Brown Bag Lunch Series
Spring 2009
April 9, 2:30-3:30, LTC, Bldg. 9 or attend ONLINE!
Web 2.0: My Favorite Productivity Tools - Sue Frantz
Recording Available!
Description: Tired of digging through your email to find the message
you want? Tired of scrambling for a scrap of paper when that idea
suddenly hits you on your drive to campus? Tired of trying to find
time to check out all of those professional journals you would like to
read? Tired of typing that same sentence over and over again?
See how you can use Xobni, Jott, Google Reader, and Phrase Express to
make your life run just a little more smoothly.
Even better, you don’t even have to leave your office to attend this
session! This session will be carried live via Elluminate.
Since this may be your first opportunity to see this online conferencing
software in action, I will also talk about some of the key features of
Elluminate and how you can use it to supplement your face-to-face or
online courses.
To participate in the session you can do any of the following:
1. Come to the LTC (Bldg 9).
or
2. Come to the LTC with your
laptop or borrow one from the LTC. Join us in the same space or move to
one of the adjoining offices, if you’d like a more ‘distant’ experience.
or
3. Stay in your office,
home, favorite coffee shop, and visit this link on April 9 up to half an
hour before the scheduled start time:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.ACF24493E6AE4E9640570F083B500B
(If you would like to see what Elluminate is like, check out the
5-minute participant orientation here:
http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.0/participant.jsp)
If you’re unable to join us live, the session will be recorded, and
24 to 48 hours later, we’ll send the link to the recording.
April 15, 12:30-1:30, LTC, Bldg. 9
Quality Matters!!! - Chris Gan
Come learn more about the nationally acclaimed Quality Matters rubric
and training program and how you can use them both to ensure quality in
your instruction. The rubric can also be used to align and assess your
course outcomes and is a great tool very for any/all SOCC forms and
projects!
Audience: Everyone! While the QM program was created for hybrid and
online instruction, much of the rubric can be applied to any face to
face class as well. Come see how you can improve your course, and
document your successes!!!
April 22, 1:00, LTC, Bldg. 9
Connecting Students through Wiki - Laurel Lunden
May 6, 1:30-2:30, LTC, Bldg. 9
What's So Extra about Extra Credit
- Bob Baugher
"Can
I do any extra credit to help with my grade?" Have you ever heard words
like these?
What is your philosophy around this issue? Whether you offer it or would
never dream of it, join us as we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly
of extra credit.
May 20, 1:30-2:30, LTC, Bldg. 9 -
Late breaking Brown Bag!
The Smartboard Alternative for $40:
Access Your Computer from the Classroom
Screen - Sue Frantz
Come see a live demonstration of how you can use a Wii remote, a
Bluetooth connection, and an infrared pen to write on your classroom’s
pull-down screen.
There you are in class and you write on your
whiteboard (or chalkboard, I hear those still exist) the most perfect
explanation of whatever it is you explain. Wouldn’t you love to be able
to save that to share with future students? Or perhaps you’re part way
through the material you want to cover when class ends. Don’t you wish
you could save what you’ve written so you could start there next class?
Do you find that the linearity of PowerPoint is starting to wear you
down? Wouldn’t you love to just point at a spot on the screen and zip to
the slide you want? Or wouldn’t it be nice to access the internet
without moving from the front of the room? Don’t you wish you had a few
thousand dollars laying around for a smartboard?
What if I told you that you can have all of the
functionality above for about $40 (assuming you already have a projector
and a computer)?
This is me writing on the screen using an infrared pen. The displayed
program is Classroom Presenter.
Host a brown bag session to share your most effective classroom
technique or to facilitate discussion about methodology or on any topic
related to teaching and learning. Contact
Janice Adams to
schedule.
See past series
Last updated:
September 03, 2009
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