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ITC Audio Conferences
This semester CIT is pleased to host a series of audio conferences on teaching with technology hosted by the Instructional Technology Council . These audio conferences will be held in room C-335 on a Tuesday from 2:00-3:00pm. Participants will be able to hear the presentation and ask questions over the phone. A CIT staff member will moderate these conferences. To register to any of these conferences email Kathy Morley at kmorley@bergen.edu.
Using Wikis and Blogs to Promote Information Literacy Skills and Library Resources
Feb. 6, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: The use of wikis and blogs as library guides are excellent alternatives to more traditional methods of subject guides, pathfinders, or handouts. Blogs and wikis are Web-based, easy to update, are searchable, and allow for user input and feedback. This session will focus on lessons learned in the use of blogs and wikis to promote library skills and resources, and how these technologies can be used to strengthen learning communities through the collaboration of faculty, students and librarians. The interactive presentation will include a discussion of the pros and cons of wikis and blogs, community editing and feedback, getting others to contribute, and the strengths and weaknesses of the blogs and wikis over traditional HTML or paper research guides.
Presenter: Chad Boeninger, Reference and Instructional Librarian, University Libraries/Ohio University
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Academic Advising at a Distance
Feb. 13, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Bobbi Thomas, Assistant Director of Student Services and Senior Academic Advisor for the Washington State University Center for Distance and Professional Education, Washington State University
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Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) in the Online and Blended Classroom
Mar. 13, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: The presenters will explore methods instructors can use in an online or blended learning environment to collect feedback, early and often, on how well their students are learning what they are being taught. CATs provide faculty and their students with information they can use to ensure teaching and learning effectiveness. Participants will distinguish between formative and summative assessments, examine commonly used CATs, and explore ways to implement CATs in online and blended courses.
Presenter: Jean Runyon, Professor and Director of the Innovative Teaching Center, and Tom Gorecki, Professor, Technical Studies Department, College of Southern Maryland
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Establishing Boundaries and Maximizing Potential for Virtual Educators
Mar. 20, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: Most online faculty work virtually and enjoy a potential lifestyle freedom that outstrips their traditional counterparts. However, virtual professors often have difficulty establishing healthy boundaries and creating a life/work balance. As online education grows and matures as an industry, issues of burnout and stress continue to grow among online faculty. Maintaining a healthy life/work balance translates into productivity and continued passion for teaching. With practical tips, suggestions, and a dose of humor, Teresa Marie Kelly will examine the issues of balancing scheduling with flexibility, distinguishing between multi-tasking and splitting focus, leveraging technology, embracing the concept of working in the world not away from it, and cultivating peer support to establish a true life/work balance that maximizes the freedom of lifestyle and fuels teaching.
Presenters: Teresa Marie Kelly, Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, Kaplan University
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Student Success Skills Integration
Mar. 27, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: For the past six years, the presenters have provided leadership for a major initiative to enhance student learning at Hocking College - to integrate, document and assess important life and career skills for the success skills learning community. Hocking College defined a set of eight success skills necessary for all graduates to succeed in the workplace, education and today's society. Skills expectations have been integrated throughout the college's academic program and co-curricular activities. Now an e-portfolio enables each student to learn about, reflect upon, and document success skill proficiencies.
The presenters will describe how Hocking College is working toward this institutional transformation and the impact is it having on students and faculty. This work contributed to a positive review of general education and assessment of student academic achievement during Hocking's most recent re-accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission.
Presenters: Judy Maxson, Provost, Claudette Stevens, Vice President, Bernita Crawford, Assessment Coordinator, and Bonnie Allen Smith, Assessment Coordinator, Student Academic Achievement, Hocking College
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Working with Hidden Disabilities
Apr. 3, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: Working with Hidden Disabilities is a brief overview and idea manual for campus and online college faculty. The program covers cognitive disabilities such as LDs, ADHD, and head injuries; disorders such as ADHD, OCD, and Asperger’s Syndrome; and selected mental health and psychiatric disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality, post-traumatic stress, conduct disorder, and schizophrenia. Each segment explains common symptoms seen in electronic or classroom work (whether a student is documented or not), explains what accommodations are generally used to provide equal access and why they help, and gives ideas for universal design both on campus and online that can improve comprehension and performance for all students in a course.
Presenter: Dr. Linda Giar, Counselor/Learning Specialist, Office of Students with Special Disabilities, St. Petersburg College
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Game-based Technologies in Higher Education
Apr. 17, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Dr. Claudia Johnston, Associate Vice President for Special Projects, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
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An Example of Game-based Technologies in Higher Education – Pulse!!
Apr. 24, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Dr. Claudia Johnston, Associate Vice President for Special Projects, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
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Tips and Tricks for Teaching Math Online
May 15, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: Whether you are experienced or just getting started, Fred Feldon will offer advice on how to increase retention, provide a sense of community, produce your own instructional material, pick a course management system, manage assignments, group work and testing, and other techniques for successfully teaching mathematics online.
Presenter: Fred Feldon Department Chair, Mathematics Coastline Community College
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Teaching Music Appreciation Online
May 22, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: The explosion in distance education has impacted the performing and visual arts, in addition to the traditional core curriculum (math, letters, and science). Advances in technology have allowed colleges to offer classes that require large audio and visual components effectively in an online environment. Music appreciation is an example of a course that can use multimedia to present important concepts and enhance student learning. Streaming formats in audio and video not only engage students more effectively than traditional Web sites, but these technologies also help those students we consider to be “aural” or “visual” learners.
Presenter: Mike McGowan, Instructor, Instrumental Music, Panola College
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Making ESL Accessible Online
June 19, 2007 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Description: Just as native-speaking students are demanding more accessibility to education via online courses, so are ESL students. These students want/need to take English courses, but their personal and/or professional lives do not always allow them that opportunity. ESL students can access courses and instructors via Blackboard and e-NOVA Centra and interact with other students asynchronously and synchronously. The synchronous interactions allow students to develop their oral/aural communication skills. Online learning not only improves the students’ measurable skills, such as writing and reading comprehension, but also helps their student behaviors, such as discipline and confidence.
The presenters will provide information on teaching intermediate writing and reading and advanced writing and reading to non-native speakers. They will discuss teacher and student achievements and struggles with ESL online learning, and future plans for course improvements.
Presenter: Stephanie Harm, Instructor, and Karalyn Schneider-Diaz, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the English as a Second Language Program, Northern Virginia Community College
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