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Faculty Open Lab
The Faculty Open Lab is designed for faculty to work with eLearning staff on eCollege course shells, training, and tools (e.g., threaded discussions, grade book setup, online quizzes, electronic dropbox, adding content and more) as well as a variety of software teaching applications supported by the Koehler Center. For a list of current supported software by the Koehler Center visit:
http://www.elearning.tcu.edu/resources/supportedsoftware.asp
No Registration required.
Crash Course
Crash Course is an instructor-led, hands-on workshop focusing on the use of eCollege features and assistance with assignment planning and tools to help manage your course.
Includes Lunch.
New Faculty Orientation
The Spring 2010 New Faculty Orientation will welcome new faculty to the TCU Community of Scholars. Important information to help orient new faculty to services and resources related to the launch of their careers as TCU teacher-scholars will be shared. In addition to information related to logistics and administrative requirements for teaching your firstclass(es), an overview of the support services available for everything from classroom technology to eLearning to instructional strategy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning will be provided. This orientation will assist new faculty in understanding expectations and will familiarize them with the TCU student as well as TCU’s culture and community. Immediately applicable advice about succeeding as TCU faculty will be the focus of this event.
eCollege Basics
The eCollege Basics workshop is an instructor-led, hands-on workshop focusing on the use of eCollege features.
What this workshop offers:
- Strategies for adding a web component to your face-to-face course or online course
- Assistance and support to create course content to be placed in eCollege
- Incorporating interactivity within the eCollege course shell
- Conversation regarding using technology within your class for improved teaching and learning
Prerequisite: Completion of the Introduction to eCollege video:
http://www.elearning.tcu.edu/resources/eCollege_demo/eCollege_demo.htm
Threaded Discussion
This hands-on pedagogy workshop will provide instruction on setting up a threaded discussion and will provide examples of grading threads and creating objective topics to engage your students.
Collecting electronic homework using eCollege Dropbox and MS Word
This hands-on workshop addresses how to effectively use the eCollege dropbox with MS Word track changes, comments and creating Macros.
Workshop objectives:
- How to set up a dropbox basket for electronic submission of student homework
- How to use MS Word track changes, comments and Macros to respond to students within their own electronic papers
- How to manage student assignments using the dropbox
Prerequisites: Must have an eCollege course shell and have attended the Demo/Orientation workshop for eCollege.
Open Lab: Gradebook
This Faculty Open Lab is designed for faculty to work with eLearning staff on eCollege gradebook setup and usage.
No Registration Required.
Online Exams
This hands-on workshop will provide instructions and tips on setting up an online quiz in your eCollege course. Items that will be discussed:
- Grading online quizzes
- Setting up and deploying online quizzes
- Options for faculty regarding cheating
- Best Practices
eCollege Gradebook
The eCollege gradebook is a powerful communication tool that gives instructors the ability to manage grades and report them to students in an online format. Located within your course shell toolbar, the gradebook contains a variety of helpful features including automatic calculations, weighted averages, and extra credit incorporation. The gradebook also works in conjunction with online exams and the dropbox tool, providing interactivity with the rest of your shell.
This workshop will provide a detailed tutorial that takes you step by step through the process of creating a gradebook and submitting student grades. Additionally, tips and tricks on grading solutions such as extra credit, participation emphasis, and dropped items will be discussed. Finally, you will be given the opportunity to work with the Koehler Center staff on creating your own online gradebook.
No matter how you plan to use it, learn to make the eCollege gradebook work for you, not against you.
Prerequisite: Must have an eCollege course shell.
Turnitin
The Koehler Center's approach in working with faculty about how and why to use a plagiarism detection tool is that such use is for the purpose of teaching. Many students don't know they are plagiarizing, and many detected instances are really more about improper citation formatting or other issues than they are about appropriating others' work. Faculty training discussions on this topic also cover such issues as assignment load and timing within a class – things under faculty control which often have significant implications for students' decisions about plagiarizing.
This focus on the use of Turnitin as a teaching tool instead has been very successful.
SoftChalk
SoftChalk LessonBuilder™ is a powerful web lesson editor that lets you easily create engaging, interactive web lessons for your e-learning classroom.
With SoftChalk, you can create professional-looking, interactive content without knowing any HTML, or programming. Spend your time developing course content, no programming or html required.
With SoftChalk, it’s easy to engage your students because creating interactive content has never been easier. Within minutes you can create:
- interactive learning games, including customizable flashcards, image labeling, image hotspot activities, matching games, crosswords and more.
- six question types: multiple choice, multiple answer (more than one correct answer), short answer, true/false, matching, and ordering.
- pop-up text annotations to define terminology, or enhance the interactivity of your lesson content.
eCollege Boot Camp
Provides TCU faculty with the resources and training they need to integrate the new learning technologies into both traditional and distance education classes. Each session is limited to eight participants. eCollege Boot Camp provides:
- Overview of technology options available to instructors, understanding how emerging technologies can be used in instruction, and insight into how technology can be integrated into curriculum development.
- Hands-on experience using eCollege course management tools.
- Follow-up support: Koehler Center staff members are available for continuing consultations following Boot Camp.
Includes Lunch.
Beyond the Basics
This full-day workshop takes faculty "beyond the basics" of eCollege and introduces other software solutions that can enrich activities which enable improved course design and delivery of content.
This workshop will cover the following:
- SoftChalk software, various free multimedia solutions for use in an online classroom will be covered along with the educational rationale for, and current research on, the use of multimedia in the classroom.
- Attendees will learn to use web-based applications, resources, web cams and microphones in locating, manipulating, creating, and editing text, images, video and audio files.
- From linking audio and video to creating video introductions, this workshop will get participants engaged in high-tech behaviors with high-touch results.
- These items can enhance and potentially promote learning.
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