Keynote
Tomorrow’s Students, Today’s K-12 Digital Learners: Are You Ready for Them?
by Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow http://www.tomorrow.org/
Since 2003, the Speak Up National Research Project has collected authentic feedback about technology and education from over 1.3 million K-12 students. Learn about the expectations of today's digital learners for 21st century learning environments, and how you can be prepared to address the technology needs of your future students.
General Session
Debunking the Myth of the Ancient Geek versus the Digital Native: Sharing our Digital Wisdom
by Pat James Hanz, Dean of Academic Success and Technology, Mt. San Jacinto College and
Micah Orloff, @ONE Educational Project Coordinator, Instructor, Mt. San Jacinto
This interactive general session is designed to bring to light the actualities of teaching online in todays world. Come listen and participate in the distribution and sharing of great ideas and new resources. In a quest for truth and understanding, Pat and Micah will also take a humorous look at the alleged difference between digital immigrants and digital natives. Add your questions, comments, and what's important to you at http://moderator.appspot.com/#23e=30ffb
Panel
Copy and Paste Generation: Promoting Academic Integrity and Preventing Plagiarism
with Rae Ann Ianniello and Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS
Digital natives live in a world where copy and paste has always been available for writing essays and papers. Are our students and children destined to copy and plagiarize as they grow up in the copy and paste generation? Come and discover ways to promote academic integrity, prevent online cheating, and combat plagiarism. Explore answers to the following questions: Why do students plagiarize or cheat? Are plagiarism and cheating rampant in online courses? What can instructors do to promote honesty and discourage cheating? What tools exist to prevent plagiarism and cheating? What technology works the best? Share your own ideas and stories. You'll walk away with a list of helpful resources and tutorials that can be added to your courses to address plagiarism and promote academic integrity.
Panel
Online Collaborative Groups: How to Make Them Work
with Eric Wilson and Lynn Pollock
You can implement successful online groups. Even though you may have managed student groups successfully in face-to-face classes, they can be more challenging when teaching online. Come and participate with experienced online faculty in an open, talk show-style discussion. Get your questions answered. Discover tips and guidelines for adapting this important teaching strategy to an online environment. With careful planning, you can use Blackboard, Moodle, or even the Web to create a fun, collaborative, learning environment.
Panel
Getting the Most out of Discussions in Your Online Courses
with William Garrett, PhD, and Matthew Mooney
Do you want to maximize the use of discussions in your online courses? Teaching online can be challenging without face-to-face contact with your students. Discussion forums are a great tool to bridge the gap between all class participants. Pick up great tips and tricks from two experienced online instructors. Learn how to best post commentary and analysis at each stage of the course. Learn how to facilitate peer-reviewed feedback on class assignments. Your students will come to feel that you are working with them, not just managing and assessing their assignments.
Panel
ePortfolios for Learning and Assessment: Statewide Efforts and Fresno City College’s Implementation
with Lynn Badertscher and John Whitmer
ePortfolios are ideal for contemporary outcomes-oriented learning approaches, as they allow students to collect, analyze, reflect upon, and present documentation of their learning. We’ll review uses of ePortfolios in California educational institutions and present an opportunity to participate in the ePortfolio California Project. More specifically, students and faculty at Fresno City College are using ePortfolios and the Epsilen environment to bring classes and students into the next generation of learning. ePortfolios allow students to create a professional and academic online presence. See student ePortfolios and hear what students say about their ePortfolio experience.
Panel
Is Hybrid Right for You? Learn from Experienced Hybrid Instructors
with Mehdi Mirfattah, Sheila Hostetler, and Kara Kuvakas
Are you wondering if teaching hybrid (or blended) courses is for you? If you’re considering adding more online features to your face-to-face classes or using hybrid as a steppingstone to fully online teaching, this panel discussion is for you. Find out from the horses’ mouth the best way to keep your students engaged and where to find excellent resources. Share effective strategies and examine ethical issues. Also, explore how to use synchronous virtual class meetings.
Panel
Increase Student Success by Retaining Learners’ Interest, Interaction and Enthusiasm
with Catherine Werst and Teri Donat
What factors impact student success? What tools are effective for online learning? At this panel discussion you’ll learn ways to incorporate opportunities and resources into online class planning and materials. You’ll learn techniques to support student learning and encourage students to build a solid foundation and be successful in your class, and you’ll acquire more than 100 resources and ideas for creative instructional design with retention and success as the goal. Give your online students a hand up and a comfortable environment for learning.
