Teams we work on rarely match up with our ideal visions of how they should function. In this Coaching Cafe, we will look at teamwork and give some tips to navigate through the challenges. Session objectives: • Increase your understanding of the different sorts of teams you work with. • Review what makes a team… Continue Reading Coaching Cafe: 5 Ideas About Teamwork
Welcome to Fordham University! New Employee Technology Orientation (NETO) introduces new staff and faculty to the available technology services at the University. Topics you'll learn about include: Navigating the Portal at My.Fordham Banner Blackboard Information Security Awareness Gmail and G Suite The link to the webinar will be sent via Gmail calendar invite. We look… Continue Reading New Employee Technology Training (webinar)
Explore different tools to foster discussion both inside and outside of the classroom, such as blogs, wikis, discussion boards, polls, and more. Check out Fordham IT's EdTech Resources.
Step up your next presentation! Learn design basics and how to add animation, music, and video to your PowerPoint or Google Slides. You’ll also discover free media resources to use in your presentations. EdTech Resources: http://facultyedtechpd.it.fordham.edu/index.php/techshops/designing-presentations/
When you make decisions, a complex thought process takes place in your brain. Let's talk about decision making to better understand how we do it. A bit of self-reflection may improve your decision-making process and ability to weigh the options. The walk begins in front of the McGinley Center and continues to the NY Botanical… Continue Reading Innovation Walk | Decisions: How Do We Make Them?
In this TechShop, we review the Qualtrics Research Suite, a web-based survey tool provided free to all Fordham students, faculty, and staff at fordham.qualtrics.com. Learn how to create exciting and effective surveys and how to reduce survey fatigue. EdTech Resources: http://facultyedtechpd.it.fordham.edu/index.php/techshops/polling-and-surveys/
Video is a fantastic tool for communicating stories and instructions to students and others. You’ll learn how to use a webcam and smartphone to create and edit a video for your course. Learn good practices for framing, lighting, and camera angles. You’ll also get an overview (and finding for how to do editing on your… Continue Reading Creating Engaging Video (webinar)
Learn how a robust, online PLN enables you to tap into support and resources on a scale that is not possible in traditional, face-to-face professional development opportunities. Moreover, you can share your online PLN skills with your students, enabling them to take ownership of their own life-long learning process. In this session, you will:… Continue Reading Setting up your PLN (Personal Learning Network) (webinar)
A special lunch for new IT staff with the CIO New IT staff are invited to this special lunch with the Office of the CIO. You'll have the opportunity to ask questions, learn more about Fordham IT and the University, and let us know about your experience at Fordham so far. This lunch is by… Continue Reading New IT Staff Lunch
Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note-Taking App for Student fieldwork (NYCDH Week event, led by Shawn Hill, Fordham IT Instructional Technologist for Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy) RSVP at the NYCDH Week website For many instructors who teach in New York, the city is seen as a pedagogical asset that can be… Continue Reading Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum
Meet. Greet. Celebrate. Join your Fordham IT colleagues for the first CIO Gathering of 2020! We'll recognize recent achievements of Fordham IT staff, share updates of recent projects, and discuss ways we can stay on top of our game. Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski will give a brief talk, entitled "How Fordham Technology Resources Support Digital Scholarship."… Continue Reading CIO Bimonthly Gathering: Game On! Performance Matters
During this session, IT will be available to answer questions on Zoom and demonstrate functionally as requested. Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom is the original software-based conference… Continue Reading Zoom Q & A (webinar)
During this session, IT will be available to answer questions on Zoom and demonstrate functionally as requested. Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom is the original software-based conference… Continue Reading Zoom Q & A (webinar)
Performance Management helps you achieve your professional goals and align them with our organization’s strategic objectives. At this workshop, which is for Fordham IT staff, learn about Fordham IT's NEW Performance Assessment form, which is the foundation for the conversations you’ll have throughout the year about your job performance and progress toward achieving those goals.… Continue Reading Performance Management for IT (webinar)
Join your Fordham IT colleagues to discuss the benefits and challenges of working remotely. Share the tools and strategies that keep you on track and motivated, and find out what others do. The day before the meeting, a link to a Ted Talk will be sent to you for review. This event is for Fordham… Continue Reading Coaching Cafe: Remotely Productive
This fall, Women in Fordham IT will host two discussions based on the Coaching Ourselves module, "Women Rising: Breaking the Habits that Hold You Back." We'll consider ways to shift the barriers that block our abilities to advance in our careers. In September, we'll discuss passivity when it comes to owning our achievements and contributions.… Continue Reading Women in IT: Changing Habits
A special meeting for new IT staff with the CIO New IT staff are invited to this special meeting with the Office of the CIO. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, learn more about Fordham IT and the University, and let us know about your experience at Fordham so far. This meeting is by… Continue Reading New IT Staff Welcome Meeting
On the first Fordham IT Innovation Walk to be held on Zoom, let's discuss how brainstorming and information sharing can still take place effectively. We'll also share ideas for encouraging more staff to take part in IT-sponsored gatherings. What kinds of opportunities are needed to help us feel connected to each other and our… Continue Reading Innovation Walk: The Innovation Continues
This fall, Women in Fordham IT will host two discussions based on the Coaching Ourselves module, "Women Rising: Breaking the Habits that Hold You Back." We'll consider ways to shift the barriers that block our abilities to advance in our careers. In September, we discussed passivity when it comes to owning our achievements and contributions.… Continue Reading Women in IT: Promoting Our Strengths
In this workshop, hosted by VoiceThread, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hands-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules. Register on the VoiceThread website. VoiceThread is an interactive… Continue Reading Using VoiceThread with Blackboard (online)