Peru State College Distance Education & Online Services

7 downloads 522 Views 2MB Size Report
Kevin received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics with a minor in. Business from Northwest Missouri State Unive
Peru State College Distance Education & Online Services



If you are teaching a summer course and would like to start working on your course shell, please contact the Distance Education office. We are always happy to set shells up early for those who request them.



Please remember to double check that your courses are ready before students attain access to them. All Blackboard shells are made available to students the Friday before the class is scheduled to start.



With starting our newsletter back up, we need your help! If you email our office an idea for the newsletter, you will be entered into a drawing to win a prize pack! Items we’re looking for could include any of the following:



Helpful features you’ve used in Blackboard shells that others may not be utilizing



Any tech websites, apps or devices that you find useful in teaching your courses



Questions you may have that you’d like for us to address in future newsletters

 

An individual you would like to see in our monthly Spotlight Basically anything that you believe online instructors with Peru State may find helpful or interesting



Summer registration began February 29, 2016



Fall registration begins April 5-8, 2016



Helpful links for academic advising:

The Library has over 56,500 full text journals/ magazines/newspapers and over 285,000 eBooks. To assist in sharing these resources with your students we are piloting a new service called OneSearch: Curriculum Builder. The service allows you to create and post reading lists for your students directly from your Blackboard course. This tool is currently available for use in Blackboard. We encourage you to check it out and provide any feedback or questions you may have in regards to the service. If feedback is generally positive the College will purchase this tool in May so it will be available to use with your summer and fall courses. The Library has provided a tutorial explaining how to use this tool: Curriculum Builder tool. Please contact Veronica McAsey, Library Director, with questions and comments. Phone: 402-872-2360

Email: [email protected]

http://www.peru.edu/professionalstudies/advising http://www.peru.edu/education/info http://www.peru.edu/artsandsciences/advising



School of Arts & Sciences



School of Education



School of Professional Studies

Phone: 1-888-258-5558

Tech Phone: 402-819-8181 (9 am to 9 pm, daily, CST)

Fax: 402-872-2435

Email: [email protected]

Peru State College Distance Education & Online Services

Kevin Blobaum

Instructional Design & Technology Specialist

[email protected]

Kevin began his career at PSC in July 2006. Kevin serves as the Blackboard Administrator for Peru State College. He provides training and technical support for online faculty and students. He assists faculty with course development and is one of our Tech Phone after-hour respondents. Kevin received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics with a minor in Business from Northwest Missouri State University in December of 1999. He earned his Master of Business Administration from Northwest State University in August 2002.

Brooke Earnest

Academic Advisor

[email protected]

Samantha Jensen

[email protected]

Brooke began her career at PSC in July 2015. She serves as the Academic Advisor for online students in the School Of Professional Studies and is one of our Tech Phone after-hour respondents. Brooke received her Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice—Counseling from Peru State in 2014. She is currently working towards her Master of Science in Organizational Management—Human Service at Chadron State College.

Office Assistant II Samantha began her career at PSC in July 2015. She assists with general inquires to the Distance Education and Online Services department along with other various duties. In addition to her work in Distance Education, she serves as an office assistant for the School of Professional Studies. She graduated from South Dakota State University with a Liberal Studies degree focusing on Marketing/Sales in 2006.

Sherry Jones

Distance Learning Coordinator

[email protected]

Sherry began her career at PSC in March 2012. She manages the High School Early Entry/ Dual Credit Program. Sherry assists students and faculty members with questions about online courses, Blackboard training, and helps direct students and faculty to necessary resources. Sherry received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration – Marketing from Peru State in December 2008. She is currently working towards her Master of Science in Organizational Management—Human Service at Chadron State College.

Emily Schulte

Distance Learning Coordinator

[email protected]

Emily began her career at PSC in April 2014 . She is the point of contact for requesting copies of Blackboard shells as well as communicating with online instructors on upcoming deadlines in relation to their courses. Emily assists students and faculty members with questions about online courses, Blackboard training, and helps direct students and faculty to necessary resources. Emily received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Marketing and Management from Columbia College in Missouri in 2013.