Hot Topics
IT literacy in the Internet Era
by Larry Press
Shifts in the platform for developing and delivering applications require new definitions of IT literacy. The advent of the PC as a platform led to a new IT literacy curriculum, and it is changing again with the emergence of the Internet as a platform. Internet-era students need new skills and IT concepts while they are in school and as citizens and professionals after graduation. Which skills are needed? Which IT concepts? We'll present a framework for addressing these questions and discuss specific exercises, skills, and concepts. We hope this discussion will continue after the conference.
Hot Topics
Developmental English and Web-based Learning
by Neal Skapura
With technology (Web sites, course management systems, audio/video, Web-based content distribution) infused across most transfer-level courses, there is a large divide between technology usage in these courses and basic skills courses. We'll review the current trends in California and use Diablo Valley College's online program when making recommendations for developing Web-based content, online pedagogy, and specifically Web-based content for a developmental English course.
Hot Topics
Preparing Global Citizens: Sharing Through the MY HERO Project
by Sara Armstrong
We hear so much these days about 21st Century skills and preparing students for their world, not our past. Along with serious academics, 21st Century skills include collaboration, problem solving, research, and global citizenship. The freely available MY HERO Project allows students to share stories, films, and artwork about their heroes with a global audience. By finding out about other people—who they are, how they live, what they think is important—we learn more about ourselves and our place in the world. Come explore the many resources available at the site, including lesson plans and curriculum ideas.
Leadership
Online Student Retention: What Does it Take for Students to Go the Distance?
by Andrea Henne
Online enrollments are booming, but what happens a few days or a couple of weeks after the course starts? What causes online students to lose their motivation or stop attending? Come explore best practices and exemplary strategies that have proven effective in retaining students and enhancing the online teaching and learning experience.
Leadership
Factors for Student Retention and Success in Online Classes
by Ben Seaberry
Are you interested in increasing the number of students who successfully complete classes? Then come and see the results of a study about student satisfaction with online courses at a California Community College. This study reviewed student interactions with their instructors, content, peers, self, technology, and support services. Significant differences in retention and success were found based on student satisfaction levels. Furthermore, the study examined differences between student characteristics, such as age, workload, unit load, computer skill level, attending an orientation, and prior experience with online courses. Join us and learn about other key findings and recommendations for improving student satisfaction and success in your online courses.
Leadership
Events without Borders: Planning for Lean and Green Times
by Marti Atkinson and Blaine Morrow
Are you worried about pulling off an event (on campus or worldwide) with today’s tight budgets? Planning events can be challenging enough even when money’s plentiful. But when budgets get tight or even evaporate entirely, it's time to get creative. Learn about some of the tricks used by longtime planners of the Online Teaching Conference as it was delivered over the past 10 years through fat and lean budget years. The current California budget crisis is bad, but by putting our heads together we can figure out solutions, just as we've been doing for ten years.
Leadership
Who's on First? Chain of Command and Oversight of Online Education
by Nancy Meddings and Fred Patrick
Who is in charge of online learning at your college? It’s amazing how many different answers there are to this question. This session will review some of the existing structures and present a roundtable discussion on best practices in managing an online program.
VR: Leadership
Evaluation of Online Instruction: Tips for Evaluatees and Insights of Two Instructor Evaluators
by Heather Zeng and Cathy Taylor
Evaluating online instructors should be an integral part of a distance education program for both programmatic improvements and student learning. Evaluation, as in all work settings, is an essential, dynamic, and ongoing effort that not only relates to accountability, but can also have significant impact on instructor growth in their pedagogical approaches online. The relationship of evaluator and evaluatee requires effective organizational, communication, and relational skills on both participants. This presentation provides tips for instructors (evaluatees) who may be evaluated, and insights from two seasoned instructor evaluators on effectively mediating this relationship. A handout with a checklist of guidance and considerations will be provided as a general reference
point.
