Learn how to use PowerPoint for effective teaching.
Bring PC disk with lecture outlines, images, etc.. and create a
PowerPoint presentation. Contact Michelle at ext. 2084.
Contact Michelle for a copy of Micrograde 5.0.5. If
you would like assistance in using Micrograde, let Michelle know and
the TLC will contact you about upcoming workshops.
Create your home page in 2 hours. Bring syllabi, documents, and
images you want on your home page. Limited enrollment: new faculty
will have registration priority. Register with Michelle at ext.
2084.
Discover how you can use WebCT to supplement your teaching. Use
this workshop to help develop your WebCT course design--learn the
"how-to" of WebCT in subsequent sessions. Register with
Michelle at ext. 2084.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #1: Managing your
WebCT Course
Monday, Oct. 15,
2:00-3:15 p.m.
ED 128
Primarily for new WebCT users. Logging On, Navigating
in WebCT, Backup Procedures, Student Management, Student Account
Views. Register with Michelle at ext. 2084.
An excellent workshop presented by CSU experts in
active learning. Call Michelle at ext. 2084 to register. We will
provide transportation via van to Fresno along with lunch and
dinner. Leave from CSUB at 10 a.m. Friday.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #2: File Management
Monday, Oct. 22,
2:00-3:15 p.m.
ED 128
Transfer files to WebCT. Edit files in WebCT. Insert
syllabus in WebCT. Bring a PC formatted disk with syllabus or other
documents, in Word or html format. Register with Michelle at ext.
2084.
Preparing effective writing assignments, including how
to grade and evaluate assignments, and how to provide effective
feedback. $125 stipend for faculty who complete the course. Call
Michelle at ext. 2084 to register.
Understand how active learning can help students learn
more effectively. This hands-on workshop will introduce a variety of
techniques that you can use in your classes.
Electronic Imaging Workshop
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Media Center, Library Lower Level
Hands-on workshop, limited to 10 faculty. Scan photos;
use PhotoShop to edit images; save images for transfer to
presentation software or Web sites; use digital cameras and
download/edit photos. A $100 stipend will be provided upon
completion of the workshop. Call Michelle at ext. 2084 to register.
Contact Michelle for a copy of Micrograde 5.0.5, with
detailed instructions for use. Or, come to this brief workshop for
hands-on training to learn how to use MicroGrade for grading, to
download class lists from Banner Web, and to post grades on the Web.
WebCT Orientation
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2:00 - 3:30
p.m.
TLC
Orientation to WebCT. Dr. Luis Vega will demonstrate
WebCT options of use to faculty. Subsequent weekly sessions, every
Thursday at 2:00 p.m., will provide hands-on instruction for options
of interest to faculty. Call Michelle at ext. 2084 to register.
Smart Classroom Orientation
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
10:30 - 11:15 am
or
Wednesday January 23 11:15- Noon
RNEC 102
Here are some topics that will be covered: Using the
project unit, transfering files to the smart classroom, using the
smart classroom computer & VCR, connecting your laptop for use
in the smart classroom, PC vs Mac considerations.
Smart Classroom Orientation
Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:45
- 10:30 am
or
Thursday, January 24 10:30-11:15am
DDH H146
Here are some topics that will be covered: Using the
project unit, transfering files to the smart classroom, using the
smart classroom computer & VCR, connecting your laptop for use
in the smart classroom, PC vs Mac considerations.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #1: Managing your
WebCT Course
Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:00
- 3:30 p.m.
WSL Room 202
Primarily for new WebCT users. Logging On, Navigating
in WebCT, Backup Procedures, Student Management, Student Account
Views. Register with Michelle at ext. 2084.
This workshop for faculty advisors will review campus
policies, the use of Banner Web for Faculty, resources for students,
and advising strategies. A $100 stipend will be provided upon
completion of the workshop. Call Michelle at ext. 2084 to register.
January 28, 2002, by Noon.
Please be sure the applications are at the TLC by the deadline.
TLC
Grants for teaching, information competence, outcomes
assessment, and technology are available.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #2: File Management
Thursday, January 31, 2002
2:00-3:30 p.m.
TLC or WSL Room 202
Transfer files to WebCT. Edit files in WebCT. Insert
syllabus in WebCT. Bring a PC formatted disk with syllabus or other
documents, in Word or html format. Register with Michelle at ext.
2084.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #3: The Discussions
Tool
Thursday, February, 7, 2002
2:00-3:30 p.m.
TLC or WSL Room 202
By the end of this workshop you will be able to do the
following: Add discussions to your course. Add, rename, and delete
topics. Using the Discussion Topics: compose, read, reply to (with
and without quote), download, search for, compile, and print
messages. Managing messages (deleting messages or moving them to
other topics). Create private topics and manage their members.
Register with Michelle at ext. 2084.
