Monday, April 14, 2014

[ED-TECH] Wikis, statistics tracking, twitter feeds, and the Collaborate iPad app will be covered in upcoming Virtual Office Hours sessions

Virtual Office Hours are held every Wednesday afternoon, 3:30pm-4:30pm, using the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing system. Topics for this week and next week are listed below. Please join us.

4/16/2014
   Wikis in Blackboard Learn
   Statistics Tracking in Blackboard Learn
 
4/23/2014
   Adding a Twitter feed to Blackboard Learn
   Features of the Collaborate App on an iPad
 
To attend a Virtual Office Hours session live, every Wednesday at 3:30 pm, go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb and follow the instructions. 
 
To view the man recordings of previous sessions, go to http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com/virtual-office-hours.html

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Friday, April 11, 2014

[ED-TECH] On-Line Education sessions - Wed, April 16th

Ed-Tech List members,

If you wish to attend one of the On-Line Education sessions on Wednesday, April 16th, at 9:30am, 11:30am, or 2:30pm, in the new Student Activity Center, Room 304 (Activity Room North)), please register by going to http://iacevents.org and selecting the session you want to attend. Please share this information with others who might be interested. 

 - Bill - 


ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT SENT TO ALL FACULTY

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The University of Miami is developing new on-line courses and degrees that will be offered this year. What do on-line courses look like? What is it like to teach on-line? What does it take to develop an on-line course? 

The Provost's Office invites all University of Miami faculty to an On-Line Education Open House. At this session, Laureate Education, Inc. will demonstrate the design and features of some of the online courses that they have developed. This should answer many of your questions and give you a preview of what University of Miami on-line courses could look like. Laureate representatives will discuss:

- Various on-line classroom styles, approaches to content, organizations, and features 
- Various types of media that can be used in on-line classrooms such as videos, simulations, and interactive media 
- Course activities that challenge and engage online students 
- Current technologies for Student Identity Verification, industry standards and what Laureate is investigating and piloting in this area

The open-house sessions will run three times on April 16th to maximize the number of people who can attend. Space is limited, so if you plan to attend, please register.

When Wednesday April 16, 2014 from 9:30am to 11:00am, 11:30am to 1:00pm, and 2:30pm to 4:00pm (Each session will be a repeat of the same presentation)

Where Student Activity Center 304 - Activities Room North
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

[ED-TECH] Blackboard Collaborate for use outside of Blackboard Learn

On April 1st, today, the Learning Platforms team in Academic Technologies, a part of UMIT, will be announcing the availability of the Blackboard Collaborate system for webinars and web conferencing. The event will take place 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. You can attend in person at Richter Library, Room 305, or online at the  http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb  web site. To register, please go to  http://iacevents.org  and select the session you wish to attend.

Blackboard Collaborate has been available inside of Blackboard Learn for a while. Now it will be available outside of Blackboard Learn as a full webinar and web conferencing system. Blackboard Collaborate supports video, audio, presentations, and screen sharing. People do not have to be part of UM in order to be a participant or a moderator of a session. 

If you are interested in using the Blackboard Collaborate system, please attend the exciting announcement on April 1st. For more information about this event, or special accomodations, please contact Rick Ramos at either 305-284-3949 or  r.ramos3@miami.edu .

 - Bill - 

Bill Vilberg
Director, Information Technology
bill.vilberg@miami.edu
305-250-2255
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