Courses and Workshops meet in the
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     Courses (Meet for several weeks)

FrontPage 2000 at SMC
Using a Web Site to Support Instruction
Learn Adobe PhotoShop -Waiting List Only
PowerPoint 2000

    Workshops (Meet Once)

Don't Be Misunderstood! Email Tips
Online Forms Using FrontPage 2000
Tegrity I—Tegrity Live Presentations
Tegrity II—Tegrity on the Web
Tegrity III—Tegrity Editor
Online Discussions -Chat Software
Online Discussions-Virtual Office Hours
Internet Resources in the Classroom
Anatomy of a Course Homepage
Virtual Office Hours
Evaluating & Writing Accessible Web Pages
** Windows NT for Faculty Users
PowerPoint Quick Start  
Outlook (email) Quick Start  
Mail Merge Quick Start  
FrontPage QuickStart 
* Computer Basics 
* Internet Skills  
* SMC Environment 
* Troubleshooting Techniques 
* Ergonomics – Computer Based Training

* This 5 part series of workshops is mandatory for new recipients of District owned PC’s.

**This workshop is mandatory for faculty who wish to perform their own software installations on their District-owned PC.

    Courses

FrontPage 2000 at SMC

This course is designed for beginners in web authoring, especially within the SMC environment.  Using the mini-website provided to every faculty and staff member at SMC, it demonstrates how to create and update your own little corner of cyberspace. Topics discussed include finding your SMC web page area, opening and editing web documents with Microsoft FrontPage, and converting Microsoft Word Documents to web format. You'll also learn how to transfer web pages into Microsoft Word to keep your web and printed information in sync. The basics of web page design for conveying information will also be covered.

Using a Web Site to Support Instruction

Faculty will learn to create a multifaceted web site starting with an easy-to-use template and FrontPage 2000.  Effective ways to integrate your web site into your curriculum and best practices in use by other faculty are also discussed.   No previous web authoring experience is required.

Module 1 – Effective Teaching Strategies and Instructional Web Site Pre-Production Issues:

• Observe how some faculty are currently using a Web site to support their instructional efforts.

• Become aware of World Wide Web basics as you create and publish a temporary one page Web site.

• Identify the Good Practices that can best be supported by using a course-related Web site.

• Learn basic design concepts for Web sites.

• Explore an instructional Web site template and plan your own Web site.

Module 2 – Preparing and Publishing an Instructional Web Site:

• Customize the template file for your course or courses, including  
   inserting your own syllabi, lecture notes, study guides, or other text into your site.  
   linking the different sections and pages of your own Web site.  
   linking your Web site to external Web sites.  
   inserting graphics into your Web site.  
  making your Web site universally acceptable to all browsers and all users.  

• Learn to incorporate Virtual Office Hours into your course and your web site.  

• Learn to use Quiz Server to write online quizzes for student practice.  

• Learn how the development of the World Wide Web has affected copyright and intellectual properties issues.  

Learn Adobe PhotoShop

Learn THE world-standard image-editing solution for print and the Web. The Adobe PhotoShop program is an outstanding tool for scanning your 35mm slides, color photos and line art.  Once your graphic or photo is scanned it can be printed as hard copy for class handouts or published on the Internet in your own home page.  PhotoShop enables faculty and staff to enhance their artwork and graphics by simulating the environment of a darkroom.  Contrast, brightness, color balance and resolution can all be adjusted very quickly. 

  Workshops

Tegrity I—Making Live Presentations

This introductory workshop teaches beginners to use the Tegrity Educart hardware and software to make live presentations.  Topics covered include preparing the cart for use, controlling the system from the whiteboard, using existing PowerPoint presentations and creating new presentations "on the fly", capturing handwritten information from the whiteboard, using the document camera, capturing document camera images, and displaying/capturing other software and websites.

What is Tegrity, anyway?

Tegrity II—Recording Web-Based Presentations

Participants will learn to use the Web-Based Class feature of the Tegrity system to record their presentations, including audio and video, for playback via the World Wide Web or in a campus computer lab.

What is Tegrity, anyway?

Tegrity III—Advanced Topics

Participants will learn to use the editor available in version X to alter their presentations.  Learn to delete and retrace the interpointer path, recolor and clear annotations, cut unwanted segments, insert and manipulate links to other URL's, etc.

What is Tegrity, anyway?

