Would you like to be more proficient with Access 2007? Come explore the features covered by the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam. This lab starts with 15 minutes of lecture to explain the certification process followed by 45 minutes of hands-on demonstrations. Participants should be familiar with Access 2007 and be ready to learn more!

Debora Collins, Consultant
Training
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 C, Upper Level

Would you like to be more proficient with Excel 2007? Come explore the features covered by the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam. This lab starts with 15 minutes of lecture to explain the certification process followed by 45 minutes of hands-on demonstrations. Participants should be familiar with Excel 2007 and be ready to learn more!

Debora Collins, Consultant
Training
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 C, Upper Level

Would you like to be more proficient with Outlook 2007? Come explore the features covered by the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam. This lab starts with 15 minutes of lecture to explain the certification process followed by 45 minutes of hands-on demonstrations. Participants should be familiar with Outlook 2007 and be ready to learn more!

Debora Collins, Consultant
Training
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 C, Upper Level

Would you like to be more proficient with PowerPoint 2007? Come explore the features covered by the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam. This lab starts with 15 minutes of lecture to explain the certification process followed by 45 minutes of hands-on demonstrations. Participants should be familiar with PowerPoint 2007 and be ready to learn more!

Debora Collins, Consultant
Training
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 C, Upper Level

Would you like to be more proficient with Vista 2007? Come explore the features covered by the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam. This lab starts with 15 minutes of lecture to explain the certification process followed by 45 minutes of hands-on demonstrations. Participants should be familiar with Vista 2007 and be ready to learn more!

Debora Collins, Consultant
Training
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 C, Upper Level

Would you like to be more proficient with Word 2007? Come explore the features covered by the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam. This lab starts with 15 minutes of lecture to explain the certification process followed by 45 minutes of hands-on demonstrations. Participants should be familiar with Word 2007 and be ready to learn more!

Debora Collins, Consultant
Training
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 C, Upper Level

The practical world of creating, grading, and analyzing objective tests is time consuming, cumbersome, and prone to errors. It is time to bring test banks, scanning, grading, and outcomes assessment into the 21st century. Bring your frustrations and experiences with objective tests to this conversation. Learn about ProphQuest, a public experimental project to create a Web 2.0 social network designed by professors to help professors save time while improving outcomes.

James Luke, Professor
Social Science
Lansing Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Participants learn how to incorporate Second Life into various teaching and learning formats, including face-toface, online, and blended courses. Participants journey to Kirkwood Community College’s island and discuss student engagement in the virtual world. This session will interest faculty members looking for new ways to reach students, administrators looking to invest in new technologies, and technology trainers who want to help students and faculty explore best practices in the virtual world.

Jed Peterson, Assistant Professor
Distance Learning
Kirkwood Community College
Alan Peterka, Coordinator and Instructional Designer
Distance Learning
Kirkwood Community College


Forum Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

iPods, PDAs, and MP3 players are very popular, but they do not compare to the over one billion cell phones sold in 2007. Course participants learn where to find and use effective learning activities that work well with cell phones and leave with ideas about how to use them in their courses. After a brief review of mobile learning, the focus shifts to different types of activities that work effectively with cell phones (i.e. QRCodes, blogging, chatting, IMing, photos, virtual field trips, digital storytelling, annotation, geotagging). Participants visit websites that provide tools and services for these activities and learn how to use them for effective instruction. Participants also have access to a wiki where resources and tutorials are stored. This course is for anyone interested in immediately integrating mobile learning into their course. Bring your cell phone!

Debi McGuire, Director
Distance Learning and Professional Development
Wilkes Community College


Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Today’s students work, live, and learn in a digital world, and in turn, their learning environments need to meet their technology expectations. As a result, some higher education institutions have turned to offering software in the cloud. During this session, the presenters discuss what working in cloud means and the advantages of working in the cloud.

Jeff Keltner, Business Development Associate
Enterprise - Edu
Google
Morgan Magilligan, Communications
Google Applications Collaboration
Google


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Explored during this session are the current activities of community and technical colleges using Second Life. Participants tour a variety of community college learning spaces in Second Life and explore the benefits of teaching in virtual worlds. Highlighted are specific challenges faced by community colleges using this medium. Community college faculty members and instructional design professionals discuss their vision for the future of education in the virtual space.

Denise Cote, Librarian
College of DuPage


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

Participants learn how to create idea maps, concept maps, and organizational maps, as well as how to automatically build a multimedia presentation or website from their maps. The purpose is to show how, through the use of mind maps, you can help facilitate students’ analytical thinking, comprehension, creativity, and writing across the curriculum. MatchWare’s Mind Mapping Visualization tool allows students and teachers to rapidly visualize, organize, and implement ideas and export them to HTML or Word, or as an interactive timeline.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Hands-On Lab
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

Creating a connection to campus can engage your students and increase their satisfaction. Today’s students search for information online, connect with their friends and family on social networking websites, and live much of their lives connected to the internet. Participants learn strategies for connecting online with today’s students, best practices for structuring online services, and ways to increase online community. Tools examined include social networking, virtual environments, YouTube, wikis, podcasts, blogs, and online student unions.

Landon Pirius, Interim Dean
Student Services
Inver Hills Community College


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Web 2.0 may seem like hype if you work too hard for too little effect. You can blog more efficiently, publish more seamlessly, and add multimedia rapidly. You just have to know how. There are thousands of incredible tools, tricks, and resources out there to make your Web 2.0 experiences more innovative, efficient, and fun. Do you know of some? We do! During this session, participants share and demonstrate favorite Web 2.0 tools, tricks, and resources.

Adam Brooks, Developer
Instruction and E-Learning
Central Piedmont Community College
Charles Henion, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Explore an online course by viewing the actual course preparation, live web office hour, and teacher-made movies. Participants experience a live online web session with students in California using NetTutor and leave with strategies and tools to create links in Blackboard to improve student retention. Learn how easy it can be to capture live experiences and make your class as personal as possible.

Charles Sorcabal, Professor
Mathematics
Mt. San Antonio College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

The presenter addresses how Brevard Community College provides students the ability to access rich-media content anywhere, anytime, and on any device to foster greater retention, comprehension, and success. Using the Echo360 lecture capture solution, instructors can instantly capture and publish any or all aspects of a classroom lecture for immediate web-based, interactive, rich-media playback. This session describes implementation, project outcomes, and future enhancements and should interest faculty, support staff, and administrators.

Jayne Gorham, Associate Provost
Workforce Programs
Brevard Community College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Social networking has taken hold and become pervasive. Now you can use it to your advantage by creating your own custom applications to help your online courses. Imagine the creative things you can do. This session teaches you how to create custom applications for Facebook. It is recommended that you have a Facebook account before participating.

Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College


Hands-On Lab
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

This course covers how to identify good online content and courses, how to find and use good learning objects and courses, and how to develop and share high-quality teaching and learning content with colleagues around the world. Participants also learn about how they can participate in the open education resources (OER) movement to increase quality and access to knowledge worldwide. Participants explore various guidelines for making quality learning content, share examples of effective learning objects, and discuss what makes them effective instructional tools. Also explored are the importance of creating and using metadata with learning objects.

Ruth Rominger, Director
Learning Design
National Repository of Online Courses


Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 D, Upper Level

Simple cybernetic entities can be available to talk to students 24/7. Participants learn how to use online bots in online courses and virtual reality simulations to assist students in their course work, help identify otherwise unanticipated problems with courses, and get to know students better.

John Wolff, Professor
Humanities
West Shore Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Digital storytelling is using digital media to create, record, and share stories. VoiceThread can help people do all that and more. Are you looking for a new way to engage your students in writing or want a different way for your students to collaborate? Come learn what VoiceThread is and how and why to use it. Session participants should bring with them photographs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, or PDFs they would like to use in a VoiceThread.

Debi McGuire, Director
Distance Learning and Professional Development
Wilkes Community College


Hands-On Lab
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 D, Upper Level

Digital storytelling is using the tools of digital media to create, record, and share stories. VoiceThread is one tool that can help people do all that and more. Are you looking for a new way to engage your students in writing or a different way for your students to collaborate? Come learn what VoiceThread is and how to use it.

Debi McGuire, Director
Distance Learning and Professional Development
Wilkes Community College


Hands-On Lab
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 E, Upper Level

Facebook is changing the way our students connect on the internet, but while many students are riding the Facebook train, most community college faculty have yet to arrive at the station. This powerful social networking website allows students to connect with their classmates, get help on their homework, and build their own personal learning network. Thanks to the tools of Web 2.0, students can photo tag each other, share online resources, and maintain their own discussion boards.

Amy Brown, Director
E-Learning
Guilford Technical Community College


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

This session will be ideal for faculty and staff who are intrigued by the read-write web (Web 2.0), but haven’t been able to move beyond Gmail or Google docs. The session clarifies what Web 2.0 resources work best in an educational setting and helps participants gain the knowledge and experience needed to take learning into the 21st century. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops to this session.

Dwayne Harapniuk,
Lethbridge College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

Blessed by resources from NASA, Little Big Horn College was able to develop and implement a robotics programming course. Come explore the advantages of this hands-on approach to programming. Actual students demonstrate different programming languages at multiple levels. Participants gain an understanding of the variety of skills used in creating and operating robots. Several different types of robots are demonstrated and comparisons provided about cost and difficulty level.

Linda Brown, Instructor
Computer Science
Little Big Horn College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Artificial Life (ALife) is a new discipline that studies natural life by recreating biological phenomena from scratch within computers and other artificial media. During this presentation, participants learn about the principles of ALife, create simple programs that demonstrate ALife, and use Visual Studio to view ALife creations. These materials can be used to explore the edge of life, intelligence, and computing.

Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College


Hands-On Lab
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

Learn how American InterContinental University (AIU) Online uses social networking and mobile applications to engage students and build community. While Facebook and MySpace create student networks outside traditional campuses, AIU Online uses a proprietary virtual social network to serve the needs of students, faculty, and alumni. Data presented demonstrate the impact of social networks on student satisfaction and retention. Also explored is a mobile application that allows students to connect to the virtual campus through mobile devices.

Alan Drimmer,
Marketing
American InterContinental University


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Learn to create Flash websites in minutes with interactive navigation, object animation, and much more. Mediator 9 is an icon-based authoring tool that lets you drag-and-drop your way to interactive websites. No programming or experience is necessary to create Flash presentations and multimedia CD-ROMs. The tool is easy to use, with oneclick exports to Flash and HTML, auto-run CD-ROMs, and automated FTP upload. With Mediator 9, faculty can focus on content rather than technology.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

The presenters explore the impact that 3D virtual realities can have on learning. Topics explored include pursuing understanding of virtual classrooms and virtual campuses, engaging in the uniqueness of the classroom experience, moving beyond the virtual classroom, preparing for the future. Also discussed are preparing staff and students for engaging in 3D virtual classroom settings, exploring classroom best practice, students finding community online, and online campus security issues.

