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Alliston, Jerry R
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Instruction Made Accessible on a Limited Budget Providing accessible instruction in the postsecondary setting may be viewed as challenging and rewarding at the same time. However, accessible resources are available that are not a burden to your budget. This session will discuss various free and inexpensive assistive technology options including software and equipment. A hands-on demonstration of some of these options will be provided and each attendee will receive a resource disc. |
Baker, Jamie
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I Create It, I Share It, I Pod It- Enhancing Learning with Podcast In this session, attendees will learn technology can make teaching more effective and efficient while increasing cross-curricular learning and encourage communication between teachers and parents. Ms. Baker will show how the use of podcasts and I Pods has allowed her to transform her art class into multiple “studios”. A general overview of I Movie and Garageband, programs used to create podcasts, will be discussed. Attendees will learn how podcasts are made available on-line allowing for sharing with students, parents, and other educators as well as There will be a discussion about the benefits of podcasting including the positive environmental aspects of paperless communication and the ability to share school events such as plays and newscasts on-line.
The goal of this session is to demonstrate new methods of teaching with podcast and to introduce concepts that can be implemented in their schools for increased learning and communication with students and parents.
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Banerjee, Santanu
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Creating online multimedia Tutorials using Camtasia and a Tablet PC I will present a novel method of creating online multimedia tutorials using a tablet PC, a recording microphone, and Camtasia 6.0 software. Camtasia Studio 6.0 software allows live audio/video recording of any selected area of the desktop. The recording is then stored in a standard format. I have used the Windows Journal software of a tablet PC, where I can write like a whiteboard lecture in the recording area, while speaking into a microphone simultaneously to explain the logic. This way several 5-10 minute multimedia tutorials for important Physics concepts, reviews, and solved problems were created. These tutorials are stored online, so that the students virtually have access to the professor on demand. The tutorials can also be reused every semester. While playing the tutorials, the students also have the opportunity to pause, replay, and fast forward the tutorials. Student evaluation of the effectiveness of the tutorials will also be discussed in this session. |
Beedle, Jon
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Online Media: How Socially Aware is Higher Education in Mississippi?
Social media is utilized by administration and faculty as an outlet to connect with current and potential students by answering questions, providing information, and promotional services. Marketing with Web 2.0 tools is a very cost-effective way for many institutions to advertise. Another advantage is many potential students are tech savvy and search for potential colleges online. A solid university marketing campaign can help sway a potential student’s desire to attend a particular college.
Using Safko and Brake’s (2009) fifteen categories of social media, over one-hundred social media applications were analyzed to determine which 4-year public and private universities in the Mississippi are utilizing social media and the functions of each. The results of the research will show the institutions that are incorporating the most web 2.0 tools, the most popular social media tools, and the effect, if any, on education, communication, and recruiting.
