2008 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference
Mesa Community College · May 13, 2008
Agenda: Presentations and Poster Sessions
Download a pdf version of the agenda here. Download a pdf version of the poster sessions here.
Session Time |
Session Details |
Location |
8:30-9:30 |
Registration |
Navajo Room |
9:30-9:45 |
Welcome and introductions: Dr. Shouan Pan, Dr. Maria Harper-Marinick and Mr. Darrel Huish |
Navajo Room |
9:45-10:20 |
Human Futures for Technology and Education New technologies have profound implications for education and force us to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching. As the technologies change at an ever-increasing rate, several scholars are currently engaged in attempts to predict the future so we can prepare ourselves and our students for what is to come. Though predicting the future is impossible, the scenarios presented through the exercise of trying to help us build a more open and flexible mind, rethink our most basic assumptions about education, and prepare us for whatever the future might bring. |
Navajo Room |
10:30-11:20 |
Morning Sessions I |
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Session 1: Being There... in that Unevenly Distributed Future How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technology, how can we face this brave new world without a sense of dread? "Keeping up" is a myth, and the way of dealing with this is creating, sustaining, and being in your extended networks of friends, colleagues, etc. Likewise, one cannot readily assess the value of new technology from the outside "looking in". This presentation will lead you through a range of examples of ways to practice more "being there-ness." This session is meant to be provocative, challenging, but also inspire excitement over "web 2.0 stuff" |
AS 195 |
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Session 2: VoiceThread: Creating Interactive & Collaborative Presentations the Web 2.0 Way VoiceThread.com is a web-based application used to create asynchronous but interactive multimedia presentations for viewers to record comments on or edit - think collaborative projects or tutorials with built-in assessment. Upload various file formats (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, pdf, images, videos) to create slides. Record audio commentary with a microphone, webcam, telephone, or make text comments. Annotate slides with a “doodling tool” as you record see these run as animations when the presentation is played. Link or embed the presentation in Blackboard, a blog, wiki, or website. What a wonderful web we can weave together! |
AS 110 |
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Session 3: No Dead Poets Here: Bringing Shakespeare to Life with Technology Teachers of English Humanities courses have problems: the cost of tuition and textbooks is up and, thus, enrollment is down. Instead of begging students to sign up for my Shakespeare class, I made it more interesting with films, and I downloaded relevant Internet sites to a CD-ROM as the class "textbook" and gave it to the students without cost. The "boring" aspect of Shakespeare is reading the texts because students do not read well. Therefore, by watching the plays (as they should be) and reading only Internet sites (which they are used to doing), Shakespeare came alive in the classroom. |
AS 194 |
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Session 4: Maricopa Quality Matters: Improving Online and Hybrid Education This session will present an overview of the underlying principles of Quality Matters, the Quality Matters rubric, and alignment of critical course elements: course learning objectives; learner interactions and activities; resources, materials and technology; and assessment and measurement. Information on Maricopa's upcoming 2008-2009 Quality Matters Pilot will also be shared. |
AS 193 |
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Session 5: Using Google Docs and Soft Chalk in Reading Instruction Google Docs and Soft Chalk give students opportunities to collaborate and deepen their learning through constructing RLOs. Group reading comprehensions are created in Google Docs and then published through Soft Chalk Lesson Builder. |
AS 191 |
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Session 6: Second Life - My Adventure I will present information on the Building of Rio World - from concept to completion and descriptions of the main buildings. Also present tutorials on the very basics - navigation, communication, appearance and creation. |
AS 196 |
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Session 7: RSS, Come Feed Your Read Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way to help keep you and your students up to date with the most currently information in your field. RSS is a way to help keep student work, and other information, organized and ready to use when you need it. RSS is a way to keep connected between you and your students. During this presentation you will learn RSS, set up a RSS aggregator, and start subscribing to some feeds. |
AS 192 |
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Session 8: Teaching with Technology using Softchalk, Jing, and Blogging Teaching with different technologies helps to enhance the learning experience by appealing to different types of learners. Softchalk has different activities for the online learner to do to help reinforce the content presented for learning. Jing is a great way to capture web pictures so communication can be more focused on the question or concern. Blogging helps get thoughts together and share communication in the learning environment. |
CTL Workshop |
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Session 9: Assistive Technology for Students & Faculty at the Community Colleges Participants will be able to identify and describe several software programs applicable to the post secondary environment that benefit students who have a variety of disabilities, including learning disabilities; to identify software program features with student needs while promoting acceptance of use to the student; will gain an understanding of how community colleges integrate assistive technology into their Disability Resources and Services departments, managed student/staff training issues, and ongoing support. Participants will also get an overview of the kinds of technology and support there is available for students as well as some techniques on making classroom materials accessible for all |
CTL Conference Room |
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11:30-12:20 |
Morning Sessions II |
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Session 1: Steps Towards Digital Media Literacy for Teachers and Students In this presentation I will demonstrate how new digital media such as blogs, videos, podcasts, RSS feeds, wikis, 2-D barcodes and more can be integrated into various types of educational projects. My goal will not be to make you completely literate in these technologies, but to inspire you to seek literacy, and give you a few steps and guidelines to find your way. |
AS 195 |
