Tomorrow there are 4 spaces left for beginning blackboard learners in Donahue 525 from 1-2pm. Please call x2002 to reserve your seat. Training provided by Academic Technology at the College.
Part of the Online Teaching Series
Thursday, April 9th, 1-2:30pm
Sawyer Library Training Room
Michelle Bolser, Educational Technology Coordinator, CAS & Elaine Garofoli, Educational Technologist, SBS will present an overview of the synchronous features of BB including Wimba Live Classroom and BB Text chat. Topics will include text only chat, audio with text, two-way audio, screen and application sharing, [...]
Join College of Arts & Sciences New School of Art & Design Professor Douglas R. Seidler for the following event at The Center for Teaching Excellence:
Expanding your Classroom Through Free Web Technology: A Critical Evaluation of Teaching for Understanding with Integrated Web Media
Tuesday, April 7th, 1:00-2:30pm
Through three case studies, this workshop evaluates the effectivness of [...]
Part of the Online Teaching Series
Thursday, March 12, 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Sawyer Library Training Room
Michelle Bolser, Educational Technology Coordinator, CAS & Elaine Garofoli, Educational Technologist, SBS will present overviews and examples of the advanced features in Blackboard that give you the possibility of enhancing student participation and success while facilitating easier course management. Topics will include use [...]
Happy New Year and welcome to Spring semester 2009! We have posted a new training schedule for the week of January 12-15th, offering many beginner sessions for Blackboard, Blogs, and Podcasting to help get you started.
We will offer more training throughout the semester (though maybe not so many in one week!), as well as walk-in [...]
To accommodate faculty requests for a central place at the College to come for assistance in leaning new technologies and creating digital materials, Academic Technology is pleased to announce that we are in the process of constructing a Faculty Technology Center in 520 Donahue.
The center will house 8 iMac computers running both Windows XP and [...]
The Sawyer Business School’s technology group has recently created some excellent short video tutorials for using Blackboard. Feel free to explore:
Blackboard Tutorials for Faculty
Tutorial 1 - Logging into the Blackboard System
Tutorial 2 - Overview of Course Tools in Blackboard
Tutorial 3 - Creating an Announcement
Tutorial 4 - Adding a Syllabus
Tutorial 5 - Adding a Course [...]
Join the College of Arts & Sciences Eric Dewar, Assistant Professor, Biology & Michelle Bolser, Educational Technology Coordinator, for the following CTE event:
Podcasting in the Classroom
Tuesday, October 28th, 2:00-3:30pm
Faculty can use podcasts to distribute course content on the web. Lectures and class discussions can be recorded for student review and for faculty development, but podcasts [...]
Need a blog for departmental, research, or course purposes? Academic Technology hosts and supports the CAS Blogs, available to all college faculty, located at http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu.
CAS Blogs run on the powerful Wordpress Multi-User platform. They can be used publicly or privately; some of the current uses include:
research
faculty home pages
departmental and program news
discussion and collaboration
course [...]
Academic Technology offers group and individual training for Blackboard all semester long, regardless of experience level. Contact us to learn the basics of how to begin using Blackboard, from posting a syllabus to creating assignments, or learn more advanced features such as customizing your course design, using Live Classroom, or implementing the Gradebook feature.
Academic Technology is providing a wiki platform and support for those faculty members interested in using wikis for classroom, departmental, or research purposes. Please contact us about your needs and to have a wiki set up for you.
Join College of Arts & Sciences Educational Technology Coordinator, Michelle Bolser, for following Teaching Academy Workshop:
Web 2.0 Technologies & Teaching
Wednesday, August 7th,
8:45-10;00 and 10:15-11:30
Suffolk University Law School, Room 205
What is Web 2.0? What does it have to do with teaching and learning? Come learn about this enigmatic term and how it applies to [...]
The College and the ETC are piloting online 8-10 online courses this summer. Academic Technology will be running one-on-one training and group presentations on the necessary tools and technologies required to run an online course as well as how to successfully adapt existing curricula and pedagogy toward producing an engaging, effective online course.
Please contact us [...]
On April 3rd from 1:00 - 2:15 CAS Academic Technology will give a podcast creation training session for interested faculty. The event will cover how-to’s and hands-on demos with equipment and software. The following topics will be covered:
Using Blackboard with iTunes U
Editing and Uploading to your iTunes U Course Page
Creating an Audio Podcast
Creating [...]
On Thursday, March 6th, 2008 there will be a training session on how to set up your course, post a syllabus, upload important documents and files, set up course menus and navigation, and how to use the discussion board in Blackboard. Click Here for More Info
