Innovations 2007


March 4-7, 2007
Hilton New Orleans
Riverside

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Louisiana Community and Technical College System


 
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Tentative Session Listing
Stream 1 - Learning and Teaching
Stream 2 - Leadership and Organization
Stream 3 - Workforce Preparation and Development
Stream 4 - Student Services and Activities
Stream 5 - Basic Skills and Developmental Education
Stream 6 - Resource Development and Foundation Management
Stream 7 - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Stream 1 - Learning and Teaching
Full session descriptions and presenter information are available by clicking on the session titles below.
"Audrey" – Virtual Business Woman: Teaching Managerial Accounting Principles


"X-stream" Assessment: The River as Metaphor


"You're Fired!" The Apprentice Comes to the Writing Classroom


“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” -- Canadian College and Arab Values: The Blending of Cultures in Student Affairs at the College of the North Atlantic - Qatar


“X-stream Assessment”: Tracking the Flow of Learning Evidence


24/7 Office Hours – Providing Math Students More Access to Instruction


A Cognitive Approach to College Prep Courses


A New Generation of Learning


A Radical Breakthrough in Business Education


Act on Fact: Using CCSSE Results to Improve Student Learning


Active Learning: A Must for Today's Students


Active Learning: Engaging the Brains of the 21st Century Student


Adding a Diversity Component to Your Course: It's a Good Thing


Algebra With a Discovery Approach


Aligning High School Work with College Expectations


Alternative to WebCT: Creating a Quality, Low-Cost, Home-Grown Online Writing Course


An Enriched Environment for the Student


Apple's iPod More Than Music: A Tool for the 21st Century Classroom


Assessment: You Can Do It.


Bank on B.O.S.S.:Building Online Student Success


Best Practice in Teaching and Leading for Innovation and Community


Best Practices for Online Course Design


Breaking Boundaries: Putting the Classroom in the Community and the Community in the Classroom


Bringing Problem-based Learning to Technical Courses


Building Connections While Building a Home: A Multidisciplinary Service Learning Project


Building Relationships for Student Success


Building Your Clinical Library


Calculating to Convince


California Educational Technology Collaborative Tech Demonstration Session


Can They Do It? High-Tech Real-Time Performance Evaluation


Certifying Faculty to Teach Online – After the Basics


Click, See, Hear: Just-in-Time Learning


Coaching a Winning Team: Creating Success-Oriented Environments for Developmental Education Students


Computer Training Employees Will Actually Attend


Connecting Life and Work: Practices in Living Divided No More


Cooperative Investigative Projects For College Mathematics Classrooms


Create Video Tutorials for Students and Colleagues


Creating a Course and a Website About the Creative Process


Creating an Exceptional Teaching and Learning Environment


Creative Challenges: Design and Development of E-Learning for Faculty Development


Credit and Noncredit Collaboration on Campus: Partnering for Student Success


Dear Student: So What?


Designing for Universal Accessibility


Designs for Learning: Where Scholarship and Practice Meet To Achieve Learning Outcomes


Developing and Implementing Service Learning: Taking Baby Steps


Developing and Marketing Remote Centers


Developing Critical Thinking Using Computer Simulation Assignments


Developing Online Faculty: A Faculty Favorite Recipe for Success


Developing Successful Youth Programs on Campus to Serve Community Needs


Developing World Citizens: Practical Applications for the Classroom


Development and Implementation of an ADN Online Program


Discussion Boards Increase Student Participation


Distance Learning Made Easy


Diversify Your Assessment Delivery and Reporting Options


Dollars as Grades: A Better Incentive for Students?


Educating for Tolerance and Compassion: A Place for Meditation in a College Classroom?


EduMetry's Rich-Feedback Grading for Learning: Student Success at West Hills College


Effectively Using Learning Styles in the Online Environment


Electronic Eclecticism: Achieving Alternative Literacies by Bending the Rigid


Engagement Outside the Classroom Matters: Pandora's Box Film and Speaker Series


Engaging Honors Students: An Active Learning Approach


Engaging Students in an Environment for Learning


ESOL Voices: Walking the Diversity Talk


Ethics: Officers Not Liable for Deaths


Everything’s a Story: Applying Fiction Writing Techniques to Research Writing


Faculty Development Professionals Striving for Quality: Do You Ever Feel Alone?


