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Dates and Times: from 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in Campus Center 302. Please contact the Manager of Training at trainer@allegheny.edu for additional informaiton. ]]> Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: Overtime, one accumulates a large number of files that eat up precious space on hard drives and servers. This hands-on workshop will help participants learn strategies to organize, back-up, and archive files for easy use and safe storage. Trainer: Susan Fenton ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=165 Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: Blogs are maturing into viable educational tools. This hands on workshop will provide faculty the skills and comfort to start an educational blog in support of a course or personal professional development. Trainer: James Fadden ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=164 Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Murray Hall 116. Workshop Description: If you use, or want to use, images in your course, this discussion and training session is for you! Luna can enhance teaching and learning through organized access to digital images. Collections of images useful in art, history and cultural studies are now available for faculty and student use 24/7. Come and learn how you can use the Luna image management system directly in a classroom, or export image sets to the web or powerpoint. Trainer: Guest Presenter ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=160 Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM in Murray Hall - Room 117. Workshop Description: In this workshop, faculty participants will explore the meaningful use of Sakai as a learning management system both in and out of the classroom, drawing on their own and each other’s expertise. Working hands-on with a variety of Sakai tools, participants will experience a student’s view and create a course in order to consider which tools are appropriate for which pedagogical contexts and when and how best to use these tools to help students learn. Participants will leave the workshop with learning-centered strategies for using learning management systems that are anchored in and integrated with their own classroom practices. After the workshop, participants will be able to continue working with their course by exporting it to Allegheny's instance of Sakai. After the workshop, participants will be able to continue working with their course by exporting it Allegheny's instance of Sakai. This workshop is open to participants from Allegheny and NITLE Member colleges. There is a registration deadline of May 2, 2008 for this workshop. Trainer: Guest Presenter ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=200 Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: This hands-on workshop provides faculty an overview of the tools and procedures of Allegheny's Sakai instance. It is a good starting point for anyone who has not used Sakai to support their teaching at Allegheny. Trainer: Helen McCullough ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=201 Dates and Times: from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: This hands-on workshop provides participants with experience using the Resources tool to deliver content, foster group work, and share electronic reserves from the library. Trainer: Helen McCullough ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=203 Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: This hands-on workshop offers participants the opportunity to gain experience with the quiz tool of Sakai. Trainer: Susan Fenton ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=205 Dates and Times: from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: There are tools in Sakai that do not have an equivalent in WebCT. Participants of this workshop will gain an understanding of the new tools of Sakai and how to apply them in support of their teaching. Trainer: Susan Fenton ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=207 Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: This hands-on workshop provides faculty an overview of the tools and procedures of Allegheny's Sakai instance. It is a good starting point for anyone who has not used Sakai to support their teaching at Allegheny. Trainer: Helen McCullough ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=202 Dates and Times: from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: This hands-on workshop provides participants with experience using the Resources tool to deliver content, foster group work, and share electronic reserves from the library. Trainer: Helen McCullough ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=204 Dates and Times: from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: This hands-on workshop offers participants the opportunity to gain experience with the quiz tool of Sakai. Trainer: Helen McCullough ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=206 Dates and Times: from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM in Murray Hall - Room 116. Workshop Description: There are tools in Sakai that do not have an equivalent in WebCT. Participants of this workshop will gain an understanding of the new tools of Sakai and how to apply them in support of their teaching. Trainer: Helen McCullough ]]> http://training.allegheny.edu/workshops/details.php?offeredID=208