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Workshop Descriptions
Exploring the Tablet PC (Hands-On) Roger Wen, William Woods Have you seen one of the Tablet PCs before? Ever play with the Tablet PC before? You will be able to have the chance and explore one of those incredible instructional tools.
Bob McGlasson, Southwest Baptist and Mike Tenneson, Evangel How can I get my students to read the text? How can I free up my class time for more active learning activities? This session will discuss the concept of the Classroom Flip and how it can be accomplished by using a course management system (Blackboard, WebCt, etc.) Examples of successful "Flips" will be shown and there will be time for discussion on various techniques.
Robin Schraft , Drury How many times have you seen a presentation in which PowerPoint actually distracted from the presentation? In this session we will explore ways to make PowerPoint a powerful communication tool without letting it detract from the presentation itself. We will also explore simple dos and don'ts for better presentations, for example we will learn how to avoid PowerPoint Karaoke. This session is designed for present or future users of PowerPoint at any level of proficiency.
Pervasive Computing and Podcasting Steve Acker, Ohio State University What is it like to teach in a wireless classroom, and how can podcasting (creating short audio files for posting to a website) be used to enrich the process? This session will describe several technical/instructional approaches to teaching in a pervasive computing environment and provide a primer on creating podcasts for faculty and student content creation.
Using a Discussion Board to Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding Shelley D. Kilpatrick, Southwest Baptist This presentation will address the use of a discussion board with a university in Japan and another U.S. college to promote cross-cultural understanding. Set up of the discussion board forum will be presented, briefly. Lessons learned will be discussed.
Martha Cummings and Leah Blakey, Drury Online education is a dynamic medium that is rapidly becoming a major force in education. However, we need to analyze and implement the 'best practices' if we are to make the best of use of online education. Drury University is a leader in online education and has experienced exponential growth and success in this area. With this in mind, we'd like to discuss the following: 1. What online is and how it has grown over the years 2. The part online plays in the Drury University 3. The market that online serves-characteristics and needs of online students 4. The graduate/undergraduate programs available online at Drury University Now that you know a little about the Drury program, we'd like to discuss 'Best Practices' in online education: 1. WebCT design and methodology 2. Organization, pacing, and deadlines 3. Scoring guides, clear standards, and evaluation methods 4. Creating Involvement 5. Managing and encouraging learning through discussion, activities, student-to-student interaction/evaluation, projects, simulations, and links 6. The importance of timely and specific feedback 7. Dealing with problems: plagiarism, aggression, late work, and other problems.
Teaching on-line: A Beginner on Beginning for Beginners Vickie Ellis, Southwest Baptist This workshop will serve to encourage professors with techno-phobic tendencies who are being asked to deliver quality courses via Bb. On-line pros will be strictly prohibited from joining this workshop. Specifically, the following areas will be addressed: 1) A brief discussion of professor evaluations from on-line courses; 2) A demonstration on use of color & font coding for Announcements, Course Documents, and Assignments; 3) Teaching methods--how to better embrace and engage your students' unique personalities while in an on-line class. 4) Teaching methods-using humor in an on-line course.
How Live Polling can Enhance Student Learning Geoffrey Sutton, Evangel Participants will learn how the WebCT survey application may be used to involve all students in a class discussion on any topic. In addition, those who teach statistics, math, and research classes will learn how students can obtain the data for classroom analysis using Excel or SPSS.
Painless PowerPoint (Hands-On) Beverly Bohn, Park This session will be for beginning to intermediate users of Powerpoint who would like to learn the basics. Come and have a fun time. We will learn how to import pictures and do some quick tricks. Have you ever played PowerPoint Jeopardy? If you have one available, bring a USB drive (pen, jump, whatever you call it) to take your presentation home with you.
Simple tips for spicing up PowerPoint Presentations (Hands-On) Ron McCleary, Avila This is a workshop on some simple ways to add variety to PowerPoint presentations. Included would be how to create a master course presentation that links to component presentations; how to use links to break out of the usual, linear presentation mode; and how to add callouts and other simple highlights using animations. The workshop would be designed for those who at least can create simple PowerPoint presentations.
Introduction to Website Design Using Microsoft Frontpage (Hands-On) Paul Porneluzi, Central Methodist This session will provide basic instruction for creating an organized website using the shared borders and navigation features in Microsoft Frontpage. The session will also cover the creation of forms for online quizzing and receiving student feedback.
Dudley Murphy, Drury This hands-on session will serve as an introduction to the graphic design program, Photoshop. Participants will learn how to create and edit images and photos to use in other applications. This is a basic session. No prior knowledge of Photoshop or graphics programs is required.
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