Don’t miss out on this opportunity: Smartboard Training: August 24th Sitka’s Room 230 is outfitted with a Smartboard to assist faculty in better teaching to the needs of both face to face and distant students. Smartboards have so many great features that they may, at first glance, be intimidating. However, once you attend this training, …
Tag: Training
Jun 22
iTeach 2015
iTeach 2015 is behind us, but even if you were unable to attend, we have many resources that you can take advantage of. This year’s iTeach was highly successful due to the enthusiastic and diverse faculty from Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau and beyond. These faculty (Rosemarie Alexander-Isett, Kelly Alzaharna, Paul Bahna, Marnie Chapman, Eve Dillingham, Julia …
May 21
Free Training Opportunity for LIMITED Time Only: Don’t Miss Out!!
WordPress Essential Training at lynda.com will be free for viewing until June 18th with a 10-day free trial. This course has had over 100,000 views since inception and explains why WordPress is not only an excellent blog/web site tool, but also how it can be used for courses. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen states that WordPress actually …
Aug 29
Sign Up for ED593 — Don’t Delay!
ED593: Designing and Teaching an Online Course begins September 15th so sign up now! This is your opportunity to learn more about the online environment from both the student and faculty perspective. We encourage all faculty to sign up and take the course if you are thinking about offering an online course, considering redesigning your …
Oct 29
eTech Fair: Distance Education Week | Nov. 11-15th 2013
UAA invites you to attend the eTech Fair: Distance Education Week. Drop-ins are welcome and no pre-registration is required. The agenda is attached below, note that only UAA faculty are eligible for the door prizes. This is an ONLINE training, attend from your desk or home computer, via Collaborate! Offerings include, Interactive Rubrics, VoiceThread, Making …
Apr 17
Summer Training Opportunities For Faculty
One of Title III’s most important goals is to contribute to the professional development of our distance faculty in a variety of ways. To support that goal, we have a number of out-of-town training opportunities listed below which you can apply for. Basically, you qualify for travel on Title III funds if you’ve been involved …
Apr 09
iTeach Sitka is Coming Soon, and It’s Going to ROCK!!
Is your application in for iTeach 2013? Here’s a preview of what we’ll be doing together: Using the latest iPad and sharing the best educational apps Learning about some Google Apps that can enhance your classroom experience Learning some great story-boarding tips and techniques that can be used when designing instruction Creating video tutorials or …
Apr 01
Diane Elkins Joins the iTeach Sitka Team in June!!
(1) We are very excited to announce that Diane Elkins, co-owner of Artisan E-Learning, will join our iTeach training team. Our team this year includes, Mary, Maureen, Lori, Kathi from Sitka campus and Madera from UAF! Diane is a trainer in the fast-growing field of “rapid development tools” and has written books and trained diverse …
Mar 06
Reminder: Google in Education Alaska Summit
This high intensity, two-day event in April (6-7) at the University of Alaska Anchorage focuses on deploying, integrating, and using Google Apps for Education and other Google Tools to promote student learning in K-12 and higher education. The program features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, practicing administrators, solution providers, Google engineers, …
Feb 13
Apply For Travel Funds
One of Title III’s most important goals is to contribute to the professional development of our distance faculty in a variety of ways. You have had opportunities to: Attend iTeach Take an online course (Designing and Developing an Online Course) Work with our instructional designers (Kathi Baldwin and Lori Cheezem) Participate in webinars (Softchalk and …