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Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Winter Breakout Workshops - 2012

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Winter breakout will take place on January 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, and 20, 2012. Please register for workshops using the online registration form. The workshop schedule appears below.

Thursday, January 12

Session 1
Time: 9:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Using Delicious (or Diigo) and Google Reader to help organize web resources
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
Have you ever seen a great web resource and forgotten where it was? Have you ever been overwhelmed by the variety of blogs, news sites, and other resources available? In this workshop, participants will create free accounts for Diigo and Google Reader and explore how these tools may be used to more efficiently find, view, and keep track of information that is useful for teaching, research, and other applications.

Google Reader makes it possible to easily view new information posted at your favorite web sites, blogs, and news sites, Delicious or Diigo allows you to save, index, and access web bookmarks from any computer or mobile device that is connected to the internet. A discussion of how these may be used for class and research use wiill also be provided.

If you wish to efficiently use these tools on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 2
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Session Title: Prezi
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
Description:
Prezi allows you to create rich multimedia presentations using a simple online tool. In this workshop, participants will create a Prezi presentations that integrates text, images, and media. Participants may wish to create a free Prezi account at http://www.prezi.com before the workshop. We will also show how Powerpoint presentations may be converted into Prezi's format and how one can create a series of Prezi slides that can be posted online as a pdf file.

If you wish to install Prezi on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights (withput this, you can still use Prezi using a web interface). Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 3
Time: 1:00 - 1:55
Session Title: Creating an Avatar in Second Life
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
In this hands-on session, individuals will create an avatar in Second Life, learn how to customize the avatar's appearance, and learn how to navigate around this virtual world. Participants will learn how to communicate and how to find people, places, and events occurring this virtual environment. Participants will receive a tour of the SUNY-Oswego island and will explore the HCI building, the CELT building and movie theater, a technology class project site, a replica of the Japan Pavilion at the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and visit Richard Zakin's art exhibit and video presentation in the virtual SUNY-Oswego art gallery.

If you wish to use the Second Life client on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 4
Time: 2:00 - 2:55
Session Title: Using Second Life or other virtual worlds to support instruction
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
This hands-on session will provide an overview of the ways in which Second Life and other virtual worlds are being used at many colleges and universities to support instruction. For those attending in Second Life, the workshop will start at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SUNY%20Oswego/89/150/40

Session 5
Time: 3:00 - 4:00
Session Title: Building in Second Life
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
This hands-on session will provide an introduction to the use of the building tools available in Second Life and other virtual worlds. For those attending in Second Life, the workshop will start at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SUNY%20Oswego/89/150/40

Friday, January 13

Session 6
Time: 9:00 - 9:55
Session Title: Developing a COIL class
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
Description:
SUNY-Oswego is beginning to develop courses that integrate Cooperative Online International Learning (COIL). (More information on this initiative is available here.) In this workshop, faculty beginning to develop a COIL course and those considering this approach will meet to share the status of their projects, discuss obstacles, and create a plan for moving forward.
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Session 7
Time: 10:00 - 10:55
Session Title: COIL course development - asynchronous collaboration tools
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
Description:
In this workshop, a variety of tools will be examined that allow students in a domestic course to interact with students in a foreign class. The tools examined will include: wikis, blogs, Nings, YouTube, Vimeo, Imgur, Google Docs, and Coursekit.
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Session 8
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Session Title: ANGEL Essentials
Presenters: Katharine Dutton and Doug Hemphill
Room: CC 202
Description:
This workshop provides an introduction to the tools available in the ANGEL learning management system.
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Session 9
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Session Title: COIL course development - synchronous communication tools
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
Description:
In this workshop, a variety of tools will be examined that allow students in a domestic course to interact in real time with students in a foreign class. The tools examined will include: Skype, Elluminate, Google Talk, and Second Life.

