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Sunday, July 24, 2016
«  7/13 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
Monday, July 25, 2016
«  7/13 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Recording with Techsmith Relay
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: Techsmith Relay is a software based lecture capture and personal recording solution. Relay can record PowerPoint presentations or any other content displayed on your computer screen, in addition to audio narration and web cam video. You can record anywhere, anytime regardless of internet connectivity or location. After recording, the video is automatically processed by the Relay server and uploaded to a cloud based storage provider. This workshop will walk through the process of installing Relay, recording and linking to the video from myCourses. Please bring your own laptop if you would like to participate in this Workshop.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • CORSAIR Jobs Training for Supervisors
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs, online, student employment hiring system. Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions.
  • Topical Areas: Training, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Excel Pivot Tables
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Cost: Free!
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: This workshop provides a thorough exploration of the use of tables, pivot tables and pivot charts in Excel. Participants create pivot tables to summarize hundreds of rows of transactional data in just a few clicks, without complex formulas, or time-consuming grouping and reorganization. Previous Excel experience is required. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
«  7/13 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
«  7/13 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Introduction to Photoshop, Part 3
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Cost: Free!
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: The last workshop in the three part series covers the use of Photoshop’s layer features. Users assemble a collage from separate documents, and use layers to organize and define the final image. An adjustment layer is used to perform color correction. Also covered are text layers, and layer styles. Finally, cropping and image size changes are covered, as well as saving documents as different file formats. Previous Photoshop experience, or Part 1 of the Introduction class is required. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
9:00 AM - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: This fully online workshop provides an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
Thursday, July 28, 2016
«  7/13 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • CORSAIR Jobs Training for Supervisors
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: This session will provide training for supervisors in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs student employment system. Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions.
  • Topical Areas: Training, audience: Staff, audience: Faculty
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Getting Started in myCourses
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: This face-to-face workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the teaching and learning features of (myCourses) Blackboard Learn. You will learn about the roles an instructor plays in the online environment and identify key attributes for success. From there, you will learn how to set up the Course Menu, your students' access point to tools and content, and how to create Content Areas that contain materials, tools, and resources. You will have the opportunity to add a course structure to your development course, allowing you to learn about Blackboard Learn tools and features as you experience them in the course environment. You will become familiar with some common start-up tasks, such as creating announcements, adding a syllabus, adding calendar entries, and setting up assignments Finally, you will view the course as a student to become familiar with how the course environment appears to your own students. As a student, you will learn how to access and navigate through tools and content.
«  7/27 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: This fully online workshop provides an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
Friday, July 29, 2016
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Creating Forms with Adobe Acrobat
  • Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
  • Cost: Free!
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is used to create, edit and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. PDF files can be set up as interactive forms for distribution and data collection. Participants learn to work with Acrobat’s toolbars, navigate, edit and annotate PDF documents, manage bookmarks, and set document security via passwords. Also covered are Acrobat’s form features, from form creation through distribution and compiling responses. No previous Acrobat experience is required. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
«  7/13 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
«  7/27 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: This fully online workshop provides an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
Saturday, July 30, 2016
«  7/13 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
  • Location: Online
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
«  7/27 - 8/10  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
  • Location: > See description for location
  • Contact: CITS Instructional Development
  • Description: This fully online workshop provides an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
  • Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development

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