Learn how the California Virtual Campus Regional Center is providing technical assistance and training, promoting course development, and helping faculty use digital classrooms and live remote-site videostreaming to deliver instruction
Learn how easy it is to incorporate video streaming applications into the curriculum, including examples for distance learning. Attendees will be included in the actual development of a demonstration video.
Claudia
Orr, Professor; David Allen, Associate Professor; Sandra Poindexter, Professor,
Northern Michigan University, MI
Computerphobia continues to exist among students and employees, resulting
in reduced performance in the classroom and on the job. Learn about recent
research in this area including profiles of computerphobics
Educational Testing Service is a leader in applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to assessment. ETS�s research and applications in automated essay scoring, short-answer scoring, and item difficulty analysis will be reviewed
California Museum of Photography, University of California,
Riverside, CA
A case history of the development of a museum/university partnership that not only examines the ongoing exchange of ideas between two institutions, but also introduces some of the fruits from that partnership.
Hear about gender issues as they relate to technology. Learn ways for teachers and librarians to empower girls through technological sources and skills
El Dorado County Office of Education, Charter Community School, CA
Do you know the sites your students are visiting? Do you filter, monitor or track? Come explore the options available to educators today, including the latest buzz regarding ethical and legal ramifications
Anthony
Beebe, Dean, Open Campus, Riverside Community College District, CA;
Debbie DiThomas, Matriculation Director, Riverside Community College,
CA
Learn
how to provide the same quality of student counseling to on-line students
as is provided to on-campus students. This nuts and bolts session presents
how Riverside Community College developed its Online Counseling Center
Sacramento Workforce Online is used by a variety of local education agencies, community-based organizations, public welfare, employment and training agencies
Kevin
Bontenbal, Instructional Technology Librarian; David Diaz, Health Education
Instructor, Cuesta College, CA
Discover
how pedagogy-based training can optimize the use of instructional technology
at your institution.
Michael
Casadonte, Instructional Designer, Distance Learning, California State
University, San Bernardino, CA
As
you stand with your course materials in one hand, staring at the vast
scope of the Internet, how do you juxtapose the two?
Sheila
Norris, Regional Representative, SIRS Mandarin, Inc., FL
Learn
how to successfully automate your libraries using state-of-the-art technologies
for the new millennium
Marilyn
Ayres, Dean, Technology and Business Division; Cliff Wood, Vice President,
Academic Affairs; Joan Monaghan, Director, Math/Writing/Testing Center,
and Chairperson and Professor, Mathematics, County College of Morris,
NJ
Share
documentation of issues, strengths, and concerns in the development
and approval of current plans focused on access/delivery, teaching/learning,
and organizational strategies
Hear how low income individuals can obtain easy access to information technology for employment and income
Dr.
Ernest A. Martinez, Executive Vice Chancellor; Usha Venkat, Client Services
Manager, and Charles Burmeister, Director of Information Systems, Alamo
Community College District, TX
Real time
online systems are utilized to provide faculty and student friendly
comprehensive technologies to make the delivery of Internet courses
convenient and effective. These are extensiveInternet courses that are
offered by multiple colleges to a diverse student body over a wide area.
Education in the 21st century will be driven by economic, technological, demographic and political forces largely outside of our control. Hear how educators, in partnership with business and government, can harness these forces into E-Education
Karen
Torgersen, Director, Undergraduate Admissions, Virginia Tech University,
VA
Ensuring
data privacy in the college admissions process is of great concern to
students and their families. Virginia Tech is addressing the issue head-on
Learn various methods for searching the ERIC database, how to access NCES data files, and how to utilize "help" mechanisms such as the ERIC Search Wizard to locate educational resources
This session shows how to create online activities that go beyond merely presenting information, and instead use the Internet to help students develop and practice skills needed in various academic disciplines.