John Ewing,
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 C, Lower Level

What impact do Web 2.0 technologies have on faculty development? Harnessing these technologies may be one challenge. From the perspective of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and social bookmarking has the potential to radically transform the landscape of professional development. Educators involved in teaching, learning, and faculty development discuss real-world examples of these technologies and see their uses in teaching, learning, and faculty development.

David Peter, Dean
Learning Resources
Vincennes University


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

The dominant paradigm for learning management systems for over ten years has been the single course management system (CMS) as typified by WebCT, Blackboard, Moodle, and Angel. With the emergence of Web 2.0 applications and services such as Google apps, YouTube, Drupal, and others, does the single CMS still make sense? What does the future of online learning look like as Web 2.0 expands? Join the conversation and bring your futuristic thoughts, hopes, and visions.

James Luke, Professor
Social Science
Lansing Community College


Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Come learn to use GoogleDocs, an amazing, free toolset for learners. Create and edit documents simultaneously over the web. Google offers a suite of tools that help faculty and students develop projects and manage documents anytime, anywhere, from any computer. This session will benefit anyone who shares documents, meaning you!

D.I. von Briesen, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College
Page Jones, Dean
Information Technology
Craven Community College


Hands-On Lab
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Colleges and universities spend significant sums—dollars and personnel time—in their efforts to address inappropriate or illegal P2P activity on campus networks. This session presents the results of a new national survey about the institutional costs of dealing with P2P-related concerns.

Kenneth Green, Director
The Campus Computing Project


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

For four years, the Center for Digital Education’s Digital Community Colleges survey has celebrated institutional improvisation by America’s community colleges. Join us for a behind the scenes look at this year’s survey. During this interactive session, participants share campus technology success stories and strategies.

Marina Leight, Vice President
Education
Center for Digital Education


Special Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
250 C, Upper Level

Learn how the presenter’s event management class set up a Wiki to collaborate on the college’s prom expo event. Demonstrated are how easy it is to set up this free Web 2.0 technology and how faculty can measure student participation and stay apprised about additions and deletions to the Wiki content. Time permitting, participants also compare and contrast similar available technologies considered for past and future events.

Marcus Lacher, Instructor
Administrative Services
Minnesota State Community and Technical College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Come sample one of the newest additions to the Microsoft Office suite, one that can make your distance learning classes more exciting and engaging for the student. Discover how students use chat and the discussion boards and how faculty use the included tools to conduct virtual office hours and accept assignment submissions. See how you can replace your LMS’s file uploading feature with a simple drag-and-drop tool that has an interface similar to Windows Explorer. This hands-on session will be a real eye opener and will show you new ways to use this product to benefit both yourself and your students.

Philip Vavalides, Professor
Information Technology
Guilford Technical Community College


Hands-On Lab
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 E, Upper Level

In an online or hybrid class, students are more apt to become active learners and achieve stated student learning outcomes when the content is provided in varied formats and presented from different perspectives. During this session, presenters demonstrate the seamless integration of curriculum-aligned streaming video clips into online classes using the INTELECOM Online Resources Network, a multidisciplinary digital content repository and videostreaming videostreaming service. The presentation will demonstrate the functionality of the repository. Participants learn how to embed links into video clips within their own online classes and use the content to engage students.

Cameron Cox, Vice President
Marketing
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications
Cheryl Chapman, Intructional Designer
Instructional Design
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications


Forum Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
250 F, Upper Level

Web 2.0 tools have exploded in popularity. Students often use YouTube, Wikipedia, and their favorite blogs and podcasts as their primary sources of information. These Web 2.0-driven technologies are quickly making mainstream media and traditional sources of information less relevant. The presenters describe how to transform online education from a static one-way model into a dynamic interactive model that engages and empowers students and faculty to create and share content.

Michael Qaissaunee, Professor
Engineering and Technology
Brookdale Community College
Norah Kerr McCurry, Director
Teaching and Learning Center
Brookdale Community College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Join us for a colleague to colleague discussion focused on iStream and its many uses. As the League for Innovation’s leading web-based professional development and information resource, iStream serves faculty, administrators, and students with the latest information, ideas, and e-learning content. Whether you are interested in hosting a miniconference at your college, accessing resources for leadership and faculty training, or attending free educational webinars, iStream and this session are for you.

Christopher Daniel, Associate Dean
Survey and Mapping
Big Sandy Community and Technical College - KCTCS


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

IT going green can be more than just powering down equipment; IT can play a substantive role in campus sustainability issues. Learn about best practices involving IT’s role in college green plans. The results of a national survey of CIOs about current projects on sustainability and the development of a Green IT Campus Model are discussed. Participants are invited to take part in the Green IT Campus Model Wiki.

Jeffrey Bartkovich, Vice President
Educational Technology Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Marie Fetzner, Assistant to the Vice President
Educational Technology Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Participants learn how to construct a personalized multimedia presentation using Mediator 9 and export the presentation as a Flash or HTML website or as an interactive auto-run CD-ROM. Participants learn about the program’s features and its export formats and experience the satisfaction of creating a cutting-edge multimedia presentation in minutes instead of hours.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Hands-On Lab
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

In the spring of 2002, LaGuardia Community College (LCC) constructed four smart classrooms to evaluate their effect on faculty instruction. The pilot was an immediate success and LCC soon committed to converting all classrooms by the end of 2009. To date, 70 classrooms have been converted. Based on LCC’s experience, this session informs faculty, staff, and administrators about the technical, logistical, and administrative challenges involved in moving from traditional to smart classrooms.

R. Theresia Litvay-Sardou, Director
Instructional Services
LaGuardia Community College - CUNY
Michael Johnson, Associate Director
Instructional Services
LaGuardia Community College - CUNY


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Get an inside look at Digication’s Assessment Management Systems (AMS) and e-Portfolios. This flexible web-based assessment solution supports institutional tracking, comparing, and reporting on student progress and performance. Faculty and administrators, see how you can now easily assess a class, department, or institution based on standards, goals, or objectives.

Dan Bergeron, Vice President
Business Development
Digication, Inc.


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

During this session, participants have the opportunity to take Certiport certification exams in Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, Microsoft Office Specialist, Adobe Certified Associate, and Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3).

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

Mind maps help facilitate students’ analytical thinking, comprehension, creativity, and writing skills across the curriculum. Improve reading and writing skills by creating mind maps that increase retention, comprehension, and the organization of main ideas. Include images, text, videos, and hyperlinks. Come learn how to create professional interactive timelines and export to Word, PowerPoint, HTML, and Mediator.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

If well designed, the use of games in the classroom can be more than just fun; it can enhance learning by engaging students. Montgomery County Community College supports the integration of games into the curriculum with a number of applications and programs. SoftChalk lesson builder has been used to create online games. Gameshow prep can be used to create game shows in TV-style formats and Second Life for a MUVE game-like environment.

Susan Hauck, Dean
Flexible Learning Options and Technology
Community College of Philadelphia
Kathryn Ishler, Instructional Technology Specialist
Instructional Technology
Montgomery County Community College
Susan Darlington, Instructional Designer
Information Technology
Montgomery County Community College


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Monroe Community College established a presence in Second Life by creating and sharing an island with educators throughout the SUNY system and the League for Innovation. The initial six-month multicampus experience focused on exploring and sharing possible uses of virtual worlds. The emphasis has now shifted to engaging students in Second Life through projects, activities, and experiences. Presenters share activities and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Discussed are student support, orientation, and other lessons learned.

Terrance Keys, Assistant Vice President
Instructional Technologies
Monroe Community College - SUNY
David Shaw, Associate Professor
Visual and Performing Arts
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Larry Dugan, Director
Learning Environments
Finger Lakes Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Certiport prepares individuals with current and relevant digital skills and credentials for the competitive global workforce. During this session, participants preview new developments from Certiport including the exciting new Adobe Certified Associate program, the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program (Office 2007) and recent developments with the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3). Certiport certifications are currently delivered by more than 12,000 Certiport centers worldwide.

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

Certiport prepares individuals with current and relevant digital skills and credentials for the competitive global workforce. During this session, participants preview new developments from Certiport including the exciting new Adobe Certified Associate program, the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program (Office 2007) and recent developments with the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3). Certiport certifications are currently delivered by more than 12,000 Certiport centers worldwide.

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

Certiport prepares individuals with current and relevant digital skills and credentials for the competitive global workforce. During this session, participants preview new developments from Certiport including the exciting new Adobe Certified Associate program, the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program (Office 2007), and recent developments with the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3). Certiport certifications are currently delivered by more than 12,000 Certiport centers worldwide.

Denise Ferrell, North American Manager
Marketing
Certiport


Hands-On Lab
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 F, Upper Level

The call for greater accountability has generated high standards for the processes of documentation and measurement. Institutions seek tools to assist in the work of accountability and must make choices that can sustain the work across years. TaskStream’s Accountability Management System (AMS) and Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) are of interest to administrators and faculty as a resource for an institution’s accountability, outcomes assessment, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Linda Heiland, Specialist
Implementation Support
TaskStream
Colleen Arrey, Specialist
Implementation
TaskStream


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 D, Lower Level

This presentation, made by a practitioner of artificial intelligence (AI) and researcher in the field of cognitive computing, explores the current state of AI and where it isheaded. Philosophical issues related to AI are examined, astounding new advances are demonstrated, and overviews of AI programming techniques are shown. Participants learn how to create smart programs with Visual C++ and C#. Techniques shown include fuzzy logic, neural networks, and binary searches.

Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College


Hands-On Lab
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Play can be a powerful tool for learning and electronic games can be a powerful tool to engage students. Combine the two and you have a potentially potent instrument for encouraging active learning. Participants learn how educators have used commercially available games in the classroom to engage students. In addition, participants discover ways to facilitate learning using commercial games, strategies for encouraging reflective learning, and possible projects to summarize the student learning experience.

Landon Pirius, Interim Dean
Student Services
Inver Hills Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Any technogeek can podcast. But how can you get the entire faculty podcasting so that students move to an incredibly high level of achievement? The answer: with software that streamlines the process. Come see how to get faculty to easily podcast their classroom materials. Proprietary software written by a software engineer is demonstrated and provided free of charge. Many colleges use this software. Get on board and move into the 21st century!

Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College


Hands-On Lab
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Participants experience how students and faculty can easily create and share podcasts for academic pursuits. During this podcasting session, there won’t be an Apple computer in sight! If you are a Windows user, come learn how to use free and user-friendly software. By the end of this session, you’ll be ready to create and publish your own podcasts. Session participants create podcasts and submit them to win an mp3 player.

Barry Dahl, Vice President
Lake Superior Connect
Lake Superior College


Forum Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

This session provides instructors with the very latest in practical, hands-on teaching tips with an eye toward achieving a truly interactive writing pedagogy. Designed for faculty from any field—especially those who assess student learning through one or more writing assignment—instructors can expect to leave the workshop with innovative ideas, lessons, and activities about teaching, assessing, and evaluating the writing process using Turnitin’s WriteCycle Suite.

Renee Bangerter, Instructor
English
Fullerton College


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 D, Lower Level

Do you need to develop a complete online course, highlight a specific concept, or add more interactivity to existing online courses? Now there’s a solution that helps you and your students. Test-drive CourseConnect, the e-learning solution you’ve been looking for. Participants interact with lesson presentations, podcasts, assignments and assessments, self-study quizzes, tutorials, and animations in an applied learning environment, and gain new knowledge about an e-learning solution that can enrich their course offerings.

Erik Styles, Director
Marketing
Pearson


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

This session provides faculty with the same level of sophistication possessed by many of our students. Many students have been using Next Generation gaming systems (e.g. Xbox 360, Playstation 3) to create and exchange incredibly detailed 3D maps, environments, and films. The presenters provide ways to make the most of student use of gaming systems as part of assessment and teaching strategies.

Kendall Martin, Associate Professor
Computer Science
Montgomery County Community College


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Discussed are information and communication technology power users, defined as youth who learn, play, and interact in virtual global communities. Selfdirected as learners and advanced in ways beyond sophisticated technology skills, they have internalized the logic of computer systems. In addition, their collaborative learning styles are foreign to many traditionally trained educators. These new learners empowered with technology offer exciting opportunities and distinct challenges to educators. This session examines curriculum and pedagogical implications for colleges and offers strategies for reaching and teaching the new learner empowered by and experienced with information and communication technology.

Joyce Malyn-Smith, Principal Investigator
Nsf Project: The Social Media Enabled Technician
Education Development Center


Special Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
250 C, Upper Level

Traditionally, web browsing on mobile devices has been clumsy and unsatisfying. The iPhone has changed all of that, providing a web-browsing experience that approaches the desktop computer experience. Likewise, the Amazon Kindle has created a platform for e-books that is simple, intuitive, and satisfying to the user. Discussed is how these two devices, along with the iPhone software development kit, will forever transform mobile teaching and learning.

Michael Qaissaunee, Professor
Engineering and Technology
Brookdale Community College
Gordon Snyder, Director
National Ict Center
Springfield Technical Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

The session introduces participants to three new Moodle modules for humanities courses that are currently under development by West Shore Community College. The modules include a literary annotation module, a cartographic annotation module, and a philosophy module that relies on the Sloodle (Second Life + Moodle) hybrid technology.

John Wolff, Professor
Humanities
West Shore Community College
Chris Potter, Technician
Information Technology
West Shore Community College
Matt Sanderson,
Art and Philosophy
West Shore Community College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

This session provides practical, step-by-step guidelines for incorporating virtual world technology into a variety of disciplines. The experiences of faculty members who for many years have used educational and commercial virtual world technology serve as the basis for a model that includes such points as thematic consistency, support systems, and appropriate activities. Participants discuss faculty collaboration, media integration, and the step-bystep model for using educational and commercial virtual worlds in community college education.

Dona Cady, Professor
Humanities
Middlesex Community College - MA
Matthew Olson, Director
Middlesex Interactive
Center for Community College Student Engagement


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

It takes the right tools to build a strong distance learning program. During this session, distance learning educators learn about the tools available at eLearningToolBox.com. In the toolbox is information about FacultyFinder.com, Readiness for Education at a Distance Indicator (READI), PostCourse.com, QualityCourseRecognition.com, TestProctors.com, AudioAssessment.com, and others.

Tara Boozer, Account Manager
Accounts
SmarterServices


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 B, Lower Level

Participants learn how to get the entire faculty to work with students on a class project. Students perform statistical analysis on data collected about faculty and store it in various applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, and web pages. Student performance statistics and sample student work are presented.

Savitha Pinnepalli, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
River Parishes Community College


Roundtable Discussion
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Creating games has traditionally been difficult, but with the XNA Game Development System, even beginning programming students can write them. This presentation takes you step-by-step through the process and provides a framework with which you can introduce game development in your classes.

Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

Clickers are growing in popularity for good reason. How do clickers make instruction, assessment, and learning more dynamic? Learn effective ways to use clickers, the issues encountered, and the differences among clicker systems. This hands-on session provides opportunities to experience various pedagogical practices in classroom situations using Qwizdom clickers. Participants are encouraged to describe situations where clickers have been used at their college.

Brock Carothers, Sales Representative
Marketing
Qwizdom, Inc.


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Red Rocks Community College is the first community college with a Microsoft IT Academy Program to pilot the new Microsoft Official Distance Learning online virtual classroom. Learn how to use Microsoft Live Meeting to set up synchronous virtual classrooms, assess student learning, and interact with students using voice and video. Participants upload a PowerPoint presentation, use annotation tools, develop assessment questions, and discuss how to deliver IT education and Microsoft certification training as a Microsoft IT Academy.

Christie Burton, Faculty
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Red Rocks Community College is the first community college with a Microsoft IT Academy Program to pilot the new Microsoft Official Distance Learning online virtual classroom. Learn how to use Microsoft Live Meeting to set up synchronous virtual classrooms, assess student learning, and interact with students using voice and video. Participants upload a PowerPoint presentation, use annotation tools, develop assessment questions, and discuss how to deliver IT education and Microsoft certification training as a Microsoft IT Academy.

Christie Burton, Faculty
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Through a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education grant, the IT Across Careers (ITAC) project offers resources for teaching and assessing basic IT skills through authentic workplace problem scenarios designed to cultivate students’ workplace readiness and higher order thinking skills. Using ITAC resources can support outcomes-based curriculum models and provide evidence of student learning aligned to skills standards. During this course, participants learn how to customize and adapt materials from the web-based resource library using ITAC’s dynamic curriculum generator. Covered during the course are a brief overview of the ITAC project; ITAC resources; using rubrics to assess basic IT user skills; realworld examples of how IT is used across various careers and industry sectors; and authentic, problem-based scenarios that integrate IT and course content.

Linda Scott,
Education Development Center
Joyce Malyn-Smith, Principal Investigator
Nsf Project: The Social Media Enabled Technician
Education Development Center


Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Engage and motivate your students’ development of basic IT skills using authentic workplace scenarios that seamlessly integrate IT and program content. This session features theNational Science Foundation funded IT Across Careers (ITAC) Project’s web-based library of resources and materials, including robust examples of how IT is used in different careers, problem-based scenarios, lesson templates, and rubrics to assess basic IT user skills. ITAC materials support learner-centered learning and assessment and easily adapt to all programs of study.

Linda Scott,
Education Development Center
Joyce Malyn-Smith, Principal Investigator
Nsf Project: The Social Media Enabled Technician
Education Development Center


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

Participants gain valuable hands-on experience with several new, free, and web-based communications applications that can be used inside any virtual learning environment (VLE). These services are particularly useful in education because of their special emphasis on collaboration and social networking. Used during the course is Desire2Learn, but the principles apply equally well to other VLEs (i.e. Blackboard, Angel, Moodle). Explored during this course are the use of video, music playlists, photos, wikis, instant messaging, social bookmarking, Twitter, web office, RSS, and more. Participants engage in online collaborative activities during the course that simulate projects they could assign to their students.

Barry Dahl, Vice President
Lake Superior Connect
Lake Superior College


Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

Teaching information technology online, particularly computer networking, is a challenge due to the complexity of the topic, hardware costs and software requirements, and rapid changes in the profession. Currently, several techniques are used to provide hands-on experiences to online computer networking learners, including remote labs, simulation software, and virtual labs. Participants discuss these methods from the learner’s perspective. The results of a survey of learners using these techniques are discussed.

Jack Krichen,
Capella University
Hilmi Lahoud, Adjunct Faculty
E-Learning
Capella University


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Learn how application delivery infrastructure virtualizes the computer lab and provides anytime, anywhere, secure access to applications for more students. Virtualization experts from Citrix explain how application delivery infrastructure also helps community colleges address key initiatives like green IT, remote access, mobile computing, and information security.

Tushar Mutreja, Senior Business Development Manager
Education
Citrix Systems, Inc.


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
250 F, Upper Level

ProphWare is an early-stage, nonprofit project aimed at helping professors save time on day-today tasks like creating tests, grading, selecting textbooks, designing lectures, archival storage, and continuous improvement. The project involves a professorto- professor social network so professors teaching the same subjects can share information regardless of where they teach. Learn more about this exciting project, how it can help you, and how you can be part of it.

James Luke, Professor
Social Science
Lansing Community College


Roundtable Discussion
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Two colleges share how their students, faculty, and staff became proficient users of Web 2.0 and other technologies thanks to web-based tutorials from Atomic Learning. Participants learn how to use short, focused tutorials to teach users how to blog, produce podcasts, and collaborate using a Wiki; support online learners and ESL students; and provide additional help desk support. This session provides tips and ideas for using tutorials to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into your campus.

Kimberley Conley, Chief Information Technology Officer
Henderson Community College - KCTCS


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

With the rapid growth and acceptance of Web 2.0, today educators are faced with the evergrowing challenge of identifying academicdishonesty. During this session, presenters pose and discuss the question of whether these technologies blur the line between collusion and collaboration. Furthermore, embracing collaboration and focusing on the strengths of Net Generation students are discussed. This session is particularly useful for distance learning faculty and course designers.

Brett Millan, Faculty
English
South Texas College
Rebecca Millan, Faculty
English
South Texas College


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Come join a conversation about how we strategically leverage this thing called Web 2.0. What is it? How is it used in teaching and learning? How are colleges leveraging it for recruitment, retention, and engagement? We’ll explore the perils—significant privacy and liability challenges— and possibilities—deep engagement and expanded reach. And, in true Web 2.0 fashion, you’ll play a part in framing and continuing the conversation!

