tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76758840641376965032011-08-25T08:43:58.955-07:00tips • ideas • inspirationSusan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-3328185340612287702011-08-24T11:42:00.000-07:002011-08-24T11:42:53.856-07:00

One of the most common Sakai problems at the beginning of the term is how give new  students access to Sakai course sites. At the Claremont Colleges, students are automatically added and dropped from Sakai sites on a daily basis during the add-drop period. Sakai class rosters are updated every night with current data from the Registrars' offices, so new students are added automatically to

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Fascinating look at "The Beauty of Data Visualization" David McCandless turns complex data sets like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates and more into beautiful yet simple diagrams. He proposes design as the tool we use to navigate today’s information glut, finding unique patterns and connections that may just change the way we see the world. (Recorded at TEDGlobal

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This workshop was a very good reintroduction to Photoshop for me. I used this program in the past and it has changed significantly since then. I will use Photoshop in the Fall for all my WordPress projects.

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This workshop was great because I learned how to use digital signatures. I will definitely use this skill in the Fall for letters of recommendations for my students.

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This workshop was helpful in thinking about how to maintain and most importantly how to update websites easily. I would like to learn more about WordPress in order to make easy to maintain websites for the French Studies Department or for other extracurricular projects I plan for my students. My Fall projects are to envision a website for the department and to design a website for the Music Salon

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This workshop was very helpful to me because it introduced me to several new mobile devices which my students surely use. In the Fall, I plan to conduct a survey to see if most of my students would prefer to switch to an electronic workbook for their Introductory/Intermediate French courses. I also plan to see how many students have iPads to see if I can help them discover more learning tools.

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This hands-on workshop empowered you to effectively utilize your digital images for pedagogical & professional projects. The workshop explored cropping techniques, creating composites from a set of photos, highlighting your point right on the photo and organizing groups of images. Online workshop Resources in Sakai here and a refresher video: How will you implement what you learned in

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Acrobat Pro is one of the most underutilized software programs available to Scripps faculty. This hands-on workshop enabled you to: transform any document to a universally readable format for emailing or posting on the web (or Sakai) protect documents from being excerpted or printed add a verifiable and

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Whether you have 10+ years of accumulated email or just this year’s, this hands-on workshop provides an antidote for email disorganization as well as extremely useful guidelines for handling email overload so that you can reclaim time for other tasks. Online Groupwise resources in Sakai here How will you implement what you have learned in the workshop in your teaching this fall?

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What is your web presence? Why might it matter? This workshop helps you to answer these questions and examines the options to create or update your Scripps College website (pages.scrippscollege.edu/~yourusername) or department website using Dreamweaver web design software the Faculty Site Starters program iWeb and WordPress software perhaps Blogger should have been included....  Online

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Mobile computing swept into our lives @ an amazing pace. This workshop explores the pedagogical, professional and personal potentials & pitfalls of mobile devices (smart phones, iPads, etc. Online workshop Resources in Sakai here How you will implement what you  learned in this workshop in a fall 2011 course?

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-52154035294517271972011-01-18T17:11:00.000-08:002011-01-18T17:15:34.885-08:00

Video is from Feb 2010. Thought-provoking stats.... JESS3™ / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.JESS3™ designed and animated this for the JESS3™ lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.

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Pedagogy The Forums tool allows instructors to setup discussion questions that students can access and reply to when they are logged in to Sakai. A forum can be used by the entire class, or Groups within a class. The Forums tool allows for threaded discussions, i.e., student can reply to your (or their) original question or to a response to that question. The Forums tool can be used in a

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I'm trying to write this post using an 1-day old iPad. At this point, except for the blog title and labels, writing a post from within the Google blogger interface (i.e., bringing up the beautiful big iPad touch keyboard) is only possible using the Edit HTML function, not the simple Compose WYSIWYG. Slow and tedious.... I'll have to finish this later on a real computer....

