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The TLT Center Announces
Fall Faculty Boot Camp 2009

Monday, September 21st – Thursday, September 24th
Monday, September 28th – Thursday, October 1st

Join us for 2 weeks of workshops!

Register today at http://tltc.shu.edu/register

Topics to be covered include:
Twitter this, Twitter That, What’s it all About?
9/21/09 & 10/1.../09

Make Your Lectures Available 24/7
9/22/09 & 9/30/09

Manage Your Email
9/21/09 & 9/29/09

Using Rubrics to Score and Grade Individual and Peer Assessment
9/28/09 & 9/30/09

Collaborative Learning and Journaling Using Blackboard Blogs
9/23/09 & 9/29/09

Utilizing RSS as a Virtual Assistant
9/28/09

Tablet PC’s and DyKnow
9/28/09

Creating Measureable Learning Objectives
9/24/09 & 10/1/09

Similarities and Differences between teaching Face-to-Face and Teaching Online
9/22/09 & 9/24/09

Mobile Devices for Teaching and Learning
9/22/09 & 9/30/09

Blackboard Essentials
9/21/09 & 9/29/09

Blackboard Assessment
9/23/09 & 10/1/09

Register today at http://tltc.shu.edu/register

Questions? Contact Melissa McDowell at melissa.mcdowell@shu.eduRead More

Overview of New Features in Blackboard 9: This introductory session will describe some of the new instructional features, the new interface and navigation, as well as core tools. Participants will see these features from both the student and instructor perspective.

Course Building and Course Management: This session w...ill highlight new course design features and strategies, including content mapping, content area and folder structure planning, choosing appropriate tools, and using the control panel.

Bb Tools: Many of the new capabilities in Blackboard 9 help to streamline instructors’ use of Blackboard by facilitating key teaching tasks. This session will highlight the new assignment tool, and enhanced group functionality. In addition, we will explore new tools such as Blackboard Sync (connection to Facebook), blog, journal, Scholar (allows you to share bookmarks and build a course webliography), and much more.
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DyKnow software fosters interaction through collaborative note taking, student response tools, content replay, and anywhere, anytime access to course content. Instructors can use DyKnow to transmit content instantly to student screens for annotation and to limit distracting programs (i.e. instant messenger) with its p...owerful classroom management capabilities. Students benefit from being able to annotate the instructor’s presentation, and not having to be concerned with correctly replicating the material; Faculty benefit from being able to instantly poll students as to their understanding of the content, and to digitally collect in-class work assignments. This session will provide an opportunity for faculty members to experience an interactive lecture delivered through the DyKnow software. A download link will be provided prior to the session date to install the software. (The software is optimized for Tablet PCs but can run on standard laptops just as well.)Read More

** DAY 2** Electronic surveys can be a very useful tool for voting, evaluations, or for collecting data for teaching and research purposes. In this session, you will learn some tips and best practices for creating electronic surveys. In addition, you will learn how to create a survey in Asset, the electronic survey too...l available at Seton Hall, through a hands-on workshop in which you will create your own survey. We will also briefly discuss a few other web-based electronic survey tools available on the Internet. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about creating your own electronic survey!Read More

** DAY 1** Electronic surveys can be a very useful tool for voting, evaluations, or for collecting data for teaching and research purposes. In this session, you will learn some tips and best practices for creating electronic surveys. In addition, you will learn how to create a survey in Asset, the electronic survey too...l available at Seton Hall, through a hands-on workshop in which you will create your own survey. We will also briefly discuss a few other web-based electronic survey tools available on the Internet. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about creating your own electronic survey!Read More