Presentation Sessions
Title: Live Stats, Forms, and Summaries
Presenter: Kevin Strunk
Description: All organizations want to prove their success with statistics. But who has time gather complete and accurate records of the job they are doing; while they are actually doing it? For the past year, I have done exactly that by bringing together three free technologies. After the initial set up, updating statistics was a matter of a few keystrokes, blending seamlessly within everyday activities and providing fantastic visual and numeric data. Complete your initial set up within this guided lab session, and emerge ready to gather needed information efficiently and effectively.
Title: Classroom to Clinic: Bridging the Gap Interactively
Presenter: Brenda Sue Martin and Susan Darlington
Description: Today’s high tech tools help health science educators better prepare their students in implementing didactic knowledge from the classroom to the clinic. Discover how instructors can utilize tools such as Softchalk, Podcasting, Voice Thread, Flip Videos, and Elluminate to enhance that knowledge transfer.
Title: Disruptive Technology in your Hands
Presenter: Kendall E. Martin
Description: Does the iPad open the door to a new model of education? To a new way of relating to computing devices? Or is it just another mobile gadget? Come investigate whether it is a tool that would have impact on your teaching and/or your students' learning.
Title: Leveraging Technology Strategies and Solutions in 2010 on a "Dime"
Presenter: Sheldon F. Wedemeyer III
Description: Diminishing budgets do not have to take the wind out of technology sails. Our goal is to provide secure, seamless access to data, applications and services. Let’s explore strategies and solutions that allow any time anywhere access.
Title: Cyberbullying Curriculum
Presenter: Kristen Swanson
Description: Are your upper elementary and middle school students facing issues with cyber bullying? Learn about three free sources for cyber bullying curriculum. Also preview the new digital cyber bullying curriculum as that the School District of Springfield Township has created.
Title: Enhanced Instruction ... Nspired Learning
Presenter: Doyt M Jones
Description: Participants will experience how TI-Nspire software enhances the learning environment for both teachers and students. Activities will explore concepts in algebra and a statistical model. Attendees will receive a single user license of the Nspire software. Nspire tools supports students with different learning styles and includes features that encourage interactive cause and effect explorations.
Title: Websites for Developmental Math We Absolutely Love!
Presenter: Diane Devanney and Brother Dominic Whetzel, O. deMare
Description: Ever heard of www.mathdork.com , www.jamit.com or www.toonuniversity.com? Fabulous websites exist for Developmental Math, but who has the time to find them? We did and we'll share them with you! We'll discuss how these websites facilitate student learning through both instructor-led activities and as a means of independent study. Using these websites, students work individually or in teams to bolster basic skills through fun activities such as games and puzzles. Workshop participants will experience a first-hand look at some of these websites and receive a handout listing all websites.
Title: Android Development
Presenter: Eric Johnson
Description: Ever wondered how mobile phone applications work? This is your chance to look behind the curtain. Follow along as we develop a mobile mapping application, one that you might use to navigate around a city and connect with friends. Android is one of the newest entries in the smart phone market, from Google. Get a brief but informative look at what it takes to do software development for the Android platform.
Title: Disruptive Technologies: Hey Don’t Put That Away!
Presenter: Julie M. Meyer
Description: We will review a series of past and present educational disruptive technologies. We will look at the current disruptive technologies students interact with and create strategies of how to educationally use those technologies instead of banning them. Then discuss future trends in disruptive technologies.
Title: Interdisciplinary Teaching—Creative Programming
Presenter: M.E. Jones, Ph.D.
Description: Seizing and retaining student interest in programming is a difficult task. Teaching introductory programming via creative writing connects writing a story to the programming process. Student pairings are assigned by matching a student with analytical tendencies with a student majoring in one of the humanities disciplines. They create a story and design/implement an animation using the Alice. This research recognizes the creative nature of programming, invites students who would not consider studying programming to potentially identify an unrecognized talent, and attempts to develop a new approach for teaching introductory programming. This research and teaching is sponsored by a NSF Grant.
Title: Blackboard 9: Information and Feedback
Presenter: Susan Hauck
Description: This demonstration of Blackboard 9.1 will introduce you to the newest version of Blackboard. Enhancements include drag and drop layout, new ways to add content, and Web 2.0 functionality including wikis and blogs.
