Training and Workshops

This session will introduce you to the capabilities of TechSmith Relay to record lectures and presentations that can be shared with students. Capture everything that you can display on a computer screen, including PowerPoint presentations, and interactions with software or web sites. Along with the video from the computer screen, record your voice and other audio, and optionally your face with a webcam. The simplicity of Relay makes it easy to record, publish and share your videos. Relay is installed in classrooms on all PC teaching stations.

Pedagogy Connection: TechSmith Relay enables instructors to create high quality and engaging instructional videos for any course. This mode of instructional delivery helps students to learn course content at their own pace and on their own time. Instructional videos also enable instructors to “flip” the classroom by covering the content online and helping students to practice or discuss the concepts in class.

Open to faculty and staff.

Presenter: Trish Williams

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Join other Apple users on campus to share knowledge and learn more about Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. Topics of discussion will be determined by the group’s interests and will vary each meeting.

Register below to be added to the Apple Users Group E-mail list to receive meeting agendas.

Open to everyone.

Facilitator: Trish Williams

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In this workshop, you will learn useful features of uploading files to Google Drive, where files are stored in “the cloud.” Google Drive allows you to upload and store files in their original format, or convert them to Google Docs format, to edit. Learn how to share files and folders with others at Ramapo, or keep them private. You can also download and convert files into multiple formats.

Pedagogy Connection: Google Drive enables instructors to create empowering activities that encourage students to be in control of their learning. Students are able to work more efficiently with Google Drive without fear of losing their materials. This is also an excellent tool for collaboration and peer review.

Open to everyone.

Presenter: Trish Williams

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Create your Qualtrics account and get an overview of Qualtrics so you can begin your first survey. Learn about the available question types, survey options, methods of distributing your survey, and viewing survey reports.

Pedagogical Connection: Survey development has a wide range of pedagogical applications. Instructors can develop surveys to ascertain student feedback on course content  Surveys can also serve as assessment and data collection tools. Qualtrics surveys have extensive options that can help instructors tailor the surveys to their specific needs.

Open to faculty and staff.

Presenter: Trish Williams

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Adobe Connect is a powerful teaching and conferencing platform that enables instructors to conduct live online classes and office hours. This workshop will introduce the basics of Adobe Connect and demonstrate its tools, including chat, screenshare, polling, and more. Adobe Connect is an ideal platform for synchronous learning for online and hybrid courses, and it makes for a great way to hold class even on snow days.

Pedagogy Connection: This online learning platform is ideal for online and hybrid courses. Adobe Connect enables students to collaborate online, present research, and participate in chats and forums. Instructors are able to use the platform as a vehicle for delivering quality online synchronous instruction through the microphone/webcam, screen sharing, polling, and much more.

Open to faculty and staff.

Presenter: Professor Michael Bitz

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This workshop will introduce you to the basics of the Excel workbook and its spreadsheets. Learn to input basic data elements, perform simple functions in your spreadsheet, and save your workbook for future use.

Pedagogy Connection: A strong grasp of the Microsoft Office suite helps instructors to deliver assignments effectively (Word), present content to the class in an engaging manner (Powerpoint), and analyze assessments of student work (Excel).

Open to everyone.

Presenter: Ray Fallon

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Join other Apple users on campus to share knowledge and learn more about Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. Topics of discussion will be determined by the group’s interests and will vary each meeting.

Register below to be added to the Apple Users Group E-mail list to receive meeting agendas.

Open to everyone.

Facilitator: Trish Williams

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Cyber crime has become a multi-billion dollar industry and many cyber crimes can be avoided by following safe computing practices. Learn valuable techniques to help protect your data, identity and avoid online fraud.

• Virus protection
• Identifying fraudulent emails
• Social media safety
• Safe web browsing
• Backing up your data
• Password best practices

Open to everyone.

Presenter: Trish Williams

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This workshop will introduce you to the Excel Pivot Table feature for analyzing worksheet data. Analyzing data can help you in decision making. Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start, especially when you have a lot of data. Pivot Tables help to summarize, analyze, explore, and present your data. They are highly flexible and can be quickly adjusted depending on how you need to display your results.

Please bring a Excel spreadsheet with data for your Pivot Table demonstration.

Pedagogy Connection: A strong grasp of the Microsoft Office suite helps instructors to deliver assignments effectively (Word), present content to the class in an engaging manner (Powerpoint), and analyze assessments of student work (Excel).

Open to everyone.

Presenter: Ray Fallon

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Cyber crime has become a multi-billion dollar industry and many cyber crimes can be avoided by following safe computing practices. Learn valuable techniques to help protect your data, identity and avoid online fraud.

• Virus protection
• Identifying fraudulent emails
• Social media safety
• Safe web browsing
• Backing up your data
• Password best practices

Open to everyone.

Presenter: Trish Williams

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Join other Apple users on campus to share knowledge and learn more about Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. Topics of discussion will be determined by the group’s interests and will vary each meeting.

Register below to be added to the Apple Users Group E-mail list to receive meeting agendas.

Open to everyone.

Facilitator: Trish Williams

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