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Online Courses Catch On in U.S. Colleges - 2 parts  11/29/7
Read or listen and then link to
Sloan-C
report on "Five Years of Growth in Online Learning"

"A Vision of Students Today" or
 with Spanish subtitles (Con subtítulos en español) 10/12/7 4:44

a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University

Microsoft is again offering the Ultimate Steal - Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate for $59 <--Check it out

Compare Office 2007 Versions to see what a steal it is!

Use my Reference links (dictionaries , shopping and MUCH more)

And Tutorial links (to the best online instruction)

Printing Helps

UCC Training Materials

Check out these 3 presentations!

Courses for Spring 2009

Date Title

Description

     Time     

Room
2/10
Tues
Search Engine Prowess Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search  engines & help screens. 3:30 to 5pm

S120(Cranford) 

2/17
Tues

Create that List You’ve Been Needing

Use Microsoft Access to create a list of students, office equipment,  purchases or any other data you need listed in an orderly easy to find/search manner 3:30 to 5pm

S120(Cranford)

2-19
(Thurs)

Office 2007:
Word Intermediate
Use the Office 2007 ribbon, tabs, groups and commands. Clipart. Find & replace. Headers & footers.  Page numbers.  Spell & grammar checker. Thesaurus. Different styles & formats. 

3:30 - 5 pm

Lab 214
(E)

2-19
(Thurs)

Office 2007: 
Excel, the Basics
Use the Office 2007 ribbon, tabs, groups and commands.  Create workbook & worksheet.  Use the NEW Office 2007 menu & status & toolbars. Enter/save data.  Use Help.  Edit data.  Use simple equations & the goto function.  Sort & filter data. Format cells.

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212
(E)

2/24
Tues

Wikis, Blogs and Other Ways to Use the Internet for Student Collaboration

Learn to create a wiki.  Teach your students to create and use wikis to collaborate with others on written assignments.  Learn how students can have their work seen by the world when they contribute their expertise to Wikipedia.

3:30 to 5pm

N-39(Cranford)

2-26
(Thurs)

Office 2007:
Word, Mail Merge
Learn to merge using the Mail Merge feature.  Create letters, envelopes and labels.  Create individual envelopes and individual labels. Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Office 2007: Word.

3:30 - 5 pm

Lab 214
(E)

2-26
(Thurs)

Office 2007: 
Word, Advanced
Footnotes, endnotes & columns. Create an abstract.  Use advanced print functions.  Review & comment on student work or document from co-worker using Track Changes. Create an html document (web page).  Draw with color. Create a watermark.

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212
(E)
3/24
Tues
Faculty Web Page Expand your classroom beyond the four walls.  Learn how to create a basic web page for class information, assignments & tutorials 3:30 to 5pm

S120(Cranford) 

4-2
(Thurs)

Office 2007:
PowerPoint, Advanced
Create in outline view. Bulleted lists. Change slide layout. Animation & slide transition effects. Running a slide show.  Adding narration.  Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of PowerPoint.

3:30 - 5 pm

Lab 214
 (E)

4-2
(Thurs)

Office 2007: 
Excel, Intermediate
Create charts. Find & replace. Move & copy. Rename files. . Use formulas & functions. Must have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Excel 2007.

5-6:30 pm

Lab 212
(E)

4/7
Tues

Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites

Check out MySpace, Facebook, Linkedin, CafeMom, YouTube and more. These sites enable users to post pictures, links, sound and videos and then comment on them with more pictures, links, sound and videos. Web 2.0 social networking sites can be frivolous, but can also be put to good pedagogical use.

