A. ABCs of Facilitation
Tracey Smith
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion
Description: A look at 26 (A through Z) tips for successful facilitation of which no online instructor should be unaware. Participants will be asked to suggest additional tips from their own experience.

B. Student Assessment in Web-Based Courses
Presenter: Michael Lindeman
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Discussion/Demonstration
Description: This session presents various strategies for conducting student assessment in online courses. A brief overview of assessment theory will be given, followed by demonstrations of assessments used by the presenter in his online courses. Topics to be covered include:

• Role of assessment in the instructional design process
• Online quizzes and tests
• Online performance-based assessments
• Cheating in online courses
  

C. Online Learning: An Overview
Presenter: Iris Stovall
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: No prerequisite skills; this session is open to all audiences
Format: Lecture/discussion/demonstration
Description: This presentation introduces the key elements of an online program and focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of online learning. It includes many Web resources and encourages much discussion of concepts, ideas, and strategies for effective online teaching among participants. This workshop is for faculty at the pre-design stage of online courses. Topics to be covered are:

• Key elements of an online program
• Strengths and weaknesses of online learning
• The role and responsibilities of the online instructor
• The successful online student
• Integrating technology into the course
• Examine and discuss sample online courses.
  

D. Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Presenter: Mike McNett
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Basic knowledge of the Windows operating system
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: This workshop will introduce PowerPoint to beginning users, and take them beyond "beginner status" to creating fully featured presentations. In this workshop, participants will learn to:

• Create a presentation, using title and bullet slides, and incorporating clip art, Word Art, AutoShapes, charts, and tables.
• Use the professionally designed templates included with PowerPoint, as well as learn how to change a presentation in moments by modifying templates, or building a custom template.
• Master techniques for using transition effects when moving from one slide to another, and for "building" bullet points one by one.
• Explore the options available while running a slide show, and see how easy it is to produce overhead transparencies, audience handouts, and 35mm slides.
• Save and preview a presentation as a Web page.
• Use the Pack and Go feature to give a presentation on a different computer, and how to "broadcast" a presentation on the Internet.

Although the this workshop introduces PowerPoint 2000, nearly everything covered in class will be equally applicable to those who use PowerPoint 97. Whichever version of PowerPoint you use, this workshop can help you get started.

E. Creating Great Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop
Presenter: Steve Campbell
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Basic understanding of Photoshop or image editing software would be helpful, but not necessary.
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: Creating great Web graphics can be fun and easy with Adobe Photoshop. Come see and learn how to make hover buttons, animations, banners and more fun images to add to your web pages.

F. Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver
Presenter: Virgil Varvel
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: While a quick overview will be provided, participants should have a basic understanding of the structure of an HTML document.
Format: Hands-on Lab/Discussion
Description: As the Web becomes more complex, so also do the tools for developing pages, courses and applications. Macromedia Dreamweaver offers a powerful solution to the creation of Web documents without the necessity of advanced HTML knowledge. This discussion will cover the basics of Macromedia Dreamweaver through the production of effective Web pages.

G. Creating Web Pages with HTML and Netscape Composer
Presenter: Melissa Kelly
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Ability to navigate and manage files (open, save) within the Windows environment, some familiarity with using the Web.
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: The HyperText Markup Language, or HTML, is a set of standardized tags or codes used to create Web pages. All HTML tags consist of plain text characters and can be written out manually using a text editor, such as MS Notepad, or they can be applied using a friendly graphical interface similar to those available in modern word processing software. This workshop will expose participants to both methods. Participants will learn the basics of the HTML language, creating simple HTML documents using Microsoft Notepad. They will then learn how to create web pages within the graphical editing environment provided by Netscape Composer, the free editor that comes with Netscape Communicator.

H. E-paks: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Presenter: Larry Schroeder
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Desire to use E-Paks with WebCT or Blackboard. Presentation will be based on WebCT. But similar lessons can be applied to using E-Paks with Blackboard.
Format: Lecture/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: You’ve been using textbooks for years, here’s how to add an E-pak to your course and make it work for you. Emphasis will be on WebCT but the same concepts should work for Blackboard.

In addition to the E-Paks from the publisher, you will learn how to incorporate telecourse tapes, publisher’s streaming media, and Flash/HTML inside and/or as a supplement to your WebCT system.

The workshop's primary focus will be upon the lessons and tips that we learned.

I. Steering Committee Meeting
Presenter: Burks Oakley II
Description: Members of the Illinois Online Network Steering Committee will meet to discuss issues related to the ION project. Open to Steering Committee members or their designees.

