tobiasg@marlboro.edu
Phone on-campus: X147
Phone off-campus: 451-7147
Location: D35 Across from Long Room

Training Calendar:
http://marlboro.edu/resources/computer/training/

Marlboro Courses

What is the Marlboro Courses Site?
Marlboro Courses (powered by Moodle) is a course management system (similar to Blackboard) developed by educators with a "learning-centric" perspective. It allows you to easily set up interactive online spaces for your courses. You will be able to upload syllabi, host discussions(forums), accept assignments electronically, send email to your students, give quizzes, and much more.

How To. . .

Upload a public syllabus

Upload a private syllabus

Change course settings (Organization/layout, remove the news forum)

Add an event to the calendar

Enroll as a student (For the students - also posted on Nook. Only necessary for the first two weeks of the semester)

How to use the Questionnaire module for anonymous feedback

How to use the online grade book

Forums, settings and choices explained

What else would you like a "How-to" document on?

Informational Handouts

Into to Courses Handout

Courses Tools an Overview

Presentation - Moodle Overview and History

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Training Sessions

Presenting with PowerPoint

Handout

30 minute presentation and discussion covering the basics of PowerPoint and presenting with PowerPoint. Topics include: the basics of presentation design, the fastest way to create a presentation, adding charts, text boxes and arrows, animation and more.

Please RSVP a day in advance if possible.

Offered:
TBD

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Getting Documents Online, including but not limited to your course syllabi

Handout

30 minute presentation. If you have a laptop you are welcome to bring that and upload material during the presentation or you can schedule a time that I will sit and work with you to upload your material.

Please RSVP a day in advance if possible.

Offered:
TBD

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Cool Online Tools (and how to use in your courses)

Handout

Approximately 45 minute presentation/discussion exploring the following sites and how you could use these in your courses: delicious/furl/magnolia/connotea (online bookmarking and social bookmarking tools), google/googledocs/googlescholar (everything google- I guarantee I can teach you something about Google you didn't know), mindmeister, OttoBib, Wikispaces (some more tools that you may find useful.) This is my list- if you have any ideas or sites you would like to explore during this session please bring them along! If you have a laptop, bring it along to explore these sites as we discuss.

Please RSVP a day in advance if possible.

Offered:
TBD

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Web Site Design

60 minutes Hands-on workshop for beginners introducing participants to modern, efficient and accessible web design. Sessions will include time for participants to create, modify and place web pages online.

Offered:
TBD

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Managing Email

How to flag, tag, categorize and keep your inbox manageable. This session is for everyone - from those that check their email once a week to those that check every 5 minutes. Come learn tips and tricks for staying on top of email and feeling better about those digital missives. Bonus: Learn efficient search techniques and using Google Scholar.

Offered:
TBD

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Helpful Web sites (you didn't even know existed)

Handout

An extension of the Cool Tools presentation with an emphasis on sites that can help you in and out of the classroom. Find cheap airfare, shopping, make graph paper, upload photos and much much more. I will share the helpful, fun, neat, and downright weird web sites that I have found over the years.

Offered:
TBD

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Introduction to Access (Databases)

What is Access? How is it used? What can it do for you? These questions and more will be answered at this session. Learn to create a database with tables, data types, primary keys, forms and a simple query.

Offered:
TBD

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Marlboro Courses

Course Management Software(CMS) will be available on a trial basis for Spring 2008 and planned for full implementation Fall 2008. What does this mean for you? What can you do with the coming system? In this session I will present an overview of Marlboro Courses Site and showcase some of the features.

Offered:
TBD

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With any of the above topics you can schedule one on one consultation and training - just ask.

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Lunch Bytes

Stuff your belly and your brain. Short, informal presentations held during the lunch hours, 12:00 - 1:30pm in Staples - bring your food and your tech questions.

Tuesday, 12 Feb. - Courses - See how your colleagues are using the system, tips and tricks that will help you make better use, get your questions answered

Wednesday, 20 Feb. - Courses Intermediate

Wednesday, 5 Mar - Topics: Courses, Dealing with Dialup and any other technology issues/questions you have

Meeting Notes coming soon

Wednesday, 9 Apr -Topics: Delicious, Courses, Powerful PowerPoint and any other technology issues/questions you have

Friday, 16 May - Topics: Courses Wrap-up/Archiving, helpful travel sites, backups, and any other technology issues/questions you have

Future topics will include:

And more. Have topic Ideas? send me an email or stop by.

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Training Videos

Adding and sending attachments in Webmail [Video] [Handout]

Adding and sending attachments in Mail (Macs Mail Client) [Video] [Handout]

Adding and sending attachments in Thunderbird [Video] [Handout]

Would you like to see a tech topic covered in a training video? send me an email.

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Dialup users! I can't make your connection faster but I can point you in the direction of lightweight sites optimized for slower connections.

Tobias Gelston | Academic Technology Coordinator | Marlboro College | Marlboro, VT