Events from August 28, 2018 – October 19, 2018 – Educational Technology at Smith College Events from August 28, 2018 – October 19, 2018 – Educational Technology at Smith College

Google Drive Advanced features and Google Team Drives

Seelye Hall 212 Seelye Hall, Northampton, MA, United States

  Google Drive has helped you to share documents, collaborate with colleagues, and organize your files. But, did you know Google Drive can go beyond just that? Join us as … Continued

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WordPress 101: WordPress Basics

Seelye Hall 212 Seelye Hall, Northampton, MA, United States

At Smith, instructors across campus are using WordPress in their courses to teach foreign languages, investigate historical texts, showcase student work, and more. In this workshop, we’ll explore some of the ways instructors and students at Smith have used WordPress. You’ll also learn about the basic features of WordPress and get familiar with content creation. … Continued

Free

WordPress Plugins

Seelye Hall 212 Seelye Hall, Northampton, MA, United States

In this workshop we will go beyond the basic content management functions of WordPress and cover a number of ways you can use plugins to add functionality to your site. … Continued

Free

Making your Instructional Materials Accessible

Seelye Hall 212 Seelye Hall, Northampton, MA, United States

Participants in this workshop will review the simple tools available at Smith to help assure all students have full access to text, images, audio, and video materials for use in … Continued

Free

Presentation Design: How to Improve Your Slide Presentations

Hillyer 320 Hillyer Art Library, Northampton, MA, United States

  Ever wondered whether your slide presentations are effectively designed? In this workshop, we’ll be covering how can you improve your class slides using simple, yet effective, design techniques. As … Continued

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Get Started with Moodle & the Moodle Gradebook

Seelye Hall 212 Seelye Hall, Northampton, MA, United States

In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn to navigate Moodle’s interface, organize your course, add your syllabus and readings, and create and collect online assignments and discussions. We’ll guide you through the process of setting up a new course and offer some tips to help you use Moodle in a way that matches your teaching goals. … Continued

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Build Powerful Surveys with Qualtrics

Seelye Hall 212 Seelye Hall, Northampton, MA, United States

Qualtrics is a sophisticated yet simple online survey platform for creating and distributing surveys as well as generating detailed reports. Flexible question types allow researchers to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Features like embedded data, branching, display logic, quotas, email triggers, mobile and offline compatibility, and randomization ensure that your survey can do whatever you … Continued

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Zoom Hands-on Introduction #1

Seelye Hall 212 Seelye Hall, Northampton, MA, United States

Location: Seelye 212 This is an hour-long, hands-on session to give you some practice using Zoom. We will be recording the sessions for future use. The session will cover how to: join a meeting schedule a meeting start and control a meeting manage participants use chat use the whiteboard share your screen record a meeting … Continued

Webinars with Zoom

Smith Media Studios: Henshaw D, Rm. 210 Henshaw D, Northampton, MA, United States

 Location: Smith Media Studios: Henshaw D, Rm. 210 Webinars with Zoom Friday, October 19th 10:00 – 11:00 Location: Smith Media Studios: Henshaw D, Rm. 210 This is an hour-long, hands-on session to give you some practice using Zoom’s Webinar feature. Webinars are the online equivalent of a lecture. A small group of presenters share content … Continued