Discipline-Based Sessions:

A. Practical Suggestions for Teaching Online
Presenter: Iris Stovall
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion
Description: There are many "common sense" ideas that if incorporated into online teaching can bring about positive results. This session presents issues to consider before, and during the teaching process. Parts of the teaching process for which suggestions will be made include:

• Planning the course
• Organizing the course
• Implementing the course design
  

B. Preparing for Online Course Development: Proactive Planning and Pitfalls
Presenter: Page Wolf
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Discussion
Description: My experience coordinating online teaching and learning at our college has focused my attention on what preparations are required before online courses can be effectively developed. This discussion will address what to plan for and what to avoid while developing online courses, and include institutional issues such as faculty preparation and administrative support.

C. Assessing Quality in Online Education
Presenter: Burks Oakley II
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Discussion
Description: The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C, http://www.sloan-c.org/) has developed framework for assessing quality of online programs in higher education. Based on recommendations of the higher education community, the quality framework provides ways of demonstrating institutional quality. The quality framework also provides metrics that can be used in a process of continuous quality improvement. As institutions continuously improve online pedagogy, and as technology evolves, the framework itself is a work in progress, designed to capture best practices.

Specific structures, known as the five pillars of quality, support the quality framework; these pillars are student satisfaction, access, learning effectiveness, faculty satisfaction, and cost effectiveness. For each of the pillars, the quality framework enables institutions to set goals, to identify supporting practices, and to project and measure progress towards the goals. Moreover, this framework enables sharing of best practices for each pillar among institutions.

In this interactive session, Prof. Burks Oakley will present the quality framework and discuss various metrics associated with each of the pillars that institutions are using to assess the quality of online education.

D. The Internet, the World Wide Web and Higher Education
Presenter: Ray Schroeder
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: The Internet is global computer network consisting of thousands of smaller networks, all of which speak the same language or protocol, TCP/IP. Higher education has been at the center of the development of both the Internet and its most recent and popular application, the World Wide Web. In addition to providing a brief history of the Internet and Web, this session will provide a practical introduction to the Web and Web browsers and their application in higher education. Items to be covered include:

• History and background of the Internet and the World Wide Web
• Sampling of Community Colleges and Universities offering online programs
• Finding information on the Web
• Uses of the Web in higher education

E. Create a Course Web Site with Microsoft FrontPage 2000
Presenter: Nancy Barker
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Experience using a Windows PC and Microsoft Office desirable
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: Develop a unique course Web site without the typical "FrontPage theme-look". Work with hover buttons and hit counters. Create a navigation template with common elements to make your pages consistent and easy to update.

F. Beyond the Standard PowerPoint Presentation
Presenter: Mike McNett
Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Basic skills with PowerPoint
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: Participants will learn how to add elements which will take their PowerPoint presentations to the next level. This session will cover:

• Color schemes and backgrounds
• Customizing the slide background
• Customizing the master slide
• Animation effects
• Locating and incorporating materials from the Web
• Adding sound and video
• Web publishing options
• Creating RealPresenter shows
  

G. Introduction to WebCT
Presenters: Cynthia Thompson and Mary Robson
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Basic computer skills
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: This workshop will focus on ways WebCT can be integrated into the curriculum either as an online course or as a course supplement. Participants will explore WebCT from the student's viewpoint for navigating within WebCT, viewing calendar entries, posting e-mail messages, participating in discussions, completing an online quiz, and exploring course content.

H. Designing Web-Based Instruction
Presenter: Michael Lindeman
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Demonstration
Description: Designing Web-Based Instruction can be a daunting task. It certainly requires more than simply taking your syllabus, lecture notes, and tests from an existing face-to-face course and converting them into a Web-ready format. While some of the basic steps, such as determining objectives, aligning content with objectives and assessment, are essentially the same, traditional courses often must be redesigned to include opportunities for discussion and group activities in a student-centered collaborative learning environment. This workshop focuses on the key elements of an online program and how they affect the instructional design of courseware for the Web. It includes many Web resources, is interactive, and encourages much discussion among participants of concepts, ideas, and strategies for effective online teaching. Topics to be covered are:

• Selecting an approach
• Building the framework
• Organizing learning sequences
• Activating learning
• Evaluating effectiveness

I. Introduction to BlackBoard 5
Presenter: Pat McCue
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Familiarity with one of the following operating systems: Windows 95, 98, ME or 2000.
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: Blackboard is a very popular Course Management System that can be used to present online content, facilitate communication, conduct online quizzes, and manage student grades. In this session, participants will:

• Learn how to structure a course in Blackboard. (syllabus, lectures, etc.)
• Become familiar with the Blackboard environment
• Learn how to add items/folders
• Learn how to use the Discussion Board (and Archiving discussion)
• Learn about the characteristics of and issues associated with the Virtual Classroom

J. Web Design for Web-Based Courses
Presenter: Virgil Varvel
Audience Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: This is not a session on HTML, but rather a discussion on effective Web Design techniques for educational Web sites. Design guidelines will be discussed and the reasoning behind them. We will also browse to several good and bad examples of web design and provide commentary.

