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CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Rubrics, Rubrics, Rubrics
Presenter(s): Tracey Smith
Track: Assessment & Evaluation
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Assessment is currently the most talked about topic in higher education. The use of rubrics is one piece of the assessment puzzle that helps students understand expectations for assignments and makes assessment easier and more consistent for the teacher. Participants in this session will be presented with an overview of rubrics and their uses. In teams, participants will evaluate various rubrics and their perceived effectiveness.
Alphabet Soup of Online Anything
Presenter(s): Susan Manning
Track: Getting Started
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: The problem is that we use terms like F2F and v-cast and newcomers are sometimes intimidated by the vocabulary! This session will simply slice through the hooplah and get to the basics.
Photoshop Basics
Presenter(s): Roger Runquist
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Learn to use some of the basic tools and features of Adobe Photoshop. Create simple banner for your web site and learn to easily enhance some of your digital photos.
* The Online Student Experience 101 through a Mini-Course on Computer Technology (Part 1)
Presenter(s): Heidi Jung & JP Dunn
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: The best way to learn the online environment is to experience it! This multi-faceted course was specifically designed for instructors to “try out” a variety of online tools, while at the same time, experience from a student’s viewpoint. Pedagogical topics will also be covered from the instructor's perspective with tips for success.
Challenging Students and How You Can Rise to the Occasion
Presenter(s): Lisa Bathe & Jeffrey Bathe
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: N/A
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Has this ever happened to you? You check your e-mail, glance at the incoming messages, and there it is – another message from “that” student. Students who present a challenge in one form or another are out there. Take action now and discuss how you can try to head off potential issues at the pass next time.
* Creating Audio, Video and Enhanced Educational Podcasts: a Hands-on Workshop (Part 1)
Presenter(s): Morrie Reece & Helen Hoffenberg
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Minimal computer knowledge is required. No prior knowledge of the three applications is required.
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: In this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop participants will create and publish three types of educational podcasts; an audio podcast, a video podcast and an enhanced podcast that combines audio synched with pictures, music, and web sites.
* Using Elluminate for Online Meeting and Teaching (Part 1)
Presenter(s): Michel Nguessan
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to teach attendees how to use Elluminate for web conferencing and online teaching. In the first part of the workshop, attendees will experience Elluminate as participants in a class. In the second part of the workshop, attendees will experience Elluminate as moderators/instructors.
Interactive PowerPoint: Oxymoron?
Presenter(s): John Kiener
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Experience with PowerPoint as a presentation tool.
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: As an avowed advocate for active learning, John's session will include examples of and instructions for using PowerPoint for interactive learning in the classroom. From using hyperlinks to including multimedia links and interactive quizzes, interactivity of students will be emphasized.
Making Sense of Online Media: Podcasting, Webcasting, and Streaming
Presenter(s): Paul Riismandel
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Internet media is about a decade old now, and with the recent rise of podcasting, it's become an integral part of online life. But it's difficult to know the difference between terms like webcasting, streaming and podcasting. In this session we'll provide working definitions and examples of these media types. We'll help you figure out what the differences are, and what application each is best suited for.
Take Two Tablets and Call Me in the Morning
Presenter(s): Kathy Ford
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: The “Tablet PC” is being adopted by several fields, including nursing and engineering. In this session, we will explore how a tablet is different from a conventional laptop and how instructors can use it to enhance teaching, maintain a paperless classroom and engage students in active learning.
Using the Information Mapping Method to Create your Online Course
Presenter(s): Norma Grassini-Komara & Colette Schrank
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Faculty new to teaching online are unfamiliar with the process involved in designing and developing an online course. This workshop will demonstrate how the Information Mapping method can guide course developers in the process of creating a course for the online medium. Through hands-on activities, participants will have the opportunity to describe appropriate strategies and principles to organize and present the course content for the Web, and identify successful strategies to enhance comprehension and retention of new and complex content.
* Student Interaction Through RSS: Hands-on with Feeds, Blogs, and Wikis (Part 1)
Presenter(s): Norman Garrett
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: None
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: Highly interactive student learning communities can be developed with little or no cost. Three key interactive tools will be demonstrated and used in this workshop: RSS Feeds, Weblogs, and Wikis. Participants will learn to interact using these tools and to configure them for classroom use.
Increasing Interactivity Using Online Database-Driven Instruction
Presenter(s): Leaunda Hemphill & Hoyet Hemphill
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Advanced
Prerequisite Skills: na
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: See how a database and AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) are used to create interactive lessons in an online interface. The instructor selects the desired interactivity type (student-to-content, -to-student, or -to-instructor). The interface allows the simultaneous integration of content, grading, instructor, and students on a single screen with automatic screen refreshing.