3:30 to 5pm

S120(Cranford) 

Courses for Fall 2008

Date Title

Description

 Time 

Room
10/14
Tues
Search Engine Prowess Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search  engines & help screens. 3:00-4:30pm Lab 212
(E)
10/21
Tues
Faculty Web Page Expand your classroom beyond the four walls.  Learn how to create a basic web page for class information, assignments & tutorials 3:30-5pm Lab 212
(E)
10/22
Wed
Search Engine Prowess Expand your classroom beyond the four walls.  Learn how to create a basic web page for class information, assignments & tutorials 3:30-5pm

S120(Cranford)

10/29
Wed

Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites

Check out MySpace, Facebook, Linkedin, CafeMom, YouTube and more. These sites enable users to post pictures, links, sound and videos and then comment on them with more pictures, links, sound and videos. Web 2.0 social networking sites can be frivolous, but can also be put to good pedagogical use.

3:15-4:45 pm

S120(Cranford)

11/17
Wed

Wikis, Blogs and Other Ways to Use the Internet for Student Collaboration

Learn to create a wiki.  Teach your students to create and use wikis to collaborate with others on written assignments.  Learn how students can have their work seen by the world when they contribute their expertise to Wikipedia.

4:30-6pm

N-39(Cranford)

11/24
Mon
 Giving Students
 Choices
(with Toby Marx)
In May 2008 Toby Marx and Maureen Greenbaum presented this interactive talk at the Teach Professor conference.  We'll discuss, explain and hen help you define and trade ideas on increasing student engagement by involving them in assignment creation and modes of communicating. 4:30:6pm MLH
(Cranford)

12/8
Mon

Create that List You’ve Been Needing

Use Microsoft Access to create a list of students, office equipment,  purchases or any other data you need listed in an orderly easy to find/search manner

4:30:6 pm

S120(Cranford)

Courses for Spring 2008

Date Title

Description

 Time 

Room
3/11 Tues Faculty Web Page Expand your classroom beyond the four walls.  Learn how to create a basic web page for class information, assignments & tutorials 3:30-5pm N-39(Cranford)

3/27
Tues

Create that List You’ve Been Needing

Use Microsoft Access to create a list of students, office equipment,  purchases or any other data you need listed in an orderly easy to find/search manner

3:15-4:45 pm

Lab 214
(E)

4/8
Tues

Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites

Check out MySpace, Facebook, Linkedin, CafeMom, YouTube and more. These sites enable users to post pictures, links, sound and videos and then comment on them with more pictures, links, sound and videos. Web 2.0 social networking sites can be frivolous, but can also be put to good pedagogical use.

3:15-4:45 pm

Lab 214
(E)

4/29
Tues
Search Engine Prowess Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search  engines & help screens. 3:30-5pm S120(Cranford)

Courses for Fall 2007

Date

Title

Description

 Time 

Room

9-19
Wed

Search Engine Prowess
Cancelled

Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search  engines & help screens.

4:30-6 pm

N-39(Cranford)

9-24 Mon Office 2007: Word, the Basics Use the NEW Office 2007 menu bar, status bar, toolbars.  Create a new document from a template. Use the spell & grammar checker. Align text. Try different fonts.  Create a table. Double-space.  Print.  Select text.  Insert & delete.  Use the Office Assistant. 5-6:30 pm Room 112 (Plainfield)
9-26 Wed Office 2007: Excel the Basics Create workbook & worksheet.  Use the NEW Office 2007 menu bar, status bar & toolbars. Enter/save data.  Use Help.  Edit data.  Use simple equations & the goto function.  Sort & filter data. 5-6:30 pm Room 112 (Plainfield)

10-3
Thurs

Creating My Own Website

Use Microsoft FrontPage to produce your own site.

4:30-6 pm

S-120(Cranford)

10-17
Wed

Create that List You’ve Been Needing

Use Microsoft Access to create a list of students, office equipment,  purchases or any other data you need listed in an orderly easy to find/search manner

4:30-6 pm

S-120(Cranford)

10-24
Wed

Creative Uses of the World Wide Web

Use the World Wide Web creatively to watch your stocks (www.top10traders.com), to save family or class photos (www.picasa.com) or family videos (www.video.google.com), create a family web page (www.googlepages.com), create a blog

(www.blogger.com) or do your taxes online (http://www.turbotax.com)

4:30-6 pm

S-120
Cranford)

11-7
Wed

Facebook, MySpace, YouTube

These sites enable users to post pictures, links, sound and videos and then comment on them with more pictures, links, sound and videos.  These Web 2.0 social networking sites can be frivolous, but can also be put to good pedagogical use.

