This session provides information to educators interested in maximizing the benefits of CIT. It includes valuable insights regarding the information received in the registration packets, tips on finding sessions most applicable to your needs, and application of your new-found knowledge after you return home. Discussions also include a review of the Conference Program; a description of Forums, Roundtables, Hands-On Labs, General Sessions, and the Exhibition Hall; and how to avoid burning out during the conference.

Sherry Bishop, Instructor
Information Technology
North Arkansas College

Rick Williams, Director
Information Technology
North Arkansas College

8:30 AM
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

This Special Session shares the steps for developing a systemwide campus collaborative - i.e. technology centers, community colleges, universities - strategic e-learning plan for 2010 that highlights system and campus goals, online student services, marketing, financial support, quality matters, student outcomes, faculty development, partnerships, and technology innovations. Session participants receive materials for developing a strategic plan, as well as lessons learned as a result of developing and implementing an e-learning plan.

Robbie Melton, Associate Vice Chancellor
Academic Affairs
Tennessee Board of Regents

9:45 AM
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Websites such as Facebook and MySpace have exploded in popularity as students use these websites to meet new friends, keep in touch with old friends, and voice their opinions. Many students don’t realize the dangers of these kinds of blogs where anyone with a college email address can access their personal lives. Session participants learn how social websites such as Facebook work, consider the kinds of information students are revealing, and discuss the current controversies surrounding Facebook. Participants also discuss the implications of using Facebook in postsecondary classrooms.

Kit Frankenfield, Specialist and Adjunct Professor
Technology and English
Johnson County Community College

11:00 AM
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

The presenters provide data from a year-long study on current and future IT workforce skills requirements gathered from IT workers, hiring managers, and strategic planners from leading U.S. companies. The study, which benchmarked workforce skills needs for several regions across the country, focuses on technician and technologist IT jobs and helps community colleges, four-year universities, and secondary schools provide an adequate supply of properly skilled IT professionals to domestic and transnational enterprises whose operations are increasingly IT-enabled and more IT-dependent.

Peter Saflund, Managing Principal
Tsi
The Saflund Institute

Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director
BATEC
University of Massachusetts - Boston

1:00 PM
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Innovations in visualized learning have fueled a convergence of technological advancement, acceptance, and advanced learning, and can be effectively connected to online, real-time assessment and other learning modalities using 3D digital objects and other visual assets. Session participants interact with these immersive technologies and become aware of the potential impact of this convergence.

Jamie Justice, Director
Visualized Learning and Innovation
Kentucky Community and Technical College System - KCTCS

2:15 PM
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

In The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman makes the case that forces have converged to flatten and restructure the global competitive landscape. This flattening has empowered individuals to compete and collaborate like never before. In this less predictable, less hierarchical, flattened world, knowledge is widely distributed and rapidly changing, leaving traditional course-based learning increasingly unable to meet the needs of students. Key flatteners explored during this session include the internet, open-source software, search engines, wireless mobility, VoIP, digitalization, personalization, and virtualization.

Michael Qaissaunee, Professor
Engineering and Technology
Brookdale Community College

Gordon Snyder, Director
National Ict Center
Springfield Technical Community College

8:00 AM
Monday, November 12, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Over the next five years, community colleges will need over 3,000 new presidents and vice presidents; in the next 15 years, community colleges will need over 62,000 new full-time faculty members. Many of these new leaders will be prepared in Walden University’s Community College Leadership program. During this session, three current graduate students in the Walden program and the program’s director review the distinctive elements that make this program one of the most innovative and substantive graduate programs ever created. More than 130 doctoral students are already enrolled. Join us to learn why this is the fastest-growing program of its kind in the nation.