Title: Play It Again, Sam
Presenter: Kendall E. Martin
Description: The latest versions of screen capture lecture recording software have some great advantages. It now is as simple as one click to record and deliver the lecture to your students in BBd and on their iTouch. And students can search for things you said or for text on a slide ... A New Day has Dawned for lecture capture!
Title: Keeping Technology in Balance
Presenter: Lucas Mergen
Description: As the world and education continue to become ever more wired and infused with technology lets step back and look at the bigger picture. This roundtable discussion will examine balancing appropriate technology use in our schools and our personal lives by considering the following questions: 1) What is lost because of technology and does it have value? 2) What are the negative effects of using technology? and especially 3) What can be done to mitigate the losses and negative effects of technology?
Title: New Mobile Pedigogy—iPad and iPod in the Classroom
Presenter: Jon Landis
Description: The New Mobile Pedagogy—iPad and iPod in the Classroom Mobile pedagogy represents a fundamental shift in content access and the role of the traditional classroom. Today's presentation isn't about trendy technology fads or the latest gadgets ... this is about facing the challenges and maximizing the possibilities of a connected world. In addition to exploring the dynamics of this new educational paradigm, we will examine the practical implementation strategies, hardware, and support necessary to improve learning opportunity. This session has three parts:
The Why—Do mobile devices like the iPad and iPhone have a place in the learning experience?
The How—How does a mobility-rich environment work?
The What—What are current colleges and universities doing as a part of the mobility revolution?
Title: Are You Connected? The Future of Collaboration in Higher Education
Presenter: Marilyn Puchalski and Michael Knight
Description: Did you know that over 50,000 schools, colleges and universities, libraries, museums, zoos, aquariums, and other cultural organizations across the US are connected with each other and thousands of institutions around the world via the next-generation Internet? Did you know that Pennsylvania was just awarded $99.6 million to build a state-of-the-art research and education network? What does this mean for teaching and learning in the college classroom? Join us for this panel discussion that will explore how educators can take advantage of these connections to create authentic, international, project-based and student-centered learning experiences. Participants will understand what teaching and learning opportunities are available to them through advanced networks. Participants will learn how Pennsylvania colleges are taking advantage of their advanced network connectivity through international, project-based and student-centered learning activities. Participants will identify opportunities for future collaboration utilizing advanced networks.
Title: Canvas: Advanced LMS to Advance Education
Presenter: Mark Blosil
Description: Canvas has broken away from the legacy platforms of the past by advancing Learning Management to a whole new level. With the focus on usability, Canvas is simple to use, but incorporates powerful technology—technology that supports the learning environment, not interfering with it.
Title: NBC in your Classroom!
Presenter: Jodi Empol-Schwartz
Description: NBC News Archives on Demand contains thousands of professionally made multimedia videos you can now share with your students. The videos provide critical analysis and mini-documentaries covering topics across academic disciplines. Come to this session to find out how the NBC News building block within Blackboard gives you a quick and easy way to embed these videos in your Blackboard course site.
Title: DCA Participants Share their iTunes U Experiences
Presenter: DCA Members
Description: The Digital Campus Academy (DCA) is a hands-on, project-based, faculty development program designed to provide MCCC faculty with practical and immediately useable skills and knowledge. Join members of The Digital Campus Academy as they discuss their experiences learning to use an Apple MacBook Pro, watch demonstrations of their projects, and learn how they are engaging their students.
Title: Windows 7 and Office 2010: Ready to Roll
Presenter: Corinne Hoisington
Description: Let's kick it up to the next level with the next version of Windows 7 and Office 2010. See for yourself the rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work—whether you’re on a computer on campus or at home, Web browser, or Smartphone with Office. Wait until the students see the new enhanced tools like the backstage area, screen clipping tool, the slicer, customizable templates, and photo editing capabilities well beyond the last version. Finally we can teach a real work environment that allows multiple people from different locations to work together at the exact same time using new collaboration capabilities.
Title: Data Security—What can I do to protect and secure sensitive confidential data?
Presenter: Bob Bocchino
Description: How does a Data Breach affect your institution and what are the costs? What are you doing to secure your data? How do you mask or hide sensitive data like SSN&Ts when moving data to test environments? In your production environment—how are you protecting data in transit and at rest? Find out what Oracle is doing to bring peace of mind to its Higher Education customers around security.
Title: Tips and Techniques to Help You Use the Technology You Already Have
Presenter: Richard Herbst, Tina Frederick, and 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.
