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posted 03 April 2012
Dear SOE Faculty & Staff, This Spring, William & Mary sent
out a call for proposals for faculty interested in exploring integrating rich
media projects into their teaching. I am
happy to let you know that of the 12 grants funded across campus, three are School
of Education faculty members- Jim Barber, Kimberly Chandler, and Denise
Johnson! You can see the complete list
of recipients here. A collaboration among the Academic
Information Services (IT), The Charles Center, and Swem Library will provide
the funding and support for these projects. We look forward to sharing our experiences, lessons learned, and final
products with you as we progress through these teaching projects. Two weeks ago, Anne Charity-Hudley
and I took a trip to Swem’s Studio 1 along with her colleagues from the English
department, Arthur Knight and Sharon Zuber. We sat down to chat about the ways in which faculty use images and media
in their teaching, as well as some of the classroom obstacles and opportunities
that arise from such ease of access to media. You can read more about our conversation or listen to the recording by
visiting the W&M
Academic Technology blog. If you
would like to record a conversation in Swem’s Media Center, or, if you would
like to chat about ways your students might utilize the resources in the Media
Center for class projects and assignments, just let me know. Technology integration events for the month of April here and around campus appear below. As always, we value your input. If there is a strategy, tool, or area you’d like to explore, please let us know.
April Events Copyright: Teaching and Classroom Use Friday, April 6th, 11:45-1:30pm, Swem Library’s Ford Classroom Swem will be hosting a two-part series on Conversations About Copyright. In this first session, Jim Heller, professor of law and director of the Wolf Law Library, and Wolf Law Library reference librarians Been Keele and Paul Hellyer will answer your questions about copyright in the classroom. Please follow this link to read more about this event, and to RSVP.
Becoming the Host With the Most in Adobe Connect Tuesday, April 10th, 2:00pm- 3:00pm, School of Education, Location TBA based on interest
In this session, we’ll cover the logistics or scheduling and creating an Adobe Connect meeting space, as well as some strategies for getting the meeting link to your webinar participants or to your students. We’ll also explore some best practices for hosting a session, such as preloading content, viewing the presenter layout, and including a meeting facilitator. We’ll save some time to explore other Connect questions you might have. Sign up for this session.
W&M eLearning Community Meeting Friday, April 13th, 1:00-2:30pm, 1013 Miller Hall
W&M faculty and staff are invited to attend the third meeting in the series "Blended learning: Many models, one goal" for the W&M eLearning Community. This session will focus on Blended Learner-Centered Collaboration. This last session in the blended learning series for the Spring 2012 semester will offer examples of blended learner-centered collaboration. Students and faculty will describe their projects and share their experiences, then answer your questions about how eLearning was used in their collaborative, learner-centered work. Presenters will include Dr. Sharon Zuber and Dr. Carlane Pittman. Please visit the W&M eLearning blog at http://elearning.blogs.wm.edu to learn more.
Adobe Connect User Training (BYOL) Tuesday, April 17th, 1:00-2:00pm, 1008 Miller Hall
Karen Connor, Mason Business School, and April Lawrence, SOE, will provide hands on training for new Adobe Connect users. Folks who are interested in just exploring the technology are also encouraged to attend. This is a BYOL session (Bring Your Own Laptop). Sign up for this training.
eLearning Co-op Monday, April 23rd, 9:00am-10:00am The E-Learning Co-op was established to bring together representatives from SOE centers and projects that are exploring strategies and resources for eLearning. If a representative from your group is interested in participating in this discussion, please contact April for more information: adlawrence@wm.edu. Faculty interested in E-Learning are also welcomed to attend.
