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OPEN LAB SESSIONS   WEB DEVELOPMENT & INSTRUCTION

This session helps you with Blackboard, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Element K, as well as your own specific needs.




Open Lab
  

Learn about web-based instruction by attending sessions on Web Design, Teaching With the Web, Distance Learning, Blackboard, Dreamweaver, Breeze, Database Driven Web Sites, and the latest Emerging Instructional Technologies.

Web Development
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
RESEARCH TOPICS

Gain essential skills by learning about the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, and Excel), Adobe Acrobat, Tablet PCs, and better Web Browsing.


Essential Skills

   Explore topics such as Writing Grants, Finding Funding, Grant Managment and Budgeting, End Note, SAS, SPSS, NVivo, Luna, Web-based Collaboration Tools, LabVIEW, VT Research Policies, IRB, and survey.vt.edu.

Research Topics
DIGITAL CONTENT
 

Learn more about Digital Photography, Photoshop, Streaming Media, InDesign, Digital Audio, and Digital Video Production and Editing.

Digital Content
    


OPEN LAB SESSIONS
One-On-One Help
Shannon Phillips
  Thu, 8 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 15 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 22 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 29 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 6 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 13 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 20 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 27 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1140 Windows/Macintosh
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ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Acrobat 7: Creating PDF Files for Instruction
Christie (Juhong) Liu
  Tue, 6 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Thu, 15 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
Acrobat 7: Enhancing PDF Files with Advanced Features
Christie (Juhong) Liu
  Tue, 13 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Thu, 22 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
Microsoft Excel: Essential Skills for Educators
Phyllis Newbill
  Tue, 6 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
  Wed, 7 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Microsoft PowerPoint: Creating PowerPoint Presentations and Adding Multimedia Enhancements
Luisa (Fan) Li
  Wed, 7 - Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
  Mon, 12 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Tue, 27 - Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Microsoft OneNote: Effective Information Management
Jamie Bishop
  Thu, 8 - Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Mon, 12 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
Microsoft Word: Advanced Features for Publication, Collaboration, and Instruction
Marc Zaldivar
  Mon, 26 - Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Thu, 29 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Better Browsing: Getting the most out of Firefox, its Extensions, and del.icio.us
Jamie Bishop
  Thu, 8 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Tue, 20 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Tablet PCs in the Classroom
Jamie Bishop
  Thu, 15- Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Mon, 26 - Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
 
