2009 Workshops

Accessibility 101

The next big thing in educational technology isn’t podcasts, wikis, or e-portfolios. The next big thing is accessibility--making sure that the content that you and your students create and post to the web can be accessed by everyone. In this fast-paced, one-hour session, we’ll introduce you to the concept of accessibility and universal design and show you how to make your PowerPoint files, Word documents, and PDFs accessible.

The following workshops will be taught in the Instructional Technology Support Services (ITSS) lab on the lower level of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

• Monday, January 5
  9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
• Tuesday, January 13
  10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Wednesday, January 21
  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• Thursday, January 29
  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Creating Live Online Classrooms and Virtual Offices using Elluminate Live!

Elluminate Live! is a real-time virtual classroom environment designed for both distance education and online collaboration. Instructors can use Elluminate Live! to add real-time interaction to distance learning, extend the boundaries of the traditional classroom, and engage more students in more ways. For more information on Elluminate, please visit the following URL: http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/bb/faculty/elluminate.html

The following workshops will be taught in the Instructional Technology Support Services (ITSS) lab on the lower level of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

• Tuesday, January 6
  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• Wednesday, January 14
  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• Thursday, January 22
  9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
• Friday, January 30
  10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The Instructor’s Guide to BeachBoard Basics: Creating and Posting Course Documents

Ready to start using BeachBoard in your classes? This workshop is for you! In this hands-on, workshop you’ll learn the basics of how to use BeachBoard, everything you need to know to get up and running in BeachBoard. In particular, you’ll learn how to login to BeachBoard, how to access your courses, and even how to post your syllabus and course handouts to BeachBoard.

The following workshops will be taught in the Instructional Technology Support Services (ITSS) lab on the lower level of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

• Wednesday, January 7
  9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Thursday, January 15
  10:00 AM - Noon
• Friday, January 23
  1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• Wednesday, January 28
  2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The Instructor’s Guide to Turnitin: Detecting and Discouraging Student Plagiarism using Turnitin and BeachBoard

This hands-on workshop introduces you to Turnitin.com, an online plagiarism detection service supported by the Faculty Technology Center. Students submit their work—term papers, lab reports, computer programming assignments, group project summaries, or any other original material students create in your class—to Turnitin through BeachBoard. Turnitin then compares the students’ work to billions of other student papers and documents, including documents in both Google’s and ProQuest’s databases. Whenever a match is found, Turnitin highlights the suspect paragraph(s).

While Turnitin is an effective plagiarism detection tool, particular attention will be paid to ways you can use Turnitin as both a deterrent to student plagiarism and as a tool to teach your students proper citation techniques.

The following workshops will be taught in the Instructional Technology Support Services (ITSS) lab on the lower level of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

• Thursday, January 8
  Noon - 1:00 PM
• Friday, January 16
  10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Tuesday, January 20
  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Workshops are facilitated by ITSS or eLearning consultants. Questions? Contact ITSS.