Previous ITUGs
Know Your Author Rights: Negotiating to Keep Your Copyright
Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research & Instructional Services
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Your article manuscript was just accepted for publication. Great! Now you are asked to sign the publisher's author agreement. Seems simple enough. But what are you really agreeing to when you sign that form? In all likelihood it means you agree to give up most if not all of your rights to your own scholarly content. But it doesnt have to be that way. More faculty are choosing to add a custom addendum to the author agreement that will preserve their rights as an author. Come to this ITUG session to learn more about author rights and how you can use readily available author addenda to shift the balance of rights in your favor when it comes time to sign the publishers copyright agreement.
Blackboard 9: The Next Generation
ISC Staff
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
This seminar will demonstrate of the new version of Blackboard, which is currently being evaluated for release at Temple University. Come get a preview of the enhancements included with Blackboard 9, a redesigned teaching and learning platform with an intuitive and more customizable Web 2.0 interface, new collaborative learning tools and spaces and accessibility enhancements.
Getting Started with the Blackboard Content System
ISC Staff
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
In this seminar you will learn how the Content System enables you to:
-Store files.
-Upload multiple documents simultaneously to your Blackboard courses.
-Edit documents directly in your Blackboard courses.
-Link a document to multiple Blackboard courses.
Creative Uses of RefWorks in Teaching
Dr. Jennifer Cromley Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Psychological Studies in Education
Thursday, April 09, 2009
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. However, RefWorks also has many creative applications in teachingin this seminar, Dr. Jennifer Cromley will present how using RefWorks has helped students find references to help them better understand difficult concepts, create a collaborative course database, and share articles and resources with research collaborators/team members on and off campus. As part of the demonstration, reference databases from two courses will be shown.
Link to the presentation:
http://tucapture2.temple.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/991ccaed-f406-4792-9ef4-2ad562627315
Preview of the Blackboard Content System
ISC Staff
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Learn how the Content System enables you to:
- Store files.
- Upload multiple documents simultaneously to your Blackboard courses.
- Edit documents directly in your Blackboard courses.
- Link a document to multiple Blackboard courses.
- Use shared folders to write and edit collaborative documents.
Link to the presentation:
http://tucapture2.temple.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/c8ec2ff4-2852-4e52-8c4c-224a4e2b5915
Turning Technologies User Conference, Hosted by Temple University
Turning Technologies
Thursday, March 12, 2009
7:30 until 4:45 PM
To Be Announced
Join us March 12, 2009! We are excited to announce our Spring Turning Technologies User Conference hosted by Temple University. Choose from a multitude of breakout sessions and customize your learning experience. Sessions will last approximately 45 minutes and cover a variety of topics and interests. NEW! Pre-Conference Training Workshop - March 11, 2009. The Turning Technologies User Conference provides multiple opportunities to enhance your current knowledge base.
Conference Highlights
- Hands-on interactive training with Turning Technologies' training professionals
- Breakout Sessions: Specialist and Professor led sessions let you decide what topics fit your specific needs and interests
- Panel Discussion: Conference-wide open Implementation forum discussion
- Lunch & Awards Presentation
For more information:
http://www.turningtechnologies.com/tpuc/templeuniversity.cfm
Student Perspectives on Instructional Technology
Mike Abramowitz, ISC Student Worker & Temple University Undergraduates
Thursday, March 05, 2009
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Mike Abramowitz of the Instructional Support Center along with fellow undergraduates will lead a discussion about instructional technology from the perspective of students experience. The presentation will highlight a range of experiences that had a significant or meaningful impact on undergraduate students. These experiences are first hand accounts as well as testimonies collected by the presenters for the purpose of this talk. This is a rare opportunity to have a positive open dialogue with students outside of the limitations of the classroom. Examples given will present uses of technology from several disciplines and for a variety of desired outcomes.
http://tucapture2.temple.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/8f34a77a-a566-479a-8278-fefc561add09
Integrating the Library into Blackboard
Fred Rowland, Paley Reference Librarian
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
This session introduces options for integrating library resources into
Blackboard courses. Paley Reference Librarian Fred Rowland and colleagues
will present a series of methods to bring Temple University's Libraries into
the Blackboard environment and ways this union can support course content.
