March 15-18, 2009
Grand Sierra Resort
Reno-Tahoe, Nevada
 
 
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About Innovations

 

In our efforts to serve you better, we are providing this final copy of the Innovations 2009 Conference Program (Adobe Acrobat Icon Adobe PDF 11 MB).

The following sessions are scheduled to be presented at Innovations 2009. Please note that this list is subject to change.

Stream1 - Learning and Teaching
Stream2 - Leadership and Organization
Stream3 - Workforce Preparation and Development
Stream4 - Student Services and Activities
Stream5 - Basic Skills and Developmental Education
Stream6 - Resource Development and Foundation Management
Stream7 - Research, Assessment, and Accountability
Stream8 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Stream1 - Learning and Teaching
Full session descriptions and presenter information are available by clicking on the session titles below.
A Collaborative Model for Improving Student Writing and Information Literacy in General Education

A Complete Online Class- Course Management, Live Web Conferencing, and

A Happy Marriage of Faculty Performance Evaluation and Professional Development

A Master Course Database and Seminars With Less Than a Shoestring Budget

Academic Integrity in a Multicultural Context: Implications for Teaching and Learning

Active Learning and Critical Thinking in Traditional and Online Classrooms

Adding Another Dimension: Using 3D technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

Advantages and Disadvantages of the E-Learning Environment

All Math Software is Not Created Equal: What’s the Difference?

AMSER - Free Online Applied Math and Science Resources for your Classroom

Asking the Right Questions to Improve Learning Spaces

Assessment and Academic Honesty Online

Assessment of General Education Outcomes: Engaging Faculty Across Campus to Become Active Learners

Bang, Bang You’re Dead: Police Use of Deadly Force

Blackboard Bivouac: An Online Training Program for Faculty Teaching Online

Bloom Where You are Planted

Build Customized Games for Your Students - It's Easy

Building a Blended Distance Learning Model to Reach Across Alaska

Building Faculty Capacity Through Peer Coaching

Building Learning Communities

Building Online Learning Communities: Techniques that work!

Building Sustainable Local and World Community With Whole People, Whole Organizations

Butler Learning Studios: Rapid Deployment. Is Over Commitment Better Than No Commitment?

Can You Teach Someone to Be Innovative?

Catch Them While You Can!

Challenges and Solutions for Online Lab Science Courses

Classroom Clickers Click with Students: Engaging Students with Technology

Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink

Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink!

Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink!

Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink!

Clickers! How They Clicked for My Students!

Colleges and Universities as Sites of Democracy

Community Colleges and the Economy: Responding to the Downturn

Concept Mapping: Visual Learning and Thinking

CONNECT: Building Relationships Among High Schools, Community Colleges, and Universities

Create Flash, Web, and CD-ROM Projects With Ease!

Create Video Tutorials for Students and Colleagues

Creating a Credit and Noncredit Program to Highlight Foreign Languages

Creating a Professional Development Faculty Cohort: One College’s Story

Creating and Implementing a Customized Multimedia Electronic Textbook

Creating Engaging Lessons and Reusable Learning Objects With SoftChalk

Creative Collaboration: Merging Cooperative Education, Experimental Learning, and Service Learning

Credentialing for Community and Technical College Faculty: A Statewide Model

Debate As a Teaching and Learning Tool in Science Education

Developing a Unique Baccalaureate Degree Program: Benefits and Challenges

Developing Leadership From Within

Digital Video Learning Objects: Creating Media-Rich Learning Environments

Discovering Your Learning Styles

Do Amazing Things! Create Movies With Windows Movie Maker.

Doctoral Program Designed, Written, and Taught by College Presidents and Community College Chancellors

Effective Ways of Teaching a Health Science Program at a Distance

Electronic Clinical Data Tracking for Health Care Education Programs

Emerging Trends in Faculty Development

Employing Concept-Based Curriculum Strategies to Enhance Classroom Critical Thinking

Engage Your Students With Free Web 2.0 Tools

Engaging All Learners in Math

Enhancing Focus: Using Computers to Neutralize Emotions That Interfere With Learning

Enhancing Learning With Custom Google Maps

ePortfolio California: Developing a Statewide ePortfolio System for Learning and Assessment

Establishing Faculty Presence Online

Evaluating Ethos: Using Critical Literacy to Improve Students’ Information Decisions

Every Student Can Succeed: Making Academic Achievement Possible Through Class Capture

Exploring the World of Undergraduate Research

Fighting Ignorance Through Composition

Finding the Missing Pieces

Flat Leadership: The Power of Empowering

Fresh Food From the Campus Gardens

From Blackboard to Lulu for Online Instruction

From Concept to Proof of Concept: An Innovative NSF Project for Community College Faculty

General Education: Principles and Framework for Effective Practice

Getting Results: Free Online Professional Development for Faculty

Giving Students a SIRIUS Boost: Success for the Millennials

GPS LifePlan: A Holistic Framework for Student Development

Green, Green, Green: What Does It all Mean in the Classroom?