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It is hard to visit Scripps College's home page without noticing the college's engagement with online social media: a feature on the DCC's YouTube channel and Follow us online! links to Scripps on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. YouTube /Online videoFounded 5 years ago on Valentine's Day to "create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story

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Online on YouTube - 1/28/10 with these  tags: Final MassComm Video the class the office technology classroom professor students floppy disk powerpoint skype clicker projector DU university of denver

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This is essentially the same procedure for adding non-Claremont Colleges guests with external email addresses. In your site, click Site Info from the menubar on the left Click Add Participants For senior auditors (without official Sakai usernames), under Non-Claremont College guest(s) [the second box], enter the auditor(s)' email address, one address per line Under Participant Roles, choose

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Some people love Facebook apps. Nearly a million Facebook users*   cannot stand reading news updates about their friends app activity. Here's how to hide streams from Friends, Pages, and/or Applications on your Facebook News Feed. On your Facebook Home page, there is a Hide button next to each item on the New Feed. Move your mouse along the top right column of a post to make the [Hide] button

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-30760158261580865182009-04-15T16:45:00.000-07:002009-04-15T16:46:21.682-07:00

Managing email involves two skill sets.the technical ~ how to:- access your email (via a web interface and/or with dedicated email software like Groupwise, Mac Mail, etc.)- effectively use your email client (client = a computer program used to manage email)- organize email that you want to keep- archive email that you want to keep longer- set up an automatic response (i.e., a vacation message

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Sakai is the Claremont College's online collaboration and learning environment. Essentially, every Sakai course site is a full-featured web site with extensive, integrated built-in online tools — discussion board, email, announcements, chatroom, gradebook, resource area for any files you would like to share including web links to external sites, calendar, wiki, and much more.Sharing resourcesMany

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How to get rid of unwanted email - and make sure that you receive all of your emailAs you know, when one student in your class asks a question, other students would also benefit from the answer. I receive a question from one of your colleagues and would like to share it with you for this reason.QuestionHello Susan! I am in e-mail hell, and wondering how to block unwanted e-mail -- I try, and

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-22482165358817317562008-04-21T15:37:00.000-07:002009-03-02T15:51:52.435-08:00

Alysha Chan '08, Catherine Magee '10, Carol Toro '10, and Nancy Townsend '09Overview - What do students value in instructional technology (IT) used on campus today? How do students use IT in and outside of the classroom? What do students think works best in their learning environments?Carol (foreign languages major)Carol finds Sakai, the college's online learning and collaborative environment

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-23344308865766260622008-04-07T15:31:00.000-07:002010-01-22T16:24:31.933-08:00

Cecilia Conrad Vice President and Dean of the Faculty Overview - For several years, Cecilia Conrad has asked her students to submit their papers electronically. In the beginning, they submitted via email and that was hard to manage. However, with Sakai, students use drop boxes to submit papers. She write comments on the papers using the MS Word editing features and return them to their drop box

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-15871010785890032292008-03-31T20:07:00.000-07:002009-03-02T15:53:56.027-08:00

Wendy Duckeringformer Administrative Assistant, Dean of FacultyOverview - A discussion of scanning evaluation from professors worldwide and from former and current students into PDF files and then putting them into Sakai so that the professors on the APT Committee can look at them each week from the convenience of their computers before discussing the promotion/contract renewal case at weekly

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T. Kim-Trang Tran, Associate Professor of Art Overview - Someone once said to Prof. Tran, "We have the media we deserve." Indeed, now that video and computer technology have enabled us all to be producers as well as consumers, what kind of do-it-yourself media do we have? Come see some of the tools students learn in order to be critical producers of art and media and how they've used them.

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-10325038206809724042008-03-10T16:08:00.000-07:002010-01-22T16:25:40.631-08:00

Tony Crowley, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities Overview - How can online resources be used to enhance teaching and research? Read about one professor's work with the Claremont Colleges Digital Library to facilitate teaching and using online databases for research. ResearchEighteenth Century Collections Online, a library database with nearly 150,000 English-language primary source

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-26505243041224437072008-03-03T15:00:00.000-08:002009-03-02T15:59:20.656-08:00

Cindy Ballon '10 and Elisa Villarreal '09Overview - Two students share how Cafe Con Leche uses Sakai to organize themselves for events, organize their subcommittees, and have resources available to all their members. Cafe Con Leche provides a forum for the discussion of past and present social, political and economic topics that affect women, particularly those of Chicana/Latina descent. The goal

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Veronica Hart '07, Assistant Director of Technical Services, DevelopmentOverview: How technology in her life inspired Veronica to come to Scripps, minor in computer science, work for IT, and finally get a wonderful job! Quick overview of how technology and education have crossed paths in her life from working with the dynamics of learning with Lego Mindstorm robots to IT-FITS training to her

Susan Kullmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06376402006335213940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675884064137696503.post-16603618271525916172008-02-18T10:29:00.000-08:002009-03-02T15:59:57.390-08:00

Informal discussions about current academic uses of technology by and for Scripps faculty, students and staff –focused around weekly presentations by members of the Scripps community.Monday, Feb. 25 - April 21, 2008 (noon - 1:00pm)South Meeting Room, Malott Commons

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