Topics include: Blackboard SafeAssign & Preventing Plagiarism, Blackboard
initiatives at Temple Libraries, Library Express Options, Blackboard Content
Packages, Blackboard Course Guides, and other options to do-it-yourself and
make your own research hubs for students or colleagues.
http://tucapture2.temple.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/343a2593-d84b-4617-a17f-f056e6c882ce
Smart Classrooms: getting the most for your course
ISC & CTS Staff
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
In this session, the Instructional Support Center is teaming up with Classroom Technology Support to bring you information and inspiration for using Smart Classrooms at Temple. Computer Services staff will reveal what designates a classroom as "smart," what the different levels of smart classrooms mean, and how to use a smart classroom.
Examples given will show the variety of ways instructors integrate the technology of a smart classroom with course materials and objectives. Attend this seminar and leave with new ideas for how to use this technology for your students' benefit.
Extend the Classroom with Collaborative Projects
Dr. Peter Marshall
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
This seminar will focus on using Learning Objects' Wiki feature (part of the Temple University Blackboard system) as a tool to assist faculty in teaching students to work effectively within a group. Dr. Peter Marshall, a developmental psychologist whose primary research focuses on the effect of early experience on brain development, is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Temple. In this session he will share his experiences and ideas for using the Wiki tool in combination with group projects.
Improve Student Writing: Blackboard Blog Tool
Dr. Whitley Cooke, Lecturer, First Year Writing Program
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
The term blog is typically used to refer to a regularly updated website that features writing, commentary and descriptions of current events. Temple University's Blackboard server includes the Learning Objects Journal LX tool (colloquially known as the Blog tool), which enables instructors to create a learning environment in which their students and colleagues can easily access this compelling technology for reflective and collaborative learning. Temple instructors have used the Blackboard Blog tool for reflective journals, peer review and feedback, and critical or creative writing assignments.
In this informative session, Dr. Whitely Cooke will talk about her experience using the Blog tool in the classroom. Cooke has used this tool to foster discussion on course concepts outside of the classroom. She will detail assignments that have utilized this tool and her observations about how this tool might be used best. Cooke will highlight ways blogging can be used to engage students in written debate as well as sharpen student's writing skills throughout the semester.
About the Presenter: Dr. Whitley Cooke is a Lecturer in the First Year Writing Department at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 2000. She has been teaching at Temple University since 2002.
Blackboard 8 Grade Center
ISC Staff
Thursday, September 18, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Attend this seminar to see the enhancements to Blackboard's all new Grade Center. The Grade Center features the ability to edit grades in a spreadsheet and filter grading views by section number so you can grade one section of at a time. Additionally the new Grade Center has a greater ability to control calculations and new report generation features.
Click here to view a recording of this event: https://breeze.temple.edu/p79864609/
Tips and Tools for the Academic Mac User
Peter Hanley
Friday, May 02, 2008
9:30-10:30
TECH Center Room 111
Recording of the presentation (aprox. 40 min.)
This session will explore some of the free and affordable Mac applications for various academic tasks, such as bibliographic management, note taking, semi-structured writing, and the management and annotation of journal articles and other digital files.
These Mac applications tend to be smaller applications optimized for specific tasks. They work well with other applications and files can easily pass between them. Many academic users have put together their own customized suite of applications, which work best for their particular writing and research needs.
Preview of Blackboard 8
ISC Staff
Thursday, April 17, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Recording of the Presentation: https://breeze.temple.edu/p41549311/
Attend this seminar to see the enhancements coming with the next Blackboard upgrade to version 8. The gradebook, which has been renamed to the Grade Center, features the ability to edit grades in a spreadsheet, filter the view by section number so you can grade one section at a time, and generate reports. Other enhancements, including SafeAssign (a new plagiarism detection feature) and Blackboard Scholar, will be discussed.
Social Bookmarking:
Using Bb Scholar to Share and Discover with Students and Colleagues
Steven Bell & Derik Badman
Thursday, March 27, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Recording of the Presentation: https://breeze.temple.edu/p47735197/
Blackboard Scholar, a social bookmarking service, promotes social participation and shared resources by allowing faculty and students to create an online space for their individual bookmarks which can be shared with others. This session introduces attendees to social bookmarking in general and Blackboard Scholar specifically. Topics include: saving links with bookmarklets, tagging links for discoverability, sharing links in individual courses, and using shared links to discover new resources. Attendees will discuss how social bookmarking can be used to enhance student learning.