VR: Leadership
Fill 'Er Up - Marketing Strategies for Increasing Online Class Enrollment
by Jacky Hood and Judy Baker
Great content and technology are not enough. Online education also requires marketing and sales. Students, parents, administrators, taxpayers, and grant-givers need to see the knowledge and skill-building value in the classes and be willing to invest time and money in them. Existing studies assume convenience is enough to fill classes; those studies address only retention and active participation. In this presentation, more than 50 online class marketing ideas from 18 faculty and staff are ranked by reach, applicability, and affordability. The top recommendations range from marketing technologies to cross-college cooperation, and this session affords an opportunity to begin that cooperation.
VR: Leadership
Moving Beyond Online Course Offering: Need for Program Development/Growth
by Rassoul Yazdipour, PhD
For the online teaching and learning method of education to survive and grow, state colleges and universities should now marshal their resources toward designing, developing, and offering full-fledged online programs and degrees. If a brick and mortar campus can’t expand or even survive if it only offers some random courses, why, then, should the online version of such a campus survive and grow? Policy issues and challenges will also be discussed.
VR: Leadership
Engaging the Engager by Promoting a Faculty Community Online
by Wendyanne Jex
Many institutions rely on adjunct instructors to teach online courses. Retaining good faculty who are not full-time or tenured faculty can be difficult. As an administrator you need to ask yourself, what is your relationship with your adjunct faculty? How often do you reach out? How often do you offer them a chance to connect with their peers? These are all important questions to consider when developing your own faculty community that promotes retention among your adjunct pool. In an online environment it is very easy for our faculty to feel isolated and alone. One way to promote faculty retention is to put them in touch with those they have the most in common with, giving them a sense of belonging and an opportunity to contribute. This presentation can help you understand the need and value of an online faculty community and offer suggestions and tips for creating one.
VR: NextGen Students
The NextGen Online Classroom What is it? Why do I need it?
with Yancy Oshita
From part-time students to students with disabilities, high school students to adult learners and international students, the 21stCentury learner is redefining the online learning environment with a dizzying array of expectations. Yet many educators still view the environment from a 20thCentury lens. This session will explore the notion of the online classroom and why it needs to change. We'll also examine selected practices and tools that can help you to effectively attract, engage, retain, and grow students in this brave new world.
NextGen Students
The Transition from Immigrant to Native: Perceptions of the Landscape
by David Balch and Robert Blanck
We are all immigrants at the beginning. As we make the transition from immigrant to native, our perceptions change. We'll discuss the results of a study that compares faculty who are immigrants (novices) to those who are natives (experienced). We'll find out how their perceptions change over time.
NextGen Students
You, Me & Them: Who are We?
by Heidi L. Maston, MDE
Digital immigrant? Digital native? Net generation? Who are these people? Why is it important? How do we teach and learn between the populations? Why is this so complicated? Can’t we all just get along? Where you fit in the definition determines how you teach and learn in the distance education arena of innovation and change. This session will 1) define the populations; 2) provide research-based, first-person, real-world, experience-based strategies for success within each demographic group; and 3) engage the audience in cross-population exercises that can be easily transitioned to the virtual and face-to-face classroom.
NextGen Students
Chalk to iPod
by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
College professors today are teaching during one of the most exciting and challenging moments in the history of education. The majority of college students socialize, communicate, and experience their lives in ways that contrast sharply with the experiences of their professors. This presentation reframes 21st Century teaching by exploring the unique characteristics of the generational groups in our classrooms today. By viewing our students' technological landscape as a field of opportunities for learning, professors are invited into this conversation to identify new pedagogical approaches and innovative strategies for fostering community with students.
Online Teaching
Service Learning Online: Challenges and Opportunities
by Betsy Eudey
Separately, service learning and online instruction are two of the fastest-growing educational trends. Unfortunately, faculty have limited resources in merging the two. We’ll explore a research project and personal teaching experience to discover best practices, planning/development, execution, and evaluation of service projects in online courses.
Online Teaching
PLAN, PRESENT, PUBLISH: How the New Confer Works
by Blaine Morrow and Linda Morrow
The 2009 CCC Confer toolset includes multiple camera support, the ability to store and share lesson plans, a publish tool for podcasting sessions, integrated VOIP and telephone, and the ability to send invitations from within a session. Learn how to use our latest and greatest FREE online teaching tool.
