Workshops
The IDSC offers
the following workshops for USNA faculty on Blackboard and other often used software packages.
Please click here to see current
workshop schedule for Spring, 2013 and sign up for the workshops.
Introduction to
Blackboard Academic Suite: Learning System I (for novice users)
The Blackboard Learning System enables
instructors to create and manage course content, use publisher
content, evaluate performance and communicate with students. This workshop focuses on the course building and course communications tools in the Blackboard learning System. After this workshop, you should be able
to:
- Add, modify, manage, and
remove course content
- Communicate with students using discussion boards, virtual classrooms, chatrooms, emails, announcements, etc.
- Customize the
course menu
- Import/Export/Archive a course
- Manage users and groups
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Introduction to
Blackboard Academic Suite: Learning System II (for novice users)
This workshop focuses on the course assessment tools in the Blackboard Learning System, which include test manager, survey manager, pool manager and gradebook. After this workshop, you should be able to:
- Create, deploy, retrieve, grade, and return assignments
- Create, deploy, retrieve, and grade tests
- Create, deploy, and retrieve surveys
- Create different types of quiz/survey questions
- Develop and manage question pools
- Import/export tests and pools
- Use Gradebook to manage student grades
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Introduction to Blackboard
Academic Suite: Content System (for novice users)
This workshop focuses on the Blackboard Content System. The Content System provides an
online repository for content storage equivalent to a web-based
virtual hard drive. It also provides a platform for you to share your content with other colleagues. This is especially useful for course coordinators. After
this workshop, you should be able to:
- Add,
Copy, Move, Remove files and folders
- Add
multiple files and folders using Web Folders
- Use
versioning, tracking and commenting features
- Modify
file and folder permissions in order to share content with colleagues
- Manager file and folder
properties
- Create
links from within a course to file/folders on the Content System
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Blackboard Academic Suite: Learning and Content Systems (for experienced users)
This three-hour combined Blackboard workshop is geared toward faculty members who are
familiar with the basic features and functionalities of Blackboard and are interested to learn the advanced features and functionalities of Blackboard in order to maximize its potential as a course management system. After
this workshop, you should be able to:
- Use the advanced features which include Adaptive Release, Equation Editor Tool, and Language Packs
- Customize the course menu, course banner and tools availability
- Use discussion Board advanced settings
- Create, deploy, retrieve, grade, and return assignments
- Use Gradebook advanced settings
- Learn best practices to share files/folders with colleagues and students
- Release 7.2 new features overview
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Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a powerful tool for creating or enhancing
presentation. This workshop is geared toward novice PowerPoint users. After
this workshop, you should be able to:
- Create new PowerPoint
presentations using different options
- Work
with different view options
- Insert/Rearrange/Remove/hide slides
- Insert/Edit text
- Insert/Edit pictures
- Insert/Edit
diagrams and organization charts
- Insert/Edit tables
- Insert/Edit charts
- Save and print
presentations
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Microsoft PowerPoint: Advanced Features
PowerPoint can be used to create simple text slides or rich multimedia presentations with animation, video, and sound. This workshop will focus on the many of its advanced features, such as animations. After this workshop, you should be able to:
- Modify a color scheme
- Change slide
background
- Create a slide master
- Add headers and
footers
- Insert objects
- Add movie clips and sound files
- Add animation
schemes
- Customize animations
- Add slide transitions
- Package a
presentation
- Publish a presentation
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PowerPoint: Best Practice
This workshop is for people that already use PowerPoint to teach and lecture but want to move beyond the usual techniques. Find out how to avoid "Death by PowerPoint" by creating an effective presentation and engaging students in the learning process, Prerequisites: familiar with basic PowerPoint Tools. In this workshop, we will discuss:
- General rule of thumb
while creating a presentation
- How to incorporate
graphics, animations, videos, and sound to engage students
- How to use PowerPoint
to increase interactivity
- Best practice to help
you give an effective presentation
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Introduction to SharePoint Designer
Microsoft
SharePoint Designer is a free program for designing, building, and customizing Web sites that runs on a SharePoint foundation and SharePoint server. You can create data-rich Web pages, build powerful workflow-enabled solutions, and design the look and feel of your site. After this workshop, you
should be able to:
- Open and create SharePoint sites
- Create
lists, libraries, and connections to data sources
- Create custom views and forms
- Create custom workflows
- Design site pages, master pages and page layouts
- Create templates
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Introduction to Adobe Acrobat
This workshop focuses on the basic features of Adobe Acrobat. After this workshop, you
should be able to:
- Become familiar with Adobe Acrobat interface
- Create PDF files
- Edit PDF files
- Markup PDF files
- Insert hyperlinks
- Insert movies and sounds
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Getting Familiar with Microsoft 2010
This workshop will help you get used to the user interface and introduce new and enhanced features of Word 2010. After this workshop, you should be able to:
- Find, use, and customize different tools on the new ribbon toolbar
- Learn and use new and enhanced features of Word 2010, such as enhanced reviewing, commenting and comparison feature, live preview, building blocks, SmartArt, blog integration, enhanced themes and styles, mini toolbars, contextual spell checker, translation tool tip option, automated generation of citations and bibliographies, etc.