K. Course Web Sites and Online Assessment Made Easy!
Presenter: Pete Massar, McGraw-Hill
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: If you can browse the web...McGraw-Hill can help make your course interactive, current, and exciting!
Format: Discussion/Demonstration
Description: This session will be an interactive presentation/discussion of web resources developed to enhance hybrid or totally online courses. The technology covered will demonstrate easily mastered tools that fulfill needs such as:

• Student self-assessment
• Adding interactivity to course sites
• Holding students accountable for assignments
• Adding current news and updates to your course
• Customizing course content (texts and/or supplements)

A. Introduction to Streaming Media
Presenter: Douglas Mills
Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: A basic understanding of HTML and how the Web works as well as experience working with computer-based audio and/or video will be helpful. For the hands-on portion of the workshop, familiarity and comfort working in the Windows environment will be an asset although basic principles will apply to other platforms.
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: Participants will gain an understanding of streaming media basics and become familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to creating streaming media. Consideration will be given to factors determining the suitability of different approaches given specific teaching environments and objectives. Hands-on work will include the creation of at least one type of streaming media. Some of the advanced potential of streaming media will be demonstrated.

B. Creating Quizzes in WebCT Using Respondus
Presenters: Mary Robson and Cynthia Thompson
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Basic knowledge of WebCT's Quizzing Tool
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: Ever created a quiz in WebCT? If so, you know what a challenge it can be. Respondus 1.5 is a powerful software application that enhances the functionality and usability of WebCT's quiz, survey, and self-test tools. In this workshop, you will learn how to create quizzes in Respondus and upload them into WebCT. Multiple Choice, True/False, Multiple Response, Matching, Short Answer, and Essay questions will be created. The quiz will then be uploaded into WebCT.

C. 101 Things (more or less) NOT to Do in an Online Course
Presenter: Susan Manning
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion
Description: Want to know what really works as well as the pitfalls to avoid in planning your first online course? Through case study scenarios, participants will examine key concepts in organizing and delivering an online course. Some of the issues we'll cover are instructor roles, student roles, tech support, managing communication, time management, adapting curriculum, course structure and more!

D. Preparing Students for Online Studies
Presenter: Ray Schroeder
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: Students who begin online study do not necessarily come with the background that is needed to allow them to efficiently conduct their studies online. Many must develop certain skills and abilities in order to thrive in the online environment. These skills include conducting effective and comprehensive online research, proper citation of online sources, effective interaction in discussion boards and chats, and personal scheduling/self-discipline in meeting deadlines outside the framework of an on-campus class. Online materials will be shared which can be assembled to develop a customized resource for prospective online students.

E. And Now for Something Completely Different
Presenter: Jeffrey Bathe
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Basic Computer Skills
Format: Discussion/Demonstration
Description: Everyone involved with online learning can benefit from an awareness of the new technologies that are available for communication, collaboration, and instruction. This presentation is an "interactive demonstration" designed to take participants on a tour of the various technology tools that are available.

F. Asynchronous Conferencing Using Blackboard
Presenter: Patrice Hess
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Basic computer skills and familiarity with a Web browser
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: This workshop will cover accessing the Blackboard Discussion Board; posting and replying to discussion threads; setting up forums; designing discussion prompts for general and non-graded forums; designing discussion prompts for graded assignments and managing and evaluating discussion board postings.

G. Editing Digital Images
Presenter: Virgil Varvel
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills:
Format: Hands-on Lab/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: This session will cover both the technical side of digital photography and video as well as techniques for creating better images and video. Participants will be able to experiment with several cameras.

H. Hosting Synchronous Sessions for the Web-Enhanced and Online Class
Presenter: Michael Lindeman
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Hands-on Lab/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: Synchronous sessions (i.e. real time communication) can add a dynamic, instructional component to an online course. Synchronous sessions can also be very effective in building community. This workshop will demonstrate how an effective synchronous session can be hosted using simple text-based chat tools and streaming audio. In addition to learning about strategies and activities for synchronous sessions, participants in this interactive workshop will experience a synchronous session first hand using WebBoard's ChatSpace and RealMedia's streaming audio technology. Although particular products have been selected for the live demonstration, other chat and streaming media applications can work equally well. Topics to be covered are the following:

• Brief technology overview
• Models of synchronous sessions
• Technology options for synchronous sessions
• Activities that can be used in a synchronous session
• Strategies to ensure a successful synchronous session

I. Making the Shift to Web-Based Teaching
Presenter: Iris Stovall
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion
Description: This session describes how Web-based resources can be incorporated into traditional teaching. As more Web resources are added, and more of a course becomes Web-based, the nature of the course changes and there are different expectations for both instructors and students. A ten-step process starting with the utilization of the most basic Web resources and ending with completely online programs will be developed.