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Bell-Wells, Rasheda J
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"Teaching Through Karaography" Karaography, a term coined by the presenter, is an alternative teaching strategy yet to be fully examined in the research literature. It is a teaching methodology constructed by the researcher to integrate karaoke and learning. In essence it is an alternative, arts-based research methodology. Karaography combines non-traditional pedagogical techniques sensory perceptions (sight, sound and rhythmic retention) research, teaching and technology. Such creative educational inquiry seeks to promote the relational dynamics between technology and education. Karaography is an under-appreciated teaching and learning tool. Learning song lyrics, imitating musical beats, and singing are cultural norms for students today who are deeply rooted in music. Using Karaography as an instrument for teaching academically challenged students is, in the least, a logical effort to reach out to and motivate such students to learn, achieve and succeed and has proven to be overwhelmingly successful! |
Bradshaw, Gary
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Technology and the Text: the ePsych (r)Evolution Textbooks represent an increasing expense for college students as their prices have soared in recent years, reflecting high production costs and low sales volume. Authors have developed a terse writing style to keep costs low, reducing the readability and usefulness of texts. Technology, in the form of electronic texts, can dramatically reduce costs and improve student learning, though current electronic texts remain expensive and of modest quality. ePsych, a text intended for introductory psychology classes, demonstrates how we can exploit all of the power of contemporary computers to better serve our students. ePsych features a user-friendly writing style, extensive use of figures, illustrations, simulations, and videos, and even allows students to participate in experiments. Tests comparing ePsych against traditional printed texts show that students learn 10% more with ePsych. The talk will discuss the features of ePsych and show how they benefit student learning. |
Brown, Jorge E
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Producing an interactive instruction session with digital games Building off Marc Prensky educational theories presented in his book, Digital Game-Based Learning, the presentation will focus on digital game-based learning and how the University of Southern Mississippi is incorporating this into information instruction. The goal is to incorporate digital game-based learning as a primary tool for instruction. Many supporter of digital game based information instruction have focused on using digital games as reinforcement in much the same ways as traditional games have been used in instruction. Digital games have more application than as a review tool. Its applications include greater engagement of students during instructional sessions and the possibility for students to learn at their own pace as part of an online tutorial. Digital Game-Based learning is an emerging industry. It holds many opportunities for the information professional that is willing to consider it as an option or companion to their current information instruction program. |
Cleghorn, Dana S
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Start Here! Structuring Student-Friendly Online Courses With the skyrocketing popularity of online degree programs, university faculty may frequently find first-time online students in their courses. Before a first-timer can begin to work on the content of the course, he or she must learn how to navigate the course. The presenter of this session will provide suggestions for making courses as student-friendly and easily navigable as possible. Special emphasis will be placed on the “Start Here” module and overview pages. |
El-Sawi, Khaled
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Interactive Class Management System (MYUSM.NET) Many technologies are currently available that could facilitate the teaching process and better meet student expectations. This session will discuss the details and methodology of the MYUSM Online Class Management System developed by Dr. Khaled El-Sawi (MYUSM.NET). Dr. El-Sawi has designed and implemented a comprehensive online class management system for utilization with both online and offline courses.
The online class management system facilitates and promotes the publishing of grades and up-to-date class content in an effective manner. The system also gives students better access to the information required for them to succeed their classes, including different document types and audio/video streams of class content. In addition, tools are available to facilitate valuable communication between faculty members and their students as it becomes possible to broadcast information easily and rapidly.
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Garber, Kaysha L
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Best Practices and Policies for a Successful Synchronous Program Selecting technology is really the easy part of developing an online program. The difficulty begins with planning and establishing policies and procedures that will elliminate potential pitfalls and contribute to the quality, rigor, and strength of sychronous learning. With so many institutions adding synchronicity to their programs, finding policies that work has become a tough job. This session will explore policy planning and development in the areas of computer requirements, technical support, student orientation, faculty training and support services, learner evaluation, and emergency planning which are all central to the success of any sychronous online education program. Come ready to contribute your ideas or success stories on sychronous education policies. |
Hale, Jason G
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Coalitions of the Willing: Expanding Cyberinfrastructure in Lean Times At The University of Mississippi (UM), pockets of desktop research computing are supported by the Office of Information Technology, and the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research (MCSR). In spite of no budget to speak of, access has been expanded in recent years. How?
A key strategy has been for central IT to encourage and facilitate cross-departmental investments into campus-wide licenses. This approach has expanded research computing software such as Mathematica, MATLAB, and SPSS for faculty and students, while decreasing the cost per unit, keeping the aggregate institutional costs under control, and substantially lightening the support load for departments and central IT alike.