This cross-disciplinary study identifies several of the benefits and costs associated with using the Internet to complement, not compete against, the chalk-and-talk learning environments of instructors
Margaret
Gratton, President; Lee La Jeunesse, Director, College Support, Orange
Coast College, CA
This session will provide a systematic look at what drives the
use of technology in community colleges. See and hear a multimedia presentation
on the conceptual framework for integrating information technology into
one community college's learning systems and services.
A panel of Microsoft Authorized Academic Training Provider program instructors will discuss topics including implementation, articulation agreements, and student successes.
Multimedia and Education: An Integrated Approach
Luciano
Corazza, Director; John Beyers, Coordinator, Special Math Programs,
Center for Distance Education, IAAY-Johns Hopkins University, MD
Take
a look at multimedia software in mathematics and writing, developed
at Johns Hopkins, to accommodate different learning styles and provide
"just in time�just for you" education, and help teachers become
effective mentors.
This interactive discussion focuses on how educators can develop strategies to integrate interactive technology into the classrooms, libraries and parent-teacher-administrator communications.
How can faculty create a Web-enhanced environment that works for them? Explore ways faculty can customize readily-available Web technologies to meet the needs of their teaching styles and their students
IMS is defining the Internet architecture for learning. The session will cover standards that have been published and highlight the benefits derived from them. Examples of actual applications that conform to IMS standards will be presented.
This session will focus on key factors involved in implementing a Web-based learning environment with K-12 language arts teachers. A demonstration of the interactive model will be provided.
Learn how Hartnell College uses technology to address multiple learning needs and styles in the areas of Fine Arts, Basic Skills, ESL, and Information Competency.
This program is based on criteria adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor that define not only the technical skills, but also business skills and content-development skills needed by Web professionals.
Santa Rosa Junior College uses a complex system of networked computers for counselors to access useful and accurate information. Learn how to use this vast information for counseling.
Define which core elements of electronic commerce belong in your course and identify useful pedagogies. Learn how to meet your program�s goals as you design and teach your course.
In this panel discussion, Principal Investigators (PIs) of representative projects funded by the National Science Foundation will present overviews of their work and report findings and results of their efforts to develop new educational environments through the use of advanced learning technologies. Future programmatic directions at NSF will also be discussed.
A lively demonstration of how K-12, community college, and California State instructors used and developed multimedia and web materials for their classrooms during summer workshops.
Aetna, Boeing, and Exxon do computing differently from us. Hear what some veterans of the commercial world think are valuable lessons which will improve higher ed information technology.
This session presents successful high technology workforce training programs implemented through unique partnerships between colleges, industry, and government laboratories.
Learn about the benefits of summarizing and providing organizational data via the metaphor of a digital dashboard, and learn about the strategies and tools that are available to undertake similar efforts in your environment.
Hear how students team up with international peers in global educational activities. Learn the essentials for Internet curriculum development and a easily navigable Web site.
A look at what has been accomplished through California�s Technology Literacy Challenge Grant, and what colleges can do to capitalize on their students� technology expertise.
Classtime easily defaults to a traditional 80% lecture/20% interaction, but transition to a 20/80 model is possible with technology. This session focuses on technology integration, including how and where it helps and doesn't.
Internet usage presents a problem to all educators. This session will demonstrate the latest programs available to educators to control browsers, audit users, filter content and provide multiple security options.
Getting to the end takes a good beginning, and distance learning is no different. Taking a lesson from the sage, Dr. Seuss, we designed a "SUCCESSFUL START" for our students and faculty.
Cultural insenitivity costs not only dollars, but destroys credibility in an emerging global society. Learn how to evaluate online communications for cultural faux pas and be an effective international communicator.
Explore many aspects of software design and implementation that can significantly interfere with effective, easy, and enjoyable use of instructional and productivity software.
Learn how schools are now using interactive computer-based multimedia as a tool to develop thinking skills needed to assimilate and transform massive quantities of information into solutions for today�s fast-paced, ever-changing society.
This session presents a telelearning system where the learners are able to follow courses to their own rhythm and access only the elements of the course which relate to them.
