• Present your own educational technology experiences to colleagues (e.g., lessons learned, promising practices, next steps, etc.)
  
• Work on your own educational technology project with expert assistance (bring your own laptop)
  
• Network with colleagues

The goal of this institute is to provide a forum for advanced users of educational technology to share their experiences, learn from each other's success and failures, and work at their own pace on a project with one-on-one support available. We will provide lunch and snacks.  

DETAILS

Laptop: You will be expected to provide your own laptop with any necessary software.

Presentation:  All participants will be expected to give a brief presentation on their current uses of technology in teaching. Depending on enrollment numbers, we may group presentations together.

Project: One of the most consistent comments that we have heard from faculty is that they would like to leave an Institute with a ‘finished product’.  This institute is designed to give you time to work, on your own laptop, on your own project, with expert staff assistance available. Examples might include

• Redesigning a course curriculum to take advantage of Course Management tools (MyUCDavis):  i.e., selective release, glossary functions, online quizzing, online communication tools.
• Rethinking and redesigning your in-class presentations: e.g., incorporating more features of PowerPoint, active learning principles, ‘smart board’ (e.g., e-Beam), Personal Response Systems, student computers, etc. 
• Perfecting your digital images. Editing digital images (cropping, retouching, rotating, color balancing, etc).  Use Almagest to catalog and add metadata to your digital assets.  Build lectures from Almagest or through PowerPoint.  (You will want to arrange for any scanning to be done before the beginning of the workshop)
• Rethinking and redesigning assignments and assessment.  Incorporating peer review of assignments, collecting and grading electronic documents, designing assignments that are more relevant to the ‘Information Age’, online quizzes, designing assignments to help focus students’ study time, solutions for exams and assessments in large classes, etc.

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