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IT Training - Class Schedule - FALL 2008
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Communications
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Faculty Only
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Office Applications
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Operating Systems
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Tools and Utilities
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Web Development
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Make Outlook Work for YOU!
This workshop features Microsoft Office's Outlook 2003. You'll learn how to use Outlook for email, calendar, contacts, manage messages with folders, control Junk Mail, use built-in rules, send attachments, create email merges and customize Outlook to help manage your digital life.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
October 07 |
1:30 to 3:30 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Mac E-Mail Basics
Learn about the Mac OS X built-in Email system.
Instructor: John Sanders |
October 15 |
2:00 to 4:00 |
Harder 103 |
Mac iMovie Basics
This 2 hour intensive class is designed to get you up and running using the latest version of iMovie. Learn to capture and edit video adding titles, transitions, effects and sound. The last step is to create a Quicktime movie or DVD.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little, Ben Harwood, John Sanders |
November 19 |
2:00 to 4:00 |
Harder 103 |
Microsoft Publisher's Magic
This course is designed to provide a working knowledge of Microsoft Publisher for anyone who prepares publications such as newsletters, flyers and brochures.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
November 25 |
10:00 to 12:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Create Your Own Podcast
Podcasts are audio broadcasts that are available on the Internet. Podcasts can be downloaded and listened to anytime in iTunes or on iPod. This workshop will teach you the basics of creating a Podcast.
This workshop will show you how to easily create a Podcast using Apple's GARAGEBAND.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little, Ben Harwood |
December 03 |
2:00 to 4:00 |
Harder 103 |
Sharing Images with Flickr
Do you know how easy it can be to share your images on the web? In this workshop, I will show you how to upload images to flickr, a popular image sharing application. flickr is a powerful, relatively easy-to-use and searchable web application where you can upload, edit, and share images with others. You can also interact with other peoples’ images by making comments. The great thing about flickr is you get to decide which of your images are to be public, private, or reserved to friends, or you can share them with a flickr group. Attendees will get to create basic user accounts, upload images they bring with them, and if time permits, we’ll edit some as well.
Instructor: Ben Harwood |
December 03 |
10:30 to 12:00 |
Harder 110 |
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Wimba Voice: Bringing a discussion board to life with sound
Wimba Voice is an exciting collection of audio tools that can be embedded in a Blackboard course to allow voice recording and/or playback. This workshop provides a hands-on demonstration of Wimba Voice Board. Voice Board allows faculty and students to record, listen, and build text discussions, community or private, based on these recordings. It can be set up to allow for an entire class to record and share or to allow for a one - on - one connection between professor and student. With Wimba it’s very easy to import audio files in .mp3 or .wav format. You can also export all voice board recordings out of Blackboard.
Instructor: Ben Harwood |
November 13 |
4:30 to 6:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Blackboard Assignments and Gradebook Tools
Participants will learn how to use the Assignment Tool, how to
use the "Assignment Dropbox" to manage student assignments and the "Grade Book" to manage and distribute student grades.
Instructor: Ben Harwood |
December 01 |
4:30 to 6:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Blackboard Communication Tools: Announcements, Discussion, Blog & Journal
This workshop includes best practices and instruction on using the discussion tool, which now includes a Blog and Journal as well. The Announcements tool will be shown as a great way to get the WORD out to your students on just about anything!
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
December 08 |
4:30 to 6:00 |
Harder 110 |
Blogs and Online Forums (phpBB)
This workshop provides an overview and demonstration of blogs and discussion forums. Blogs and discussion forums can be highly effective communication tools that help build and enable communities. Blogs are an established academic technology at Skidmore. They are often used to allow a student’s voice to narrate and to share images with a community that can post comments. This Fall we introduced the discussion forum phpBB which is being used in courses but also by Skidmore community groups. These forums allow members to post, make comments, and share multimedia. Most importantly, they can be public or private.
Instructor: Ben Harwood |
December 11 |
3:00 to 4:30 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Blackboard for Beginners: The Basics
This workshop will introduce faculty to the Blackboard Content Management System. It focuses on good instructional design and learning how to add basic content to your course such as syllabus, assignments, readings, and important dates. If possible bring these items in electronic form to add to your course.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
December 15 |
4:30 to 6:00 |
Harder 110 |
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Mail Merge Using WORD
Microsoft Word makes it easy to create mass mailings using the Mail Merge feature. Participants in this workshop will learn how to create a form letter, enter, sort and select records from an Excel spreadsheet, merge it into the letter. Similarly, you can create envelopes and/or labels for these mailings. Another option is to perform a merge in an email(message or attachment.)
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
October 16 |
1:30 to 3:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Make WORD work for you with Templates
Creating documents in Microsoft Word can be made a lot easier by using templates. Participants will be taken step-by-step through the creation process using the many useful templates already built-in to Word and also available as a free download on Microsoft's website.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
October 24 |
1:30 to 3:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Adobe Acrobat & the Power of PDFs
This workshop will focus on using Adobe Acrobat to create and modify PDF documents. Topics include scanning a print document into a PDF, converting a WORD document into a PDF, navigating through pages, editing text, saving PDF documents to other formats and posting PDFs to your website.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
October 30 |
10:00 to 12:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Access Database: Tables & Queries
With this relational database, you can store, organize and manipulate large collections of data in an electronic format. This type of format allows you to extract data with ease. It can be a little intimidating when you first begin to use it. This class covers the first crucial steps to creating a database. You will learn how to create tables and determine what data should reside in the relational tables. You will then learn how to dissect the data through the use of queries.
