Event Handout Archive

Each event, workshop, or discussion series that has a handout is listed below in groupings by subject area. The hanouts can be effective resources for helping you prepare for an event or to aide your self study. For more information about an event handout or one of its attachments please feel free to contact our staff

Course Management

• Create screen recordings using Camtasia Studio
• Enhance group learning using UBlearns
• Online quizzes, surveys, and games
• UB 101 instructor training
• UBlearns best practices: Microsoft PowerPoint
• UBlearns best practices: video
• UBlearns Express
• UBlearns gradebook
  

Presentation

• Better presenting: drawing tools and layers
• Less is more: creating effective presentations
• Make striking graphs
• Managing presentations on the fly

Productivity Tools

• Acrobat Professional: creating and editing PDFs
• Document editing and markup
• EndNote Essentials
• Office: mail merge

Teaching Effectiveness

• Genteels’ Excellence in Teaching (spring 2008)
• Teaching Effectiveness Series (fall 2007)
  • Multidimensional instruction strategies to improve your teaching
  • The skills and dynamics of teaching: addressing the
    hidden group in the classroom
  • The little shop of course design horrors
  • Developing autonomous learners: helping students succeed in college
  • Pulling it together: developing lesson plans for university students
• Undergraduate Research at UB: benefits/challenges and funding opportunities for faculty

Teaching with Technology

• An interactive web-based approach: anatomical landmark palpations
• Developing student portfolios
• New plagiarism prevention tool - Turnitin
• Regional Knowledge Network

Video

• Online video sharing: present and future
• An interactive web-based approach: anatomical landmark palpations
• Casting a wide net: video coursecasting ... idylls by a stream, on a pod
• Create screen recordings using Camtasia Studio
• Streaming media
• UBlearns best practices: video

Web Technologies

• Blogs
• Blogs and Wikis: contributing to the e-dialog
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Dreamweaver: website creation
• Dreamweaver: website management
• Macromedia Contribute: discussion for Web administrators
• Maintaining website content using Contribute
• Podcasts
• RSS
• Web 2.0 technologies overview: blogs, wikis, podcasting, and RSS
• Web forms: collecting data online
• Wikis