John O'Brien, President
North Hennepin Community College
Barry Dahl, Vice President
Lake Superior Connect
Lake Superior College


Special Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
250 C, Upper Level

This session introduces participants to a top ten list of webbased tools that can be used for collaboration in face-to-face or online courses. Participants discuss what the tools are and how to use them. A wiki is provided that has additional resources and tutorials so participants can refer to it after the conference.

Debi McGuire, Director
Distance Learning and Professional Development
Wilkes Community College


Hands-On Lab
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

Come learn how Henderson Community College (HCC) is preparing students and staff with the technology skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century. Although teaching technology can be difficult, HCC empowers faculty, staff, and students by providing resources to help them excel in technology, including just-in-time learning from Atomic Learning. Everyone, from students to administrators, has seen the benefits.

Kimberley Conley, Chief Information Technology Officer
Henderson Community College - KCTCS


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

This session introduces participants to the presenter’s personal top ten web-based tools used to create slideshows, presentations, and internet web hunts. What the tools are and how to use them are discussed.

Debi McGuire, Director
Distance Learning and Professional Development
Wilkes Community College


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

This presentation reviews Learning Impact, an annual program in which innovations in academic technology are evaluated by their impact on key institutional challenges such as access, cost, and quality. Institutional leaders discuss the latest uses of technology that support learning and provide for the greatest institutional return on investment.

Rob Abel, CEO
IMS Global Learning Consortium


Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 B, Lower Level

The gaps between students and faculty members’ use of technology have widened, and the volume of tools available has overwhelmed faculty members, students, and support staff. Session participants explore strategies and planning mechanisms to effectively select and manage the myriad of emerging technologies that have emerged in the past five years.

Veronica Diaz, Associate Director
Educause Learning Initiative
EDUCAUSE/ELI


Special Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
250 C, Upper Level

Discover how easy it is to create three-dimensional objects using SketchUp, which is excellent for conceptual visualization. Think of it as a digital version of paper and pencil. This easy, intuitive program simplifies 3D design and allows for creating sophisticated models and renderings. Participants create several objects and see these objects from any vantage point. Learn how this free software can be used in a variety of disciplines.

Michael Ryan, Professor
Architecture
Anne Arundel Community College
Robert Lowe, Professor
Architecture and Interior Design
Anne Arundel Community College


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
251 E, Upper Level

The Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education (SIGITE) is developing new curricular guidelines and a model curriculum for associate degree information technology programs. This committee’s two- and four-year college faculty created a draft document that contains curricular guidelines for two-year colleges and model curricula that accommodates AS and AAS programs in information technology. This session provides an overview of this work and provides opportunities for input and feedback.

Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director
BATEC
University of Massachusetts - Boston
Paula Worthington, Professor and Chair
Business and Social Services
Northern Virginia Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
250 B, Upper Level

Finding ways to help students become self-reliant learners is a challenging task for faculty in all disciplines. This presentation presents a simple method requiring students to create two types of questions on course readings. Through this method, students are challenged to take on the responsibility of identifying what they do not understand in their reading, and to use higher order thinking skills to reflect on the content.

Mary Rasley, Professor
Computer Science
Lehigh Carbon Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
250 F, Upper Level

Come experience a plethora of uses for traditionally noncomputer-based academics in a virtual world. Demonstrations include how to make an object; program an object; hold classes, discussions, and office hours; find areas of academic interest; and much more. The session is copresented by academic avatars from various disciplines in a specially designed amphitheatre in Second Life. The session will be filmed in Second Life for a machinima movie that will be available on YouTube.

William Burkett, Chair
Information Technology
Capella University


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Aristotle would have been proud! Upon completion of this session, participants will redefine their most effective use of technology to enrich learning. Come learn how to make student success your first priority by making students’ progression in coursework dynamic and making additional coursework appear automatically. Play the power of E’s and energize your teaching!

Gisele Larose, President
Marketing
WebStudy, Inc.
Daniel Franc, Director
Research and Development
WebStudy, Inc.
Carol Redfield, Consultant
Computer Science and Computer Information Systems
WebStudy, Inc.


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 D, Lower Level

Go beyond using Moodle as an internet archive and discussion board. Intensively interactive modules in the Moodle course management system allow instructors to maximize Moodle’s effectiveness. Participants learn how to develop activities that are consistent with best practices in online learning using the lesson, workshop, and external RSS feeds modules.

John Wolff, Professor
Humanities
West Shore Community College
Chris Potter, Technician
Information Technology
West Shore Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

AMSER is a free online library created with National Science Foundation funding and is specifically designed for community and technical college math, science, and engineering educators and trainers. Participants explore AMSER’s tools and resources, receive materials that aid in using AMSER, and access training materials useful for sharing information about using AMSER for professional development or faculty and staff trainings.

Rachael Bower, Co-director
Computer Science
Internet Scout University of Wisconsin Madison


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

This poster session presents the results of a study where 643 online and face-to-face students were asked to rate 57 values. The values grouped into 10 motivational types that are useful in gaining insights regarding commonalities and differences among students. Participants can compare their common perceptions about distance learning students to what was found at one community college. This poster session is particularly useful to distance learning instructors and student services staff.

Brett Millan, Faculty
English
South Texas College


Poster Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Level

Tests and quizzes are traditional tools used to assess student performance. But the use of these tools in online courses bring with them the potential for cheating, which means they may not adequately represent what students have learned. Alternative strategies and the use of an online learning community can help deter cheating. Participants leave this course with a toolkit of alternative assessments, activities for community building, and the skills to align assessment activities with course content for optimum learning outcomes. Discussed are how instructors can determine whether students have met course objectives if tests and quizzes are not the main means of assessment, how to select assessment tools most appropriate to the online environment, and how to develop a learning community that helps to achieve course outcomes.

Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University


Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
250 F, Upper Level

Authentic and alternative assessment can reduce the gap between what was taught and what was learned. This session is designed to help instructors and instructional designers improve online teaching and learning through assessment techniques that go beyond using tests and quizzes. Participants learn about the principles involved in developing authentic and alternative assessment for online delivery.

Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

What has the last decade taught us about teaching online? Discuss best practices during this roundtable discussion. Come and share what works best for you, how you motivate students, how you get them to become fully engaged in the course, and how you provide the support that helps them perform at their very best. This discussion is facilitated by an instructor who has been successfully teaching online for several years.

Lynnette Yerbury, Chair
Accounting
Salt Lake Community College


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Determining instructional goals and selecting the correct broadcasting methods are key issues when integrating media into e-learning courses. This presentation explores how to best serve students with technology-enhanced elearning courses. Explore how Camtasia is used to create instructional media. Participants learn to select the best broadcasting media for instructional goals; how to use podcasting, vodcasting, or screencasting; and how to facilitate learning in a richer environment.

Karen Everingham, Associate Professor
Applied Organizational Technology
The University of Toledo


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Participants view video demonstrations of the FINTELO software and engage in a question and discussion format regarding the need for change in our approach to teaching and learning based on the needs of millennial learners and earlier generations. Information is based on the collaboration of private industry and colleges and shows how a gap in the different learning styles of our diverse generations can be minimized and course level outcomes maximized.

Renee Loewen, Director
Marketing
FINTELO


Forum Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Research continues to show that a learning community with the instructor participating as an equal member is the key to successful online course outcomes and is the vehicle through which online education is best delivered. How to develop effective learning communities, however, remains a mystery to some. This session explores specific techniques that can be used in any online class to successfully develop a learning community approach.

Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Effective communication techniques establish a sense of community, foster student-instructor dialogue, and allow rich student-student collaboration. This interactive forum increases your repertoire of distance learning activities that actively engage and enhance learning, while also reinforcing effective distance learning practices as outlined in the presenters’ recent book, Fluency in Distance Learning.

Celeste Fenton, Designer and Facilitator
Perkins Professional Development Institute
Hillsborough Community College
Brenda Watkins, Instructional Designer
Innovative Teaching and Technology
Hillsborough Community College


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

The camp experience can be rewarding and frustrating, especially with middle school boys and girls in attendance. The challenge is one of vision and choreography as campers’ attitudes and behaviors can be quite different. Join us for a discussion about the TechnoSleuth camp attended by an equal number of boys and girls and contrast it with previous girls-only technology camps. Discussed are the camps’ purpose, structure, and conduct, as well as the rationale for program decisions.

Frank Lanzer, Department Chair
Engineering
Anne Arundel Community College
Krysten Hall, Associate Professor
Computer Science
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Learn how to answer support questions once and for all by capturing screen recordings, turning the recordings into tutorials, and displaying them on a server, CD-ROM, or the web. ScreenCorder 5 is an easy-to-use screen capture tool that creates professional video tutorials quickly and efficiently. Add audio instructions, text bubbles, animated images, SCORM-compliant quizzes, and picture in picture to your videos. Export content as WMV, Flash, or AVI files.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Explore digital video learning objects and learn how online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses can benefit from incorporating media-rich elements into them. Digital videolearning objects are presented in a digital repository environment with demonstrations of how media can be managed and easily incorporated into any course management system.

Edward Bowen, Director
Administration
Dallas County Community College District


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Come develop a presence in Second Life and experience an avatar being born. Participants determine their avatar’s name, gender, ethnicity, and other features, and are given an assortment of free clothes and gifts for use by their avatar.

William Burkett, Chair
Information Technology
Capella University


Hands-On Lab
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

This presentation addresses the issues regarding identifying the appropriate techniques for integrating virtual reality into traditional instructional design and the considerations for development for nontechnical educators. Recommendations are grounded within the presenter’s virtual anesthesia project. Discussed are budgetary limitations and assessing learning in artificial environments. Research results are presented regarding student learning outcomes using the virtual anesthetic system.

Kami Hanson, Associate Professor
Dental Hygiene and Health Sciences
Weber State University


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

During this presentation, experienced instructors explore alternative reality games and their applications in education. Participants will play a game of educational clues, complete with objectives, outcomes, and multimodal learning opportunities. The presenter also demonstrates best practices for serious gaming in online courses.

Jeff Borden, Faculty
Communications
Southeastern Community College (IA)


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Yes, you are right! Students don’t cheat. They are listening to the Best of the Bee Gees and text messaging their grandmothers. Learn more about the creative ways students cheat and instructional survival tactics for digital and traditional classrooms. If you have ever wondered if or how your students cheat, this session is for you. Come prepared to share your best practices, opinions, and xperiences. You might even have to take a test yourself!

