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A Quick Overview of Scholar Learning Technologies FDI Fall 2009
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Introductions Have you heard the news? A bit about me… A bit about you… Teach (large/small, grad/undergrad)? Research (independent/team)? Advise? Administrate? Collaborate with outside institutions or organizations? http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/campus_notices/campusnot ice.php?item=2381http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/campus_notices/campusnot ice.php?item=2381 2
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The Transition Summer 2010 Last active session for Blackboard at VT. Fall 2010 = Blackboard is “read-only.” No new courses! Start now! Plan early! Support available: http://learn.vt.edu/transition http://learn.vt.edu/transition Team of Learning Technologies support Help with transition of “trickier” material Help with rethinking materials Communicate your needs! 4Help - http://4help.vt.eduhttp://4help.vt.edu 3
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Scholar: Teaching & Learning New Sakai is a “Collaborative Learning Environment” Not primarily a management system. Podcasting for automatic video/audio/PDF sharing Wiki / Blog for different authoring/writing environments News (RSS) and external Web Content easily integrated Sign-up tool to manage course/office hours meetings Create and maintain your course sites with ease Familiar, yet Flexible Announcements Assignments Dropbox Forum Chat Tests & Quizzes Gradebook Groups/Sections 4
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Scholar: Collaboration & Research Easy to create maintain/manage sites and groups within sites Easy to bring in off-campus people as guests Resources and other tools have permissions to allow various access Wikis are strong for collaborative writing Shared calendars Forums Easy to use in-board listserv w/email archive 5
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Scholar for ePortfolios ePortfolios aid students to collect, select, reflect, and connect ePortfolios aid faculty to collect, reflect, assess, report 6
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Scholar: Advising & Student Groups Advising Easy-to-use resource area Easy to maintain user enrollments Sign-up tool for scheduling Chat room for meeting spaces Student Groups Secure/Public document sharing Wiki for internal development Calendaring Chat rooms and Forums 7
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And finally… Give it a try! http://learn.vt.edu Ask for help http://4help.vt.edu Register for FDI Workshops & One-on- One Help Sessions http://www.fdi.vt.edu/ 8
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