Virtual Office Hours (VOH)

Virtual Office Hours (VOH) provides web-based communication for faculty and students 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.  The system is designed to be easy-to-use for both faculty and students, even those new to the Internet.  Users need not know HTML and need not write their own web pages.  Faculty may turn their VOH pages “on and off” at any time by clicking a button to activate or deactivate each of their classes.  For each class, faculty may choose from the following features:

• Online question and answer session (asynchronous—users log in at different times.  Faculty receive email reminders each morning if they have questions pending answers.)
• Online group discussions (asynchronous—users log in at different times and read each other’s comments, then respond.)
• Announcements (an easy way for faculty to post announcements quickly from any computer with Internet access.)
• Link to the Instructor’s Homepage (where instructors may post other information, documents, links, etc for the class.)

This workshop will introduce faculty to the use of VOH.  Immediately after completing the workshop, we expect you will feel comfortable using VOH with your classes.  

You don't need to take this workshop to start using VOH.  If you'd like to check it out on your own, go to http://voh.smc.edu.  There is a help button there to help you with login information.

Evaluating Web Page Accessibility

This workshop introduces participants to a step-by-step guide through evaluating the accessibility of web pages.  You will learn to detect major accessibility barriers inadvertently lurking on our web pages. This guide is not a comprehensive tool that will expose every possible accessibility problem, but is a good place to start.

Writing Accessible Web Pages

This workshop will familiarize faculty and staff with universal web design principles through the following experiences:

1. observing assistive technology,
2. becoming familiar with Web Accessibility Initiative documents, and
3. using Santa Monica College Quick Tips Plus to incorporate universal design principles into a web page.

Windows NT for Faculty Users

This workshop is mandatory for faculty who will be installing discipline-specific software on their District-owned PC's.  Topics covered include managing the start menu, copyright law as applied to software, backing up your documents, etc.   

PowerPoint QuickStart

This workshop is intended for individuals who are new to business graphics and presentation-management programs.  The introduction covers the basics of using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000.  The various modes of the program such as the slide editor, the slide sorter, the outline view and slide show will be shown.  This workshop will help you prepare for the Tegrity Educart training.

Outlook QuickStart (Email)

Outlook Quick Start is intended for participants who are new Outlook users and may have some experience with other e-mail and personal information management programs. This course covers the basics of using Microsoft Outlook 2000.  It includes skills such as using the Outlook bar to view Outlook folders, creating and sending e-mail messages, organizing the personal address book, and managing contact information.

MailMerge

Mail Merging is very useful for large jobs such as generating mailing labels and form letters.  In this special purpose workshop we will create a database and then merge that data into a form letter.  Utilizing the same database we will now create mailing labels using familiar standards such as the Avery Company that manufactures a variety of labels with pre-assigned numbers.

Office 2000 QuickStart

The new features of Office 2000 will be explored in this workshop.  Each new version of Windows and Office from Microsoft is usually an improvement from the existing features of the previous releases.  Most of the new features are integrated to work with the other Office applications. 

*Computer Basics

Learn about the Windows NT/Windows 98/Windows 95 operating systems.  How to use the desktop, task bar, start button, accessories, screen savers and mouse buttons to manage your files and programs.  Some very special key combinations like the SHIFT and CTRL keys with be introduced in conjunction with a mouse button to accomplish advanced tasks.

*Internet Skills

Internet Skills introduces you to search engines, bookmarks, protocols, and navigational tools. You will gain insight in how to use the Internet as a business tool and support for teachers and their students.

*The SMC Computing Environment

Become familiar with SMC’s Intranet.  Library and bookstore resources can be found using your Internet Skills and employing bookmarks to save time.  In addition, VOH, (Virtual Office Hours) and Faculty Home Pages are going through improvements.

*Troubleshooting Techniques

What can you do when the mouse ball sticks?  What can you do when your computer stops working?  This workshop gives you actions to try  BEFORE you have to call support.  Find out several quick things that you can do to solve mouse problems, floppy disk problems, unlocking a “locked” system, printer problems and other common malfunctions.

*Ergonomics

The relationship between people and their environment is a study called Ergonomics.  How do you prevent carpal tunnel syndrome, tired eyes and muscle aches?  Learn about appropriate lighting, body angles, desk height, glare and other helpful suggestions to improve your relationship to your working environment.

* All SMC employees who are recipients of College-owned computers are required to complete a series of five computer workshops.  The workshops are designed to familiarize you with the variety of services available to you in the SMC computing environment, and to help you develop the skills you will need to make efficient use of your computer as soon as you receive it.  The first four workshops are instructor-led, one-hour sessions held in the Faculty & Staff Computer Training Center in the Media Center.  The fifth, Ergonomics, is computer-based and can be taken at any time in the Faculty & Staff Computer Workroom in the Media Center by contacting Lee Muller at Ext. 4837 for an appointment.