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Title: Benefits of Computer Based Curriculum
Presenter: Barb DiMarco
Description:
We will explore the evolution, trends, and benefits of adaptable online curriculum for grades 3-12. Why this raises grades and increases student retention will be covered.
Title: Tying Practical Application to Text Book Theory
Presenter: Norma E. Hall
Description:
Students, especially those with little work experience, have difficulty understanding abstract concepts and theories. CS205, Management Information Systems, incorporates Systems Analysis and Design into a capstone project that requires students to "live" the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for 3 team presentations. The case for the project is on a website with background information, interviews, and discussion forums which provide an interactive environment for students. The technique can be used for a variety of classes incorporating projects that require demonstration of knowledge related to real-world applications.
Title: Assessment Now; Accelerating Information Literacy with Audience Response Systems
Presenter: Kevin Strunk
Description:
For nearly sixty years, Audience Response Systems have allowed instructors to instantly and anonymously poll their classes, but costs and technical problems prevented the mainstream from adopting the devices. Today, such systems are far more available and easier to use. With knowledge of a few advanced techniques, even a one-time information literacy session can be transformed by ARS into a model of classroom participation and skills assessment.
Title: Creating Interactive Tutorials for Online Learning
Presenter: Timothy C. McGee, Sharon Yang
Description:
Animated tutorials with voice-over narration can engage students, foster just-in-time learning of requisite skills, provide increased user control, and preserve face-to-face classroom time for active and collaborative learning. This presentation will explain Flash and introduce novices to tutorial creation software such as ViewletBuilder, Camtasia, Wink, Demo Builder, Captivate, and SWiSH Max, discussing the pros and cons of each. The presenters will demonstrate the process of downloading and installing Wink, a free, open-source tutorial creation tool. A demo tutorial will be created in Wink with animation and recorded narration. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate that the faculty can create their own online tutorials on their desktop in their office at no cost with relative ease.
Title: Enable your Private Cloud for Students, Staff, Faculty, and more!!
Presenter: Anil Rao, Jack Kinney
Description:
Easily and Securely Provide Access to your user’s applications and resources all through a standard browser - Your Institutions Private Cloud. Enabled with Single Sign-On to the resources whether it is Internet, Web, Windows, Files, and more. With Identity driven capabilities, the user only sees their resources. Finally move your labs into the data center and enable the 90+% of students with the ability to access thru a standard browser while not being concerned about the state of their machine - one of the many results of the Private Cloud. Staff and Faculty also benefit with SSO access to their materials and ability to have drill down dashboards, File Access, and more. Come learn about how you can effectively improve both Access and Security Posture and enable the Private Cloud.
Title: Mashing It Up: Students Make Videos to Create the Content
Presenter: James Sell, Marilyn Puchalski, Kelly Gredone
Description:
Faculty are utilizing “quick and dirty” video projects to energize the classroom experience. Learn how easy it is to design content-related mini video projects. Learn how to handle the logistical considerations including the planning, producing and uploading of their quick flicks. Learn how Bucks County Community College used a video mash-up contest to create assessment rubrics and to promote the development of 21st century skills. Participants will become part of the presentation by being captured on video. The video will then be uploaded to a blog to demonstrate ease of use.
Title: Scientific Inquiry Through Nature and Technology
Presenter: Carmela N. Curatola Knowles, Kathleen M. Krupa
Description:
Scientific inquiry is recommended by the National Science Teachers Association for grades K-16. This project-centered experience includes an essential question, ecosystems, digital cameras, microphones, Nova portable computers, and persuasive letter writing. It promotes active participation, self-motivation, project ownership and an understanding of the nature of scientific knowledge.
Title: Higher Education Campus Security & Identity Management
Presenter: Aaron Perry
Description:
In the EDUCAUSE Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009 "Security and Identity Management" topped the issues list for the third year in a row. The challenge is that while universities have made great progress in putting common services online, they have not been able to know with assurance who is using those resources. Personal identity breaches number in excess of 200 million data records exposed since January 2005, with significant numbers of these breaches occurring in Higher Education. There are multiple communities of identity within higher education including students, faculty, staff, and affiliates (members that need access to resources but may not be managed by an authoritative HR or student enrollment system). While this adds complexity to the identity problem, it is a common theme across higher education clients. Please join us for a discussion as to how these challenges are being solved by your peers with Identity Management Solutions.
Title: A Summer Math Experiment that Worked!
Presenter: Barbara Stoner
Description:
A demonstration of a self-paced, modular approach in mathematics for those scoring below Pre-Algebra on college placement tests at Reading Area Community College. Learn about the: Creation - Challenges - Benefits - Costs - Outcomes.