Approaches that work within the institution can also work across institutions. MCSR can serve as a vehicle for achieving interinstitutional economies of scale while expanding access to research computing for Mississippi researchers and students. |
Heilbronner, Cindy
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Your Personality in the Workplace This presentation was developed to be given at Adult Basic Education conferences in June of 2009. Because we work with ever-changing "teams" in different situations, as do most in the work force, we saw a need to address personality differences and how they impact teamwork. A 14-question survey was given to allow participants to understand the 4 major personality sets and identify the ones that describe each of them best. An informative and interesting (sometimes comical!) Power Point Presentation which we developed was then shown. It incorporated handouts,demonstrations,and a lot of interaction with participants. Those present had fun while gaining valuable knowledge of how to better interact with co-workers and students in achieving goals. |
Hester, Darlene
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Emerging Assistive Technology: Universal Design for Learning At Southern Miss, teacher educators aspire to differentiate learning opportunities for all Teacher Education Program students, some of which experience hearing or visual impairments. Teacher educators must ask themselves if they are truly doing all that they can to make learning universally accessible for all teacher candidates while preparing them to use these technologies in their future classrooms.
A review the literature surrounding Universal Design for Learning (UDL) will be presented and recommendations regarding assistive technologies will be made (e.g. Jaws, BrailleNote, Talking GPS, DeafBlind Communicator, Digital Recorder and Talking Book Players, and Orator for Blackberry SmartPhones, among others.) Additionally, the presenters will offer practical suggestions for professors to enhance the learning of all their students. Finally, participants will be invited to share their own experiences with teaching students with many different abilities and backgrounds.
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Hines, Susan C
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eBook rEvolution Amazon, Sony and Apple have renewed the reading public’s interest in ebooks. The creation of comfortable and convenient devices (Kindles, eReaders, and iPhones) that allow for the easy purchasing, storing and manipulation of digital texts have caught the attention of serious bibliophiles.
When it takes a few days to convert a first-edition owning English professor, the power of the technology is self-evident. The power to offer students significant savings on printed textbooks is also self-evident, but, unfortunately, rarely pursued on college and university campuses.
This presentation examines why ebook technologies are not more widely adopted on campus. Highlighting the chief obstacles—device costs, bookstore sales, academic freedom and pedagogical issues—the presentation outlines solutions intended to assist individuals, departments, and institutions in moving toward less expensive, more efficient paperless solutions.
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Irvin, Lemond D
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Building your web presence for $99.95 per year - or less! How much is your website costing you? Have you really looked at the personnel, the software, and the hosting overhead to see? What if you could have a website, a learning management system, and build your web community…all for less than $100 per year? Sound too good to be true? Well, there are outsourcing solutions available today based on open source (think Linux) that is far cheaper yet widely used and highly dependable - without all the overhead! Content management systems like Joomla and learning management systems like Moodle (think Blackboard) are but two examples of what is currently available as powerful tools in your toolbox. Need to provide a blog? No problem. These tools are easy to set up, fairly easy to learn, and cheap enough to make you wonder why you haven’t been doing this all along. Come hear about some of these tools, how to get them, and ask questions about hosting solutions that fit anybody’s budget. |
Jackson, Craig
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Going Digital without Going Broke In this session, you will learn about FREE tools that will help you create engaging e-learning modules without breaking the budget. Learners today are used to doing things digitally. While most technology costs a lot of money, there are plenty of tools out there that can help you without breaking the bank. To save money and get quality training material out to learners whenever it is best for them, you need, e-learning is a great tool. Starting from scratch, you can convert legacy documents to e-learning, and enhance it with some of the tools we will share with you. Tools include free webinar applications, free streaming video sites, free video conversion tools, and various other tools and sites that will keep you at the forefront of training without breaking the bank.
(Not for publication – to see what tools I am sharing, go to http://msworkforce.htm/disk/go.htm ) |
James, Greg
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Don't Forget the Humans: Performance Technology This interactive session will explore the human side of implementing technology in a humorous setting. While performance and reliability are key elements of technology, we will take a closer look at the foundation of successful deployment: the humans. We will discuss ways to keep people motivated, performing, focused, learning, growing and working together to help their employer accomplish a mission. Too often the onus is taken away from the human aspect of the job, where it belongs.
