Schedule (Subject to Change)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Using Web 2.0 Tools and Pedagogy in Unexpected Ways
Teachers enrolled in a graduate educational technology course were challenged to use Web 2.0 tools in their classrooms and share their experiences. These elementary and high school teachers used technology to engage their students in new learning experiences and, in the process, learned a lot themselves. This session will cover those lessons learned.
Presenter: Dr. Carolyn Awalt (UT El Paso)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Senate
Track: T&L
Online Course Redesign - A Collaborative Effort
In the year 2000, six UT System universities entered into a collaboration for the purpose of offering a master’s degree in Kinesiology completely online. In the year 2009, four of the original courses were targeted for redesign. The panel will focus on strategies for redesign and the nature of collaboration.
Presenters: Dr. Darla Smith, Dr. Rockie Pederson (UT El Paso), Dr. James Schwane (UT Tyler), Dr. Paul Villas (UT Pan American), Dr. Pat Sherblom (UT Permian Basin)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Austin South
Track: CD
Social Networking and Student Success
Does social networking help or hinder student engagement? Come discover how some colleges are using Web 2.0 to increase student engagement as a key component of student success. Presenters will share national trends and practical examples of how institutions are using social media to make connections with and engage students.
Presenters: Mr. Kerry Mix, Ms. Karla Fisher (Center for Community College Student Engagement)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Congress
Track: T&L
Creating Math Lessons Using SoftChalk - Challenging But Worth It
SoftChalk is one of the newer tools on the market for creating interesting lessons. However, as always, even with an equation editor, developing math lessons is a challenge. Let me share with you how I finally figured out one way to do so.
Presenter: Ms. Sandra Villas (South Texas College)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Senate
Track: T&L, CD
Teaching Online Teachers Online
One mission of the UT TeleCampus was to provide instructional design guidance, course management training, and direction on effective teaching practices for fully online courses to faculty and staff members in the University of Texas System. UTTC was able to continue to expand its workshops while eliminating all travel funding. By focusing on collaboration and andragogy, we redesigned our classroom-based Blackboard workshop to combine self-paced online modules with a facilitated online workshop. In this team presentation we will discuss the move from classroom-based faculty training to online-based faculty training at the UT TeleCampus. We will discuss the instructional design principles and active learning strategies we employed in our new approach to teaching online teachers online. We will allow time for a discussion with people from various campuses on how they provide professional development for online teaching.
Presenters: Ms. Maggie Sheppard, Ms. Jennifer Freeman (UT System)
Audience: Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Austin North
Track: T&L
Digital Storytelling: Making Sense of Dense Topics
Online courses are filled with dense, difficult-to-read materials. How do we help students make sense of course content? Digital storytelling provides a way for instructors to facilitate students' acclimation to new ideas by providing a "big picture" approach to course content - a vital first step for most learners.
Presenter: Mr. Eric Frierson (UT Arlington)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Austin South
Track: Tech, T&L
Global Connection for Women: Creating Community Through Technology
The Collaborative Online Resource Environment for Women (CORE4WOMEN) was proposed by 30 women from various fields within distance education. The effort has been supported by the United States Distance Learning Association and has received publicity from GetEducated.com for efforts to support women who have faced significant barriers to attaining an education. These high need areas include women who are survivors of abuse and women in the military or who are military spouses.
Presenters: Dr. Martha Weatherly (Stephen F. Austin State University), Ms. Shirley Rowe (UT San Antonio)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Congress
Track: A&P
Accepting the Online Challenge is Only the First Step
What happens when eight Instructors accept the challenge to teach fully online? In the fall of 2009, a new program was implemented that would prepare faculty in reaching their online students. In two months, instructors received certification and their online course completed. Best practices and strategies will be discussed.
Presenters: Ms. Jessica Martinez, Dr. Jane LeMaster (UT Pan American)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Senate
Track: A&P, SFS
Collaboration and The Texas Learning Object Repository
The Texas Learning Object Repository (TXLOR) is a statewide learning object repository developed on behalf of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the UT System Office of Health Affairs, and hosted by the Texas Digital Library. Institutional value through contribution and re-use of learning objects will be discussed.
Presenter: Mr. Michael Anderson (UT System)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Austin North
Track: Tech
Mundane Uses of Second Life in a Course About Suffering
Each UT component has an island in the virtual world of Second Life (SL) with many sophisticated simulations. In our course, Suffering: Cultural and Spiritual Perspectives, we use SL for class discussions only. We will describe a number of benefits of this simple use in SL.