Please let us know if there is an instructional
strategy, resource, or technology that you’d like for us to
explore. On behalf of the Technology Integration Center,
posted 02 March 2012
Dear SOE Faculty & Staff,
Spring
Break is upon us- time to catch up on grading, to plan for new class projects,
or perhaps even to relax with a good book! Let us know if there is a resource, technology, or instructional
strategy you’d like to explore over the break. We’ll be here, and we’re happy to help. As we think about planning for the rest of the
semester, please feel free to request a consultation or workshop. This summer, Judi Harris and Karen Connor (Mason Business School) will teach a 7 week blended eLearning Professional Development course (ePD) for interested faculty. Please visit the W&M eLearning Blog to read more about this exciting opportunity. The deadline for faculty applications is Friday, March 16th. Please feel free to contact Judi if you have questions about this opportunity. From the new workshop series offered by SWEM and IT, to the W&M eLearning Community, to faculty brown bags and podcasts, faculty members have been so generous in sharing their experiences with teaching and learning with technology. Nowhere is this truer than in the School of Education. In February, Judi Harris, Gail Hardinge, and Jake Joseph shared some insights into teaching and collaborating with Adobe Connect. Last semester, Jim Barber sat down with April at SWEM Media Center to record a podcast about Wiki Writing in Prague. Later this month, I’ll sit down with Anne Charity-Hudley, as well as Sharon Zuber and Arther Knight from the Arts & Sciences, to discuss how images have impacted teaching, learning, reading, and writing in the English classroom. Look for that podcast next month! In
short, it is great to work with such a sharing and collaborative faculty. Please let us know if you have a project or
strategy you’d like to share with your colleagues.
March Events Getting the Most out of the Collaborative Classrooms Monday, March 12th, 2:00pm- 3:00pm, Classroom 2021
Have you ever wondered how you might incorporate the LCD monitors in classrooms 2010, 2015, 2016, and 2021 into your teaching? We’ll explore strategies for jazzing up content delivery, engaging students in small group work, and facilitating whole class collaboration in the Collaborative Classrooms. Sign up for this session.
E-Learning Co-op Meeting Tuesday, March 20th, 9:00-10:00am, Conference Room 3107
The E-Learning Co-op was established to bring together representatives from SOE centers and projects that are exploring strategies and resources for E-learning. If a representative from your group is interested in participating in this discussion, please contact April for more information: adlawrence@wm.edu. Faculty interested in E-Learning are also welcomed to attend.
W&M eLearning Community Meeting Friday, March 23rd, 1:00-2:30pm, 1013 Miller Hall
Learn how recorded video can be used to enhance and support students' learning. Dr. Kim Smith, Associate Professor and KPMG Fellow, School of Business, will speak about her experience recording video for her students to use during homework review. Dr. Anne Marie Stock, Professor of Hispanic Studies and LCST Director, Modern Languages and Literatures, will speak about her experience with students recording video as part of a course assignment. Troy Davis, Media Center Director, Swem Library, will conclude the meeting by speaking about the video production resources that are available in the Swem Media Center to help W&M faculty and staff make and use recordings. Please visit the W&M eLearning blog at http://elearning.blogs.wm.edu to learn more.
Adobe Connect User Training (BYOL) Wednesday, March 28th, 1:00-2:30pm, Classroom 1056
Karen Connor, Mason Business School, and April Lawrence, SOE, will provide hands on training for new Adobe Connect users. Folks who are interested in just exploring the technology are also encouraged to attend. This is a BYOL session (Bring Your Own Laptop). Sign up for this training.
Please
let us know if there is an
instructional strategy, resource, or technology that you’d like for us to explore. On behalf of the Technology Integration
Center, have a great Spring Break!
