day 2
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Open to all regardless of affiliation with SLN or SUNY.
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8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome! – Alexandra M. Pickett, Associate Director, SLN
9:15 – 10:15 SUNY Campus Showcase I:
Clark Shah-Nelson, Online Coordinator, Computer Information Systems, State University of New York at Delhi
Tools and Techniques for Just-In-Time and Remote Training and Support
Need to provide faculty development despite harried and unmatchable schedules as well as faculty who reside in far off places? We’ll examine some tools (like iPods, chat widgets, and Web 2.0 sites) and methods (like publishing to wikis and blogs for easy updates) we use at SUNY Delhi to prepare and deliver training and support for busy and remote faculty and staff.
10:15 – 11:15 External Showcase I:
Shannon Ritter, Social Networks Advisor, Penn State World Campus
Using Social Networking Tools and Technologies to Build a Community of Online Learners
Online and distance learners are studying from locations all over our globe, connected via internet to our courses and institutions. By taking advantage of social networking technologies, we can begin to connect these students with each other and encourage community building among our learners.
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 SUNY Campus Showcase Part II:
Alex Reid, Associate Professor and Director of the Professional Writing program, SUNY Cortland
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 2:30 External Showcase II:
Lawrence Ragan, Director of Faculty Development, Penn State World Campus & Carol McQuiggan, Instructional Designer, Penn State Harrisburg
Faculty Development: Learning and Growing!
This session will highlight the faculty development design and approach in order to serve the needs of the faculty participating in course delivery via the Penn State World Campus.
2:30 – 3:30 SUNY Campus Showcase III:
Kevin Lim, Cyberculturalist, doctoral student in Communication at the University at Buffalo
Leveling Up Students With Blogs: Motivating Active Learning Through Game Mechanics
One challenge of using blogs as educational tools is encouraging students to engage in these public forms of active participation. For students to receive the full benefits of the class blogging experience, they must internalize the goal of intellectual interaction. To encourage these social interactions, an innovative pedagogical approach in the form of Amy Jo Kim’s game mechanics (2006) can be applied as a viable framework to student blogging communities. This framework also allows educators to achieve both specific and emergent learning outcomes. This paper presents the authors’ implementation of gaming mechanics with blogging pedagogy, and will allow educators to observe how learning outcomes were met. As both authors were each instructors of similar introductory Communication courses held on different continents within the same semester, this experience provides for a unique opportunity to compare the adoption of blogs and game mechanics under different cultural contexts.
3:30 – 4:00 Networking Break
4:00 – 5:00 Unsession - speed-dating style mini presentations solicited from conference participants! Come prepared to show, demo, talk about your own innovation, best practice, cooltool, or idea (in course design, instructional technology, faculty development) in 3-minutes or less.
5:00 Wrap-up, Survey, and Preview of day 3.
5:00 – 7:30 Social Hour (open bar at the hotel manager’s reception)
6:00 Dinner Served
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7:00 George Siemens, Associate Director, Research and Development Learning Technologies Centre, University of Manitoba
Making Sense: Where are current trends leading us?
Education is in a period of significant flux. Global, societal, learning theory, and technological trends are calling into question the existing structure of education. This session will explore the current significant trends and explore potential impact on teaching and learning. What role is education to play in a society where barriers to information access have been substantially lowered? What role will designers and teachers play when classroom walls are thinned due to global connections and learning networks?
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