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Focus on the Fall: Technology Building Blocks to Enhance Your Course

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Hands-on Training
Monday, August 21, 9am-4pm
Open Lab, optional
Tuesday, August 22, 9am-12pm
Langauge Technology Classroom, 1205 Jiménez

Monday, August 21

9:00  

Introduction/Orientation/Expectation Setting
Janel Brennan, Coordinator, Language Instructional Technology,School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Humanities

Catherine Hays Zabriskie, Associate Director, Academic Technology, College of Arts and Humanities

9:15  

Making Course Materials Available to Your Students
- Using ELMS, the Enterprise Learning Manangement System that Enhances Learning for Maryland Students
http://www.elms.umd.edu
- Other options:
ARHU WebServer, WAM

11:00  

Access to Equipment and Teaching Classrooms
Jennifer Lyn Patterson
jlp@umd.edu, Coordinator, Classroom Support, College of Arts and Humanities

- Classroom Support Offerings
- OIT Teaching Theatre
- Faculty Scanning Stations

12:00  

Break for Lunch (Lunch will be provided.)
Informal question and answer with ARHU faculty over lunch.

Andrea Goldman, Professor, Department of History
Alene Moyer, Professor, Germanic Studies, moyera@umd.edu
Gabriele Strauch, Professor, School of Languages Literatures and Cultures, gstrauch@umd.edu
Elsa Barkley Brown, Professor, Departments of History and Women's Studies

1:00  

Communication and Collaboration
Catherine Hays

- Establishing a Communciation Strategy
- Using e-mail, course reflectors, listservs
- Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
- Discussions within ELMS
- Graded discussions
- Course Email reflectors via UMEG
- Other reflectors reflectors.umd.edu

2:00  

Working with Online Resources: Research Port, databases, ejournals and more
Elsa Barkley Brown, Professor, Departments of History and Women's Studies
Lauree Sails, Director, Visual Resources Center, Department of Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities

- Reseach Port
- ArtStor
- Visual Resources Center

- Visual Literacy Toolbox

3:00  

Class Administration
- UMEG- downloading/uploading formatted roster
- Electronic Reserves available vis UMLib: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUBSERV/RESERVE/MCK-R/index.html

3:45   Evaluation

Tuesday, August 22
Open Lab

9:00  

Open Lab
Help will be available to you as you work through creating your course materials. There will be no formal demonstration. However, if you would like to learn more new things these are some of the topics we could address during this time:

- Digital Video
- Digital Audio
- Delicious Social Bookmarking
- Wiki- Collaborative WebSite Creation
- Blogs
-
Podcasting

12:00   Evaluation

 

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