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DIGITAL CONTENT
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0: Scanning and Adjusting Images for the Web
Marc Zaldivar
  Wed, 7 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Mon, 17 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
  Thu, 27 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Digital Imaging: From Camera to Computer and Beyond
Jamie Bishop
  Tue, 6 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Wed, 14 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Adobe Photoshop CS (Part One): Photoshop Basics (scanning, resolution, tools and new features)
Christie (Juhong) Liu
  Wed, 14 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Mon, 24 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Adobe Photoshop CS (Part Two): Selection Techniques, Layers and Creation
Christie (Juhong) Liu
  Wed, 21 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Mon, 31 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Using Audio On Your Web Site
Shannon Phillips
  Wed, 7 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
  Tue, 13 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Streaming Media: An Introduction to Streaming Audio and Video
Luisa (Fan) Li
  Tue, 18 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Wed, 26 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Adobe InDesign: An Introduction to Page Layout and Design
Marc Zaldivar
  Mon, 3 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Tue, 4 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Video Production: Planning & Shooting Digital Video for Instruction
Shannon Phillips
  Tue, 4 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Windows/Macintosh
Adobe Premiere: Advanced Digital Video Production
James Dustin
  Tue, 25 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Final Cut Pro: Advanced Digital Video for Instruction (for Mac-users)
James Dustin
  Tue, 18 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
iMovie: Editing Digital Video for Instruction (for Mac-users)
Luisa (Fan) Li
  Tue, 25 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Windows Movie Maker: Editing Digital Video for Instruction (for PC users)
Luisa (Fan) Li
  Tue, 11 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
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WEB DEVELOPMENT & INSTRUCTION
Motivating Your Students: Strategies for Design and Implementation
Miriam Larson
  Tue, 20 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
LISTSERV: Strategies for Streamlining Communication with Students
Christie (Juhong) Liu
  Wed, 14 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Web Standards: Making Accessible Web Sites
Shannon Phillips
  Tue, 18 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
  Wed, 19 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Part One): Web Page Creation Made Easy
Jamie Bishop
  Tue, 13 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
  Wed, 28 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
  Thu, 13 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Part Two): Site Management and Interface Development
Jamie Bishop
  Tue, 20 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
  Wed, 05 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Thu, 20 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Part Three): Cascading Style Sheets, Templates, and other Advanced Topics
Jamie Bishop
  Tue, 27 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
  Wed, 12 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Thu, 27 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 1120 Macintosh
**FIRST WEEK OF CLASS**: Introduction to Blackboard 6 for New Faculty and /or New Users
Nick Pachis
  Tue, 23 -Aug 3:00 - 4:30 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Blackboard for New Users
Nick Pachis
  Tue, 6 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 15 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Blackboard 6 (Part One): Creating Web-based Courses
Nick Pachis
  Tue, 13 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 22 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
  Mon, 24 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Blackboard (Part Two): Question Pools and the Gradebook
Nick Pachis
  Tue, 27 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 29 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
  Mon, 31 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
The Scholar Learning Management System (Part One): An Overview
Joan Watson / Jeshua Pacifici / John Moore
  Wed, 12 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
The Scholar Learning Management System (Part Two): Authoring Tools
Joan Watson / Jeshua Pacifici / John Moore
  Wed, 26 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
The Scholar Learning Management System (Part Three): Assessment Management and the Gradebook
Joan Watson / Jeshua Pacifici / John Moore
  Wed, 9 -Nov 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
ePortfolio: The Next Leap Forward in Virginia Tech's ePortfolio (VTeP) Initiative
Nick Pachis
  Wed, 2 -Nov 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Online Student Ratings of Instruction Tool (Part One):  Formative, Mid-term Evaluations
Tom Head / Aaron Zeckoski / Terry Wildman
  Thu, 8 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows/Macintosh
Online Student Ratings of Instruction Tool (Part Two):  Summative, End-of-term Evaluations
Tom Head / Aaron Zeckoski / Terry Wildman
  Thu, 10 -Nov 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Connecting With Students Through Online Interaction
Pete Macedo
  Tue, 4 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Narration: An Easy Way to Add Value to Powerpoint Presentation (Macromedia Breeze)
Pete Macedo
  Tue, 11 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Realtime Online Communication with Centra 7.5 (New Version)
Pete Macedo
  Tue, 18 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Creating Effective Video Tutorials with Camtasia Studio
Pete Macedo
  Tue, 25 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
eLearning Assessment Methods
Betsy Tretola / Pete Macedo
  Mon, 31 -Oct 3:00 pm-5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Test Creation for Distance Classes with Brownstone Diploma
Pete Macedo
  Thu, 10 -Nov 3:00 -5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Web Design: Building an Effective Web Site
Marc Zaldivar
  Wed, 21 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 6 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Creating Database-driven Web Sites with PHP and MySQL (Part One): HTML
Jean Lacoste
  Mon, 3 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
Creating Database-driven Web Sites with PHP and MySQL (Part Two): PHP
Jean Lacoste
  Mon, 10 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Creating Database-driven Web Sites with PHP and MySQL (Part Three): phpMyAdmin and SQL
Jean Lacoste
  Mon, 17 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
Creating Database-driven Web Sites with PHP and MySQL (Part Four): Putting it All Together
Jean Lacoste
  Mon, 24 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
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RESEARCH TOPICS
Writing Successful Grants (Part One)
Bob Porter
  Tue, 6 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Mon, 19 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 13 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Finding Funding: Using Online Databases to Locate Sponsors
Bob Porter
  Tue, 13 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
  Mon, 26 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 17 -Nov 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Writing Successful Grants (Part Two)
Bob Porter
  Tue, 20 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
  Mon, 03 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 27 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Breeze Meeting: Desktop Videoconferencing (and Much More) for Researchers and Instructors
Belinda Carroll / Carl Estes
  Wed, 28 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
Addison: Power Searching in the New Library Catalog
Robert Sebek / Luke Vilelle / Michelle Young/ Buddy Litchfield
  Tue, 13 -Sept 10:00 - 11:30 Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
  Tue, 27 -Sept 3:00 - 4:30 pm Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
  Tue, 4 -Oct 3:00 - 4:30 pm Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
  Tue, 11 -Oct 10:00 - 11:30 Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
MatLAB and Simulink
Jamie Winter
  Wed, 2 -Nov 11:00 am-3:30 pm Torgersen Hall 1100 Windows
LabVIEW 7.1: Introduction and Overview
Andrew Watchorn
  Mon, 19 -Sep 10:00 am-1:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Mon, 19 -Sep 1:30 pm-4:30 pm Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
  Fri, 28 -Oct 10:00 am-1:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
LabVIEW 7.1: LabVIEW Advanced User Group Meeting
Andrew Watchorn
  Fri, 28 -Oct 1:30 pm-4:30 pm Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
LabVIEW 8 Live: An Introduction to the New LabVIEW
Christian Hahn
  Fri, 2 -Dec 9:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 1100 Windows
Qualitative Data Analysis with Nvivo
Ross Perkins
  Thu, 29 - Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows
survey.vt.edu: Collecting Survey Data via the Web
Christie (Juhong) Liu
  Thu, 22 -Sept 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3060 Windows/Macintosh
EndNote 8: Managing your Research Citations
Vicki Kok
  Mon, 12 -Sept 10:00 am -noon Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
  Thu, 22 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
  Mon, 3 -Oct 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
  Tue, 4 -Oct 10:00 am-noon Torgersen Hall 3310 Windows/Macintosh
SAS Analyst (part one):  An Introduction to SAS Analyst
Susanne Aref
  Thu, 22 -Sept 10:00am -noon Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
SAS Analyst (part two):  More Statistical Tests with SAS Analyst
Susanne Aref
  Thu, 29 -Sept 10:00am -noon Torgersen Hall 3080 Windows
Basic Statistical Tests with SPSS
Chuck Hodges
  Wed, 21 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall 3080
Windows
  Thu, 29 -Sept 3:00 - 5:00 pm Torgersen Hall