DYOPD - Design Your Own Professional Development

Join eLIS (eLearning and Instructional Support) for a constructivist professional development workshop in an “unconference” model to kick-start your use of technology in instruction for the Spring semester. For those unfamiliar, an unconference is an organic, participant-driven professional development event. We will gather together from 9- 9:30 am to brainstorm the key topics that participants would like to cover, and then we’ll break out into three one-hour workshops based on the topics the group generates.

Examples of topics we might engage in together:

• Designing online discussions
• Choosing technology tools to support learning
• Using the online environment to support learning
• Using video and multimedia in your class

Examples of technology tools on which we might discuss as part of the training:

• Blackboard Basics
• Advanced Blackboard topics such as using rubrics or the grade center
• Using Atomic Learning in your classes
• Updated version of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
• Kaltura for sharing video in Blackboard