Every solution should consider the people because if it is unclear, too impersonal, difficult to use, innately demotivational, or just simply a pain in the rear - it is worthless. The "softer" side of supporting employees is discussed throughout the presentation. Real life scenarios will be reviewed as well as some tips for addressing any of the human elements of technology performance that your team may have experienced.
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Jones, Faye
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Terrfic Technology Teaching Tools and Techniques Effective use of up-to-date technology in community college education is increasingly important. The Professional Development program at JC strives to ensure that instructors are aware and trained in technology which promotes student success.
This interactive presentation demonstrates using
the desk top gas chromatograph analyzer in the chemistry lab for analysis of various chemicals that originally required a large costly piece of equipment. The new analyzers do not require special gases and can read out on lap tops or TI-84 hand held calculators.
In addition, the versatility of the school pad is demonstrated. The school pad is another cost-effective tool that enhances learning. |
Jones, Jenny B
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Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy . . .Assessments and Advanced Test Questions It's so easy even a lizard can do it!!! Come and join us for a fun-filled, informative session on the benefits Bb Assements and Advanced Test Questions. This session will showcase examples of innovative test questions and different ways of assessment. Participants will learn to leverage the power of these exciting and time saving features in their own courses. |
Land, Lilly
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The iclicker and Other Student Response Systems There are several different interactive student response systems on the market. This is the second one I have used. Most of the companies marketing these products seem to have a relationship with a textbook publisher.
There are many other reasons for using these systems besides just torturing students.
1. requiring all students to focus on the lesson not just the 1 out of 30 you called on to answer a question
2. taking attendance
3. provides detailed data on how much the student knows - daily data not just unit test, midterm, or final exam data
4. can be used to establish base-line of background information and/or conceptual understanding
5. it holds all students accountable for the learning that you hope is occuring in class
6. quiz students on required reading
Some systems such as the iclicker can be used with Powerpoint slide shows, publisher's websites, WORD documents, in fact anything including ad lib verbal questions.
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Lee, Deborah
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MAGNOLIA: Supporting Education and Business in Mississippi The Mississippi Alliance for Gaining New Opportunities Through Library Information Access, or MAGNOLIA, began in 1997 with a legislative appropriation of $568,000. Now funded at over 1.4 million dollars, MAGNOLIA brings critical information resources to all publicly funded K-12 school systems, public libraries, community colleges, and the eight public universities. Providing access to over fifty databases, hundreds of online reference books, and thousands of electronic journals, the MAGNOLIA project is a crucial resource for Mississippi educators at all levels. This session will provide an overivew of MAGNOLIA resources and offer strategies for incorporating MAGNOLIA databases into a class or curriculum. Given the extensive business resources available through MAGNOLIA, the session will also provide strategies for promoting MAGNOLIA to the business community. |
Lunsford, Dale L
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Virtualization Technologies in Education This session discusses the use of virtualization technologies such as VMWare as a tool for enhancing education in a cost-effective manner. Virtualization technologies enable educators to create and distribute virtual machines that students may use to understand better material covered in courses. A virtual machine is a working copy of an application, desktop operating system, server operating system, or even a team of computers working together. The student may copy and run the virtual machine on a computer to have full access to the object virtualized, be it an operating system or application. This enables educators to provide students with access to a range of systems without the cost of maintaining a large number of physical computers. From the student’s standpoint, the virtual machine is a full-featured system. Virtualization technologies also offer the potential to provide distance education students with access to specialized computing environments through the Internet. |
Mangieri, Jackie
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Maximizing Student Engagement Using Screencasting In the online classroom, faculty must work hard to engage their distance learners and build a strong sense of academic community in the electronic setting. Screencasting can be an effective and easy way to do this. The possible uses for screencasting are endless; these include providing course orientations, delivering instructional lectures, providing feedback, and encouraging student collaboration.
Students respond positively to the use of screencasting in their online classes. They believe it adds an important dimension to the course, and they enjoy the more personalized approach screencasting can offer.
This session will provide an overview of these uses of screencasting; participants will also be introduced to a variety of freely available online screencasting tools.
