We’re now offering a new technology workshop on the Fordham Training website called
“Blackboard Made Easy“.
This for instructors who have never used Blackboard before and have little or no computer experience but want to take advantage of using the online system to post class materials.
At the end of the hour long workshop, some of the basic tasks instructors will be able to do are:
- Posting content to Blackboard
- Creating a discussion board forum
- Making their course available and accessible
We hope to offer this workshop monthly, and perhaps even have a more advanced course available to showcase some of the other features in Blackboard that would be useful to instructors. If you are interested in attending please visit the Fordham Training website to sign up.
The next dates this workshop will be offered are 12/9 at Rose Hill & 12/10 at Lincoln Center, but space is limited so register soon!
The Spring technology training schedule for faculty and staff has been posted. New offerings for this year include wikis, social networking, and Google Documents, as well as classes on a range of MS Office products and basic web tools. See http://www.fordham.edu/training for details.
If you have registered for technology traing this Fall and need your course materials, or if you have taken a course in the past and want to brush up, or even if you are just thinking about taking a course and want to see what will be covered, visit the Wiki and click the link for training coursepacks.
This Summer’s technology training offerings for faculty and staff have been posted. You can view the listings and register for classes at http://www.fordham.edu/training.
This is episode 3 of the ITAC podcast, a recording of the second part of Richard Sweeney’s keynote address to our Annual Technology Conference on May 22nd.
Mr. Sweeney is University Librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and spoke about the challenges of teaching incoming tech-savvy “millennial” students. The first part of the Keynote, Mr. Sweeney’s actual address, can be viewed in Episode 2.
In this episode, Mr. Sweeney interviews a panel of Fordham’s own millennials about their experiences with technology in the classroom and out, at Fordham and elsewhere, and about their general consumer habits, life outlook, and learning styles.
The Spring 2007 technology training schedule has been finalized. Visit http://www.fordham.edu/training for the complete list of courses on offer and to register for training sessions.
Fordham IT has launched a new Student Technology Center to replace CompURam. Walk-in centers on each campus provide students with technical support for Hardware, networking, wireless access and university-supported software. Think of it as the FTC for your students.
Details are available at the Student Technology Services site: www.fordham.edu/sts.
The final October technology training schedule for Rose Hill is below. For more information or to register for a session, visit http://www.fordham.edu/training.
The final October technology training schedule for Rose Hill is below. For more information or to register for a session, visit http://www.fordham.edu/training.