Online Teaching
Engaged Learning - Creating eLearning that Captivates 21st Century Learners
by Curtis Pembrook
Most online courses use discussion forums and chat rooms to engage learners. Few faculty have the skills to develop engaging asynchronous multimedia for their online courses. Emerging tools like Articulate and Adobe Captivate allow the average instructor to create engaging instruction that enriches the learner’s online experience. In this session you'll see how to rapidly develop eLearning using these two popular tools.
Online Teaching
Delivering Virtual Lessons to Multiple Classrooms: Scripting Involvement
by Echol S Marshall PhD
Virtual lesson delivery using Elluminate requires a lesson plan that mixes content with 21st Century skills. This session will present the efforts of one magnet school that is charged with delivering lessons to individual classrooms across several districts--and has chosen to do so using a popular online course platform. Experienced classroom teachers, even those used to writing scripted lessons, are adapting proven methods to a decidedly unproven technology.
Online Teaching
Digital Naturalization: Design an Online Course for Virtual Newbies
by Fan-Yu Lin
Students often work full-time, leaving little room in their schedules for school. Consequently, they turn to online courses. But wait! Are you sure you are ready to take or teach it? First online courses are crucial for online learning retention. Come to this session to explore how a digital alien instructor naturalizes digital alien students. Best practices will be shared in this session.
Online Teaching
Power of Participation: “Web 2.0 Tools” for Thought
by Herminia Din
As educators, we understand that using a learner-centric and participatory model of teaching means to listen and learn. By inviting others to dialogue, we can better understand needs and perspectives, questions and concerns. As a way to engage deeper interaction and more meaningful learning in the online environment, this session will examine the variety of ways that we can invite visitors to participate in interactive, inquiry-based learning by using Epsilen, VoiceThread, wiki, and blog as examples. This session will share examples and discuss implications of using these tools, and the outcomes of project evaluations.
Online Teaching
Break Free! Use Open Content for Online Learning
by Judy Baker
Break free from expensive, bland, and static traditional textbooks. Reclaim your curriculum with free and open learning content that you can customize for the unique needs of your students and teaching style. Learn about reliable sources of open content as well as the tools and strategies to use them effectively. Join a community of educators who have already embraced the freedom and challenges of open educational resources. Leave this session with learning content that you have discovered and can use.
Online Teaching
Zero Cost Web 2.0 Tools for Collaborating Online
by Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS
Online instructors face two challenges in finding tools for developing collaborative projects. The first is finding easy-to-use, low-cost resources to incorporate into online courses with limited budgets; the second is finding ways to distinguish individual student participation in any collaborative assignment. Learn how an online collaborative project morphed from using a Blackboard discussion board to using Web 2.0 resources: PBWiki, Google Docs/Google Pages, Blist, and Edublogs. These zero cost online tools should be readily accessible from most campus and home computers. Additionally, these featured resources can also provide a simple way for instructors to distinguish each student’s contribution to a group or course project.
Online Teaching
How Did I Do? Reflections of New Online Instructors
by Rhea Riegel
You've taught your first online course ... how did you do? Were you able to meet your digitally native students on their own “turf”? How did you handle students with less technical knowledge? Join this round-table discussion and share with other "newbie" instructors the things you found effective, plus those that just didn't work. What will you never do again, and what will you do differently next time around? Come celebrate your successes, share your regrets, and hopefully leave with some ideas to try.
Vendor Presentation: Moodlerooms
Converting Courses to Moodle from other CMSs
by Michael Penney
Is your campus considering using Moodle but are hesitating because of a large number of courses already on another CMS? We at MoodleRooms have already helped clients convert from eCollege, Desire2Learn, Blackboard, WebCT to Moodle. Find out about the processes, effort, and average costs involved in these transitions. Also, come see the new tools Moodlerooms has developed to ease this process, and talk about utlimate goal of implementing the common standard (IMS Common Cartridge) for course content.
Vendor Presentation: Blackboard, Inc.
Blackboard 9 (Engagement, Assessment, and Openness)
by Nick Shiavi
Learn more about the highly engaging teaching and learning experience found in Blackboard 9. Students and educators need flexibility to work inside and outside the classroom in ways that make sense to their learning. Tools must be easy to use and open to integration with other systems. And since they directly support your teaching and learning mission, they must be truly reliable.