Mike Vander Heiden, Manager
Online Learning
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Daniel Pahlow, Dean
Business and Culinary Arts
Moraine Park Technical College


Hands-On Lab
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 D, Upper Level

A learning community freshman seminar for business and computer students, team taught by professors from each of those departments, provides students with a college experience course and an introduction to their fields of study. Simulated investing and Google groups, blogs, docs, pages, and chat are used in the course. This Title III project has been fun, frustrating, and rewarding. Participants view the blogs and group discussions and hold a chat session with students in the class.

Paula Velluto, Professor
Computer Information Technology
Bunker Hill Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Demonstrated is how to teach students to document educational goals, write a resumé, and collect and document performance skills using electronic portfolios. Students begin their e-portfolio the first semester and by graduation have a completed e-portfolio to share with prospective employers. Participants learn how to teach students e-portfolio development and how to integrate e-portfolios into existing classes to help students highlight their IT education.

Christie Burton, Faculty
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College
Peggy Burrus, Faculty
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Engage your students by creating assignments that challenge them to think outside the box. Create personalized assignments and minimize cheating. Use real-world data to show students the relevance of assignments. Participants leave with an assignment that can be immediately adapted to their classroom environment. Come learn what all the mystery is about!

Heith Hennel, Professor
Information Technology
Valencia College


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

Explore the use of multimedia technologies by instructors of online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes to enhance and facilitate the learning experience of a foreign language. Demonstrated are audio and video podcasts, slide shows empowered with video and audio components, screen captures, and others.

Ilia Lively, Instructor
Foreign Languages and Academic Esl
Central Piedmont Community College
Diana Mibelli, Instructor
Foreign Languages and Academic Esl
Central Piedmont Community College


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Provided are various tips for faculty who regularly build courseware using Word and PowerPoint. Learn about producing a PDF of your files, customizing a presentation’s color scheme, mastering PowerPoint’s slide show view, and integrating screen capturing software (e.g. SnagIt). Also demonstrated is Camtasia Studio, an easyto- use means of creating narrated video of on-screen activities that can be a terrific enhancement for traditional, hybrid, and online courses.

Mark Choman, Associate Professor
Computer Information Services
Luzerne County Community College


Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Create excitement in the classroom while assessing your students and having fun. The presenters share their experiences using game shows in the classroom to engage and motivate students while also increasing their content retention. Participants experience the thrill of game shows firsthand. Come see if you can make it to the final round!

Marie Hartlein, Associate Professor
Business and Computer Science
Montgomery County Community College
Linda Moulton, Professor
Business and Computer Science
Montgomery County Community College
Patricia Rahmlow, Associate Professor
Business and Computer Science
Montgomery County Community College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

Many faculty members use PowerPoint in the classroom, but most presentations actually restrain student learning. Come learn about research on PowerPoint and learning and see how to use this information to craft presentations that enhance student learning. Participants build a presentation using these techniques during this hands-on session.

John Wilson, Professor
Business and Technology
College of Southern Maryland


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 D, Upper Level

A series of case studies facilitate a discussion about how open educational resources impact the lives of teachers, students, and administrators by helping educational organizations fulfill important missions. Institutions work with content resources and teaching tools like HippoCampus.org to increase educational opportunities, lower textbook costs, jump-start dual enrollment and advance placement programs, support course redesign and blended instruction, open new avenues to credit recovery, and support special needs students.

Terri Rowenhorst, Director
Membership
National Repository of Online Courses
Gary Lopez, Executive Director
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Repository of Online Courses


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

By bringing together educators and other stakeholders to produce transformative change, Synergy 2008 is a national conversation about scaling up and diffusing innovations in technological education. Such transformation begins with dialogue and problem analysis from multiple perspectives, but also requires translation of these insights into specific actions. By experiencing the Problem Challenge Cycle as the core process, participants in Synergy 2008 gained new insights into scalability, as well as investigated and incorporated a broad range of successful practices in developing plans of action and implementation. During this session, participants are introduced to the Problem Challenge Cycle and work within groups using the same methodology to develop action plans to bring back to their classroom or institution.

Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director
BATEC
University of Massachusetts - Boston
David McNeel, Consultant
Boston-Area Advanced Technological Education Connections
University of Massachusetts - Boston


Special Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
250 C, Upper Level

Learn how T.A. Toolbar inserts content-rich comments into student essays with a click of the mouse, relieving instructors from having to address, paper after paper, common writing errors such as comma splices, fragments, and pronoun agreement problems. T.A. Toolbar includes a holistic comment and grade generator, stats, and simple plagiary detection tools.

John Wolff, Professor
Humanities
West Shore Community College
Chris Potter, Technician
Information Technology
West Shore Community College


Hands-On Lab
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

Finding out what customers want is a fundamental aspect of innovation, one that is often easier said than done. A team of instructional designers and faculty members administered separate surveys to both students and faculty to gain insights on how Blackboard was being used for teaching and learning. The findings offer valuable perspectives for technology support, faculty training, and removing barriers for student use of Blackboard.

Jyoti Pande, Director
Center for Teaching and Learning
St. Louis Community College at Forest Park
Patricia Suess, Chair
Mathematics
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

This session explores the underlying issues that affect student achievement, persistence, and retention, as well as how the innovative CollegeScope Student Success Program maximizes students’ college experience. The program focuses on college, career, and lifelong success and uniquely combines elements of career development, assessment, engagement, technology, and more.

Erin Miller, Director
Marketing
Human eSources


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 A, Lower Level

Providing online learners with the resources needed to be successful is critical. Discussed is requiring student orientation as a prerequisite to online instruction. Kirkwood Community College created a video clip that explains online courses and important procedures and directs students to an online orientation course. Not only has the video served to increase student success, but faculty, support service and marketing personnel, and administrators have found the video to be helpful in other areas as well.

Todd Prusha, Dean
Distance Learning
Kirkwood Community College
Alan Peterka, Coordinator and Instructional Designer
Distance Learning
Kirkwood Community College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

This session explores the similarities between online education and the ancient Chinese Five-Element Theory and answers the question, “What happens when effective practices from both models are combined?” Using the seasonal approach from the five element theory, participants are introduced to ways this method helps improve student participation and learning. This session should appeal to faculty and course designers with an interest in improving the delivery of their online courses.

Ben Mayock, Coordinator
Network Technology
The Community College of Baltimore County


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Game shows create an engaging classroom environment that appeals to all learners and have been proven to increase learner participation, comprehension, and test scores. Participants learn how to modify game shows to present and reinforce any subject. Discussed are real-world case studies where student involvement was maximized. Participants are immersed in a game show experience by participating in and learning how to create their own game shows.

Victor Kluck, Vice President
Marketing
C3 SoftWorks


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

The need for consistent delivery and consistent content among faculty, along with new industry requirements, called for redevelopment of a 30-section introductory computer course. Bunker Hill Community College, under the BATEC National Science Foundation Regional IT Center, redesigned the curriculum, retrained the faculty, and redeployed the course. Provided are a review of the curriculum, an online demonstration of the course deployment, and results of the student surveys.

Paula Velluto, Professor
Computer Information Technology
Bunker Hill Community College
Biljana John, Associate Professor
Information Technology
Bunker Hill Community College


Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Lansing Community College is in the process of developing an implementation plan for a quality assurance program for its online curriculum. The emphasis is on a course review process that provides improvement in instructional design to better organize course content and assure alignment of assessments with course objectives. Educators attending this session learn what strategies can be used to add quality to online curriculum.

Rebecca Lawson, Professor
Allied Health
Lansing Community College


Poster Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Level

Teaching microcomputer applications, business computer applications, and introduction to computers can be challenging. Today’s business and industry expects students to be able to effectively use their critical-thinking, problem-solving, and creativity skills. Participants review examples of in-class work that has been used at Tarrant County College’s Southeast Campus to measure student’s learning outcomes in first-level computer courses.

Charles DeSassure, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Information Technology
Tarrant County College District


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

This session explores the concept of immediacy, which is key to the development of a positive learning environment. The facilitators first explain how immediacy translates to the online environment and how course management tools can increase immediacy. Discussed are the benefits of using simple communication features available in course management software; the relationship between communication, course satisfaction, and retention, and ideas for developing better online learning tools.

David Bodary, Professor
Communication
Sinclair Community College
Robert Leonard,
Sinclair Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Participants discover how to employ the Socratic method of inquiry to elicit questions that provoke the productive dialogue underlying self-motivated learning online. Ten methods found to be useful at the Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning are presented as they have been implemented at Coastline Community College in a fully online language learning course. This session benefits any educator seeking cheap and easy ways to incorporate inquiry and interactivity into their online curricula.

Katherine Watson, Professor
Distance Learning
Coastline Community College


Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

With SNAP from Paradigm Publishing, students can demonstrate and enhance computer skills learned in the classroom. Features of SNAP include training tutorials, concept exams, skill-based Microsoft Office simulation exams, automatic checking of Microsoft Office documents, and learning management and communication tools. This course provides, from the student perspective, an in-depth, hands-on experience using SNAP, a state-of-the-art tool for training, assessing, and managing student proficiency with MS Office 2007 in web-based learning environments. No local IT resources are required for your students to become SNAP users.

Karen Lankisch, Consultant
Paradigm Publishing


Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
251 A, Upper Level

The cyber world in which we live raises many questions and issues that will be faced by students who are enrolled in our IT courses. Various methods and strategies that can be employed in approaching ethical situations in information technology are presented. Concerns such as internet security, privacy, freedom of expression, employeremployee issues, and intellectual property are examined.

Peter Meggison, Professor
Computer Technology
Massasoit Community College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Increasingly, colleges and universities are adopting lecture capture solutions to increase student satisfaction and improve instructional effectiveness. Camtasia Relay is the first lecture capture solution that is easy for presenters to use, integrates into existing infrastructure, and allows users to start small and grow as needs change. Come hear from TechSmith and two beta institutions how they quickly and affordably integrated lecture capture across the campus with Camtasia Relay.

Rich Boys, Product Manager
Marketing
TechSmith


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

More than 60 community colleges are participating in the new Open Educational Resources (OER) movement that provides high-quality, accessible, and culturally relevant open textbooks to community college students and faculty. Course participants receive the OER handbook and participate in the following modules: Introduction to the Open Educational Resources Movement; Advantages and Disadvantages of Creating and Using OER in Community Colleges; Methods to Locate and Use OER in the Classroom; OER and Fair Use and Copyright Issues; An Exploration of OER Repositories and Tools; The Emerging World of Open Textbooks; OER and the Importance of Accessibility, Interoperability, and Cultural Relevance; The Community College Consortium for OER; and The Community College Open Textbook Project. Community college faculty, administrators, and other interested educational partners are invited to join and participate in the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.