Terry O'Banion, President Emeritus
League For Innovation
League for Innovation in the Community College

Susan Lindahl, Chief Strategy Officer
McAnany, Van Cleave and Phillips

9:15 AM
Monday, November 12, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

As many campuses look forward to catching the next wave of emerging technologies, some faculty members on every campus remain resistant to the integration of technology into their teaching. During this session, the presenters draw on their faculty and administrative experience to suggest strategies for reaching out to faculty members who feel left behind by technology trends, who are skeptical, or who are disgruntled and have had enough.

John O'Brien, President
North Hennepin Community College

Ron Anderson, President
Century College

12:45 PM
Monday, November 12, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of information technology in American higher education. This Special Session presents the results of the 2007 survey and provides new national data on IT planning, policy, finance, instructional support and integration, and web services, along with comparative data for community colleges and other sectors of U.S. higher education.

Kenneth Green, Director
The Campus Computing Project

2:00 PM
Monday, November 12, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Five major technology companies formed an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) Consortium to assist colleges and industry partners change the way people learn. IDCs help educators create digitized content development centers, self-sustaining environments that generate revenue, articulation agreements with K-12 institutions to create 3D models, demonstration and faculty and trainer development sites for colleges and business organizations, and simulation-based learning environments that provide interactive, experiential learning experiences. You won’t want to miss the demonstrations of 3D interactive learning!

Marly Bergerud, President
Strategic Alliance Solutions

3:15 PM
Monday, November 12, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Roane State Community College has developed a set of best practices for real-time videoconferencing that expands class offerings while focusing on enhancing teaching and learning. Educators participating in this Special Session learn how to promote interactivity while increasing learning through course content and curriculum offerings at multiple campuses.

Gary Goff, President
Roane State Community College

8:00 AM
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

This Special Session features NewSkills, an award-winning Tennessee Board of Regents computer-based, instructional program that benefits students requiring flexible course schedules or individualized instruction in developmental reading, writing, math, and college algebra courses. Examined are how NewSkills promotes student learning with diagnostic assessments, targeted remediation, posttests, one-on-one tutoring, and academic counseling and advising.

Warren Nichols,
Volunteer State Community College

Kay Dayton, Director
Developmental Studies
Volunteer State Community College

9:15 AM
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Despite the use of information technology to address a variety of learning style differences in the classroom, most efforts have not focused on learning style differences associated with students’ cultural backgrounds. It is now possible, however, to develop undergraduate courses that reflect new research about cultural learning and work styles. This presentation focuses on using technology to develop culturally responsive teaching and learning strategies in face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses and offers ideas, resources, and promising practices to get started.

Steven Gilbert, President
Marketing
The TLT Group

Naomi Story, Director
Center for Teaching and Learning
Mesa Community College

1:15 PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Based on current research compiled by NWCET, this presentation covers trends in IT careers and IT skills, the changing worlds of work and education, and the net generation. From employment projections to skills demands, from the habits and work style of digital natives to the challenges for digital immigrants, this session offers a wealth of information for IT educators striving to stay in touch with new technologies, tools, and teaching methods as they gain valuable insights into the IT trends affecting teaching and learning.

Suzanne Marks, Faculty
Business Technology Systems
Bellevue College

2:30 PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

How can instructors really know if students have met course objectives or achieved content area competencies if tests and quizzes are not the main means of assessment? How do instructors move away from using tests and quizzes and develop assessment techniques that measure student knowledge? This session explores course design and assessment and links the two. Participants leave able to design rubrics and authentic assessments that really measure achievement and learning.

Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University

Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University

3:45 PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel

Today’s greatest pressure on community colleges is the call from the Commission on the Future of Higher Education and other external policy groups to improve and transparently account for institutional performance in measurable terms. Community colleges’ performance obligations are highlighted for confirmation and discussion. Three IT-enabled performance improvement strategies with examples from community colleges are outlined and illustrated, as are the role of performance analytics and performance planning and management.

William Graves, Senior Vice President
Marketing
SunGard Higher Education

5:00 PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Music City Ballroom, Level Two, Renaissance Hotel