If you are interested in any of the following topics please contact the FacLab to speak with a full time staff member. We can design workshops for individuals or small groups based on your needs and availability.

Workshop Schedule

Wix Feb 25th, 2pm-3pm, BC1
Prezi Feb 27th, 10am-11am, BC1
Googe Drive/Apps March 4th, 11am-12pm, BC1
Google Drive/ Apps March 7th, 11am-12pm), BC1

 

Click Here to register for any of the scheduled Workshops listed above.

Contact Info:

Gamin Bartle
gbartle@drew.edu
ext-3160

Nicole Pinto
npinto@drew.edu
ext-3244

Topics for FacLab 2.0 Workshops

    • Wix with guest speaker, Clemens Averbeck
      Educational Technology Professional, Clemens Averbeck ( http://www.averbecks.us/ ), will be introducing a new workshop. He will present a thoughtful and useful process to follow for creating a web site, including the work necessary to create content before creating the site itself. Clemens recommends using a flashed-based application,WIX ( http://www.wix.com ), that allows users to create interactive websites with ease. He will introduce this  Wix is a free tool that can be used to develop your professional web presence or encourage your students to create an E-Portfolio.

  • iPad Workshops

     

    iPad Basics

    • Setting up Drew Email
    • Searching your iPad
    • Downloading Apps
    • Setting up iTunes account

    Collaboration and Notetaking Apps

    iBrainstorm- This App works as a whiteboard and can be posted to Moodle or shared through email.

     

    Evernote- This is a note taking App that allows students to share notebooks with one another. This App allows users to sync their content with multiple devices by storing the information in the cloud.

     

    Adobe Reader- This is a free App available in the iTunes store, it allows you to download PDFs from the internet through Dropbox or Google Drive. You can annotate and highlight the PDFs as you read through them and save them back to either Google Drive or Dropbox. They can be accessed from any computer or device.

     

    Dropbox/Google Drive- There are two free storage Apps that allow you to store documents and access them from any device or computer.

     

     

    Creation Apps

    Skitch- Free App that can work along with Evernote or it can be used to create materials for your course on its own. It allows you to annotate on Maps, web pages and photos.

     

    Educreations- Works as a whiteboard and records audio. This can be used to create videos for your course and can be embedded into Moodle or any LMS system.

     

    Presentation Apps

    Slideshark- This is an App that allows you to store your PowerPoint file on the cloud. This makes it easy to access them with an iPad or any other mobile device.

     

    Prezi- This is an App that compliments the Web 2.0 tool, Prezi. It allows you to access your Prezis with your iPad and make small edits to them.

    Web 2.0 Workshops

    Wikispaces- This service is a free alternative way, to a traditional Learning Management System, to create course material for online learning. A wiki can be used to design different types of learning tools such as Webquests, portfolios and other course related material. Wikispaces can allow students to collaborate on assignments by editing page live, this enables students to read and build on each other’s work.

     

    Glogster- is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. A “Glog”, short for “graphics blog”, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Currently this social network has over one million registered users. The finish product can be embedded into anywhere you can use HTML.

     

    Prezi-Is a more creative and interesting way to demonstrate slide presentations, it is created on one giant canvas rather than multiple slides. The zoom feature on this tool allows the presenter to focus on one topic at a time, and navigate through each topic using motion. Along with the web based tool there is a free “App” that has been developed for IPad that allows you to perform basic edits and actually present your presentation from the IPad. Since Prezi is a Web based application students and teachers do not have to worry about storage issues.

     

    Professional Web Presence with Wix-flashed-based application,WIX ( http://www.wix.com ), that allows users to create interactive websites with ease. Wix is a free tool that can be used to develop your professional web presence or encourage your students to create an E-Portfolio.

     


    Social Media Workshops

    Facebook

     

    Twitter/Tweet Deck

     

    Flickr- Allows you to post pictures to other social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

    Moodle Workshops

    Basic

    • hide or show your Moodle site to make it visible or invisible to others
    • add students, Drew auditors, or members to your course and how to remove them
    • post announcements
    • upload and link to files
    • link to web pages
    • create folders and link to them
    • record attendance
    • send email to students
    • create assignment/drop boxes
    • change the layout of your Moodle site and change its color scheme (theme)

     

    Advanced

    • How to create a Book resource
    • assignment activities
    • wikis
    • quizzes
    • introduction to basic grading.

     

     

    Flipping Your Course

    If you have heard the phrase “Flipping your class,” and are interested in finding out whether this concept would suit your course, come to this workshop to find out! Flipping a class means basically turning it inside-out. Students work on the content on their own so that face to face class time is reserved for problem-solving and working with the content. Let us show you how to package and provide materials to your students using technology so that they can access everything easily and conveniently, freeing you up to use the class time the way you’d like.

     

    Coming Soon

     

    File Management 101: We think that this topic — and the work involved on the part of the participants – is far more substantial than can be accomplished in an hour,  an online File Management workshop is going to be the most useful. This workshop is being developed currently, and will be announced as soon as it is ready.

     

    Professional Web Presence with Academia.edu: Academia.edu is a professional web site for higher education. Professors and others in higher ed can sign up for an account and communicate with colleagues around the world. This site is catching on and we predict it will be a hub of academic interaction into the future. Come learn about how to use it most effectively for your professional presence on the web