Virtual Learning Organizations: Supporting elearning in Illinois
Presenter(s): Michael Lindeman & Jeff Newell, Russ Stoup, John Berry
Track: Faculty Development and Training
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: na
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: CARLI, NILRC, ION, ILCCO, and IVC, Oh my! Illinois has a broad cross-section of resources for higher education institutions and students supporting elearning. This session provides background on the virtual organizations, their roles, the resources they provide, and how they foster collaboration and resource sharing. The organizations will also discuss their future directions.
Opportunities for Course Evaluation within WebCT Vista
Presenter(s): Joseph Hinchliffe
Track: Assessment & Evaluation
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Familiarity with WebCT (Illinois Compass), Excel and/or SPSS.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: This presentation will explore different ways I have used Illinois Compass (WebCT Vista) to evaluate student perceptions of the course. These include use of the survey feature, assessment of student postings, and examination of student usage patterns.
Five Steps to Instructional Design
Presenter(s): Tracey Smith
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: none
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Most higher education faculty are hired as content experts. Unlike their primary and secondary colleagues, who receive training for teacher certification, college faculty rarely have any training in how to design an effective course. This session will use the ADDIE Model of Instructional Design (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) to provide a usable 5 step approach to creating online courses that are effective in helping students achieve the course outcomes.
Microsoft Office to the Web: Universal Design for All
Presenter(s): Jon Gunderson & Christy Blew
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Use of Microsoft Office and basic web skills
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Learn how to publish Microsoft Office documents to the web using the Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office. The wizard creates standards compliant HTML for compatibility with the widest range of browsing technologies, including graphical browsers, PDAs. Cell phones, dialup connections and technologies used buy people with disabilities.
* The Online Student Experience 101 through a Mini-Course on Computer Technology (Part 2)
Presenter(s): Heidi Jung & JP Dunn
Track: Teaching & Learning
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: The best way to learn the online environment is to experience it! This multi-faceted course was specifically designed for instructors to “try out” a variety of online tools, while at the same time, experience from a student’s viewpoint. Pedagogical topics will also be covered from the instructor's perspective with tips for success.
Sharing the Load: Team Teaching Online
Presenter(s): Kevin Johnson & Susan Manning
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Participants should have experience teaching online and understand basic tools such as discussion forums. Understanding the tools used in online classrooms help you understand the time commitment and processes an instructor uses to interact online, therefore, providing a basis for discussion regarding the obstacles of adding a second instructor to the course.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Think that team teaching online is impossible or more work than it’s worth? Come here how Susan Manning and Kevin Johnson have overcome obstacles, divided work, and maintained a united presence inside their course.
Focus on Action: Active and Collaborative Learning in Online Courses
Presenter(s): Jan Engle
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Previous exposure to online learning or online teaching.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Active learning occurs when students explore, reflect upon, apply, and talk and write about the content of a lesson. While students can work individually, extra benefits occur when active learning occurs in a collaborative environment. This presentation addresses instructional and technical strategies for designing and facilitating effective online collaborative projects.
* Creating Audio, Video and Enhanced Educational Podcasts: a Hands-on Workshop (Part 2)
Presenter(s): Morrie Reece & Helen Hoffenberg
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Minimal computer knowledge is required. No prior knowledge of the three applications is required.
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: In this 2.5 hour hands-on workshop participants will create and publish three types of educational podcasts; an audio podcast, a video podcast and an enhanced podcast that combines audio synched with pictures, music, and web sites.
* Using Elluminate for Online Meeting and Teaching (Part 2)
Presenter(s): Michel Nguessan
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to teach attendees how to use Elluminate for web conferencing and online teaching. In the first part of the workshop, attendees will experience Elluminate as participants in a class. In the second part of the workshop, attendees will experience Elluminate as moderators/instructors.
* Student Interaction Through RSS: Hands-on with Feeds, Blogs, and Wikis (Part 2)
Presenter(s): Norman Garrett
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: None
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: Highly interactive student learning communities can be developed with little or no cost. Three key interactive tools will be demonstrated and used in this workshop: RSS Feeds, Weblogs, and Wikis. Participants will learn to interact using these tools and to configure them for classroom use.
