CIS Week of Workshops – August 2015

Wednesday, August 26, 2015–Friday, August 28, 2015

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Tools for the Task Workshops

Beyond Chalk and Markers: Document Camera, iPad and Smartboard Live and Archived Video

A fun and hands-on workshop on using technology as an alternative to writing on the chalk or whiteboard. We’ll be doing a brief demo of the document camera, Smartboard and iPad for displaying and recording handwritten notes as well as for annotating electronic documents like Word and PDF documents.

Thursday, August 27
10–11 a.m.
Shanahan 2460

Course Web Sites: Sakai, Google Sites and pages.hmc.edu Live and Archived Video

CIS provides several different ways to create course web sites. For those who want a completely out of the box solution Sakai may be the best choice. Most faculty are already familiar with Sakai, so we’ll show a few tricks and tips for making Sakai work better for you as a course web site. Google Sites is a solution for those who want to customize their course web sites, but don’t want to have to write HTML code. For the more technically inclined, CIS also has a brand new way to create web sites on a site called pages.hmc.edu. Pages.hmc.edu is the replacement for www2.hmc.edu, www3.hmc.edu and www4.hmc.edu, which are all slated for retirement. Like www4.hmc.edu, pages.hmc.edu uses a directory in your home directory on the Windows file server to host web pages.

Friday, August 28
10–11 a.m.
Shanahan 2460

Diving Deep Workshops

New Features in Sakai 2.10 Live and Archived Video

We will be upgrading to version 2.10 of Sakai on August 12th. The new version has an unusually large number of new features to some familiar tools. Resources, Syllabus, Assignments are just some of the tools that have received significant makeovers with new features and user interfaces. We have also added a brand new tool called Assignment2 which has some features not available in the regular Assignments tool.

Wednesday, August 26
10–11 a.m.
Shanahan 2460

AV in the Lecture Hall and Recital Hall

Teaching in the Lecture Hall for the first time? Or just need a refresher? Our Audiovisual staff will demonstrate how to use the audiovisual resources in the Lecture Hall and Recital Hall including the video projectors and screens, playing audio and video, and using the microphones.

Wednesday, August 26
11–11:30 a.m.
Shanahan 1430

Sakai Assignments and Gradebook Tools Live and Archived Video

There are now two tools for creating assignments in Sakai as well as two for creating a gradebook: Assignments and Assignment2 and Gradebook and Gradebook2. We’ll be reviewing the basics of each tool and comparing them to each other. We’ll also cover how to use assignments and the gradebook together.

Wednesday, August 26
2–3 p.m.
Shanahan 2460

AV in the Shanahan Learning Center

Need a refresher on using the AV systems in the classrooms in the Shanahan Center? Just getting back from a sabbatical or new to HMC? Our Audiovisual staff will demonstrate how to use the audiovisual resources in the classrooms in the Shanahan Center, including the video projectors and screens, playing audio and video, managing multiple screens, managing cables and lighting, and using the microphones (where applicable).

Wednesday, August 26
3–3:30 p.m.
Shanahan 2460

Lecture Capture Live and Archived Video

We have had our Lecture Capture systems at HMC now for a year. We will be going over how to request a recording to be scheduled, which rooms are available, and the best practices to have a great recording. We will also cover how to get the recordings put into class Sakai sites as well as the analytics that can be retrieved.

Thursday, August 27
11 a.m.–noon
Shanahan 2460

Anki Flash Cards Live and Archived Video

Want to learn the names and faces of all of the students in your classes? How about all of your advisees or your department’s majors? Interested in using flash cards to learn other topics? Come to this new workshop and learn how to download and install the Anki program which lets you easily create decks of flash cards and use them to memorize names and faces as well as other things efficiently and quickly. This is a hands on workshop where we will install Anki, upload a file of all of the current students and demonstrate how to use Anki to learn faces and names.

Thursday, August 27
1–2 p.m.
Shanahan 2460

Sakai Lessons and Syllabus Tool Live and Archived Video

The Sakai Lessons tool is relatively new to our instance of Sakai, and uses a very different paradigm from most other Sakai tools. Lessons allows you to create pages that link to other Sakai tools such as quizzes, assignments, resource items, or forum topics. Usage scenarios include creating an interactive syllabus or lesson plan. You can create multiple pages that appear in the list of tools on the left or use one page to link to multiple subpages. Inserting images or other multimedia files allow you to create more visually interesting pages.

The Sakai Syllabus tool has been around for a long time, but a brand new version has added great new features that make this tool a lot more interesting and useful. Like Lessons, Syllabus now allows you to link to other Sakai tools as well as create multiple syllabus entries. A very simple user interface makes it a quick tool to learn and use.

Thursday, August 27
2–3 p.m.
Shanahan 2460

Research and High Performance Computing Live and Archived Video

Interested in learning more about how you can get support for your research and high performance computing needs? Jeho Park will talk about cloud computing resources, data management resources, XSEDE (the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) and his work as the XSEDE Campus Champion.

Thursday, August 27
3–4 p.m.
Shanahan 2460

AV in the Lecture Hall and Recital Hall

Friday, August 28
11–11:30 a.m.
Shanahan 1430

Using iClickers in the Classroom Live and Archived Video

Clickers, also called Personal Response Tools, are an easy and effective way to make your class more interactive. Use them to gauge whether you’re going too fast or too slow, reveal preconceived misunderstandings, or how well students have understood concepts you’ve presented in earlier classes. In addition to multiple choice questions, the new iClickers also support questions that require students to enter numerical or text answers.

Friday, August 28
2–3 p.m.
Shanahan 2460

AV in the Shanahan Learning Center

Need a refresher on using the AV systems in the classrooms in the Shanahan Center? Just getting back from a sabbatical or new to Harvey Mudd? Our Audiovisual staff will demonstrate how to use the audiovisual resources in the classrooms in the Shanahan Center, including the video projectors and screens, playing audio and video, managing multiple screens, managing cables and lighting, and using the microphones (where applicable).

Friday, August 28
3–3:30 p.m.
Shanahan 2460