Training and
Professional Development

SBCTC Professional Development and Assessment Activities

SBCTC has a great offering of professional development opportunities and resources, including training for Tegrity, Elluminate, and "How to Teach Online".

To attend the weekly Thursday sessions throughout fall quarter, click on "Log In Link" at the top of the calendar page.

For more information, contact Scott Dennis at sdennis@sbctc.edu.

Streamlined and Scalable Implementation of Lecture Capture within the Blackboard Learn Platform

Shoreline Community College's use of Tegrity lecture capture with AAIRS™ technology provides real-time Blackboard integration to completely automate the lecture capture workflow and eliminate strain on IT.

Speaker: Ann Garnsey-Harter, Ph.D., Director of eLearning, Shoreline Community.

To view the recording: Click here

Tegrity Users Conference Save the Date!

Mark your calendar and plan to join your peers and the Tegrity team in Seattle, Washington for the 6th annual Tegrity User Conference (TUC), taking place April 18-20, 2012! The TUC will be held at the Hyatt at Olive 8 - the first LEED certified, luxury hotel in the city and just steps away from Seattle's most famous attractions.
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Novel Uses of Tegrity to Augment Fully-Online and Face-to-Face Classrooms

Shoreline Community College faculty use Tegrity in innovative ways outside of traditional lecture capture. A panel of SCC faculty (Emma Agosta, Dennis Chang, and Kira Wennstrom) will demonstrate how they use Tegrity in fully-online science laboratories, for introductions / tutorials to the online class environment, for remote proctoring, and to “flip the classroom” even in a face-to-face course.
Facilitator: Ann Garnsey-Harter, eLearning.

Google Apps for Education – free office tools, email, sites, phone, and much more

Presented by Ann Garnsey-Harter of Shoreline Community College and Tom Caswell of the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges.

If you have suggestions for how to improve the format of these sessions or a suggestion for a future topic, please fill in this form: http://goo.gl/i6OGF

Web 2.0 Applications: Free Tools for You and Your Students

Learn about virtual environments, voice over IP, mobile desktops, mind and project mapping, streaming video, and fun tools to spice up your classes, engage your students, and identify new avenues for learning! Through this fast-paced presentation, you will gain insight on the power and capabilities of some of the latest and greatest Web 2.0 technologies available to you and your students. Every application is FREE! Finding technologies that increase collaboration and ultimately improve student success can be difficult during budget crunches. Unlike institutionally-provided technology, students will be able to keep and use these tools for their future classes, personal needs, and careers.

Presenter: Mark Workman, Dean of Distance Learning, Blinn College

NWeLearn Webinar Schedule

Northwest eLearning Community Webinars

In addition to our yearly conference, we offer webinars of interest to the eLearning community periodically during the year.

Ask questions, join the conversation, or just listen in!

How To Teach Online

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How to Teach Online

This course is designed to provide online instructors with principles and best practices for online teaching. This 3-week course is asynchronous, entirely online, and is all about online pedagogy, including the implementation of instructional design principles in the online teaching environment.
Note: This course uses ANGEL as a platform, but will not teach participants how to use ANGEL applications. You do not need to use ANGEL as your course management system on your campus to take this course.

For more information, contact: Boyoung Chae bchae@sbctc.edu Phone: 360-704-1011.

To enroll (use passcode waolangel to create an instructor account):
October 7 - October 28, 2011

Faculty Orientation to Blackboard

Get started in a web-based classroom using Blackboard, the software that SCC uses for its online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes. Faculty new(er) to Blackboard will learn how to login, check for students, add a welcome announcement, grade center item, and more in this hands-on workshop.

Instructor: Ann Garnsey-Harter. Click here for a recording of a previous training session. Handout for session.

On Demand
(1 hour recorded training)

Blackboard 9 for Experienced Bb Users

In this session, we will explore the new version of Blackboard (version 9) by getting oriented to the new look and feel, creating a notifications page, organizing the course menu, viewing our students, adding a column to the Grade Center, and making our course available to students.

Click here for a recording of Bb 9 for Experienced Bb Users. Handout for session.

On Demand
47 minute
recorded training

An Orientation to the Grade Center in Bb 9.1

You will learn how to do the following in the new Grade Center in Blackboard Learn (version 9.1): create a new graded column, create categories and weight your grades, create a calculated Total Points column (if you don’t weight your grades), see points possible for your entire course, download and print your grade sheet, create smart views and grading periods, organize the columns in your grade center, and make certain student rows invisible.

Handouts: FAQs and Self-Help Resources [Word]; Quality Matters rubric [pdf]

On Demand
(recorded training)

Online in Elluminate

Orientation tutorial for Elluminate participants (5 minutes)

Various topics for Elluminate Moderators

Sloan-C Online Workshops

Consider taking a free online workshop offered through Sloan-C. To register, contact eLearning and specify the workshop you desire. We will enroll you and follow-up with a confirmation. View the complete list of upcoming workshops.

These workshops typically cost over $300 per person, but the SBCTC is providing a limited number of seats for free. Please contact eLearning with questions.

Tegrity Training

Tegrity Inc. offers live training sessions online and free of charge to SBCTC Tegrity clients only (SCC is a Tegrity client through SBCTC).

To view the schedule, click on Tegrity Training Schedule. To view the schedule, click on Tegrity Training Schedule.

Recorded Tegrity Training

Basic Recording and Editing:
View the Elluminate Recording

Advanced Recording and Editing: View the Elluminate Recording

SoftChalk LessonBuilder

Register here for different topics about using SoftChalk LessonBuilder, including an introductory session. SCC owns an institution-wide license of SoftChalk LessonBuilder. To find out how you can download the software, Log into Blackboard and go to: BLACKBOARD USERS GROUP (BBUG) > SOFTWARE > SOFTCHALK LESSON BUILDER.

On Demand
(recorded training)

SoftChalk Video Tours (Online)

Quick Tour Videos of SoftChalk LessonBuilder features, such as how to create a lesson. SCC owns an institution-wide license of SoftChalk LessonBuilder. To find out how you can download the software, Log into Blackboard and go to: BLACKBOARD USERS GROUP (BBUG) > SOFTWARE > SOFTCHALK LESSON BUILDER.

On Demand
(recorded training)

Online Show and Tell Sessions: Using Elluminate

Check out the recordings of past sessions that include various topics about using Elluminate. Hosted by Peninsula College and Bellingham Technical College.

Merlot Grapevine

Check out the resources at www.grapevine.merlot.org for a list of upcoming events in eLearning and OER (open educational resources).

Off-campus conferences and training opportunities

The Conference Database of the Distance Education Clearinghouse is a reference of worldwide conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events of interest to distance education and related fields.