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Sat, 27 Dec 2014 06:00:40

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Bill Vilberg bill.vilberg@miami.edu Home: 305-255-9138 Work: 305-284-3949
Cell: 786-218-3052

[ED-TECH] Grand Opening - Faculty Exploratory November 14th 10am - 12pm

You are cordially invited to the Grand Opening of the Faculty Exploratory next Friday, November 14th from 10am – 12pm. 

Please RSVP by November 7th to academictechnologies@miami.edu 
Come celebrate a space designed to encourage the use of technology in teaching and learning here at the University of Miami. Please see attached flyer for more details.

[ED-TECH] Learning to Learn for first year university students

L. Dee Fink lists Learning to Learn as one of the "Significant Learning" goals that could be part of every course. 

If you teach first year students, you might want to distribute this document early in your class: http://www.smu.edu/Provost/ALEC/NeatStuffforNewStudents/HowIsCollegeDifferentfromHighSchool 

Your students have had 12 years of successful educational experiences. This document can help them understand the difference between high school, where they probably excelled, and University, which requires different skills.

- Bill -

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[ED-TECH] Making passwords useful

Ed-Tech mailing list members,

Here is a nice article on reframing password resets as an opportunity to improve your life, rather than a painful requirement being demanded if you.

https://medium.com/@manicho/7af5d5f28038

- Bill -
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[ED-TECH] Hands-on GIS Workshop Series at Richter Library

Please join us in the month of July for a series of hands-on GIS workshops, led by GIS Consultant Chance Scott.

 

Session 1 - Wednesday, July 2, 3-4pm, GIS Lab - Register

 

The Basics: Definition, Location, Download and Display

·        What is GIS and what can it be used for?

·        What is a shapefile?

·        Where can shapefiles be found?

·        How to find the RIGHT shapefile

·        Downloading shapefiles

-          What extensions to look for

·        Using ArcMap

·        Connecting to folders

·        Displaying the shapefiles

 

 

Session 2 - Wednesday, July 9, 3-4pm, GIS Lab - Register

 

The Manipulation: Attributes, Fields, Identification, and Normalization

(Review the previous workshop)

·        What is an attribute table?

·        What are fields?

·        Displaying fields

·        Identifying items of interest

·        Displaying MORE fields

·        Normalizing data

-          Why normalize data?

 

Session 3 - Wednesday, July 16, 3-4pm, GIS Lab - Register

 

The Presentation: Maps, Editing, Visual balance, and Exporting

(Review the previous workshop)

·        Making the map

-          Layout mode

-          What all maps need

·        Editing the map

-          Editing the Legend

-          Visual balance

-          Color Scheme

-          Readability

·        Exporting the Map

 

 

 

Lisa Baker

Subject Librarian for

Political Science, International Studies,

and Government Documents

Otto G. Richter Library, Rm. 347E

1300 Memorial Drive

Coral Gables, FL  33124-0320

Email: lbaker@miami.edu

Phone: 305-284-2092

Fax: 305- 284-9848

 

[ED-TECH] Yammer webinar/demo TODAY (6/11/2014) 3:30 pm

Ed-Tech members,

Want to know more about Yammer, the company wide communication and collaboration system, here at UM? Today (Wednesday, June 11, 2014) I will be talking about and demonstrating Yammer during our Virtual Office Hours webinar. There will be basic information as well as some tips that can make Yammer more useful.

Virtual Office Hours is a live webinar, presented by the Learning Platforms team at UM, every Wednesday, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, using Blackboard Collaborate. Go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb and follow the instructions. It can take some time to get everything set up so either do it once sometime before hand, or get started around 3:00 or so. If you have trouble, call the Blackboard Help Desk at 305-284-3949.

The other topic for today will be "Creating Blackboard Learn Grade Center Columns" by Brett Stephens.

Remember, you can participate from anywhere. You will need to be able to hear us, but the microphone and web cam is completely optional. We use them, you can if you wish.

- Bill -



William (Bill) Vilberg
Assistant Director of Learning Platforms
Information Technology
University of Miami
305-284-3944 (desk)
786-250-2255 (cell)

[ED-TECH] LaTeX usage at UM?

Ed-Tech people,

I ran into LaTeX years ago when I was teaching Computer Science. It is used for typesetting and publication of technical documents in mathematics, physics, and computer science, as well as documents that contain multiple languages, such as Sanskrit and Arabic.

Every year a few students hunt for help with LaTeX. 

• Can anyone tell me where it is used at UM? 
• Do you know of any faculty or staff that are already running, or might be willing to run, a workshop every semester? 
• Do you have any suggestion for how (or whether) support is provided for use of this writing tool?

