Snackable Series: Spring 2016

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DSC_3956The innovative use of technology in higher education continues to provide new possibilities for enhancing teaching and learning. The Learning Technology Center (LTC) Spring 2016 “Snackable Series” is a special collaboration with the Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD).

Accessibility in Documents:  February 17 & 18, 2016

All instructors, whether teaching face-to-face or online, deal with documents like PDFs and Word on a regular basis.  This workshop will address common issues and share advice regarding document types, accessible syllabi, and how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro for OCR.

Accessibility in Documents Sessions:
Wednesday, February 17, 2016:  Noon to 1 p.m.
Location:  iCIT Training Center, McGraw 112
Registration:  https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14597

Thursday, February 18, 2016:  11 a.m. to Noon
WebEx Link: https://uww.webex.com/uww/j.php?MTID=m9f2792132a37518cfb775dd38bd6c283
Registration: https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14598

Accessible Presentations:  March 16 & 17, 2016

This workshop will address the common issues with presentations (both face-to-face lectures and online), captioning, and some advice for creating presentations with accessibility in mind.

Accessible Presentations Sessions:
Wednesday, March 16, 2016:  Noon to 1 p.m.
Location:  iCIT Training Center, McGraw 112
Registration: https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14599

Thursday, March 17, 2016:  11 a.m. to Noon
WebEx Link:  https://uww.webex.com/uww/j.php?MTID=mf28c4fb36127d237c681ce9cfcf960e0
Registration:  https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14600

Accessibility and D2L:  April 20 & 21, 2016

This workshop will explore the most common issues regarding accessibility in D2L, and advice for better results.  Topics will include document types, tables, colors, pop-up windows, alt-tags, and screen-readers.

Accessibility and D2L Sessions:
Wednesday, April 20, 2016:  Noon to 1 p.m.
Location:  iCIT Training Center, McGraw 112
Registration:  https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14601

Thursday, April 21, 2016:  11 a.m. to Noon
WebEx Link: https://uww.webex.com/uww/j.php?MTID=m48d1b13b62fedd7cc71cfddd9a37fc82
Registration:  https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14602

If you have any questions, please contact the Learning Technology Center.

Call For Proposals: Due February 12, 2016

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2016ShowcaseDesign1-1024x683The UW-System Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) 2016 Virtual showcase will be held April 5-6, 2016.

Share your innovations! How are you using technology in education? How are you making a difference? What technologies are you finding successful? How are you engaging your students? How are your students responding to your social media efforts? What makes your class different and successful? How are you collaborating with others?

The LTDC is calling for proposals in five breakout session categories:

  1. Hot Topics– Tell us about different ways in which you’re working and teaching. Are mobile applications a part of your learning and knowledge portfolio? How have you taken traditional teaching and changed it? Can you share a successful case study?
  1. Student Engagement– How are your students connecting with each other and you? What works now or will work in the future? How is that working? Can you share a successful case study?
  1. Faculty Development– How are you supporting your faculty? Are you facilitating learning communities? How are you engaging faculty? Do you have a successful case study to share?
  1. How to and Resources–Do you have a skill to share?  Have you created a wonderful set of resources for faculty and students?
  1. Learning Environments-Whether your content is in D2L, Canvas, Moodle or some other system, we want to hear from you. Have you integrated a tool from a vendor? Created a widget? Are you using Intelligent Agents? Share your innovative approaches with your Learning Management System.

Presentations during concurrent sessions will be 45 minutes: 30 minutes for presentations and 15 minutes for questions and answers. All sessions will be given via Blackboard Collaborate webconference. Sessions will be recorded and available for archive viewing. The LTDC highly encourages collaboration, use of appropriate and acceptable technologies, multiple institution, and multiple discipline proposals.

Proposals are due February 12, 2016. Successful proposals will be notified in early March. To submit proposals go to: https://uwex.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5jdVX3YfNO9IfuR

2016 LTDC Virtual Showcase website: https://www.wisconsin.edu/learning-tech/events-conf/ltdc-virtual-showcase-2016/

If you have any questions, please contact the Learning Technology Center.

 

Introducing Lynda.com

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Hey guys!

It’s only the third week into the semester and hopefully you are all getting back into the swing of things!

As a treat to help you all hop back into the semester (and ever closer towards the oncoming storm of midterms and finals), today we are going to talk about Lynda.com and your shiny new access to it!

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Many of you have probably at least heard about Lynda.com, if you are not already a frequenter of the site. It is a place to help you with many of your digital needs. It has helpful teaching videos that will guide you step by step through a program. Its knowledge base includes, but is not limited to tutorials in 3D; Audio; Business; CAD or Computer-Aided Design; Design; Developer; Photography; Video; and Web.

I realize this is not necessarily useful for every major on a daily basis; but would it not be amazing to tell your future employer that you have experience with creative editing software? The answer is yes, it would. Plus you can learn how to operate different parts of the creative suite and immortalize all of your college pictures and memories!

You can access the lynda.com library 24/7 from desktops, laptops, smartphones, or tablets. Use the lynda.com app for iPhone, iPad, or Android or log in via the lynda.com mobile site where you can watch entire courses or single tutorial videos as needed.

Here’s how to begin! Just visit: http://go.uww.edu/lynda

There you will be directed to the University login page, where let’s be honest, you already know what to do.

Once you have entered in the proper information, you will have free range of all that Lynda has to offer! So relax! Stay awhile! Enjoy all that that charm that Lynda.com has to offer!

