Training and Workshops

Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole offers complete Training and Workshop solutions for your courses.

Technology Training & Workshop Solutions
Now it’s easy to use technology in your course. No longer cumbersome and difficult to master, today’s technology products make studying and learning interesting, interactive, and fun, while they simplify lecture preparation, testing, and grading for you. With the dynamic combination of our textbooks, your classroom instruction, and the innovative teaching and learning resources we offer, you’ll be amazed at how easy and fast it can be to incorporate the excitement of technology.

From best-selling traditional print textbooks, to award-winning software, exclusive CNN Lecture Launcher Videos, presentation software, exclusive InfoTrac College Edition online research library, WebTutor on WebCT and Blackboard courseware and dynamic Web sites, the range and amount of resources can be daunting! Whether your campus and classroom are fully wired, or you are dealing with a more limited set of technology resources…we can provide solutions and training for you.

We are committed to providing you with THE superior quality and selection of teaching resources. To make the solution complete, we have a variety of programs available to help you learn how to incorporate our technology resources into your classroom. Whatever level or style of training you prefer, we are ready to help:

One-on-one consultation. Your Brooks/Cole representative will be happy to work with you to identify the best technology training solution for you. Not sure who your rep is? Use our RepLocator to receive contact information.
Department-wide workshops: For courses with multiple instructors, we can arrange department-wide training catered to your course needs. These workshops can be organized in modules covering a variety of technology options where instructors can choose the modules they are most interested in. Possible workshop modules include:

• Give your students 24 hour access to a full-text online library with InfoTrac College Edition

• Take your course handouts, syllabus, and assignments beyond the classroom with online study and course management with WebTutor on WebCT or WebTutor on Blackboard

• Spark classroom discussion with high interest videos from our CNN Lecture Launcher Video Series

• Easily create fully integrated media lectures using our Multimedia Presentation Manager tools

• Create, deliver, and customize tests and study guides in minutes

Training & Workshops at Conventions

Visit our Technology Training Centers at the following conventions. Learn about the latest tools and products that can enhance your classes. For more information, call 800-400-7609:

March 5-9, 2002 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
March 23-27, 2002 American Counseling Association
April 9-13, 2002 American Alliance of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
August 16-20, 2002 American Sociological Association
August 22-25, 2002 American Psychological Association
August 29- Sept 1, 2002 American Political Science Association
October 31 - Nov 3, 2002 International Conference On Technology in Collegiate Mathematics
November 1, 2002 National Communication Association
November 20-24, 2002 American Anthropological Association
December 27-30, 2002 American Philosophical Association-Eastern

WebCT and Blackboard Workshops

Workshop Description

T.O.T.A.L Support
Thomson Online Teaching and Learning Support

Wadsworth, Brooks/Cole and Duxbury are proud to offer Thomson Online Teaching and Learning Support. T.O.T.A.L is more than a name for our service. It's a commitment. From the day you decide to adopt WebTutor products on WebCT or Blackboard until the last day of class, a dedicated team of professionals will ensure that your course is as successful as you want it to be. There are many aspects to T.O.T.A.L. support, including:

• Student and Instructor Manuals
  

• Personal WebTutor phone orientations
  

• Customizable training options to meet YOUR needs
  

• Discounts off of published rates for training provided from Blackboard and WebCT
  

• Phone and email support (varies by platform provider)

To take a test drive of WebTutor, click here

Also available …..new WebShops

Thomson Learning WebShops are just another part of our T.O.T.A.L. commitment to training. During a WebShop, you will not only learn, hands-on, how to utilize WebTutor cartridges in your course, but how to best integrate the many leading edge technology products from Thomson.

Thomson Learning is proud to announce a series of on-line seminars called WebShops. As part of Thomson Learning's TOTAL support package, these seminars will offer WebTutor training support to our valued WebTutor adopters.

WebShops will provide instructors using the WebTutor product with training designed to help them develop and implement the use of WebTutor in their courses. Initially, WebShops will focus on the use of WebTutor on the WebCT platform.