 - Bill - 

William (Bill) Vilberg
Assistant Director of Learning Platforms
Information Technology
University of Miami
305-284-3944 (desk)
786-250-2255 (cell)

[ED-TECH] Supporting Faculty in Developing Online Course Proficiencies - Sign up now

The Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) is running a "Supporting Faculty in Developing Online Course Proficiencies" short course June 5-17 and UM will be participating. Please join us, UMIT Academic Technologies, for the three webinar sessions: Thursday, June 5; Wednesday, June 11; and Tuesday, June 17; 1:00 - 2:30 pm; in Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room. With all of the recent activity around on-line courses at UM, this looks like an excellent event for us.

To register for this (free) event at UM, go to our registration form http://tinyurl.com/mrjmltm

For complete details about the short course, go to the ELI site http://tinyurl.com/lff24be

- Bill -


William (Bill) Vilberg
Assistant Director
Information Technology
University of Miami
305-284-3944 (desk)
786-250-2255 (cell)

[ED-TECH] Teaching Online for Beginners, May 11 - June 27

Ed-Tech mailing list members,

The Teaching, Learning, Technology Group will be running an online course/experience (FREE!) for people who are thinking of teaching online, or moving some of their course experience online. These are not people with "the answers" but, rather, people who are investigating the subject. I have enjoyed working with the leaders since 1994, so I am hoping this will be another valuable experience. The event begins on May 11 and runs through June 27. Since it is all online, and participants are not locked into the exact schedule, it can fit into almost anyone's summer schedule. A wonderful "Professional Development" opportunity related to teaching.

Watch the video at http://youtu.be/npnsylFUTjY for an introduction. Go to http://tltgroup.roundtablelive.org/events?eventId=841363&EventViewMode=EventDetails for more details, the schedule, and a button to register (FREE!) for this event.

I will be signing up for the series. I hope to see many of you online.

- Bill -


William (Bill) Vilberg
Assistant Director
Information Technology
University of Miami
305-284-3944 (desk)
786-250-2255 (cell)

[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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[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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[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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[ED-TECH] Webinar today at 3:30 pm: NBC Learn, SafeAssign

Ed-Tech list members,

Today, as every Wednesday, the Learning Platforms team will host our Virtual Office Hours Webinar, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb to join. 

Todays topics are:

• Using NBC Learn Videos in Blackboard
• SafeAssign: Detecting Plagiarism in Student Submissions

If you haven't used the Blackboard Collaborate webinar system before, please start to get things set up at 3:00 pm. On Macs you have to load a special program to help get the webinar started.

Segments from previous sessions can be found by going to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibbarchive. These segments are on YouTube, so nothing special is needed to watch them.

 - Bill - 

William (Bill) Vilberg
Assistant Director in Academic Technologies
Information Technology
University of Miami
305-284-3944 (desk)
786-250-2255 (cell)

[ED-TECH] Virtual Office Hours recordings

Ed-Tech people,

We are recording the Virtual Office Hours each Wednesday, 3:30pm-4:30pm ET, and making them available from the http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com/voh.html web page. If you want to attend live, go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb or go to http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com/voh.html to watch the videos.

- Bill -


William (Bill) Vilberg
Assistant Director in Academic Technologies
Information Technology
University of Miami
305-284-3944 (desk)
786-250-2255 (cell)

[ED-TECH] Flipped classrooms Virtual Office Hour today at 3:30 pm

Our Virtual Office Hours today will have two presentations:
- Flipping with Bloom: Flipping a Lesson Using Bloom's Taxonomy
- Using Kaltura Screen Recorder: Adding Screen Recordings in Blackboard Learn

If you are at all interested in flipped classrooms, or don't know what flipping is, both presentations will help you understand more about this trending topic.

To join the webinar, go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb before 3:30 pm. You can do it now if you want to make sure your computer is all set up. It may take a few minutes to get things set up properly the first time.

The Learning Platforms team at UM hosts the virtual office hours every Wednesday, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET, at http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb . They are open to everyone, and specifically designed for faculty at the University of Miami. Please join us!

- Bill -
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Re: [ED-TECH] Ed-Tech is moving to a Yammer group

Hi Bill

 

I would love to join the Learning Design group but I have a umiami account and not a miami.edu account.  Do you know how I can be added to the Miami group instead of the umiami?

