Ever wonder what a podcast is and how you might create or use one? Curious about how it might be used for instructional purposes? The Essential Podcasting? Workshop is a self-paced online workshop that covers the essential steps to creating and using podcasts. You'll create your first audio podcast, learn about free or inexpensive tools you can use to create and edit your podcasts, find out about hardware and software requirements, discover the difference between the basic types of podcasts and learn about important copyright issues. The course also includes an optional 2-hour hands-on session when you'll gain experience using Audacity (a free audio editing tool), explore recording equipment (mikes and iPods) for creating your podcasts and a demo of uploading instructional podcasts to JCCC's iTunes U site.
| CRN | Section | Location | Start Date | End Date | Instructor |
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| 30250 | 001 | ONLINE | 8/1/2008 | 7/31/2009 | Marziah Karch Bob Epp Tracy Newman |
SoftChalk is a Microsoft Word-like application that enables you to create web pages for use in Blackboard (or any Learning Management System) with a minimum of technical skill. With SoftChalk, creating interactive web pages can be easily accomplished without any programming. All you need are basic text editing skills that you probably already have, if you use Microsoft Word. With SoftChalk, you can convert your course content into professionally designed pages that automatically generate a table of contents and create engaging learning materials with a minimum of effort. Some of the easy to add features include in-line practice quizzes, text popup annotations, matching exercises, flash cards, crossword puzzles, informational sidebars and drag & drop activities. All the files created with SoftChalk can then be packaged and easily uploaded into Blackboard (or any LMS) and unpackaged to create learning modules. You'll be able to use your course materials (Word documents, HTML pages, digital images) to cut, paste and insert them into SoftChalk projects and create a learning module with all the professional looking features mentioned above. This course is online and self-paced.
| CRN | Section | Location | Start Date | End Date | Instructor |
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| 30249 | 001 | ONLINE | 8/1/2008 | 7/31/2009 | Jeff Kosko Michael Rea |
If you are wondering what happened to FrontPage, you'll find out in this online training. Expression Web includes and extends the best features of FrontPage for web designers. With Expression Web you can create anything from simple web sites to more sophisticated sites that make the most of a variety of media, include e-commerce features, interact with databases, and much more. In this session you will be learning the simpler functions that will get you up and running and give you the base to explore additional feature-rich aspects of the program.
| CRN | Section | Location | Start Date | End Date | Instructor |
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| 30251 | 001 | ONLINE | 8/1/2008 | 7/31/2009 | Davy Jones Michael Rea Saul Epstein |
To register, follow the Registration Instructions. Courses above are listed in order by catalog number (ZETC nnn).