Professor Karolyn Hanna’s Lecture posted

If you missed Dr. Karolyn Hanna’s Faculty of the Year Lecture this past April, here’s a link to it.  It’s about one and 1/2 hours in length…

FRC welcomes Rob Brown….

Rob began working for the FRC in early May when everybody was running around trying to finish up the semester. For those of you who’ve been here for some time, you may remember that Rob worked in the School of Media Arts doing tutor training and teacher training for three or four years.  He also taught Photoshop and beginning web development classes while he was here.  After about four or five years, Rob left to finish his B.A. in Graphic Design at the Art Institute in LA before returning home recently for cooler weather and nicer people.

Summer is here….

Okay, for most of you it’s been here awhile but we’ve just finished up with the Moodle course migration from WebCT (some 100+ courses) to Moodle and that’s worth our celebrating… There are always the remnants of things left to do, new training to design, folks that don’t remember what they did several months ago. I guess that’s why we have a job for now….

And besides it’s summer, we work in Santa Barbara, and until I get my staff to develop a new FRC theme that makes use of the SBCC colors, etc., we’ll just have to look at these summer colors a bit to get us in the mood to let our minds wander and wonder about new things to come….

2009 annual training survey results

In case you were interested in the results of our annual training survey that we conducted in the first quarter of this year… Scroll to page three to begin.

Spring 2009 Inservice Video

For those of you who were  unable to go to the Spring Inservice presentations, here’s a link to a Quicktime video of those presentations:

http://frc.sbcc.edu/movies/inservice_spring09_modem.mov

Handouts of FRC Workshops - Spr 2009 Inservice

Here’s a copy of the handouts for Spring 2009 Adjunct Inservice Presentations by the FRC

Introduction to Learning Management Systems

Presenter: David Wong

Using Moodle will help you develop rich learning environments for your online, hybrid, and classroom-based courses. This workshop will provide an advanced organizer for more in-depth training at the FRC. Special focus on hybrid course design.

Moodle demo handout

Campus Pipeline/Banner

Learn how to log into the college Portal so you can check and print your own rosters in Banner, issue Add Authorization Codes, submit your NoShow Drops, and enter final grades.  You also be introduced to some of the basic features of Campus Pipeline’s communication tools.

Presenters: David Wong & Karen Shannon

Campus Pipeline handout

Banner handout

Gloria (Glo) Baltz retires….

Glo Baltz retires the end of this month after 15 years with the College, 13 which have been with the FRC. She has worked with so many of you individually over the years from her early days in Word Processing to training and tutoring teachers interested in using PageMaker, Micrograde, WebCT Vista, Adobe Photoshop and now Moodle. (If I listed everything she’s accomplished, this post would take the entire page.) Now, she gets to do some other things that she enjoys such as teaching her grandkids piano, working with her dogs, and who knows… maybe even tutoring folks at Santa Maria’s new public library if she gets the inclination. All I know is that we have been so fortunate to have her here at the College and will miss her in the days ahead.

Gloria (Glo) Baltz retires

Using Moodle to support Peer Review Activities

Here’s a useful description from the University of Minnesota’s Digital Media Center using Moodle to support peer review and self assessment.

http://dmc.umn.edu/activities/peer-review/

Moodle’s forum tool is a fine tool for reciprocal teaching techniques such as jigsaws or fishbowl collaborative learning techniques.

Fishbowl example

What training workshops does the FRC offer?

Our FRC workshops are listed at the flex website.  You sign up for them at the flex site.

https://flex.sbcc.edu/Catalog.aspx

End of Summer 08 Moodlers

Left to right (Chris Johnston, Fred Marschak, Glo Baltz -FRC staff, Mohammad EL-Soussi, Lorrie Thomas, Karen Shannon - FRC staff, Dr. Paul McDowell, David Wong - FRC staff, Ignacio Alarcon, and Elizabeth Mizrahi) Missing - Kathy O’Connor and Jeff Barnes -FRC staff

Here’s a photo of our last group of teachers who completed Moodle training this summer.