Teaching With Technology Certificate Hub

From ITS News
http://news.its.psu.edu/story-1066

Students interested in reducing test anxiety or other study skills can find an upload modules from iStudy (http://istudy.psu.edu/) into any ANGEL group they create.

Instructors can also upload any of the iStudy modules into their courses for students to use.

If your students are scheduled for an e-testing session next week, you may want to point them to the following page for information:

http://testing.psu.edu/Students/

The site includes instructions for signing in for exams including a video tour of the facility.

This Winter-Fest, faculty and instructors are invited to participate in Digital Media Day on Wednesday, January 7. Consisting of two half-day sessions, Digital Media Day is designed to provide opportunities for faculty and instructors to learn and practice incorporating audio, video, and multimedia delivery tools into teaching.

You can learn more about Digital Media Day at:
http://meeting.psu.edu/node/516

You can register for Digital Media Day at:
http://its.psu.edu/training

Winter-Fest is a week long training event from ITS Training that was developed to target technology as it relates to pedagogy. Winter-Fest 2009 will be held January 5-9. Popular topics include ANGEL, Blogs at Penn State, Adobe Connect, Penn State Wikispaces, Podcasting, and more. This year, Adobe’s Steve Adler will provide training on building portfolios and collaborating using Acrobat 9. Please review the list of training sessions below, and log in to register for the session(s) of your choice via the ITS Training Services Web site at http://its.psu.edu/training/

Adobe will present a FREE live Web based seminar on Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 on Wednesday December 3rd from 10am-11:30am.

It is open to anyone at Penn State, but is hosted on the Adobe Connect/Breeze platform. You can learn more about logging in and setting up audio at http://meeting.psu.edu

Seminar Link
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To view the seminar go to the following web site
http://se.adobe.acrobat.com/timothyp/ (you must have audio available)

At the scheduled time (Dec 3, 10 AM):

You may ask questions through the web site or by calling 866-846-3997 # 726466 during the seminar.

Faculty and instructors can now join the Faculty TechTraining e-mail distribution list to stay up-to-date about the training Penn State offers on technology tools for teaching. Subscribers of the Faculty TechTraining List will receive one note each month (if applicable) listing the opportunities for faculty and instructors to learn about a variety of technologies related to teaching, including ANGEL and Adobe Connect, as well as relevant conferences and events, such as the Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology.

Instructions for joining are as follows: send a blank e-mail to
L-FACULTY-TECHTRAINING-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@LISTS.PSU.EDU

From the Sudent Computing Labs (CLC)

To help conserve power usage, as of Thursday, November 6, all CLC-managed Macintosh computers will enable the power off (sleep) mode of their displays after a period of inactivity at the log on window. If you walk up to a Mac, and the display is off, assume that the Mac is powered on but waiting for you to move the mouse to wake up the display.

The deadline for faculty to submit proposals to present at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology has been extended to December 19.

Proposals for student use of educational technology are especially encouraged, but other forms of technology enrichment in the classroom are also welcome.

See details at:
http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/content/deadline-extended-faculty-proposals

Powerpoint can also be used as a "game board" for popular games like Jeopardy, Twenty Questions, Guess the Word, Bingo, Concentration and so forth. These can be a fun way to practice simple drill skills or some clues can be used as a mental stretching exercise.

Templates are available in several sites including these:

• http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html
• http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/

Maybe a template could work for you...you could build your own.

From the ANGEL Team
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