DoIT Calendar of Events: March, 2007

DoIT Calendar of Events: March, 2008

---On-Campus Activities---

Flash-Based Games and Activities for Educators
• Date: March 12, 2008
• Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM
• Location: F-124 (Harper College Library: Lower Level)
• Cost: Free
Join DoIt’s Matt Ensenberger as he demonstrates how to create Flash-based activities and games using Study Mate. This one-hour session will leave plenty of time for hands-on activities, so, bring your ideas and creativity.

Respondus StudyMate is an easy-to-use e-learning authoring tool used by educators and course designers for creating Flash-based interactive student tests, quizzes, surveys and games. With StudyMate, you can create Fact Cards, Fact Cards Plus, Flash Cards, Fill-In-the-Blank, Pick A Letter, Matching, Glossary, Crosswords, Quiz, and Challenge. These Flash-based activities can be used with any web server or published directly to Blackboard. Best of all, StudyMate is available for free to all Harper College employees.

For more information please contact Dr. Kevin Crow at (847) 925-6719 or at kcrow@harpercollege.edu.
Reservations are not required.


Blackboard Users Group (BUG)
• Date: March 13, 2008
• Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM
• Location: F-124 (Harper College Library: Lower Level)
• Cost: Free
• Topic: Discussion Board Features in Blackboard 7.3
• Presenter: Karen Quattrocchi
Come join us in an informal setting as Blackboard users share tips on how to use the Discussion Board in Blackboard 7.3. Karen Quattrocchi will have demonstrations to share with you; however, you will also be given ample opportunity to share how you use the Discussion Board in your course or courses.

For more information please contact Karen Quattrocchi at (847) 925-66586 or at kquattro@harpercollege.edu.
Reservations are not required.


Rubric Roundtable
• Date: March 18, 2008
• Time: 1:00 – 1:45 PM
• Location: F-124 (Harper College Library: Lower Level)
• Cost: Free
• Open to everyone!
In this roundtable forum, participants will discuss how to create and utilize rubrics for the assessment of online-learning activities. Special emphasis will be placed on how to utilize rubrics in the assessment of online discussion activities. This roundtable discussion is open to anyone who has an interest in using rubrics. So, whether you are new to rubrics or have been successfully using them for years, please feel encouraged to join this discussion.

"A rubric is an authentic assessment tool used to measure students' work. It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. A rubric is a working guide for students and teachers, usually handed out before the assignment begins in order to get students to think about the criteria on which their work will be judged" (Kennesaw State University, 2008). An example of a rubric can be found at http://www.harpercollege.edu/doit/tools.html (lower-right portion of the screen).


For more information please contact Dr. Kevin Crow at (847) 925-6719 or at kcrow@harpercollege.edu.
Reservations are not required.


Elluminate Calendar
If you would like to use Elluminate, please remember to check the session calendar before requesting your dates and times. We are limited to 30 seats, and, Elluminate is becoming more popular each semester. The link to the Elluminate calendar is:
http://ical.mac.com/WebObjects/iCal.woa/wa/default?u=macsalesman&v=1&n=Elluminate%20Live.ics

Elluminate is a real-time virtual classroom environment designed for distance education and collaboration in academic institutions. Elluminate is often used to extend the physical boundaries of your traditional classroom, add live discussion and dynamic interaction to asynchronous distance learning, and provide a real-time forum for the facilitation of meetings and collaborative-learning projects.

For additional information regarding Elluminate, Please contact Matt Ensenberger at (847) 925-6933. Email: mensenbe@harpercolege.edu



---Off-Campus Opportunities---

Making CENTSS of Web-based Student Services
Date: March 20th
Time: 2:00 pm (EST); 1:00PM (CST)
Location: Webinar (Your Computer)
Cost: Please contact Sarah Stark at (847) 925-6805 before registering for a Sloan-C workshop. You may be entitled to receive a fee reduction or waiver from DoIT.

Presented by Melody Clark, University of Cincinnati; Martin Maliwesky, Columbus State Community College; Wendy Lampner, Stark State College of Technology; Nancy E. Thibeault, Sinclair Community College; and George Steele, The Ohio Learning Network.

For more information please visit: http://wiki.teachuohio.org/page/CENTSS



Sloan-C 2008 Online Workshop Listings------------------------------
http://www.sloan-c.org/workshop/index.asp
Contact: Sarah Stark (847) 925-6805 or sstark@harpercollege.edu
Cost: Varies with workshop. Please contact Sarah Stark at (847) 925-6805 before registering for a Sloan-C workshop. You may be entitled to receive a fee reduction or waiver from DoIT.

February 27 - March 7
Dynamic Collaboration, Discussion and Facilitation Practices
(Sloan-C Workshop)
In the online classroom, interaction prompts more interaction by stimulating more perspectives, points of view, ideas, questions, and disagreements. Through collaboration and discussion, both facilitators and students help each other in the learning process. This workshop examines how facilitators can increase and provide quality engagement in an online academic environment.

March 5 - March 14
Introduction to Second Life for Educators
(Sloan-C Workshop)
Throughout this workshop participants will learn the basics of Second Life, and integrate learning theories in the use of virtual worlds. Participants will be encouraged to create activities that are student-centered and maximize the real potential of virtual worlds. A primary goal of the workshop is to get educators thinking about their classes and how the tools used in Second Life can be personalized for the learning environments that they create. The workshop will explore examples of good teaching in Second Life and move beyond PowerPoint, lecture, and passive learning. Participants will make use of asynchronous discussions, multimedia materials, reading assignments and live, interactive class sessions to collaborate, learn, and expand the range of instructional possibilities that are available to students.

March 12 - March 21
Accreditation: Community College Case Studies Point the Way*
(Sloan-C Workshop)
This workshop uses a series of illustrative case studies to describe the particularly effective practices of a small selection of community colleges and discusses a variety of possible strategies for institutions seeking to meet emerging accreditation standards for distance education programs. More...
*This workshop is part of the Select Series and College Pass Members must use their additional 50 seats provided to take advantage of this workshop.

March 19 - March 28
Blended Learning: Using the Hyflex Course and Design Process*
(Sloan-C Workshop)
Hyflex represents an approach to creating and managing blended courses that provides students even greater choices when trying to manage their time. Hyflex, (Hybrid/Flexible), allows a student to choose whether they will attend a F2F class, or complete the required work online for any particular class date. Hybrid – combines both online and face-to-face teaching and learning activities. Flexible – students may choose whether or not to attend face-to-face sessions … with no “learning deficit”. This workshop examines how to structure and deliver in a Hyflex environment: how to present the course effectively (and professionally), how to engage learners with generative learning activities and how to use authentic assessment to evaluate student learning.
*This workshop is part of the Select Series and College Pass Members must use their additional 50 seats provided to take advantage of this workshop.

March 26 – April 4
Online – Informal – Learning Communities: How do they work?
(Sloan-C Workshop)
What do successfully sustained online communities have in common? How do informal communities emerge and evolve in ways that are distinct from formal directed communities? In this workshop participants will explore and utilize community places and spaces to discuss successful (not best) practices, identify resources that help sustain communities, and share cases of successful communities.
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