Training Schedule

Workshop Descriptions

Registration

PowerPoint I - Introduction
PowerPoint II - Advanced *
Web Design I - Web Page Design
Digital Imaging - Optimizing Photographs for PowerPoint & Web
Blackboard I - Introduction
Blackboard II - Content *
Blackboard III - Communication *
Blackboard IV - Assessment & Gradebook *
WIDS Program Design Seminar
WIDS Quick Syllabus
It's All About the Learner
WIDS Wizard Workshop

Web Design II - Web Site Design *

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PowerPoint I - Introduction
Effective use of visual communication techniques can result in powerful presentations that will grab your students’ interest and attention.   Employing basic visual communication guidelines when using PowerPoint is the focus of this workshop.   Participants will be shown how to edit and format slides, use graphics, speaker notes, and create student handouts.  Participants should bring a floppy disk to save the work created during the workshop.

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PowerPoint II - Advanced *
Building from the basics covered in PowerPoint I - Introduction, this workshop will focus on advanced tasks such as adding audio, custom animation, and saving PowerPoint presentations as web pages.  Participants should bring a floppy disk to save the work created during the workshop.

Web Design I - Web Page Design
What is a web page and how does it work?  The conceptual aspects of web pages and the process of developing web pages will be discussed.  Microsoft FrontPage will be used to create simple web pages containing text, colors, graphics, and links.  Participants should bring a floppy disk to save the work created during the workshop.  Web pages will not be published to a web server during this workshop.

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Digital Imaging – Optimizing Photographs for PowerPoint and Web
Photographs can add rich information and visual appeal to most any PowerPoint presentation or web site.  The focus of this workshop includes: techniques on how to shoot quality digital photos, transfer photos from the camera to a computer, save in appropriate file format, and optimize for web or presentation use.  Participants will use the PDC’s digital cameras and photo editing software to optimize the photos.  Participants should bring multiple floppy disks to save their photos.  (Examples of photos taken during a previous workshop.)

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Blackboard I - Introduction
What is Blackboard; what is a course management system?  In this workshop participants will receive an orientation to the course management system known as Blackboard.  Participants will experience the Blackboard virtual classroom environment from both a student and instructor perspective.  Participants will be shown how to customize a Blackboard course, such as add announcements, provide staff information, and create a discussion forum.

Blackboard II - Content *
The focus of this workshop will be the process of bringing course content into a Blackboard course.  Participants will be shown how to bring course material such as web pages, graphics, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations into Blackboard.  The benefits and impact on students relating to the different content formats will be discussed.  Participants should have a Blackboard course for this workshop.  To acquire a Blackboard course contact the Learning Technologies group 269.965.3931 x2378.

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Blackboard III - Communication *
One of the most powerful features of Blackboard is the Discussion Board.  The Discussion Board allows for enhanced and enriched interactivity between the instructor and students as well as between students themselves.  This workshop will focus on the process of developing a structured Discussion Board.  For purposes of collaboration, the workshop will cover the steps necessary to create groups of students using the Group Pages tool.  Participants should have a Blackboard course for this workshop.  To acquire a Blackboard course contact the Learning Technologies group 269.965.3931 x2378.

Blackboard IV - Assessment & Gradebook *
Online assessment and grade management is the focus of this workshop.  Blackboard’s assessment tools allows instructors to create quizzes that can be automatically graded and the online gradebook tool manages the students’ grades.  Participants will be shown how to create online assessments and customize the online gradebook.  Participants should have a Blackboard course for this workshop.  To acquire a Blackboard course contact the Learning Technologies group 269.965.3931 x2378.

WIDS Program Design workshop
This one-day workshop will introduce you to performance-based learning and why it is important. Learn to bring multiple courses together into one program using WIDS software. Participants learn to link outcomes and measures, related DACUMs and external standards. You will use the WIDS Analyzer utility to locate and chart identified outcomes in groups of courses.

Prerequisite: Completion of WIDS Quick Syllabus workshop or WIDS Designing and Assessing Learning workshop.

WIDS Quick Syllabus workshop
This "how to" workshop is designed to address the needs of first time WIDS users. In this one-day session, you will create a performance-based, learner-centered syllabus for a course of instruction using a WIDS template.  To develop your syllabus, you will write competencies that serve as a framework for your course.  If desired, you can link your course to exit learning outcomes (general education and program outcomes) so curriculum leaders can run WIDS Analyzer matrix reports that summarize where outcomes are addressed in courses and across programs. 

Quick Syllabus workshop will focus on three competencies: 

(a) Building a performance-based course plan, which requires working with outcomes and assessment.

(b) Writing learning outcomes, which requires developing competencies and linking outcomes to the course of study.

(c) Developing the WIDS Quick Syllabus, which shows all exit learning outcomes, competencies, college guidelines and policies, grading information, and schedule.

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Note: Workshops with less than five (5) registered participants will be cancelled.
* Prerequisite: Completion of the Introduction workshop is required or instructor permission.