September Professional Development Opportunities

Embrace the Power of Dashboards – Delta’s Operational Dashboard Review
Wednesday, 09/16/09, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM    Room: J133
Friday, 09/25/09, 1:00 - 2:00 PM       Room: J133
As Delta strives to become an institution that embraces a culture of evidence, learn how dashboard technology can help make this happen.  Academics, IR, OIT, and SES have been working together to develop the first operational dashboard for Delta College.  Please feel free to attend this session to learn more about Dashboard technology and to provide feedback on Delta’s operational dashboard.
Presenters: Jason Stahl, Michael Wood & Terry McDaniel

The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen
Friday, 9/18/2009, 9:00 - 10:00 AM      Room: J133
Friday, 9/25/2009, 11:30 AM - 12:30PM     Room: J134
The Livescribe Pulse smartpen is a pen that records and links audio to your written notes.  You can use it to record and post everything from simple examples for individual students to detailed solutions or lecture notes with audio commentary for your entire course.  You can use it to record written notes and linked audio of meetings.  Distribute written notes in PDF form, host notes with linked audio on livescribe.com, or distribute yourself with YouTube or Jing environments.
Presenter: David Redman

Beginning Jing!
Friday, 9/18/2009, 10:30 - 11:30 AM   Room: K114
Thursday, 9/24/2009, 9:00 - 10:00 AM    Room: J130
Camtasia has a winning model for screen capturing and sharing with Jing.  Jing allows you to make quick and easy image and video captures directly on your screen.  Once captured you can save the file on your own computer or upload it to screencast.com and share the URL with your audience via a simple URL.  This is a very efficient way to show your audience exactly what you want them to see.  We’ll show you a variety of interesting ways you can use Dave’s official “cool tool of the year” - did we mention it was free?
Presenter: David Redman

Grading and Gradebooks in Educator
Friday, 9/18/2009, 1:30 - 2:00 PM       Room: K104
Monday, 9/21/2009, 10:00 - 10:30 AM   Room: K104
The semester is started, you’re running in Educator, and now you’re ready to post those grades, maybe you even want to have the papers submitted there, too.  Wait!  How do I do that?!?  Creating gradebooks, sharing grades, and grading online assignments are the topics of this session.
Presenter: Chris Curtis

Discussion Boards in Educator
Friday, 9/18/2009, 2:00 - 2:30 PM       Room: K104
Monday, 9/21/2009, 10:30 - 11:00 AM   Room: K104
Not enough time in class to continue that interesting discussion?  Want to get students thinking about an activity before arriving in class?  Discussion boards aren’t just for online courses anymore.  Learn how to create and manage a discussion board in Educator – and keep your students learning outside of class time.
Presenter: Chris Curtis

Creating Flyers in Word
Tuesday, 9/29/2009, 8:30AM - 9:30AM      Room: J130
In this session we will use Word 2007 to create basic flyers. Learn how to insert pictures, shapes, and WordArt. We will also cover the basics of text wrapping and item cropping.
Presenter: Dora Salinas