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If you have difficulty viewing this e-mail, go to http://itc.utk.edu/newsletter_monthly/ January 2010 Extended Commons Hours in January From January 11-15, consultants will be available at the Commons South from 8am-5pm. On January 19, following the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, we will return to our regular Commons schedule of 10am-2pm M-F. View January Commons Schedule Call for Proposals: Faculty First Program Have a great idea for one of your courses but don't have the time to develop it? Innovative Technology Consulting invites applications from individual faculty members interested in receiving design and development assistance to reshape a course or course component to enhance the use of technology in the course delivery. The primary focus of the Faculty First Program is development and technical assistance. You offer the ideas and serve as subject matter expert, and consultants will do the development for you, incorporating the appropriate technology into your course. Grant proposals are due Sunday, January 31, 2010. For more information on the Faculty First program, read the full Call for Proposals on the web. 2010 Project RITE Awards Congratulations to the UT Knoxville Project RITE grant recipients for 2010 Rita Hagevik Theory & Practice in Teacher Education The Effects of Geospatial Informational Technologies on Preservice Elementary and Secondary Science Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Blanche O'Bannon Theory & Practice in Teacher Education Using Podcasts to Replace Lecture: Effects on Student Achievement Suzy Prentiss Communication Studies, Using Technology to Manage Speech Anxiety Visit the Project RITE Web site this spring to read about past projects and to keep up with 2010 projects via research blogs. For more information about Project RITE, contact Gina Phipps at [log in to unmask] or 974-7912. Mark Your Calendar: Community of Practice Brown Bag Lunch with Faculty Fellows Please join Innovative Technology Consulting staff and Faculty Fellows for a brown bag lunch on Wednesday, January 27 from 12:15-1:15pm in Hoskins 110. We'll use this time to exchange ideas and formulate a direction for an instructional technology Community of Practice (CoP). For more information, contact Gina Phipps at [log in to unmask] or 974-7912. Making the Move: Teaching Online If you are ready to offer a course completely or partially online, attend Making the Move: Teaching Online to get started. The 5-week program begins the week of Feb 1 and consists of 2 face-to-face meetings and a variety of online sessions scheduled at participants' convenience. Course topics include: essentials of a high quality online course, course design, course development, course facilitation & community building, and course evaluation. For more information, visit the ITC workshops page or contact Iryna Loboda at [log in to unmask] or 974-5753. Learn more about all of our services and events at our Web site, http://itc.utk.edu . December 2009 Scheduled Uptime: 100% Total Uptime: 100% Learn more January Workshops Register for a Workshop Introduction to Online@UT Access your online course site, receive an overview of instructor development tools and resources, and learn to upload a variety of document types. • Wed, 1/20, 10am-noon Introduction to LiveOnline@UT Learn how to manage your virtual classroom through live audio, text chat, real-time polling, and content sharing. • Tue, 1/26, 1-3 Grade Center Best Practices Discover new and redesigned tools for managing grades online using the Online@UT Grade Center. • Thu, 1/21, 10am-noon Using the SMART Classrooms Learn how to use the projectors, VCRs, DVD players, and other equipment in the Technology Enhanced Classrooms. • Mon, 1/11, 10-11 • Tue, 1/12, 1-2 Using the Smart Board/Sympodium System Get hands-on experience with the Smart Board (a touch-to-click interactive whiteboard) and the Sympodium (an electronic lectern). • Mon, 1/11, 11-noon • Tue, 1/12, 2-3 Give PowerPoint a Voice: Developing Narrated Presentations Add value to PowerPoint as an effective teaching and learning tool by adding audio to your slide presentations. • Mon, 1/11, 1-2 • Tue, 1/26, 10-11 Adobe Captivate: Going Beyond PowerPoint Use Adobe Captivate (Windows only) to create an online interactive learning module with slides, images, screenshots, video, audio, captions, hyperlinks, and self-testing quiz sections. • Tue, 1/12, 9-noon • Wed, 1/27, 1-4 SafeAssign in Online@UT SafeAssign is a software resource designed to help students avoid plagiarism and improper citation. • Mon, 1/25, 10am-noon Blogs and Wikis in Online@UT Explore Online@UT blogs and wikis, configure these tools for different purposes, and discuss their instructional uses. • Wed, 1/27, 10am-noon Register for a Workshop -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To view the ITC-FORUM archives or Join/Leave the list go to: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/itc-forum.html