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Tips & Tools - Advancing Your Use of Blackboard Sign Up View List
Join IDS team members Barb and Diane to discuss the answers to our top 5 most frequently faced challenges and most frequently suggested tips. This workshop is aimed at the instructor already using Blackboard, but who is looking for ways to increase or enhance that experience. We encourage you to submit your tips and burning questions ahead of time by sending us a message via: http://ids.truman.edu/ContactUs.asp  
Date:
 8/21/2008 		 Time:
 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM 		 Instructor:
 Barb Bevell and Diane Richmond		 Location:
 PML 103 		 Limit:
 20 		 Enrolled:
 5 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Rejuvenating Aesthetic Mode Courses Sign Up View List
During academic year 2007-2008 two English faculty participated in the National Center for Academic Transformation course redesign project. Incorporating significant instructional technology and alternative methods in an aesthetic mode course Christine Harker and Pat Gately have a story to tell. Come explore some options that you may never have considered to be beneficial to mainstream liberal arts courses. Lunch provided with your RSVP. 
Date:
 8/21/2008 		 Time:
 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM 		 Instructor:
 Pat Gately & Christine Harker		 Location:
 PML 205 		 Limit:
 15 		 Enrolled:
 14 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Getting Started in Blackboard Sign Up View List
This workshop will help instructors start building Blackboard course sites. During our workshop we will: explore the layout and key features of Blackboard, customize the course site, and introduce basic tools. 
Date:
 8/21/2008 		 Time:
 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 		 Instructor:
 Sherry Dare		 Location:
 MC 215 		 Limit:
 12 		 Enrolled:
 7 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Multimedia & Blackboard - How to use TruTube Sign Up View List
Join IDS team members Diane and Barb as they discuss TruTube, Trumans audio and video upload tool. TruTube is designed to facilitate the placement of video and audio files on Truman websites such as a Blackboard course or a personal/professional webpage. Workshop attendees may want have a (10 min or shorter) multimedia file available to practice with (.wav, .wmv, .avi, .mp3, .mov, etc.) 
Date:
 8/21/2008 		 Time:
 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM 		 Instructor:
 Diane Richmond and Barb Bevell		 Location:
 PML 103 		 Limit:
 20 		 Enrolled:
 0 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Blackboard & Blogs & Wikis, Oh My! Sign Up View List
Join IDS team members Diane and Barb as they present a demo on Learning Objects Teams LX and Journal LX, new features being added to Blackboard this fall. According to Learning Objects, Teams LX is a great way for instructors to create group assignments. Students work cooperatively to formulate, write, and publish their solutionsusing wiki technology. Utilizing blog technology, Journal LX gives instructors and students the tools to create rich media journals within a course. 
Date:
 8/22/2008 		 Time:
 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM 		 Instructor:
 Diane Richmond		 Location:
 PML 205 		 Limit:
 15 		 Enrolled:
 7 		 Waiting List:
 0 

**New** Blackboard Resource (Blackboard SafeAssign) Sign Up View List
This session will focus on the new Blackboard tool designed to extend the capabilities of the Learning System. We will examine SafeAssign, a new plagiarism prevention tool that can be used to educate students about proper citation of sources. We will look at how students submit papers and view plagiarism detection results, how instructors can view student results, how instructors can create a SafeAssignment, and how instructors can submit documents to be checked for plagiarism. 
Date:
 8/22/2008 		 Time:
 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 		 Instructor:
 Sherry Dare		 Location:
 MC 215 		 Limit:
 12 		 Enrolled:
 5 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Intro to Blackboard Sign Up View List
An overview of Blackboard 7.3 and the functions most commonly used by instructors using Blackboard for the first time will be discussed. 
Date:
 8/22/2008 		 Time:
 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 		 Instructor:
 Barb Bevell		 Location:
 PML 103 		 Limit:
 20 		 Enrolled:
 3 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Service-Learning Informational Meeting for Students and Student Organizations Sign Up View List
Supper provided with RSVP 
Date:
 9/9/2008 		 Time:
 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM 		 Instructor:
 Eugenia Siegel, Service-Learning Coordinator		 Location:
 SUB Georgian Room A 		 Limit:
 50 		 Enrolled:
 0 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Service-Learning Informational Meeting for Students and Student Organizations Sign Up View List
Supper provided with RSVP. 
Date:
 9/11/2008 		 Time:
 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM 		 Instructor:
 Eugenia Siegel, Service-Learning Coordinator		 Location:
 Down Under 		 Limit:
 50 		 Enrolled:
 0 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Getting Your Proposal through the IRB the FIRST Time (for faculty) Sign Up View List
Lunch provided with RSVP 
Date:
 9/25/2008 		 Time:
 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 		 Instructor:
 Kris McKim, Grants and Compliance Specialist		 Location:
 SUB Alumni Room 		 Limit:
 30 		 Enrolled:
 0 		 Waiting List:
 0 

Getting Your Proposal through the IRB the FIRST Time (for students) Sign Up View List
Supper provided with RSVP 
Date:
 9/25/2008 		 Time:
 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM 		 Instructor:
 Kris McKim, Grants and Compliance Specialist		 Location:
 SUB Alumni Room 		 Limit:
 30 		 Enrolled:
 1 		 Waiting List:
 0