4:30-6 pm

S-120(Cranford)

11-14
Wed

 

Pep up Your WebCT Screens with Simple HTML code

Use WebCT’s WYSIWYG editor to put clip art in the calendar.  Write simple html code for the image, bold, italics and font color tags.

4:30-6 pm

S-120(Cranford)

Courses for Spring 2007

2-8
(Thu)

Search Engine Prowess Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search  engines & help screens.

3:15-4:45 pm

N-39
(C)

3-1
(Thu)

Creative Uses of the World Wide Web Use the World Wide Web creatively to watch your stocks (top10traders.com, to save family or class photos (picasa.com) or family videos (video.google.com), create a family web page (googlepages.com), create a blog (blogger.com) or do your taxes online (turbotax.com)

3:15 – 4:45 pm

N-39
(C)

3-8
(Thu)

Microsoft Access: Basics Start the program. Open a database. Design a table. Create a database. Records & fields. Create a simple form and report with totals.

3:15–4:45 pm

N-39
(C)

3-24
(Sat)
Making your PowerPoint Presentations Memorable They’re fun to watch so they involve students in the learning! Learn about choosing animated clip art and drawing caption bubbles. Make the most of page transitions and object animation. Learn to use unknown themes from the web. Link to web sites and make a little noise. Create a web version that can be viewed without PowerPoint. T&T

Workshop 2
Elizabeth

3-29
(Thu)

Tools in Word that Help Your Students Become Writers Using the Spell and Grammar Checker, Thesaurus, Toolbars, Footnotes and Endnotes, different styles and formats, Track Changes, etc. 

3:15–4:45 pm

N-39
(C)

Courses for Fall 2006

Microsoft Access: Basics 9-25 Start a program.  Open a database.  Design a table.  Create a database.  Learn about records & fields. Use a primary key.
Search Engine Prowess 10-9        Review of browsing basics, tools, directories, search engines and help screens.
An Electronic Research Paper 10-10 Show your students how to use Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint to create an electronic paper.  Attendees must have at least a beginner's knowledge of Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.
An Electronic Research Paper 10-16
Faculty Web Page 10-23 Expand your classroom beyond the four walls.  Learn how to create a basic web page for class information, assignments & tutorials
Jazzing up Your Website 10-30 Ways to use FrontPage to make your web pages more eye-catching and fun such as page transitions, marquees, interactive buttons, DHTML, fancy bullets and photo gallery.  Selecting and modifying clip art, finding Internet images and capturing portions of screens and incorporating them.
Creating My Own Website 11-6 Use Microsoft FrontPage to produce your own site.
Google versus Yahoo: a Search Engine Shootout 11-13 Create a new web.  Create web pages.  Use templates. Import webs.  Publish webs to the Internet.
FrontPage Intermediate 11-20 Create a new web.  Create web pages.  Use templates. Import webs.  Publish webs to the Internet.
Microsoft Access: Intermediate 12-4) Create reports.  Do queries.  Merge tables and files.  Add footer information.

Courses for Spring 2006

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Microsoft Access: Intermediate Monday March 20 4:30 - 6 N-41

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Your Faculty Web Page - Monday March 27 4:30 - 6 N-41

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Teaching and Technology - Jazzing Up your web Site - March 31, 2006

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Search Engine Prowess Mon. April 3, 4:30 to 6pm N41

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FrontPage Intermediate Mon. April 17, 4:30 to 6pm N41

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See my suggested shopping sites page  for ideas on the cheapest places to buy software and other stuff.

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