Learn how to accommodate varied learning styles in course development and examine tools for designing full learning-centered online courses that support the learning process (motivation, comprehension, practice, and application).
What is effective use of technology in instruction, and how can we help faculty to learn it? This session focuses on applications of technology that enhance student success, and highlights resources available to faculty and staff.
Interactive Multimedia
Students "discover" structure function relationships for proteins in a Web-based biochemistry curriculum that integrates dynamic and interactive features of the Chime plugin, Javascript, Authorware, Excel, and Web-linked Access databases.
While technical skills are necessary, they are incidental when compared to the more important skills required by the digital economy. Teaching students to validate information and publish on the Internet are too rarely taught. Let's re-examine the core professional culture of our schools.
Presenters discuss issues related to development and implementation of online workshops for faculty who want to acquire pedagogical and technical skills needed to successfully teach their courses online.
Riverside Community College District, CA
This presentation provides information on how your college can offer online community education courses to the general public.
Jerry Neece, Academic Programs Manager, Sun Microsystems, CA Faced with massive IT skill shortages, Sun Microsystems and its partners are rolling out a new global, Java-based infrastructure platform allowing anytime, anywhere learning on devices from PCs to cell phones.
Hear about the various aspects of K-12 site, district, and county level technology coordination. Take a positive, productive look at the difficulties and solutions to hurdles technology coordinators encounter.
Access, schedule and manage media and resources (controlling a DVD player, laser disc player, VCR, or scheduling a videoconference session) through your Web browser over the network or Internet.
See software that catches student writing mistakes as they�re made. Learn how instant feedback combined with limitless opportunities for practice yields dramatic improvement in student writing.
Hear about a research-based tool for early identification and support of at-risk students that combines actuarial analysis of transcripts, a counselor-oriented expert system, and a college success inventory to create a student typology based on academic risk.
Take a look at some music courses developed for on-line delivery. Understand how to merely sign on and teach. Discover the new course management structures that make this possible.
Share the experiences from a multi-discipline student pilot test of CrossPad digital notepads conducted as an alternative note-taking device. How were they used and will they take hold?
Brief history and demonstration of open, closed, and teleconference captioning addressing steno-interpreting using student court reporters, with special attention to ADA mandates for videos produced and used for education.
A video production teacher shows you how to use video in the classroom. See easy-to-create student and instructional curriculum projects.
Linda Record, Faculty, College of the Sequoias, CA Is your computer lab inundated with teachers wanting Internet access? Do you need more drop-in time for students? Learn how we developed a World Classroom, on a budget, to ease overcrowding.
A concerted effort must be made to encourage girls to continue their interest and participation in technology. This session will review current research findings and include easy-to-incorporate, concrete applications, as well as classroom projects, software examples and Internet sites and activities.
Without database professionals, an inexpensive Internet database can provide standards-based student portfolios, scoring rubrics, lessons and instructional resources. The presenters will provide an overview of this working system.
Sacramento, CA
Effective communication is both written and visual. In this intensive workshop, learn how to analyze your information by using appropriate type style, line length, columns, and layout for effective communication that gives your words more visual power.
The British Government set a number of incredible targets to be achieved by National Grid for Learning by 2002. Hear about the progress made and highlights of the key issues addressed.
Educating Organizations in the Use of Technology
Jan Boucher, Manager, Center for Usability; TR Rubino-Schaefer, Education Consultant, Center for Usability, California State University, Long Beach, CA Large complex institutions using technology to improve productivity must address several issues. Discover how usability can effectively integrate software that supports staff performance.
Two years ago Cerritos College decided to make a "quantum leap" and transform itself into a technology leader. This program will describe the elements of that transformation.
Discover a simple tool to increase your success as an online faculty member. Use a learning styles assessment at the beginning of an online learning course to dramatically increase the student success rate.
We need to stop delivering "point solutions" for instruction via the Web and begin thinking holistically about how to provide a complete online learning environment
Review a variety of Web technologies to facilitate student collaboration in content area classes. Learn techniques to present a twelve-step sequence for using email, discussion threads, and online databases to produce web pages from collaboration projects.