Vendor Presentation: Adobe Systems
Adobe Tools for eLearning – Adobe Connect, Presenter and Captivate
by Bill Sherman
LIVE with Adobe Connect at http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/sherm
Test your computer readiness at https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional enables institutions to create, manage, deploy, and track rich, immersive learning experiences – live or onDemand. Faculty and students can teach, learn, and collaborate from any distance, at any time, with integrated technology that's easy to use and access. Take advantage of free resources such as the Adobe Community Exchange, ConnectUsers.com forum and the Adobe Communication and Collaboration Resource Center to accelerate learning, reduce costs, and increase retention on your campus. Acrobat Connect Pro Evangelist, Bill Sherman, will demonstrate these features and more in this 60 minute interactive demonstration. Please bring your laptops to participate as available.
VR: Online Teaching
Effective Teaching Strategies for Digital Immigrants
by Dr. Risa Blair
Do you have students who aren't completely comfortable using technology? Let's explore some effective pedagogy and tools for maximizing the gifts and minimizing the fear with which digital immigrants enter online courses. We'll cover the planning and scheduling of gradable course elements, effectively engaging all students in discussion, providing variations for discussions, and developing as well as utilizing clear grading rubrics for evaluation.
VR: Online Teaching
Blended Courses: A Stepping Stone for the Digital Immigrant
by Sheryl Hartman
Blended courses present an opportunity for the digital immigrant to "get their feet wet" in the virtual learning environment. Let's examine teaching practices that effectively develop an enthusiastic, committed, virtual community-oriented learner in the blended learning environment who will then feel comfortable transferring to a full online learning experience. We'll also cover creating and sustaining a community of learners in a blended course, anchoring students to course content through collaborative online activities, encouraging podcasts, wikibooks, blogs and webquests, and evaluating student interactions with each other, the instructor, and the academic material.
Support Services and Resources
Private Lives in Public Space: Responding to DE Students' Social-Emotional Needs
by Alisa Klinger, Brian Cushing, and Michelle Pilati
From new parent to returning vet to re-entry student, our DE classes are populated with people, most of whom we know only online. Our students often use as examples (in their e-mails or posts) their personal or familial stories, or their medical or employment situations--bringing their personal lives into the public spaces of our courses. Consequently, a host of student life issues often confront DE instructors. Come join a discussion about how we can respond sensitively and responsibly to the more personal dimensions of our students' lives, when their lives and even their deaths become part of the discussion in our online communities of learners.
Support Services and Resources
The Practical Aspects of Counseling Online at Community Colleges
by Bonnie Peters
Since 2006, online counseling at San Diego City College has been fully interactive. We have successfully addressed both the issues of ethic FERPA (privacy act) and the challenges of face-to-face versus online counseling sessions. We offer synchronous and asynchronous services to students. In 2007 we received the Center for Transforming Student Services’ (CENTSS) best practice seal, and were publicly recognized as a best practice for online student services.
Support Services and Resources
Online Course Orientations: Tips for Effective Implementation and Management
by Brian Cushing
Online teaching is challenging. It's hard enough to get students to follow instructions and course requirements teaching F2F, much less online. You may have already experienced mixed success orienting your students effectively from a distance. By using some simple methods for setting up orientations, you establish an effective tool in both retaining students and helping them to complete the class successfully. If you’re interested in making your classes more efficient and cutting down on the 'huh?' e-mails you get each semester, this session is for you.
Support Services and Resources
EduStream.org: The California Community College Digital Repository Solution
by Osman Parada
Want to liven up your online or Web-enhanced course with digital media? Want the ability to upload your own digital files and create your own playlists? Want access to a video library with over 3,000 captioned, ADA-compliant volumes of video specifically developed for community colleges? Want all of these for FREE?! Come find out how you can access one of the newest instructional technologies developed by a California Community College for community colleges.
Support Services and Resources
Online Student Services for the 21st Century
by Dr. Shalamon Duke
As education becomes increasingly digital, and courses and degrees are added to the virtual environment, student services must evolve with instruction. Delivering services to students who may or may not be physically located near the institution presents a unique challenge. This session will provide you with a working example of the services Coastline Community College is currently offering to students who are learning by distance.
