Thursday, January 13, 2011

Technology Conference

8:30 a.m.	Coffee and Rolls 8:30 – 9:00 (C005)
9:00 a.m.	Free for the Taking!  Using Open Content Web Sources in Your Class 9:00 – 10:00 (C005) Shari McCurdy Smith, Associate Director, Center for Online Learning Research and Service, University of Illinois, Springfield
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.	Tools and Techniques to Ease Workload for Online Instructors 10:15 – 11:00 (T326-8) Shari McCurdy Smith	Sustainability and Blackboard: Tips for a Paperless Class 10:15 – 11:00 (T124) Rory Klick	Get More, Faster with ILLiad 10:15 – 11:00 (T216) Anne Chernaik
10:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.	Challenges and Successes of Teaching Hybrid Classes 11:15 – 12:00 (T326-8) Shari McCurdy Smith	Lecture Capture: Making a Screen Capture Video with Camtasia Relay 11:15 – 12:00 (T341) Scott Rial	Helpful New Blackboard Tools:  SafeAssign and Respondus Lockdown 11:15 – 12:00 (T333) Russ Pearson
11:30 a.m.
12:00 p.m.	Open for lunch
12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m.	Online Faculty Roundtable Discussion 1:00 – 1:45 (T332) Page Wolf	Using Social Networking in the Classroom  1:00 – 1:45 (T323) Scott Cashman and Jim LeFager	Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies into Teaching 1:00 – 1:45 (T333) Olga Urban, Online Technologies Coordinator, Northern Illinois University
1:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m.	Online Faculty Showcase 2:00 – 2:45 (T326-8) Page Wolf	Featured Free Resources:  iTunes U  and Films on Demand 2:00 – 2:45 (T323) Scott Rial and Jim LeFager	Prezi: Move Beyond the Slides to Create Amazing Presentations 2:00 – 2:45 (T338) Olga Urban
2:30 p.m.

Technology Conference Descriptions

Technology Keynote

9:00 a.m.– 10:00 a.m.

Free for the Taking!  Using Open Content Web Sources in Your Class (C005)
Shari McCurdy Smith, Associate Director, Center for Online Learning Research and Service, University of Illinois, Springfield

World-wide, a cultural shift is taking place; this shift embraces collaboration over structured silos in everything from music to research. When content is open, the “re” revolution, as in reuse, revise, remix, and redistribution, advances ideas and activities.  This session will show how repositories and directories of open educational content bring innovation to your instruction and classrooms.

Technology Session 1

10:15 a.m.– 11:00 a.m.

Tools and Techniques to Ease Workload for Online Instructors (T326-8)
Shari McCurdy Smith, Associate Director, Center for Online Learning Research and Service, University of Illinois, Springfield

Time used to fly, now it “jets” by. No matter who you are or what you do, time is in short supply! If you teach online, this is especially true. This session will give you tips and tricks to save you time while maintaining quality in your online classroom.

Sustainability and Blackboard: Tips for a Paperless Class (T124)
Rory Klick, Instructor, Horticulture

This session will demonstrate helpful tips that allow you to effectively use Blackboard in place of having handouts and hardcopy documents…both for you and your students. You can “green” your class operations!

Get More, Faster with ILLiad (T216)
Anne Chernaik, Librarian, CLC Libraries and Instructional Services

Come check out ILLiad, a new and improved interlibrary loan system to improve service and get what you need faster. Learn about this web-based system that delivers electronic articles to your desktop and gives you the ability to initiate and track ILL requests every step of the way through your own ILLiad account. Users can submit and review requests, change profiles, renew items, and more from one single web-based interface.

Technology Session 2

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Challenges and Successes of Teaching Hybrid Classes (T326-8)
Shari McCurdy Smith, Associate Director, Center for Online Learning Research and Service, University of Illinois, Springfield

Finding the right mix of online and face to face for your classroom can be changing. This session offers pedagogy and practices for blended success. It will include the top seven questions you should consider when moving to an blended environment.

Lecture Capture: Making a Screen Capture Video with Camtasia Relay (T341)
Scott Rial, Director of Active Learning Technologies, Professional Development Center

Come and learn the easy process of capturing anything on the computer screen with accompanying audio in order to produce learning objects, lectures, or demonstrations. This workshop will cover how to use the new Camtasia Relay system in order to capture a video and post it in your course's Blackboard.

Helpful New Blackboard Tools: SafeAssign and Respondus Lockdown Browser (T333)
Russ Pearson, Coordinator of Course Management Systems & Training, Professional Development Center

If you have concerns about assessment online, whether its your tests and quizzes or your assignments, come take a look at these online tools.  SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard clients.  This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers.  In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.  The Respondus LockDown Browser™ is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit it for grading.

Technology Session 3

1:00 p.m.– 1:45 p.m.

Online Faculty Roundtable (T332)
Page Wolf, Coordinator of Faculty Development, Professional Development Center

This session provides you the opportunity to have open discussions with other CLC online faculty on a variety of topics related to online course design, instruction, and experiences.

Using Social Networking in the Classroom (T323)
Scott Cashman, Instructor, Social Sciences - Administration
Jim LeFager, Librarian, CLC Libraries and Instructional Services

Learn about how a social science instructor and a reference librarian are working together to incorporate Facebook into an “Intro to Cultural Anthropology” class. They will discuss the background as to how they decided to use social media, and experiences they’ve had along the way as they complete a second semester using this media.

Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies into Teaching (T333)

Olga Urban, Online Technologies Coordinator, Northern Illinois University

Many new, free web tools have emerged in the recent years that allow for new approaches to fostering interpersonal interaction in the online and blended learning environment. Many of these new Web 2.0 tools can be integrated into blogs, social networking applications as well the learning management system. This session with explore a variety of free Web 2.0 tools and discuss how they can be utilized in the classroom.

Technology Session 4

2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Online Faculty Showcase (T332)
Page Wolf, Coordinator of Faculty Development, Professional Development Center

What are other people doing with their online classes? Get a sneak peek into 3 different faculty members’ online courses as they explain how they chose to structure the course the way they did. This session will provide you the opportunity to gain new ideas that you could possibly use in your course.

Featured Free Resources: iTunes U and Films on Demand (T323)
Scott Rial, Director of Active Learning Technologies, Professional Development Center
Jim LeFager, Librarian, CLC Libraries and Instructional Services

This session will highlight some new free resources that are available to instructors to help elaborate on course content. iTunes U is a new resource that allows instructors to post video and audio content within the iTunes structure which allows students with iPods or iPhones to easily download or subscribe to course content. Films on Demand will let you search for online films in your discipline that can be embedded into your course and develop play lists so you can use them any time you’d like.

Prezi: Move Beyond the Slides to Create Amazing Presentations (T338)

Olga Urban, Online Technologies Coordinator, Northern Illinois University

If you want to move away from the sequential nature of slides, create and store your presentation content online, collaborate on your presentations with colleagues and share your presentations with students, consider exploring Prezi - an online platform-independent tool that allows creating interactive, collaborative and media-rich presentations. In this hands-on session we will create a Prezi and discuss the educational benefits and challenges this tool offers.