Intel will discuss the latest in Intel technologies (high performance processors, high bandwidth networks, video conferencing, new/cool applications, etc.), and how they help teachers teach and students learn.
The development and delivery of online courses requires the use of a different set of techniques and skills than is utilized in the classroom. Learn how Facilitated Interactive Learning meets these needs.
Learn how libraries can offer access to resources worldwide through interactive Web pages tailored to user needs and value-added services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Learn from a consortium of universities how to offer distance learning courses through the Internet.
Administrative Intern, Carmel Clay Community Schools; Leah Bricker, Indiana Department of Education, IN
Look at the use of technology to extend, support, and expand learning. Make learning more engaging and relevant by effectively integrating the Internet through problem-based learning.
This session will demonstrate how to effectively use two laserdisks and accompanying CD-ROMs in developing and presenting human genetics concepts and bioethical decision-making to students grades 9-16.
Interactive Mathematics' multimedia instruction can be used anytime, anywhere. Learn how this technology-based course is an innovative way of teaching and learning which benefits both faculty and students.
Learn about the Training of Trainers model as implemented in Santa Cruz at both the district and county level, and the three level approach to teacher technology certification.
The academic core emphasizes language and mathematical/logical learning skills. The use of technology in the classroom empowers students to learn and apply skills using multiple intelligences.
Teaching method, media attributes, and delivery mode are critical variables which interact in distance learning. Hear about the nature of this interaction in light of rapidly emerging instructional technology tools.
Hear about workforce trends driving the need for updated career development curriculum. Learn about schools and colleges that have successfully integrated networking technology into their curriculum.
Learn how a savvy consortium of 14 public school districts pooled their resources to fight budget crunches and increase educational opportunities for high school students across Colorado using the Internet and E-education.
This session will discuss the trends in instructional materials and the technologies used to deliver them with examples and predictions of tomorrow's technologies that may solve today's problems.
Utilizing the Internet makes Oracle Student System a very powerful integrated system. Key features to be discussed include setting up calendars, courses, programs, and admitting and enrolling students.
Project Manager, Washington State Community and Technical Colleges ONLINE Consortium, WA
We can provide anywhere, anytime learning for students, but how about anywhere, anytime student services? Learn how a consortium of 34 community and technical colleges in Washington state are addressing this problem.
Explore barriers facing the technology company wanting to partner with academic institutions to research, design and develop educational technology to enhance the learning experience for both faculty and students.
This session details how SRJC's Center for Advanced Tech in Education is fostering the uses of online educational technology on campus through innovation, example, and leadership.
Making the transition to computer-mediated distance education requires considerable planning, careful implementation and evaluation. This presentation will outline important issues surrounding implementation of computer-mediated (online) distance education.
Navigating a course online shouldn't require four hours of training. Built exclusively for online courses using WebCT, this design process can be used by anyone, regardless of the software.
While expanding the availability of quality courses offered via the Internet, Illinois Prairie Internet Consortium, addressed several administrative issues regarding admissions, student services, financial aid, technical support and assessment. Understand the various challenges that arose and how the Consortium addressed each issue.
College, MA
Voice recognition, talking Web browsers, magnification, screen readers, OCR: attend this presentation and learn how these and other are making higher education accessible to students with disabilities.
This session will present an instructor's approach to publishing lessons on the Web without post-production.
Navigating a course online shouldn't require four hours of training. Built exclusively for online courses using WebCT, this design process can be used by anyone, regardless of the software.
Explore issues connected with setting up a virtual presence and possible solutions. Hear the process by which Arkansas Tech University created a virtual learning center using in-house talent and modest financial resources.
Using Microsoft Access and Cold Fusion, an academic department can build a low cost, readily maintained and updated integration of scheduling, catalog, and faculty information on the World Wide Web.
Research suggests that perceptual learning plays a significant role in developing understanding. Providing multiple representations of a concept can facilitate this process.