 

Andrea

 

From: UM Educational Technology List [mailto:ED-TECH@LISTSERV.MIAMI.EDU] On Behalf Of Vilberg, William R.
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:56 AM
To: ED-TECH@LISTSERV.MIAMI.EDU
Subject: [ED-TECH] Ed-Tech is moving to a Yammer group

 

I am shutting down the Ed-Tech mailing list and moving to a Yammer group. If you have an @miami.edu email address, please join the Yammer group if you want to continue to get and discuss educational technology information. You can continue to receive messages via email, if you so choose. (If you are not part of the UM email system, you will not be able to join this group.)

To join the Yammer group, please follow these simple steps.

GETTING STARTED

1. Go to Yammer.com and create an account, using your @miami.edu (or @bus.miami.edu) email address.

2. Once you have created the account and logged in, join the "ed-tech (public)" group. (Details below, if you can't see how to do it immediately.)

3. If you want to follow the group via email, so you don't have to login to Yammer to see if there is anything new, enter the group and click on the "Subscribe to this group by email" check box in the right hand column.

I don't remember exactly what happens when you create a new account. I think you get to join groups automatically. If not, you should be able to join the ed-tech group by following these steps.

JOIN THE ED-TECH GROUP

1. Click on the "Groups" link in the menu bar on the left of the Yammer page.

 

2. If the group does not appear in the list of "Groups that may interest you," click on the "View more groups" link at the bottom of the selection box.

3. Click on the "All Groups" tab on the next page that appears.

4. Find the "ed-tech (public)" group and click on the "+ Join" button to the right of the name.

The ed-tech group is public, so anyone with a Yammer account in our network (@miami.edu) can join it. Many of the groups listed a private groups. They have a padlock after their names and, if you click on the "+ Join" button a request will be sent to the administrator of the group for approval. 

You are able to join any of the public (no padlock) groups. I recommend the "Learning Design" group if you are interested in improving your teaching or designing on-line materials for your students.

 

- Bill -

[ED-TECH] Join Yammer "Learning Design Community," not "ed-tech (open)"

In thinking about the miami.edu Yammer groups that already exist, we decided that it would be better for the ed-tech list members to just join the Learning Design Community group, rather than creating a separate ed-tech group.

If join the ed-tech group, I will move you to the Learning Design Community group and then remove you from the ed-tech group. I have admin rights to both.

If you have not yet joined the ed-tech group, please join the Learning Design Community group instead.

- Bill -

[ED-TECH] Ed-Tech is moving to a Yammer group

I am shutting down the Ed-Tech mailing list and moving to a Yammer group. If you have an @miami.edu email address, please join the Yammer group if you want to continue to get and discuss educational technology information. You can continue to receive messages via email, if you so choose. (If you are not part of the UM email system, you will not be able to join this group.)

To join the Yammer group, please follow these simple steps.

GETTING STARTED

1. Go to Yammer.com and create an account, using your @miami.edu (or @bus.miami.edu) email address.

2. Once you have created the account and logged in, join the "ed-tech (public)" group. (Details below, if you can't see how to do it immediately.)

3. If you want to follow the group via email, so you don't have to login to Yammer to see if there is anything new, enter the group and click on the "Subscribe to this group by email" check box in the right hand column.

I don't remember exactly what happens when you create a new account. I think you get to join groups automatically. If not, you should be able to join the ed-tech group by following these steps.

JOIN THE ED-TECH GROUP

1. Click on the "Groups" link in the menu bar on the left of the Yammer page.

2. If the group does not appear in the list of "Groups that may interest you," click on the "View more groups" link at the bottom of the selection box.

3. Click on the "All Groups" tab on the next page that appears.

4. Find the "ed-tech (public)" group and click on the "+ Join" button to the right of the name.

The ed-tech group is public, so anyone with a Yammer account in our network (@miami.edu) can join it. Many of the groups listed a private groups. They have a padlock after their names and, if you click on the "+ Join" button a request will be sent to the administrator of the group for approval. 

You are able to join any of the public (no padlock) groups. I recommend the "Learning Design" group if you are interested in improving your teaching or designing on-line materials for your students.

- Bill -

Ed-Tech List Information

Wed, 5 Feb 2014 06:02:31

You are subscribed to the Ed-Tech list at the University of Miami. I
created this list to distribute information about Educational Technology.

Here are a few reminders.

1. If you want to unsubscribe you can do it a number of ways. A. Send me
an e-mail and I will remove you from the list. B. Go to
http://listserv.miami.edu/archives/ed-tech.html, click on the "Join or
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2. If you know someone who would like to subscribe tell them to do one of
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Bill Vilberg bill.vilberg@miami.edu Home: 305-255-9138 Work: 305-284-3949
Cell: 786-218-3052