A. Teaching the Impossible
Presenter: Susan Manning
Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: What's holding you back from developing an online course? What do you think isn't possible? In this session we'll explore common arguments for what can't be done online, and then we'll present possible solutions. Wherever possible, you'll see the solutions at work!

B. Copyright Issues for Course Web Pages
Presenter: Virgil Varvel
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Discussion
Description: The purpose of this session is to introduce educators to the underlying principles of copyright law as it is applied to the field of online education and to provide guidance on the process of determining fair use.

C. Collaborative Learning in the Web-Based Classroom
Presenter: Michael Lindeman
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skill: None
Format: Discussion/Demonstration
Description: Effective use of groups and teams of students in collaborative learning activities enables an instructor to foster a sense of community and to encourage interaction in a Web-based classroom. Many decades of research have identified multiple benefits of collaborative learning over traditional pedagogical approaches in helping students develop academic and interpersonal skills: increased cognitive achievement; promotion of higher-level thinking skills; improved self-esteem and satisfaction from helping others; and development of social skills for effective group work, including negotiation and conflict resolution. In this workshop, we will address the concerns of both faculty and students that inhibit the adoption or participation in cooperative learning environments. Strategies for planning and encouraging interaction will be presented and examples of successful activities will be demonstrated. Topics include:

• Groups and Teams in the Classroom: What? Why? And How?
• Planning and Managing Cooperative Learning Activities
• Structures for Group and Team Assignments
• Assessment of Assignments and Student Performance
  

D. What Online Faculty Need to Know but Were Afraid to Ask
Presenter: Jeff Bathe
Audience Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion
Description: This session is for faculty who are moving into the online realm or those who provide training to faculty. During the session there will be a combination of discussion and presentation about the competencies that an online faculty member should possess.

E. Indexes and Search Engines
Presenter: Ray Schroeder
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Hands-on Lab/Lecture/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: There are now one billion pages on the web. But, there is no single effective tool for searching all of these pages, let alone the other Internet information that is not on the web. This session will focus on strategies, techniques and tools that can be used to most efficiently identify materials on the Internet. A variety of 'net searching resources will be demonstrated and shared. Tutorials for students and faculty alike will be identified. Attention will be given to techniques for validating resources uncovered by search engines.

F. I Buried the Rubric: Mistakes to Avoid
Presenter: Tracey Smith
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: None
Format: Lecture/Discussion/Demonstration
Description: It's easy to make mistakes when transforming classes from face to face to online delivered classes. This session will provide a "watch list" of easy to make mistakes and discuss why they are important to avoid. Participants will be encouraged to share their own difficulties to brainstorm solutions.

G. Adding Functionality to Your Blackboard Course
Presenter: Leaunda Hemphill
Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Participation in "Introduction to Blackboard - CourseInfo" session or knowledge of the topics covered in that session. No knowledge of HTML is required.
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: In this session, we will look at features and tools to make your Blackboard course more interactive and useful. Participants will learn how to:

• Format text with HTML
• Integrate multimedia into Blackboard
• Build quizzes and surveys
• Manage the on-line grade book and download it into an Excel spreadsheet
• Create and manage group work

H. Creating Software Demos and Simulations with Qarbon's Viewlet Builder
Presenter: Brandon Taylor
Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Experience using a personal computer runing Windows or Mac OS, using and navigating the Internet and World Wide Web are desirable
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: Qarbon's ViewletBuilder allows anyone, regardless of technical or creative ability, to build informational, instructional, compelling, animated software demonstrations, software simulations and presentations with ease and without knowldege of any programming language via creating Viewlets.

The primary goals of this workshop are to help participants to appreciate the ease and utility of Qarbon's Viewlet Builder and to learn how to use Qarbon' Viewlet Builder to create software demonstrations, simulations and presentations.

I. An Intermediate Session on Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (The Fun Stuff!)
Presenter: Steve Campbell
Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Beginning knowledge of FrontPage
Format: Hands-on Lab
Description: This session will be covering all the great fun things that you can do with FrontPage...and also some productivity ideas. Upon completion, session attendees will be able to:

• Understand and use shared borders
• Create and use navigation bars
• Apply and modify themes
• Use frames effectively
• Create and process forms
• Create and use basic animations