A number of Blackboard-related workshops will be offered in January, 2008, including the following:
Getting started with Blackboard
Tuesday, January 8 - This 90 minute hands-on workshop will get you started using Blackboard at UMBC. The workshop will cover how to access your course, basic course design, posting a syllabus, adding content, and managing users in your course. (Please bring an electronic copy of your syllabus if you have one.) Prerequisites: Active UMBC account
Blackboard Wikis and Blogs
Thursday, January 10 - All UMBC Blackboard courses and communities have access to interactive community publishing tools such as blogs (diary-like journals any user can create) and wikis (a communal web site anyone can add to and edit). This one hour hands-on workshop will give participants a chance to try out blogs and wikis for themselves, and show how others are currently using them in UMBC Blackboard courses and communities. Click here for an example from a previous workshop.
Note: This workshop assumes at least a basic understanding of the instructor's or leader's role and function inside a Blackboard course or community.
You can register for these Blackboard sessions by going to the Blackboard training page.
Jack Prostko, Director, Faculty Development Center, will again be offering an orientation session for new part-time faculty on January 22 and 26, 2008. (All part-time faculty who have not previously attended are also welcome to come.)
PT Faculty Orientation (Tue., Jan. 22, 5:30 to 8 p.m., UC312)
This session will focus will focus on establishing your myUMBC account, getting a class list, computer support, Blackboard, using the library, administrative issues such as parking, payroll and benefits, teaching and academic issues and teaching resources.
Teaching and Learning Workshop (Sat., Jan. 26, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., International Media Center (IMC)
9 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:30 a.m. Teaching and learning techniques, course goals, assignments, tests, and promoting academic integrity.
12:30 Lunch will be provided to registered participants
1 p.m. OIT will provide a hands-on introduction to Blackboard for those that have myUMBC accounts.
These sessions are sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Faculty Development Center. To register, see the Faculty Development training page.