If you wish to use some of these tools on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 10
Time: 1:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Overview of MS Office 2010
Presenters: Dan Laird and Nicole Decker
Room: CC 206
Description:
New features that span the entire suite and new features within Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint will be demonstrated. We will also try to answer any questions users may have since upgrading to the new versions.
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Tuesday, January 17

Session 11
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Session Title: Getting Started with Ingeniux
Presenters: Pat MacNeill and one other person from the web team
Room: CC 202
Description:
Whether you are new to editing web pages or just need a refresher, we will show you how to create and edit pages in our CMS (Content Management System). We will start with an introduction to Ingeniux, how to log in, and a review of the interface. Then the hands-on part of the training begins. We will create and edit a file and review components. Next we will upload and link an image and document. Lastly we will discuss how the publishing process works. This workshop is for people who edit departmental web pages on the SUNY Oswego website.
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Session 12
Time: 9:20 - 10:20
Session Title: Lecture Capture Fall 2011 Pilot Project
Presenters: David McQuin, Dan Laird, Kevin White, and Liz Schmitt
Room: CC 206
Description:
Lecture capture is being piloted on campus for capturing class lectures for later review by students. Come to this session to hear how a few of our faculty have been using lecture capture for their classes. Hear about the advantages and disadvantages they have had as well as a pilot project that will be conducted in the Spring semester.
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Session 13
Time: 10:40 - 11:40
Session Title: Ingeniux Components
Presenters: Pat MacNeill and one other person from the web team
Room: CC 202
Description:
Ingeniux enables us to use components, pieces of reusable information, that can be placed on multiple web pages. During this session we will create, edit and insert an alternate left nav component. We will also create a right column component. This workshop is for people who edit departmental web pages on the SUNY Oswego website who have already attended Getting Started with Ingeniux.
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Session 14
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Session Title: Laker Apps Gmail
Presenters: Eric Smith and Dan Vandermark
Room: CC 206
Description:
The email features of LakerApps Gmail including basic composition of messages, conversations, use of labels as folders, customizing settings, creating vacation messages and signatures will be demonstrated. Contacts, spam filtering and built-in chat capabilities will also be covered. This workshop combines lecture with hands-on practice.
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Session 15
Time: 1:00 - 2:00
Session Title: Laker Apps Docs
Presenters: Eric Smith and Steve Leeper
Room: CC 202
Description:
LakerApps Docs, consisting of file creation, collaboration and storage will be demonstrated in this workshop. With file creation and collaboration, you will see how easy it is to create your own documents and share them with others to be worked on collaboratively. With file storage, you will see how files can be easily uploaded into LakerApps for easy access from anywhere. Searching and file organization will also be covered. This workshop combines lecture with hands-on practice.
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Session 16
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Which SmartPhone is Right For You?
Presenter: Joe Moreau
Room: CC 206
Description:
This session will discuss the various types of smartphone devices, operating systems, and service levels faculty and staff should consider when selecting a mobile device of this type.
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Session 17
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Session Title: Tablet Computer Overview
Presenter: Joe Moreau
Room: CC 206
Description:
This session will discuss and demonstrate a variety of tablet computing devices including Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle, and Android-based devices. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about device options and specification as well as service plans from wireless carriers.
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Session 18
Time: 2:00 - 3:00
Session Title: Laker Apps Calendar
Presenters: Nicole Decker and Andy Goldzweig
Room: CC 206
Description:
Start organizing your events with LakerApps Calendar. Calendar basics such as creating one-time and recurring events will be reviewed. We will then cover sharing your calendar with the campus and colleagues, sending meeting invitations, creating multiple calendars, setting up event notifications and creating task lists. This workshop combines lecture with hands-on practice.
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Session 19
Time: 2:30 - 3:30
Session Title: Embed a Picasa Slide show, You Tube Video and Laker Aps Doc into your web page
Presenter: Pat MacNeil
Room: CC 202
Description:
Embed a Picasa Slide Show - We will embed a Picassa slide show on your web pages using Ingeniux. Please note: a private Google account is needed for this session. Currently, his feature is not available on Laker Apps. Prior to the session, please upload at least 5 images to photos in your private Google account.