Title: Using Captivate to demonstrate quantitative problem-solving techniques for online courses.
Presenter: Ken Morlino, Angela Tekely
Description:
This one-hour presentation will cover the use of the Adobe Captivate application as a teaching aid in demonstrating quantitative-problem solving techniques for use in online courses. The seminar will cover a brief overview of Captivate application software, a blueprint for creating a captivate presentation and linking to your online course, two problem examples demonstrated: Accounting and Statistics, and time for discussion.
Title: Is Quality What Matters? Keeping a Student-Centered Focus in Online Courses
Presenter: Claire Kratz, Stacey Roush, Fran Lukacik
Description:
Facilitators discuss how quality course design achieves better student retention rates and increases learner-centered teaching. Two online courses will be visited. First defining and then explaining the organization and research that is "Quality Matters," they will share their personal journeys in design with the QM© Rubric.
Title: Using Images: How We Can Use Images More Effectively in Our Teaching.
Presenter: Stephen Blumm
Description:
Images, Images, Images! Due to modern technology images are everywhere.
What do our students make of these images? What is audiovisual literacy? How can images contribute to learning? What are the best ways to integrate images into our traditional and online classes?
Images and iconography have always been part of education, but new technologies have made it possible for instructors to make far greater use of images. The aim of this session is for the group to discuss ways to advance the use of images in teaching and explore the uses and abuses of images.
Title: iPhones for Educators
Presenter: Kendall Martin
Description:
We'll look at how the iPhone is impacting collegiate education at the institutional level and for instructors and students. At least come to see what iPhone apps might make your mobile life easier and more fun!
Title: Geo-Spatial Technologies across the Disciplines
Presenter: Samuel Wallace
Description:
A 50 minute PowerPoint presentation in the Emerging Technologies thread on the utility of three Geo-Spatial Technologies, Remote Sensing (satellite, radar and IR sensors), Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), for the fields of Criminal Justice and Emergency Services, Public Health and Human Services, Business and Marketing, and History and Anthropology, as well as the Natural and Environmental Sciences.
Title: Marketing Your Graduate Program
Presenter: Sean O’Donnell
Description:
"If you build it, they will come." But only if they know about it! This session will lay out the foundations of a marketing system aimed at increasing enrollment in any educational program. Topics will include marketing tools such as landing pages, microsites, lead generation, SEM and lead management systems.
See how Villanova University's College of Engineering is using these tools to grow its online and on-campus enrollments in the graduate education area. Results will be shared along with examples of above-mentioned marketing tools.
Title: Creating Semantic Web Pages with Microformats
Presenter: Sofia Khatoon
Description:
Semantic web is about embedding meaningful information about data inside web pages for easier extraction and reuse by other programs. Several techniques are being employed in construction of semantic web, which include development of new languages like RDF, OWL and services based on these standards. Microformats are open standards for HTML patterns that provide universal exchange mechanism for annotation of common entities like people, events and blog entries etc. This presentation will explain the usage of Microformats in web pages and demonstrate steps for creating a new Microformat.
Title: Creating the Digital Learning Environment
Presenter: Lester A. Ray
Description:
Today's learners live in a digital world surrounded by digital video, digital music, digital photography and more! Discover some of the exciting ways to integrate digital media into our instructional environments. In the classroom, over the internet, or as part of a dynamic presentation, digital media offers exciting new tools that are powerful, yet easy to use. Explore what is available today using an iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes U and Mac!
Title: LifeSize HD Videoconferencing Performance Advantage
Presenter: Bill Drucis
Description:
Discussion and Live demonstration of the LifeSize HD Videoconferencing performance advantage as it relates to our high-resolution capabilities and our minimal bandwidth requirements.
Title: Creative Programming
Presenter: Mary Elizabeth "M.E." Jones
Description:
The overarching pedagogical issue for university computer science professors appears to be that programming is taught as a linear and static discipline emphasizing programming language constructs, syntax and grammar without a framework for applying the language.
Programming is a dynamic and nonlinear process that challenges students’ knowledge and creativity. Immaculata University is piloting a NSF sponsored programming course using Alice (www.alice.org) that integrates creativity into a programming course. This session will encourage you to re-think your teaching approach, discuss how you can apply creativity to develop programming skills, and initiate discussion regarding integrating creativity into your programming courses.