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McCarver, Teresa W
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More Bang for Your Support Dollars Facing the need to rapidly respond to technology issues in classrooms, along with the need to provide after hours Helpdesk support, the University of Mississippi developed an expanded support method. Learn how multiple IT areas collaborated to provide extended service to our campus community with existing resources and funding.
During this presentation we will provide a detailed overview of the expanded support method.
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McClinton, Jeton
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The Culture of Effective Online Teaching and Learning In the current economic uncertainty, institutions of higher learning must create ways to increase enrollment with limited funding for academics and infrastructure. One method found useful while increasing enrollment is through online courses and programs that decrease barriers and increase student numbers. This type of instruction has been found to be cost-effective for the institution and the student. Therefore, decision makers must look at the bottom-line and consider that education must be flexible and cost-effective with an excellent return on their investment.
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Nichols, Diann M
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Digital Age = Communication Craze Online communication can be cheap, which is a plus in today's suffering economy. However, more slang terminology and texting shortcuts seem to be infiltrating the written communication we receive from students. Therefore, educators must encourage proper written communication in their classrooms, as well as their communication with students. This is especially important since quality, effective writing is becoming a necessary skill in today’s market place. By prioritizing this basic skill in our courses, we can help our students develop good written communication skills, which will distinguish them among their peers, as well as help them to stand out in job interviews and in their future careers.
Discover several short writing assignments available for instructors and how easily each can be incorporated into online courses. Learn how to utilize existing tools within Blackboard to implement and manage these assignments without being overwhelmed.
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Powell, Jeffrey
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Creating Podcast Using Garage Band Will show attendees how to create a podcast using Apple's ILife Suite. Focusing on importing pictures, using iPhoto, then using GarageBand to creating an enhanced podcast. The podcast will include a musical score along with slides and voice over. |
Rawls, Sheri L
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eLearning Approach to Increase Enrollment,Retention,&Graduation Rates The eLearning Initiative is focused on developing additional fully online degree programs to improve student satisfaction, raise retention and graduation rates, and increase enrollment at Southern Miss. The project encompasses many aspects of launching a successful online program including marketing and outreach efforts, faculty training and support, course scheduling and development, upgrading program and business processes, and sustaining growth.
The institutional goals for this project include:
* Improving the coordination of web-based program development campus-wide
* Ensuring consistency in the elearning course environment as experienced by our students
* Maintaining a consistent high quality of educational experience in online courses and programs
* Developing complete, marketable programs for online delivery (e.g., a complete major program)
* Attracting new students to the university and/or increasing retention of students currently enrolled. |
Reeves, Stacy
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Teachers Embracing Change Through Technology Teachers are willing to grow in their educational practice when that practice is focused on their classroom needs. Through a twenty day Institute, teachers were exposed to a variety of educational practices for improving classroom achievement and applications utilized technology as the framing, foundational structure. A major tool used was a wiki; additionally, a variety of websites and other technology-based instruments were employed. Many of the teachers, prior to the Institute, used computers in a minimal way and reported a low comfort level with technology; by the end of the Institute, they found technology to be a strong benefit of the teaching-learning environment. By attending this session, participants will see the structure of the Institute through the lens of the technology components which were utilized. Ideas will be shared on how to help classroom teachers develop in classroom-based and technology-infused aspects and examples from the Institute will be shown. |
Richardson, Lisa T
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LinkTweetBook: Social Networking & Accessibility Social networking tools can be used to collaborate on academic projects, build a network of potential colleagues, or develop a successful marketing plan for a business. Are these tools usable by persons with disabilities? If not, what are the alternatives that may offer similar benefit for all potential users? In the wake of Target's $6 million settlement with the National Federation for the Blind, corporations are definitely paying attention. Before you add a new web 2.0 tool to your course - sit in on this session!
