Our worskshops are grouped loosely into four categories:
This workshop explores appropriate ways to incorporate technology into the basic building blocks for your class: the learning objectives.
Would you like to use technology in your teaching, but don't know where to start? If this describes you, then bring your syllabus and we will help you identify classroom and digital technologies to explore for your class.
In this session, participants will compare learning experiences in online and face-to-face environments; identify challenges and solutions in the online learning environment; and apply learner-centered approaches to online learning environments.
Academic Technology's Learning Spaces unit will be providing an overview of various services for classroom instructors. Topics covered will include: Electronically enhanced classrooms with special emphasis on use and troubleshooting; practical tips for users; If you plan on using a laptop, play back media or access the internet, this session is for you.
If you've heard about DIVA, the Digital Information Virtual Archive, but would like to know how it can help you as a faculty or staff member, this is the workshop for you. Learn about DIVA features, how to use it for course or research, and how it can work with iLearn. During Winter and Spring, we will also be introducing the new DIVA 2.0 version.
This hands-on workshop will help faculty setup a course area in DIVA, the Digital Information Virtual Archive, and use various features to support their teaching and interaction with students. Included is a demonstration of using audio, video, and images, creating podcasts, finding and using files within DIVA, and more.
FRESCA, or the Faculty Research Catalog, is a newly introduced CSU web system helping faculty and research groups to create online profiles in support of their research, scholarship, and creative activities. This hands-on workshop will help faculty setup a profile and use FRESCA features including adding publication citations and awards information, creating automatic CV's and reports, and more.
ThinkTank is collaborative software that allows up to 40 students to contribute ideas or feedback simultaneously, rank or vote on ideas generated by the group, and much more. Use ThinkTank for teaching and learning, community service, committee work and many other purposes.
This session presents an opportunity for faculty to learn about clickers and how they can facilitate active learning in their courses. Clicker-based activities provide an anonymous polling method, measure understanding, and provide immediate feedback and assessment.
Elluminate is synchronous e-Learning and web collaboration software that allows you to turn your class into an online virtual classroom. Some of the applications that Elluminate provides are: application file-sharing with live demonstrations and guided practice, live audio/video, online guest speakers, text chat, quizzing and polling, virtual labs and problem-solving sessions.
Use iLearn to create a centralized learning environment for your students. Enhance student learning and collaboration with iLearn, SF State's official online learning management system (LMS). In this workshop, participants will learn the basics on using iLearn including course design, making an iLearn course available to students, posting documents such as a syllabus, and organizing course resources with accessibility in mind.
This is a fast-paced workshop designed to offer participants a speedy overview of iLearn, SF State's official online learning management system (LMS). Facilitators will demonstrate how instructors can quickly add resources and graded activities to an iLearn course. This is a demonstration — time will not allow for hands-on participation.
Participants will plan and create online quizzes in iLearn that match course instructional objectives. The workshop includes quiz construction strategies including creating quiz questions, categorizing pools of questions, and providing students instantaneous feedback.
The iLearn gradebook allows instructors to track individual student progress online. Participants will learn how to set up their course gradebook including weighting categorized grades, adding extra credit points, and downloading the gradebook to use in a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
Participants will create and facilitate opportunities for interaction using iLearn discussion forums. Increase student participation and interest by creating forums for students to discuss current course-related topics, or build group problem-solving skills by discussing case studies.
Participants will learn how to set up various types of graded assignments that allow students to submit text or digital files in iLearn.
Turnitin is a teaching tool that flags instances of possible plagiarism, over-reliance of cited resources, and improper citation for text-based files submitted by students online. Participants will learn how to set up a TurnItIn assignment in iLearn and retrieve originality reports which compare each student's submission to various online databases.