To view a WebTutor calendar of events, click here

FOR OUR CURRENT ADOPTERS:
Course Management: Getting the most out of WebTutor on WebCT's student management and progress tracking features.

Using Communication Tools: In-depth exploration of email, chat and threaded discussion tools.

Selective Release: Controlling access to WebTutor features and content. The use of selective response is a very effective means of allowing student access to content based on various criteria, such as student name, time and date, or completion of prerequisite assignment.

Using the Quiz Tools: Creating new quizzes, modifying quizzes, changing quiz settings and viewing quiz results.

Using PowerPoint Slides: Adding a PowerPoint slide show to WebTutor content.
Managing Content: Adding files, reorganizing content and using WebCT's file management system.

FOR OUR NEW ADOPTERS:
WebTutor Orientation Training: Learn the essential steps for setting up your WebTutor course, basic customization and navigation, including support and contact information. Please see the calendar above for a schedule of WebShops.

All registered WebTutor users will receive e-mail notification of WebShop dates and times.

Visit http://webtutor.thomsonlearning.com for the latest updates and training information on WebTutor.

BCA Testing and Tutorial Workshops

Brooks/Cole Assessment (BCA) offers testing and tutorial content with algorithmically generated problem values, machine graded, problems, and open-ended free response mathematics, seamlessly integrated with an elegant course management tool. Easy-to-use, versatile, and efficient, BCA allows instructors to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time teaching, creating, and interacting with students.

We are here to help you and your colleagues learn about how to integrate BCA Testing and Tutorial into your course.

If you are interested in working with us to host a workshop on your campus or a WebEx distance presentation, contact Kevin Connors, Director of Market Development, or for more information at: kevin.connors@Brooks/Cole.com. For more information visit bca.Brooks/Cole.com

College Success Workshops
For those instructors teaching the College Success or Freshman Orientation course, check out the many workshops we offer for this course.

Workshop Dates & Locations
March 1, Dallas
March 15, Charlotte
April 12, Downers Grove, IL
April 26, Philadelphia
June 12-14, Summer Institute

CHARTing Your Course:

Taking Your First-Year Seminar to the Next Level
Facilitator: Dr. Constance Staley, author of Brooks/Cole's Teaching College Success

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
According to research, today's students ARE a new breed.Increasingly, research suggests we can expect our first-year students to be:

Today's students require highly effective first-year seminars that help them discover personal meaning, determine academic purpose, and develop the skills they need for success. The Seven Features of Highly Effective First-Year Seminars will help you develop or improve your first-year college success course for your own classroom and your institution as a whole. The day will be spent examining the seven features of Highly Effective FYSs in a highly innovative and interactive format that includes afternoon mini-workshops led by subject matter experts from within the group.

Registration Fee
The first three participants from an institution adopting a Brooks/Cole College Success text will attend the event for free.

Additional participants from that institution who are also adopting the text will pay a registration fee of $65 per person.

Participants not currently using one of our college success textbooks will pay $110 per person.

If there is a team of 6 or more from a single institution, they will pay $65 per person.

Workshop Schedule

Morning:
I. From "The way we were" to "The way they are"
Today's New student--Today's New First-Year Seminar
II. From Good Enough to Best Practice
Overviews of the Seven Features--Research and Reality
LUNCH
Afternoon:
III. Feature group meetings led by participant subject matter experts
IV. Group reports, lessons learned, and workshop wrap-up

Introduction to Psychology Workshops

Brooks/Cole's introductory psychology program is rich in content choices and provides a large variety of resources for the instructor and student. We publish a wide range of multimedia products, video, CD-ROM, software and cutting-edge online products to enrich the introductory course. Moreover, we are here to help you and your colleagues learn about our technology resources and how to integrate them into your course.

If you are interested in working with us to host a workshop on your campus, contact Lori Grebe, National Psychology Marketing Specialist for more information at: lori.grebe@thomsonlearning.com.
For more information on our textbooks and multimedia products for Introductory Psychology go to http://psychology.Brooks/Cole.com.