Teaching & Learning Center
Technology Training, Support, & Resources
Need personalized help? If you need assistance learning about your computer, an application, creating web pages, class handouts, putting a course on-line or creating multimedia presentations for your classes, then you've come to the right place.
One-on-one assistance is available Monday through Thursday at the TLC. Call Francine Van Meter, Director of the TLC at (831) 479-6191 to schedule an appointment. Drop in help is also available for smaller projects or just to "check-in" on how you're doing with the big projects.
Hours
Wintersession
Monday–Thursday
12noon–5pm
Beginning January 22
Monday–Thursday
8am–5pm
Friday
9am–3pm
The TLC is located downstairs behind the Robert E. Swenson Library. For more information, call or email: tlc@cabrillo.edu or (831)479-5030
New to Cabrillo? Need to request an email or network account—Publish to the web—Create accessible web pages—Borrow a digital camera to film a class project—Electronically score an exam with Scantron—Print to the network...and so much more, then Take the TechTour
Want to learn Word, Excel, Access, or Powerpoint or...? Sign up for the FREE Microsoft eLearning training through the Foundation for California Community Colleges
Creating an Instructional Website
Educational Technology Near and Far — Spring 2007 Flex Week
Online resources creating websites and more.
Creating Accessible Web Pages - a tutorial for designing and evaluating your web pages for disabled accessibility.
Template, including images and style sheet, is available on the Cabrillo network's T drive. T -> TLC -> instruction_website The T drive is only accessible from computers on the campus network.
-or- visit the sample instructional_website and save the html file and images to your own computer.
Prospectives and Principles for Designing Learning
An excerpt from the second volume of the Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web.
Providing Quality Online Education — Handouts from Spring 2007 Flex Week
Topics include what constitutes effective contact between instructor and student, retention, responding to cultural differences, and assessing student learning outcomes in an online environment.
Handout #1 [pdf]
Handout #2 [pdf]
Offering an Online Course - this short tutorial answers the most commonly asked questions about putting a course online, from the curriculum process to how to manage student email and online discussion forums.
Criteria for Quality Online Courses - this pdf document covers all the criteria for developing and offering a quality online class. Some of the topics covered are: course layout, content considerations, pedagogy, key questions and it includes an online course planner.
Web-based workshops
@ONE offers distance education workshops that
are designed with CCC issues in mind and are tailored to the busy schedules
of both faculty and staff. These include hour-long seminars that
you can take over your lunch break and longer courses that you can
take in your spare time over several weeks. Most of these offerings
are free.
Several workshops formerly offered by the California Virtual Campus are now offered by @ONE.
Check their site for the latest schedule and list of courses: http://www.cccone.org/de/index.htm
CCC Confer: web conferencing & virtual office hours
Whether you need to get together with one colleague or many, one student or a whole group, CCC Confer is your FREE California Community College e-conferencing solution. Online training, archived webinars, information on virtual office hours, and meeting booking information is available on their website
Free online training is available at http://www.cccconfer.org
CCC SAT:
Video programming offered via satellite/cable TV or desktop video. Available FREE. Check their website for scheduling information:
TAPPED IN is a community of over 1000 K-14 teachers, staff from several professional development organizations, and researchers engaged in a professional discourse, collaborative work, and a variety of on-line activities. Members have real-time discussions and classes in a "virtual conference center", browseWebsites together, learn about new professional development activities, and interact via mailing lists and discussion boards all in a single on-line venue.
Teaching, Learning and Technology Rountable - The TLT Group, a nonprofit corporation, is the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Affiliate of AAHE. Its mission is to provide materials and services that motivate and enable institutions to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change.
Academic Net The information network for technology-mediated instruction and learning in higher education.
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction "A national model for motivating, infusing, and promoting innovation and change in the community college environment."
California Virtual Campus(CVC) Professional Development Center Provides a repository of articles and information on online teaching at learning at their webster: pdc.cvc.org
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching is an online, FREE repository of learning materials. Includes peer reviews. A place to share your exemplary course material, find new stuff, and participate in a community of educators.
Cabrillo field trip to Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University, 1/23/06
Slide show
Campus Technology
A monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology across all areas of higher education.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Smart Campus Project
IMPLEMENTING
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES: Technology as Lever
by Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann
NIE Online features links to information useful to teachers using the web in class-based activities or distance learning.
SyllabusWeb is a free service from Syllabus Press, publishers of Syllabus magazine and producers of the annual Syllabus conference. This site contains useful information on technologies used to enhance education.
MCLI
Forum
From the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, back to back publications
on teaching and learning. Well developed topics include collaborative learning,
changing paradigms, curricular reform.
National Center for Educational Statistics
California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
Copyright Office - Library of Congress - Legislation, 10/27/98 extends copyright term and conference report on Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Cabrillo College Policy for Duplications, Copyright Fair-Use
The Copyright Website, a very cool site!
Located behind the Robert E. Swenson Library, downstairs, rooms 1095/1096
Phone: 831-479-5030 • Fax: 831-479-5721
tlc@cabrillo.edu
Updated: May 3, 2007