FITS Events for Fall 2009
FITS is offering a variety of events centered around teaching and learning with technology. Events labeled as webinars are archived online for faculty interested in watching at a later date. These can be accessed from the list of links at the bottom of this post. For a complete, updated list of FITS events for this semester, please see http://www.depauw.edu/univ/fits/events/e….
October 13
mitc Open House
Come for a tour of the Music Instructional Technology Center, a lab devoted to technology to make and edit music, as well as the audio recording studio.
http://www.depauw.edu/music/mitc/
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.; mitc Lab (inside GCPA Music Library)
(Introductory mitc session starts at 3:30 p.m. and the recording studio at 4:15 p.m.)
November 2
New Media Consortium (NMC) Webinar
Adobe First Mondays: Adobe AIR for HTML
http://www.nmc.org/cal
Time/Location TBA
November 3
Moodle Users Group (MUG)
Join your Moodle colleagues to share ideas, ask questions, and discuss ways that Moodle can be used in teaching and learning.
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Julian 111
November 9
ELI Webinar
Using Electronic Course Portfolios to Support the Scholarship of Teaching
Bridget Piernik-Yoder, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
http://net.educause.edu/UpcomingSeminars/9321
Time/Location TBA
November 11
DyKnow Users Group Meeting-Brown Bag
Introduction to the DyKnow upgrade.
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; Julian 278
November 18
Tablet Users Group Meeting-Brown Bag
Share Tablet PC pedagogies with colleagues, learn some tips for using tablets, and receive updates on up and coming technologies related to Tablet PCs.
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; Julian 152
November 18
GIS Day
Join the global GIS Day celebration to learn about GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and to discover how DePauw faculty, staff, and students are using GIS.
http://www.depauw.edu/univ/gis/GIS_Day_2009/
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Julian Atrium
November 30
Faculty Showcase: Supporting Lecture with Screen-Capturing Software
Dan Gurnon and Dave Guinee will demonstrate and describe how they use screen-capturing software to create more detailed explanations to questions that come up in class, to create “active answer keys”, and to create tutorials to help students with out-of-class assignments. Dan and Dave both use Camtasia, a screen recording program with an easy-to-use interface.
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Julian 111
December 3
Moodle Users Group (MUG)
Join your Moodle colleagues to share ideas, ask questions, and discuss ways that Moodle can be used in teaching and learning. Please feel free to bring your lunch to this brown-bag discussion.
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; Julian 111
Archived events and recordings:
http://www.educause.edu/podcasts
http://www.educause.edu/Archives/8996 (webinars)
http://www.educause.edu/ELIResources (podcasts, videos, online events-please click the tabs)
http://www.nmc.org/adobemondays/(webinars)
http://campustechnology.com/webcasts/list/webinars.aspx