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Technological Proficiency Accredition: Since August 2007, the eCreate has offered a series of mandatory workshops in Digital Research Methods to all in-coming graduate students. The program consists of twelve mandatory two-hour accreditation proseminars (one hour lecture + one hour hands-on computer work) for graduate students offered in the fall, winter and summer terms by eCreate Lab staff. These workshops will train students how to use library and computing resources, and teach them the rudimentary digital skills required for graduate work, undergraduate teaching and beyond. If advanced computing skills are demonstrable, permission may be granted to pursue independent studies on one or some of the additional topics listed below. Marked on a pass/fail scale, successful completion of the program will appear on graduate transcripts as part of UTA English students’ professionalization. Other instructors and students may take single workshops if there is space available. All workshops are free.
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Digital Research Methods Workshops
(see the week-by-week breakdown here)
(Thursdays 6-8, Spring 2008):
Wk1:The Library, Digital Resources, and Research (Library Staff)
Wk 2: Mavspace Training and Electronic Bibliography
Wk 3: PDFs & MS Word: Creating Professional Documents
Wk 4: Web 2.0 Pedagogies: The World of User-Generated Content
Wk 5: Working with Images I
Wk 6: Comic Relief
Wk 7: PowerPoint Pedagogies
Wk 8: Web Design I: A Personal Page
Wk 9: Web Design II: A Course Site
Wk 10: An Introduction to Electronic Literature
Wk 11: Digital Publishing
More advanced courses:
Working with Images II
Web Design III
I Got Music: Working with Audio
Animation 101: An Introduction to Flash
Video 101: An Introduction to iMovie
iStopMotion Animation
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In addition to its use as a research lab, PH 311 is available by appointment to instructors as a training,
computer - and - projector - enabled presentation or lecture space. Instructors may arrange to use PH 311 to attend or provide brief tutorials to their classes in the following software
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Mac OS 10.4
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Photoshop Elements, SplashUp, Picnik, Zamzar
and other imaging software packages
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Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop
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Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks
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Introduction to the Internet, Principles of Web Design,
CSS, and CSSedit
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Mavspace
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Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
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Web 2.0 Pedagogies (blogs, wikis, podcasts, screencasts, tagging)
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iLife '08 (iPhoto, iWeb, GarageBand, iMovie, iDVD)
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Comic Life Deluxe
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Download poster for details (PDF format)
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