Faculty Presence: A Critical Component to Online Course Success


Finding the Perfect Match: Learning Styles, Personality Types, and the Learning Environment


Flash and Web Design Made Easy


Foresight, Learning, Creativity: Starting a Local Futures Institute


Fostering Critical Thinking in Online Classes


Free Resources That Streamline Online Course Development and Implementation


From Classroom to Learning Spaces: Teaching by Design, The Cross Papers, Number 10


From PowerPoint to the Internet — Online Presentations Made Simple


From the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: Partnering for Healthy Communities


Googlery: Six Successful Strategies


How Community College Faculty View Online Learning


How to Design a Service-Learning Fact Sheet


How to Fund Technical Faculty Professional Development on a Tight Budget


Human Triumphs of Survival: Incorporating The New York Times and Other Sources


Hybrid Versus Online Courses


I'll Meet You Online: Using eMeeting to Bring NVCC's Six Campuses Together


I'll Take Learning for 500: Using Game Shows to Engage, Motivate and Train


Implementing Self-Directed Learning in the Community College


Improving Your Online Discussion Board


In Search of the Learning College: Accomplishments and Challenges


Including All Students in Classroom Instruction: A Viable Approach


Increase Student Retention in Online Programs Through Comprehensive Faculty Training Initiatives


Increased Comprehension and Retention Through Automated Lecture Capturing


Increasing Learning With In-class Response Systems


Increasing Student Engagement By Combining Intramural Activities With Popular Television Shows


Individual Concept Mastery in a Hybrid Internet Course


Innovation and Inquiry for Student Learning


Inquiring Minds Want to Know


Integrating Assessment Tools and Tutorials in Your Computer Concepts and Applications Course: It’s a SNAP!


Integrating Interactivity and Internet Resources Into Teaching.


Integrating Traditional Visual Arts Into a High-tech Interactive Design Curriculum


Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Civic Engagement: Community Learning and Learning Communities


iStream: Innovation at your Fingertips


IT Evolves Into Information and Communications Technology


It's Showtime! Harvesting Assessment Data and Putting Results to Action


Leadership and the Knowledge-Based Economy: What You Need to Know


Learning Communities and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning


Learning-centered Professional Development at Kapi’olani Community College


Let's Talk About Teaching: The TLC


Making it Fun: Even the Driest Material Can be Entertaining


Making the Most of Technology: Enhancing Instruction With Digital Video


Manageable Components for the College Research Paper


Microsoft Office 2007


Mind Mapping: Building a Better Foundation for the Thinking Skills Process


Motivate Students by Using Software


Old World/New World: Adapting the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Study Topic to Nonhonors Classes


Online Classroom Resources: The Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)


Online Doctorate for Community College Faculty and Administrators


Online Teaching and Learning: Goodbye PDFs, Hello Active Learning


Only Some Software Helps Learning in the Classroom


Open Books and Open Minds: Taking Testing Out of the Classroom


Outsourcing in Higher Education: Instructional Design


Overhauling the Nursing Curriculum


Painting as Prewriting Strategy: Discovering the Shape and Color of Ideas


PEDAGOGIES OF VISIBILITY: Making Instruction, Learning, and Research Visible in Pre-collegiate Education


Personal, Social, and Global Adjustment Through College-Accredited Community Service


Practical Assessment Strategies for Faculty


Preparing African-American Males to Make a Difference


Project Based Learning: The Way to Teach Our Students and Serve Our Communities


Rethinking Readers for a Student-Centered Classroom.


RoboGumbo: Community Outreach Using the LEGO Robotics System


Sakai and ETUDES: Community Source Solutions


Service Learning Easy: Connecting With Your Agency


Service Learning: An Engaging Pedagogy for the Classroom and Community


Service-Learning Activities Promote the Understanding of Technology and Build Community Partnerships


Smart Boards to Podcasts: Higher Education’s Technological Landscape


Strategies for Improving Writing in Humanities Courses


Strategies for Integrating Full-time and Part-time Faculty


Student Equity: Perspectives on African-American Student Academic Achievement


Students’ Perceptions of Fairness in the Classroom-Research Findings


Taking the Future to the Community


Teaching Technology to a Highly Diverse Audience


Teaching the Future: What Sudents Need to Know


Technology + Faculty = Boot Camp!


