Power of Digital Video
Cindy Kok (Broene Center) and Lavonne Zwart (Psychology), with the help of the Digital Studio, transferred several media sources, including VHS tapes, DVD, transparencies, comic strips and video clips from YouTube and NPR, to a single DVD for use with their PowerPoint presentations. Integrating their media helped them to easily access resources while teaching which allowed more time for class discussions and questions. Presenter: Cindy Kok
Create Innovative Multimedia: T&L Digital Studio
The Teaching & Learning Digital Studio is a multimedia center where faculty can explore technology, get expert advice or training on how to incorporate technology into the classroom, and pursue project development options. The Studio is staffed weekdays from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., where you will always find a Teaching & Learning staff person or student ready and willing to assist you. The T&L Digital Studio offers free assistance, consulting, and support for a variety of software and technologies, including: KnightVision, digital audio & video, image scanning & editing, document & OCR scanning, Website design & development, graphic design and test scanning.
Can a classroom be “Super-Smart”?
Thanks to the vision and funding of the Business & Economics Department,
North Hall 162 now has a variety of new technologies, including a copy cam, a Walk-N-Talk with interactive panel, and huddleboards and whiteboards, all from PolyVision. It also features dual Epson projectors. Various personnel from Physical Plant, Audio/Visual, CIT and Custer Workplace Interiors teamed with the Business and Economics Department to install and implement this exciting new "Super-Smart" technology.
Bringing speakers to class virtually
Education professors Al Boerema and KaiLonnie Dunsmore used inexpensive USB Webcams and free Skype software to allow guest speakers to talk to their classes virtually. This easy to use software is freely available and runs on both Macs and PCs with minimal setup, and allows their class to interact with guest speakers anywhere in the world. Presenters: Al Boerema, Kailonne Dunsmore
Collaboration Made Easy: Wikis & Blogs
Harness the power of online collaboration with wikis (doc) and blogs (doc), now built-in to your KnightVision course or organization. Wikis (video) can be used for collaborative group projects allowing group members to easily update wiki entries. Blogs (video) (online journals) can be used for groups or individuals, to track progress for an assignment. These tools are available in KnightVision and integrate directly with your grade book.
Audio & Video To Go: Podcasting
The podcast (doc) tool in KnightVision can be used to embed audio or video files in your course. Upload songs, readings, video clips, or even a recording of your lecture and all files will be automatically aggregated and made available to play within your course. An RSS feed (video) allows students to subscribe to your podcast in iTunes, and automatically download new files and sync them to an iPod. Featuring: Karen Saupe
KnightVision Content System (KV-CS)
The KnightVision Content System (video) allows you to store and manage course or organization content more effectively while increasing collaboration. KV-CS files are accessible around the world from any computer with Internet access!
KnightVision Assessments & Surveys
KnightVision offers many different options for administering surveys and assessments -- from ePortfolios to gradable discussion boards, journals & wikis. Want to use KV to administer an exam, but don’t want to go to a computer lab? Reserve the mobile lab from AV and the lab will come to you. Featuring: Otto Selles
Survey Says: Using clickers to encourage participation
The Classroom Performance System (CPS) by eInstruction, better known as the “clickers”, is a wireless polling system that offers rich feedback for any class. With this powerful system you can ask multiple choice and numeric questions, measure comprehension, gather opinions, administer tests and quizzes, and even take attendance. Attendance and grading is automated, and any data you collect can be uploaded into the KnightVision grade book.
What makes a space smart? Smart Spaces Lectern
Like Smart Classrooms, Calvin is starting to equip some areas on campus with smart classroom technologies. These areas are called “Smart Spaces”. The Alumni Board Room is the first official Smart Space on campus, and can be reserved through OCCE.
Other Teaching & Learning Services
Teaching & Learning Projects
Looking for a way to enhance one of your courses using technology, but don't have the time or resources to devote to it? Talk to one of the members of the T&L team about a Teaching & Learning project. Teaching & Learning promotes the use of instructional technology by providing training, consulting and development opportunities. You provide the content and project goals, a tech-savvy student provides the technical services, and we'll provide project management and support.
