Many of MCC’s faculty and staff visit the Center for Teaching and Learning in hopes of learning enough about webpage design and development to create their own websites. In response to this search for knowledge, Donna Gaudet and Tammi Saffold in the CTL decided to pilot a technical learning experience which would provide participants with both a deeper understanding of webpage design and also an opportunity to develop a website to meet an academic or instructional need.

The workshop they developed was entitled Dreamweaver TUG (Technology Users Group) and was designed to provide an in-depth, hands-on, project-oriented experience for its participants. The TUG group met over a period of seven Friday afternoons. Each meeting session was broken into intensive instruction time and plenty of lab/project work time. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants uploaded their projects to the web and shared their results with other TUG members. Comments from participants indicated that the experience was “…personal, engaging, challenging and well worth [the] time and effort.”

The TUG program was a certainly a success story for the CTL and therefore will be offered again. Look for announcements concerning TUG learning opportunities during the spring semester.

Congratulations to the Fall 2003 Dreamweaver TUG participants!

Greg Pratt (Economics), Lori Zienkewicz (Nutrition), Gail Herndon (Physical Education), Mark Brenneman (Math), Shirley Henderson (Health and Safety), Denise Quintrall (Fire Science), and Allie Marino (Foreign Language).