Educational Technology Conference 2009

May 15, 2009
9 am – 4 pm

:: Agenda At A Glance

* Location TBA

8:00am-
9:00am		 Registration & Breakfast 11th Floor Healey
9:00am-
9:15am		 Introduction: Anne Scrivener Agee, Daniel Ortiz 11th Floor Healey
9:20am-
9:45am		 Combining Face-to-Face Teaching with Online Content: Students’ Learning in Blended Courses Mike Milburn 11th Floor Healey
10:00am-
11:00am
Session 1

Library 1: Enhancing Student Learning with Library Productivity Tools (Zotero, LibX, SFX, Lib Guides)
Jeremy Seiferth

Center for Library Instruction, Healey 4

Enhancing Academic Performance in Blackboard: Effective uses of Blackboard for course management Wei Ding, Students’ involvement with Blackboard and their Academic Performance Adugna Lemi; Using Blackboard blogs for better class preparation Varghese George Studying the Relationship between Students’ Involvement with Blackboard and Their Academic Performance  Adugna Lemi

Presentation Room 3, Healey LL

Using Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom and Beyond:

  • Blogs and Wikis for Language Learning Susan Mraz
  • Wikis for Students’ Writing and Peer Review Laurie Marks
  • Wikis for Group Projects Katherine Kiss
  • Flip Video and Podcasts Xu Guo Chan, Mary Simone
  • YouTube Nan Cormier and Lisa Link

Presentation Room 2, Healey LL

Motivating Students through Digital Storytelling (Workshop) Janna Jackson; Donna DeGennaro

Blue Lab, Healey 3
11:00am-
11:10am		 Break 
11:10pm-
12:10pm
Session 2

Library 2: Providing Students with Mobile Access to Academic ResourcesJoanne Riley, Brice Stacy

Center for Library Instruction, Healey 4

Creating Effective Online Learning Communities: Online learning and communities of practice Wei Zhang “Who’s Afraid of George and Martha?” Role playing online with Wimba Mike Milburn Learning is Delicious: Using Social Tagging to Facilitate Research Collaboration Pacey Foster

Presentation 2, Healey LL

Working with Wikis (Workshop) Ellie Kutz, Laurie Marks, Christian deTorres

Blue Lab, Healey 3

Enriching Courses with Live Media—Podcasts and Vodcasts (Workshop) Mary Simone, John Mazzarella, Jessica Downa

White Lab, Healey 3
12:20am-
1:30pm
Lunch
Healy,11		 Engaging Students in Active Learning through Technology (teacher and student pairs): Keeping Students Connected in Large Classes (Bob Chen and student.); Learning in Virtual Worlds: Second Life (David Patterson and Tim Chuvala ) 11th Floor Healey
1:40pm-
2:10pm
Demo Sessions
Healey,11

UMB Blog Sushant Bhosale
UMB Wiki Christian de Torres
Flip Videos and Itunes Jessica Downa YouTube
Lisa Link

Zotero
Jeremy Seiferth
UMB Xythos
Ray Melcher
Safe AssignIrene Yukhananov

Facebook Eileen McMahon; Assistive Technology
Ken Elkind
Twitter
John Mazzarella

Vendors:
Xythos, Apple, Adobe, IClickers
2:20pm-
3:20pm
Session 3

Library 3: Guiding students in organizing research findings (RSS, Google Reader, Ref Share)George Hart; Joanne Riley

Center for Library Instruction, Healey 4

Engaging Students in Large Classes: Effective Strategies for Using I-Clickers and Why They’d Work across the Curriculum—Sharing and Discussion  Brian White, Marietta Schwartz,
Ninian Stein

Center for Library Instruction, Healey 4

The Power of the Virtual: Using Blackboard as a virtual lab in a face-to-face course David Weisman
Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life
Gary Zabel

Center for Library Instruction, Healey 4

Using Xythos

Using Apple Media

Using Adobe

 

Using Apple Media
Jay Mcsweene
presentation Room, Healey LL
Using Adobe
Tim Plumer
presentation Room, Healey LL
Using Xythos
Colleen Malloy ,Ray Melcher
3:30pm-
4:00pm

High Tea & Conversation

Healey, 11