Embed a YouTube Video-It's quick and easy. Just copy and paste.

Embed a Laker Apps Document - You can embed a Laker Apps document on a web page. Each time you edit and save the document in Laker Apps, the updated version will appear on your web page (usually within 5 min.).

Before the session, please create a document in your Laker Apps account. Go go Documents > choose Create New > Document. Name it and place some text, then save. We will embed this document on a web page using Ingeniux.
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Session 20
Time: 3:00 - 4:00
Session Title: Citation Hell - How to Get Out
Presenters: members of the Committee on Intellectual Integrity
Room: CC 206
Description:
Many faculty encounter what they consider plagiarism from faulty citations. But mastering any one citation style is difficult, and students encounter and are required to use a host of different citation styles across the curriculum. A recent commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/article/Citation-Obsession-Get-Over/129575/) questions our obsession with citations. Join us in a discussion and debate over what we should be asking of our students - especially students in our general education courses.
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Wednesday, January 18

Session 21
Time: 9:00 - noon
Session Title: Registering with COS Pivot
Presenters: Jack Gelfand and Linda Cook
Room: 123 Penfield
Description:
Jack and Linda will be available to help faculty register with COS Pivot. Pivot gives Research Administrators, Research Development Professionals, and their institutions the edge to bring together the right research opportunities, funding, and people quickly and easily. It provides global and local connections tht strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration for faculty, staff researchers, and graduate students.
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Session 22
Time: 9:00 - 9:20
Session Title: Laker Apps Forms
Presenter: Pat MacNeill
Room: CC 202
Description:
Learn how to create an online form using LakerApps. The information that people submit into your form is automatically collected in a Google spreadsheet.
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Session 23
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Images for the web
Presenter: Pat MacNeill
Room: CC 202
Description:
Learn how to prepare an image so that it is web-ready. Why bother? Simply put, large images take longer to download and you will loose folks who are still using dial -up or other slow connections. In this hands-on workshop we will use Paint.net to edit images.
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Session 24
Time: 10:00-10:20
Session Title: Create Accessible Tables in Ingeniux
Presenter: Pat MacNeill
Room: CC 202
Description:
This short session will show you how to create an accessible table in Ingeniux.
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Session 25
Time 10:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Creating Styles in MS Word
Presenter: Dan Laird and Nicole Decker
Room CC 206
Description:
This session will show you how to create your own styles in MS Word. Styles are used for creating a set of fonts, colors, paragraph spacing that you use frequently and can be applied as your default style to any document.
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Session 26
Time: 10:30 - 11:30
Session Title: Computer games in the classrooms : Using interactive simulations for teaching and learning
Presenter: Damian Schofield
Room: CC 202
Description:
Advanced three-dimensional virtual environment technology, similar to that used by the film and computer games industry, can allow educational developers to rapidly create realistic virtual environments. This talk will show how technology has been used to generate a range of interactive Virtual Reality (VR) learning environments across a broad spectrum of industries and educational application areas.
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Session 27
Time 10:30 - 10:50
Session Title: Using Textbook Resources in ANGEL
Presenter: Katharine Dutton and Nicole Decker
Room CC 206
Description:
This session will show you how to enable the McGraw-Hill Campus nugget within your ANGEL course to have online access to textbook resources such as powerpoint presentations, quizzes, etc. that can be downloaded and used in your course. This workshop will also demonstrate how you can create your own textbook using different chapters of McGraw-Hill books.
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Session 28
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Saving, Sharing and Searching using GoogleDocs
Presenter: Natalie Sturr
Room: CC 206
Description:
If you have a large collection of documents or data you wish to share with other scholars, or materials you need to preserve for future browsing, searching and retrieval, then GoogleDocs in LakerApps may be just the tool for you! Based on experience in building an archive of documentation for the Middle States review, this session will share some best practices discovered in the process, including: creating and populating collections for browsing vs. searching; organizing files for easy browsing; file naming tips; department vs. personal accounts; archiving web pages; and tips for uploading, "organizing", and "sharing" files. We will also look at the phenomenal search capabilities of GoogleDocs.
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Session 29
Time: 11:30 - 11:50
Session Title: Using Voice Thread to enrich online discussions
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
This workshop will examine how Voice Thread may be used to create multimedia online discussions.
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Session 30
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Best Practices in Reviewing Faculty PDF Portfolios
Presenters: Natalie Sturr and Mark Springston
Room: CC 202
Description:
This session is for personnel committee members and administrators that may need to review a faculty folder that is submitted as a PDF portfolio. With the new PDF portfolio capabilities available in Acrobat, some faculty members may choose to create their retention, tenure, and/or promotion folders in this format. The PDF portfolio integrates a variety of media such as stand-alone PDFs, documents, video, animation, images, and folders that are housed in one PDF viewable in Acrobat Reader. Best practices for reviewing and navigating PDF portfolios will be discussed. Making electronic notes on documents for future reference will also be demonstrated.
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Session 31
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Editing Microsoft Office documents anywhere on iOS or Android devices
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
Description:
Participants in this workshop will create free Dropbox accounts and examine tools that may be used to edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on iPads, iPhones, and Android compatible smarthphones and tablets.

