Professional Development

Professional Development
Winter 2009

Choose any one-hour session. All training is held in Room 4214. Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 10:30 am- 11:20 am Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm Thursday. Jan 8, 2009 2:30 pm -3:20 pm Monday, Jan 12, 2009 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm	Getting Started with Blackboard: Hybrid and Web Enhanced Classes Learn how to post lectures, syllabi, and assignments, as well as hold discussions or conduct quizzes online. Your Blackboard classroom can supplement the time in which you are not with students but desire them to have access to course content. Instructor: Debby Handrich, eLearning Services. Training sessions are one-hour. To register, please contact the eLearning Office at 546-6966 or by email: eLearning@shoreline.edu
Choose any one-hour session. All training is held in Room 4214. Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm	Blackboard Refresher and Design Builder Create an accessible Blackboard environment for your students. This one hour class will refresh your knowledge of Blackboard and add navigational tips to best serve your students. Instructor: Debby Handrich, eLearning Services. Training sessions are one-hour. To register, please contact the eLearning Office at 546-6966 or by email: eLearning@shoreline.edu

Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009 1:30 pm -2:20 pm	Integrating Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts and More into Blackboard Attend a one-hour training course that provides an overview of LearningObjects, a software package fairly new at SCC. LearningObjects allows instructors to set up wikis, journals, homepages, blogs, and podcasts directly within Blackboard. Receive an overview of the software. Please reserve your seat by contacting the Distance Learning Helpline: eLearning@shoreline.edu or 206-546-6966. Bring your Blackboard user ID and password to access the computers during the training session. Facilitator: Debby Handrich, Distance Learning Services.
On DVD - available for check-out for one week at the Circulation Media desk at the Library, building 4000.	*An Orientation to Blackboard's Assignment Tool* *(On DVD)* To begin, have an assignment ready in an electronic file that you wish to upload to your Blackboard classroom. You can watch / listen to the DVD while looking at your own computer screen and at the agenda while logged into Blackboard. The computer screen is a little hard to see on the DVD for this one, but the audio is good.
On DVD - available for check-out for one week at the Circulation Media desk at the Library, building 4000.	Getting Started Teaching Online Using Blackboard (On DVD) Get started in a web-based classroom in Blackboard, the software that SCC uses for its online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes. In Part I, you will login to Bb and learn how to get a Bb classroom and make it available to students. Please have your employee ID ready (a 9 digit number that begins with 965. Call HR, x 4769, if you do not know what that number is.) In Part II, we will discuss course design/organization and you will learn how to add content (a folder and a file), an announcement, and a gradebook item. You can watch / listen to the DVD while looking at your own computer screen and at the agenda while logged into Bb. You will want access to the following Blackboard classrooms: Blackboard Users Group, Bb Orientation Demonstration Classroom, and Lesson Based Course Template . Contact Distance Learning Services at eLearning@shoreline.edu and we will add you to these classrooms and then you can get started.

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