Upcoming Events Sponsored by the LLC

In addition to these group events, individual help sessions can be scheduled by request to learn about an instructional technology or other resource for language teaching. 

Please note that unless specified otherwise, these workshops will meet in the main lab of the Language Learning Center.

Monday, January 14 from 3:00 to 4:00: Blackboard for Beginners .

This workshop is designed to help faculty prepare their course Blackboard sites for the beginning of the semester.  Topics will include how to make your course available, how to enroll students, how to customize the appearance of your Blackboard site, etc.  This workshop will meet in the Canaday Training Classroom on A-level of the Library.

Tuesday, January 15 from 1:00 to 2:00: Blackboard Advanced Topics .

This workshop is designed to help faculty use Blackboard features such as the Discussion Board, Blog and Wiki tools, online gradebook, calendar, etc.  This workshop will meet in the Canaday Training Classroom on A-level of the Library.

Wednesday, January 16 from 3:00 to 4:00: iTunes University (LLC).

This workshop is designed to introduce faculty and staff to iTunes University, a new resource at Bryn Mawr.  This service will allow faculty to post digital text and media files to iTunes for use by students or a more general audience.  

Monday, March 10 from 9:00 to 4:30: Gaming and Teaching: Virtual Environments for Liberal Education (LLC).

This event is offered in conjunction with NITLE's Workshops-To-Go. " From their roots in text and crude graphics, online interactive games have evolved into sophisticated virtual worlds featuring everything from collaborative building projects to sailing competitions buffeted by in-world winds to swordfights and death rays. In the process, they've captured the imaginations of college students, media scholars, and a large swath of the global audience. In this workshop, faculty members and their academic support partners will learn about contemporary directions in the scholarship of teaching with gaming and gain hands-on experience in a virtual world such as Second Life. Participants will consider issues and concerns surrounding the selection, implementation, and support of online gaming in the higher education context. Additionally, participants will discuss and learn from case studies of the real-world use of these environments and games in college teaching and learning. Participants will leave the workshop with a concrete understanding of how to use online gaming and virtual environments as tools to promote active learning."   (www.NITLE.org)

Find Out More

• Bryant, T. (2007). Games as an Ideal Learning Environment. Transformations, April 13.

To attend, Tri-Co faculty and staff should notify the LLC Director.

Tuesday, March 11 from 9:00 to 4:30: Digital Audio Workshop (LLC).

This event is offered in conjunction with NITLE's Workshops-To-Go. "With the advantages of portability, repeatability and constant availability, digital audio has a variety of uses for a liberal arts college. For example, it can facilitate language learning, oral histories, or biology field notes. This workshop helps participants to develop an understanding of sound recording and skills for creating, capturing, and editing quality digital sound for teaching and learning. Engaging in hands-on practice, participants learn to use the open-source sound editor Audacity. They will complete a digital audio project from start to finish, including storyboarding, scripting, recording, editing, and output. Participants will leave with a complete digital audio project and a plan for employing digital audio for teaching and learning."  (www.NITLE.org)

To attend, Tri-Co faculty and staff should notify the LLC Director or Mark Colvson before February 1, 2008.

Wednesday, March 12 from 8:30 to 5:00: Digital Video Production with iMovie (Swarthmore).

This event is offered in conjunction with NITLE's Workshops-To-Go. "Participants in this workshop will learn how to make the most of the digital video medium by centering on two key elements: videography and digital video editing. Participants will gain a firm understanding of what it takes to produce usable raw video footage, including necessary equipment, movie-making techniques, video standards, and ways to avoid common mistakes. Participants will shoot video; engage in group critique of the footage; capture, edit, and compress video for pedagogical use; and explore different delivery methods, such as the web, DVD, and VHS. After completing this intensive, one-day version of our standard two-day workshop, participants will leave with a complete video project and ideas for using this medium to enhance their instruction and promote active learning in and out of the classroom. "  (www.NITLE.org)

To attend, Bryn Mawr faculty and staff should notify Mark Colvson before February 1, 2008.

Thursday, March 13 from 9:00 to 4:30: Digital Image Editing (Swarthmore).

This event is offered in conjunction with NITLE's Workshops-To-Go. "Thanks to digital cameras, photo-sharing sites like Flickr, and Google Image Search, digital images are readily available. When using such images to teach, however, instructors sometimes find that available images need tweaking before they can be used successfully to support teaching goals or create the right learning moments. Digital image editing allows users to manipulate images to change their size and shape or improve their quality. In this workshop, participants will learn about basic scanning and still image manipulation using Adobe Photoshop. Topics include basic color theory, terminology, image file types, document management tools, cropping and rotating images, basic and intermediate selection tools, drawing and painting tools, basic color correction, and type tools. Participants will gain an understanding of the mechanics of image and graphic editing and how to use these skills to design and structure material to address curricular and pedagogical needs. "  (www.NITLE.org)

To attend, Bryn Mawr faculty and staff should notify Mark Colvson before February 1, 2008.

Friday, March 14 from 9:00 to 4:30: Web-Mapping (Swarthmore).

This event is offered in conjunction with NITLE's Workshops-To-Go. "Web-based mapping tools like Google Earth are changing the way we understand our world by promoting spatial thinking and visual literacy. Across the disciplines, teachers can use a visual or spatial approach as an analytic framework for curricular materials that brings key perspectives and points to students’ attention that may be missed otherwise. Since these tools do not require lengthy training, they can be easily integrated into curricula and research. Participants in this workshop will learn how easy-to-use, intuitive web-mapping and virtual globe applications can be used to develop spatially or geographically-based curricula. For example, web-mapping allows teachers and their students to

• create two-dimensional place maps with applications that turn mapping programs into social software (Wayfaring, Platial, GPS Visualizer, and many others);
• access census data maps through the American Fact Finder, Social Explorer, and others; and
• use and customize virtual globes (Google Earth and NASA's World Wind) as learning tools.

Participants will leave with a plan for integrating spatial and geographic thinking into their teaching and research."  (www.NITLE.org)

To attend, Bryn Mawr faculty and staff should notify Mark Colvson before February 1, 2008.