Martha Kanter, Under Secretary of Education
U.S. Department of Education
Judy Baker, Dean
Foothill Global Access
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Hal Plotkin, Trustee
Governing Board of Trustees
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Gary Lopez, Executive Director
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Repository of Online Courses
Barbara Illowsky, Professor
Math
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Joel Thierstein, Executive Director
Connexions Project
Rice University


Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
250 F, Upper Level

Many online courses rely heavily on testing as a primary means of assessment. Yet a fear of online cheating has often meant testing in proctored testing centers or using secure browsers as a means of maintaining academic integrity. This interactive presentation examines how to maintain academic integrity through a multiple means of assessment approach and testing’s role in such an approach.

Richard Leslie, Coordinator
Center for Instructional Design
McLennan Community College
Fred Hills, Program Director
Computer Information Systems
McLennan Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Based on an extensive personal experience with and recent research in e-learning, the presenter showcases four sound constructivist instructional design principles that proved to be effective in constructing synchronous and asynchronous e-learning environments. Educators attending this session learn that quality e-learning requires durable pedagogical strategies to design, develop, and implement effective e-learning courses and programs.

Abed Almala, Campus Dean
Academics
Strayer University


Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Demonstrated is how CIS, Art, and English instructors used the ANGEL learning system to add online resources to their face-to-face courses. Converting hundreds of pictures to a web format, managing test banks, and modifying handouts were just a few of the challenges involved in converting to this new online system. Participants receive a faculty handbook containing straightforward instructions to create announcements and grade books and to post a syllabus and other documents in ANGEL.

Andra Goldberg, Faculty
Computer Information Systems
Mohave Community College
John Kitts, Faculty
English
Mohave Community College
Heidi Heckman, Faculty
Art
Mohave Community College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Learn about best practices and lessons learned when implementing a mass notification service actually used during Hurricane Dolly. Effective planning and communication can reduce the “fog of war” that campus administrators may experience during an emergency situation. This presentation includes information for CIOs and other campus administrators about selecting campus constituencies, effective test protocols, initiators of campus communication, and policies and procedures that govern the use of a mass notification system.

David Plummer, Chief Project Administrator
South Texas College


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 C, Lower Level

Even with the most sound test development, administration, and scoring procedures, you may still need to review and modify test results. Learn in this session how to use the Questionmark Results Management System to evaluate test and exam results, make authorized changes, and publish the finalized results. Discover how to analyze, edit, and publish assessments in an informed and defensible way.

Jeff Place, Sales
Questionmark Corporation


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Many community college participants are first-generation students, live in rural areas, and have families and jobs. These individuals cannot readily leave their local areas to attend a university in order to obtain the bachelor’s degree. Mississippi State University offers a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies that allows students to complete their bachelor’s degree without leaving their homes. This presentation describes how the program works and how it can benefit your students.

Mark Binkley, Director
Academic Outreach
Mississippi State University
Michelle Johnston, Vice President
Institutional Planning and Assessment
University of Montevallo


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

With the proliferation of open-source software, usergenerated content, social networking tools, and the movement toward mobile learning, George Brown College designed a pilot project to enhance the ability of faculty to address these trends through digital storytelling. The narrative tradition is deeply rooted in teaching and learning, so this pilot was designed to add a digital media component that engages learners. Shared are the project plan, outcomes, evaluation, and lessons learned.

Shirley Lesch, Professor
Centre for Continuous Learning
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Karen Hamilton, Professor
Business and Creative Arts
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Camilla Wheeler, Faculty
Office of Academic Excellence
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

The Online Professor Program (TOPP) developed at Bergen Community College combines the pedagogy of effective online learning with the technical skills necessary to create and successfully teach an online or partially online course. TOPP Online eliminates the difficulty of coordinating the schedules of busy faculty while addressing the college’s need to expand online courses. Learn the evolution, design, and implementation of this peer training program.

Thomas Jewell, Associate Professor
Communication
Bergen Community College
Amarjit Kaur, Interim Director
Computer Information Technology
Bergen Community College


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 B, Lower Level

This session focuses on students’ attitudes toward the use of electronic textbooks. Described is how to encourage students to select e-books over paper versions. An action plan that brings the most technophobic students to align with e-text technology is presented. Various alternatives available for creating e-books are also provided.

Barry Birnbaum, Professor
Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Producing effective course media does not have to be an intimidating process. Many educators feel that you must own a Mac computer to create wonderful media for online courses. Come be introduced to some of many available software applications and hardware requirements, and discuss how you can use podcasting, vodcasting, and screencasting in your courses. Start creating broadcast media for your online courses when you return to your office.

Karen Everingham, Associate Professor
Applied Organizational Technology
The University of Toledo


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

The presenters discuss their experiences in helping develop an e-portfolio. Students who are pursuing a degree or certification as a Microsoft Application Specialist, desktop support technician, or Microsoft Certified System Administrator benefit from a tri-agency collaborative effort resulting in Colorado’s e-portal and folio application. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences using e-portfolios and best practices in delivering IT education and Microsoft certification training as a Microsoft IT Academy.

Christie Burton, Faculty
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College
Peggy Burrus, Faculty
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Learning involves surface and deep understandings of lifelong learning, communication, problem solving, global perspective, collaboration, and leadership. When designing their courses, educators must employ the principles of education they learned if they’re interested in helping students learn and prepare for their futures. Also discussed is why educators must also integrate formal learning, informal learning, implicit learning, and the brain.

Dom Bongiorni, Professor
Speech
Lone Star College System


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

Providing high-quality online classes is the key to success. This presentation shares how various quality controls have been implemented to support online learning at a small northeastern community college. Included are online course development guidelines, course proposal development, course proposal approval process, instructional design, faculty training, student services, and faculty evaluation, resulting in steady growth of online learning classes in the past three years.

Yi Guan-Raczkowski, Director
Distance Learning
Middlesex Community College - CT


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Have fun and create excitement in your research training programs! Participants learn how to implement interactive technology into research training programs to foster active learning and subject matter retention. The use of an electronic audience response system engages participants in the presentation. Teaching effectiveness and learner comprehension are increased using interactive PowerPoint slides and wireless keypads to enhance the understanding of key topics and provide instantaneous group feedback and insight.

Tony Onofrietti, Director
Office Of The Vice President For Research
Turning Technologies LLC


Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

Conversational anxiety, the nervousness that often overwhelms speakers as they conduct conversations in a new language, can act as a barrier to students’ ability to feel comfortable enough with a new language to process, internalize, and successfully construct it freely into meaningful conversation. Participants see a demonstration of a virtual Arabic Village that allows students to play-learn their way to functional language proficiency.

Shawn Mann, Manager
Military Programs
Coast Community College District
Ted Boehler, Dean
Marketing
Coast Learning Systems / Coastline College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

Rubrics facilitate evenhanded assessment and model the review and assessment processes in the workplace. Using rubrics promotes a learning atmosphere in which assessment is fair and transparent to the students and reflects a movement toward authentic assessment. After this session, participants are able to identify basic types of rubrics, incorporate rubrics into assessment strategies, and find or create rubrics online using rubric-generating websites and repositories.

Vicki Harsh, Instructional Design Consultant
Academic Services
Pearson


Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

SPARC your passion for learning through this interactive session that highlights how meaningful connections form the foundation of an effective learning environment for faculty and learners. Participants learn about Lethbridge College’s SPARC strategy—Significance; Passion; Purpose; Active Learning; Reflective and Resources; Collaborative, Community, and Connections—for building instructional communities on the web and are encouraged to actively collaborate on this endeavor.

Connie Gross, Professor
Centre for Teaching Learning and Innovation
Lethbridge College
Dwayne Harapniuk,
Lethbridge College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

The presenter provides an overview of the Salt Lake Community College e-portfolio pilot program in English and math. Data describing students’ achievement of the course learning outcomes through e-portfolios are presented, as well as problems and resolutions encountered during the pilot, possibilities for future use of e-portfolios to assess student learning, and examples of student eportfolios.

Suzanne Topp, Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Salt Lake Community College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Various internet teaching tools were used with student teachers in a special education teacher preparation program. Blackboard, Learning Village, and publishers’ websites were used to evaluate standardized tests in an assessment course. Student survey data and qualitative comments in response to technology tools are shared with session participants. This session particularly benefits instructors using technology to increase the quality of instruction.

Effie Kritikos, Associate Professor
Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Are you looking for another way to engage your students? Consider the use of quick and dirty video projects to energize their classroom experience. Learn how easy it is to design content-related minivideos. Learn how to handle the logistical considerations including the planning, producing, and uploading of quick flicks. Review samples of student videos. The students become the stars, but you’ll be one during this session.

Kelly Gredone, Professor
Business Studies
Bucks County Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

As a result of a recent practitioner research project, an engaging learning environment was found to help beginning Java students learn the difficult concepts involved in computer programming. Computer science and information technology administrators and faculty will find these techniques useful. The session includes hands-on and interactive activities used in the project, as well as insights from the teacher-researcher.

Toni Black, Professor
Business and Technology
University of New Mexico - Valencia County Branch


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Can students learn languages online? What technologies are available to assist instructors unwilling to sacrifice the face-to-face interaction of traditional classrooms? Participants discuss ways educators can integrate technology into foreign language courses without sacrificing true communication. This session will benefit language teachers searching for new and innovative strategies to use technology, as well as educators contemplating taking the leap into either blended or fully online platforms.

David Detwiler, Instructor
Instructional Computing
MiraCosta College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

The presenters successfully prepare English as a Second Language (ESL) students to take the internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language. Demonstrated is teaching speaking skills online using Elluminate, interactive lessons created in SoftChalk, and Wimba’s audio recording system, all managed within Blackboard Campus Edition 6. This combination of technologies has applications beyond ESL learners because of the multiple ways they engage students and capture their attention.

Emily Hicks, Instructor
English as a Second Language
Howard Community College
Tamara Jones, Esl Lead Instructor
Continuing Education
Howard Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Values and Self-Image is a very popular course taught online at Salt Lake Community College. Session participants discuss the basic premises of the course and how it is taught online, review the inventory used to evaluate values, and evaluate one of their own values. Also discussed are assignments that cause students to reflect on their values. This session is designed especially for educators who teach online courses.

Jerry Giles, Faculty
Continuing Education
Salt Lake Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

This session addresses how the League for Innovation’s Conference on Information Technology (CIT) was used to develop a strategy to address technology resistance issues presented by Prince George Community College’s (PGCC) faculty. CIT introduced PGCC staff and faculty to a variety of user-friendly applications, feedback about instructional strategies, and valuable lessons learned. A postconference debriefing led to a TechKnowledgy Exchange with PGCC faculty and a new strategy for addressing the issues surrounding technology resistance. Specifically discussed are the lessons learned, including an overview of the issues surrounding faculty technology resistance, strategies for driving faculty interest, and interdepartmental workshop training.

