My focus, in the past 36 months, has been on pedagogical enhancements of teaching and learning. As Director of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Research, a considerable part of my focus has been on facilitating a systematic migration of our campus to a single distance learning platform. During this time I have had limited opportunities for industry based consulting. The following presentations are representative of some of my invited & training presentations. This content is password protected.
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Teaching with Technology
This presentation introduced a wide array of current Internet resources specifically targeted towards teachers and trainers. It outlined general and scholarly resources while furnishing a brief introduction to the use of Second Life and its uses in education.
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Wikis and its ‘blogs’
This presentation outlined potential uses of Wikis and Blogs in the current academic context. A multitude of examples are furnished.
- Wikis
A wiki is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website. This presentation is a brief summary on wikis.
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- Twiki
Twiki is a structured wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or any other shared application - it can also be used to run a blog. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser over the Internet or an intranet. This presentation is on how to create and work in Twiki.
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WesternOnline
The following are instructional modules on utilizing the multitude of tools available in BlackBoard (entitled WesternOnline at WIU).
- Basics on WesternOnline
This presentation provides an overview of WesternOnline and explores uploading banners, syllabi, creating folders, working with grade book, hosting quizzes, and finally the process of activating a section.
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- How to publish a document in WesternOnline
This presentation furnishes step-by-step guidelines to publish a document to WesternOnline regardless of its format e.g. HTML, MS - Word, and Excel spreadsheets.
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- Learning Modules
Focuses on the use of the Learning Modules tool to organize and deliver course content. Specifically the presentation explores adding content to learning modules and the multitude of options that are available to the instructor in presenting course content.
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- Discussion
The Discussion tool allows you to create topics relevant to the course where users enrolled in the course can post and reply to messages. The students have the option of posing questions, engaging in a discussion, and from the instructor vantage point solicit feedback and ideas. Section Instructors can assign grades for participation, just as they would in a classroom course. This presentation outlines the use of the “Discussion” tool.
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- Mail
Explores how the mail tool within BlackBoard allows communication with other users in text or HTML formats. The limitations of this tool such as its being a gated environment with a limited ability to communicate with others not within the learning community are also explored. This presentation is all about the mail utility and its usage.
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- Media library:
Shows how the Media Library can be used to build a database of text, image, video, and audio entries to enhance your course. The presentation covers the elements of organizing the Media Library entries into collections.
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- Gradebook:
Shows how to use the western online gradebook.
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- Using CMS 2003
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Podcasting:
A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is/are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term "podcast" is a portmanteau of the name of Apple's portable music player, the iPod, and broadcast; a "pod" refers to a container of some sort, and "cast" to the idea of broadcasting.
This presentation explores podcasting and details the specific steps associated with creating and publishing a podcast.
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Google:
The search function of Google has evolved to encompass a lot more than the search function. The following are two presentations that explore Google and its array of products in greater detail:
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Library:
- A step towards greater transformation
Explains the emergence of library as a resource center. This presentation addresses key issues like recent trends and recommendation.
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- Library pictures with captions
This presentation pictures of new emerging libraries in the world. The caption includes a brief explanation of images and library.
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- The Evolution of libraries
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Measuring Marketing:
In the past decade one witnesses a growing emphasis on developing metrics to evaluate a varied array of activities. In the following presentation I develop and detail a number of marketing metrics:
This presentation covers a multitude of marketing activities and develops metrics associated with these marketing activities. Specifically measures such as; Marketing cost per unit, life-time-value, cost per lead etc. are explored.
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Social Networking :
Typically a social network is a service that allows you to keep track of your friends, family, and business relationship.In the following slide we look at why it is so important and what are the possible uses of social networking for business:
Apple iLife:
You can do more on the mac with iLife 08.Edit photo's,movies, burn them to dvd's and a lot more. The following presentations give a detailed overview of about iPhoto,iMovie and iDvd.
Second Life:
Second Life is an exciting new venue for collaboration, training, distance learning, new media studies and marketing.
Teaching pedagogy:
Marketing:
Electronic Commerce
Outsourcing:
Teaching The Millenials:
New Topics:
Interesting:
Finance:
Technology:
Online Document Management:
Web-based services that allow you to easily share ,publish and organize your documents.
India Presentation:
Many publications have stated that India is “happening.” This presentation is a primer to India. It includes a discussion of India in context to its people, population, geographic size, religion, language, economy, education, technology, arts and entertainment.
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