Certification Providers
CITT - Center for Instructional Technology and Training
Contact Information:
| Website: | http://www.citt.ufl.edu/training/ |
| Registration: | http://oak.circa.ufl.edu/~cittreg/current_schedule.html |
| Email: | citt@ufl.edu |
| Phone: | (352) 392-7249 |
| Address: | 2215 Turlington Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611 |
28 Courses included in UF IT Certifications:
| Course Name | Course Description |
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| Academic Uses of Photoshop: The Basics | This workshop is an introduction to the use of Photoshop. Participants will gain experience with: workspace concepts, tools and colors, layers and masks, text, basic selection options, and save for web options. Prerequisites: Familiarity with digital graphics is recommended. |
| Accessibility Web Design with Dreamweaver | This workshop will include exploring various accessibility design solutions using Dreamweaver. Topics will include: web design best practices, how users with disabilities access the web, and an overview of federal laws such as Section 508. Prerequisites: Basic Design and Navigation of Dreamweaver. |
| Digital Presentations: PowerPoint 2007 Basics | This workshop is an introduction to the creation and use of digital presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Topics include: looking at and customizing PowerPoint, setting options, importing an outline from MS Word into PowerPoint, Slide Masters, design templates, and finalizing the presentation. |
| Digital Video Editing with Windows Movie Maker | Participants in this workshop will cover basic concepts such as: when to use video, looking at the video camera, shooting, editing, sound, equipment, locations, digital vs. analog, formats, and considerations for the web. The second half of class will include hands-on activities using Windows Movie Maker to make edits to captured video. |
| Dreamweaver: A Beginner's Exploration | Participants of this workshop will use Dreamweaver to create and manage several basic web pages. Topics will include: basics of the interface, working with text, layout with tables, inserting images, and uploading pages. |
| Dreamweaver: Moving On | Participants will be given an overview of site management tools, using templates, and applying stylesheets for formatting and layout. Prerequisites: Dreamweaver I or equivalent web skills. |
| E-Learning Boot Camp (formerly WebCT Vista) | Come explore the power and flexibility E-Learning (formerly WebCT Vista 4), all within a day’s work! This day-long, hands-on workshop will cover everything in E-Learning: Getting Your Feet Wet and E-Learning: Diving Deep. |
| E-Learning: Diving Deep (formerly WebCT Vista) | So you want to go deeper, huh? E-Learning: Getting Your Feet Wet just broke the surface, you say? Well, here’s your opportunity to get a closer look at a few of E-Learning’s more advanced features.
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| E-Learning: Getting Your Feet Wet (formerly WebCT Vista) | E-Learning is a complete course management system permitting a full range of online learning activities and allowing organization and management of these resources for optimal effectiveness. E-Learning's customizable interface allows instructors to build courses to support their teaching style and methods. UF has purchased a campus-wide license for E-Learning; therefore any faculty, staff, or graduate student teaching classes at UF can apply for a E-Learning course account. In this session, you will be given a brief overview of E-Learning’s learning hierarchy and user roles, understand what you need to use E-Learning, and see where to apply for a course account.
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| Editing Audio for Web or Classroom Use | Do you want to be able to create audio lectures to post on the Web for your students? Participants in this workshop will learn the basic formats of audio and how to create digital audio using Audacity, a free software application. |
| Editing Pictures in Picassa | Picasa is a free photo management software program from Google that helps you find, edit and share your pictures in seconds. We will explore the many advantages of using this free software for academic purposes. |
| Elluminate Live Virtual Classroom: Moderator Training | Elluminate Live is a real-time eLearning and web collaboration environment. This allows live interaction to asynchronous distance learning, expands the boundaries of the traditional classroom, ensures a superior user experience, regardless of connection speed, promotes active learning and improves student performance, and facilitates creation of online communities. For more information, see: http://oak.circa.ufl.edu/~cittreg/desc_course.html?courseid=196 |
| Get a Second Life! | This hands-on workshop is an introduction to the internet-based virtual world, Second Life.
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| Get a Second Life! | This hands-on workshop is an introduction to the internet-based virtual world, Second Life.