Lorna Gagneux, Manager
Multimedia Services
Prince George's Community College
Oliver Hansen, Dean
Learning Technologies and Support Services
Prince George's Community College


Special Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
250 C, Upper Level

How does technology change the way we teach and the way students learn? Can technology really make a difference? These questions are used to start our exploration of the research around best practices. If you are involved in teaching and learning and are curious about integrating technology effectively, this session equips you with sound strategies you can implement immediately.

David Peter, Dean
Learning Resources
Vincennes University


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

By creating class materials in video, audio, and print formats, students can learn at a time and pace that fits their schedules. With the technologies now available, producing these materials has become easier. Demonstrated is how to move from traditional PowerPoint lectures and handouts to video and audio presentations. The techniques used to animate PowerPoint, record voice lectures, and convert finished products to streaming video and written materials are demonstrated.

J. Don Johnson, Assistant Professor
Business
Georgia Perimeter College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Today’s students communicate in a multidimensional manner and routinely use avatars, bots, and other two- and three-dimensional virtual communicators. These communicators represent to them their true inner selves. In many respects, they are free to make them look and act in a manner determined by them. Come learn how these newer and more realistic forms of communication provide students with a forum to better present themselves as they want to be perceived.

William Burkett, Chair
Information Technology
Capella University


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 B, Upper Level

The Learning Commons brings library services and technology assistance together provide a one-stop shop for students, staff, and faculty at Bucks County Community College. Discussed is how online learning, the tutoring center, the technology learning center, and the library work together to foster academic success. The focus is on collaboration among these areas and the importance of planning for appropriate learning spaces.

Linda McCann, Director
Library Services
Bucks County Community College
Elizabeth Sette, Director
Technology Learning Center
Bucks County Community College


Roundtable Discussion
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Participants experience how FINTELO, a learning management system, effectively manages the delivery of course content to students while providing an intuitive student-to-instructor interface based on the latest web technologies, educational research, and learning theory about how people best learn. Participants become familiar with the online learning environment, the classroom, live chat, the course wizard, the assessment builder, and the grade book. Come and ride the wave with FINTELO.

Renee Loewen, Director
Marketing
FINTELO


Hands-On Lab
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 D, Upper Level

Participants experience teaching students to think flexibly and creatively to solve problems and assess information using 13 basic thinking rules and sample exercises. This session provides participants with a CD-ROM with thinking and teaching resources they can use in their classroom and leaves them energized and enthused. Warning! Some participants may experience enjoyment.

Hod Doering, Assistant Professor
Information Systems
Owens Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Options for e-portfolio systems are expanding and so is the hype! But e-portfolio systems vary widely and none of them meets all needs. Effective systems must be matched to particular program needs. What works for one program may not fit others. Lansing Community College studied e-portfolio opportunities collegewide. Participants learn an easy-to-use framework for matching program needs to system features, how it was used, and conclusions reached.

James Luke, Professor
Social Science
Lansing Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

This hands-on lab session is intended for individuals who are involved with online course delivery. The focus is on tools and best practices that can be integrated into any online course. Participants develop content using Camtasia 5, set up virtual office hours and classrooms using Elluminate Live, create a lesson in Dreamweaver for delivery in Blackboard, and explore the effectiveness of using wikis and blogs for online courses.

Julie Schneider, Faculty
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College
Candace Garrod, Professor
Computer Technology
Red Rocks Community College


Hands-On Lab
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 D, Upper Level

This session showcases ideas you can implement in your online courses. Explored are an orientation email, group work on discussion boards, connecting individually with students via telephone or Wimba at the beginning of the semester, CD-ROMs to provide access to previously taught materials, and other ways to improve online instruction.

Sandra Villas, Instructor
Developmental Math
South Texas College
Paul Villas, Professor
Kinesiology
University of Texas - Pan American


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Many tools available today can help you create interactive learning activities and work offline on your distance learning courses. This session demonstrates tools like StudyMate, ClassTop, SoftChalk, and Wimba’s Collaboration suite and explores how the presenter used the learning activities created by those tools in their distance learning courses.

Shaoyu Chi, Instructional Designer
Extended Learning Institute
Northern Virginia Community College


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Participants learn how to involve the entire faculty or one department’s faculty in working with students on a class project. Students collect raw data about faculty, such as their biographical information and their grading scales; perform statistical analysis on the data; store it in various applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint; and create web pages. Students’ performance statistics and sample work are provided.

Savitha Pinnepalli, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
River Parishes Community College


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Students learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process. Participants explore the process of and considerations for turning a printed study guide into a dynamic, interactive online learning tool. Dramatic changes to class format, now a hybrid learning experience, increase pass rates. Learn how technology transformed the learning experience and increased student achievement scores.

Larry Banks, Vice President
Academics
Eagle Gate College


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Have you lost your students to the ether of text messaging?Do they seem incapable of sitting still and listening to your lecture? Has note taking become a lost art? Learn how to generate class enthusiasm while integrating lecture materials through active learning techniques. During this session, participants discuss easy-to-implement methods with which to generate creative, technology-based products.

Barbara Monaghan, Instructor
Berkeley College
Fern Hendelman, Professor
Berkeley College


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

This session shares the benefits of using screen broadcasting services to enhance classroom experience and address student absenteeism. The service demonstrated is Wimba Classroom. Discussions include best practices for classroom use, archiving lessons, and benefits for students. Any classroom instructor will benefit from participating, although the technologies discussed will particularly benefit educators who use black and white boards, rely heavily on student interaction, or use software tools for demonstration purposes.

Matthew Trotter, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
South Texas College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Learn how to maximize Adobe’s PDF format to create dynamic study guides and package content for online and webenhanced courses. PDF files can be posted to any learning management system or to a lab file server. Faculty benefit by using familiar software to assemble course material and add multimedia and interactive features. Students benefit from increased active reading, searching, and time on task. Come see this thumb-drive publishing strategy at work.

Melissa Green, Coordinator
Tutoring and Instructional Technology
Sacramento City College


Forum Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 F, Lower Level

Participants learn how to use SoftChalk as a formative assessment tool to provide ongoing feedback to students and how instructors can determine the extent to which students are gaining competence. The presenters demonstrate how interactive online lessons support student success with text readings and enhance learning through active engagement.

Mary Beth Huneke, Director
Support Services
SoftChalk LLC
Lynda Randall, Faculty
Secondary Education
SoftChalk LLC


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 C, Lower Level

Students disrupt class by arriving late, leaving early, talking in class, or using cell phones. Instead of creating punitive measures, this session offers strategies that engage millennial learners in the classroom content and helps them practice critical thinking skills using current technologies. Techniques for controlling disruptive behavior are demonstrated during the session.

Nadine Davis, Professor
English
Delta College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 D, Lower Level

VILOs are cost-effective, 5-to-15-minute, interactive video vignettes that address specific learning objectives, have a long shelf life, and are offered via multiple delivery modes, including broadcasting, on-demand streaming, and podcasting. Come learn about the primary tools used to design and develop VILOs, how to save costs and increase student success rates, and how to obtain a budget for video projects.

A. Andaz Ahmad, Director
Instructional Technology
Ivy Tech Community College
Patricia Ley, Assistant Professor and Program Chair
Medical Assisting
Ivy Tech Community College


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 C, Lower Level

After doing volunteer work in Tanzania and Guatemala, the presenters incorporated their learning into a crosscurriculum virtual service learning project for women’s health and international business courses. Students research women’s roles and health, solar ovens, water filters, mosquito netting and malaria, nongovernmental organizations, and microloans. Learn how students established email contacts in the foreign countries, how the projects progressed, and how data are added to the web page developed for this project.

Darlene Voeltz, Instructor
Business and Economics
Rochester Community and Technical College
Jean Marconett, Instructor
Womens Health Studies
Rochester Community and Technical College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 C, Lower Level

This session explores the impact of Web 2.0 generational demarcation between people born with these technologies and people who were not. Addressed are the issues and benefits of Web 2.0 digital media as participants gain valuable insight into how digital natives make sense of their online experiences. Recommended are strategies that support young people and harness the exciting possibilities digital fluency presents.

Janet Ward, Faculty
Information Technology and Systems Support
El Centro College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

This presentation is about the current and future need to teach project management in our classrooms. Everything an organization does is in the envelope of a project. Students need to understand what project management is and how it works in order to be a productive member of any organization. A proposed hybrid curriculum emphasizing project management is presented and supporting documentation is provided so participants can start a program at their colleges

Charles Henion, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College
Adam Brooks, Developer
Instruction and E-Learning
Central Piedmont Community College


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom BD, Lower Level

Online courses are largely text-based, although sometimes supplemented by images, streaming video, and web conferencing. Voice communication adds an enriching dimension to online course communication and provides students with a voice. The Wimba Design Institute helped Pierce College educators use Wimba’s VoiceTools in their teaching and learning activities. Participants learn how to WAMBA (What Adds Meaning to Web-Based Applications) with Wimba and replicate the institute on their campuses.

Edward Bachmann, Director
Distance Learning
Pierce College
Jo Ann Baria, Dean
Extended Learning
Pierce College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 E, Lower Level

Are you frustrated and feeling guilty about teaching online while you sit in your office answering emails while your students are on their own? Here’s a great opportunity to learn how to reach out and touch your online students. Come discuss the value of podcasting lectures for online classes. Learn some basic dos and don’ts and hear testimonials.

Sandra Pierce,
Mayland Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 D, Lower Level

Participants see demonstrations of online instructors infusing their personalities into their courses using Web 2.0 tools to get better results from their students. Discussions include the pedagogy that drives the need for more than text-based discussions, distance instruction best practices, and the skills needed to present a better version of you online. Participants receive resources and examples of online instructors integrating their personality into their courses.

Todd Conaway, Instructional Designer
Technology Enhanced Learning Services
Yavapai College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 D, Lower Level

Are you looking for new ideas for teaching college success? Cuyamaca Community College designed a college success course that appeals to the technology savvy New Millennial generation. The course serves as a bridge from high school to community college to university. Learn how technology is successfully integrated into traditional, blended, and online courses that have increased student persistence by 27 percent. Topics include college, career, and lifelong success and transferring to four-year universities.

