eLearning Community Online Learning Sessions - Intended audience: Community and Technical College Faculty

This Wednesday the 19^th at 3 PM there will be the first in a series of online sessions in Elluminate, planned for faculty who use or are interested in online learning technologies and associated teaching and learning best practices. The topics will cover use of ANGEL, Elluminate, Tegrity and other core technologies supported by the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges and/or in common use in our system.  These sessions are open to anyone wanting to attend and will be facilitated by eLearning professionals from system colleges and state board, eLearning staff.  The list of topics is determined by the group of presenters and by suggestions to be made by attendees.

Also, beginning this week and continuing for the foreseeable future, there will also now be open office hours in Elluminate, every Wednesday at ten AM.  These sessions, which will be without topic or agenda, are for any staff member or instructor who wants to come ask questions or get help using ANGEL, Elluminate, or Tegrity.  The sessions will be attended by the same eLearning personnel who will make the weekly pres

Participants may log into Elluminate for all sessions and open office hours via this link:

Participant Link:

http://goo.gl/JpmfU

All sessions will be recorded and available via this link:

http://goo.gl/wi2Ab

To view the session schedule, follow this link:

http://goo.gl/cr2R5

If you have suggestions for how to improve the format of these sessions or a suggestion for a future topic, please fill in this form:

http://goo.gl/i6OGF

The session this week will cover getting started with Tegrity lecture capture:

January 19th - 3 PM -- Presentation Topic; Tegrity – Introduction to Classroom Capture, Configuring for Capture, and Getting Started – Scott Dennis, Jerry Lewis and Eric Waterkotte
·         Necessary Equipment and Software
·         Using Multiple Cameras, Microphones
·         Configuring Settings
·         Publishing, Un-publishing Recordings

Please feel free to send any questions to Scott Dennis at sdennis@sbctc.edu .  Also, if you work in eLearning and are interested in helping to create the schedule, make presentations, or otherwise help out, please let Scott know.  His contact information is: 

Scott Dennis

eLearning Professional Development Manager

WA State Board Community & Technical Colleges

sdennis@sbctc.edu

Voice: 360.747.7211