Workshops Summaries and Resources

Employee Training 2006

Throughout June 2006 college employees had the opportunity to attend workshops on a variety of applications. This is the second year of the program with attendance continuing to be strong. With the success of last year's workshop series Heather Mohnkern of Computer Showcase was brought back to campus to teach sessions on Microsoft Publisher, PowerPoint and Excel. In addition to these sessions several Allegheny Employees chose to share their knowlwedge and time by developing workshops on topics within their expertise.

• Mike Richwalsky taught three sessions of Using Formbuilder.
• Pete Gifford led three very popular sessions on Excel pivot tables.
• Jason Ramsey and Rich Metzger introduced users to the New Datatel interface.
• Jason also help people stay sane by teach three sessions of file and email management tips.
• James Fadden introduced new trends of the web in Surf Bored, the Web's Next Big Wave.

Resources for each class are linked above.

Podcasting: Examples from Liberal Arts Colleges

Personal broadcasting of audio files over the internet is known as podcasting. In the last year, podcasting has exploded on to the scene and is being adopted by many in the education world. In response to this sudden explosion of multimedia content, Josh Searle-White and James Fadden facilitated a discussion of podcasting and its potential applications at liberal arts colleges. - more

Personal Response Devices: AKA Clickers

Faculty, librarians, and technologists gathered learn the options "clickers" offer faculty who wish to check for student understanding or foster peer learning by polling the class and then displaying responses in a bar chart. Glen Wurst and Shaun Murphree shared how they use the "clickers" in three classes at Allegheny this spring.

Multimedia Narative Workshop - May 2005

Faculty and technologists from Gettysburg and Allegheny Colleges came together for three days of instruction and project development through the Multimedia Narrative Workshop presented by the Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury VT. - more

Computer Mediated Communication and Social Software in Education Workshops

Faculty, a reference librarian, instructional technologists, and students from Allegheny College and Juniata College came together for two days of workshops on tools to facilitate commumication and writing in educational settings. The workshops were facilitated by Sarah Lohnes from the Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury VT. - more

Effective PowerPoint Strategies

In this hands-on workshop, faculty participants refined their PowerPoint skills. The participants gaine an understanding of "best practices" and tips for efficient use through hands-on activities, discussions, and critiques of PowerPoint presentations. - more

Don't Make Me Think Web Design

The participants of this seminar style workshop will discuss the criteria for userfriendly web design. The discussion topics include the issues of usability, accessibility, audience, color, readability, and navigation. The participants will learn good web design by looking at bad web design examples using the well-known usability site: http://webpagesthatsuck.com. - more

Create a Simple Course Site

In this hands-on workshop, participants used Dreamweaver to create a simple site to support the courses they teach. Participants received instruction on a few basics of creating web pages and then spent much of the session creating and editting content, modifying layouts, and providing each other feedback in an effort to publish a simple site by the end of the workshop. - more