Program for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

During the month of July, PETAL is offering several events that will provide USA faculty with opportunities to learn how to: • • • • •

Create a personal grade book in Excel Retouch, manipulate, and create images using Adobe Photoshop Develop a basic web page using HTML and Dreamweaver Determine how to choose proper assessment tools Integrate the pedagogical tool of debating into the classroom

Date

Day

July 6 July 7 July 13

Tue Wed Tue

July 13 July 14

Tue Wed

July 15 July 20 July 21

Thu Tue Wed

July 21 July 27 July 28

Wed Tue Wed

Event Grade Book in Excel Grade Book in Excel Photoshop-1: Magic Images Mission Possible 2: Assessment Carte Blanche Photoshop-1: Magic Images Mission Possible 2: Assessment Carte Blanche Web Design 1: HTML Debates: A Propitious Tool for Any Classroom Web Design 1: HTML Web Design 2: Dreamweaver Web Design 2: Dreamweaver

Type

Time

Instructor

Workshop Workshop Workshop

10:00-11:00 am 3:00-4:00 pm 10:00 am-12:00

Libby Jones Libby Jones Denice Buxton

Seminar Workshop

3:00 -4:00 pm 3:00-5:00 pm

Dr. Alla Zakharova Suhana Chikatla

Seminar Workshop Roundtable

3:00-4:00 pm 10:00 am-12:00 12:00-1:00 pm

Dr. Alla Zakharova Dr. Alla Zakharova Dr. Mir Husain

Workshop Workshop Workshop

3:00-5:00 pm 10:00-12:00 pm 3:00-5:00 pm

Dr. Alla Zakharova Dr. Alla Zakharova Dr. Alla Zakharova

Advanced registration is required for all events.

Contact and Registration Information: Phone: 460-7029 Email: PETAL@usouthal.edu http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/imc/imcpetal/petal/petal_web/petalhomepage.html

PETAL/IMC – 06/24/04

COFFEE AND COLLEAGUES ROUNDTABLE Library Room 181 July 21 12:00p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

“Debates: A Useful Pedagogical Technique in the Classroom” Presenter: Dr. Mir Husain (Political Science) Come to the PETAL roundtable discussion on using debates as a pedagogical tool with Dr. Mir Husain. Learn some intriguing details about its application and some first-hand insights.

Lunch will be provided. Reservation required.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR Library Room 171 July 13 (3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.) & July 15 (3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.)

Mission Possible 2: Assessment Carte Blanche Presenter: Dr. Alla Zakharova

In this seminar, review your personal “menu” of assessment tools and have a look at other forms of holistic and analytical grading. Find out what CATs have to do with Cards, Logs, and Human Tableau. Learn to put your “freedom of choice” in a realistic instructional context. Registration is required.

TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS PETAL Lab Room 123

Grade Book in Excel July 6 (10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.) & July 7 (3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.) Instructor: Libby Jones

Spend an hour with Excel and save many hours down the road with a personal grade book.

Create your own grade book that automatically assigns average, maximum, and minimum scores for the individual student and the whole class, automatically adds bonus points on an individual basis, calculates the student’s final grade using a weighted scale, and assigns a letter grade.

Registration is required.

PhotoShop-1: Magic Images July 13 (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) Instructor: Denice Buxton & July 14 (3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Instructor: Suhana Chikatla

This class will teach you how to manipulate and edit images, crop, resize and save them in different formats. You will learn to change colors and add text to your images. For enhanced fun, bring your own digital image. Registration is required.

Web Design-1: Introduction to HTML July 20 (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) & July 21 (3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Instructor: Dr. Alla Zakharova

This course will teach you the basic steps involved in making a Web page. Learn to write simple codes in HTML, to modify text, make bulleted lists, and insert images. Learn to add functionality to your web pages by inserting external hyperlinks to other sites and creating email tags on your web pages. Learn to read the page source information of other sites on the Internet. Registration is required.

Web Design-2: Introduction to Dreamweaver July 27 (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) & July 28 (3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Instructor: Dr. Alla Zakharova

This class will teach you the basic skills involved in design and development of a web page with the top of the line authoring tool – Macromedia Dreamweaver. You will be able to create colorful backgrounds, enter text, tables, and images into your web page and create hyperlinks and anchors (bookmarks). You are welcome to bring your own resources (text and images) to be used in the design of a sample page. Registration is required.

PETAL/IMC – 06/24/04