Creating a Personalized (i.e. with your own photos) Annotated Slideshow

Date/Time: 10/09/2009 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): Digital pics on thumbdrive or CD
Format: Hands-on/Mac-based
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Tyler Tushkov, B.S. (Ed. Tech. Center) and Marwin Britto, Ph.D. (Education)

Description: Have you taken a series of digital pictures and now want to transfer them to your Mac-based computer and create interesting transitions and captions for them in a slideshow to share with colleagues and/or students? This workshop will show you the basics of how to do this.
Please be sure to bring your digital pictures on a flash drive or CD, or we can provide digital pictures of our own for you to work with.

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Connecting with Students via Screen-Sharing and Other Real-Time Technologies

Date/Time: 10/16/2009 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Demo/Hands-on/PC-based
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Teresa Joy Kramer (Director, University Writing Center), Octaviano Gutierrez and Andrew Willden (Writing Consultants)

Description: If you can click a mouse and browse the web, you can use the technologies available to work with your students, wherever they may be. We will help you “test drive” the free and widely available software that we have found most useful for conducting online writing consultations in real-time. We are talking about live, synchronous meetings with students (not asynchronous communication, such as e-mail).

These technologies allow you to communicate with students who cannot walk into your office during office hours. In person, a student might stop by to show you her draft essay, and you might discuss her draft and encourage her to take notes. Now, with screen-sharing, a student also could show you her draft through a web browser; you could discuss with her via text, audio, or video chat; and you could watch her make notes on her draft as you chat. This is not limited to discussing documents. You could review her progress on a PowerPoint presentation, a database, etc.; you could use the chat feature to discuss her research; or you could take her on a live demonstration of Internet resources available to her.

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Social Bookmarking

Date/Time: 10/23/2009 at 10:00 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Demo/Hands-on/PC-based
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Ian Loverro, Ph.D. (Education)

Description: Wouldn't it be nice to have all of your bookmarks stored in one convenient place, accessible from home, work, or anywhere else? What if you could organize these bookmarks with keywords? And what if you and other users could search and share each other's bookmarks? Well, you can. It's called Social Bookmarking. At this workshop, you'll register your own account at delicious.com and start making sense of your bookmarks.

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Cyber Safety. The Internet: A Loaded Gun

Date/Time: 10/30/2009 at 10:00 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Demo/Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Detective Drew Houck, EPD and Annie Dowling, Crime Victim Advocate

Description: Please join us for this very informative training covering all aspects of Internet Safety, from Cyber Stalking to Cyber Bullying to How to Protect Yourself from On-Line Identity Theft.

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Creating your own Online Social Networking Communities

Date/Time: 11/06/2009 at 10:00 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Demo/Hands-on/PC-based
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Ron Tidd, Ph.D. (Accounting)

Description: In this workshop, we will be exploring Ning (in education) as a tool for:

1) participating in an online community for educators and
2) creating community for students.

The community for educators provides information about the use of Web 2.0 tools for education while the community for students can be established to support a course, including collaborative efforts by students.

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Copyright, Creative Commons, and the Public Domain: Yours, Mine, and Ours

Date/Time: 11/13/2009 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Powerpoint Lecture/Discussion/
Level: Beginner to Expert
Facilitator: Christopher Gwyn, M.S. in Information Science (James E. Brooks Library)

Description: A highlights tour through the simple and complex world of intellectual property. We will cover the origins of copyright, its growth, and its reincarnation as the Creative Commons. Information wants to be free, you want to get credit (and maybe even paid!); how should we, or can we, balance those needs? What does 'Web 2.0', the Public Domain, and having a long tail have to do with all of this? Bring your opinions, questions, and assumptions to our workshop at 10:00am on 11/13/2009 and find out!

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Gaining Access through Technology

Date/Time: 11/20/2009 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Demo/Hands-on/PC-based
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Ian Campbell, Rob Harden and Justyn Bell (DSS)

Description: Get "hands-on" experience of emerging access technologies that your students with disabilities are being trained to use. These are the same technologies being used by employees with disabilities on CWU campuses.

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