Location: Dooling 227
The switch to Microsoft Exchange at DeSales has made a number of new features available to users. Resolve to exercise greater control over your email mailbox and your calendar. Come learn about mailbox organizational features such as rules and categories to reign in an overcrowded mailbox. Create and manage contacts and tasks. Use calendar sharing and the scheduling assistant to ease the planning of meetings.
Location: Trexler Library - Air Products Room
Centering around Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011), this session will explore this question: What exactly is technology doing to and for our minds and hearts?
Location: Dooling 128
Have you always dreamed of creating your own interactive e-book for your students? Come learn how to create an ePub-formatted book using iWork Pages ‘09. This hands-on workshop will show you how to add audio, video, and photos to your book; export as an ePub file; and import into iTunes for student download. Come with your Mac laptop or borrow one from us!
Location: Trexler Library - TTC Lab
Simplify your research workflow using Zotero, a free, online citation management tool that allows you to “grab your research with a single click,” organize your own digital “library” of resources, create bibliographies in seconds, store notes on each source, and have it all available to you from any computer. A wonderful tool for novice and experienced researchers alike.
Location: Dooling 225
Digital conversations have gradually become an important element of online learning. While the format and tool may vary, the purpose remains the same: students need to connect and interact. VoiceThread is a free web-based application that allows images, documents, audio, and video to be added to digital presentations. Join this session and learn how Voicethread can help you start and maintain engaging group conversations in your online and hybrid courses.
Location: Trexler Library - Air Products Room
In this presentation, we will take a look at general consumer and student trends with regards to digital content consumption, and use that as context for a focused discussion on the new Direct Digital content and e-reading solution for Higher Education. This solution includes flexible content distribution across all environments and devices, extended content intelligence and reporting, and broad integration capabilities to support institutional platforms, LMS platforms, and library systems. The session concludes with showing the effectiveness of Open Educational Resources and user-generated content.
Location: Dooling 227
Did you resolve to put more of your ideas and thoughts down in writing to share with others? If so, then this workshop is for you! We will cover a few different blogging tools and applications that will appeal to your specific needs. This workshop demonstrates blogging tools suitable for the verbose and the terse. We will explore tools built inside and outside of the LMS.
Location: Trexler Library - TTC Lab
Trexler has access to over 5,000 e-books available to our community. Learn how to access them, download/print portions of the content , and link titles into your ANGEL courses. We’ll also talk about which mobile devices are supported.
Location: Dooling 128
This session, taught by an old Palm Pilot and new amateur iPhone user, explores tips and resources for using the iPhone productively.
Location: Air Products Room
The Library & Technology Services E-Book Committee at Lehigh is studying the marketplace, technology and management of e-books and has started an e-textbook adoption project for six courses utilizing titles from McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Wiley, and the Libraries' eBrary Academic Collection. The textbook project adds to the Lehigh librarian's work on e-book reader devices and library e-book collections. We'll bring our collection of e-reader devices and leave plenty of time for Q&A and discussions on issues such as open access, content licensing, useability, digital rights management, platforms, terms of use, affordability and the like.
Location: Trexler Library - TTC Lab
Blackboard Collaborate 11 is the newest version of Blackboard’s web conferencing technology that combines the best features of Elluminate with Wimba Classroom. This next-generation collaboration platform has unique tools to help faculty take more control over their online class meetings. Come learn about the new features and redesigned interface.
Location: Dooling 128
The nursing department has begun using live broadcast simulation to incorporate real-life learning into classroom settings. Faculty will share their experience with this innovative learning strategy and discuss the impact on student learning outcomes and engagement.
Location: Dooling 128
Have you always dreamed of creating your own interactive e-book for your students? Come learn how to create an ePub-formatted book using iWork Pages ‘09. This hands-on workshop will show you how to add audio, video, and photos to your book; export as an ePub file; and import into iTunes for student download. Come with your Mac laptop or borrow one from us!
Location: Trexler Library - Air Products Room
In this presentation, we will take a look at general consumer and student trends with regards to digital content consumption, and use that as context for a focused discussion on the new Direct Digital content and e-reading solution for Higher Education. This solution includes flexible content distribution across all environments and devices, extended content intelligence and reporting, and broad integration capabilities to support institutional platforms, LMS platforms, and library systems. The session concludes with showing the effectiveness of Open Educational Resources and user-generated content.
Location: Dooling 109
With the current pace of technological innovation, the number of necessary devices a digital application must support to reach students is constantly increasing. This situation mandates that digital applications be architected from the ground up to withstand multiple hardware and software iterations in rapid succession. During our time together, I'll share the best practices I've discovered over the past 11 years of eLearning application development to create seamless transitions through multiple technology revolutions and to navigate the latest trends in mobile device applications.
Location: Trexler Library - TTC Lab
Why not get the most out of Google tools? The presenters will demonstrate how to use the Google menu bar, share some fun search tips like conversions, flight tracking, public statistical data, and introduce you to Google Scholar, Google Translate, Google Finance, and more.
Location: Online
Blackboard Collaborate 11 is the newest version of Blackboard’s web conferencing technology that combines the best features of Elluminate with Wimba Classroom. This next-generation collaboration platform has unique tools to help faculty take more control over their online class meetings. Come learn about the new features and redesigned interface.
Location: Online
Help your students become better researchers by providing them with numerous points of access to librarians and library resources within your ANGEL course. Tutorials, subject guides, library instruction via Elluminate, personal research assistance, and more will be presented in this session.
Location: Online
Digital conversations have gradually become an important element of online learning. While the format and tool may vary, the purpose remains the same: students need to connect and interact. VoiceThread is a free web-based application that allows images, documents, audio, and video to be added to digital presentations. Join this session and learn how Voicethread can help you start and maintain engaging group conversations in your online and hybrid courses.
