Winter BreakOut 2003

 

WHO MAY ATTEND?

 

All members of the college community, and others on a space available basis may attend.

 

With prior supervisory approval, classified employees may attend at least one session without charging their accrued leave.  Attendance at additional sessions may or may not be charged to appropriate accrued leave, depending upon prior approval by one's supervisor.

 

How do I register?

 

Participation?

 

Notification?

 

WHAT ABOUT FOOD?

 

WHAT ABOUT QUESTIONS/CANCELLATIONS?

Contact the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

 

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1. Introduction to the Advanced Technology Classroom Teaching Techniques and Opportunities

 

Wednesday and Thursday, January 15 & 16

 

Presenters: Joe McConkey, Bill Canning, Bob Hageny, and Bill Schleinitz

107 Lanigan Hall

By one hour appointments between 9am – 3 pm, Wednesday or Thursday

Please call x3534 to schedule an appointment for a hands-on tutorial.

 

This tutorial will focus on a demonstration of the new audio-visual technology that is currently available for course presentations in 107 Lanigan, 215 and 220 Mahar, as well as other ATC locations across campus.

 

This is designed for any faculty or staff wishing to learn more about the applicability of campus ATC classrooms to augment their instructional needs or for anyone who desires hands-on instruction on their effective use.

 

 

Monday, January 13

 

2.  ORI (Oswego Reading Initiative) Roundtable

11:30-1:00       232-233 Hewitt Union

 

Join the members of the ORI Committee for a spirited discussion of "Fast Food Nation", the ORI selection for Summer 2003.  Lunch will be provided.

 

There is room for the committee members and 20 interested people. Please register for this event.

 

3. For the beginner: Creating digital photographs and

an introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0

Presenters: Vince Doody, Communication Studies

and Bill Bosch, Computer Science

1:00-3:00         34A Lanigan Hall (CELT)

 

This class will be limited to 8 participants. You will have the opportunity to walk away with photos that you have taken, on a floppy disk (we will supply the disk). This session is planned for the person with little or no experience, but would like to get into the world of digital photography. We will also give you an introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, Adobe’s low cost image editor.

 


4. Planning a Perennial Garden

Presenters: Brenda Seymour and Mary DePentu of the Facilities Services

2:00-3:30         34A Lanigan Hall (CELT)

 

This session will provide information on how to select plants for a perennial garden for our climate zone.  Flowers for sun, shade, or mix; selecting plants for height and space requirements; color selections; and ideas for specific spots such as an entry will be shared with participants.  There will also be time for a question and answer period for your particular perennial garden issues.

 

 

Tuesday January 14

 

5. Graduating your Advisees on Time: 

An Advisor's Refresher to General Education

Presenter: Robert Cole, Interim Director of General Education

10:30-11:30     34A Lanigan Hall (CELT)

 

This is an opportunity to refresh your knowledge of the general education requirements. It will also give you a chance to ask questions and look at the new general education web site.

 

6. First Year Advisors

12:00-2:00                   232-233 Hewitt Union

 

First Year Advisors are invited to a roundtable discussion to share how they used the Retention Management System (RMS) during advisement and to learn how to be more successful while using the RMS with their advisees in the future.  The first 30 First Year Advisors to respond to Michelle Bandla x3068 or Bandla@oswego.edu will be accepted.

 

7. Intro to Microsoft PowerPoint for Presentation Graphics

Presenter: Don Michaels, Instructional Technologies

1:00-3:30                     Mahar PC Lab (20 seats – notified via email)

 

Learn to create your own slides using Microsoft PowerPoint. The Office 2000 version will be used, but Mac users will benefit, as the two versions are similar in most aspects. Topics include: Using templates to create slides, creating and changing master slides, adding and formatting text, using bullets, animation of text.

 


Wednesday January 15

 

8. Intermediate Microsoft PowerPoint

Presenter: Don Michaels, Instructional Technologies

9:00-11:30       Mahar PC Lab (20 seats – notified via email)

 

Learn to spice up your slide presentations with more advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint. The Office 2000 version will be used, but Mac users will benefit, as the two versions are similar in most aspects. Topics include adding and manipulating graphics, spreadsheet data, sound, QuickTime movies and animation. Effective use of color issues which make for superior presentations.

 

9.     E-reserves And Other Electronic Delivery Options:

On Campus or Off Campus - We'll Get it to You

Presenters: Drew Urbanek, Jim Nichols, Karen Shockey

10:00-11:30     Library Instruction Room One.

 

This session is designed to answer your questions regarding use of the new electronic reserves or distance learning services provided by the library.  If you plan on using these services, or even if you've already tried them, come learn how you and your students can use them to the best advantage.

 

10. Arts Across the Curriculum Luncheon

11:30-1:00       232-233 Hewitt Union.

 

The members of the Arts Programming Board invite you to a spirited discussion of issues relating to increasing student audience, integration of the arts into the curriculum, and ideas for future arts programming.  Join us for lunch and good conversation. There is room for the board members and 20 interested people. Please register for this event.

 

11. Introduction to SmartForce (free courses)

Presenters: Andy Goldzweig and Aaron Reece, Instructional Technologies

12:00-1:00                   Mahar PC Lab (20 seats – notified via email)

 

SmartForce is a set of individualized online courses. Oswego State contracts for access to over 550 courses. Now users can get the Microsoft Office 2000 courses on CD for their home or office computers at Penfield Library. The software is licensed by Oswego State for all faculty, staff and students and is available at no cost.

