Sakai Webinar: 5 Big Ideas

Join us from the comfort of your home or office computer for an introductory overview of Sakai!

We’ll cover 5 Big Ideas central to Sakai. We’ll log in to UNC’s Sakai environment, peek into sites, demo tools, and do our best to answer your questions afterward. All in one hour!

The session is open to all interested UNC faculty, staff, and students. “Seating” is limited so please register.

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Tuesday, December 15
11 am - noon
Register for the 12/15 webinar: 5 Big Ideas!

Monday, December 21
9 am - 10 am
Register for 12/21 webinar: 5 Big Ideas!

A few disclaimers:

1. Prior to the session, you will receive the URL & instructions
2. If you want to hear and speak, you’ll need one of the following:
   • computer with speakers and a microphone OR
   • a headset with a noise-canceling microphone
3. These are our first Sakai webinars — so let’s agree to collectively embrace any technical difficulties that emerge and aim to grow from the learning experience.

Hope to see you there!

Less is More: Social Work Field Seminars Use Sakai

Rebecca Brigham is responsible for administering the School of Social Work Field Seminar program. The courses in the program were redesigned as hybrid courses with students alternating between one week in the classroom followed by one week online. Sakai is used to bridge the learning and conversations that occur in the classroom as well as off-site in students’ individual fieldwork locations.

In particular, the 8 sections of Field Seminar tend to use only a few Sakai tools — primarily the Discussion Forum and the Gradebook. Because only a few tools are used, students and faculty find the course sites easy to navigate and use.

Take 1 minute to hear what she has to say!

UNC Sakai Pilot Evaluation: Results Summary

When we published the Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report, we knew that most people would prefer a visual summary rather than reading the 74-page document or even the Executive Summary. We hope that the 15-slide summary below will do just that. For the nitty-gritty details, however, please see the report.