Hands-On Experience in Learning: Use of Simulation Tools to Increase Competency

HippoCampus and the Promise of Open Educational Resources

How a Virtual Learning Environment Can (and Should) Help Learners

How Do You Know Your Students Are Learning?

How to Enable Better Understanding, Creativity, and Spontaneity in the 21st-Century Classroom

How to Survive When You Have 18 Dual-Enrolled High School Students in a College Course

If You Feed Them, They Will Come: Motivating Faculty to Learn Technology

Implementing Critical Thinking in a Basic Public Speaking Course

Improving Engineering Technology Programs With Multidisciplinary Partnerships

Incorporating Intelligent Tutoring in Educational Environments

Increasing Enrollments in Microsoft Application Courses With Certification in Curriculum

Increasing Your Annual Fund On-Campus Using Students To Call Alumni

Information Literacy and Biology: Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching Fosters Deep Learning

Innovative and Successful Approaches to the High School-Higher Education Connection

Inquiry-Based Learning for Leader Development: Shifting Paradigms

Integrating Civic Responsibility Into the Curriculum

Integrating Service Learning, Technology, and Teams Into the College Curriculum

Integrating Video Learning Objects Into Your Online Class

Interactive, Multisensory Textbooks: Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation

Introducing Reflective Practice to Students

It’s Green, But What Does It Mean?

Jumpstart Your Learners’ Brains: Multisensory Whole Brain Teaching!

Kabbalah, Metaphor, and Sustainability

Keep Students in College with a Comprehensive College Success Course

Letting Go of Lecture: Implementing Interactive Teaching in Content-Driven Curricula

Leveraging the Benefits of Computing Certifications for Academic and Career

Librarian and Faculty Collaboration: Providing Library Services and Resources in Online Courses

Lights! Camera! Learning!

Man Up! African-American Male Professors Engaging African-American Male Students

Manage Institutional Assessment With Digication E-Portfolios

Maricopa Institute for Learning: Ten Years of Transforming Practice Through Reflective Scholarship

Math and Science Learning for Teachers of Young Children

Math Success Center: A New Initiative for Beginning Algebra Courses

Mathematics and Mastery Learning in General Education

Mixing the Scientific Method and Business Education

Models of Learning Communities: Engaging Students Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Models of Learning Communities: Promoting the Development of 21st-Century Skills

More Than Fun and Games: Educational Games With the Computer

Motivating International Students to Share Their Story Via E-Portfolios

MS Producer 2007: Interactivity Without a Price Tag

Navigating the Barnyard 2: The Desire to Inquire!

Novice to Expert: Helping Students Learn How to Learn

Our Moodle Journey: Selection, Implementation, and Training

Perceptions of Online Course Effectiveness in Community Colleges

Personal Learning Environments: If You Build It, They Will Come!

Personalize Your Class With YouTube

Planning E-Portfolios on Your Campus: Process, Pitfalls, and Benefits

Planting, Nurturing, and Harvesting Learning Communities

Podcasting 1-2-3: Launch Instructional Effectiveness to Astronomical Heights

Podcasting and Beyond

Preparing Leaders for the 21st Century

Preparing Multimedia Content to Enhance Student Learning and Class Participation

Problem-Based Learning: How to Teach Students to Think for Themselves

Putting Assessment Data Back Into Learning: A Faculty-Driven Spanish Assessment Model

Putting the WOW Into Your Online Lessons

Quick, Easy, and Dynamic Web Guides for Your Students’ Research

Ready? Dramatic Change, Transcendent Learning, and a Charge for Education

Recording and Uploading Lectures: So Easy a Caveman Can Do It

Reducing Arbitrary Barriers Between the Disciplines

Reinvigorating Community: Empowering People Through Community Education

Research Proven, Online Tutoring That Educators Choose: SMARTHINKING

Retooling Faculty Professional Development: An Opportunity for Change

Revised Learning Objectives in Elementary Statistics

Revitalizing the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Bridging Academics With Real-World Issues

Scanners and Readers: Designing Online Content to Promote Learning

Service Learning: A Toolkit That Works

SLOw Start, SMART Start: Creating Student Learning Outcomes

Stairway to Heaven: Librarians and Faculty in the Classroom

State Colleges in Florida: A Community College Update

STEM to Stern: An Educational Research, Action, and Change Project

Story-Centered Introductory Engineering Course Inspires Student’s Persistence in STEM Fields

Student Athletes: Success, Retention, and Decorum

Student-Controlled Learning

Students Coming to Class Prepared? Imagine the Possibility

Survivor - Reno: Student Tribes Using Simulation to Win Immunity Idol

Take Your E-Learners to the Library: The Embedded E-Brarian Project

Teaching in the Community College Graduate Certificate

Team-Based Learning: Moving From Storming to Performing

The Art of Visionary Leadership: The Human Touch

The Easy Steps Way to Teaching Through Multimedia Storytelling

The Heroic Quest: From Cornerstone to Capstone on the Community College Campus

The Living Classroom: Using Web 2.0 Technologies for Student Driven Collaboration!