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Session 2: Making Media Rich Podcasts: A Hands-On Workshop for Beginners Looking for ways to create your own multimedia rich podcasts? Already doing audio-only podcasts and want to take them to the next level? In this hands-on session, learn how to incorporate photos, slides, audio and other interactive media into your classroom by creating an enhanced podcast using GarageBand on the Mac. You'll also see how easy it is to share these resources with your students using iTunes U. See how you can add powerful visual and audio features to your podcasts that will engage your students like never before. |
LB 142 |
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Session 3: Implementing a Presence in Second Life: Academic, Research, and Social Uses of a Virtual Word Virtual worlds such as Second Life have burst on the scene as a potential social networking and instructional tool. However, like many new technologies, the potential use of Second Life has often been over stated. This session will focus on the University of Arizona’s effort to implement a presence in Second Life. The present will offer insight into the true benefits of Second Life and discuss some of the pitfalls to avoid by someone venturing into this new frontier. |
AS 196 |
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Session 4: The Impact of Alternative Discussion Formats on Students' Sense of Community and Learning in an Online Biology Class Many have suggested that lack of interaction and isolation impact student learning and persistence in online classes. To address this issue, collaborative group assignment was implemented to replace a comparable individual assignment in an online biology class. Preliminary results will be presented comparing the students' sense of community, perceptions of the impact of the assignment on their learning, and the level of learning demonstrated by the final written product. |
AS 194 |
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Session 5: Video Game Night in the Academic Library: Video Games as Educational Today's students love to play video games, and often use academic libraries' computers to do so. Rather than bemoan this emerging trend, librarians at Phoenix College decided to capitalize on students' gaming interests to highlight the educational and career possibilities in the gaming industry. By partnering with locally employed video game designers and providing a state-of-the-art venue for a variety of video games, librarians at Phoenix College were able to draw a diverse crowd to the library for a night of fun punctuated with academic and career exploration. |
AS 193 |
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Session 6: New and Developing Technologies and Tools for the Classroom or How to get rid of your textbook Use of Google Docs, Notebooks, Apps and GMail, along with Open Office, while demonstrating their interoperability and compatibility (or not) with Microsoft Office. Will also introduce Agile System Development models and their comparison with traditional SDLC. In addition, will cover the One Laptop per Child movement and the EEE PC as representative of the movement towards the $100 computer, and the new highly mobile notebooks with very limited storage. |
AS191 |
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Session 7: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Harness Collective Intelligence and Build Community Among Students The presentation addresses techniques for using Web 2.0 to harness collective intelligence and build community among students. Attendees will learn how Web2.0 sites like blogging, bookmarking, podcasting, wiki, and start page sites can be incorporated into the classroom to encourage better student interaction and sharing of course content and personal knowledge. We will first briefly define Web 2.0 as the 2nd generation of Internet based services that allow for better collaboration and sharing among people through collaboration tools and folksonomies, a labeling process called tagging. Then we will demonstrate how all these tools have been incorporated into a freshman composition course. |
AS 110 |
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Session 8: Research in the 2.0 Classroom Faculty members across disciplines are finding that they must deliver instruction in ways that meet the needs of Generation Y, Millennials, and NetGeners. Most of these students have grown up playing interactive video games, communicating through email and IM, and using technology that works instantly, is engaging, and is used on their timeframe and in the manner that they prefer. Find out how Maricopa Community College library faculty have used iTour, iLab, clickers, and our district Ask a Librarian service to actively engage learners, improve information-seeking skills, and deliver instruction in new ways. |
AS 192 |
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Session 9: Designing a Blended Course Come find out what Blended/Hybrid learning is, its many benefits, and more importantly why and how to do re-design your course for this exciting new teaching and learning format. Discover how redesigning your course for a blended format can benefit you, your institution, and your students! |
CTL Conference Room |
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12:30-1:30 |
Lunch Since 2003, the Speak Up National Project has collected authentic, unfiltered feedback from over 1.1 million K-12 students about their use of technology for learning and entertainment. Learn about the expectations of your future students for technology use and their aspirations for a 21st century learning environment as uncovered in the most recent national and Arizona survey data. |
Navajo Room |
1:15 – 2:00 |
Library Commons |
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2:00-3:00 |
Afternoon Sessions |
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Session 1: 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise. We are at the point now where we can do some very compelling content creation with nothing more complex than a Web browser. Upon seeing a number of these tools appear last summer, such as Slideshare and VoiceThreads, I began to wonder how many of them were actually viable. The answer astounded me, as there are more than 50! http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways |
AS 195 |
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Session 2: Twitter and Other Mobile-izing Tools If there’s one piece of technology available in the hands of most students, it’s a cell phone. Text-messaging is an effective way for people communicate within their social networks. This session will demonstrate how we can use tools like Twitter and other mobile-based technology to connect with our students and establish a community outside of the classroom, as well as, convey information beyond emails. |
AS 196 |
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Session 3: Your Digital Personality: The Real You in Your Online Class Participants see demonstrations of online instructors infusing their personalities into their courses beyond text-based interaction and getting more results from their students. Discussions of the needed skills, the pedagogy that drives the need for more than text-based discussions, best-practice models in distance instruction, and a tour of locations to gain the skills needed to present a better version of you are addressed in this session. Participants receive resources and examples of online instructors integrating their personality into their courses. |
