■Online Identity Part 1 – Tuesday, June 3, 10:30 am – noon in Wilson Media Lab, LIB 220
With every click, post, tweet, checkout, like, search, digg, friend, tag and other activities we have created a record of our time spent interacting with web sites that are viewable from anywhere in the world. What do our web sites and social media activity say about us? This workshop will explore the meaning that others give to our digital identities, and present some strategies for managing our identities in the digital space. NOTE: Attendees must be comfortable with having their name searched for.
Noon – Lunch served in CTLR, LIB 225
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■Designing Effective Presentations – Wednesday, June 4, 10:30 am in LIB 230
Presentation software (PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi) is perhaps the most common technology used in the classroom by both instructors and students. Yet faculty often feel constrained by the software, and students voice frustration about PowerPoint becoming the focus of a class. In this session, we will discuss ways of making presentations more effective through the stages of preparation, design,and delivery.
11:20 – 12:00 pm – Wilson Media Lab & LIB 230
In the second half of this session, we invite you to submit slides from your presentations that you’d like to improve or are dissatisfied with. Shel Sax, Joe Antonioli, and Heather Stafford will be available for individual consultations to help with conceptual and technical issues. If you are interested, please forward a representative presentation that you’d like to discuss to Shel Sax (sax@middlebury.edu).
Noon – Lunch served in CTLR, LIB 225
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■ Beyond PowerPoint – Wednesday, June 4, 1:30 – 3:00 pm in Wilson Media Lab, LIB 220
New software and mobile devices provide the person at the front of the room with more options for presentations. This tech demo will look at applications that take us beyond the PowerPoint deck and mobile devices that can support our ventures into untethered pedagogies.
Noon -Lunch served in CTLR, LIB 225
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■Online Identity Part 2 – Electronic Portfolios – Friday, June 6, 10:30 am – noon in Wilson Media Lab, LIB 220
What do you find when you Google . . . yourself? Put what you’ve learned about your online identity into practice as we work on constructing a digital presence through the use of an eportfolio. This is a hands-on workshop where participants will learn how Middlebury’s instance of WordPress can be used to construct a professional web presence. In preparation for this session participants may want to collect text and media files to include in the web site design process. No level of WordPress expertise is required — just a creative spirit!
Noon – Lunch served in CTLR, LIB 225