The updated IS&D Training & Events Calendar for March 2014 is now live!

This month, we are featuring a Spring Break Webinar Series! Take a workshop in the convenience of your home. Webinars for this month include: 10 Awesome Apps, Socrative 2.0, and Blackboard Collaborate.

Additionally, our scheduled training sessions include:

Windows and Office

• PowerPoint
• You can do that with Microsoft Office?
• Windows is Your Friend

Blackboard

• Blackboard Grade Center
• Blackboard Collaborate
• Blackboard Assessments

Lecture Enhancement/Engagement

• SMARTboard Essentials
• Panopto

Web 2.0 and Apps

• Prezi
• Socrative 2.0
• Tablet Tuesday
• 10 Awesome Apps

Web Development

• SeaMonkey
• WordPress

Upon request, we offer many other training sessions by appointment.

Click here to access the registration form to register for a session online.

We’re glad to schedule one-on-one sessions in case a time doesn’t work for you, and we’re always open to suggestions for new training you’d like to see us start offering. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at any time at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu. Hope to see you soon!

The updated IS&D Training & Events Calendar for February 2014 is now live!

This month, our scheduled training sessions include:

• Blackboard 101
• Blackboard Assessment and Assignments
• Blackboard Collaborate
• Blackboard Discussion
• Blackboard Grade Center
• SeaMonkey
• Prezi
• PowerPoint
• SMARTBoard Essentials
• Socrative 2.0
• Using Google Drive
• Using Student Clickers for Assessment
• You Can Do That with Office?
• Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction
• Windows is Your Friend
• WordPress

In addition, we offer many other training sessions by appointment, including any of the Blackboard tools, Google apps,  and more.

Click here to access the registration form to register for a session online.

We’re glad to schedule one-on-one sessions in case a time doesn’t work for you, and we’re always open to suggestions for new training you’d like to see us start offering. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at any time at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu. Hope to see you soon!

The updated IS&D Training & Events Calendar for July 2013 is now live!

This month, our scheduled training sessions include:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Blackboard Assessments
• Blackboard Assignments
• Blackboard Grade Center
• Blackboard Discussions & Voice Board
• Converting Flip Videos to YouTube
• Editing Your Official NOVA Website
• Effective Presentation Tools (PowerPoint and Prezi)
• Excel Basics
• Google Apps in MyNOVA (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Spreadsheets)
• Turning Point Clickers
• Web 2.0 Tool of the Month: File Conversion Online (.docx to .pdf, .xls to .csv, .tiff to .jpg, etc.)
• Windows Is Your Friend (tips, tricks, & shortcuts for Windows 7)
• WordPress (NOVA blogs)

In addition, we offer many other training sessions by appointment, including any of the Blackboard tools, Google apps, HTML, and more.

Click here to access the registration form to register for a session online.

We’re glad to schedule one-on-one sessions in case a time doesn’t work for you, and we’re always open to suggestions for new training you’d like to see us start offering. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at any time at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu. Hope to see you soon!

The much-anticipated upgrade to Blackboard is finally here! Are you curious about new features and how to use them? We will be developing some training sessions on how to use the new Google Educational Apps. If you’re interested in learning more about them in the meantime, we’d be happy to schedule an individual session with you. Drop us a line at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu or stop by AA 337.

From Pamela Wimbush, Directory, Technology Applications Center (TAC):

“The VCCS will upgrade our current version of Blackboard to Service Pack 11 (SP11), which provides users with contemporary design, improved accessibility features and some long-awaited functionality. The upgrade is scheduled to occur Friday May 17^th starting at 6:00 PM. The outage is expected to last at most 12 hours and should be complete before 6:00 AM on Saturday May 18^th.  The Blackboard Learn SP11 Handout is available as a reference to the new Blackboard features. In addition, the VCCS will be adding several new applications to the Google Educational Apps.   

When  students, faculty, and staff log in to MyNOVA to access their Gmail accounts after the Blackboard upgrade, you will have access to a number of new, powerful teaching and learning tools. During the scheduled outage, not only will Blackboard Learn be upgraded to Service Pack 11, which includes new features like a survey tool and the on-the-fly embedded video tool, Video Everywhere, but Google Apps for Education will also be expanded from its current set of core apps—Gmail, Docs, Calendar, etc,– to a broad selection of new consumer apps: YouTube, Google+, Maps, Books, Picasa, etc. These new apps will provide VCCS students, faculty, and staff with access to an even more powerful suite of teaching, learning, social, and communication tools that can be used both in and outside of the classroom.

More information about VCCS Google Apps for Education can be found at http://www.email.vccs.edu/extra-apps (a Google Site, by the way).”

If you have additional questions about navigating Blackboard 9.1, please contact any of the following:

• Instructional Support and Development (IS&D) at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu
• Technology Applications Center (TAC) at  tac@nvcc.edu
• Your TAC Mentor

Here are the training sessions upcoming for May 2013.
Interested in attending a session? Drop us a line at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu!

All sessions are listed in this post with descriptions, times, and locations. (Click on the title of this post if you can’t see the full listing below.)

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Here are the training sessions upcoming for April 2013.

All sessions are listed in the attached poster with descriptions, times, and locations. Click on the image for details! (Don’t see the image below? Click on the title of this post to view it in its entirety.)

Interested in attending a session? Drop us a line at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu!

Here are the training sessions upcoming for March 2013.

All sessions are listed in the attached poster with descriptions, times, and locations. Click on the images for details! (Don’t see the images below? Click on the title of this post to view it in its entirety.)

Interested in attending a session? Drop us a line at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu!

Here are the training sessions upcoming for January 2013.

All sessions are listed in the attached poster with descriptions, times, and locations. Click on the images for details! (Don’t see the images below? Click on the title of this post to view it in its entirety.)

Interested in attending a session? Drop us a line at AL_IS&D@nvcc.edu!