Kick off the League’s annual Conference on Information Technology with this annual gathering of community college Chief Information Officers. Summit participants discuss effective strategies, timely issues, and model information technology and infrastructure programs. The summit’s experienced technology leaders facilitate discussions about creative approaches and hot topics such as information security, student email systems, servicing the millennial generation, and being a successful CIO. Participants also break into small groups for peer-related topic discussions concerning important issues such as emergency communications, procurement management, and supporting faculty using Web 2.0 tools. Join technology leaders and college administrators as they strengthen their commitment to improving the information technology systems in our colleges today while creating a vision for tomorrow.

Todd Jorns, Senior Director
Instructional Technology
Illinois Community College Board

Malik Rahman, Chief Information Officer
Central Piedmont Community College

Jimmy Livornese,
Central Piedmont Community College

David Kim, Associate Chief Executive Officer and Executive Di
Administrative Information Services
Central Piedmont Community College

Kimberley Conley, CIO
Technology Solutions
Henderson Community College

Participants completing this course become certified online instructors. Through demonstrations and guided practice, participants complete a streamlined version of the certification course offered at San Jacinto College District (SJCD). In a fast-paced learning environment, course participants learn the mechanics and experience the pedagogy required for online teaching and actually build an instructional website using Blackboard. SJCD will issue participants certification as online instructors upon completion of this course.

James Baker, Dean
Educational Technology Services
San Jacinto College District

Patricia Petty, Professor
Math
San Jacinto College-North Campus

Sherry Nixon, Instructional Designer
Interactive Learning Center
San Jacinto College-North Campus

No one is going to give you the password to a core networking device right after you get certified until you prove that you know what you’re doing. Unfortunately, most networking training is focused only on how to configure PCs, server operating systems, switches, and routers. This course provides a practical overview of cable testing, protocol analysis, and network management, which are three fundamental network support skills, along with a hands-on exploration of the concepts presented. The culmination is a detailed discussion about OSI Layer 2 switches and ways to approach the most common network complaint: “The network is slow.” Once the skills and concepts presented in this course are understood, you are ready to touch the network, as well as comfortably answer students’ questions.

Neal Allen, Level 3 Escalation
Technical Assistance Center
Fluke Networks

Glenn Wiseman,
Extreme Networks

The course provides participants with practical tools and strategies for designing and effectively facilitating an online course based on the identified learning characteristics of the net-generation. The presenters provide basic strategies for facilitating an online course and hands-on activities that allow participants to practice online teaching skills that meet the needs of net generation learners. This course will benefit instructors currently designing online courses or planning to do so, as well as those currently teaching in an online environment.

Martha Burkle, Chair
e-learning
SAIT Polytechnic

Ron Windrim, Coordinator
Centre for Instructional Technology and Development
SAIT Polytechnic

This course focuses on the development of Flash training movies using Adobe Captivate 2, considered by many to be the most efficient and easiest way for users to develop interactive Flash materials for the web. Participants receive a trial copy of Adobe Captivate 2 and experience examples of completed NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) training projects. Demonstrations of the product, best practice examples, and deployment options are featured. Participants learn basic movie construction, timing, interactive elements, narrative flow, full-motion screen caption, audio integration, interactive assessment construction and reporting, and publishing to the web, stand-alone EXE, CD-ROM, and Flash. Course participants experience how NWACC delivers interactive training on many subjects via the web and should attend this course with potential projects in mind.

Pat Kelly, Webmaster
Organizational Development
NorthWest Arkansas Community College

Bob Tucker, Coordinator for Student Success
Student Services
NorthWest Arkansas Community College

This highly interactive and hands-on course was designed for faculty members who either teach or are considering teaching online. The course consists of a series of learning activities designed to introduce productivity and management techniques that are not exclusive to any particular course management system. Topics explored during the course include reviewing and commenting tools, screen capture techniques, basic hypermedia and multimedia development, developing your own learning content, and incorporating third-party learning content.

James Taggart, Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems
Atlantic Cape Community College

This course provides participants with the opportunity to learn about and play with various web 2.0 technologies (i.e. social bookmarking, blogs, RSS aggregators, wikis, and personal portals). During the course, participants discuss methods for incorporating these tools into different teaching and learning environments. Included for each technology is a brief introduction, examples of how it is used in teaching and learning, a discussion about pedagogical issues, and time for participants to set up their own accounts and experiment with the technologies.

Rochelle Rodrigo, Residential Faculty
English
Mesa Community College

This course focuses on open educational resources (OER), digitized educational materials that can be freely used and adapted to meet users’ teaching and learning needs. A combination of demonstrations and hands-on activities are used to show how open content combined with social networking functionality can be used to provide contextualized and collaborative teaching and learning opportunities. Course participants develop an understanding of how OER and web 2.0 tools can be pragmatically applied and drawn upon to meet local instructional needs, and gain general knowledge about the issues central to the emergence and use of OER in the community college setting. This course is ideal for instructors, deans, provosts, and other educators who develop higher education curriculum.

Cynthia Jimes, Senior Research Associate
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)

Thad Nodine, Vice President
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)

During this hands-on course, participants work with Camtasia Studio as they learn the basic steps to recording, editing, and producing onscreen videos. With assistance from the course facilitator, participants record a video of onscreen action, perform basic editing actions, and publish the video in the format of their choice. Participants also learn how to share lectures, presentations, and training videos via the web, CD-ROM, or iPod. The course facilitator demonstrates the software in real time, obtains input from the audience, and conducts a question-and-answer period. In addition, along with the direct instruction and experimentation, the course facilitator shares how educators use Camtasia Studio to achieve their classroom goals. This course is designed to give participants the maximum exposure to using Camtasia Studio in an educational context.

Matt Pierce, Manager
Training
TechSmith

Great expectations abound with the release of new WiFi technologies, including 802.11i and the new, much-hyped IEEE 802.11n standards. The growing use of wireless technology in today’s business environments has created a need for specialists with knowledge of wireless technologies. Wireless LAN equipment that provides wireless access to a company network and portable devices that are wirelessly enabled require businesses to employ a variety of security mechanisms to protect their operations and assets as well. This course presents the latest wireless security curriculum developed by the National Science Foundation’s Center for System Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA). Topics examined include wireless authentication, data integrity, and data encryption. This course also includes a series of hands-on exercises that are available free through CSSIA.

John Sands, Professor
Business and Technology
Moraine Valley Community College

Erich Spengler, Director
Center for System Security and Information Assurance (cssia)
Moraine Valley Community College

Presence online can be defined as the way in which participants present themselves as real people. There is greater possibility for a sense of loss among online learners: loss of contact, loss of connection, and a resultant sense of isolation. Recent research regarding online teaching and learning points to the critical component of faculty presence in online courses and its relationship to successful course outcomes and learner satisfaction. Course participants, working in small groups, have the opportunity to think about and work with their own sense of presence online and practice techniques they can use in their online courses. By the conclusion of this course, participants have written an introductory letter to their students and created an ice-breaker activity designed to begin the process of establishing presence.

Rena Palloff, Faculty
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University

Keith Pratt, Faculty
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University

Course participants learn and apply copyright law in the context of digital media as they discover how to find resources that faculty members and students can use. Specific cases are reviewed as participants learn about the public domain. Participants examine why simple searches for media can be ineffective, terms of use on various websites, and websites that offer a large selection of media, including hundreds of thousands of public domain works. Internet searches conducted during the course stimulate discussion, analysis, application of newly learned skills. Participants leave the course with an increased understanding of copyrighted works and new skills for finding media they can use in their courses.

Barbara Waxer, Instructor
Design and Media Arts
Santa Fe Community College