Interpreting DATA

Fascinating look at "The Beauty of Data Visualization"
David McCandless turns complex data sets like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates and more into beautiful yet simple diagrams. He proposes design as the tool we use to navigate today’s information glut, finding unique patterns and connections that may just change the way we see the world. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 18:17)

“Harness the power of digital images with Photoshop” Workshop

This workshop was a very good reintroduction to Photoshop for me. I used this program in the past and it has changed significantly since then. I will use Photoshop in the Fall for all my WordPress projects.

“Become a facile digital changer with Acrobat” Workshop

This workshop was great because I learned how to use digital signatures. I will definitely use this skill in the Fall for letters of recommendations for my students.

"Your web presence: the good, the bad, & the ugly" Workshop

This workshop was helpful in thinking about how to maintain and most importantly how to update websites easily. I would like to learn more about WordPress in order to make easy to maintain websites for the French Studies Department or for other extracurricular projects I plan for my students. My Fall projects are to envision a website for the department and to design a website for the Music Salon project.

Mobile Computing Workshop

This workshop was very helpful to me because it introduced me to several new mobile devices which my students surely use. In the Fall, I plan to conduct a survey to see if most of my students would prefer to switch to an electronic workbook for their Introductory/Intermediate French courses. I also plan to see how many students have iPads to see if I can help them discover more learning tools.

Harness the power of digital images with Photoshop

This hands-on workshop empowered you to effectively utilize your digital images for pedagogical & professional projects. The workshop explored cropping techniques, creating composites from a set of photos, highlighting your point right on the photo and organizing groups of images.

Online workshop Resources in Sakai here and a refresher video:

How will you implement what you learned in this workshop in a fall 2011 course?

Become a facile digital changer with Acrobat

Acrobat Pro is one of the most underutilized software programs available to Scripps faculty. This hands-on workshop enabled you to:

• transform any document to a universally readable format for emailing or posting on the web (or Sakai)
• protect documents from being excerpted or printed
• add a verifiable and secure digital signature to documents
  Acrobat Pro on Resources in Sakai here + a refresher video

How will you implement what you have learned in this workshop in a fall 2011 course?

Get a grip on Groupwise

Whether you have 10+ years of accumulated email or just this year’s, this hands-on workshop provides an antidote for email disorganization as well as extremely useful guidelines for handling email overload so that you can reclaim time for other tasks.

Online Groupwise resources in Sakai here

How will you implement what you have learned in the workshop in your teaching this fall?

Your web presence: the good, the bad, & the ugly

What is your web presence? Why might it matter? This workshop helps you to answer these questions and examines the options to create or update your Scripps College website (pages.scrippscollege.edu/~yourusername) or department website using

• Dreamweaver web design software
• the Faculty Site Starters program
• iWeb and WordPress software
• perhaps Blogger should have been included.... 

Online workshop Resources in Sakai here

How you will implement what you  learned in this workshop in your teaching this fall?

Mobile Computing ~ who, what where, when &, most importantly, why

Mobile computing swept into our lives @ an amazing pace. This workshop explores the pedagogical, professional and personal potentials & pitfalls of mobile devices (smart phones, iPads, etc.

Online workshop Resources in Sakai here

How you will implement what you  learned in this workshop in a fall 2011 course?