Academic Technology Enhancement Week

Workshop Descriptions

Introduction to Blackboard

Today's students demand new ways of learning. Blackboard is the easy-to-use Web application to help you meet their needs by putting materials and teaching online. Blackboard is available for all instructors at Ole Miss. You don't even need to know HTML. Session will cover an overview of Blackboard's unique features: course announcements and calendar, online grade book, advanced assessment capabilities, student tracking, online file exchange, and much more.

Using the Blackboard Gradebook

An in-depth look at the Blackboard Gradebook. Learn to enter grades quickly, weight grades by item or category, download grades to an Excel spreadsheet, upload grades from an Excel spreadsheet, and more.

Overview of Academic Technology @ UM

This session will discuss online services available for UM faculty. Examples include WebID, Online Grade Submission, Class Roll Downloads, Advising Information, Online Faculty Activity Report, etc.

PowerPoint for Beginners

This seminar will cover the basics of using PowerPoint to create multimedia presentations.

Using Excel to Manage a Gradebook

This session will teach participants how to set up a gradebook using excel. Topics include: formulas, assigning percentages, the usefulness of the count and sum functions, and assigning letter grades based on "Lookup" functions.

Statistics Starter

A survey of Math and statistical packages generally available to the UM academic and research community. (SAS, SPSS, IMSL, Matlab, Limdep, Lisrel, etc.)

Flash

This one hour guided tour will show users a basic overview of Macromedia Flash, a complex animation and programming tool often used in creating websites. The workshop will show users how to use animation and interactivity features appropriately and will give a basic understanding of how Flash works.

Virus Free Computing

This seminar will cover preventing virus infections, installing critical Windows security updates, personal firewalls, anti-virus software, and identifying malicious software.

E-mail to Groups

“E-mail to Groups” is a tool that allows departments to send e-mail messages to groups of students and employees based on demographic characteristics, e.g., students in a particular program of study or employees in a specific department. Find out how it all works and how you can participate by attending this session.

PowerPoint for Advanced Users

Learn to create custom backgrounds and slide layouts, insert movie and sound files, use advanced animation techniques, and output your presentation to html.

Adobe Acrobat

This seminar will cover the basics of using Adobe Acrobat to create PDF files that can be distributed across platforms without altering fonts or graphics. Participants will also learn to add form fields to PDF files. This is a beginning basic level seminar.

Faculty Test Scoring

Grade tests the easy way. Learn to use the OpScan test scanner to quickly grade multiple-choice tests and surveys.

Mathematica for Beginners

Participants will learn simple and basic mathematical operations with Mathematica, which include, but are not limited to:
finding Sin and Cos of an angle, finding various functions through Mathematica's Mater Index, integration of simple functions, obtaining simple statistics such as mean and standard of deviation, solving simple linear equations, etc.

Dreamweaver

A hands on introduction to Dreamweaver, an advanced website editing and management program, covering its interface, set-up, basic page creation, and web site tools.

Using Clickers in the Classroom

Would you like to increase class participation, receive instantaneous assessment in class, and increase daily attendance? Dr. Tamar Goulet will show participants a hands-on approach to increasing student involvement using PRS RF-Clickers.

Managing E-mail Mailing Lists

E-mail mailing lists are useful tools for sending out course announcements, organizational announcements, or facilitating online discussions within classes or campus organizations. Learn how to request, administer, and use mailing lists at Ole Miss.

Imaging and Scanning Basics

Ever wonder how your colleagues got those images onto their computer? Come to this seminar and find out. Topics will include: flatbed scanning, 35mm slide/negative scanning, and jpeg vs. gif image formatting.

Mail Call - Tips and Tricks for Making the Most of E-mail

This seminar will present an overview of e-mail services available to faculty at the University of Mississippi, including the campus Web-Mail system. Topics such as mail forwarding, vacation responses, and filtering will be discussed.

Introduction to High Performance Computing and the MCSR

A survey of MCSR’s high performance computing systems and applications (Cray and Origin Supercomputers, Beowulf Cluster Server, Gaussian, NWChem, Patran, Abaqus, Fortran, C/C++, MPI, Matlab, etc.).

Basics of Adobe Photoshop

In this session, participants will learn the basics of editing images in Adobe Photoshop. Topics to be covered include: basic image manipulation, changing the size and resolution of an image, cropping and rotating an image, applying color correction, using filters such as blur and sharpen, cleaning up old photographs, selection techniques, and using layers.

Introduction to UNIX/LINUX

Unix/Linux is designed to be fast and easy to use. In this introductory workshop you will learn how to accomplish the basics using this operating system, including common tasks such as shell programming. Other topics that will be included: command line interfaces, text editors, and more on the Unix/Linux operating system architecture.

Capturing and Editing Digital Video using iMovie

This seminar will show how to convert video clips into a digitized format suitable for viewing in a presentation or over the Internet. Basic movie editing skills will also be shown.

Using Multimedia Classrooms on the UM Campus

Learn how to use the multimedia equipment located in various classrooms across campus.

Creating DVD's

Participants in this workshop will learn to create a DVD. Topics include: creating the appropriate video format, setting up menus, applying menu backgrounds, etc.

 

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These events are open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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Contact the Faculty Technology Development Center at 915-7918 for more information.