Hello all,
I am remembering to breath most of the time. The first day of classes was particularly wild for me, but things appear to be settling down. I hope all is going smoothly for all of you as well.
Online Orientation for Adjunct Faculty
The Online Orientation for Adjunct Faculty is now live and available. CTC developed orientation site as part of our Adjunct Faculty Performance Enhancement Program (PEP). Regular faculty may find it useful, too.
Online Tutorials
Atomic Learning provides a wide array of online tutorials. We now have a subscription to Atomic Learning. Faculty and staff can logon on to the UAA Atomic Learning site with your UAA username and password to access tutorials on Blackboard, Acrobat Pro, Camtasia, Dropbox, Photoshop, SMART boards, VoiceThread, and more. There is an Atomic Learning plugin for Blackboard so you can point your students towards tutorials as well. You may need to make it active in your Blackboard shell by going to Control Panel > Customization> Tool Availability. Find the 4 Atomic Learning items and check them as available in the columns that have check boxes. Click submit and Atomic Learning is in the student Tools in the course menu.
Building a Learning Community in Your Classes
Learning is social for most of us. We can use the tools in Blackboard to build a learning community so students can support each other. You can create a Discussion Board or blog for students to post questions and comments. Now is a great time to begin the community building.
Lee
Lee Maria Henrikson
Instructional Designer
Beyond Anchorage Workforce Development Grant
Community and Technical College
University of Alaska Anchorage
907-786-4903