If you wish to efficiently use Dropbox on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore your admin rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 32
Time: 1:30 - 2:25
Session Title: Our Experience in a Cultural Immersion Course Designed for Cultural Competence in Haiti
Presenters: Barbara Streets, Karen Wolford, Roger Brooks, and Guerda Nicolas
Room: CC 206
Description:
Barbara Streets, Karen Wolford, Roger Brooks, and Guerda Nicolas will discuss their experiences associated with a cultural immersion course in which students visited Haiti. Student participants used iPads to assist in interviews and data gathering.
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Session 33
Time: 2:30 - 2:50
Session Title: Using Evernote to Organize Materials for Presentation, Classes, or Projects
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
Description:
Evernote is a cloud-based service that lets you organize notes, documents, images, media clips, and urls in a systematic manner. It runs on iPhones, iPads, Android compatible smartphones and tablets, and on desktops and laptops running Windows, OSX, or linux. In this workshop, participants will explore how Evernote may be used for a wide variety of purposes.

If you wish to use the Evernote client on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/

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Session 34
Time: 3:00 - 4:00
Session Title: Raising the Bar in your Classes
Presenters: Bill Bosch and John Kane
Room: CC 206
Description:
Learning is enhanced for all students when educators build learning skills, design an effective learning environment, and are effective facilitators of learning. This session builds on the workshop that SUNY Center for Professional Development presented on this campus in October. All are welcome to attend, including the participants in the October workshop.
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Session 35
Time: 4:15 - 5:15
Session Title: Assessment: Clear, Effective, and USEFUL!
Presenter: Barbara Walvoord
Room: IPAC conference room
Description:
Barbara Walvoord will provide a discussion of how assessment may be done effectively and productively.
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Thursday, January 19

Session 36
Time: 9:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Best Practices in Using Acrobat to Create Faculty PDF Portfolios
Presenters: Mark Springston and Natalie Sturr
Room: Wilber B5 (NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE)
Description:
This workshop is designed for faculty members who want to create a PDF portfolio for their retentions folders. With the release of Acrobat Version 9, the PDF portfolio technology was included, which combines a variety of media into one PDF collection/document with a navigation system. Media that can be included in the PDF Portfolio are stand-alone PDFs, documents, video, animation, images, and folders. Best practices for converting source documents to stand alone PDFs will also be discussed. The workshop is open to all who would like to learn about the PDF portfolio and best practices in creating PDFs.

