Faculty Training July Boot Camp Workshops July 19-21

Faculty Training July Boot Camp Workshops

If you haven’t yet had the time or opportunity to register, now is your chance to explore the latest tools for online course development, design, interaction, and even assessment. Participants in our summer boot camp workshops will engage in activities that will get you comfortable and knowledgeable with the Web 2.0 tools most helpful to increasing engagement within online and hybrid courses.

The latest engagement tools like wikis, blogs, Voicethread, Camtasia and SoftChalk are products which, used in layered progression, can help foster interaction: forging connections with your students, facilitating their collaboration with one another (e.g., wikis, blogs, and discussion boards that use audio and video as well as text). Alongside your colleagues, experienced trainers will guide you through the basics of the tools and allow you to follow the instructional process, applying innovative techniques and technologies.

We will encourage peer interaction and discussion in the workshops to support multiple perspectives. Through the workshops, you will become familiar with strategies for effective online and hybrid learning- even discover ways to increase your students’ use of technology to communicate within your in-person courses!

Participants will asked to bring along their syllabi and, course documents if applicable, so that we might discuss the ways in which these activities can be used in your current context.

The faculty in attendance in June’s workshops felt they had gained a wealth of information to draw upon... some of the comments received were:

"well worth the three days I spent!"
"I never knew how much my pedagogy could grow until I developed my first online course, this series illustrates there is so much to know"
"I truly enjoyed myself"
"the workshops gave me a lot to think about!"
"these tools are really fun to learn"
"I can't wait to go home and play with these programs"
"intense!"

We weren't kidding when we called it a 'boot camp'. Come see what all your colleagues are talking about!