Technology and Story: Partnering for Adjunct Faculty Development


Technology Mentors: Low-Cost Faculty Development Using Campus Experts


The Best of Both Worlds: Why Hybrid Courses Work


The Care and Feeding of Peer Tutors


The Changing Landscape: Baccalureate Degrees on Community College Campuses


The Future Face of Tutoring Strategies in Higher Education


The Gray Side of the Brain: Using Brain Research in the College Classroom


The Impact of Context and Culture in Shaping Messages


The Light in our Lives: Returning Wholeness to Our Institutions


The Seven Ps: A Framework for Learning Organizations


The VALOR Project: Video Learning Resources


Training Career Changers to Become Effective Special Education Teachers


Transglobal Partnerships: Building Global and Cultural Awareness Through Educational Collaboration


Turning Linked Classes Into Learning Communities


Universal Design For Learning: Accessibility Awareness in Louisiana


Using Podcasting to Revitalize Your Classes and Change Your Life


Using Real World Learning Objects to Engage Students


Using Scenario Planning to See the Future of Learning


Visual Art Online Teaching Campfire: What Works and What Doesn't


Vodcast Essentials: You Building the Video


Where’s My Stuff? Using BlackBoard to Store Instructional Resources


Writing the Community: English as the Learning Community Hub


Writing to Learn at My College and Yours


X-Stream Assessment in Three Simple Strokes


Your Own LMS In 30 Minutes for $10


Stream 2 - Leadership and Organization
Full session descriptions and presenter information are available by clicking on the session titles below.
A New Revenues: A Strategic Vision for Contract Training


A Successful Faculty Development Program: Creating a Supportive Climate for Skills Transfer


Achieving Liftoff: From the AACC Competencies to Gravitational Leadership


Bringing China to Rural Kentucky: A Case Study


Building Integrated Systems: Career Cluster Pathways


Changing Culture, Building Leaders


Changing Lives: Who Knew That It Would Be So Tricky?


Collaboration for Student Success: The Bronx Community College Model


Collaborative Governance: The Dialogue Continues


Community College Strategic Implications: The Spellings Commission Report


Connect the Community College to the Community Through Hiring Practices


Crisis Communications on the Fly: Don't Assume You'll Be Able to Get Back to Your Office


Crisis Planning and Community Response: A Working Model for Today's Community College Leaders


Defending the Community College Equity Agenda


Developing a Strategic Plan for Diversity: The Northampton Story


Disaster Recovery: Humber College's Experience With Post-Tsunami Reconstruction


Distance Learning Double Standards


Do I Want to Be a President? Am I Ready to Be a President?


Due Diligence in Preparing Your Campus for a Flu Pandemic


Employee Retention: New Employees Are Special People


Empowering Faculty With Change Initiatives Focusing on Improvements in Teaching and Recognition of Excellence


Faculty Development and Collegewide Initiatives: Issues of Engagement, Quality, and Accountability


Faculty Development for Getting Results: Facilitator Training Workshop


Finding the Right Fit: Getting What You Want When Selecting Outside Presenters


Fostering Collaboration in the Community College


From Implosion to Explosion: The Emergence of One the Largest Community Colleges in America


Getting and Keeping the Right People on the Bus


Growing Your Leaders and Harvesting for the Future


High Performance Through Coaching: Taking Staff Development to the Next Level


How Clark College Went Tobacco Free


How You Can Create Outcome-based Learning Environments


Imperatives for Remodeling Community College Enrollment Management: What's in Your Toolkit?


Infusing Self-Study Recommendations Into the Strategic Plan


Innovative Assimilation: A Systematic Multifaceted Approach to Hiring and Developing Adjunct Faculty


Innovative Degree Development in Response to a New College Mandate


Integrating Planning, Assessment, and Governance


Leadership Jazz


Leading Change at Your College by Focusing on Its Strengths


Lesbian Leaders in Action: Influencing and Transforming Community College Culture


Measuring Program Costs: A Model for Strategic Decision Making


Meeting the Challenge: Developing Learning-centered Faculty Leaders


Mush! Driving a Team Through the Storm of Change


No Teacher Left Behind: Collaborative Teacher Preparation Programs that Work


On the Road to Diversifying Faculty: One Step at a Time


Out of the Flood Waters: The Post Katrina Partnership Between Delgado Community College and Fielding Graduate University


Pandemic Flu Planning in a College Setting


Partnering for Student Learning and Success


Peek Behind the Curtain: Comparison of Distance Learning Programs


Planning is the Key: Online Instructor Training Made Easy


Preparing Leaders for the 21st Century


Professional Development for Community College Staff: Valuable Resources Uncovered


Rapid Growth in E-Learning Enrollments and How to Survive


Realizing Vision and Values -- Embracing Diversity, Moraine Valley’s Strategic Priority


Reinventing a 38-Year-Old Campus


Rio Salado College: Preparing the Next Generation of Community College Leaders


Ripple Effects: Energizing Our System Through Leadership Development


Small Fish in a Big Ocean: Lessons Learned from New Administrators


Strategies for Effective Risk Management


Strategies for Successful Faculty Orientation: Interaction Trumps Information


Successful Partnership Increases College Readiness of High School Students in El Paso


Succession Planning: Two Models for Engaging and Retaining Employees Through Career Development