District and College Resources
Technology Training and Assistance at SCC
Training in Web Publishing
Want to put up your own website on the College Website? It is super easy and Don Busché will bring the training to you! Contact him by email Busche_don@sccollege.edu
Assistance with computer (hardware or software) on campus
Is your computer acting goofy? Contact Wanda Wright at the help desk.
Phone: 714-628-4999
Assistance with multimedia equipment (e.g., projectors)
Need a projector or a presentation system delivered to your classroom? Got the equipment but need help getting it to cooperate with you?
Contact Al Huerta
Phone: 714-628-4740
Blackboard
Want to create a course website using Blackboard? Contact James_Scott@sccollege.edu for information.
Have questions about using Blackboard? The following will do their best to assist:
Assistance with Mac Software and Applications
Working on a mac and need a little assistance? The following will do His best to assist:
Assistance with Microsoft Applications
Need some help with Word? The following will do their best to assist:
Need some help with Excel? The following will do their best to assist:
Need some help with Outlook? The following will do their best to assist:
PowerPoint
Have any questions? Need some application assistance? The following will do their best to assist:
Photoshop
Have any questions? Need some application assistance? The following will do their best to assist:
Website Assistance
Need some help with your SCC website? The following will do Their best to assist:
Web user group
Okay, you've been trained, and you want to learn new tips and techniques. For meeting information contact Don Busché at: Busche_don@sccollege.edu.
Website task force
Building a new web presence for SCC. Contact Don Busché for further information at Busche_don@sccollege.edu.
Technology committee
Provides long-range technology vision and planning.
Meets 2nd Thursday of the Month at 2:30 in room L-115.
Remote Email Access
For remote access to district intranet and email point your browser at:
Submitting Grades Online
Point your browser at: http://remote.rsccd.org and then click the link for the Intranet. Choose the Class & Grade Rosters link to begin.
Hardware and Software Vendors
Creation Engine
Offers great educational discounts to schools, faculty, and students on tons of software products.
College Buys
FCCC’s Collegebuys program is the largest of its kind in the United States, leveraging the buying power of more than 1,800 member institutions to provide discount prices and added value on many of the most-needed products and services. By pooling the purchasing power of the individual California community colleges and districts and a growing number of other institutions of higher education and K12 partners, FCCC has been able to save CCC’s approximately $10 million per year for a wide range of services, hardware and software. http://www.collegebuys.org/
Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license.
Statewide Tech Resources
@ONE Project
@ONE provides educational technology resources to California Community College faculty and staff. @ONE has several opportunities for you to enhance your technology skills.
Alternate Text Media Production Center
From existing print or electronic documents, the ATPC creates alternate media products for use by California Community College students with print-related disabilities.
California Virtual Campus
The CVC Professional Development Center website is a training and staff development portal for the CVC project. The Professional Development Center, in cooperation with the four CVC regional centers, provides training, course hosting and other resources for faculty and staff developing online courses.
CCC Confer
Whether you need to get together with one colleague or many, one student or a whole group, CCC Confer is YOUR system-wide e-conferencing solution. All you need is your computer and a phone – the service is provided to you at no cost. Collaborate, meet, train, educate in real time…regularly scheduled or on-the-fly.
CCCSAT
A digital satellite delivery system for all your communication needs.
CCC Technology Center
A resource to support the digital infrastructure of the 109 California Community Colleges.
CCC Live Caption
Supports increased student access to distance education by providing reimbursement funding for real-time captioning of live courses in the California Community Colleges.
High Tech Center Training Unit
A state of the art training and support facility for community college faculty and staff wishing to acquire or improve teaching skills, methodologies, and pedagogy in Assistive Computer Technology, Alternate Media and Web Accessibility.
Upcoming Conferences, Workshops, and Events
TechEd
The annual Technology in Education International Conference & Exposition is a hands-on technology conference for educators and educational decision-makers from around the world. Each year this premier conference plays a vital role in equipping universities, colleges, and K-12 schools with a strong base of technology awareness and the knowledge needed to tackle the increasing challenges of teaching and learning and managing campus technology.
Usually held during March
Newsletters, Magazines, and Publications
TechEDge
CCC TechEDge is published quarterly with two additional, special issues per year. It is distributed to distance educators, information systems officers, business leaders, the California legislature, and other interested parties.
League for Innovation’s Learning Abstracts
Many articles relevant to distance learning and infusing technology into pedagogy.
Grants
National Education Association
Offers grants in educational improvement appropriate for technology-related projects.
US Department of Education
Promoting and enhancing education through technology
Online Tools and Resources For Educators
Calibrated Peer Review
Frees instructors from the overwhelming task of grading term papers. Instead uses a web-delivered, computer-managed, peer review system. Students grade other student’s papers after demonstrating through a detailed feedback process that they are competent graders.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (Merlot)
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
ADA Center
The Great Lakes ADA & Accessible IT Center also known as The Great Lakes Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC) provides information, materials, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and accessible information technology (IT). The ADA addresses all aspects of employment and the obligations of state and local governments and business to ensure that their programs and services are readily accessible to and useable by people with disabilities.
Turn It In
A proprietary system that instantly identifies papers containing unoriginal material and acts as a powerful deterrent to stop student plagiarism before it starts.
http://www.turnitin.com
Teachopolis
Contains electronic performance support materials (such as a syllabus builder that allows to rapidly create a syllabus), book reviews and much more.
Training
League for Innovation
Educators providing training, consulting, and presentations.
PT3 Project
Prepares technology-proficient teachers