Workshop Schedule --- Spring 2013
Learn about recording and distributing your lectures. Topics include software and hardware requirements, preparation of content, presentation issues, use of supplemental equipment such as a graphics tablets and document cameras, and dissemination of recorded lectures through Blackboard and iTunesU.
Blackboard Collaborate Basics
Thursday, April 4
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
IT Center Classroom 121
Online instruction in no longer limited to sharing documents and asynchronous communication tools such as email and discussion boards. Blackboard Collaborate allows faculty members to introduce web conferencing, chat, and shared whiteboards and applications into your online class. This new resource provides exciting opportunities to interact with your students, obtain immediate feedback, and to conduct online lectures and real-time discussions.
Microsoft Excel 2010: Using CUNYfirst Queries with Excel
Tuesday, April 9
10 am – 12:00 pm
IT Center Classroom 122
A query allows us to retrieve data that meet certain conditions from a database in order to answer a question. This workshop is designed for users who run queries on CUNYfirst. CUNYfirst queries extract data in a variety of formats including Excel, HTML and PDF. The workshop will cover the management of the Excel extracts.
Lights! Camera! Action!: Lecture Capture
Thursday,April 11
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
IT Center Classroom 122
Learn about recording and distributing your lectures. Topics include software and hardware requirements, preparation of content, presentation issues, use of supplemental equipment such as a graphics tablets and document cameras, and dissemination of recorded lectures through Blackboard and iTunesU.
Microsoft Access 2010: Fundamentals
Thursday,April 18
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
IT Center Classroom 122
Microsoft Access is an application used to create and design small to midsize databases. This introductory workshop will cover navigating the Access 2010 interface, the creation of a simple database and the concept of a relational database and how it applies to Access.
SPSS Basics
Wednesday May 1
10 am – 12:00 pm
IT Center Classroom 126
SPSS is an application used for data analysis and reporting. Workshop topics include the SPSS user interface, setting up your data for use within SPSS, importing data from other sources such as Excel, running simple statistical procedures, managing output, SPSS file types, recoding data, creating new variables, and working with SPSS syntax.
To register for a workshop, contact the Information Technology Resources
Help Desk at (718) 960-1111 or by email at itr.workshops@lehman.cuny.edu. Updates to the schedule will be posted to this page.
Last modified: Apr 19, 2013