Theory Meets Practice: Piaget and Bandura Go Online

Thoughtful Facilities Planning Equals Substantial Learning

Transforming Libraries: Developing the Next Generation of Facilities and Services

Undergraduate Research Programs That Attract Underrepresented Students to STEM

Unleashing the Knowledge Already Within Your System

Untying the tongue: Enlivening live chat online

Use Wimba Live Classroom 2 to Make an Immediate Connection With Online Students

Using Camtasia Studio to Create Recorded Lectures and Podcasts

Using Class Capture Technology to Improve Student Learning

Using Clickers to Improve Learning

Using Clickers to Improve Learning

Using Goals to Help Students Value Writing

Using Innovative Collaboration to Create and Support a New Program

Using Technology to Improve Student Engagement and Success in Pre-College Algebra

Virtual Tour: A DVD Alternative to Traditional Field Trips

Virtualization: Delivering More Than the Lab

Want to Do Podcasting? We’ll Show You How

Web 2.0 Technology and You

What’s Next in Learning and Teaching in Scotland’s Colleges?

Where the Wild Things Read: A Unique Program for Promoting Literacy

Wind Energy Career Pathway Through CTE Demonstration Grant

You Ready for 50+ Learners?

Your Own Learning Management System in 30 Minutes and for $10


 
Stream2 - Leadership and Organization
Full session descriptions and presenter information are available by clicking on the session titles below.
A Game of Chance: Community College Hiring Practices

Active Volunteers: All It Takes Is a Little TLC

Assessing a 21st-Century Organization in Higher Education

Breaking the Mold: An Innovative Approach to Faculty Loading

Building Statewide Partnerships and Collaborations to Promote College Access

Calling All Skunks! Ways to Integrate Innovation Into Everyday Work

Can You Redesign Career Technical Programs to Be Online in One Year?

Classroom Observation: Can a Rubric Enhance the Culture of Teaching and Learning?

Clicking Our Way Through the Realities of a Continuum of Leadership Theories

Closing the Gap in Planning and Assessment

College Boards and Learning and Teaching: Is It Any of Their Business?

Collegewide Integrated Approach to Starting a New Academic Year

Community College Planning for the 21st Century

Creating a Seamless Transition for Students Between Community College and University Center Programs

Creating a Vision and Strategic Plan Through Teamwork

Creating an Institutional Focus for the Entire College Community

Culture as Context for Transformation at Community Colleges

Deal or No Deal: Negotiating a Learning-Centered Contract

Educating in a Sustainable Environment

Effective Meetings: Practicing Quality in Communication

Establishing a Sustainability Office: From Task Force Initiation to an Operating Office

Everyone Grows: Organizational and Professional Development for All Employees

Extreme Makeover: The College Edition

Faculty Involvement: What Matters Most?

Finding Collegewide Common Ground Using Appreciative Inquiry

For-Profits: Trends and Practices of Leaders in Career and Online Education

Global Vision With Local Focus: Best Practices in Internationalization

Going the Distance With Adjuncts: Innovative Solutions to Managing Adjunct Faculty

Graduate Dually Enrolled High School Students and Community College Students Simultaneously

Green Richland: Building Sustainable Local and World Community

Help! Adjuncts Everywhere and No Support in Sight

Hiring Your Next Technology Leader

IC3 Certification: Successfully Getting Everyone Computer Literate

Icebergs of Change: Creating a Community College/K-12 Concurrent Enrollment Partnership

Improving Operational Efficiency by Reducing Curriculum Development and Approval

Inclusive Strategic Planning: Getting Institutional Buy-In

Increasing Enrollment Through a Guaranteed Course Schedule

Increasing Your College’s Impact on the Community

Instruction and Student Services: Friends or Foes?

Instructor Preparation Academy: An Investment in Your Future

Leader Formation Curriculum Development Strategies

Leader Formation: An Essential Piece of Community College Success

Making Ends Meet: Seven Habits Render Success So Sweet

More Textbooks, Less Cost: Open Doors With Open Content

NACCTEP: Preparing Future Teachers Across America

P-16 Partnership Initiative: Bridging the Gap

Passion, Purpose, and Partnership: Building Organizational Leadership Through Service Learning

Pathway Collaborations: From Early High School to the Technical Baccalaureate Degree

Personality Plus! Where Knowledge is Power

Preparing for the Silver Tsunami: Development of a Geriatric Training Center