Computer Skills Program News
Excellent news for Computer Skills and Applications: LIAD's
CSA program has garnered its third award nomination inside a year.
We've been nominated for the 2007 Ontario Research & Innovation
Optical Network (ORION) Learning Award. ORION is a "high-speed
fibre-optic network that connects Ontario's research and education
institutions to one another and to partners throughout Ontario
and around the world. Spanning 5,800 kilometres, with access points
in 21 communities, ORION allows researchers, educators and learners
to access new knowledge resources, learning opportunities and collaborative
tools and technologies." For more, visit http://www.orion.on.ca/.
CSA is proud of its many community partners, who
have been taking GBC computer skills courses on- and off-campus.
Our newest partner,  R.E.A.C.H.,
is "Goodwill's transitional employment initiative,
which is based on 12-month, part-time, paid employment that offers
on-the-job
experience in Goodwill enterprises, together with the life skills
training that will assist those who face barriers to employment
to get and keep a full-time job in the future." Above,
a photo of some of the R.E.A.C.H. students with their teacher,
Merlene George.
LIAD also delivers CSA courses to students in GBC's Redirection
Through Education (RTE) program. LIAD's own Jimi Rockley--who
recently accepted a fulltime appointment to LIAD--teaches computer
skills to RTE students.
Jimi works with a student.
WebCT Sessions—brought to you by David Parker
While WebCT seems straightforward, there are places where you need to be careful. An example of one of the places where you need to be careful is in the use of the Assignment feature. Through this feature, if you send a student the wrong file, you cannot later on retrieve and delete it.
We would like to know how many users would be interested in sessions on using some of the features with emphasis on potential problems like the one mentioned above. Specifically, sessions could be run on:
You can let me know either through e-mail at dparker@georgebrown.ca or by phone at extension 6101. Furthermore, if there are other topics you would like to have as the subject of a session, please let me know.
(David Parker is a faculty member currently seconded to LIAD)
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WebCT Test Lab News
 We're
always looking for ways to accommodate more WebCT testing in the
LIAD labs. In fall 2007, we will pilot a new lab schedule: we'll
dedicate 1 day each week exclusively to WebCT testing. We'll
still take WebCT test bookings for all five days of the week, but
with 1 day given over wholly to WebCT testing, we hope to accommodate
many more faculty who would like to book testing time in our proctored
lab.
This pilot will run at both St James and Casa Loma. Students taking Computer Skills and Applications courses will have access Monday through Thursday at noon; from Thursday noon to 6pm Friday, the lab will serve only students taking WebCT tests. Faculty will still be asked to book their proctored test lab time well in advance, but we look forward to offering increased availability based on this new schedule.
Classroom Clicker Response System: Summer Pilot in Schools of Technology and Hospitality
Following a successful and educational phase I of our Turning Point Classroom
Clicker System pilot, LIAD is moving to phase II of the pilot for the summer
academic session. Faculty participants from Technology and Hospitality are
welcome! Whether you're experienced or new to clickers, we encourage
you to give this engaging teaching & learning technology a try. Interested
faculty from the participating divisions can contact Sandra Neill (sneill@georgebrown.ca)
to hear more about the summer pilot.
Howard Gerhardt's Classroom Clicker Experience
"'About 1760 a wave of gadgets swept over England.'
So, not inaptly, a schoolboy began his answer to a question on
the
industrial revolution." T.S. Ashton introduces the
technological progress in 18th century Britain with this quote
in his 1948 book on the Industrial Revolution. It seems students
have always been attracted to "gadgets" in defining
and negotiating their world, even as early as the middle of the
20th century. Gadgets appeal to them, engage them, speak to them.
And so I decided both last semester and this to experiment with
a new gadget in my classroom in an attempt to involve them and
enhance their learning experience.
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