Adobe
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Adobe Dreamweaver - Beginner
In this workshop, participants will learn the basic steps needed to create and edit a webpage using Adobe Dreamweaver CS6. In this hands-on class, participants will learn how to navigate around Dreamweaver, insert images, insert and format text, and insert links. Participants will be able to:
- Add Text and Format Headers
- Add images
- Link to documents
- Create hyperlinks
- Create email links
Before you begin, click this link http://www.unco.edu/cetl/tutorials/dreamweaver/unc-dreamweaver.html to ensure you have access to Dreamweaver and to UNC Network Connect.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Intermediate Dreamweaver with CSS
This workshop is the next step in creating/editing webpages. You should have a basic understanding of Dreamweaver/web design and/or attended the Dreamweaver Basics workshop. At the completion of this workshop students will be able to:
- Understand the basics of HTML
- Understand what CSS is and does
- Learn CSS terminology and format
- Create and apply basic CSS rules
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Photoshop
Photoshop 101
Attend this session and learn the basic principles of how Photoshop works and how you can make it work for you!The hands on session will teach you how to:
- Select an image using the tool palate
- Duplicate and move objects in different layers
- Change colors, shapes and image proportions
- Make beautiful black and white pictures
- Change hair, clothing and eye colors
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Posters in Photoshop
In this workshop you will learn, step-by-step, how to create a poster using Adobe Photoshop. You do not need to have previous exposure to Photoshop for this workshop to be beneficial to you, and no previous skills are required. Also you will learn how to create the QR code to show it in your poster.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Fix Your Photos with Photoshop
Do you have pictures that are too dark or too bright? Want to learn how professional photographers edit their pictures in Photoshop? Then come learn about the basic principles of photo retouching and tricks that will make your pictures look amazing! You can bring your own pictures and work on them.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Create Print Publications with Photoshop and InDesign
In this advanced session you will learn how to apply all the skills and knowledge you have learned in Photoshop and InDesign into action. You will create a small publication with text, images, and more! It is highly recommended to attend Photoshop 101 and Indesign 101 before attending this session because basics will not be covered.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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InDesign 101
Come and learn the features Indesign has to offer to create publications and other print/web materials. In this session you will learn the basics of typography and how to get started with Indesign.
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Blackboard
Blackboard Bootcamp
This full day is designed to kick-start your use of blackboard and includes the following topics:
- Introduction to Blackboard
- Adding content and Assignments
- Using Discussions/Blogs, Journals, Wikis
- Customizing the Grade Center
- Open Lab
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
Include your name, phone number and name of workshop.
Blackboard for First Timers / Part Timers
If you are teaching online for the first time, have used Blackboard to upload a syllabus but want to know more, or are planning to use Blackboard as a supplement, this course will get you started.
This workshop covers the basics of using Blackboard including how to post announcements, customize the menu, send email, upload files, and create folders. (2 hour workshop)
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
Include your name, phone number and name of workshop.
Customizing the Blackboard Grade Center
This workshop is for faculty who would like to use the Grade Center in Blackboard to track student grades and integrate with the URSA grading system. The workshop reviews basic grade center operation along with advanced features including smart views, weighted grades, and graded discussions.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Adding Content to Your Blackboard Course
This session will encourage participants to add various types of content to their online course and organize content into folders. Participants will have hands-on practice with inserting content including Word documents, PDFs, photographs, banners, tables, internal course links and external web links.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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What’s New in Blackboard 11
This session is for experienced Blackboard users who want to learn about the new features in Blackboard 11. (Additional training may be required for a thorough understanding of some new features.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Getting Ready for Next Semester-Open Lab
Come to the lab and get your specific questions answered or work on your course with our Instructional Designers. Also see What’s New in BB 11!
Drop in class; No registration required.
Blackboard: Planning Your Online Course
This workshop provides a proven methodology for planning an online course, including an “Instructor Toolkit” of sample documents to assist in planning and building your course. (Blackboard experience not required or expected).
Please visit http://www.unco.edu/cetl click on the calendar (on the right hand side of the page) and click on the workshop title for more information.
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New Ways to Provide Feedback in Your Online Courses
Are you looking for ways to make your feedback to students more effective? Do you sometimes wish you could just talk to the student instead of writing detailed feedback? This workshop will review old ways AND present new ways to provide feedback to students via Blackboard including:
- Using quick comments, grade center email, and notes or track changes in papers.
- Annotating a paper in PDF format.
- Using Jing to review a student paper and provide audio feedback.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Managing Your Workload in an Online Course
Faculty members are often surprised by the amount of time it takes to design and teach an online course. This workshop addresses both design techniques and teaching tips and tricks that can help you manage your time and be a more efficient online instructor.