posted 01 February 2012
Dear SOE Faculty & Staff,
A friendly reminder…please be sure to shut down the projector before you exit the classroom. Using the touchscreen to turn the system off will ensure that we get the most out of our projectors and that we work together to reduce the SOE's carbon footprint. Thanks so much for your help! February Events Mac 101: Basic Operations, Apps, and Shortcuts Wednesday, February 1st, 5:00-6:00pm, The Tribe Computer Store The Tribe Computer store, located at 110 North Boundary Street, is offering a free introductory class for all new Mac users on February 1, from 5:00-6:00 p.m. If you are new to Mac, we will try to make the transition from PC to Mac easier for you. Bring your Mac and any questions. iPad App “Open Mic” Thursday, February 2nd, Noon-1:00pm, Swem’s Dulin Learning Center on the 1st Floor The first Swem/IT brown bag of the
spring semester will be an open mic event from noon - 1 p.m. on Thurs., Feb. 2,
in Swem's Dulin Learning Center on the 1st floor. Faculty, staff and grad
students: Come out and share the details about your favorite mobile app for
productivity, teaching and/or learning. Bring your lunch; cookies and
drinks provided. Please RSVP at https://forms.wm.edu/3862 If you can't make it to Swem but would like to view the session online,
tune into http://wm.adobeconnect.com/faveapps anytime between
noon and 1 p.m. and log-in as a guest.
WM Apps: What’s That? Thursday, February 16th, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Online: attend from your home or office computer WM Apps provides ad-free Gmail (email) for all W&M students. In addition to email, WM Apps provides your students with access to many of the Google-powered online tools. In this demonstration, we’ll explore how three of these tools- Documents, Reader, and Sites- can support teaching and learning. We are also interested in hearing about ways faculty members have employed WM Apps or Google tools in their teaching. Please RSVP to this event here. E-Learning Co-op Meeting Tuesday, February 21st, 9:00-10:00am, Conference Room 3107 This month, we’ll discuss lessons learned from developing online content using Adobe Captivate. The E-Learning Co-op was established to bring together representatives from SOE centers and projects that are exploring strategies and resources for E-learning. If a representative from your group is interested in participating in this discussion, please contact April for more information: adlawrence@wm.edu. Faculty interested in E-Learning are also welcomed to attend.
W&M eLearning Community Meeting Friday, February 24th, 1:00-2:30pm, 1013 Miller Hall W&M faculty and staff are invited to attend the first meeting in the series "Blended learning: Many models, one goal" for the W&M eLearning Community. The use of blended learning is increasing in higher education, but many instructors are unaware of the wide range of teaching/learning structures that it encompasses, their particular affordances and constraints, and how to select among them. Blended learning can be tailored to meet the needs of the students by considering the nature of the content being taught and the students' learning needs and preferences. It can combine real-time, time-shifted, face-to-face, at-a-distance, individual, small-group, and large-group learning configurations within courses and/or programs. We will begin to map, explore and compare these instructional possibilities. Judi Harris will launch the series at the meeting on February 24th, with an overview of the different types of blended learning used in higher education. Participants in the series will learn about blended learning in a blended format. Please visit the W&M eLearning blog at http://elearning.blogs.wm.edu to learn more. Connecting from a Distance: Using Adobe Connect for Collaboration and Instruction Tuesday, February 28th, Noon-1:00pm, Classroom 2020, School of Education The
School of Education and Information Technology will host a brownbag session on
using the Web conferencing tool Adobe
Connect in classroom instruction and in professional development. Judi
Harris will share how she has utilized Connect to support both blended and
distance learning. Gail Hardinge will discuss how she has used the tool to
bring together 12 interns in school psychology. STEM Education Alliance
project manager Jake Joseph will share how STEM has utilized Adobe Connect to support professional
development and outreach. Please take a moment to RSVP if you are planning to attend, since
lunch will be served. We’d love to hear about your teaching products and ideas. If there is a particular curriculum area, instructional strategy, or technology you would for us to cover, please let us know. You are also welcomed to make appointments with April for one on one consultations regarding strategies for integrating tools and technologies into your teaching, learning, or research.
posted 12 January 2012
Dear SOE Faculty & Staff,
January Workshops & Events SOE Classroom Orientation Document camera, touchscreen, lecture capture- oh my! Perhaps you are new to the School of Education of perhaps you’ve been away for a while. Let us help you get acclimated to the podium technology in your classrooms. We’ll review how to log in and present from the podium, how to engage the document camera, how to connect and present from to your own device (ie. laptop or iPad), and how to record using the classroom lecture capture technology. Contact April (adlawrence@wm.edu) to schedule an individual orientation in your classroom.