Support Services and Resources
Real Time: Building a Complete, Live, Online Writing Center
by Jeanne Guerin, Patt McDermid and Michelle Taramasco
How do we meet the challenge of providing quality support services to online students? In autumn of 2008, the Sierra College Writing Center set out to do just that. Through the collaborative efforts of our liberal arts division, learning resource center, distance learning program, and CCCConfer, the writing center developed real-time online services for students in our online courses. Come to this session to learn more about how we built this unique service and what we learned from our spring 2009 pilot program. We’ll save time for discussion, so bring your questions and comments!
Support Services and Resources
Uncorking MERLOT to Support Your Teaching Innovation
by Regan Caruthers
Learn how MERLOT can jump-start your online course development by providing you with over 20,000 free learning materials, guiding you in the best practices of how to incorporate its free peer-reviewed online learning materials, providing opportunities to publish and receive recognition for your teaching scholarship, while connecting you to a network of over 60,000 educators throughout the world! Learn the ins and outs of MERLOT and how it can support your pedagogical goals; experience the many new features now available to you through MERLOT; and learn about new MERLOT initiatives taking hold throughout the state.
Vendor Presentation: Presidium Learning
Sleep Like a Baby - Conquer the 24/7 Student Demands
by Pat James Hanz and Robert Rye
Today's students expect their educational institution to deliver the best possible experience, with access online, anytime, anywhere! In addition to the 'magic servers that never need maintenance or support', students expect a high level of service and immediate response to their questions. Today's 24/7 learning environment is very hard to support. This session will explore how MSJC supports their eLearning environment with 24/7 helpdesk support from Presidium. The session will discuss the flow of communication and issues between MSJC, the MSJC students, and Presidium. The balance of cost to outsource the helpdesk. I'd be happy for others to chime in and discuss 24/7 on their campuses, this is a very flexible and open session.
Vendor Presentation: Microsoft IT Academy
Preparing tomorrow’s learners: workforce development and community goals through Microsoft IT Academy
by Jeff Johnson
Supporting return on investment for employability programs Educational institutions have always faced competitive and economic pressure, but never like today. Institutions now have an added role at the center of employability and community development, and technology education represents new opportunities to respond to these issues and compete effectively in a rapidly changing global marketplace. The Microsoft® IT Academy Program was created to address these needs with a technology education toolkit that prepares students for job opportunities in the 21st century workplace. The program has proved successful worldwide and delivers a measurable return on investment for both students and communities—students find skilled employment and communities benefit.
VR: Support Services and Resources
Advising and Supporting Online Learners: A Three-Phase Model
by Dr. Silvia Braidic and Dr. Liz Gillette
The online advisement model provides a planned sequence of strategies, procedures and policies for student advising at every phase of a student's life. In an online environment, it is essential to create a sense of community, not only in courses, but also through advisement. Collaboration among faculty advisors, students, and mentors is necessary in developing these communities. The online advisement model will address three specific phases: 1) Institution and Program Online Advisement Components; 2) Peer Mentoring/Advising; and 3) Professional Mentoring while in the Field – The Virtual Coaching/Mentoring Academy.
VR: Support Services and Resources
I'll Show You Mine, If You'll Show Me Your Internet Resources
by Rebel Rickansrud-Young
Are you always on the prowl for great Internet resources? Let's look at some useful resources that can be used in a variety of online classes to foster students' success, help make the instructor's life easier, and make the online class environment even more interactive and lively. We will be sharing and discussing resource sites that explain grammar, track plagiarism, help out the ESL student, foster nifty discussions, add audio and video components, and address anything else that comes up.
VR: Support Services and Resources
Strengths and Challenges of Having an Embedded Librarian in an Online Graduate Course
by Dr. Silvia Braidic and William Denny
The role of the librarian is evolving. We'll look at both the strengths and challenges of having an embedded librarian in an online, graduate level research course as it pertains to the instructor, librarian, and student. For instructors, online teaching creates its own set of challenges in terms of the best course design and delivery to most effectively meet the diverse needs of the students it serves. For students, it provides an opportunity to engage in discourse about various aspects of using the library in an online class for research purposes. Academic librarians have a long tradition of collaborating with classroom faculty in order to enhance their courses. This tradition continues today in the online environment where a librarian can play an active role in an online course. Faculty members have a service available to them where a librarian is a part of their online courses. An embedded librarian can provide a number of services in an online course, where they meet the reference and information literacy needs of online students. The development of library services within a course setting reflects an evolution in instructional mindset and learning.
