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. Session will cover an overview of Blackboard's unique features: course announcements and documents, online grade book, advanced assessment capabilities, assignment submissions, discussion board, and much more.

Basic Web Design Using Dreamweaver

Learn how to create Web pages using Dreamweaver. This session will provide an overview of HTML basics, page editing features, and other tips for the beginning Dreamweaver user.

Preview of the New Grade Center Coming to Blackboard this Christmas

Ever wished the Blackboard gradebook would drop grades or allow for extra credit? How about sort students based on course section number? The new Grade Center in Blackboard 8 will do all of this and more. Come to this session for a preview of the new Grade Center that will be available in Blackboard after the upgrade this December.

Security Awareness Training

This session is for employees who deal with sensitive information such as grades, financial aid, payroll, and other personal student or employee data, including social security numbers. The session will describe the ways in which sensitive information can be compromised and what you can do to protect your computer and related devices.

Introduction to SAS

Participants will learn about the statistical consulting services available to graduate students from the UM Office of Information Technology (IT) and get a flavor of some of the software packages available for statistical analysis. Schedule information will be provided regarding more specialized training opportunities available throughout the academic year in SPSS and SAS.

Creating and Publishing Enhanced Podcasts

Participants will learn to create enhanced podcasts with still images, slides, audio, web links and more. Podcasts will be created hands-on using GarageBand, and similar podcast creation programs for Windows will be mentioned. The final portion of this workshop will provide information on uploading podcasts to the University Podcast Server.

What's New in PowerPoint 2007

Confused over the changes Microsoft made to the latest version of PowerPoint? Can't find the "Print" button? Come to this workshop and learn about the many changes and improvements to PowerPoint 2007.

Faculty Test Scanning

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

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.

Breaking the WebMail Habit

While WebMail is a useful tool for accessing e-mail from any Web browser on any networked computer, desktop e-mail clients such as Outlook, Eudora, and Thunderbird provide richer functionality, eliminate the occasional problems with quotas and sluggish network interfaces, and can lead to greater productivity. This seminar about e-mail choices will help you determine the right tool for you. With so many options and functions from which to choose, attendee interest will drive specific topic selection so no two sessions of this seminar will be exactly the same.

Creating Blackboard Tests, Assessments, and Surveys

Learn about the different types of assessment tools in Blackboard. Instructors will learn how to create online tests and surveys including using the Pool Manager in Blackboard. This workshop includes Test Manager, Survey Manager, and Pool Manager. In addition, electronic test banks from the textbook publisher can be uploaded into the Pool Manager to build a repertoire of questions that can be used for future test building.

Virus Free Computing

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

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. Converting documents into text using optical character recognition software will also be covered.

Introduction to PRS Clickers

If you would like to learn about clickers, also known as personal response systems, this is the workshop to attend. What are clickers? How can they be used in a classroom? What benefits will I get from using them? All of these questions and more will be answered. Presented by: Julie Weiss, InterWrite

Advanced Clickers / Clicker User Group

This workshop is for instructors that are already using or are planning to use clickers in their classrooms and have questions about the basics: importing/managing rosters, saving/transporting data between computers, general problems, etc. More advanced topics, such as using a Master Clicker, will also be covered. This will also be a Clicker User Group meeting, so all clicker users are encouraged to attend.

Making the Most of your Mac Operating System - Leopard

Mac Users: Come to this session to learn about the Mac OSX Leopard operating system. Make your desktop more efficient using Spaces, backup your data using Time Machine, and more.

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 Mathematica

The UM Office of Information Technology administers a campus-wide Mathematica site license for employees and students. Participants will learn how to obtain, install, register, and start using this powerful tool with demonstrations and a hands-on tutorial. Schedule information will be provided regarding more specialized training opportunities available throughout the academic year in Mathematica and other math packages.

Googling Google

With Google universally recognized as the best Web search engine, this seminar offers insight and demonstrations on how to become a professional googler, taking advantage of Google’s features and negotiating around its weaknesses with hands-on exercises. Participants will learn shortcuts and special Google databases, such as Google Books and Google Scholar, which have great potential for university-level research using the Web. As icing on the cake, we’ll introduce googlewares such as Google Toolbar and Google Search for PCs.

Capturing and Editing Digital Video using iMovie and iDVD

Learn how to use Apple's iLife suite of applications to prepare multi-media, edit engaging video, create stunning DVD titles and even publish media to the web.

Introduction to Wimba

Wimba is the synchronous online collaboration tool that is available in courses delivered via Angel and Blackboard. This session will introduce participants to Wimba. There will also be a live demonstration of the tool. This introduction will include: an introduction to Wimba, an overview of Wimba's functionality, an overview of the Wimba interface, Wimba's hardware requirements, and a live demonstration of Wimba.

What's New in Word 2007

In this new version of Word, the user interface has been drastically redesigned. This course will help you to become familiar with the new interface and also introduce you to some of the new features and functionality in this new version.

Keynote: An alternative to PowerPoint for Mac Users

Frustrated with PowerPoint? Learn to use Keynote to create stunning presentations and dynamic educational material.

Using Multimedia Classrooms on the UM Campus

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

Using Blackboard to Create SafeAssignments to Detect Plagiarism

Participants in this workshop will learn to create and manage Assignments and SafeAssignments in Blackboard to allow students to submit papers/essays electronically. Any paper submitted as a SafeAssignment will automatically be checked for plagiarism, and a detailed plagiarism report will be returned to the instructor.

Advanced Web Design Using Dreamweaver

Building a Web page and managing a Web site are two different skills. This session is for people already familiar with Dreamweaver and HTML, and who want to learn about CSS, SSI, and other technologies available for producing professional-looking Web sites.

What's New in Excel 2007

In this new version of Excel, the user interface has been drastically redesigned. This course will help you to become familiar with the new interface and also introduce you to some of the new features and functionality in this new version.

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These events are open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Contact the Faculty Technology Development Center at 915-7918 for more information.