Ms. Richardson will present a brief introduction to web accessibility and review current and emerging social networking tools' accessibility to users with visual, cognitive, and other disabilities. One example, AccessibleTwitter, removes much of the extraneous content so that tweets may be easily read by screen reader software. |
Rouse, Dr. Sharon E
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Wikis, Blogs, and Tweets! Get Connected with 21st Century Learners In today’s teaching and learning environment, many instructors do not know the basics about wikis, blogs, and tweets. This session will provide a simple overview of these three Web 2.0 tools and show that the Web provides inexpensive ways to incorporate technology into the. By using wikis, blogs, and tweets, an invisible Web is available for teaching and learning.
Wikis, blogs, and tweets are fundamental shifts in the way we communicate. Using Web 2.0 tools not only enhance teaching and learning, they also provide instructors with an effective way to communicate with their students.
Participants will be able to answer what, how, and why wikis, blogs, and tweets are being used today in teaching and learning. They will find useful tools to incorporate free technology into their classrooms. |
Samblis, Kelley
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Teacher Assistant Degree Program: How to Create an Online Program This session will reveal the successful online teacher assistant program created, designed and implemented in the fall of 2008 by the two presenters. Teacher assistants (TA’s) in public school systems earn their elementary education degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi completely online while continuing to work in their classrooms. We will share documented data that shows a high achievement level of our online students compared to our face to face students.
Our teacher assistant program (TAP) is unique in course delivery, course work requirements and practicum experiences. We will share our creative and distinctive method of observing practicum experiences, which we call “virtual cognitive coaching. “ We will also share many other technologically innovative methods we use in the online coursework regarding collaborative group work, power points, and peer assessments of lessons completed in the classrooms.
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Smith, Rob
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Smart Classroom Technology Economical and Simplified Due to a rising need for technology in the classroom, we have designed automated audio video control systems (Smart Classrooms) that have been well received by the faculty. In this session we will demonstrate the functionality of a Smart Classroom and discuss avenues for installation. With the combination of simple touch screens, hand held remotes, and Sympodiums; instructors are provided access to Cable TV, DVD players, PC presentations, etc. With such a user-friendly system, this technology had become invaluable to our faculty. |
Spooner, Elizabeth
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Fun, Free, Fabulous Web 2.0 Tools & Techniques Generation NeXt presents special challenges to colleges and universities. This generation is the product of a technology rich, consumer driven culture. How do we reach out to this generation? Using Web 2.0 tools instructors can enhance their online courses to make them more engaging. Web 2.0 isn't just the latest set of toys for geeks, it's the beginning of a new era in technology — one that promises to help schools operate more efficiently, generate more funding, and affect more lives. |
Thompson, Helen G
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Technology “To Go”: The Portable Classroom of the Future Learn ways to extend your classroom instruction into your students’ everyday lives using exciting new technologies together with the Internet. Save time and money. Be more available to your students than you ever realized possible. Learn revolutionary ways to use Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, Livescribe’s Pulse Pen, Smart Board’s Sympodium and other fun and easy tools to organize yourself and your instruction. See how podcasting integrates seamlessly with the use of these tools. Discover ways to engage your students and encourage their involvement like never before. Best of all, traditional and distance learning students will benefit from these easy to use tools. |
Thornton, Amy
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Features, Technical Problems and Technical Support in Wimba Classroom This research study investigated whether there were significant differences in the rating of Wimba Classroom features, the level of technical problems, and the rating of the technical support students were provided. The results show that underclassmen reported significantly more technical problems but also rated technical support more highly. Additionally, underclassmen rated the usefulness of Wimba Classroom features significantly lower than their cohorts.
