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Join us Friday, September 12th at 2:30 pm
in Building 36/Room 108
for the sixth session in the Learn 8 in '08 Series
and learn more about Wikis &Blogs!

Remember to bring your “Season Ticket” and put your name in the pot for the Door Prize drawing!*
You can still pick-up a Season Ticket if you missed the earlier sessions.

Wikis, Blogs: Your Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools (Friday, September 12) « Sign Up Now! »
Wikis and Blogs are easy to use collaborations tools that are a great way to increase student engagement, improve writing, reading, critical thinking and more. This session will cover the latest research on these tools as well as a brief "how to get started" segment.

Guest speakers will be Dr. Richie Platt, College of Business, and Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn, John C. Pace Library.

Animations, Simulations, & Other FREE Stuff! (Friday, October 3) « Sign Up Now! »
Are you looking for that perfect animation or simulation to get your point across? Did you know that there are thousands of peer reviewed objects that you can add to your course for FREE? Come to this session to learn how and where to find these valuable teaching aids.

Game Time! (Friday, November 7) « Sign Up Now! »
Games are a great way to engage students and you don't need a million dollars to use games to engage your students. This session will cover how to implement casual games for practice to complex games for skill building and critical thinking. Don't miss this last in the series and the grand finale party!

All sessions will be held in Building 36/Room 108 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

There will be door prizes at each session. Attend 6 sessions for a chance at the grand prize drawing.* Must be present to win.

Check Argus Annoucements or the ATC web site for workshops on these and other tools.

Previously on "Learn 8 in '08"...

Second Life and Kick-Off Party! (Friday, February 8)

You heard from your peers discussing the exciting things they are doing in Second Life – a virtual world where educators from all over the world are meeting and interacting in exciting new ways.
Guest Speakers were Alberto Hernandez, Melanie Sutton, Laura White and Bernd Owsnicki.
Melanie Sutton's PowerPoint Presentation
UWF Virtual Lab SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching%203/40/105/23

Elluminate (Friday, March 7)

Elluminate, a real-time virtual classroom environment designed for teaching and learning and collaboration. Elluminate is used by instructors to connect with online learners or guest speakers by adding live discussion and dynamic interaction, resulting in engaged students and enhanced learning.
Guest speakers Lucia Bushway, Mathematics Lecturer, and Stephen Morris, graduate math major, gave a great presentation on innovative uses for face-to-face and online uses of Elluminate.
Presentation Videos:

Jim Matson and Billy Covin (19:00 minutes)
Lucia Bushway and Stephen Morris (30:00 minutes)
John Crane (35:00 minutes)

eDesktop (Friday, April 11)

eDesktop is UWF’s only virtual computer lab environment. eDesktop enables students to have access to university-licensed software, such as Microsoft Office, SPSS, and EndNote, at their convenience—home, residence hall, Starbucks, or any place that has connectivity to the Internet.
In addition, faculty can access Adobe Presenter to convert narrated PowerPoint files into small, easily played Flash files.
Come see a demonstration of eDesktop and learn how UWF faculty and students are using this virtual computer lab environment.
Presentation videos:

Sylvia Maxwell and Michael White (13:00 minutes)
Alex Krivoshyev (11;00 minutes)
Dr. Richie Platt (30:00 minutes)
Bill Harrison (19:00 minutes)

Pod Casting (Friday, May 16)
Pod casting is a great way to keep students engaged and provides a convenient study tool for those brief "learning moments". Come hear how easy this is to do and how best to incorporate this technique into your classroom - whether face to face or online, or anything in between!

Presenter videos:

Dr. Jay Clune (25:00 minutes)
Bill Harrison (10:00 minutes)
Jenni Brian (22:00 minutes)

Digital Storytelling (Friday, June 6)
Storytelling is one of the most fundamental ways humans teach and communicate with each other. In this session you will see how this ancient tradition has moved into the digital age and has become a powerful tool for both faculty and students. The main emphasis in this session will be how you can use digital storytelling as a truly engaging homework assignment.

Guest Speakers Dr. Wendy Shapiro and Sue Shick from Case Western University and Kassy Tyler, UWF.

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