Whitman College Technology Services Presents:
CwTI-mini 2008
Innovations in Teaching and Learning Through CLEo
How using the Collaborative Learning Environment Online (CLEo) Course Management System Can Help You Take Your Pedagogy to the Next Level
A One-Day Workshop Offered Twice:
August 6 and August 7, 2008
What is CwTI? Why "mini"?
The Communicating with Technology Initiative (CwTI) focuses on technology issues that impact communication skills by providing mentoring, training workshops, and development support for faculty and students. Many faculty have already participated in past events. Most CwTI workshops span multiple days. This year, to encourage participation from time-strapped faculty preparing for Fall classes, CwTI has been pared down to two identical one-day workshops-- hence CwTI "mini".
Introducing CwTI mini 2008
As a Whitman faculty member, you may already be using CLEo to help you with your courses. Perhaps you're using CLEo to post your syllabus or learning your students' names and faces via the Photo Roster. Perhaps you're posting and grading assignments with help from the Assignments tool, or maybe you're simply accepting assignments via the Drop Box tool. Indeed these are some of the most popular tools in CLEo that Whitman faculty members use to their advantage.
Have you thought about what might be beyond CLEo's "basics"? Did you know CLEo has a lot more to offer you? Did you know that CLEo will allow you to create, manage, and distribute tests and quizes, blogs, wikis, podcasts, news and information feeds (RSS) and much more? If you have no idea what "wiki", "blog" or those other words mean, don't worry about that now-- the point is that CLEo is full of opportunities to enhance existing pedagogical activities and open the door to new ones! Targeted at faculty members who are current CLEo users, this year's CwTI "mini" one-day workshop will focus on introducing you to the wider world that CLEo has to offer.
During this one-day workshop, faculty participants will go beyond CLEo "basics" to discover a variety of different tools and methods available either directly inside CLEo, or that can be easily connected to CLEo. Covered topics will include site management tips and tricks, and explorations of built-in tools including Gallery, Schedule, News, and Web Content. We will also explore web-based tools that can be linked to through CLEo, including del.ico.us, Google Docs, Flickr, and VoiceThread. Additional topics will be driven by the interests of the course participants (determined prior to the workshop).
Prior experience with CLEo is recommended, but not required.
Register or Request More Information
Because of the hands-on nature of this workshop, limited space is available on a first come, first serve basis. Please use the form below to register and/or request more information.