Innovative Uses of Technology
Social Media and Privacy
by Donald E. Hester
Students increasingly use social media to interact and communicate. The question remains, is there a place for social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter? If you do use social media to interact with students, what are some of the privacy and security concerns for faculty? How can you leverage social media for instruction without compromising your privacy?
Innovative Uses of Technology
Podcasting in Education - What's Possible for You?
by Donna Eyestone
What are the potentials of using podcasting to give voice to teaching and learning? Learn the essentials of podcasting, how to locate and subscribe to a podcast, and ideas for integrating podcasting into classroom learning. We'll explore iTunes U as a podcast delivery mechanism and see how others are using podcasts to help make classroom walls less visible. We'll check out enhanced podcasts, video podcasts, and delivering PowerPoint slides and PDFs through a podcast.
Innovative Uses of Technology
Hybridize Your Regular Classroom with Free and Low Cost Resources
by Ioan Elvis Sersea, MA, MAT
Digital immigrant educators who wish to bridge the digital divide between themselves and their digital native students, while incorporating Web 2.0 technology, can now do so at little or no cost, without the need for any programming knowledge. K-20 teachers can easily engage their students in dynamic text creation and higher-level thinking by incorporating the use of interactive e-mail, forums, blog hosting communities, online Web site builders, online "edusocial" communities, polls, multi-media sites, postcards/e-cards, guestbooks, online gradebooks, and more. This presentation will identify educational uses of current online resources that classroom educators can adopt and begin using with their students in minutes.
Innovative Uses of Technology
Getting Started With Moodle
by Mary Burns Prine
Designing an online course can be daunting. Moodle can change that for you. Discover how this popular learning management system can put you in the driver's seat as you design your online course. Learn where to find Moodle, how to install it on a server, and some tips to make your site interactive and fun.
Innovative Uses of Technology
Moodle Site Administration: Bringing Together Technology and Usability
by Mary Parke
Moodle is an open-source learning management system used for producing Internet-based courses and Web sites. As it is open-source, Moodle allows for greater flexibility and also requires that administrators take greater responsibility in its implementation and daily operations. If you are in the process of adopting a new LMS or have already chosen Moodle, this session is for you. We'll address many of the key challenges facing your Moodle implementation team during the configuration of your new site. The focus is on how to properly configure the site administration for both IT needs and usability by the faculty and students. Examples of successful mapping will be explored, and a map and outline of the Moodle Site Administration menus based upon version 1.9 standard will be provided.
Innovative Uses of Technology
Building Community: Social Networking for Education using Ning
by Michelle Macfarlane
Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are a part of most college and high school students’ everyday lives. These sites offer their users a vehicle for community, communication, and self-expression. This presentation illustrates how Ning can be used as a social networking tool to enhance the learning experience of students and build classroom community.
Innovative Uses of Technology
(Voice)Threads of Community
by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
VoiceThread is a free online tool that gives instructors and students the option to leave comments in text, video or voice in response to media (images, presentations, movies, docs). This presentation will examine how VoiceThread was used regularly as a discussion tool in online art history classes and, drawing from student survey results, will demonstrate the effectiveness of this interactive tool to facilitate visual learning activities and foster online community through promoting social presence and personalized learning.
Innovative Uses of Technology
Closing the Gender Gap with Web 2.0
by Nasreen Rahim
Web 2.0 technologies are not only transforming how we use technology, they’re also helping the gender gap globally. We'll first look at some Web 2.0 technologies (blog. wiki, podcast, etc.) and how they are implemented from a live online course. You'll see how these technologies are shaping the ways both genders learn, and you’ll gain understanding of each technology. You can apply this information to your own distance learning program by:
- analyzing how Web 2.0 technologies can empower both genders globally
- exploring the pros and cons of social networking
- creating lesson plans utilizing different Web 2.0 technologies
- reviewing how Web 2.0 technology can be integrated to your areas
- gaining overall understanding of how to teach with the Web 2.0 technologies
VR: Innovative Uses of Technology
Keeping It Together Online: Teaching for Gens X, Y, Z, and O.G.
by John Gonder
How do you keep your sanity teaching online courses with multiple platforms for Gens X, Y, Z, and O.G.? Pick up important tips from someone who teaches six courses on three different OSs to students from 17 to 70 years of age. Find the secret to the 5-minute learning curve using free or open source resources, books, and top applications. Don't reinvent the wheel; use what I've found, and avoid what doesn't work.