Strategies for Building a Rich Media Learning Environment
Presenter(s): Dan Wabiszewski & Bill Stefanski
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: none
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: This session will provide replicable steps for using rich media to meet student demand for learning flexibility and improve online learning
The Implication of Bluetooth Technology in Classroom Learning and Instruction
Presenter(s): Temba C Bassoppo-Moyo
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Web browsing capabilities.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: This presentation examines the current and projected effects of Bluetooth technology in online and classroom instructional environments. The presentation also looks at the extent to which this innovation has changed technology integration in the classroom and its potential to influence future changes in the field of instructional technology and design.
Overview and Demonstration of Brand New Teaching and Learning Tools
Presenter(s): Stephan Meyer
Track: Course Management Systems
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Be familiar with online learning.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Learn about Desire2Learn’s suite of learning technology/software designed to enhance the online learning environment. The focus will be on Learning Environment, new competencies and more. Discover how this technology helps faculty engage students, and improves the process of online delivery. Other topic areas include rubrics, and ‘blogging’.
Portfolios for Student Assessment
Presenter(s): Webster Thompson
Track: Assessment & Evaluation
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: none
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: TaskStream, ‘Tools of Engagement’ -- the universal toolset for demonstrating learning achievement. TaskStream will present its flexible, affordable, and comprehensive electronic portfolio and outcomes assessment management solution for demonstrating learning achievement. The toolset is specifically designed for implementing outcomes assessment portfolios to evidence both individual and programmatic success.
Enhancing your Multimedia Application in the Classroom and Online
Presenter(s): Gisele Larose
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: N/A
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: This presentation will demonstrate approaches other instructors might use to enhance learning using multimedia tools. We'll demonstrate CourseStream, a streaming media management software and CourseLive, a software that allows the instructor to create live interactive coursework online. Learn how to create interactive education!
Collaborative Teaching And Learning In Virtual Spaces
Presenter(s): Terry Fencl
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Experience a demonstration of a nationally recognized, interdisciplinary online/on-campus learning community. Explore the success and challenges of team teaching across disciplines. The session will address: course design, faculty collaboration in connecting their online classes, and administrative issues. Discuss how strategies modeled might be successfully adapted to your classes.
From Onground to Online: Making the Transition
Presenter(s): Kevin Johnson
Track: Getting Started
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: N/A
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: This session will introduce future online instructors to designing and implementing online courses starting with strategies for transitioning from onground to online. Using Participants will leave this session with a Course Template they can use or reference upon returning to their campuses.
Exploring the Diverse Landscape of Online Student Assessment
Presenter(s): Leaunda Hemphill & Hoyet Hemphill
Track: Assessment & Evaluation
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: na
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: „Ď Online assessment offers a wide variety of ways to assess student understanding, from prior knowledge to continuous formative to summative assessment. We will discuss kinds of online assessment that are available, as well as strategies for selecting assessment that are useful in providing a reflection of online student performance.
There's More than One Way to Break the Ice
Presenter(s): Lisa Bathe
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: N/A
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Has looking for a more interesting icebreaker been on your “to-do” list, but just hasn’t gotten done yet? Come join me in examining 20 (or more) icebreaker activities that can all be done online.
Including an icebreaker activity as part of course orientation is considered a best practice for an online course as it helps students form the connections necessary to create a learning community. You and your students will benefit from an activity that will engage and enlighten them as they get to know each other.
Streamlining Website Development in Dreamweaver
Presenter(s): Roger Runquist
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Basic understanding of the tools of Dreamweaver
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Learn to use templates and stylesheets to develop your websites more quickly. Learn how you can update a single page in your Dreamweaver site and have all similar pages change automatically.
Disgusted with Discussions?
Presenter(s): Tracey Smith
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: None
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Asynchronous discussions are praised in the literature and research as the "heart and soul" of student-centered online classes. Yet merely adding a discussion forum and assigning questions to be answered does not a discussion make. This session will focus on how to create effective interactive discussions in online classes.
Leave in the Laugh Track and Other Ideas on Presenting to Large Classes
Presenter(s): Joseph Hinchliffe
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Some experience with presentation software. Some teaching experience.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Too many teachers lecture by reading their PowerPoint slides aloud. This session emphasizes development of PowerPoint presentations and other audiovisual tools to assist students by emphasizing mnemonics, pictures and stories to teach theoretical ideas.
Controlling the Learning Environment: Teachnology
Presenter(s): George Williams
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: This presentation addresses the many problems faced by teachers in computer labs of controlling the teaching environment and presenting instruction. Attendees will be made aware by demonstration of the most popular computer software to demonstrate to, communicate with, supervise, and control students in a computer lab.
* Simplify your Life with a Pocket PC (Part 1)
Presenter(s): Dawn Sweet & Josh Butcher
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Participants should have basic knowledge of the Windows XP operating system.
