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CTL News Archive

November 6, 2009
Virtual Workshops
Online workshops are available for viewing on-demand at your convenience. Simply select the webcast of interest and view it at your leisure. Feel free to suggest a video for addition to the list.

September 25, 2009
Create a custom banner for your Bb course site
Select from several background images, add your course number, title and name. Presto! Use our Blackboard Course banner image creator to add a custom banner to your course site.
September 24, 2009
Introduction to Communication is the second webcast in our Beginning Blackboard series and steps the viewer though utilizing communication tools including announcements, collaboration (chat), discussion, and managing groups.
September 17, 2009
Introduction to the Content Collection is the first webcast in our Beginning Blackboard series and offers an introduction to advanced features of Blackboard's Content Collection. View this video-on-demand to go beyond adding items and folders in your Blackboard Content Collection.

April 28, 2009
Blackboard 8 Online Resources
Are you interested in learning more about Blackboard 8? Both Blackboard and the Center for Teaching and Learning have created several online videos, manuals, and reference cards to help you do just that.
April 24, 2009
FSU SafeAssign Student Manual
Students, use our new FSU SafeAssign Student User Manual to help you submit your assignments and access your completed assignments. (764kb)
April 21, 2009
Blackboard 8 Upgrade starts with Summer Semester
Learn more about the Grade Center, other new features, or get acquainted with Blackboard for the first time.

April 8, 2009
Announcing the 2008 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards
See the 2009 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards, the Leadership Award, the Research and Creativity Awards, and the Preparing Future Faculty Fellows from the annual Celebration of Graduate Student Excellence.

March 25, 2009
Connecting with Students: Fostering Faculty-Student Interraction in Large and Small Classes with Professor Nat Stern
Students will generally be more intellectually engaged in classes in which they feel some connection with the instructor. Professor Stern will present methods for reaching individual students through both specific teaching techniques and interaction outside the classroom.

Winner of a 2007-2008 Graduate Teaching Award, Professor Stern is the John W. and Ashley E. Frost Professor in the College of Law.

February 11, 2009
TechFair '09
The FSU Computer Store in partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning presented TechFair '09, a one-day technology fair and showcase. Faculty presentations addressed a wide range of technologies, solutions and best practices. More on TechFair '09

January 30, 2009

State University System Policies on Textbook Adoption
- Strategies for Reducing Textbook Costs
  Suggestions for working together for solutions for students, faculty, and staff. (800 Kb)
- Textbook Adoption Regulation
  Florida State Statute outlining textbook adoption regulation. (36 Kb)
- Textbook Adoption Suggestions
  Suggestions for how institutions might minimize textbook costs from the State University System Task Force on Textbook Affordability. (64 Kb)
January 29, 2009
2009 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Nominee Information
Eligibility requirements, criteria for exceptional teaching, guidelines and forms, workshops and deadline for submission.

For more information call: (850) 644-8004.

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