Presented by Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services & Derik Badman, Digital Services Librarian
Classroom Response Systems: Encouraging Student Interactivity
Eileen Aitken
Thursday, February 28, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 107
Adobe Connect recording of the ITUG (requires Flash)
Link to the PowerPoint presentation file (Office 2007)
To encourage active classroom participation, several faculty are using a Classroom Response System called TurningPoint. With Turning Point, instructors can display questions, surveys, opinion polls and complex problems through PowerPoint. Students answer questions via remote control and responses are tallied on-screen. This system provides a non-threatening environment that promotes interactivity, heightens the learning experience, and encourages even the most introverted student to participate. To encourage active classroom participation, several faculty are using a Classroom Response System called TurningPoint. With Turning Point, instructors can display questions, surveys, opinion polls and complex problems through PowerPoint. Students answer questions via remote control and responses are tallied on-screen. This system provides a non-threatening environment that promotes interactivity, heightens the learning experience, and encourages even the most introverted student to participate.
Finding Podcasts to Enhance Course Content
Paul Muller, Senior Technical Support Specialist
Thursday, February 21, 2008
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Adobe Connect recording of the ITUG (requires Flash)
Export of the Presentation, with speaker's notes
Podcasts are a great way to enhance learning and expand course content. However finding relevant and effective sources for this technology can seem daunting. This session will explore a variety of places to find podcasts as well as tips for integrating this media with course content. Topics include: what makes something a podcast, finding high quality podcasts which will enhance course content, ways to use podcasts in a course, why you should consider this form of social media a valuable learning tool, as well as an overview of licensing and copyright considerations.
Social Bookmarking:
Using Bb Scholar to Share and Discover with Students and Colleagues
Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian for Re
Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Click Here to watch an Adobe Connect recording of this event.
Blackboard Scholar, a social bookmarking service, promotes social participation and shared resources by allowing faculty and students to create an online space for their individual bookmarks which can be shared with others. This session introduces attendees to social bookmarking in general and Blackboard Scholar specifically. Topics include: saving links with bookmarklets, tagging links for discoverability, sharing links in individual courses, and using shared links to discover new resources. Attendees will discuss how social bookmarking can be used to enhance student learning.
Blackboard: Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts
Zahra Safavian, Learning Objects Inc.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
12:00 until 1:00 PM
TECH Center Room 111
Blog, wiki, and podcasts are popular technology buzz words, and this ITUG session will answer your questions about what they are and how they might be used for teaching and learning.
Zahra Safavian of Learning Objects, the company that developed the blog, wiki, and podcast tools that function within Blackboard, and the Instructional Support Center will be available to demonstrate these technologies and brainstorm ideas on how to incorporate these tools into your courses.
Using Respondus to Save Time Creating Blackboard Assessments
ISC Staff
Thursday, February 22, 2007
12:00 until 1:00 PM
Health Science Campus: Kresge Hall 1st Floor, Clas
If you've ever been frustrated copying and pasting questions one-at-a-time from Word documents into Blackboard assessments or pools, you'll want to learn about Respondus. Respondus is a tool for creating exams that can be published directly to Blackboard and/or printed to paper. Please join us for a presentation hosted by instructors who will demonstrate how this software application enhances the functionality and usability of Blackboard's quiz and survey tools and will save you time on each assessment or survey project.
This event will be hosted in Kresge Hall at the Health Science Campus and will also be made available at the Main Campus via Webcast in room 111 of the TECH center where a facilitator will be present to direct your questions to the presenter.
Tools and Methods to combat Online Plagiarism
ISC Staff
Thursday, May 27, 2004
12:00 until 1:00 PM
MAIN/GH 665
Faculty and staff will discuss methods and tools to deal with plagiarism via online resource.
Respondus
ISC Staff
Thursday, April 15, 2004
12:00 until 1:00 PM
Main/GH 665
Faculty will discuss their experiences with the use of Respondus, a powerful tool for creating and managing exams off-line that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, and other eLearning systems
Using Technology to Engage Students in the Classroom
ISC Staff
Thursday, March 18, 2004
12:00 until 1:00
Main/GH 665
Faculty will discuss their experiences with using technology to engage students in the classroom
Using a Digital Imaging Database
Peter Hanley, Instructional Support Center
Thursday, February 19, 2004
12:00 until 1:00 PM
Gladfelter Hall, Room 659
Displaying slides through carousel projectors or web-sites to host pictures for classroom instruction and student self- study has created the need for a better approach to teaching and learning with images.
Several faculty members from the Department of Art History abandoned their slide projects and web-sites for a system enabling them to dyncamically create slide shows for in-class instruction and web-based student modules.
In this ITUG, instructors will discuss their experiences using a digital image database for their courses. The instructors will explain how this database can be used to catalog and manage images in a slide library, share image collections among instructors, and apply presentation features to display images side by side for instruction and student self-study. Please join this engaging discussion and learn how to use the features of a digital image database.