VR: Innovative Uses of Technology
Spider Semantics: An Introduction to Information Retrieval for Educators
by Randall Gust
The presenter describes basic concepts in text document classification (subject headings and thesauri) and retrieval (indexing and algorithms). This foundation will elucidate contemporary approaches to searching text with technologies such as ontologies and spiders (which do not require traditional controlled vocabularies). He then offers a framework to understand developments in creating machine-readable meanings for the semantic Web. Lest the audience gets lost in terminology, the presenter intends to “edutain” professional users of information sources with fun facts about Web 3.0--the extensibility revolution in knowledge representation and retrieval.
VR: Innovative Uses of Technology
Designing Cost-Effective and Professional looking Multimedia
by Sheri Steinke
The budgets are shrinking, but the demand for high-quality online multimedia is increasing. What are some solutions that are cost-effective, easy to use, and generate professional-looking multimedia for your campus? In this online session, you will learn about very professional-looking tools for the typical faculty member that do not require programming or highly skilled Web design backgrounds. Tools include LodeStar Learning, SoftChalk, VoiceThread, Vokis, wikis, Google tools, and more. Create visually appealing learning that is 508-compliant and engaging.
Universal Access
Designing Accessible Web Based Instruction
by Jayme Johnson
As an instructional technology, the Internet offers the potential to enrich educational experiences and deliver them over distance. With this potential comes complexity in the tools and best practices for creating instructional materials. Learning the best practices for document layout, graphic design, and audio and video production allows you to effectively design and deliver instructional materials for Web-based instruction, but it can seem like an overwhelming task at first. Find out what you need to know in order to design and deliver effective and engaging Web-based instructional materials that are also accessible.
Universal Access
Accessibility of Learning Management Systems
by Jayme Johnson
Learning management systems provides a powerful means for faculty to efficiently design and deliver curriculum. While there are many benefits to learning management systems, there are also challenges in terms of providing equal access to the educational content and experience. Fortunately, the tools are improving and some best practices are evolving to help you design and deliver educational materials for everyone. This session will provide an overview of some popular learning management systems with a focus on how you can avoid the common pitfalls.
Universal Access
Five Easy Steps to Help Learning Disabled Students Succeed Online
by Nancy Meddings
The presenter has been the P.I. on a 3-year US Department of Education grant, where she is studying how to best design online courses in which learning-disabled students can succeed. Learn how simple techniques can result in an astonishing 91% success rate online for this special population.
Vendor Presentation: Wimba
Instant Messaging and Instant Collaboration for 21st Century Learning Institutions with Wimba Pronto
by Gina Connors
The educational experience does not end when a student leaves a classroom; it carries over into hallways, the library, computer lab and common areas. Educational institutions across the world are recognizing the need to furnish “informal learning spaces” for both traditional and online students.
Wimba Pronto is the only instant messaging and instant collaboration system designed for exclusively for education that enables students, teachers and student services to synchronously interact and learn in an online ,informal learning environment, to strengthen your online community, aid in student retention and facilitate student –student learning.
Wimba Pronto also helps schools and institutions meet the requirements of 21st Century learners by delivering equivalent campus services, office hours, library services, tutoring , technical assistance, counseling and more in real time, online.
Vendor Presentation: Smarthinking
Just in Time Learning: 24/7 Online Tutoring for Online Learners
By Bruce Wilcox and Raymond Mitchell
This session provides an introduction to online tutoring services provided by SMARTHINKING, leading provider of online tutoring for post-secondary colleges. SMARTHINKING provides people, technology and training to help institutions offer their students outstanding academic support up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Colleges and universities work with SMARTHINKING to increase student achievement and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects students to E-structor® Certified tutors anytime, from any Internet connection. From supplementing current learning support programs with SMARTHINKING's qualified and trained online tutors, to licensing SMARTHINKING's technology platform to create a private-labeled virtual learning assistance center, SMARTHINKING develops custom solutions to enable institutions to better support their faculty and students.
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