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The 2008 FITS Winter term workshop is highly flexible and individualized. We encourage faculty members to submit a proposal of what technology-centered curricular goals you would like to accomplish. Plenary sessions on emergent technologies are augmented with individualized guidance, based on faculty members’ needs. Below are some ways these technologies can be used to support your curricular goals.

Pedagogical uses for Social Computing:

a. Wikis
b. Blogs
c. Social Bookmarking
d. RSS feeds

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for:

a. Augmenting student research with GIS data
b. Mapping your own data
c. Creating interactive “what-if” scenarios
d. other

Audio recording and editing for:

a. studio music production
b. podcasting
c. web-based audio clips
d. other

Moodle

The Moodle track is designed to meet the demand of faculty members who wish to begin building their courses with Moodle while upholding the flexibility and project-oriented format of the FITS Winter Term Workshop. Faculty members are still encouraged to submit a proposal or a list of goals that they would like to accomplish for their course. Participants can choose from a variety of Moodle-related workshops to meet their needs. Anticipated topics for the sessions are listed below; however, our itinerary will be largely demand-driven. Participants need not attend every session. In addition to these sessions, a FITS instructional technologist can meet with you to discuss your specific course goals, or to explore a topic that may not be covered in our sessions. Participants may wish to combine the Moodle track with some of the other Winter Term Workshop opportunities as necessary to meet their goals. If you are interested in doing this, be sure to include how you would like to combine such technologies in your proposal.

Moodle Session Topics

Introduction to Moodle, goals and expectations
File Management and Course Organization
Assignments, File Submission, and the Gradebook
Moodle’s Discussion Forums
Moodle and Media
Using Moodle’s Wikis
Converting a Blackboard course to a Moodle Course
Importing previous course materials into a new course
Using Moodle’s Group feature

To participate, we ask that you submit a short proposal no later than December 15th to Veronica Pejril at veronicapejril@depauw.edu, outlining your goals for the Winter Term Workshop. If you have any questions regarding the workshop, or migrating your content to Moodle for Spring 2008, please contact myself, or Michael Gough at michaelgough@depauw.edu.

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