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: Simplify your Life with a Pocket PC
Did you know that the basic features of a Pocket PC really do make your life easier? Together we will “tap” our way through the processes of data input, synchronization, beaming, and wireless communication. Demonstrations of peripherals and data collection instruments will be performed. Storage capacity, software, edutainment, scholarly uses, and content delivery will be explored.
* Podcasting Production: Make It and Take It! (Part 1)
Presenter(s): Susan Manning
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: It would be helpful if participants came with a working knowledge of rss and blogs, but it is not entirely necessary.
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: Podcasting (internet broadcasted audio) is one method of bringing voice and context to your online classroom. Participants in this session will plan, record, edit, publish and post a real podcast! All the tools demonstrated will be free or low cost and the skills will be transferable to any setting.
Syndicating Learning through Blogs and Pods
Presenter(s): Ray Schroeder & Michele Gribbins
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: none
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Learning in the Web 2.0 era is no longer confined to a classroom or institution. Through RSS (really simple syndication) learning content is instantly disseminated to desktops, laptops, iPods, and websites around the world. This resulting collaboration and mobile learning is changing the way in which higher education is delivered.
The New Adobe
Presenter(s): Jill Schmelzer
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information
For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is clear to anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information.
Now that Adobe and Macromedia are one company, Adobe is better positioned than ever to push the boundaries of the digital universe. Under the leadership of CEO Bruce Chizen, we're driving even greater innovation with powerful, compelling software solutions that meet the needs of customers and markets ranging from designers and filmmakers, to enterprises and governments, to developers and home users.
Beginning WebCT CE
Presenter(s): JP Dunn & Heidi Jung
Track: Course Management Systems
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated World Wide Web-based educational environments. WebCT provides a variety of tools "at the click of a button." Features include course syllabus, course contents, discussion forum and chat, email, calendar, assignment drop box, grade book, tests/surveys and other supportive web components. We will discuss uploading and managing lecture notes, selectively releasing course materials, and tracking usage.
No Faculty Left Behind Online: Accommodating Online Faculty with Disabilities
Presenter(s): Brandon Taylor
Track: Faculty Development and Training
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: N/A
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: The No Faculty Left Behind: Accommodating Online Faculty with Disabilities is presentation based on an actual City Colleges of Chicago’s Center for Distance Learning case, that addresses the issue/problem regarding providing adequate and effective accommodations for faculty using technology that happen to have one or more disabilities.
Introducing ANGEL LMS 7
Presenter(s): Cheryl Steele & Jeffrey Bathe
Track: Course Management Systems
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details):
Description: Allow ANGEL Learning and Kankakee Community College to introduce ANGEL's fresh version of Learning Management Suite that offers easy-to-use LMS features balanced with powerful capabilities and an even more intuitive design. Learn how it embodies a new symmetry of simplicity and flexible power, ANGEL 7 turns data into results, personalizes learning with ease, and continues ANGEL’s tradition of openness to evolve with technology.
The ABCs of Online Teaching and Learning
Presenter(s): Tracey Smith
Track: Getting Started
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: None
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Participants in this session will address the "essentials" of effective online teaching and learning. We'll follow the alphabet from A to Z with keywords designed for comprehension and recall as you get ready to design/facilitate your first online course.
Respondus/Study-Mate
Presenter(s): Diana Billeter
Track: Assessment & Evaluation
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: This workshop will cover how to create assessments in Respondus and upload into a course management system. Learn how to create a variety of test questions to use for a f2f (face-to-face) or online course. StudyMate works with Respondus files to create study guides to help better prepare your students for their exams.
Testing the Waters: Online Classroom Assessment Techniques
Presenter(s): Leaunda Hemphill & Hoyet Hemphill
Track: Assessment & Evaluation
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: na
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Looking to get quick feedback on students’ learning and attitudes in your online courses? Find out how Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) can be used adapted to easily measure the effectiveness of your online teaching and student learning. Participants will have an opportunity to develop a CATs of their own.
Design Instruction for the Web: Building Your Course Framework
Presenter(s): Heidi Jung
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Those who attend this workshop need know what course they are planning to put online but not have started yet. Participants need to be willing to draft an online plan and make a “to do” list.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Getting started can be a large stumbling block for instructors developing an online course. This workshop is designed precisely for those instructors that are ready to get started but don’t know where to begin. Participants will begin to layout their course framework and create a development plan. Discussions will include identifying challenges and brainstorming solutions.