Workshops & LunchBytes
Throughout the year the Teaching & Learning team offers technology workshops to help you learn new skills or reinforce features that you haven’t used for a while. In addition to our workshops we also offer LunchBytes. These “show and tell” sessions last about forty minutes and give us a chance to demonstrate the features of various software products while you sit back and relax. Workshops include (but are not limited to):
- Course Management in KnightVision
- ePortfolios & Content Management
- Creating a PowerPoint presentation
- Using the Calvin templates to create departmental pages
- Using Dreamweaver for creating online course work
- Basic e-mail & calendaring in GroupWise (Windows)
- Using the advanced features of Word
A special thank you to presenters:
Cindy Kok (Broene Center), Al Boerema (Education), Kailonne Dunsmore (Education), Kristy Dykhouse (Career Services), Karen VanderLaan (Nursing), Kevin VanSchepen (CIT), Eric Kunnen (GRCC) and Gary Brand (GRCC).
An additional thank you to the following people who graciously allowed us to showcase the technologies they are using:
Karen Saupe (English), Otto Selles (French), Lavonne Zwart (Psychology), Bob Eames (Business & Economics), Shari Brouwer (Education)
A final thanks to Ben Nanninga, our T&L intern, and the rest of the
Digital Studio student staff for all their help preparing for this event.
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CIT Teaching & Learning Team
Rob Bobeldyk | Daniel Christian
Travis LaFleur | Krista Spahr
Nancy Zylstra
Computers on Wheels: The mobile lab
These twenty-four wireless laptops can connect to Calvin’s network and the Internet turning any classroom into a computer lab. The mobile lab can be reserved by calling the Audio-Visual Department.
KnightVision in 2009: What to expect
This summer new KnightVision tools and features will be available to the Calvin community. CIT will also be rolling out a new grade center (grade book) and other new content management tools.
ePortfolios: A collection of student artifacts
Calvin Education students create well-developed ePortfolios -- electronic portfolios -- to displaying their academic achievements as they progress through the Teacher Education Program. Several key assignments are incorporated, along with professor assessments and comments, allowing for an authentic snapshot of a student’s academic profile.
ePortfolios: Helping Teacher Ed students get a job
The Career Development office assists students graduating from the Teacher Education Program with the development of a digital credential file that can be sent to interested schools and administrators. An online credential file includes a personal data sheet, letters of recommendation, course evaluations, and the student's transcript. Presenter: Kristy Dykhouse
ePortfolios: Not just for students anymore!
Utilize the features of the KnightVision Content System to publish your own professional digital portfolio.
Presenter: Karen VanderLaan
Documentation Station
CIT and T&L provides a large variety of documentation. We invite you to pick up whatever you need, either for yourself or to distribute to your students as you see fit. T&L also stores this documentation in the KV Content System, so you can link to our documentation from your KnightVision course(s). Ask us how!
Office 2008 (Mac)
Office 2008 was designed to be more compatible, powerful, and easy to use. The new Elements Gallery helps you easily create professional-looking documents. The new Office 2008 file format is also compatible with Windows Office 2007. Although CIT won't be updating all Calvin Mac computers until this summer, we have received many requests for Office 2008 and are making it available on an "Opt In" basis. Spend a few minutes looking at the new Office 2008 and decide if you are ready to update now.
Leopard (Mac OS 10.5 )
Apple started shipping Mac OS 10.5 Leopard in October. This summer CIT will install Leopard on all new and redeployed Mac computers. Leopard features a new look and feel, including the desktop Stack; an innovative way to keep your desktop from being cluttered. Presenter: Kevin VanSchepen
Plagiarism education and detection
SafeAssign™ is a plagiarism prevention service that can be made available in KnightVision with the flip of a switch and for no additional cost. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content. See how GRCC is using it!
Presenters: Eric Kunnen & Gary Brand (GRCC), Calvin Contact: Rob Bobeldyk