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Spice Up Your Online Course with Audio and Video
Looking for ways to enhance your presence and inject your personality into your online course? You don’t need to be an expert (honest!) to add short audio clips, a video of yourself, or a short PowerPoint voiceover in your online courses. The workshop assumes solid skills in using Blackboard and prior attendance at a What’s New in Blackboard 11 workshop.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
Include your name, phone number and name of workshop.
Using Blackboard Rubrics
Learn how to enter rubrics into Blackboard and use them to grade papers, discussions, blogs, or wikis. Includes setting up discussions, blogs, journals, and wikis for grading.(Solid skills in using BB required.)
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Managing the Files in your Blackboard Course
This workshop introduces you to using the new Files system in Blackboard 9.1. The Files system is a repository of files inside a Blackboard course. In this workshop you will learn how to: organize your course files, upload individual files, upload multiple files using drag and drop, and add files onto a content page. By following best practices in file naming and organization, you will be able to simplify your updating of course files from semester to semester.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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This workshop introduces attendees to the various ways Blogs, Journals, and Wikis can be used in online courses for individual, group, or class interaction, communication, and collaboration. Attendees will gain hands-on experience creating Blackboard blogs and journals, and will review alternatives for using external wikis in a course.
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This workshop will guide you through the preparation needed to create and deploy tests and surveys from Blackboard. Tool description and functions will be reviewed along with the general benefits, hints and tips in using the test and survey tools. This workshop provides hands-on implementation of the test and survey tools.
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Using Assignment and Safe Assignment in Blackboard
This session will explain the differences between the features Assignment and Safe Assignment in Blackboard, when each is appropriate, and the results each feature provides. The general benefits and limitations are discussed. A sample Safe Assignment report will be viewed and summarized.
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Camtasia Basics
Camtasia can be used to create videos from PowerPoint Presentations, create video slideshows, create training tutorials, create video 'commercials', and much more. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Capture screen activity
- Add narration to video
- Convert Powerpoint to video (Flash or MP4)
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu
Include your name, phone number and name of the workshop.
Captions with Camtasia
Camtasia can be used to add captions to your PowerPoint video or slideshow to be in compliance with ADA regulations. Adding captions is quick and easy with Camtasia, all you need is your script in electronic or typed format. Upon completion of this demonstration, participants will be able to:
- Use voice recording for captions
- Add captions to a presentation video from an existing script
- Copy/paste text from Word into a presentation video
- Sync text with audio recording
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Microsoft Access
Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Start Access and open a database
- Work within the database window
- Navigate, enter and edit records
- Print datasheets
- Organize fields
- Plan related tables Create and modify tables
- Format datasheets
- Sort, filter and find records
- Create and modify queries
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Microsoft Excel I
Upon completion of this demonstration, participants will be able to:
- Set up a workbook
- Data entry and editing
- Format cell values
- Perform calculations
- Change document appearance (add images, define themes, format columns and rows)
Participants should have adequate computer skills (be able to drag & drop files, navigate an interface, use a mouse, etc.), and have been exposed to the new appearance of Excel 2007.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
Include your name, phone number and name of workshop.
Microsoft Excel 2
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Use filters
- Use sort and organize data into levels
- Create charts and graphics
- Use more advanced data tools such as text to column, data validation, etc.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Microsoft Excel Special Topics: Tables & Pivot Tables
Upon Completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Create Excel Tables
- Summarize and analyze data using Excel Tables
- Utilize formulas and functions in Excel Tables
- Create and work with Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Microsoft Excel Functions
This advanced workshop will introduce the participants to Excel’s most widely used Functions in categories of Lookup and Reference, Logical, Statistical, Mathematical, Date, and Text. This training will assume participants having prior basic knowledge of the Excel program or having attended at least the Excel 1 workshop.
Microsoft Outlook: Ways to Tame Your Inbox & Calendar
Microsoft Outlook has numerous time-saving organizational tools most professionals ignore. In this face-to-face lab setting, Outlook trainer Tabby Harraf will help you unlock secrets of using Microsoft Outlook for more than just e-mail to take back hours of your day. Join us to see live demonstrations of:
New Outlook techniques you can start using today to become even more efficient!
- Survival tips for e-mail overload – Get organized today
- Essential shortcuts to help you work faster and more efficiently
- Ways to stay organized and on task with Outlook
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Microsoft Powerpoint: Bringing PowerPoint to Life
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Create a powerful PowerPoint presentation
- Work with designs and themes
- Add images, tables, and charts
- Enhance the presentation with animation and video
- Create photo album
- Utilize the application more efficiently
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
Include your name, phone number and name of workshop.
Microsoft Publisher
Upon completion of this workshop, participant will be able to:
- Create a publication such as a brochure, flyer, or a poster
- Work with graphics and text
- Adjust the layout of the publication
- Work with page borders
- Create tables
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Microsoft : SharePoint 2010
This workshop will introduce the participants to SharePoint.
