Monthly Archives: October 2016

Pandas Everywhere!

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It is an embarrassment of Pandas! They are slowly making their way through the campus, one by one, showing up in offices and labs. You have a chance to win one for yourself (or a friend) at the ITC Canvas workshops*. Registration is open on the ITC website. See the schedule for college hours, Friday mornings, Saturday mornings, and Monday evenings.

Register now and reserve your spot! There are spaces left in 28 weekday, evening, or weekend workshops.

Join a one-hour Quick Start and three-hour Course Creation workshop.

* A Canvas Panda is given away at each workshop.

 

Instructional Technology Resources We are Watching

The CCC Canvas Community: Our CCC (California Community Colleges) Canvas group to share ideas, course design, and content that you can use in your own Canvas courses

The Worldwide Canvas Community

Online Education info from the Community College Research Center

Edutopia: Sharing evidence- and practitioner-based learning strategies for K-12 and beyond

TechEdge: The source for TELECOM and EDTECH news for the 113 California Community Colleges

The Ed Tech Round Up: For educational technology news & reviews

Do you have a favorite Instructional Tech site? Email us!

iPad Cart is available to sign out for your classes

Check out our iPad cart for use in your classroom, for a meeting, or for some other event.

Fill out the iPad Cart Checkout Fall 2016 Calendar to reserve each day/time that you need, and be sure to include time for pickup and drop off.

Also, please email the Instructional Technology Center once you make the reservation. That way we will be sure to have the cart ready for you at your requested pickup time.

More info is available on the ITC iPad Checkout page.

iPad Cart

lynda.com – Unlimited Access for all ARC employees!

Unlimited Access for all ARC employees!

Lynda Weinman logo for lynda.comAll ARC employees have unlimited access to lynda.com through the California Community Colleges Professional Learning Network. If you have never used lynda.com, or if you have and would like to transfer your history, follow these steps:

  1. Register for an account at the Professional Learning Network using your ARC email account.
  2. Select the Learn tab at the top of the screen and choose Lynda.com.
  3. When you see the question,  Have you had a lynda.com account before?, select I’ve had an account, if you want to transfer your history, or select No, I’ve never had an account, to begin training.
  4. If you select I’ve had an account, you will be asked for your previous user name and password, and have the option to Transfer your history.

Lynda.com is an online subscription library that teaches the latest software, creative, and business skills through high-quality instructional videos. To learn more, watch this introductory video about the service, and watch the How to use Lynda.com course.

Benefits to using Lynda.com include:

  • Unlimited access to courses on a wide variety of technologies and disciplines
  • Up-to-date content to keep skills current and to learn new skills
  • New courses added every week
  • Tutorials taught by recognized industry experts
  • Access to instructors’ exercise files to follow along as you learn
  • Closed captioning and searchable, time-coded transcripts
  • Beginner to advanced courses
  • The option to watch complete courses or bite-size videos as you need them

Questions? Email us: ITCTraining@arc.losrios.edu