Fall Workshops

Monday October 16th

8:30-9:30 Blackboard - Using Tests and Surveys

Come to this early workshop and learn how to set up tests and surveys in Blackboard, the online course management program used at Dickinson. We will enroll into a course and create a survey and a test and find the results. Bring your questions and we will go over them in this hands on workshop.

9:45-10:45 Macromedia DreamWeaver Tips and Tricks

Macromedia Dreamweaver is the web publishing program supported at Dickinson College. Come to the class and learn how to define your sites and make a basic page. We will also go over the troubles that people have when updating web pages and how to solve them. This is a hands on workshop so bring any questions you might have.

11-12 Negotiating Word

To use Microsoft Word effectively, you need to think as Word does. This workshop introduces scholars to a few of the features that Word expects you to understand, but which are not apparent to the untrained user of the program. Mastering these features -- styles and headers, for example -- will increase your productivity and, hopefully, reduce the headaches the program has been know to cause.

we will look at a few basic features -- styles, headers, Master Documents among them -- that will greatly improve your ability to make Word work the way you want it to.

1-2 Blogs

A blog is a very simple web publishing tool. Students use them to continue discussion outside of the class, create a writing portfolio, or to journal an experience such as their semester abroad. It's organization makes it easy for professors overseeing the student and its openness provides the opportunity for students to write with a public voice.

Discussion example

Study abroad example

Internship example

2:15-3:15 Skype

Skype is a very popular application on campus for calling and text chatting to people around the world, or around the corner, for free. Classes have used them for language exchanges or interview projects. Administrators will find the integration of text chatting, voice, and file sharing useful for communication around the office.

3:30-4:30 Wikis

Tuesday October 17th

8:30-9:30 Can8

Can8 is our language learning system. It's specifically designed to give students a chance to practice speaking and pronunciation during of outside of classtime. It is also used for listening comprehension activities outside of class including video or audio or for oral exams at the beginning levels.

9:45-10:45 ICON

11-12 PowerPoint and SmartBoards

In this workshop you will learn and try out the features of using a Smartboard in your classroom. There are some neat tricks that can make your students sit up and pay attention when using the Smartboard technology. Microsoft Power Point is used quite often for classrom instructions and business meetings and we will go over what makes a good presentation and what not to do. In this workshop we will also cover resizing and adding images and how to resize you Power Point to a smaller sized file.

12-1 Lunch

1-2 Google Earth

We'll show you how view detailed satellite photos to give geographic perspective to a topic or event being discussed in classroom. We'll also detail how Professor Pape is using Google Earth for student projects documenting the migration of French speakers through history.

2:15-3:15 Mac Stuff

3:30-4:30 Web 2.0 / Google