Creating Authentic and Engaging Assignments
Presenter(s): Lisa Bathe
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: N/A
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: You can’t see them, but you know they’re out there. How can you draw students in and engage them with the content?
Come hear examples of how to create interactive assignments without ever leaving home. Bring ideas to share and plan to brainstorm on how everyone can go beyond discussion questions and enter the next phase of online assignments.
* Simplify your Life with a Pocket PC (Part 2)
Presenter(s): Dawn Sweet & Josh Butcher
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Same as session 1.
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: Simplify your Life with a Pocket PC Did you know that the basic features of a Pocket PC really do make your life easier? Together we will “tap” our way through the processes of data input, synchronization, beaming, and wireless communication. Demonstrations of peripherals and data collection instruments will be performed. Storage capacity, software, edutainment, scholarly uses, and content delivery will be explored.
* Podcasting Production: Make It and Take It! (Part 2)
Presenter(s): Susan Manning
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: It would be helpful if participants came with a working knowledge of rss and blogs, but it is not entirely necessary.
Session Format (Click here for details): 2 Part Workshop
Description: Podcasting (internet broadcasted audio) is one method of bringing voice and context to your online classroom. Participants in this session will plan, record, edit, publish and post a real podcast! All the tools demonstrated will be free and the skills will be transferable to any setting.
Setting Up and Using Collaborative Learning Communities Using RSS Technologies
Presenter(s): Norman Garrett
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Learning communities allow members to interact in relationships that facilitate collaborative learning. In this forum we will discuss the structure of such communities and how to integrate them into college courses. Available technologies will be demonstrated with primary focus on the integration of these tools into the instructional process.
“I see what you mean.” Adding Video to Online Classes
Presenter(s): Paula Willig
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite Skills: Participants should be able to save a file on their computer, be able to import a file from their computer into a program, know how to use a web browser, know how to upload files to an online class.
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Have you wanted to show your students how to do something, but felt limited to words and pictures? Do you have access to a web cam or video cam? In this session we will explore how to use video in online classes using the format that 98% of computer users already have installed, Flash video.
Best Practices for Podcasting and Digital Audio Recording
Presenter(s): Paul Riismandel
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: With audio it's the little things that make the difference. No matter how good your content, listeners will tune out if the audio quality gets in the way. In this session we will introduce some best practices for recording audio digitally on a computer for podcasting, streaming or MP3s, and try them out together. These practices are applicable to any equipment, and we'll also give you tips on choosing things like microphones, headphones and software.
Using Student Response Systems to Connect with Your Students.
Presenter(s): Jeffrey Stowell
Track: Innovative Technologies
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Basic familiarity with PowerPoint is required.
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Participants will learn to use TurningPoint, a “computer-based system [integrated in PowerPoint] that allows audience members to participate in presentations by submitting their responses to interactive questions using hand-held devices or response pads.” (http://www.turningtechnologies.com/)
Blackboard, WebCT and Desire2Learn: A View from the Trenches
Presenter(s): Anthony Pińa
Track: Course Management Systems
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: Prior experience with Blackboard, WebCT or Desire2Learn is desirable, but not essential.
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Come explore, compare and contrast features of Blackboard, WebCT and Desire2Learn from the point of view of those “in the trenches” who teach with, administer and provide faculty training and support for these programs.
ION's Quality Online Course Initiative Standards for Online Courses
Presenter(s): Kevin Johnson & Patrice Hess, Chris Shelley
Track: Faculty Development and Training
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Prerequisite Skills: N/A
Session Format (Click here for details): Forum
Description: Want to measure the quality of your online courses? Join Kevin and members of ION’s QOCI Committee who worked hard to development an online course rubric. At this workshop, we will distribute the rubric and attendees will participate in a discussion on how to use this tool to design, redesign, and/or evaluate online courses.
Five Things That Digital Natives Can't Do (And What You Can Do To Help)
Presenter(s): Dan Balzer
Track: Teaching & Learning
Target Audience Level: All Levels
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: This session will build on research conducted in two high schools in Illinois that identified five skills that digital natives lack when doing online research. Participants will explore practical strategies and teaching tools for helping students become more effective and efficient in their digital searches.
Graphic Fun for the Web using Photoshop and Dreamweaver
Presenter(s): Roger Runquist
Track: Instructional Design & Course Development
Target Audience Level: Beginner
Prerequisite Skills: Basic understanding of Dreamweaver.
Session Format (Click here for details): 1 Part Workshop
Description: Learn to create rollover buttons in Photoshop and incorporate them into your Dreamweaver site. Learn the difference between jpeg and gif graphics and how to create simple animations.
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