Title: A Winning Trio? How Faculty, A Math Resource Center and Peer Tutors Worked Together
Presenter: Diane Devanney, Carol Serotta, Gina Mulranen, and Nicole Shovlin
Description:
Last fall, Cabrini College piloted three sections of a Math Homework Lab to accompany a middle track gateway course. We'll discuss how three providers of instruction (professors, professional tutors and peer tutors) joined forces to create a learning environment for students to succeed. In this supplemental instruction model, students met for a mandatory additional class period each week, and at that time, under the guidance of professional and peer tutors, completed online graded assignments and received lessons that reinforced concepts taught in the classroom via PowerPoint presentations or highly interactive hands-on activities. We’ll share how we've twice revised our pilot.
Title: Be aware of your Digital Footprint
Presenter: Julie M. Meyer
Description:
This session will introduce you to the concept of Digital Footprint. You will understand what and how to be aware of your Digital Footprint. This session will also cover how to introduce these concepts to students in the era of posting and thinking about the posts later. We will also look at implications when students flag their profiles as confidential in the registration system, and how this still impacts their digital footprint in e-Learning.
Title: We are Web 2.0 Girls Living in a Beta World; v2.5
Presenter: Tori Waskiewicz and Jean Bennett
Description:
Join us for hands on experience of some new and not so new Web 2.0 offerings. With the variety of Web 2.0 free or affordable resources available, you will experience the following sampling of Web 2.0:
Synchronous, recordable, video/audio conferencing Video screen capture Video animations Collaboration tools Polls and Surveys Visual literacy Mash-ups and more Whether you are new to Web 2.0 or an experienced user you will find something to share with your colleagues and students as well as incorporate the technologies into your learning environment that today's students expects.
Title: The Education Collaboration: Using Internet 2 to Educate
Presenter: Debbie Levin and Susan Darlington
Description:
Internet 2 can literally transform the learning environment from a passive place of learning to an active engaged learning experience. Video-conferencing over Internet 2 has allowed the students in the Education program at Montgomery County Community College to observe live classroom instruction without leaving campus. Learn how MCCC organized and collaborated with a local school district using Internet 2 to support learning and inspire their students.
Title: Online Research Tools and Strategies for K-12 Educators
Presenter: Jennifer O’Leary and Lauraine Lindbloom
Description:
This workshop will provide an overview of quality online resources and search strategies that can be used by K-12 educators for professional development and/or lesson planning. Participants will learn how to access and navigate resources within POWER Library, become familiar with subject directories and search engines, and learn effective online search strategies. The search strategies presented in the workshop are designed to help K-12 educators equip students to be successful online researchers. Hands-on activities will be provided to help participants become familiar with the online resources and search strategies.
Title: Slidecasts: Breathing New Life Into Powerpoint
Presenter: Lianne Hartman and Kristina DeVoe
Description:
A slidecast is a synchronized audio and slide presentation that is streamed over the web. They are easy to create and, more importantly, very easy to update. Educators are using this tool to serve distance learners and make lectures available outside of the classroom. In this hands-on session, participants will be creating slidecasts, gaining experience in both Audacity, a freely downloadable audio editor, and SlideShare.net, a free website for hosting slidecasts.
Title: We Are Doing It: Incorporating the Hottest New Technology into Our Courses
Presenter: Jodi Empol-Schwartz and Marla Sturm
Description:
This session will illustrate the use of multimedia in both a political science course and a psychology course. The techniques demonstrated are a result of the 2008-2009 MCCC's Digital Campus Academy. Some of the topics presented include the use of Apple technology, iTunes U, podcasts, the importing of video clips directly into lectures, and the effective use of hyperlinks in both in-person and online courses. The discussion will address topics of interest for both PC and Mac users.
Title: Neumann Faculty Flock to Online Learning
Presenter: Scott Beadenkopf and Tish Szymurski
Description:
Neumann University faculty are often too busy to attend hands on workshops, but flocked to join online courses to learn and practice online teaching and technology skills. In the spring of 2009, Neumann University's E-Learning Committee offered six-week online courses on Online Course Facilitation and Online Course Design. The courses were offered without charge to Neumann instructors and adjunct faculty. Demand outstripped the number of seats, and the offerings were repeated. By the end of the summer, two dozen Neumann instructors had earned certificates in online course facilitation.
The presentation will describe the courses and discuss the lessons learned.
