The professor asks a question and each student votes with his/her clicker, allowing nearly instant and anonymous responses. Clickers are useful, but not magical; they facilitate good pedagogy, but do not guarantee it. Like knives, clickers are a power technology that can be used well or badly. In this presentation, some good and bad uses of the new radio frequency i-Clickers will be demonstrated.
Fall 2006
Excel for Gradebooks, Part II
October 11th
10:30 - 12:00
ATLAS 200
(some laptop computers will be provided, but participants are
encouraged to bring their own)
Presented by Joice Gibson, GTP Lead Coordinator, and Sarah Zerwin, GTP Lead Graduate Teacher, Education
In this workshop, which uses tutorial handouts, demonstration, and hands-on practice, students will explore using Excel gradebookspreadsheets in a variety of ways, including:
- narrative information management vs. numerical data management
- using mail-merge with Word to generate individualized student reports
- advanced formatting applications
- document management
- special features and considerations for printing
- using multiple spreadsheets with related columns
- charts and graphs for reports and diagnostic purposes
Spring 2006
February 23 - Building Your Own Course Website
Want to learn how to make a course webpage? This session focuses on how to create and post a webpage easily on the university’s server. Discussion centers on how to use a course web page to enhance your teaching and classroom time.
March 9 - Blogs and Bulletin Boards: Discussion and Evaluation Online
Participants in this workshop create their own blog (weblog) and learn how to maintain it. Blogs can be employed as an effective means of evaluating student comprehension. Participants also set up a bulletin board to examine its possible uses in enhancing or expanding class discussion.
March 16 - Teaching with PowerPoint
If used well, PowerPoint can be a tremendous teaching tool. In this workshop, participants learn how to use PowerPoint, from the basics to some of the slick bells and whistles. Additionally, we discuss ways in which it can enhance student learning.
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