Topics include:
- Sites
- Libraries
- Lists
- Workspaces Permissions
- Permission Levels
- File Handling within SharePoint
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
Include your name, phone number and name of workshop.
MS Word Special Topics 2010
This workshop will cover Special Topics in Microsoft Word 2010. Topics may include:
- Bullets and Numbers
- Line and Page Breaks
- Mail Merge
- Basic Page Numbering
- Headers and Footers
- Templates
- Tables
- AutoCorrect
- AutoText
- AutoFormat
- Hyperlinks
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Qualtrics -Survey Tool
Qualtrics is a web-based survey tool available to all UNC faculty and staff to support survey research and program evaluation. Qualtrics allows for basic and sophisticated survey development, in a streamlined, easy to learn format. Data can be readily viewed in a variety of formats and presentations, and exported to compatible programs such as SPSS and Excel. Undergraduate and graduate students may be granted accounts when supervised by faculty or staff for class, research, or work purposes. Before attending the workshop, you should request a Qualtrics account: 1. Go to help.unco.edu, 2. Submit a service ticket, 3. In the ticket description type; survey account request. At the completion of the workshop participants will be able to:
- Create surveys:
Individual and collaborate
- Edit survey: build question format and options
- Distribute survey: mailing list or link
- View Results:
Reports by question, global, filter
- Share results- multiple formats
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Clicker Technology for the Classroom
Student Response systems can be used to take ‘on the fly’ polls, incorporate questions into a PowerPoint Presentation to confirm student comprehension, take attendance, create quizzes and much more. In addition attendees will learn how to manage results stored in session files from Turning Technologies' software. Import all results into one, central location for easy organization of data. Track participant performance over a period of time to determine cumulative scores or statistics for individuals and groups. Ensure that objectives are met and learning has occurred for tracking and reporting. Easy export of grades to Blackboard. Upon completion of this workshop attendees will be able to:
- Add polling questions to a PowerPoint Presentation
- Run a TurningTechnologies poll
- Configure response devices
- Create or Import a participant list from Blackboard
- Create reports on student data
- Create ‘on the fly’ polling
- Create Course in Results Manager
- Create columns for session data in Results Manager
- Add and edit participant list in Results Manager
- Edit and manipulate data in Results Manager
- Export grades to Blackboard
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Results Manager for Polling Data - is now taught with Clicker Technology for the Classroom
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Prezi - Presentation Alternative
Prezi is a presentation alternative to PowerPoint and other presentation software. Create dynamic, engaging presentations using invisible frames, easy editing, incorporate Powerpoint slides that you have already created, send items backward and forward, use size and rotation to grab the attention of your audience! The software is a free download. Upon completion of this workshop attendees will be able to:
- Create a free Prezi account
- Navigate the canvas
- Create a presentation from a template or from scratch
- Customize colors and fonts
- Add frames, layouts, shapes
- Add path points
- Find additional resources on the website
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Creat Videos with iMovie
Did you know that all Macs have free video editing software? Come join us and create a high quality video made by you from start to finish! Learn how to insert pictures, music and text on your clips.
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iPad Tips and Tricks
Learn great tips on how to use your iPad, how multi - gestures and other features will make your experience more efficient and pleasant. Also learn about different apps that will help you with your instruction, or just use it to have fun!
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Apps for Higher Education
Since Apple devices, like iPad and iPhone, are integrated into classrooms, a list of useful applications would help you to facilitate your classwork as instructors. In this workshop you will learn about some of those apps and their features which could help automate current classroom processes, or present new ways to learn that previously have been unexplored.
To register, email CETL at cetl@unco.edu.
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Growing a Great Syllabus
A syllabus must encourage student’s participation, provide a solid road map for the course, and clearly outline course objectives, assignments and assessments which are related to course objectives This workshop discusses the current best practices based on research in syllabi construction. It specifically highlights how the syllabus and course description fit into the larger context of your field of study, how learning objectives need to be supported by assignments and assessments, how to articulate student expectations in your syllabus without sounding like a lawyer, but anticipating a contract between you and your students.
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Classroom Survival Strategies for College Instructors
This presentation will cover seven practical strategies that address some of the common pitfalls facing higher education instructors, particularly those new to the classroom. Based on Peter Saunders’ strategies for college teaching, these tips will improve your instructional success and help you to set clear expectations for your students and motivate them to success.
Survival strategies include:
- Set learner expectations through a well-crafted syllabus
- Communicate expectations
- Create a “safe” learning environment
- Know your students
- Be professional and be friendly, but…
- Integrate technology appropriately
- Show enthusiasm for your subject
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Create Forms with Word and Acrobat Pro
Are you already making fillable forms in Acrobat Pro? Come and learn a great and easy way to make fillable forms with the power of just a few clicks. All you need is to have your Word document ready and Acrobat Pro will do the rest, so don't miss the chance of making your life a little easier.
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