BLACKBOARD AS A TOOL TO HELP STUDENTS LEARN
Dr. Thomas Marino, Professor of Anatomy, TUSM
Monday, December 08, 2003
12:00 until 12:45 p.m.
Kresge D
Students learn in a variety of ways. There are many different learning styles. Faculty also teach in a variety of ways. Again there are various teaching styles. In addition, there are many aspects of teaching that need to be considered as a curriculum is being prepared. Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson summarized 7 principles that needed to be implemented as a curriculum is being developed. They are to:
- encourage contact between students and faculty,
- develop reciprocity and cooperation among students,
- encourage active learning,
- give prompt feedback,
- emphasize time on task,
- communicate high expectations,
- respect diverse talents and ways of learning.
In this presentation, Dr. Thomas Marino, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology will explore how a course management system, such as Blackboard, can be used to help students learn. The ways in which Blackboard can help implement the seven principles also will be discussed. In addition, Blackboard can be used to help student with different learning styles. This topic will also be addressed during this 45 minute presentation.
A Universal Virtual Laboratory (UVL)
Dr. Brian Butz & Michael Duarte
Thursday, September 18, 2003
12:00 until 1:00 p.m.
Gladfelter Hall, Conference Room 665
Electrical engineering students gain valuable hands-on experience by performing laboratory experiments. However, many physically impaired electrical engineering students cannot participate actively in these laboratories. Their options are either to watch someone else build and analyze the circuits or to use circuit analysis computer programs.
Under the direction of Dr. Brian Butz, the Intelligent Systems Application laboratory at the department of Electrical Engineering has developed a virtual, highly realistic electronics laboratory for the disabled. This project, called the Universal Virtual Laboratory (UVL), allows students who have extremely limited or no mobility of their hands and arms or limited vision engage in a realistic laboratory environment. The input/output function will be performed by voice or by specially designed I/O devices. An intelligent agent, acting as the "lab instructor", monitors a student's performance and answers the student's questions based on the student's demonstrated knowledge. This product will be ideal for either Internet application or CD-ROM based use. Additionally it will be ideal for able students as well.
Michael Duarte will provide a demonstration of the Universal Virtual
Laboratory on Thursday, September 18th in Gladfelter Hall, Conference Room
665 at 12:00 noon. During this time, you will gain familiarity with the
function of this application, which is based on interactive multimedia
modules that are overseen by an expert system. The demonstration will
clarify that the program is not so much concerned with simply training a student for a task but with helping a student learn, understand and apply
basic principles and reasoning skills while encouraging creativity.
Through it all, the instructor is an integral part of the learning process
as he/she remains on board to inspire, encourage, and mentor.
We are hoping that you will be able to attend this event on Thursday, September 18th at 12:00 noon.
Promoting Computer Access for Diverse Learning Styles, Cultures, and Those with Disabilities
Staff from the Institute on Disabilities
Thursday, July 17, 2003
9:30am to 11:30am
Gladfelter Hall, Room 659
All students and faculty have equal access to computer hardware and software on campus and materials posted for online learning. Temple's population is diverse and includes people with English as their second language, people with different learning styles, and people with disabilities and impairments for whom federal laws apply and require that all University services and programs be accessible.
Staff from the Institute on Disabilities will lead an informative session offering approaches to universal design for computer access. They will also present examples of people who have faced problems when using computers and the solutions that have worked. Adaptive devices will be covered that can be incorporated into a universal design plan to promote equal access.
Please join us in Gladfelter Hall, room 659 on Thursday, July 17 at 9:30 am until 11:30 am.
Planning Universal Design
Dr. Carol Kann, Institute on Disabilities
Thursday, April 10, 2003
12:00 until 1:00 PM
Gladfelter Hall, Room 659
All students and faculty should have equal access to the computer hardware and software on campus as well as materials posted for online learning.
Temple's campus population is diverse and includes people of other cultures to whom English is their second language, people with different learning styles, and people with disabilities such as visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive impairments to whom federal laws apply and require that all university services and programs be accessible.
Dr. Carol Kann from the Institute on Disabilities will lead an informative session offering approaches to universal design to computer access. You will see a video showing a diverse array of students expressing, in their own words, the difficulties they have faced when using computers and the solutions that worked for them. You will experience a sampling of adaptive devices both software and hardware to consider incorporating into a universal design plan and be involved in a discussion of what can be done on campus to accommodate the University population. We are looking forward to meeting with you at 12:00 noon in Gladfelter Hall, room 659.