Title: For Your Entertainment: Engaging Students in Library Orientation
Presenter: Michael LaMagna and Sara Drew
Description:
First-year student library orientation programs often include an introduction to library resources and services through a building tour or scavenger hunt activity. This is a model that Cabrini College used in the past. In an effort to make this presentation more student-centered and engaging, the library redesigned the orientation to utilize emerging technologies. The presentation now makes use of an audience response system (clickers) and includes four short videos. This program will describe why the presentation was redesigned, how the video clips were developed at no cost beyond staff time, and anecdotal student reaction. Assessment data will be discussed.
Title: An introduction to the WebAssign homework system
Presenter: Carl Schmiedekamp
Description:
WebAssign is an online homework system which provides immediate feedback and automatic grading. An important feature of WebAssign is that individual problems have randomized values so that each student can have a different version of each problem. There are many science and mathematics textbooks for which problems are available in WebAssign and instructors can create their own problems and questions as needed. The presentation will provide demonstrations of student and instructor use of WebAssign and describe how the speaker uses WebAssign for physics homework assignments.
Title: 'Captivating' e-learners: creation of an online tutorial for library instruction
Presenter: Patricia H. Dawson and Sharon Yang
Description:
This summer an online tutorial for a distance learning Psychology class was created for the summer II session at Rider University. The tutorial was a course integrated library instruction with six modules to help students with the research paper assignment. The presentation will discuss the collaboration with the faculty member to devise the library instruction component, writing the storyboards for the tutorial to create the scripts and audio portions of the modules. In addition, the technical aspects of using Captivate, the software used to generate the tutorials, will be discussed. A demonstration of the tutorials will be presented.
Title: Interdisciplinary Web 2.0: Active Learning in the Humanities and Sciences
Presenter: Rob Swatski and Monica Hahn
Description:
Can two community college professors, each from separate disciplines (art history and biology), use the same Web 2.0 applications and digital technology to engage their students through active learning and teaching methods? Absolutely, and we will show you how! We have both embraced the new and participatory Web to enhance our students' concept understanding and retention, promote creative and critical thinking, as well as foster a dialogue both in and out of the classroom. We will demonstrate how we have created interactive, collaborative, and engaging activities and resources using several easy-to-use Web 2.0 applications.
Title: All Aboard: Sights, Sounds, and Technology for Learning in the 21st Century
Presenter: Sister Theresa Maugle, SSJ and Mary Jeanne Olexa Smith
Description:
All Aboard! The words conjure up images of magical locations, excitement, discovery, and exploration. Join us on a journey of sight and sound, collaboration and support, teaching, learning, and technology. The Saint Genevieve School team will show how a combination of teacher collaboration and administrative support makes instruction relevant for the twenty-first century by using a plethora of educational and technological vehicles. Participants will learn how writing, social studies, and environmental sciences can come alive with podcasts, illustration, video, and web 2.0 tools.
Title: Emerging technology, best practices and the deployment gap
Presenter: Paul Proces
Description:
As librarians and administrators making decisions about adaption of technology including purchasing decisions, how do we weigh the factors that determine that choice? The buzzword status of web 2.0 and our societal foregrounding of technological advances show us the glamorous world of the novel, but the profession should not forget about our basic commitment to access for everyone. A review of publicly-funded IHE library websites shows that most are not legally compliant with Section 508 rules concerning access for the differently abled. How can we close the gap?
Title: The Use of Social Networks on Campus: Does It Increase Student Engagement?
Presenter: H. Leon Hill, Penny Sawyer, Timothy Connelly, and Deborah Dalrymple
Description:
There continues to be an increase of individuals using social networking tools to communicate, especially in higher education. These social network tools create opportunities and challenges for educators both in and outside the classroom.
The purpose of this session is to discuss what the national and college data suggests who uses these tools as well as any connection to the college they may engender. Also, faculty and administrators who use these various social networking tools to teach or work with students, will discuss the challenges and opportunities they have encountered in utilizing these tools.
Title: Software Support for Tracing the RandomLinearizer Program
Presenter: Tom M. Warms
Description:
In a number of publications I have described a method for tracing the execution of computer programs. A trace of a computer program is a written record of the effect of each of its statements. This method facilitates communication about programming languages and algorithms between the student and the instructor.
In this presentation, I will demonstrate the program called RandomLinearizer, which allows the user to construct traces using randomized elements that appear on the computer screen. I will also discuss how RandomLinearizer helps students and instructors in the process of learning introductory computer science courses.
Title: Tips and Techniques to Help You Use the Technology You Already Have
Presenter: Richard Herbst, Tina Frederick, Julie Lopez
Description:
Simplify tasks in and out of the classroom using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Smartboard, and the Internet. Shortcuts and other time saving techniques will be demonstrated and participants will have the opportunity to try these newly learned skills.
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