Beginning in January 2012The CIT is offering a Technology Certificate Program to assist faculty and staff in meeting technology goals.
Completing a minimum of FIVE technology classes in one track along with a work-related project within a calendar year is required to complete the certificate program. The CIT will conclude the program with a lunchtime celebration, which will also showcase all completed projects. Certificates will be awarded to all participants who complete the program requirements at three periods throughout the year: May, August and December.
To apply for any of the following tracks, access the Certificate Program Registration page.
Five Certificate Tracks To Choose From 
Online Teaching and Learning - This track is designed primarily for faculty and with an emphasis on using Blackboard along with other classes that include online assessment, course design, and developing digital media for teaching and learning.
Design and Media - This track is designed to support anyone interested in becoming more proficient at working with images, desktop publishing, video and other digital media.
Office Productivity - This track is designed to improve an individual's productivity when using today's office software, including the Microsoft Office suite as well as other technology tools to help streamline and improve your success in the office.
DonsApps - Using USF’s DonsApps version of
GoogleApps, this track includes a series of classes to help with the
utilization and
integration of email, calendaring, docs, sites and forms.
Online Lynda.com - Participants can select up to five classes from a list of courses from Lynda.com to fulfill course requirements.
I. Online Teaching and Learning
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Design and deploy three or more online assessments and/or interactive learning assignments in your Blackboard course site.
Create an online tutorial using screen capture (Echo Personal Capture/Jing/Camtasia) to introduce your students to a learning concept and share it with your students in your Blackboard course site.
Using the Groups feature in Blackboard, create groups for a Group Project. Members will use the Group collaboration tools and a Group Project rubric to complete the project, submit the project using the Groups Assignment feature, provide peer feedback to other groups and submit an individual reflection about the Group Assignment.
Using the 'Learning Pyramid' from both the Interactive Learning Units and Online Student Assessments as a guide, design a course assignment where the students are 'the teachers'. This assignment should include a grading rubric and both peer and self-assessment opportunities.
Design an assignment for your Service Learning course where students create a podcast about their experiences and share them publicly on an online blog or wiki.
Reserve a flip video camera for your class from the CIT for a week and have students create a training tutorial about a topic/learning outcome in your course. Share them with the classmates in a Blackboard Discussion or course wiki.
Revise your syllabus to include at least one rubric.
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II. Design and Media
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Create a newsletter for your department or an organization using Publisher, Pages or InDesign. Email the newsletter in PDF format.
Create two calendars for print and/or online on student-related events or Faculty/Committee meetings using Publisher, Pages or InDesign.
Create a six-page web site using Google Sites. Include a YouTube video, a Google calendar, and a blog.
Create an online Google Form, and embed it into a web site.
Create a personal blog or a collaborative blog/class blog using Blogger.com or Wordpress.com.
Create two promotional flyers, one for a course and one for a major for in-coming students using Publisher, Pages or InDesign. Email for distribution and print for posting.
Find three campus images needing color correction, add text, then upload them to an existing department website.
Create and edit a short promotional video using iMovie.
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III. Office Productivity
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Create a mail merge process that helps your department save time and money.
Develop a PowerPoint presentation containing multiple forms of media: text, graphics, audio or video.
Create an Excel spreadsheet that addresses a need in your department and also streamlines or automates an existing process.
Design and develop a database project that manages contacts, clients or inventory.
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IV. DonsApps Certificate - New!
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V. Online Lynda.com
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| Select up to FIVE classes from a list of approved technology courses on Lynda.com to fulfill requirements towards the completion of the program. |
To apply for any of the tracks, access the Certificate Program Registration page.
