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The 2007 Teaching and Technology Conference
Saturday,
March 24, 2007 from 9:00am to 1:30pm
Schedule
| 9:00 to 9:30 |
Coffee and Networking |
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9:30-10:20 |
Speaker:
Cynthia Villani
Click to see her presentation
The Web is We: Can Blogs and Wikis, Social Networks and
Open Source, Podcasts and RSS Revolutionize Higher Ed?
In the past five years, the web has witnessed a
seismic shift in its use. This shift, sometimes called
Web 2.0, is characterized by an architecture of
participation and applications that emphasize collaboration,
social networking, and shared ownership of content.
Many of us are familiar with the next generation of online
resources but have yet to ask how these tools might shape
our teaching and learning. How can educators integrate wikis
and blogs into their committee work and their classrooms?
How might students apply social networking skills into their
hybrid or fully online distance education classes?
Most importantly: Why would faculty, staff, and students
want to embrace the notion that “the web is we”? This
presentation will provide a brief overview of the history of
the web and explore how and why educators might integrate
various Web 2.0 applications into their professional lives. |
| 10:30-11:20 |
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Wikis: Cynthia Villani
The Web is We:
Weaving Your Own Web—A Workshop in Creating Wikis and
Blogs
In
this workshop, participants will create a collective
wiki as well as a blog. After learning how to create
these collaborative tools, we’ll use our new webspace to
generate ideas for pedagogical applications, discuss
benefits and drawbacks of each, and explore their
connections to distance education
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Faculty Webpage Part 1 of 2:Vince Tanzi
Planning and creating a web site using FrontPage. Topics
will include using templates to create your web as well
as formatting and publishing your site
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Grant writing for Faculty and Staff: Lisa Ebert
How to find funding for
your projects. Grant Research and Writing tips. -
Customizing Outlook
Mail I: Wendy Pate
Learn how to customize your toolbar items and the
columns that are displayed. Understand how to work with
spam and junk mail, create signature files and use
stationary.
- Blended Teaching and Learning:
Chris Grzesik
Learn about the use of face-to-face and at-a-distance
teaching within one course, which allows flexibility in
course delivery to meet pedagogical needs. Hear a
brief overview of blended teaching and learning,
touching on modes and tools currently available, and
what we might expect in the future.
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| 11:35-12:20 |
- Critical thinking skills and the web:
Debby Kemp-Jackson & Mahua De
Technology is
increasingly becoming an important element in the
language classroom . Our students, too, appear very
comfortable using different aspects of technology
like the PowerPoint, the Internet, and so on. Yet,
this ease of use does not translate to appropriate
use nor does it indicate the use of critical
thinking skills. In this workshop, we will discuss
some activities that will help our students to use
the Internet more effectively - Faculty Webpage Part 2 of 2:
Vince Tanzi
Planning and creating a web site using FrontPage.
Topics will include using templates to create your
web as well as formatting and publishing your site.
Participants from Creating a Frontpage Web Site I
can continue to work on their web site. -
Making your PowerPoint Presentations
Memorable: Maureen Greenbaum
They’re fun
to watch so they involve students in the learning!
Learn about choosing animated clip art and drawing
caption bubbles. Make the most of page transitions
and object animation. Learn to use unknown themes
from the web. Link to web sites and make a little
noise. Create a web version that can be viewed
without PowerPoint. -
Customizing Outlook Mail II: Wendy Pate
Learn how to
work with Outlook Contacts - add and delete
contacts, create groups, insert contact cards into
e-mails to send to another person, and create new
categories. Learn how to use Outlook calendar to
organize you appointments and generate alarms to
remind you before an appointment. -
Experiential Education Information Literacy:
Cynthia Roemer
Learn how Experiential Education and Information
Literacy has been put into practice in different
disciplines.
|
| 12:30-1:30 |
Lunch
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This conference is made possible by a grant from
the Union County College
Foundation |