Instructor: Daniel Green |
November 11 |
1:30 to 3:30 |
Harder 110 |
Access: Forms and Reports
This workshop will cover the visual parts of the database. Forms display table/query results in a formatted view, or are used for data entry. Reports are the formatted display of table or query contents for printing. You'll learn the design of forms/reports using wizards and editing the results to make a user-friendly interface.
Instructor: Daniel Green |
November 12 |
1:30 to 3:30 |
Harder 110 |
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Mac OS X Basics
This Macintosh OS X Basics class will provide the skills needed to work efficiently within the latest Mac OS X environment. Class topics include working with the Dock, using the window toolbar, keyboard shortcuts and system customization.
Instructor: John Sanders |
October 08 |
2:00 to 4:00 |
Harder 103 |
Buying a New Computer? The Dilemma: Mac or PC? Advice from the Experts
If you're in the market for a new computer this workshop is for you! Come learn the pros and cons of both Mac and PC's and which one would be best fro you.
Instructor: Kathy Guay and Bob Carlton |
October 31 |
12:00 to 1:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
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Data Storage, Back-up, Retrieval, Flash Drives, Datastor & Work from Home
Learn to use DATASTOR, our Mega File Server, how network file storage works & safe ways to share files across the network. How to Burn a CD save to a flash drive and access your files from Home.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
September 30 |
1:30 to 3:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Intro to GPS (Global Positioning System)
We will cover the history of GPS, how GPS works, and some basic hands on instruction.
Instructor: Alex Chaucer |
October 02 |
1:00 to 2:30 |
GIS Center |
Intro to GIS
This workshop will familiarize the participant with the basics of GIS (Geographic Information Systems). The fundamental concepts will be discussed (raster, vector, projections), and examples of GIS projects and uses will be highlighted. We will also review the history of GIS, what it is used for, and how it is used in practice.
Instructor: Alex Chaucer |
October 07 |
1:00 to 2:00 |
GIS Center |
GPS Bootcamp
Participants will learn how to us a GPS hand-held unit.
Instructor: Alex Chaucer |
October 09 |
1:30 to 3:30 |
GIS Center |
Visualizing Data
There are many opportunities for using visuals in the classroom to support instruction and engage students. In this session we will consider some of the different options for data visualization and how to appropriately use them. Most of the examples will highlight technology used for visualization from the scientific disciplines.
Instructor: Alex Chaucer |
October 16 |
1:30 to 2:30 |
GIS Center |
Mac iPhoto Basics
This workshop will focus on Apple's easy-to-use application for importing, organizing, editing and sharing digital photos. Whether you have 20 or 20,000 digital photos, iPhoto 4 keeps track of them all, automatically organizing them so you can find them fast. Learn how to import photos from your camera, organize them into albums, enhance their appearance, print, send via email, post on the web or send to Apple for a custom-made photo album.
Instructor: John Sanders |
October 22 |
2:00 to 4:00 |
Harder 103 |
Historic Census Data: NHGIS and Social Explorer
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000. Social Explorer allows online mapping of NHGIS data.
Instructor: Alex Chaucer |
October 23 |
1:30 to 2:30 |
GIS Center |
Election Mapping with GIS
During the election, GIS can be used to track voter turnout, and voting methods, as well as for analyzing election results from the data collected at polling places and precincts.
Instructor: Alex Chaucer |
October 28 |
1:30 to 2:30 |
GIS Center |
Safeguard Your Computer from Viruses and Other Disasters
This workshop will cover preventing viruses, detecting them and cleaning them out of your computer. We will introduce Norton Antivirus; further, we will show you how to update the application online. Pop-up blockers, SPAM and SpyBot will be discussed and recommended.
Instructor: Robert Royce |
October 28 |
noon to 1:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
Digital Photography and Editing Basics
This workshop covers the basics of using a digital camera and the basics of viewing and editing digital photographs. The software used will be Mac OS X and PhotoShop.
Instructor: Hunt Conard |
November 03 |
1:30 to 3:30 |
Media Services |
Editing Images for the Web with PhotoShop
This course covers the editing of images using PhotoShop . You will learn how to easily edit your image, the best File formats to use, how to Crop, rotate and re-size, and Save them for your Web pages.
Instructor: Kelly Dempsey-Little |
November 06 |
1:30 to 3:30 |
Harder Hall 110 |
iClickers: Engagement & Feedback
This workshop will provide a full hands-on demo of clickers. We will discuss questions such as: how does it work, what can it do for me and my students? How are faculty using them and why? Clickers are being used in a variety of contexts. We will also discuss scenarios where clickers have or can work especially well. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to start using clickers in your next lecture.
Instructor: Ben Harwood |
November 10 |
4:30 to 6:00 |
Harder Hall 110 |
The Geographic Approach - Considerations for GIS in the Classroom
Using GIS and geospatial tools in the classroom can allow a student to explore and visualize geographic data. If you are considering introducing these tools in the classroom, this session will help you to consider the current options available, tips for engaging students, and an introduction to some instructional considerations.
Instructor: Alex Chaucer |
November 20 |
1:30 to 2:30 |
GIS Center |
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Streaming Video for the Web
Prerequisite: Streaming only works on the Mac. This workshop will NOT cover image or video production. Attendees are encouraged to attend the iMovie basics workshop held on 11/12. Please bring video clips in .mov format to upload to the streaming server.
Skidmore has a fabulous streaming server available to faculty who wish to share video clips with students. There are many advantages to using streamed video over unstreamed video that will be discussed. It can play faster and takes up far less server space to name but a few. We will demonstrate and walk you through the process. Once a clip is uploaded, its URL can be inserted into Blackboard as web link or it can be linked to any website.
Instructor: Ben Harwood |
December 08 |
3:00 to 4:30 |
Harder Hall 110 |
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