Training for Instructors

Issue 44, Fall 2009

Smartboards for Collaborative Instruction

A Smartboard (also known as an Interactive Whiteboard) is a touch-sensitive display useful for instructional presentations and collaborative assignments. Instructors and students have the ability to interact with the display using a compatible pen or one's finger in order to control computer applications, write notes, and draw diagrams. Smartboards can be used for both impromptu and prepared lectures, collaborative classroom work, and study sessions, because they simultaneously support a number of learning styles and activities. The tool can also be used to capture notes or record presentations for archival purposes.

Next class offered is Sept. 25. Sign up at http://www.wwu.edu/atustraining.

Blackboard Online Course Design - QuickStart Introduction

Blackboard is the university's Learning Management System, useful for publishing online syllabi, course materials, staff information, and class announcements. This session is intended as an introduction to the system and will cover the following basic BlackBoard functions:

• how to request a course
• configuring your course using the Control Panel
• creating Announcements
• uploading, or linking to, a Syllabus
• uploading, or linking to, content in a variety of formats (text, graphics)
• using Folders to organize related content and activities overview of the Gradebook functions

Next classes are Sept. 22, 24, 28, 29 and Oct. 1, 2, 6 and 7. Sign up at http://www.wwu.edu/atustraining.

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