If you wish to install Adobe Acrobat on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 37
Time: 9:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Open Review Session for Ingeniux Users
Presenters: one or more members of the web team
Room: CC 206
Description:
Did you miss something in training? Or, do you just have a couple of questions about Ingeniux? Here's your opportunity ask expert. In this open session, one or more of the web team members will be on hand to review and answer your questions about our new Content Management System. Come in anytime between 9:00 and 10:20.
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Session 38
Time: 10:30 - 11:30
Session Title: Making better photographs
Presenter: Jim Russell
Room: CC 202
Jim Russell will discuss some of the basic principles of good picture making. Time will be provided to discuss camera options.
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Session 39
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Session Title: BANNER Tune-up
Presenter: Susan Fisk
Room: CC 206
Description:
Review Banner navigation tools, learn what forms you have available to you and where to find student and/or registration information.
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Session 40
Time: 12:00 - 4:30
Session Title: Beginning Beer Brewing
Presenters: Casey Raymond and Jeff Schneider
Room: Hewitt Union kitchen
Description:
Casey Raymond and Jeff Schneider will provide a workshop on home brewing. This workshop is limited to the first 10 registrants.
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Session 41
Time: 1:00 - 1:55
Session Title: Supporting Content Reading and Writing with ReadOutloud and DraftBuilder software
Presenter: Roberta Schnorr
Room: CC 202
Description:
This session will provide a brief "hands on" overview of new literacy support software now available to our campus. Read Outloud is Screen Reader software for digital texts that includes supports and strategies to guide content reading and note taking. Draft Builder is software designed to support planning and organization in the writing process, and includes customizable templates for specific writing projects.
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Session 42
Time: 1:20 - 2:20
Session Title: Multimedia Creation and Editing
Presenters: Daniel Laird and Emily Thompson
Room: CC 206
Description:
This workshop will introduce you to options available for creating multimedia on campus. We will review how to create an audio and video recording or screencast and then how you can edit them using the freely available Audacity and commercially available Camtasia Studio software. This workshop combines lecture with hands-on practice.

If you wish to use Camtasia on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 43
Time: 2:00 - 3:30
Session Title: Using Elluminate for Web Conferencing
Presenter: Nicole Decker and Kathi Dutton
Room: CC 202
Description:
Elluminate is web-conferencing software that allows you to either present or participate in a conference all from the Web. Listen to or give a presentation from your office, home, wherever you can find a computer connected to the Internet! Common uses for Elluminate include teaching, online workshops, online meetings, and general presentations.Wish to use Elluminate for the spring semester? Come to this workshop to get trained on how to use it.

If you wish to use Elluminate effectively on college-owned computers, you will need to have administrative rights to install supporting programs. Beginning in the summer of 2010 and continuing through the fall of 2011, CTS has removed admin rights on most faculty and staff computers. They have committed to promptly restoring these rights to all users who request their restoration. To restore these rights, visit: https://www.oswego.edu/cts/userprivs/forms/
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Session 44
Time: 2:30 - 4:00
Session Title: Advisement I: Using the CAPP report to avoid common pitfalls in advisement
Presenters: Rameen Mohammadi, Michelle Bandla, and Shelly StJohn
Room: CC 206
Description:
Too many students are approaching graduation with problems that could have been avoided. In this two-part workshop, Associate Provost Rameen Mohammadi, First-Year Programs Coordinator Michelle Bandla, and Associate Registrar Shelly St. John discuss some of the common pitfalls that may occur. As part of this discussion, they will show how CAPP reports should be used to help ensure that your advisees graduate in a timely manner.
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Session 45
Time: 3:40 - 4:00
Session Title: Managing Your Google Scholar Profile
Presenter: John Kane
Room CC 202
Description:
Google Scholar has indexed most peer-reviewed articles, working papers, books, and other scholarly pulications published in he last 40 years. In this workshop, each participant will create a Google Scholar profile containing a searchable listing of his or her publications.
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Friday, January 20

Session 46
Time: 9:00 - 10:20
Session Title: What are Students Learning when they are Globally Engaged?
Presenters: Josh McKeown, Director, Office of International Education and Programs
Shashi Kanbur, Faculty Fellow and Director of Global Laboratories
Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Professor and Director, Institute for Global Engagement

