Fall 2009 Seminars
To register, please email fcld@hartford.edu
or call 768-4661
FCLD also offers live online instruction via web conferencing - call for details
Getting Started with Blackboard – Every Tuesday
Tuesdays, 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Woods Classroom (Mortensen Library) or FCLD Faculty Lab
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; this is desigsned as a hands-on seminar.
Emerging Technologies: Web Conferencing as a Teaching Tool
Patricia Nodoushani, professor, Marketing and Management Barney School of Business
Thursday, November 12, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Woods Classroom (Mortensen Library)
Prerequisites: Open to all Instructors.
Web conferencing has quickly outgrown its status as an emerging technology to become a ubiquitous tool for trainers, teachers, and support staff in many colleges and universities. Join Professor Patricia Nodoushani, associate dean for the Barney School of Business, in a brief demonstration and discussion on the use of WebEx to conduct classes online.
PowerPoint Circle: Using Clickers to Promote Engagement in the Classroom
Dr. Steven Schneider, Professor of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts
Friday, November 13, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dana Hall 232
Prerequisites: Open to all Instructors.
Join guest lecturer Steve Schneider, professor of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, as he shares his insights, experiences, as well as his successes and failures using PowerPoint and clickers in the classroom. His presentation will cover how polling devices like clickers can provide immediate student feedback to instructors, increase student participation in the classroom, and discuss ideas for developing good questions that engage students. The audience will participate with the clicker system used at UMass and will demonstrate a variety of techniques that go beyond the basic "multiple choice" approach.
Blackboard: Copying Courses & Course Content
Thursday, December 10, 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Woods Classroom (Mortensen Library)
Prerequisites: Familiarity with adding course content and navigating Blackboard.
Get ready for spring term. Managing content between courses - either term to term or within multiple sections of the same course - can be time consuming. 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.
To register, call FCLD at 768-4661 or email fcld@hartford.edu