Detecting Plagiarism

Date/Time: 10/05/2008 at 08:30 AM
Ends: 10:30 AM
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Marte Fallshore, Ph.D. (Psychology) and Lila Harper, Ph.D. (English)

Description: In this workshop, you will learn how you and your students can use Turnitin.com in order to check for plagiarism violations. Turnitin.com is a very powerful tool for checking any paper against the Internet and all papers already existing in the Turnitin.com data base. Students can use it to check their own work; teachers can use it to check their students' work. In addition to Turnitin.com, other plagiarism detection techniques will be discussed and shared.

Requirements:
1. Be sure to bring an electronic copy of a paper of your choosing to submit to the class that Dr. Fallshore will create in order to see how the program works.

2. Participants must have a non-CWU e-mail account set up so that they may register as students in this system.

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Using RefWorks To Organize You

Date/Time: 10/12/2008 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Anna Creech, MLS (Brooks Library)

Description: RefWorks is software that allows you to import references from online databases, organize your references into folders according to your topics of interest or for particular assignments or projects, insert references in a variety of formats (e.g., MLA and APA) into the body of your research paper, and generate formatted references pages. It is similar to EndNote and ProCite, but is web-based, rather than a desktop program.

This workshop is a hands-on session for faculty who would like to learn more about this tool and how to use it.

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Using *Clickers* in the Classroom

Date/Time: 10/19/2008 at 01:30 PM
Ends: 3:30 PM
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Virginia Bennett, Ph.D., RD, CD & Ethan Bergman, Ph.D., RD, CD, FADA (both in Food Science and Nutrition)

Description: This workshop will provide a hands-on demonstration of how two nutrition program faculty use wireless response pads known as 'clickers' with students in a classroom setting to facilitate learning and gather anonymous information.

Each participant in this workshop will have the opportunity to use a clicker as a student would in a class session.

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Beginning PowerPoint

Date/Time: 10/26/2008 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Kristi Gladen, (ITS)

Description: Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software package used to create slide shows, as well as signs and organizational charts. In this class we'll learn how to create presentations from templates and from scratch, edit existing presentations, add color and special effects, and how to run your presentation when its complete.

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Creating Online Tests for Blackboard with Respondus

Date/Time: 11/02/2008 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): Introduction to Blackboard
Format: Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Jane Chinn, M.Ed. (Multimedia Technology and Instructional Support)

Description: Do you tire of typing questions one at a time in the forms provided in Blackboard to create your quizzes? Learn to use Respondus, a special tool developed for faculty teaching with Blackboard. By following several simple rules you can generate entire quizzes in a word processor and transfer them with ease into your Blackboard course. CWU now has a site license for Respondus and after the training you will receive instructions on how to download a free copy for your use.

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Integrating Library Resources into the Classroom

Date/Time: 11/09/2008 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Marcus Kieltyka, M.L.S. (Brooks Library)

Description: The library segment of this workshop series is designed both to field specific questions from faculty who would like to enhance course materials and readings through the use of electronic and other library materials and to showcase new products and services that may enchance student teaching and faculty research.

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Gaining Access Through Technology

Date/Time: 11/16/2008 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: Hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Rob Harden and Ian Campbell (Disability Support Services)

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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Managing a Student Computer Lab Session Using SynchronEyes

Date/Time: 11/30/2008 at 10:00 AM
Ends: noon
Prerequisite(s): None
Format: hands-on
Level: Beginner
Facilitator: Marwin Britto, Ph.D. (Education)

Description: SynchronEyes is a commercial software program that allows the instructor to manage all the student computers in a computer lab setting from the instructor's computer. From the instructor's computer, some of the key functions include the ability to:

1. View thumbnails of all student desktops;
2. Block students from Internet access and/or access to specific software programs, or restrict students to just one program;
3. Log off, shut down, restart, and/or launch an application on one or more students' computers;
4. Broadcast instructor's desktop to one or more student computers or broadcast one student's computer to entire class;
5. Control students' desktops and annotate on their screen;
6. Temporarily lock out students from their computers while you are instructing;
7. Poll students and view results in graphical form; and
8. Engage in private text-based chat with students.

Participants will be provided documentation of these key features.

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