| Friday Open Labs
Still Going Strong |
Need help
with WebCT or your faculty website? Stop by LTech's Friday Open Lab
from 1:00 to 3:30 in LRC-215. If you need some help adding files to
WebCT or your faculty website, be sure to bring them along in
electronic format (on your flash drive or a disk) or drop them into
your Staff Folder. (Don't know how to do that? Check out the Tech
Tip farther down in this newsletter.)
Most Fridays there
will be two to three LTech team members present to help you, so
you'll rarely have to wait for assistance. In addition to Wanda
Edwards and Ron Walls, former LTech staffer Riotta Scott is "on
loan" for the Friday Labs indefinitely, thanks to the Marketing
Department's generosity. And, of course, WebCT guru Elizabeth Morgan
is just a couple of doors away, ready to assist when her expertise
is needed.
So if you haven't yet taken advantage of the
highly praised Friday sessions, please don't hesitate to start. We
look forward to seeing you!
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| Make your online course
at least as good as your traditional course! |
Research
has shown repeatedly that course design and instruction determine
the worth of a course, whether that course is online or in the
traditional classroom. Students in quality online courses perform
equally to or even surpass their counterparts in face-to-face (F2F)
classes (http://www.nosignificantdifference.org/)
for more information. Any environment has limitations, though, so
the challenge for those of us teaching online is to maximize the
inherent advantages and minimize the disadvantages. Professors
teaching blended classes can also improve their courses through the
carefully considered use of online tools. As you read the tables
below, note that...
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| Quick Tech Tip: Using
your OWC Staff Folder |
Here in the
LTech Department, we often run into faculty and staff members who
haven't been made aware of a great resource made available to them
on the college network. It's a "folder" on the network where they
can store all kinds of files so that they'll be able to retrieve
them from any other computer on the network as long as they're
logged in under their own OWC user ID.
Let's say you have a
syllabus on your computer, and you want to bring it along to the
LTech Friday open lab session, but you've misplaced your flashdrive.
Put it on your network folder and it will be available to you in
LRC-215. Here's how:
- Open "My Documents" on your computer, and make the window
small enough that you can see the desktop behind it, but still see
your files.
- Open "My Computer" and size the window so that it appears
beside the "My Documents" window.
- In the "My Computer" window, your network folder should appear
under the Network Drives listing (as pictured here). Double-click
to open it.
- In the "My Documents" window, find the syllabus that you want
to make available to you on the network. Drag and drop it in the
white space in the "My Computer" window.
That's
it! The file will be there when you log in to any computer connected
to the OWC network!
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