AS 191 |
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Session 4: Second Life for Business How can Second Life be used for "serious" applications? How can businesses use Second Life to support the needs of a geographically dispersed workforce? Different communications methods will be covered as well as different types of meetings and activities that can be hosted in Second Life. Do's and Don'ts for hosting meetings in Second Life will be discussed. |
AS 192 |
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Session 5: Posting Podcasts and Managing Course Pages on iTunes U Now that you've got some great podcast content created, how do you get your podcasts quickly and easily into the hands of your students? With iTunes U, a free service from Apple that leverages the power of the iTunes Store, you can manage a broad range of audio or video content and make it available across campus. In this hands-on session, we'll upload a completed podcast to iTunes U and you'll see how easy it is to build and maintain course pages, organize content, and publish your finished resources direct to your campus' iTunes U site. |
LB 142 |
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Session 6: Digital Visual Literacy: Vital Interdisciplinary Skills for the 21st Century Learner Digital Visual Literacy is the ability to critically analyze digital visual materials, create effective visual communications, and make judgments and decisions using visual representations of thoughts and ideas. These skills actively engage our cognitive processing of visual images, draw concepts from a range of established disciplines, and enable students to function in an increasingly digital and visual workplace. Learn more about this exciting new literacy and the free materials developed under Maricopa’s National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education grant. |
AS 193 |
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Session 7: Engaging the Millennial Learner with Student Response Technology Change your lectures and increase student interaction forever with Student Response Technology (SRT). SRTs such as TurningPoint allow instructors to convert or create PowerPoint presentations with built-in slides that can assess student comprehension of course material. Students use the TurningPoint keypad (clicker) to answer questions and the results are displayed in a variety of graphical formats directly on the PowerPoint slide. This technology allows for immediate assessment of student comprehension, increases student involvement in the learning process, and enables customized instruction. |
AS 194 |
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Session 8: Sakai Open Source Course Platform - A Pilot Project Sakai is an open source course management platform. During the spring semester 2008 faculty members from various MCCCD colleges piloted using this course platform. This presentation will demonstrate some of the features of Sakai. The experiences of the faculty members will be shared with implementation and use of the features. A view from the administrator’s angle will also be shared. Data about has been collected from the faculty and students, which will be included in the discussion. |
CTL Workshop |
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Session 9: Online Course Delivery: Is it right for you? Have you been considering placing some of your content online or providing an opportunity for students to take portions or your entire course via the Internet? This presentation will describe the different types of online delivery, provide factors to reflect on when deciding to use online delivery, and relate instructor and student issues to consider. An opportunity for participants to share ideas will be provided. |
CTL Conference Room |
Poster Demonstration Sessions (Library Commons)
Download a pdf version of the poster sessions here. Back to Agenda
Technology |
Poster Session Title |
Google Apps |
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Using Google Groups in a hybrid Natural Science lab course: Successes and pitfalls |
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Have Friends, Be Coordinated: Google Calendar |
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Gmail, the email Revolution |
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Why Write Alone? Share your Docs |
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Managing Student Data with Forms |
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Speed Your Read |
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Blogger, Easier than Frogger |
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Got Photos? Picassaize Them |
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iGoogle, Netvibe & (Page)Flake out, why don’t you? |
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Web 2.0 Freeware |
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Don’t Write, Just Jott! |
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Grand Central: One Number for Life |
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Be Social!: Making “My Favorites” Our Favorites |
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Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That |
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Student Networking with Ning |
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JingJing (or check hers) |
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Wetpaint Wikis |
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Voki for Teaching and Learning |
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Podcasting on the Fly |
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Poll the World! |
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Sketchcast and SKRBL |
Whiteboards for Teaching and Learning |
Introduce Yourself MTV Style with Animoto |
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Survey the World! |
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Mind Mapping for Teaching and Learning |
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Be herd. Phone to internet service. |
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Open Source & Content |
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Foxy Browsing |
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Provide an Open Office for your Students |
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Photo Editing & Graphic Design on a Dime with Gimp |
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Hear the Learning: Audacity for Sound Editing |
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Making PDFs can be Cute! |
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Forget DIY: Finding Ready Made Materials w/o Copyright Concerns |
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Others |
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Beyond Text |
Beyond Text: Technology to Assist in Developing On-line Courses |
Avatars |
Avatars: Pros and cons as an instructional technology |
Podcast Producer |
Hands-On with Podcast Producer |
YouTube |
Using YouTube to Teach Nursing Pharmacology Concepts |
For more information about this event, contact Veronica Diaz (480) 731-8300.
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
A Division of Academic and Student Affairs
Maricopa Community Colleges