The presenters will share personal Wimba experiences and how the study originated. Practical applications of the research results such as more preparation time for acclimation to Wimba Classroom prior to requiring class assignments and assessments, an introductory session for all students providing orientation to Wimba Classroom, the development of a FAQ for students, as well as other best practices, will be discussed. Session participants will be encouraged to discuss these variables from their respective experiences. |
Tynes, Kimberly
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ExamView® Revisited Funding has always been an issue of importance in education. However, with the current state of the American economy, one may ponder what the future holds for our educational system. As educators, we must focus on ways of decreasing expenditures and, at the same time, maintaining and increasing learning for our students. The ExamView® Assessment Suite provides a way to decrease the amount of paper consumption and decrease the amount of time spent on organizing and grading tests; after all, time is money. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how to utilize the ExamView® Assessment Suite, including test creation, dynamic question utilization, LAN test administration, classroom management, individual test scores, test publishing, and test bank exportation. |
Van Devender, Peggy
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Hybrid: Crossbred Learning This will give some history and reasoning behind the hybrid venue, a cross between traditional and online. To reinforce, there will be illustrations from an active course. |
Walters, Andrew J
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An Innovative Approach for Teaching Statics Using the Emporium Model Statics is for many the first engineering course combining elements of physics and math. Often the teaching approach and inadequate practice negatively impact student learning. We adopted the emporium model to address these issues.
Students receive the course content outside of class using online material. Nearly everything students do to prepare for an emporium session is technology driven. In class students receive brief instruction and begin working problems as the instructor and teaching assistants answer questions. When students finish a problem, they submit their answers online and receive immediate feedback. Some sessions are also devoted to hands-on activities using physical models.
Additional benefits are it encourages students to develop better study habits, provides continuous assessment and feedback, and having only one instructor provides more uniformity in course content. Early results show favorable feedback from students and improved student performance.
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Wang, Shuyan
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Motivating Students’ Interaction with Gmail In current educational settings, it is very important to have an efficient communication and interaction between teacher and students as well as among students either for distance education or as face-to-face supplements. However, it is very expensive to use commercial software like Blackboard or Winba. While if you register a Gmail account, you will get most of the functions you need for free. For instance, you can share documents with your students, make a listserv for your class, create a course Website very easily without knowing HTML, chat with your students by voice or video, use Gmail on your mobile device, and even store files on the Gmail Drive or Gspace.
This presentation will provide an overview of the functions in Gmail. Examples will be displayed and personal experiences will be shared to help educators understand how the tools can be used in classrooms. Overall, Gmail can be a valuable learning tool to motivate students’ collaboration and co-operation.
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Yaoyuneyong, Gallayanee
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Use of Clickers and Peer Instruction to Build Classroom Community Clickers are an easy-to-adopt instructional technology that can powerfully impact students’ feeling of connection and involvement. Peer Instruction is a teaching strategy involving the use of activities, which focus on students communicating and sharing knowledge. Use of clickers and Peer Instruction allows students to describe class as fun and engaging: a learning community is created in an active learning environment, student social competency is boosted, student-to-student and student-instructor communication is enriched in order to increase students’ life-long learning networks. This presentation discusses methods to synergistically use Peer Instruction and clickers to build classroom community. |
Yedjou, Clement G
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Comparison of Students’ In-class and Online Learning Face-to-face learning has been perceived as a conventional process of transformation of
knowledge. Today, online education is part of a new culture with many distinct characteristics that has grown tremendously over the years. It fills a necessary niche in the changing role of education. Through online education, many adult students with full-time jobs and families are able to continue their studies. However, this form of learning is subject to criticism. In this research, we hypothesized that online learning enhances student performances based on innovative technologies. To test this hypothesis, we compared an “introduction to biological science online course” with an equivalent course taught in a traditional, face-to-face format on a variety of outcome measures. Comparisons included: student ratings of instructor, student experiences, course qualities; and learning outcome measures such as quizzes, tests, exams, and course grades. Data generated from the present study demonstrated that students perform similarly when compared on the basis of final average course grade on exams in both traditional and online courses. Additionally, the present study indicated that learners generally enjoy online learning, and that there are many students who still enjoy classroom instruction. Findings of this research project provide helpful information and explanation to the vice president of the academic affairs, deans, department chairs, and all others who are concerned about the performance of students in online education.
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