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Workshops

Investigate the wide range of workshops and training sessions offered in various areas related to teaching and learning. Use the online Resource Guides to explore alternative strategies for instructional delivery, to increase technical skills and to reinforce concepts presented in workshops.

Want to know more about when workshops will be offered? Check out the Academic Technology Workshops on P.O.W.E.R.

Registration for Workshops

To register for a worshop, please use POWER, the online workshop and events registration system at San Francisco State University. Click here to visit POWER.

Available Workshops

iLearn

• Getting Started with iLearn
  iLearn is an online learning management system (LMS) designed to enhance student learning and collaboration. In this workshop, participants will learn the basics on using iLearn, including making an iLearn course available to students, posting accessible documents and organizing course resources.
• Blackboard to iLearn
  These workshops will help participants convert existing Blackboard courses to the iLearn environment. Participants are welcome to attend additional workshops from the weeklong series that cover specific topics in a modular fashion (e.g., interactivity, group work, assessment). Contact us at x86906 or workshop@sfsu.edu to see if you qualify for this workshop.
• Interactivity I: Forums, Chat & Choice* – 3 hr
  Participants will create and facilitate opportunities for interaction using discussion forums, real-time chats and “Choice” (a tool for conducting student polls). Increase student participation and interest by creating forums to discuss current course-related topics, moderate debates or post course announcements. Use the chat module for virtual office hours or conduct a poll using “Choice” to get an overview of students’ opinions on a particular subject...LISTITEM]
• Interactivity II: Wikis (Collaborative Web Pages) * – 3 hr
  Participants will create and facilitate interaction opportunities using collaborative web pages called “wikis”. Wikis are useful for facilitating group projects, brainstorming and sharing online resources. The workshop includes group authoring techniques and basic wiki markup language.
• Assessment I: Quizzes *– 3 hr
  Participants will create and facilitate assessment opportunities using quizzes in iLearn. Participants will plan and create graded and non-graded assessments that match the course instructional objectives. The workshop will also cover test construction strategies such as randomizing quiz questions, categorizing pools of questions, and publishing test questions to share with colleagues.
• Assessment II: Assignments, Forums, & Gradebook* – 3 hr
  Participants will create and facilitate assessment strategies using assignments, and discussion forum ratings, which include expectations for student success. Participants will set up and use the new iLearn gradebook; weight categorized grades; set extra credit points; curve grades; and download the gradebook to use in a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
• Manage Group Activities and Projects * – 3 hr
  Participants will learn how to create and manage groups of students. The group feature can be used with activities such as Forums, Choice (student polls) and Wikis (collaborative web pages). The Group tool is useful when facilitating group projects or working with large classes.

* Requirements: Attendance at a previous iLearn workshop

Instructional Websites and Digital Images

• Intro to Photoshop
  This workshop will teach participants how to create and edit digital images for web use (or for use in other digital arenas such as Powerpoint).
• Intro to Dreamweaver
  This workshop will focus on planning and creating an instructional website with Dreamweaver.
• Dreamweaver: Templates
  This workshop will focus on using the Template functionality in Dreamweaver to create a consistent look and feel on your website. [Prerequisite: Intro to Dreamweaver]
• Dreamweaver: Intro to CSS
  This workshop will introduce participants to Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) as a way of creating consistent, accessible webpages and reducing maintenance time. [Prerequisite: Intro to Dreamweaver]
• Dreamweaver: Advanced CSS
  This workshop will cover the more advanced aspects of CSS including positioning and CSS-based layout design. [Prerequisite: Intro to HTML or equivalent experience hand-coding HTML]
• Intro to HTML
  Participants will spend time learning how HTML works and how to create and fix problems in your webpage through direct interaction with the HTML code.

Lucky 8 Workshops

Can't make it to our scheduled workshops? Interested in workshops that are not currently being offered? Academic Technology is available to facilitate customized workshops for a department or group (8 minimum). The following are just some of the workshops that have been given in the past:

• Creating Accessible PDFs
• MAC OS X
• Digital Video

Department, College, or GTA Workshops

Interested in having a Lucky8 Customized workshop during a department meeting, professional devleopment day, or GTA training? With a minimum of 8 participants, we can customize a workshop for your group!

If you are interested in arranging a Lucky8 Customized Workshop, or add your name to a list, contact the Training Coordinator at 415-338-6906.