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| Graphics Editing with GIMP | GIMP is free, open-source software that facilitates editing of graphics. We will open graphics in this program and look at the various options in downsizing file sizes, changing file formats, and saving graphics optimized for the web and for digital presentations. Prerequisites: Proficiency navigating the web. |
| Implementing "Clickers" in Your Classroom | Thomson TurningPoint is a technology that allows faculty and other instructors to solicit and instantaneously record student feedback during a class session. This 2-hour introductory workshop on the new Thomson TurningPoint 2006 Classroom Response System will provide faculty and others interested in using the system with an overview of the system's capabilities, advantages and potential outcomes of implementing the system in a class, as well as procedures for building interactive slides and using the system in the classroom. |
| Multi-Media Digital Presentations with PowerPoint 2007 | Workshop topics will include: adding/modifying images to individual slides, working with drawing tools including word art and auto shapes, slideshow "schemes" overview, slide animation and inserting audio and video files. Prerequisites: Familiarity with PowerPoint interface, basic navigational skills within PowerPoint. |
| Preparing Graphics for Web Use with Photoshop CS3 | This workshop is an introduction to the use of Photoshop. Participants will explore various options for downsizing file sizes, changing file formats, and saving graphics optimized for the web and for digital presentations. |
| Put Your Syllabus on the Web with Nvu | Are your students constantly asking you for web-based syllabi? Do you want to put your syllabi on the Web but don’t want to take the time to learn how to build web pages? In this class we will learn how to put our syllabi on plaza accounts (free web space provided by UF) using a template based on the UF homepage. No web design experience is necessary – simply bring an existing syllabus in a word document format and learn how to quickly and easily move all of your syllabi to the web. |
| Respondus: Online Assessments & Study Aides | UF now provides two new services from the Respondus Company. This workshop will include: using the Respondus’ online quiz creation software, integration with WebCT Vista, using the Respondus LockDown Browser as an added security measure for online testing, and Respondus StudyMate; a tool that can be used to create flash-based study aids such as flash cards and games. |
| Save Time & Travel with Videoconferencing | This hands-on workshop will show you how to save time and travel by setting up and attending far-away meetings with your colleagues using videoconferencing technology. Bring in colleagues with videoconferencing technology to participate in your course or meeting without having them travel. Videoconference with students for course delivery or to provide assistance from a distance. |
| Turn-It-In Swift Seminar | This workshop will provide a thirty minute overview of how the Turn-It-In service can be used to help identify instances of plagiarism. Topics include information on how to get an account, creating classes and assignments, submitting papers for evaluation, and reading “Originality Reports.” The UF website is located at: http://www.at.ufl.edu/~turnitin/ |
| TurningPoint II: Advanced Classroom Response Systems | The second TurningPoint class will discuss more advanced elements of using TurningPoint in the classroom, such as conditional branching and learning objectives, as well as discussion of the detailed techniques for transferring class roster information from WebCT Vista and generating scoring reports. |
| UF Acceptable Use Policy | The University of Florida Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) governs the use of UF computer systems. This policy applies to all users of UF computing resources (computers, networks, labs, etc.). This seminar discusses such AUP issues as rights and responsibilities, general rules, enforcement, security and privacy, commercial use, email and requirements for official web pages. |
| UF IT Orientation | Information Technology Orientation for new University of Florida employees is designed to give those attending an overview of services available to UF IT employees. The sessions often become a place for lively discussion among both new and not-so-new employees who come to see what’s new in the IT world. |
| Universal Design and Accessibility for the Web | This course provides an introduction to designing web usability. It will cover site design (information architecture, navigation, home page design), page layout (establishing visual hierarchies, effective use of screen real estate, download times), and content design (writing for the web, use of images and multimedia), and touches on accessibility (legislative requirements, content authoring guidelines), as well as providing an introduction to general design principles and cognitive principles that are relevant to web design. |
| Writing for the Web: Style & Design | Research has shown web users generally prefer writing that is concise, easy to scan, and objective in style. This course will explain and demonstrate how to incorporate these and other attributes into your design, or redesign of web content. Doing so requires some trade-offs and some hard decisions, but the results will be positive. Study results have demonstrated that as compared with original-site users, users of rewritten sites according to these guidelines reported higher subjective satisfaction and performed better in terms of task time, task errors, and memory. Implication for website writing and design are also discussed. |
| WWW Standards at UF | In this workshop, participants will focus on guidelines for accessibility, consistent UF image, site navigation, efficiency of design, and UF policy. |