Marsha Fralick, Professor Emeritus
Business
Cuyamaca College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

Using a model from biology to illustrate the process, this session explores how to develop a customized, reliable, cost-effective, web-based placement test for student placement in beginning or advanced courses using the authoring, administrative, and reporting tools in the Questionmark Perception assessment system. The model outlined can be applied to other disciplines as well. Participants receive a detailed blueprint for developing their own placement test.

Rich Edwards, Assessment Consultant
Executive
eLumen


Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

This session provides information about creating an effective student online orientation that is engaging, relevant, and accessible to everyone. Enrollment managers and student service professionals discuss strategies and real-world examples that will help develop or modify an online orientation at their institutions. This session is the first in a series of three.

Landon Pirius, Interim Dean
Student Services
Inver Hills Community College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

This session helps colleges understand types four and five of the five types of online orientations. The main purpose is to provide guidance when deciding what orientation type is appropriate for your institution. Participants learn how to set up and structure the online orientations, who to involve and when, how to determine orientation effectiveness, and how to maintain and improve the orientation. This session is the third in a series of three.

Landon Pirius, Interim Dean
Student Services
Inver Hills Community College


Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

This session helps colleges understand three of the five types of online orientations. The main purpose is to provide guidance when deciding what orientation type is appropriate for your institution. Participants learn how to set up and structure the online orientations, who to involve and when, how to determine orientation effectiveness, and how to maintain and improve the orientation. This session is the second in a series of three.

Landon Pirius, Interim Dean
Student Services
Inver Hills Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 A, Lower Level

Increasing student access and success are priorities established as part of our strategic plan. Critical to achieving both objectives is examining the kinds of services provided to prospective and current students, especially to walk-in traffic, phone traffic, and web traffic. Improving these access points is central to the mission of the college’s call center. Shared are the service improvements realized as a result of the call center, as well as its implementation and assessment.

Barbara Lefevre, Manager
Student Success
Montgomery County Community College
Erick Robinson, Telephone Coordinator
Information Technology
Montgomery County Community College


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 E, Lower Level

With the diverse population of 21st century students, how do we connect our students to services, faculty, and resources in order to help them achieve their personal and educational goals? The GPS LifePlan developed collaboratively between student affairs and academic affairs facilitates this process. Learn how, through a combination of online tools and traditional approaches, students reflect on where they are now, where they want to go, and pathways to get from here to there.

Michele Jersak, Counselor
Counseling
Century College
Rosie Dubose, Faculty
Reading and Study Skills
Century College
Jill Aitchison, Coordinator
Student Life
Century College


Forum Session
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

Developmental educators need a quick and accurate way to determine students’ skill levels and support needs in order to set them on the right course for college success. This session demonstrates how institutions use the COMPASS placement and diagnostic tests to evaluate students’ developmental needs in reading, writing, mathematics, and ESL, and connect them to appropriate campus resources such as PLATO and other instructional resources.

David Chadima, Senior Consultant
Educational Services
ACT, Inc.


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 B, Lower Level

Participants learn about a website that provides information to career and academic advisors and students about wage data, colleges and universities, diversity, internships, job searches, financial aid, veteran services, minority resources, language translation, occupations, and resources for women.

Tony Rizzuto, Advisor
Student Services
Salt Lake Community College


Hands-On Lab
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 E, Upper Level

This session focuses on the community college as the pivot in using Web 2.0 collaborations to create a consortium of educators from across multilevel institutions. The goal is to strengthen curricula in a foundational course such as anatomy and physiology, often taken at high school, college, and graduate levels. Limited communication between educators results in omissions and redundancies. The model increases student success by correcting deficiencies.

Robert Klein, Faculty
Life and Natural Sciences
Owens Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

As part of Erie Community College’s Readying Incoming Students for Excellence initiative, a suite of web-based tools was developed and launched. Come view the suite, Student Tools: Admissions Through Registration, created as part of the college’s Title III grant. These tools assist students in decision making related to program selection and career choices and include an interactive enrollment guide designed to lead students through the admissions process.

Mary Orrange, Professor
Mathematics
Erie Community College - SUNY
Jason Steinitz, Professor
English
Erie Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

You may be sitting on a gold mine without realizing it. Using business intelligence to analyze course material purchases can help identify students who might be at risk. Contacting at-risk students while there is still time to help them can yield higher student satisfaction and significant increases in retention. What type of business intelligence should you be gathering to lower costs of curriculum materials and increase student retention?

Kenneth Sherman, Senior Vice President
Words & Numbers
Isaac Mowder, Director
Marketing
ED MAP, Inc.


Hands-On Lab
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
251 E, Upper Level

Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) has been recognized as a leader in managing and disseminating advising and transfer information. Find out how HACC interdisciplinary student services transfer team succeeded in providing, through the college’s website, Pennsylvania’s complicated transfer information to advisors, counselors, and students at multiple campuses. If you are responsible for meeting the challenges of web advising, find out how to use your website to your maximum advantage.

Mary Fourlas, Faculty Counselor and Transfer Coordinator
Student Services
Harrisburg Area Community College
Debbie Weller, Manager
Student Services
Harrisburg Area Community College


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

Service learning is a required component of the general education environmental technology course at Salt Lake City College, which most students take on the internet. This poster session documents guided design and rubrics used in a distance course for service learning. Students initially disliked the requirement, but by the end of the semester, they praised service learning as a highlight of the course. Come see how students connect to the subject matter and engage with the community.

Gail Jessen, Coordinator
Thayne Center For Service and Learning
Salt Lake Community College


Poster Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Level

Participants learn about how a community college and a university are providing technical assistance, orientation, advisement, tutoring, assessment, and course articulation services in online learning environments. Participants have the opportunity to share practices in use at their institutions as well.

Salvatore Sanders, Director
Health Professions
Youngstown State University


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
151 A, Lower Level

Learn how to transition your paper-based course and instructor assessments to an online system. Whether revamping an old system or starting a new one, participants examine the challenges, pitfalls, and considerations experienced at Truman State University from student, faculty, and administrative perspectives. In the end, faculty will appreciate better feedback about their teaching, while students will feel more empowered in their learning.

Todd Kuhns, Manager
Information Technology Services
Truman State University
Adam Davis, Associate Dean
English
Truman State University


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

Triton College is currently leveraging a Strengthening Institutions Federal Grant (Title III) to develop a transition program for ESL/GED students and design learning communities with the goal of retaining first-generation, at-risk students. This presentation shares recent findings of the project. Discussed is how technology played a role in these programs, including specific examples of how an online career assessment tool and student support services were integrated.

Jonathan Paver, Dean
Arts and Sciences
Triton College


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 E, Lower Level

Cuyahoga Community College’s (CCC) web presence needed either a facelift or a total rebirth to more effectively engage the community. CCC chose a total rebirth, a success story that involved team members from across the college and an experienced technology partner. Accountability and sponsorship were shared. Communication, training, and executive sponsorship during the project were imperative. Spicing up a project of this size and scope were truly innovative accomplishments of this diverse team.

Joe Smucny,
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
Amy Eugene, Director
Planning and Institutional Effectiveness
Cuyahoga Community College


Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

While many services are provided on campus, many services have not yet been adapted to the online environment. To meet the needs of and engage our online students, colleges must develop an accessible, engaging, and relevant orientation. This presentation provides the process for an effective online distance learning orientation. Faculty members demonstrate how the orientation works and share ideas about how participants can develop a distance learning orientation for their colleges.

Ella Strong, Director
Virtual Learning Initiatives
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Paul Currie, Associate Professor
Biology
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Stephanie Vergne, Coordinator
Business/it
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 E, Lower Level

Creating an engaging online environment for students andadvisors by using Blackboard’s community feature is discussed. Many students who take online courses expect other services to be online as well. Faculty members share their experience creating an online advising environment for advisors and students. Learn how Hazard Community and Technical College created a practical and inviting online advising environment to optimize student online advising needs, access to needed resources, and connection to campus advisors

Paul Currie, Associate Professor
Biology
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Ella Strong, Director
Virtual Learning Initiatives
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Stephanie Vergne, Coordinator
Business/it
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 E, Lower Level

Sinclair has developed a technology tool that allows instructors in academic foundation courses to easily and quickly notify counselors when a student has fallen behind in academic work. This notification is instant and provides the counselor and faculty member with a documented history of the intervention actions taken. The tool is webbased, easily learned, and can be implemented as a standalone application within any educational setting.

Shawn Gormley, Web Architect
Web Systems
Sinclair Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
150 F, Lower Level

In anticipation of launching an online degree program at Northwest Vista College (NVC), the distance learning department, in cooperation with the student success team, developed an interactive campus orientation and academic advising experience for online delivery by creating Modular Internet Learning Object. Participants learn about NVC’s collaborative process in the design and delivery of this project and engage in a cooperative session that explores the innovations and challenges involved with creating quality online student services.

Julie Bajusz,
Northwest Vista College
Frances Jenks, Specialist
Information Technology
Northwest Vista College
Jesus Diaz,
Northwest Vista College
James Searles, Team Leader
Student Success and Academic Advising
Northwest Vista College
Adela Gonzales, Program Specialist
Distance Learning
Northwest Vista College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 E, Lower Level

In its 12th year, @ONE’s statewide technology training initiative serving the California Community College System’s faculty, administration, and staff has fully developed a program in a variety of modalities. This session describes the program model and offers suggestions for certification for online instructors, training programs for IT staff, information about conducting a yearly online teaching conference, and integrating the Microsoft IT Academy. The @ONE project model can be replicated in a variety of educational system environments. Participants leave the session with ideas about how to start their own programs and with information about participating in @ONE and Microsoft IT Academy programs.

Pat James, Dean
Mt. San Jacinto Community College


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monday, October 20, 2008
151 B, Lower Level

Have you ever wished that you could become a more effective leader? Dynamic leadership doesn’t just happen; it takes many years of employee challenges and personal growth. This session reveals 20 keys to managerial success and helps participants become more dynamic leaders. Participants leave this session with a new set of idioms they can put to use immediately.

Eric Kauffman, Executive Director
Admissions and Evaluation
University of Phoenix


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
151 E, Lower Level

Many professionals spend countless hours surfing the internet, typing emails, talking on a cell phone, or texting. Most users are not aware of the pitfalls associated with their dependency on technology to communicate with others. Participants examine how they are connected or disconnected with each other via technology, technology’saffect on personal relationships, and different perspectives on living in a high-tech and low-touch society.

Kate Maxwell-Stephens, Regional Director
West Region
Salt Lake Community College
Marlin Clark, Dean
Student Services
Salt Lake Community College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2008
151 C, Lower Level