UW-ACE Training Sessions

UW-ACE courses:

    Using the Action Editor in UW-ACE
	Thu, November 10 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MC1050

    Using the Action Editor in UW-ACE - Part 2
	Tue, November 15 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MC1050

    Using Gradebook in UW-ACE
	Thu, November 24 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MC1050

    Overview of UW-ACE
	Mon, December 5 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MC1050

    Getting Started Using UW-ACE
	Thu, December 8 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MC1050

    Using Instructional Resources in UW-ACE
	Mon, December 12 9:30 am - 11:30 am MC1050

    Using the Action Editor in UW-ACE
	Tue, December 13 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MC1050

    On-Line Quiz Creation in UW-ACE
	Wed, December 14 9:30 am - 11:30 am MC1050

  This list is also available from the "Help" page of UW-ACE
  at uw-ace.uwaterloo.ca.  Enter the "Help" page, and the "Instructor"
  folder and look at "UW-ACE Training".
  
  Some session training material is located
  in the UW-ACE course named "UW-ACE Technical Update Course".
  Navigate to the folder Lessons/Course Lessons/UW-ACE Session Notes.
  UW-ACE is located at www.uwace.uwaterloo.ca.
  
  If you are unable to make a session, please get
  in touch with the LT3 liaison, Paul Kates, pkates@uwaterloo.ca
  for a demonstration.   

IST courses that may be of interest:

    Keep Current - Digitally (Multidisciplinary)
	Wed, November 16 9:30 am - 11:30 am FlexLab
	Instructor: Laura Briggs

	How can you keep up with your research area during these times
	of information overload? These hands-on sessions will show you
	how to save your search strategies in various databases and
	have the results emailed to you on a regular basis.

	Covers the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities
	databases including Web of Science, CISTI Source, altering
	services, and e-journals.

	Offered to graduate students, faculty, and staff. Familiarity
	with basic searching techniques is expected on the part of the
	learner.

    Word and PowerPoint Equations
	Wed, December 7 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MC1050
	Instructor: Lisa Tomalty-Crans

	Entering equations into Word and PowerPoint has always caused
	people a lot of grief. It seems to be one area that is not well
	documented. This course will give you hands-on experience
	entering equations using Word's and PowerPoint's built-in
	equation editor.

    Lecturing with PowerPoint
	Wed, December 7 9:30 am - 11:30 am MC1050
	Instructor: Colin Campbell

	Lecturing with PowerPoint is becoming increasingly popular. It
	allows you to show both text-based and dynamic information such
	as simulations or animations to help support student learning.
	You can also place your PowerPoint presentations on the web so
	that your students can review them at a later date. This
	hands-on course will cover basic design and delivery principles
	of lecturing with PowerPoint, including technical details on
	how to use the tool.

    Concept Mapping with CMap
	Thu, December 8 9:30 am - 11:30 am MC1050
	Instructor: Colin Campbell

	Do you have a lot of great ideas, but sometimes find it
	difficult to express them within the confines of prose? You
	should try concept mapping! Chances are you already create
	concept maps with pen and paper.

	Come to this course to learn CMap, a program for creating
	concept maps, and which is free for academic use. You will find
	yourself using CMap to collect your thoughts and to organize
	and/or present ideas in talks, lectures, papers, etc.

	Concept maps made with CMap can published to the Web for
	sharing with others, and can include hyperlinks to notes,
	graphics and other Web pages.

        Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map.


  For IST course descriptions and registration please visit
  
	https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/course_registration/registration.php