| Fridays from 1-2 (with time afterward in some cases for supported work time) January 28: Multimedia presentations, Guild Lounge Many faculty and students have been using PowerPoint for presentations for years, but only know the basics. Learn how to up the ante a little by including video, photos, charts, and sounds into your presentations. We’ll also show you some alternatives to PowerPoint for different types of presentations and discuss best practices for using multimedia presentations both in class and on the web. (Laura Blankenship and Ben Johnston) February 4: Search and re-search, Guild Lounge Search technology has come a long way in the last couple of years. Google has introduced Google Scholar and has announced the library digitization project. How will these projects affect library research? What do we need to know about the differences between Googling and doing a good library search? Join computer scientists, technologists and librarians for a roundtable discussion about search and research. (Susan Turkel, Bryn Mawr Library; Geoffrey Towell, Visiting Computer Science Professor) February 11: Portable technology, Guild Lounge Taking your lessons on the road. Palms, iPods, Cellphones, Laptops, oh my. They’re everywhere, it seems, but are they simply communication or entertainment devices or can they be a useful educational resource? What are the possibilities for using these devices for teaching or research? Come dive into the world of handheld applications, podcasting, moblogging, mobile presentations, and text messaging. (Laura Blankenship, Ben Johnston, and Mike Zarro) February 18: Putting up a web site @ BMC (supported work time), Guild Lab Want a web site, personal or professional? Don’t know how to begin? Or did you inherit a web site without any instruction on how to navigate the system? We’ll help you get a site up and running on the Bryn Mawr web server. Bring your files, your questions, your helpless html and we’ll bring it all to life. Note: this is not a web design class, but a class in helping you put a site on the server. However, you may come without anything and just want to set everything up and design later. (Mike Zarro, Laura Blankenship, Ben Johnston, and Janet Scannell) February 25: MDID Image Viewer Demo, Guild Lounge MDID (Madison Digital Image Database) is a tool to create image presentations from image collections, both Bryn Mawr’s and your own. The tool is very easy to use and an effective way of collecting and presenting images. (Joan Beaudoin, Visual Resources; Ben Jonston, LLC) March 18:Employing the Web and You , Guild Lounge Dolly LeBec from the CDC will join us to help us navigate online resources for job searching. She will show us what resources are provided for the Bi-Co community. Mike Zarro and Laura Blankenship will discuss issues of an online persona. They will talk about using blogs, online communities, and web sites to promote yourself and the pitfalls of being "out there" online. (Mike Zarro, Liza Bernard and Dolly LeBec, Career Development Office) March 25: Plagiarism, Guild Lounge In this session, we will attempt to move the conversation of plagiarism away from the "cops and robbers" issues and reframe it as a teaching issue. Faculty need to know that students have been taught things by high school and even college teachers that confuse them about using sources, making it more likely that they'll fall into plagiarism. We’ll also look at some technological tools like turnitin.com and resources to help students and teachers avoid plagiarism. In addition, Rona Pietrzak will help us sort through policies at Bryn Mawr regarding plagiarism. (Laura Blankenship, Gail Hemmeter, Rona Pietrzak) April 1:Using blogs to teach writing, Guild Lounge Blogging has taken the world by storm. ABC News named bloggers as the “People of the Year.” How can we tap this great new development for teaching? We will show you the Bryn Mawr blog software and how to create accounts. We’ll also talk about strategies for using blogs to help students improve their writing. (Laura Blankenship, Ben Johnston, Gail Hemmeter) April 8: Social software, Guild Lounge Software that has a social life? Not exactly. The wikipedia defines social software as communication tools that facilitate interaction and collaboration by using social convention rather than software features. Blog software is considered social software. Other types of social software include internet relay chat, discussion boards, instant messaging, and wikis. We’ll discuss the uses of these applications and how they might be used to extend the classroom community virtually. (Laura Blankenship) April 15: Home computing, Guild Lounge Want to buy a new computer, but don’t know where to start? Need some advice on maintaining the one you have? Want to buy a printer/scanner or other peripheral, but want to make sure it works well with your existing system? Two of our computer maintenance specialists will discuss purchasing and maintaining computers, including what to look for in a new computer and peripherals and how to maintain the operating system. (Rodney Battle and Chris Iwane) April 22: Personal Response System demo, Location TBA Come see how professors at Bryn Mawr are using the “faculty voting system” in their classes to help students learn key concepts. (Peter Brodfuehrer, Neal Williams)
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