Too often, educators are blinded by the latest, greatest technology and forget the goal of teaching. Explore techniques for making interactive, student-centered online learning experiences.
In one of the fastest growing cities in the nation, educators are rising to meet the challenges of providing technology resources by implementing joint use facilities through sharing technology resources and campus sites works.
Learn about the many uses of smart card-based technology in higher education, the basics of what a smart card is and how the technology can prove beneficial to the higher education market.
Los Angeles, CA
Explore strategies and incentive-based polices to increase both the spread and adoption of the use of information technology across a broad spectrum of campus users
Participants review a variety of Web technologies to facilitate student collaboration. Techniques are used to present a twelve-step sequence for using email, discussion threads, and online databases to produce Web pages from collaboration projects.
Using WebCT, explore the "Social Welfare Policy and Human Services" course online. Discuss the role of the course in the curriculum and the type of assignments that students complete online. Examine how this medium promotes the development of critical thinking skills, policy evaluation, and the role of social workers as policy formulators.
Does teaching online really work? Can you teach online and have a life? This workshop provides online instructional tips, and statistics regarding online student retention, GPA, test scores, and satisfaction.
How does an institution maintain state-of-the-art microcomputer technology in a time of rapid advancements in hardware and software?
How does one approach this challenge, determine the solution, implement the solution, afford the outcome and manage the process? Technology Refresh is the answer. $33 million was saved.
Gain an awareness of the California Tech Prep Engineering/Technology Pathway Project plans that include every high school and college in the state.
Wednesday March 8, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Transforming traditional 2-D Haiku to interactive 3D VRML-created poetic "cubes" in multimedia-enriched cyberspace challenges students' notions of poetry and explores the role of technology in creative writing.
and Learning, SCT, PA
Explore some of the latest thinking about how information systems can help institutions build better relationships with their customers by providing the services learners want, whether they are in teaching and learning, or in support services.
This session explores economic and career trends as well as funda-mental career skills such as adaptability, communication skills, creativity, visual/spatial skills, information management, inter-personal skills, critical thinking, organization, technical literacy, and attitude.
CNN Student Bureau Web site and video news put authentic learning experiences in students' hands. This session provides hands-on experiences in writing, editing, and producing for a global audience.
Learn strategies for structuring learning assignments so students can reliably use online resources and successfully complete assignments on their own.
Not a professional graphics designer? Here's an introduction to the basic principles of graphics and digital imaging, including demonstrations of capturing and creating high quality images and special effects.
This session will discuss the use of fiber optic cabling and help schools determine the best Local Area Network cabling for today's needs as well as provide the infrastructure for future growth.
This session includes not only the programming skills necessary to install, configure and troubleshoot Web sites but also the networking and Web server information to maintain a Web site on various platforms.
This presentation covers the essential characteristics of adult learners, the impact of age upon learning and practical suggestions for the classroom.
Actively engage in designing the various teaching, learning, and assessing elements necessary for a successful online course. Bring course materials to rethink.
Creating a master plan for technology is high adventure requiring leadership, teamwork, and vision.This session chronicles the synthesis of the College of the Redwoods technology plan for the 21st Century.
How do you maintain state-of-the-art microcomputer technology in a time of rapid advancements in hardware and software? "Technology Refresh" is the answer. Understand the process of acquiring and maintaining microcomputers, as well as tax-exempt financing and equity recovery.
Interactivity is the key for success in teaching an online mathematics course. Learn about the important ingredients of an online course and see interactive features to build into Web pages.
Learn how to gather, evaluate, and assess the teaching and learning outcomes of programs delivered by distance education as compared to traditional programs.
The shortage of IT workers has been well documented. This discussion will focus on how the newest learning technologies can deliver just-in-time training to IT workers without reducing their productivity.
The issue of intellectual property, faculty contracts and loads and office hours must be satisfactory to faculty and administration if the student is to be served. Learn the importance of support services and new technology.