 

12. Creating Basic Web Pages (for the “non-techie”)

Presenter: Emilio Acevedo, Instructional Technologies

1:00-3:30         Mahar Mac Lab (20 seats – notified via email)

 

Learn to create basic web pages … for the non-techie.


Thursday January 16

 

 

13. Brick & Click:  Use of student created web pages

Presenter: Marcia Burrell-Ihlow, School of Education

9:00-10:30       34A Lanigan Hall (CELT)

 

Marcia teaches a graduate level educational assessment course.  Her students are asked to create a web page that demonstrates proficiency of a particular concept in the class.  This is the basis for the web page. Why might this be important to faculty? Her students create a simple web page, which they use as a springboard to a portfolio, or a homework page for parents or just a way to store forms that they use with parents or for their class all the time. The students are happy with the result usually.

 

 

14. Starting an Interdisciplinary Peer to Peer Program

for Improved Student Learning

Presenters: T. Mark Morey & William Bosch

10:45-12:00     34A Lanigan Hall (CELT)

 

Do you want your students to learn more effectively?  Do you want to help colleagues in other departments to better facilitate their students' learning?  Here is a chance to make a difference.  The general goal is to start this spring semester with several small teams (of two or three faculty) reciprocally visiting and providing mentoring feedback relevant to improved student learning.  As envisioned now, the peer to peer program would entail an orientation/training session near the start of the spring semester, perhaps a mid-term feedback session, and a final feedback session at the end of the semester.  Participating peer-mentoring faculty would agree to visit each other's classes (one or more times?) and provide structured oral feedback on relevant student-learning matters. 

 

Our goal for this Winter Breakout session is to create an initial structure for the program and begin enlisting participants into peer-mentoring teams.  A philosophy and set of suggested guidelines will be presented as initial grist for a round table discussion among those attending this breakout session.

 

 


15.  Brick & Click: Spreadsheets for a Large Lecture Class

Presenter: Larry Fuller

1:00-2:00                    34A Lanigan Hall (CELT)

 

Have you ever taught a large lecture class and find that keeping a grade book is a pain?  Well, I obtain my class list and computer scored exam results in "electronic form" as email from our Administrative Computer Center.  From these emailed attachments, I'm able to import them into my Excel '97 spreadsheet using Excel's readily available functions.

 

This workshop will demonstrate the process of parsing a text file into a spreadsheet, along with how to electronically enter a test score without ever picking up a pencil!

 

And of course, there are several methods to obtain/transfer data with the various email clients such as PINE, Eudora, Pegasus, Microsoft Mail or Outlook 98.  Any of these software programs will allow you to gain access to your data through a telephone, ADI box, or direct network connection.  Time permitting; we will explore some of these programs.

 

 

16.  Brick & Click: A Grading and Reporting Program

Presenter: Robert J. Irwin

2:00-3:00                    34A Lanigan Hall (CELT)

 

One way to keep students up-to-date on their progress, and their standing with respect to their classmates, is to email each student an individual grade report each time new grades are recorded.  We'll present a simple, but useful program to do just this.  Reports sent to students list individual grades for all graded work to date, and provide averages for

grades within categories (e.g., homework, quizzes and exams), the weighted average over grades of all types, and current class rank.  A summary report is emailed to the instructor.  Instructors can affix the contents of a text file to each student's report, a straightforward way of sharing comments with the class. 

 

 


Winter BreakOut

2003 Registration Form

 

Directions: Please check the number of the events you would like to attend and return by December 20, 2002.

 

Contact information (please print):

 

Name:_______________________________   Email:______________________

 

 

Wednesday, January 15th and Thursday, January 16th

xxxxx   1.                     Intro to the Advanced Tech Classroom (appt only)

 

Monday, January 13th

_____  2. 11:30-1        ORI Roundtable  “Fast Food Nation”

_____  3.  1-3              Creating Digital Photographs

_____  4.  2-3:30                     Planning a Perennial Garden

 

Tuesday, January 14th

_____  5.  10:30-11:30 Advisor’s Refresher to General Education

xxxxx  6. 12-2              First Year Advisors’ Roundtable (rsvp only)

_____  7.  1-3:30         Intro to PowerPoint (notified via email)

Wednesday, January 15th

_____  8. 9-11:30        Intermediate Microsoft PowerPoint (notified via email)

_____  9.  10-11:30     E-reserves and Other Electronic Delivery Options

_____  10. 11:30-1      Arts Across the Curriculum

_____  11. 12-1           Introduction to SmartForce (notified via email)

_____  12. 1-3:30        Creating Basic Web Pages (notified via email)

 

Thursday, January 16th

_____  13. 9-10:30      Brick & Click: Use of student created web pages

_____  14. 10:45-12    Starting a Peer to Peer program - COLT

_____  15. 1-2             Brick & Click: Spreadsheet for a Large Lecture Class

_____  16. 2-3             Brick & Click: A Grading and Reporting Program

 

 

 

Persons with disabilities, needing accommodations to attend any of the events listed above, should contact CELT, in advance at x2875 or email at celt@oswego.edu .

 

Please return this form to:

CELT

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