Latest BookmarksThis coming semester TLP will build on the topics covered in our Vista Foundation and Express workshops with a series of workshops for faculty who are engaging students online using tools like Respondus and Turnitin.com as well as our newest technologies, TurningPoint Clickers and Wimba Voice.
We are also seeking new workshop ideas and feedback on TLP’s services. Please take a moment to take the survey.
EDUCAUSE Live!
January 13, 2009 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT
Register Online
“Copyright balancing has become a critical issue in the academy as digital practices increasingly have challenged creaky policies and practices. Scholars, academic administrators, librarians, and intellectuals, as well as their students and mentees, need reasonable access to copyrighted culture to research and produce new knowledge. They and their distributors, whether journal publishers or YouTube, need to be able to share work that references and quotes copyrighted material without going through clearance processes never designed for this sector.”
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Topic: A Space of One’s Own: Learning Environments Derived from User-Centered Discovery Techniques
Date: November 21, 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT
Presenter: Crit Stuart, Director, Research Teaching and Learning
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Duration: 1 hour
Where: ONLINE (Register Here)
In brief:
“This presentation will review a number of user-centered programming assessment techniques that are field-tested, easy to modify and extemporize on, and reliable in producing excellent data for constructing informed building programs.”
The event is free, but registration is required and virtual seating is limited. REGISTER NOW.
When: October 1, 2008 at 6pm to October 2, 2008 at 6pm
Location: Adobe Connect
Event Type: Online Conference
Organized By: Alliance Library System
For More Information: Click Here
If you want to learn more about post-secondary teaching and learning in Second Life, this is a great place to start.
Event Description:
A take on that 1960’s movie, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!”, at times the work we do in virtual worlds can feel like we’re all running in various directions hunting for treasure. Virtual worlds like Second Life have been a part of our work now for a few years and we are doing wonderful things on various levels. Some efforts are highly organized and funded while others are somewhat more loosely collected, organic and serendipitous. All of our efforts are creating fantastic accounts of lessons learned and insights for better understanding and refining the approach and effort for greater impact.
Join us for two days as we discuss virtual worlds and librarianship. Note that this online conference will not be taking place in Second Life. We’ll be using Adobe Connect for the sessions. We’ll be convening online on October 1 and 2 to discuss topics such as, “Virtual Worlds Development”, “Scaling Graduate LIS Instruction in Virtual Environments”, “Academic Libraries and Virtual Worlds”, “Building a Library Presence in the Virtual World of Second Life” and “Creating Educational Tools in Second Life for Libraries”. A panel of the conference speakers is also scheduled in which your questions will feature prominently.
To register or learn more about the conference you can click on the link above. Questions? Please email info@learningtimes.net.
CSU, Chico has a goal of making all course syllabi “accessible” this fall, in accordance with the Chancellor’s Office Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI). What does this mean for faculty? If a syllabus is “accessible,” it is in an electronic format such as Word, a Web page, or Acrobat PDF that makes it usable, readable, and even searchable to all students.
TLP offers one-hour workshops called “Make Your Course Syllabus Accessible“. In this workshop, faculty will learn how to create a well-designed syllabus which is more usable and accessible for students with disabilities as well as students of every ability and learning style – and faculty will be able to do the same for all instructional materials they create with the same software.
For more information, see TLP’s Accessibility page which has links to tutorials and even a sample accessible syllabus which faculty may use as a template.
Are you a new faculty member at Chico State or a continuing faculty member ready to expand your use of the online tools available in Vista? Our Foundation Series training for summer starts July 31 with Vista 101, Introduction to Vista. If you’re already using Vista, you may wish to take one or more of the other four trainings offered which cover the diversity of assessment, communication, content delivery and grade keeping tools available for your use in Vista. See the Training Calendar to enroll now.
There is still time to sign up for this great two-day faculty workshop. For more information see http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/accessibility/aticamp.shtml or contact Peter DiFalco at (530) 898-5328.
Session One, Two, and Three of our ATI Course Makeover Summer Camps took place in June. Fourteen faculty members each, learned how to apply the Universal Design for Learning principles to their courses, and learned to understand the Accessible Technology Initiative from the Chancellor’s office. TLP is offering two more 2-day workshops in July. Check out the hard working faculty members and the goofy training staff with some flickr photos. -Laura