WebCT Focus Group Assessment Project
Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 1:00
p.m. - 2:00 p.m OR
Wednesday, February 13, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
TLC Mary Allen Room
Focus group sessions to determine faculty experiences
with WebCT. Primarily by invitation-- for those with WebCT
experience. Contact Michelle at ext. 2084 if you have questions.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #4: The Quiz Tool,
Part 1
Thursday, February 14, 2002
2:00-3:30 p.m.
TLC or WSL Room 202
By the end of this workshop you will be able to do the
following: Have a good understanding of how the various parts of the
Quiz tool work together to enable you to give, review, and grade
online quizzes. Create, modify, and delete question categories and
the various types of questions in the Questions Database.Register
with Michelle at ext. 2084.
Wednesday, February 20, 2002,
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Included!
TLC Mary Allen Room
How can you improve your ability to develop a
productive career while maintaining a balance among the important
areas of your life? Come to this roundtable session to hear how
others have managed, and to get some ideas that may help you.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #5: The Quiz Tool,
Part 2
Thursday, February 21, 2002
2:00-3:30 p.m.
WSL Lab 7
By the end of this workshop you will be able to do the
following: Create a quiz. Add questions to the quiz. Adjust the quiz
settings that control who can take the quiz, when, where, how, and
how many times the quiz can be taken, how the quiz will be graded,
and what feedback, if any, to give the student. Register with
Michelle at ext. 2084.
Social Science Methodology Roundtable
Tuesday, February 26, 2002,
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Included.
TLC Mary Allen Room
By invitation to instructors of Area D and Theme 3
courses of the GE program. The purpose is develop an understanding
of methodology in the social sciences, and how to improve the
teaching of methodology in Areas D and Theme 3.
WebCT "How-To" Workshop #6: The Assignments
Tool
Thursday, February 28, 2002
2:00-3:30 p.m.
WSL Lab 7
By the end of this workshop you will be able to do the
following: Add the Assignments tool to your course. Create, Modify,
and Delete assignments. Upload supplementary materials related to
the assignment. Review student submissions and assign a grade.
Register with Michelle at ext. 2084.
"Research is Dead. Long Live Research."
A Presentation by Dr. Sriram Khe
Friday, March 1, 2002, 3:30 p.m.
- 5:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
TLC Mary Allen Room
The presentation will be targeted at two questions:
Are there any real philosophical (research) problems? Are we merely
word-playing and trying to establish the superiority of our language
over somebody else's? Dr. Khe is the Director of the Environmental
Resource Management program at CSUB, and has a recent publication in
the Chronicle of Higher Education on "The Bottom Line in
Research: Will it Benefit My Community?" Anyone is welcome to
attend--no registration is necessary.
Understand how active learning can help students learn
more effectively. This hands-on workshop will introduce a variety of
techniques that you can use in your classes.
Writing & Learning: A Workshop for
Faculty in All Disciplines
Friday, March 15, 2002,
10a.m.-4p.m., &Saturday, March 16, 9a.m.-3p.m.
Call Michelle at ext. 2084 by MARCH 4 to register.
UC 202 at California State
Univ., Fresno
(Support provided for registration, mileage, motel, and per
diem.)
Develop new writing assignments and
redesign old ones; learn ways to use ungraded writing to enhance
learning; address issues of handling the paper load; learn how to
prevent plagiarism and to deal with it when it occurs. Carol Holder
(Cal Poly Pomona) who launched the acclaimed campus Writing in the
Disciplines program is the presenter. Contact Michelle at ext. 2084
for details.
Tuesday, March 19, 2002,
11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Lunch Included).
TLC
Mary Allen Room
Design your courses using student learning
objectives connected with assignments that teach and assess the
objectives. Contact Michelle at ext. 2084 to register.
Thursday, April 4,
2002, 12:30-2:00 p.m. (Lunch Included)
TLC
Mary Allen Room
Dr. Bruce Jones will demonstrate how he
used Response Pages to encourage students to read the assignments
and to demonstrate the attainment of higher level learning
objectives. The presentation emphasizes the instructional impact,
not the technology. Contact Michelle at ext. 2084 to register.
See the TLC "Grants
Available" page for details and application forms. Grants
are available for teaching, information competence, technology, and
outcomes assessment.
Help welcome back Dr. Mary Allen,
currently the Director of the CSU Institute for Teaching &
Learning. In this workshop, explore how you can grade more
effectively and efficiently. Contact Michelle at ext. 2084 to
register.
By invitation to instructors of
Science General Education program Area B and/or Theme 1.The purpose
is develop an understanding of methodology in the sciences, and how
to improve the teaching of methodology in Areas B and Theme 1.
Contact Richard Noel at ext. 3467 if you would like to participate.
If you would like to attend this regional
scholar workshop, please contact Michelle at ext. 2084. The TLC will
support your registration fee, mileage, and meal expenses for a day
trip to the workshop.
Review current information competence
standards for CSUB and explore resources and exercises that can help
your students learn information competence skills. Lunch and a $50
stipend for completing the session. This is a joint project of CSUB
and CSU Fresno. Enrollment is limited. Register with Michelle at
ext. 2084.