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Using Technology to Improve Feedback to Student Writing
Projects
As an instructor, you often need
to review student writing projects and provide feedback to them. Instead of
printing out those writing projects and manually adding your feedback, you
can easily use Microsoft Word to provide feedback to students
electronically. Through this hands-on workshop, you will find out how a
technology tool, such as Word, can make the process of providing feedback to
student writing projects more efficient and less laborious. After this
workshop, you should be able to:
- Use reviewing tools to
add comments and track changes
- Use a tablet pen to
add ink annotations to a document
- Use color coding to
indicate specific problems
- Create different
versions of a document
- Understand file naming
conventions
- Choose different view
and printing options
- Participate in a
review that has multiple reviewers
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Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Adobe
Photoshop is a powerful image/photo editing software. It allows you to create and edit digital images, and retouch photos. This workshop will introduce you to some basic tools of Photoshop. After this workshop, you should be able to:
- Become familiar with the Photoshop interface
- Understand different types of images and different file formats
- Use basic tools to create and edit digital images
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Editing Digital
Photos with Adobe Photoshop
Adobe
Photoshop allows you to
create and edit high quality digital images/photos. This workshop is geared
toward faculty members who are unfamiliar with Photoshop but want to start
using it for image/photo editing. After this workshop, you should be able
to:
- Import images/photos into Photoshop from a scanner or digital camera, or
download them from the Web
- Become familiar with the Photoshop work area
- Edit
photos (crop and resize photos, adjust colors, contrast and brightness,
retouching photos, add special effects, etc.)
- Save
images/photos for the Web and for print
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Introduction to Video Editing
This one-on-one workshop will introduce you to some basic video editing techniques using Pinnacle Studio. After this workshop, you should be able to:
- Import and edit video clips
- Add menus, titles, credits and transitions
- Add special effects
- Export videos
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Introduction to Adobe InDesign
Adobe Indesign is a powerful desktop publishing software to create and layout periodical publications, posters, and print media. This workshop provides an introduction to the basic features of Adobe Indesign. After this workshop, you should be able to:
- Become familiar with the InDesign work area
- Create and set up a document
- Create/edit master pages
- Insert text and graphics
- Working with different tools
- Printing and packaging files
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Teaching with Wikis and Blogs
A wiki is a Web site that allows a community of users to create and edit Web site content via a Web browser collaboratively. A blog is a Website with regular entries that are usually displayed reverse-chronologically. An entry can be a combination of text, audios, videos, graphics, hyperlinks, readers; comments, etc.
This workshop will introduce two educational technology tools that are adopted by more and more educators nowadays - wikis and blogs. In this workshop, we will learn how to create wikis and blogs and explore how to use these tools to facilitate collaborative learning.
After this workshop, you should be able to:
- Create and maintain a blog
- Create a wiki and edit wiki pages
- Understand how to use wikis and blogs to facilitate collaborative learning
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