Fall Seminar Schedule
To register, please email fcld@hartford.edu
or call 768-4661
Getting Started with Blackboard – Tuesdays
Tuesdays, 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.Woods Classroom (Mortensen Library)
Prerequisites: Basics of personal computing and surfing the Internet.
This session is designed as a general orientation to Blackboard, the application used to put courses online. You’ll learn strategies for organizing your Blackboard course, review the many tools and features available in Blackboard, and start adding course content items like your syllabus and Web links to your Blackboard course. Be sure to bring a digital version of your syllabus and/or other course materials; this is designed as a hands-on seminar.
Blackboard's Plagiarism Detection Tool: SafeAssign
- Monday, October 17, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Familiarity with adding course content and navigating Blackboard.
Come learn about Blackboard's new plagiarism detection tool. Instructors set up assignments using SafeAssign so that students' submitted papers are checked against public Internet documents, the ProQuest Database, and papers submitted to SafeAssign by our university and other institutions. SafeAssign then returns a report showing possible plagiarism in the submitted work. Attendees will learn how to set up a SafeAssignment, hear Provost Office recommendations for best practice, and learn tips for interpreting SafeAssign reports.
Blackboard's Tests and Surveys
- Wednesday, October 26, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Familiarity with adding course content and navigating Blackboard.
In this session, FCLD staff will demonstrate the step-by-step creation of quizzes and surveys in Blackboard, pass on tips and tricks to improve online assessment experiences, and discuss strategies for using Blackboard surveys and quizzes that may improve student learning outcomes.
"Free is my favorite 4-letter word": Technology Resources that Won't Break the Bank
Attorney Marc Vallen, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Paralegal Studies
- Friday, October 28, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Open to all.
There is a plethora of excellent, rady-made resources available for students, instructors and researchers...and many of them are free. All you need is a little time and information on where to find them. Come hear from Marc Vallen, Esq., Department of Paralegal Studies, who will share some of his favorite free resources for students and instructors to conduct research and present their findings. Light refreshments will be served.
"Picture Perfect" with Adobe Elements
- Wednesday, November 2, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Familiarity with computers and comfortable using a mouse.
Ever wonder why the picture that you just scanned is so large when you try to import it into Blackboard or Powerpoint? FCLD will show you how to scan your pictures, and then use Adobe Elements to perform some quick image adjustments, and resize them so they display perfectly in Blackboard or Powerpoint.
"Talking Back" to the Course Materials with iMovie
Dr. Jack Banks, Associate Professor, School of Communication
- Friday, November 4, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Familiarity with computers and comfort using a mouse.
Using video clips in the classroom can enagage students, but also offers a great way to document final projects or capture student presentations. Apple's iMovie offers students and instructors an elegant and intuitive way to create high-quality digital videos quickly and easily. Come hear from Dr. Jack Banks, Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Chair of Cinema, who will share how he uses iMovie to have students respond to course content and will offer a "crash course" in the basics of iMovie.
PowerPoint: Adding Images and Movies to your Presentation
- Wednesday, November 9, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Familiarity with using PowerPoint.
PowerPoint is visual - take full advantage by adding images to your presentation. Go even further to illustrate your point by adding digital movies and even audio. In this seminar, FCLD staff will demonstrate how to locate prepared images, videos, and audio and how to insert them into PowerPoint slides.
Guest Speaker - Classroom Flips: Rethinking the Use of Classroom Time
with Dr. Chrysanthe Demetry, Assoc. Prof., WPI
- Thursday, November 10, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Chrysanthe Demetry, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institution, and Director of the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center, will present how lecture capture can help instructors utilize more class time for interactive, collaborative, and self-directed learning.
Blackboard: Copying Courses & Course Content
- Thursday, December 8, 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Familiarity with adding course content and navigating Blackboard.
Get ready for Spring term! This seminar will demonstrate several time-saving techniques that faculty can utilize for copying specific content items or areas between different Blackboard courses, including copying all content from course to course, or just a few choice files.
Blackboard 9 "What's Different, What's the Same?"
- Monday, December 12, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Prerequisites:Familiarity with adding course content and navigating Blackboard.
This past summer, Blackboard was upgraded from version 8 to 9. Blackboard 9 - also called Blackboard Learn - provides a significant upgrade to the overall look and feel of Blackboard, while preserving all the traditional teaching and learning tools. In addition, there are new teaching and learning tools such as wikis, blogs, and journals, as well as improvements to areas such as Groups. One very important note, the Digital Dropbox has been dropped and is no longer included in Blackboard 9, so instructors who use the Digital Dropbox should plan to use the Assignment Tool instead. Get ready for Spring term with this overview of what you can expect to find in Blackboard 9!
To register, call FCLD at 768-4661 or email fcld@hartford.edu