Presenters: Dr. Rodger Marion, Dr. Kay Sandor (UT Medical Branch)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Austin South
Track: T&L, Tech
HTML and CSS Tricks in Native Blackboard
Blackboard has a generic set of CSS and ways of presenting material for a course. This session will highlight some innovative ways to improve the appearance and functionality of a course in Blackboard.
Presenters: Mr. Scott Campbell, Mr. Jose Dominguez (UT El Paso)
Audience: Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Congress
Track: CD, Tech
Access and Equity Issues in Online Classes and Programs
There has been the perception that online learning has a limited audience. That belief has influenced program and course design and accessibility. This session will provide an overview of the legal obligations in making online courses accessible.
Presenter: Mr. Raymond Rose (Rose & Smith Associates)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Senate
Track: A&P, CD
Update on the Student Authentication Requirements in the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA)
The HEOA requires processes to establish that a student who registers in an online course also completes the coursework. This workshop will cover corresponding DOE rules, actions by accreditors, and efforts of DE organizations. Participants will learn about new techniques and technologies, and will leave with resources and references.
Presenter: Ms. Lori McNabb (UT System)
Audience: Intermediate
Location: Austin North
Track: A&P, Tech
Teaching the Vietnam War Online: Advantages and Limitations
Dr. J. Tillapaugh, Founding Faculty at UT Permian Basin and Professor of History, has taught courses in the Vietnam War since the year the U.S. ended its military involvement. Distance learning has been important for reaching a large audience, as the situation continues now with Blackboard 9 through the UT TeleCampus.
Presenter: Dr. J. Tillapaugh (UT Permian Basin)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Congress
Track: T&L
Triumphs and Tragedies While Co-Teaching Online
Co-teaching involves communication, cooperation and division of labor based on each persons' strengths in order to engage the students. Communicating with them in a voice they hear is valuable. Facebook, YouTube, blogs, Second Life and websites can be critical features in cooperative course development. Lessons from students' feedback are presented.
Presenters: Dr. Joanna Hadjicostandi, Ms. Dian Jordan-Werhane (UT Permian Basin)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Senate
Track: T&L
Utilizing Collaborative Learning Groups in Blackboard
Working in collaborative groups in a web-based course presents many unique challenges. These activities have been developed for students doing group research and presentations in graduate courses in education. These group activities involve collaborative work independent of professor facilitation similar to the activities offered in a face to face course.
Presenter: Dr. Amy Burkman (UT Permian Basin)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Austin North
Track: T&L
A Faculty Learning Community to Develop Online Teaching Materials
ADAPT is a faculty learning community (FLC) for health professions educators to develop skills for producing online learning objects (LOs). The ADAPT team will discuss the experience, including successes and pitfalls, of building an FLC and the success in producing LOs. Participants will analyze the effectiveness of ADAPT strategies.
Presenters: Dr. Bruce Niebuhr, Dr. Marney Gundlach, Dr. Virginia Niebuhr, Ms. Julie Trumble, Ms. Mary Jo Urbani (UT Medical Branch)
Audience: Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Austin South
Track: A&P
Enhancing the Online Student Experience
Online courses often neglect certain critical student experiences. This presentation will offer suggestions on how to address such deficits in the online student experience. Specific attention will be given to the contributions of an online student during a course enhancement process.
Presenters: Dr. Darla Smith, Ms. Rene Smalling (UT El Paso)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Congress
Track: CD
Mobile Clickers: Opportunities and Challenges
UT Austin has used handheld clickers to increase classroom interactivity for some time. As mobile technology emerges as a possible addition or alternative to the clicker, we are exploring ways to improve traditional and distance instruction. This session addresses the opportunities and challenges of doing so.
Presenter: Mr. Morrie Schulman (UT Austin)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Senate
Track: T&L, Tech
The Embeddable Librarian: Unexpected Services from Bookworms Gone Digital
In today’s information-rich environment, librarians can be an online instructor’s best friend. In this session, explore the potential of librarian-faculty member collaboration: more efficient course design, improved student learning, and instructional support throughout the duration of an online course. Create a list of things your librarian can do for you.
Presenter: Mr. Eric Frierson (UT Arlington)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Austin North
Track: SFS, CD
U text ur lecture? It gives me the twitters. LOL
Blackboard is a great tool, but limits a lot of our teaching to a confined space. Getting students involved in a course means reaching them inside their busy lives. Social networking media provides an opportunity to see the future of online learning in the palm of the students' hands.
