FTI
Class Descriptions 
The Essentials
Getting Started with PowerPoint - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
PowerPoint is a presentation program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. This workshop presents the basic information necessary to create your own presentations for screen or print. General topics covered include: basic PowerPoint environment and tools, using templates, including text, and using graphics.
Effective PowerPoint Presentations - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
We all know that good presentations involve much more than simply adding bullet points to a PowerPoint slide. In this session we'll describe how to go about planning a presentation, gathering the information you want to include (text, images, audio, video, etc.) and then putting it all together in PowerPoint for maximum impact. We'll finish up with tips for presentation day itself. Planning on assigning presentations to your students? We can work with you to adapt this workshop for your class.
E-mail Survival Guide - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Learn more about how Thunderbird can help you manage your e-mail starting with some of the advanced features of Thunderbird. Advanced Search features will help you find specific messages you’re looking for and Filters will sort and file new messages as they come in. At the risk of being diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder we’ll discuss multiple identities. To keep things interesting we’ll show you how to jazz up your signature. And that annoying Super-User? We’ll reveal who it is and how to end those weekly messages.
Designing & Planning for the Web - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
What to consider when designing any website — there's a lot more than what information to present. This workshop covers some of the essential aspects of structuring design and content that should be addressed before you create a web page. From personal web sites (~ sites), departmental sites, Moodle sites or collaborative social network sites, come and learn what you need to know to develop a useful and user-friendly site. Added attraction: the Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design and Guidelines for Homepage Usability. To learn more about how to create a great site, follow this session with Writing for the Web.
Writing for the Web - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Think about how you read information on web pages and how it differs from how you read printed material. Most visitors scan web pages until they find the information they need. If they can't find the information quickly, they get frustrated, give up or move on to another site. To create successful text for your pages requires more than simply transferring existing content and instructional materials - in this session we'll offer guidelines and tips for repurposing content for effective presentation online.
Photoshop Elements for the Web - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Elements, a scaled down version of Photoshop, is aimed at digital photographers and non-professional Web designers. Learn how to use Elements to process digital pictures for the Web and create custom graphics like web banners and other graphics.
Live Whale Demo - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
The new Lewis & Clark web site will be 'switched on' on June 8, 2009. In this session we'll introduce you to the software behind the new site called Live Whale. You will be able to use the new system easily publish departmental web pages and your faculty web page using the redesigned Lewis & Clark tempate. Come get a look at the new site and the exciting new capabilities of Live Whale. A smattering of the things you can look forward to include:
- Personalized, personal homepages where you see an overview of everything going on on campus and beyond
- New event and news item pages which can be published on multiple pages
- A fresh, modern redesign of all the site, from the home pages to the department pages
- Greatly improved WYSIWYG editing features (What You See Is What You Get)
- Version control (if something goes wrong you can revert to an earlier version, track changes, etc)
- Ability to easily add more multimedia content (photo galleries, videos, news feeds)
Don't Lose 25 Years of Data! - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
If your book project, lecture notes, or any other vital data live only on your local computer, you are one hard drive crash away from losing it all. While Information Technology handles backing up all servers, you are responsible for maintaining backups of files living on your local computer.
In this workshop, we'll help you identify what you need to back up, and choose which of the available backup locations and media best suit your data. Then we'll narrow in on the backup software options for the various flavors of mac and pc operating systems. With your backups at hand, you will no more than shrug when the inevitable hard drive crash descends upon you.
WebDisk - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
More and more often, faculty and students are finding that they need ways to transfer materials from their office to the classroom, from home to their office and from one person to another. This class will explore various methods of transferring and storing materials using WebDisk.
Focus on Teaching
Gradekeeper - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
GradeKeeper is powerful, easy to use grade book software for Windows and Macintosh. Have you been using Microsoft Excel to figure your grades? Gradekeeper makes it easy for you to record grades and attendance, weight assignments, and print graphs and student grade reports—it does the calculations for you! Gradekeeper also has online reporting capabilities either via email or you can set up a password protected web page on the Gradekeeper website. Lewis & Clark owns a site license for this software making it available for everyone to use!
How to Make AV Projects a Success - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Thinking about assigning multimedia projects for your class? Interested in recording visiting speakers or other special events? In this workshop we'll provide you with what you need to know to make your project successful. We'll talk about common "gotchas" associated with AV projects and how you can avoid them. You'll leave this session knowing how to capture decent audio and video, what equipment and facilities we have on campus to support you, and best practices for sharing your projects.