Room: CC 206
Description:

Each presenter will make a 15 minute presentation on their studies of what students have learned in their global engagement activities here on campus and/or abroad. Discussion will follow presentations focusing on what learning we are seeking in preparing students for their futures and how we might strengthen their learning. This session should be of interest to all those who have been contributing to or wish to contribute to internationalization efforts on our campus.
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Session 46.5
Time: 9:00 - 9:55
Session Title: So What Should I Ask Them to Write?: Assignments that Promote Thoughtful Writing
Presenter:Michael Murphy
Room: CC 202
Description:
Unlike faculty, whose writing projects typically emerge from their own interests, the students in our courses normally respond to the prompts we give them. So how do you offer a prompt that goes beyond asking students for a report of information and emulates the sort of self-sponsored writing scholars do - one that encourages creative, thoughtful, critical engagement with an idea and cultivates mastery of a discipline's key ideas and language conventions? This session will offer some practical suggestions for composing good formal writing assignments. Participants are encouraged to bring an assignment they've been working on or would like to reimagine.
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Session 47
Time: 10:00 - 10:55
Session Title: Laker Apps Sites
Presenter: Nicole Decker
Room: CC 202
Description:
Looking to create a personal web page? LakerApps Sites allows you to do just that. Creating a basic site, adding themes, editing site layout, inserting images, uploading documents, collaborating with others and sharing your site will be covered. By the end of this workshop, you will have your own personal basic site created. This workshop combines lecture with hands-on practice.
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Session 48
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Session Title: Laker Apps - Tieing it All Together
Presenters: Nicole Decker
Room: CC 202
Description:
This workshop will review how all of the LakerApps applications can work together. This includes Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Sites. See how you can create a task list or an event from Gmail, how you can attach an agenda for a meeting in Calendar, how to email collaborators from within Docs, how to include a calendar in your personal website and more.
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Session 49
Time: 1:00 - 2:20
Session Title: ANGEL Gradebook Bootcamp
Presenters: Doug Hemphill and Katherine Dutton
Room: CC 202
Description:
After a brief overview of the ANGEL Gradebook feature, we will offer one-on-one consulting to assist you in creating a gradebook in ANGEL.
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Session 50
Time: 1:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Incivility in the Classroom
Presenters: Rhonda Mandel, Marta Santiago, Lisa Evaneski, and Cindy Adams
Room: CC 206
Description:
Many faculty members have commented on an increased trend toward incivility in the classroom. This has also been noted in the national literature in higher education. The purpose of this session is two fold:

1. To have faculty share effective strategies for dealing with incivility in the classroom
2. To learn what recourse faculty have when dealing with incidents of incivility

Please come and share your experiences with colleagues.
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Session 51
Time: 2:30 - 4:00
Session Title: Advisement II: Using the CAPP report to avoid common pitfalls in advisement
Presenters: Rameen Mohammadi, Michelle Bandla, and Shelly StJohn
Room: CC 202
Description:
Too many students are approaching graduation with problems that could have been avoided. In this two-part workshop, Associate Provost Rameen Mohammadi, First-Year Programs Coordinator Michelle Bandla, and Associate Registrar Shelly St. John discuss some of the common pitfalls that may occur. As part of this discussion, they will show how CAPP reports should be used to help ensure that your advisees graduate in a timely manner.
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Session 52
Time: 2:30 - 3:30
Session Title: Did the Maya Civilization have a Technology Plan?
Presenter: Joe Moreau
Room: CC 206
Description:
It is a little known fact that archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians attribute the dire predictions of the Maya people and the ultimate disappearance of their society to the lack of an effective technology plan. In an effort to avoid a similar fate, SUNY Oswego is in the process of developing a long-range technology plan. Broad-based input to the needs assessment, goals and objectives, and benchmarks of the plan is critical to its success. Please join this session to learn about the progress toward the development of the plan and bring your best ideas for incorporation.
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