Fall 2008

Enhancing Your Online Course with SoftChalk

SoftChalk LessonBuilder is a tool instructors can use to make interactive, engaging lessons for their online courses. This session will explore ways instructors can use SoftChalk to reinforce material and help their students to learn through interactivity and by engaging multiple learning styles. See examples of what can be done in SoftChalk, brainstorm new ideas, and see how easy it all can be.

Microsoft Office 2007 Tips and Tricks

This session will include the presentation and discussion of various tips and tricks to help you be as productive as you can when using the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of applications concentrating on Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. We will also leave you with resources to refer to as you use the new Office suite.

Advanced Google Searches

Roughly 48% of Americans use Google.com to search the internet and only a fraction of them are using Google to its full potential. Come find out what your missing and some ways to convince the other 52% to convert to Google. We will discuss why Google is the best search engine, and where the others go very wrong.

Organizing and Archiving Photos without Using Any Adobe Products

A Still Photographer's Journey into Shooting Video

In this session, we will discuss then similarities and differences between shooting still photos versus shooting video. After almost 40 years shooting photos, Bob anticipated little trouble using his still image skills to shoot video. Attend and find out how correct or incorrect that assumption was.

Digital Book Publishing for Personal, Portfolio and Professional Uses

Book publishing use to take a major investment, now you can publish one or two copies fairly inexpensively. It's no longer vanity publishing, it's on-demand publishing. In the session we'll discuss options, costs and ways to use this new found publishing power for both personal, educational and professional uses. Examples of limited run (2-3 copies) photo hardcover books will be available for viewing.

TeacherTube: Shooting, Capturing, Editing and Uploading Your Videos

During the session, you'll observe how to shoot video, capture it to your computer, quickly edit your video and upload it to TeacherTube. This site provides the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube but with an educational slant. This session is ideal for beginning videographers who want to know how to capture, edit and distribute their video productions.

Technology Innovation Grants: Project Reports

Recipients of JCCC's Technology Innovation Grants (TIG) will share how they have used the technology resources acquired through the grant to innovate in the classroom (either face-to-face or online).

Google Apps for Education

Google Apps for Education is Google's suite of tools designed for both large and small schools. Arizona State University estimates they'll save $400,000 per year by switching to Google Apps. Come learn about the pros and cons of this service and how you can take advantage of individual apps in the suite today.

Using Video Assignments in the Classroom and Online

Video is becoming more prevalent in teaching situations than ever before. Not only can instructors make videos for their students, but students can make videos to complete assignments, and both instructors and students can use video as a communication tool. This session will provide you with the tools you need to create a simple video using a web camera or mini-camcorder and upload the video to Blackboard or YouTube.

Microsoft's Expression Web: Web Authoring Using the "New" FrontPage

If you are wondering what happened to FrontPage, you'll find out in this session. Expression Web includes and extends the best features of FrontPage for web designers. With Expression Web you can create anything from simple web sites to more sophisticated sites that make the most of a variety of media, include e-commerce features, interact with databases, and much more. In this session you will be learning the simpler functions that will get you up and running and give you the base to explore additional feature-rich aspects of the program.

Copyright Free Music for the Non-Musician

Finding music for use in your podcasts or videos is easy; finding music that you can legally use seems to be far more difficult. What if you could produce your own original music and skip the copyright hassle? Attendees will discover how easy it can be; and you don't have to be a musician to produce your own music!

Technology Innovation Grants: Project Reports

Recipients of JCCC's Technology Innovation Grants (TIG) will share how they have used the technology resources acquired through the grant to innovate in the classroom (either face-to-face or online).

What Do You Get When You Mix Camtasia, Mini-Camcorders & Wacom Tablets?

Late last year 33 JCCC faculty members joined in a Technology Innovation Grant to acquire Camtasia Studio, a mini-camcorder and a wireless Wacom tablet. The grant's purpose was to enable JCCC faculty to explore these tools and create tutorials and other educational training materials. Join us to see the results of the project and learn more about how these tools have been used to meet the media creation needs of your colleagues.

What's New in Family History Research Tools?

What's new in computer assisted family history research? This session will focus on the newly designed Family Tree Maker 2008 plus some supplemental tools such as GenSmarts, Genelines, Ancestry.com and other online research tools.