Blackboard Grade Center Refresher Tuesday, January 17th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Computer Classroom 2031, School of Education Are you new to Blackboard or have you been stumped by the Blackboard grade center in the past? This session is offered for faculty who would like to roll up their sleeves and start building the grade center for Spring semester courses in Blackboard. In this session, we will briefly review some best practices in the grade center that will help to make your Blackboard gradebook more user-friendly. We’ll be on-hand for consultation as you begin building your grade center for Spring semester. This is a hands-on session. Faculty are encouraged to bring their course syllabus- you’ll use it to build the grade center during the latter half of the workshop. Your responses help us in planning and scheduling workshops. Please sign up if you intend to attend this session.
Monday, January 23rd, 9:00-10:00am, Conference Room 3107 The E-Learning Co-op has been meeting since August of 2011. This group was established to bring together representatives from SOE centers and projects who are exploring strategies and resources for E-learning. If a representative from your group is interested in participating in this discussion, please contact April for more information: adlawrence@wm.edu. Faculty interested in E-Learning are also welcomed to attend. Mendeley for Professors Webinar Monday, January 23rd, 2:00pm-3:00pm, attend from your home or office computer Mendeley is just one of the potential reference managers that graduate students and researchers can utilize to support their research. In December, Academic Technology and SWEM Library presented a session on the three top reference manager database, RefWorks, Zotero, and Mendeley. (In case you missed it, you can view a recording of that session here). The folks at Mendeley are offering a free webinar for faculty who are interested in exploring Mendeley. Visit this link to register for this free webinar. As a follow up, the Technology Integration Center will offer a live hands-on workshop for new Mendeley users on January 31st. Working With Assignments in Blackboard Tuesday, January 24th, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Computer Classroom 2031 Do you want to keep all of your assignments in one location? In this session, you will learn how to create, deploy, and provide feedback for assignments in Blackboard. Sign up for the Working With Assignments in Blackboard workshop. Getting Started in Mendeley Tuesday, January 31st, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Computer Classroom 2031 This session is offered for faculty and graduate students who intend to use Mendeley as a reference management system. Attendees should create their free Mendeley accounts prior to this session. We will demonstrate the web and desktop-based Mendeley applications and use the computers in the lab for some hands-on exploration of Mendeley’s web application. Sign up for the Getting Started in Mendeley session. Faculty, you are welcome to forward this event to any interested graduate students.
Mark Your Calendars!
Remember, if there is a particular curriculum area, instructional strategy, or technology you would for us to cover, please let us know. You are also welcomed to make appointments with April for one on one consultations regarding strategies for integrating tools and technologies into your teaching, learning, or research.
posted 01 November 2011
Dear SOE Faculty & Staff,
Below you
will find a detailed list of our November workshops. Remember, you can also always request a workshop or a small group or individual consultation.
November Workshops & Events
Creating a Web Presence
Adobe Connect: Getting the Most Out of Your Pods This session will explore the various pods in Adobe Connect. You can use pods to make your webinars and online classes more interactive. Participants will get some hands on experience with each of the available pod options. This session will be held in Adobe Connect, so you can attend from your office or even from home. We will meet online on Tuesday, November 8th at 2:00pm. Sign up for Adobe Connect: Getting the Most Out of Your Pods.
WM Wikis Advanced: Find Your Inner Widget
Videoconferencing Solutions in the SOE
Finally, the Educause Mid-Atlantic 2012 Regional Conference is now open for registration for those who may be interested in exploring teaching and learning initiatives in technology and higher education. This year's conference is in Baltimore, MD from January 11th-13th. Remember, if there is a particular curriculum area, instructional strategy, or technology you would for us to cover, please let us know. You are also welcomed to make appointments with April for one on one consultations regarding strategies for integrating tools and technologies into your teaching, learning, or research.
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