Presenter: Dr. Dan Keast (UT Permian Basin)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Austin South
Track: T&L
Tools to Instill Personality into an Online Course
Explore an online course by viewing course preparation, live web office hours, and teacher-made movies. Participants will experience a live web session with students in California. Hardware devices will be demonstrated. Attendees will leave with strategies to create links in Blackboard to make your class as personal as possible.
Presenter: Mr. Charles Sorcabal (Mt. San Antonio Community College)
Audience: Intermediate
Location: Congress
Track: T&L, Tech
Engaging Your Students Through Case Studies
Making a topic relevant and meaningful is extremely important to the learning process. Case studies are a wonderful way for students to synthesize and evaluate information. In this session a case study will be explored along with steps to develop and implement one.
Presenter: Dr. Rhonda Blackburn (UT Dallas)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Senate
Track: T&L
"Online Teaching 101" - Why Online Classes Take Better Communication
Experienced educators with a combined number of over 30 years of online experience will present a workshop and offer insight into the web of online learning. Topics will include: creative use of discussion boards, engagement through live lectures, submitting speeches, instructor-student interaction concerns, retaining and relating to online learners.
Presenters: Ms. Daria Heinemann, Ms. Maggie Williams (Keiser University), Dr. Margaret Butcher (Fort Hays State University)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Austin South
Track: T&L
Academic Integrity Issues in the Intergenerational Online Classroom
Faculty are unnerved by the seeming indifference of Millennials to core values like honesty and ethical behavior. Divergent views on things like plagiarism and group entitlement are causing faculty angst and student unrest. Understanding generational values is the basis for addressing generational relativism regarding academic honesty.
Presenter: Dr. Lynn Wieck (UT Tyler)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Congress
Track: T&L, A&P
Customizing Moodle
Moodle is a widely used LMS. At UTSA, it has been very useful in delivering courses, information and different content. Despite Moodle's limitations, it can be customized to help suit any organization's needs. We want to demonstrate the different options available to help customize any Moodle instance.
Presenters: Mr. Frank Erazo, Mrs. Lydia Garza (UT San Antonio)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Senate
Track: A&P, Tech
Technology Outside of the Classroom: Using Blackboard in Advising
Like paper textbooks, phone-calls and in-person meetings are so last century! Just as technology is increasingly used in the classroom, student support staff are expected to use online tools to advise. This presentation will demonstrate how one advising center has successfully used Blackboard technology to improve its existing probation program.
Presenters: Ms. Naomi Craven, Ms. Kimberly Rolf (UT San Antonio)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate
Location: Austin North
Track: SFS
Second Life Challenge
The Second Life Challenge is a faculty professional development opportunity that we offered our faculty. The goal was to create one ready to teach Second Life class. This session will provide an overview from promoting the challenge, training the faculty, share what these faculty have done and lessons learned.
Presenters: Ms. Jessica Sanchez, Dr. Jane LeMaster, Dr. Leticia De Leon, Dr. Carmen Pena, Mr. George Bowe (UT Pan American)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Austin South
Track: T&L, Tech, SFS
Copyright and Online Educators
Start with the basics, throw in a few ownership nuances liberally blended with references to Creative Commons, and make sure everyone's clear about fair use -- well, as clear as it's possible to be about fair use.
Presenter: Ms. Georgia Harper (UT Austin)
Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Location: Congress
Track: T&L, A&P
Transitioning Clinical Rotation Courses to Online Delivery
Organization in clinical rotations is the key to success. Placing the content of your student's clinical rotation courses online, allows everyone involved in the process to benefit from the structure of the course. Case studies, homework assignments, evaluations, exams, and other assignments can be managed easily with online delivery.
Presenter: Ms. LeAnne Hutson (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Senate
Track: T&L, CD
Face it, it's a Facebook World
Engage your students by communicating with them in a voice they hear. Facebook, YouTube, blogs and websites can be critical features of your course development. Introduce key learning objectives with excerpts from YouTube and blogs.
Presenter: Ms. Dian Jordan-Werhane (UT Permian Basin)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Austin North
Track: Tech, CD
Teaching, Technology, and Time: Time Optimization Strategies for Effective Teaching
For years we have heard that it takes much more time to teach online than it does to teach traditional classroom-based courses. In this session we will discuss examples of teaching practices in classroom-based and online courses, and reveal the unexpected results of faculty time commitments in each delivery mode.
Presenter: Dr. Susan Thomason (Austin Community College)
Audience: Beginner
Location: Austin South
Track: T&L