Accessing Digital Images for Classroom Teaching and Student Review - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
This session will demonstrate how to access Watzek Library's growing collection of beautiful, high resolution images of the art, architecture and culture of the world. Available online through MDID (Madison Digital Image Database) and ARTstor, faculty can download these images into presentation software such as PowerPoint, the Online Image Viewer or the MDID Image Viewer. Also, individual images or groups of images created by faculty can be accessed online or inserted into a Moodle page for student review.
Blogging for Class - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
As blogs have become one of the easiest ways to publish interactive and structured content on the web, they have gained a well deserved place in the teacher's instructional toolbox. Not only are blogs being used to support traditional writing assignments, but the process of writing for an online audience also teaches students to think critically about information they see and consume on the Internet daily. In this workshop we'll showcase blogging best practices, review free blogging platforms and discuss how you might use a blog professionally, personally or in one of your courses.
Web Tools for Collaboration - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Many conversations about collaborative web tools focus on electronic discussion forums, blogs and wikis. However, there are hundreds of other free web services that can also support collaborative work. While many of these tools come and go, in this workshop we'll demonstrate ways to use proven stand-outs such as Google Docs. This session differs from our afternoon showcases in that we'll walk you through the steps involved in setting up and using these tools.
Teaching with Clickers - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Classroom response systems, or clickers, have been used effectively by the Biology department here at Lewis & Clark for a number of years. Clickers can be used to motivate students to interact in class as well as provide useful on-the-spot assessments of student learning. Teachers can use this information to make in-class decisions and adjustments. Come and get some hands-on experience with some different clicker systems and let us know if you want IT to make clickers a permanent part of the IT Sandbox.
Cool Tools & Emerging Technology
The Social Side of the Web - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Join us for a quick tour of popular social networking sites on the Web such as Facebook and Twitter. We'll talk about some ways these services are being used in Education.
Add Some Flash to Your Class - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Flash is a powerful application for adding interactivity and animation to your website or Moodle page. Come learn some of the basics and see how this tool can be put to use to add some custom-made multimedia to your curriculum.
Quick and Easy Screencasts - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
A screencast is a recording of actions on a computer screen and typically includes audio narration. These recordings can be saved in popular video formats and downloaded or streamed from Moodle and other web pages or posted to YouTube much as you would distribute other video content. The increasingly availability of free and easy to use tools for creating screencasts has opened up an entirely new realm of possibilities for educators looking to create short software tutorials or narrated web tours for their students. In this session we'll look at examples of screencasting in education, build a sample project and discuss when you might need to jump up to more powerful desktop based solutions.
Web Tools for Research - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
In this session come and learn how you and your students can use some of our favorite tools for organizing and researching online. We'll focus on three very popular and dynamic pieces of software, RefWorks, Delicious and Zotero. Come and learn about some of the exciting new ways these programs can help with research as well as effective techniques for introducing these tools to your students as part of research assignments for your classes.
Desktop Video Conferencing Guide - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Come and learn about different ways to video conference with your desktop or laptop computer. We'll review the capabiities of popular free tools such as iChat, Skype and GoogleTalk. Also, we'll try out L&C's dedicated 10 seat virtual meeting room hosted on NITLE's Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing (MIV) service. This service includes a shared whiteboard, shared web browser, group and private chat, and has application sharing capabilitites. Used in conjunction with collaborative web tools such as Google Apps, these tools can be extremely powerful. We'll discuss both the unique opportunities and challenges involved in using online video conferencing to connect with students and colleagues directly from personal computers.
Web Tools for Digital Images - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
In this hands-on session you'll learn how to effectively use some of the most popular web sites such as Flickr and Picasa for managing and sharing digital photos. You'll learn what you need to know about uploading, tagging and then sharing content through these sites. We'll provide examples and suggestions of how you can incorporate use of these tools into curricular assignments here at L&C as well as in overseas programs you may lead or coordinate.
Bulk Image Processing in Photoshop - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Digital cameras today take extremely detailed and high quality pictures, however, preparing these images for use in PowerPoint presentations or for use on your website can be a confusing chore. Sometimes the task seems so daunting that projects are abandoned in frustration. In this hands-on session we'll show you how to use Photoshop to eliminate the frustration and tedium involved in getting your images web and presentation ready.
Desktop Video Editing - 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Interested in moving beyond introductory video editing tools used in earlier sessions? Thinking about assiging more ambitious video projects to your students? Come to this hands-on workshop to learn how to take your video projects to the next level, what video editing resources we have here at L&C and how we can support you and your students with video projects.
Digital Audio Workshop - 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, but nothing ruins a video more quickly than poor audio quality. In this workshop we'll explore tools and resources you can use to record, save and edit quality audio. We'll also discuss best practices for distributing and sharing files and how to avoid "gotchas" for both your own projects and any student assignments.