Training -- eWriting Team
2003-4

Defining the LO

National Foreign Language Association:  Developing Learning Objects for Teaching Foreign Languages

Focus Groups

  • FIPSE Focus Group:  Defining the eWriting online learning object
  • Design Your Own Spring Break 4-day Workshop
  • Flashlight Online Survey Development

College Training and Development Workshops

  • Copyright issues in Distance Education
  • Online Testing
  • WebCT
  • DreamWeaver
  • Respondus

CTD Skills Workshops

  • CTD0203 -Word to HTML 
  • CTD0243 -Flashlight Overview
  • CTD0204 -Web Pages: Adding Resources
  • CTD0210 -Web Resources 1
  • CTD0211 -Web Resources 2

Professional Development Day 

  • eWriting presentations
  • WebCT eWriting presentations
  • Multimedia eWriting presentations
  • Online testing presentations
     

Developing online Word Processing tutorials

  • LO Structure: Objectives, Elements, Design
  • Curriculum Content


Project staff and administrator workshops:

  • Critical Challenges in Education
  • Online Copyright Issues
  • Odyssey Finance System Training
  • The Annual FIPSE Project Directors Meeting
  • The Fifth Annual WebCT Conference
  • WebCT and Thomson Learning Focus Groups
  • FrontPage Basics
  • Excel Basics
  • WebCT Tools Introduction
  • SharePoint

2004-5

Professional Development Day

  • eWriting presentations -- Conference Day MDC
    • Seven Steps in Designing the eWriting Learning Objects
       

  • Workshops on Testing
    • Programming test items in WebCT
    • Building TestBanks for WebCT
    • Building Pretests and Posttests:  The Do's and Don'ts
       
  • Workshops on Content-Page Programming
    • Matching Faculty Requests to Development Tools
    • Creating HTML lesson pages --- Tables and MetaTagging
    • Creating Hot Potatoes activities
    • Editing Hot Potatoes activities (from faculty feedback)
    • Do's and Don'ts of online feedback
    • Copyright issues and graphics

    Developing online Word Processing tutorials

    • LO Structure: Objectives, Elements, Design
    • Curriculum Content: Decisions
    • Tools and Techniques

WebCT Series -- eWriting TA Training  (Annual Series for new users)

  • WebCT:  TA Training 
  • WebCT:  Managing Shared Courses in WebCT  
  • WebCT:  Managing Online Testing -- TA features
  • WebCT:  What NOT to change as a TA in a shared Course (Content Tools)
  • WebCT:  Downloading and Managing Student Records (WebCT to Excel)
  • WebCT: Student Management  
  • WebCT: What NOT to do in testing (No resetting of pre-tests)

Project staff and administrator workshops:

  • Copyright Issues
  • The Annual FIPSE Project Directors Meeting
  • Marketing your Website

2005-6

Professional Development Day 2006

  • Flashlight Online Surveys
     

eWriting presentations

  • WebCT eWriting presentations
  • Multimedia eWriting presentations
  • Online testing presentations
  • Blogs and Wikis in the eWriting Classroom
    • Judith Garcia, ESL/Foreign Languages, Kendall
      Description: What are Blogs? What are Wikis? How could they be used in the eWriting Classroom? How can "Soci
      al software" such as this enhance communication inside and outside of the classroom?

 

Multimedia eWriting Workshop
  • PowerPoint Narration / Impatica / Camtasia (FIPSE eWriting Workshop)
  • PowerPoint Presentations
     

WebCT Series  (Annual Series for new users)

  • WebCT:  TA Training 
  • WebCT:  Managing Shared Courses in WebCT  
  • WebCT:  Managing Online Testing -- TA features
  • WebCT:  What NOT to change as a TA in a shared Course (Content Tools)
  • WebCT:  Downloading and Managing Student Records (WebCT to Excel)
  • WebCT: Student Management  
  • WebCT: What NOT to do in testing (No resetting of pre-tests)

2006-7

Techie Training Sessions: 

  • Creating HTML lesson pages -- refreshers and reminders
  • Creating Hot Potatoes activities-- refreshers and reminders
  • Do's and Don'ts of online feedback-- refreshers and reminders
  • Copyright issues and graphics-- refreshers and reminders

Developing online Word Processing tutorials

  • LO Structure: Objectives, Elements, Design
  • Curriculum Content: Decisions
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Website -- Navigation / User Interface

CTD Workshops offered to eWriting Faculty and Staff

  • Microsoft Word to HTML --  Problems and Fixes
  • Flashlight Overview
  • Web Pages: Adding Resources
  • WebCT E-Packs
  • Web Resources 1
  • Web Resources 2
  • Quandary: Creating Action Mazes

WebCT Series (Annual Series for new users) -- WebCT would be used for eWriting until the end of Fall 2008, so WebCT training continued. 

  • WebCT:  TA Training 
  • WebCT:  Managing Shared Courses in WebCT  
  • WebCT:  Managing Online Testing -- TA features
  • WebCT:  What NOT to change as a TA in a shared Course (Content Tools)
  • WebCT:  Downloading and Managing Student Records (WebCT to Excel)
  • WebCT: Student Management  
  • WebCT: What NOT to do in testing (No resetting of pre-tests)
  • WebCT Communication Tools  

Angel Training

Between 6/12/06 and 4/19/07, the grant leadership and eWriting team participated in over 150 hours of meetings and in ANGEL LMS training. They also attended meetings to map the implementation of the new LMS, Angel (project planning, training sessions, WebCT conversion, Angel configuration, Angel naming conventions, implementation issues, etc.). 

A team of eWriting authors and programmers was assembled to lead the eWriting conversion from WebCT-to-ANGEL LMS.  They were among the first at the College to receive Angel training.  In that training, the team learned to design navigation structure in Angel, bring in content pages to Angel (by Web-linking to the online eWriting Program), export quizzes from WebCT using Respondus, configure quiz settings for Angel, and import quizzes into Angel and link them in the content path.  A template for Angel eWriting was developed and presented at a to the team to create an eWriting course in Angel. 

 

This eWriting: ESL Writing Success Project was created with the generous support and guidance of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), US Department of Education


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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