Thanks for your time and attention!

Student Collaboration Using Google Drive

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Hello and welcome back to the new semester!

Did you know you can sign into Google Drive using your Whitewater Net-ID and password? You also get unlimited storage space! Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. As a college student many of us have to present projects with a group. Google Drive lets you share a document with your group members so you can work on a project at the same time, and in different locations. Projects are also saved automatically, so don’t worry if you close a page on accident, it will have already been saved!

Google Docs is a great way to collaborate with team members when working on notes, or papers. https://www.google.com/docs/about/

Google Slides lets your ideas shine with a variety of presentation themes, hundred of fonts, embedded video, animations and more. https://www.google.com/slides/about/

Google Sheets lets you choose from a wide variety of budgets, schedules, and other pre-made spreadsheets. https://www.google.com/sheets/about/

Google Forms lets you run a survey or quickly create a team roster with a simple online form. Then check out the results, neatly organized in a spreadsheet. https://www.google.com/forms/about/

Wondering how to share a document in Google Drive ?

  1. Click on the desired  project you want to share.
  2. Click on the Share button in the top right cornerShare Button
  3. Add in the names or emails of the people you would to like share with and hit Done.Share List

Gone are the days of having to get together with a group because you can only work on one device for a project! You can now worry less knowing you can all work on the same project from your own devices, anytime, anywhere!

For more information please visit http://www.uww.edu/icit/services/google or visit go.uww.edu/lynda.com and search for Google Drive.

 

Spring Semester Turning Technologies (Clickers) Update

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clickers4I hope you are off to a great start for the new semester! A few quick
updates for you:

  1. We found out late last week that the process students have been using
    to purchase a ResponseWare License has been changed. The new process is now in place and requires the students to first create a Turning Account, and then login and purchase the license. There is no longer a school code, since the student store is built into the account based off the users @uww.edu email address. Please make sure students are using their @uww.edu email address to register with Turning Technologies.We have updated the relevant documentation pages:

  2. This summer we will be deploying the latest version of TurningPoint to campus, called TurningPoint cloud. This version of the software does come with some licensing changes that will impact students. We are currently working out the details and will let you know as soon as we have additional information.
  3. The LTC contact for Clickers will be moving to Elaina Barr. Elaina will be working closely with the TurningPoint cloud roll out, and will be the new clickers point person. As always, you can call or email the LTC with questions.

If you have any questions regarding current clicker issues, or anything that’s coming, let us know!

Flash Playback Blocked in Firefox on Campus Computers

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On Lab and Classroom machines on campus, Mozilla Firefox is currently blocking playback of flash objects, including streaming videos hosted on Rev.  If you load up a streaming video and cannot get the video to play, look for the following icon in the address bar.

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Once you click on the red icon, choose “Allow and Remember” and your flash objects will work as expected on the page.

If you have any further questions, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.

Call for Proposals: UW-System Virtual Showcase

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2016ShowcaseDesign1-1024x683The UW-System Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) 2016 Virtual showcase will be held April 5-6, 2016.

Share your innovations! How are you using technology in education? How are you making a difference? What technologies are you finding successful? How are you engaging your students? How are your students responding to your social media efforts? What makes your class different and successful? How are you collaborating with others?

The LTDC is calling for proposals in five breakout session categories:

  1. Hot Topics– Tell us about different ways in which you’re working and teaching. Are mobile applications a part of your learning and knowledge portfolio? How have you taken traditional teaching and changed it? Can you share a successful case study?
  1. Student Engagement– How are your students connecting with each other and you? What works now or will work in the future? How is that working? Can you share a successful case study?
  1. Faculty Development– How are you supporting your faculty? Are you facilitating learning communities? How are you engaging faculty? Do you have a successful case study to share?
  1. How to and Resources–Do you have a skill to share?  Have you created a wonderful set of resources for faculty and students?
  1. Learning Environments-Whether your content is in D2L, Canvas, Moodle or some other system, we want to hear from you. Have you integrated a tool from a vendor? Created a widget? Are you using Intelligent Agents? Share your innovative approaches with your Learning Management System.

Presentations during concurrent sessions will be 45 minutes: 30 minutes for presentations and 15 minutes for questions and answers. All sessions will be given via Blackboard Collaborate webconference. Sessions will be recorded and available for archive viewing. The LTDC highly encourages collaboration, use of appropriate and acceptable technologies, multiple institution, and multiple discipline proposals.

Proposals are due February 12, 2016. Successful proposals will be notified in early February. To submit proposals go to: https://uwex.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5jdVX3YfNO9IfuR

2016 LTDC Virtual Showcase website: https://www.wisconsin.edu/learning-tech/events-conf/ltdc-virtual-showcase-2016/

If you have any questions, please contact the Learning Technology Center.

 

Streaming Video Changes – ACTION NEEDED

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Known IssuesWe recently completed the migration of all LTC / LS Media produced streaming video content into the new video solution, VBrick Rev.  The system can be accessed by going to http://streaming.uww.edu

After logging in, click on “Media” and then “My Videos” to access the videos associated with your account.

All video links will need to be manually replaced inside of your D2L courses.  The videos from the old solution were retired on Jan 1st, 2016.

We have created a number of tutorials that are available at: https://spaces.uww.edu/x/ZoBE

If you have any questions about the new video solution, or would like assistance in updating your courses please contact UW-W D2L Support.