Office 2010 now available

RCTC has recently made Microsoft Office 2010 available to campus and your home. For home use, you can download the software here. No cost for students as of 10/01/11!!

Tip Handouts for Office 2010

Word
Powerpoint
Outlook

videos:

Word
Powerpoint
Outlook

Articulate Activation Codes in GL132

Collection Spring 2011 of SYA (One Note)
PDF format - Spring 2011

Take Note:

eBooks Now Available

Do you have some custom course content you'd like to make available in an ebook format for students to have on their mobile device? Long syllabi, lab manuals, etc can be published to a book app service. Come see us and we'll help you upload your "book."

New Course Available

Educational Technology has recently completed an updated version of their online training for teaching online. This project was done in collaboration with the Distance Education Committee. For access, please contact our department.

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Training

1/6/12 - New Employees

OPEN LABS - Tuesday afternoons @ 2:00 pm in GL 132

E-Mail Basics
Calendar Scheduling
Creating a Contacts Distribution List
About Network Drives

Archived Seminars:
Creatively Engaging Online Students: Models and Activities

Managing Online Education Programs

Items Available for Checkout

Smartpens - create pencasts - recording voice and written material

Video Cam - flash video camera - uploads to Youtube

Video Cam with projector - records and PROJECTS!

Digital Audio recorder - records audio

Interactive Clicker Kits - Response system - works with Powerpoint

Jeopardy Game Show Kit - actual game with buttons and timer

Service Contracts

Adobe Connect - create virtual meetings

VoiceThread - visual discussion board

Sitepal - Avatar creator

Respondus - test creation software
(available for home use as well as office)

Lockdown Browser - cheating prevention

Smarthinking - virtual tutoring service

Turnitin - anti plagiarism resource

D2L

D2L Web Manual

What's New in 9.2

Pre-Semester D2L Checklist

D2L Tutorials

What's New in 9.2?
Creating a gradebook
Using Rubrics
Customizing Your Navigation Bar
Making a Dropbox
Using the calendar
Creating groups
Discussion Board
Associate to Gradebook
Personalize D2L Text
Altering Start/End Dates in D2L
Customizing your D2L home course page
Uploading Content
Content formats
Releasing grades
Creating a quiz
Create a random quiz
Chat tool
Surveys
Pager
Resetting a quiz attempt
Extending Allotted Quiz Time
Intelligent Agents
Export and Import
Copy class materials

Intro with Articulate Pam Whitfield
Online Teaching Tips Dan West
Using the Quiz Tool with Syllabi Shirley Wilson
Research Quickstart/Films on Demand - Diane Pollock
Calendar/Schedule Tool - Tom Kerr
Rapid Fire Visual Feedback - Todd Johnson

Manuals/Directions

for faculty:

D2L Web Manual
Smarthinking
Turnitin
Lockdown Browser
Respondus

Email Basics
Calendar Scheduling
Setting up Distribution Lists

Jeopardy - word document handout

for students:

How to download Microsoft Office

Student Login Handout

Turn it in Instructions

Smarthinking Handbook

Lockdown Browser Instructions

Tutorials

email address book
Compressing PPT size
Uploading videocasts
Speech Recognition
Discussion-board association with Gradebook
Thinking non linear in Powerpoint
Altering email default font

Overview of iMovie

Dave's page

Articles

Engaging The Online Learner
Becoming A Rapid E Learning Expert
Getting Students to Read Their Assignments
Improving College Teaching
Ten Core Principals for Designing Learning Environments
Using Discussion Boards
Databases