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Conference Presentation Summaries and Materials

An Introduction to Elluminate's Academic Edition

Vicki Galloway-Harsh - eCollege and CCCOnline

Elluminate Live is a robust synchronous teaching tool that can be used to enhance and extend your distance classroom. This presentation will take you through the Elluminate moderator interface, highlighting key features and tools and hopefully giving you some great ideas for dynamic, real time interactions with your students! .

Materials -PowerPoint Notes (MS Word)

Are You Really Teaching with Technology?

Mary Cash, Cheryl Comstock and Aaron Leonard - CCCOnline

Elluminate Live is a robust synchronous teaching tool that can be used to enhance and extend your distance classroom. This presentation will take you through the Elluminate moderator interface, highlighting key features and tools and hopefully giving you some great ideas for dynamic, real time interactions with your students! .

Materials -PowerPoint  

Building Communities of Learners

Suzanne Becking - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The purpose of this session is to present the findings of study of techniques for building communities of learners. Key components and empirical findings on community building to increase student learning online will be presented. Interaction, feedback, and teacher presence will be discussed and examples given. The session is based on research studies on learning communities and presenter's ten years' of experience as an instructional designer.

Materials -Notes Examples-announcements Free Web (all pdf's)

Campus 2015 - A Look Over the Horizon 

Mark Valenti - The Sextant Group

Keynote Presentation: The Transformation of Education, Convergence, Networks & Digital Media, and New Learning Spaces.

Materials -Presentation (PDF)

Educational Uses of Blogs and Wikis

Lisa Cheney-Steen - CCCOnline

Why consider using blogs or a wiki for your class? What advantages do they have over traditional course management software? What are the disadvantages? Why should administrators at your college consider using blogs and wikis? This presentation will define both blogs and wikis and look at why they can be useful teaching and administrative tools.

Materials - None

Going Beyond Read-Write-Respond: An inside look at Virtual High School ® Courses

Donna E. Scribner - Virtual High School

Often people view online education in the manner it was first introduced: read a passage, write a reflection, and respond to others. Citizens of the 21st century need and deserve more! Come get an insider’s view of high school courses that use multi-media to enhance instruction.

Materials - PowerPoint

Intelligent Agents in Education

Ed Bowen - Dallas TeleCollege

This presentation demonstrates several intelligent agent applications, designed to function as virtual assistants to provide user support. Agents to find, filter, and fuse information are demonstrated. Additionally, an agent being deployed to provide answers for faculty and students will be showcased.

Materials - PDF

Learning in the 21st Century - Using Second Life © in your Online Classroom

Cheryl Comstock and Rick Hadley - CCCOnline

An overview of The 3D virtual world, Second Life, and how it can be used in online learning. Second Life © (SL), known as a virtual environment is now taking the educational plunge. Well known educators, such as Marc Prensky and Clark Aldrich among others, are researching the elements of simulations and games as prospects to promote certain pedagogical characteristics as teaching resources in the online classroom.

Materials - PowerPoint

New Tools for Virtual Guest Visits

Alice Bedard-Voorhees - CCCOnline

Chat, discussion boards, and live conferencing software are being used to bring guest experts to courses via the internet. This session showcases tools and strategies for using voice-over-internet and phone-casting tools like Skype and Gabcast for recording guest visits, interviews, and even panels.

Materials - PowerPoint

Online Class Without an Ending: RSS-enabled Technologies Extend Class Beyond the Semester

Ray Schroeder - University of Illinois at Springfield

Internet in American Life is an online upper division public affairs colloquium class at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Online readings from the Pew Charitable Trust and three blogs provide class materials. The blogs continue to update students daily, even years after they have completed the class.

Materials - PowerPoint

Podcasting in Northeast Tennessee

Rick Merritt - Northeast Tennessee State

Podcasting in Northeast Tennessee is a three prong approach. We are using
it in the face-to-face and distance classrooms, as a marketing tool, and
for professional development of faculty and staff.

Materials - PowerPoint

Strip Mining Facts - Meaningful Discussion in the Google/Wikipedia Era

Dan Branan - CCCOnline

Readily available information has changed everything about how students research a subject. How do we engage students in meaningful online discussions when they can get all the facts in just a few minutes? Furthermore, with the proliferation of "facts" available on the web, how do we cultivate an awareness of source-reliability?

Materials -PowerPoint Examples (MS Word)

Traveling the Soundscape: Demystifying the Podcast

Liz Kleinfeld, Amy Braziller - Red Rocks Community College

Is podcasting a legitimate teaching technique? Is it only for the tech-savvy? Experience podcasting as a listener/viewer, producer, and educator. Journey from neophyte to addict in 45 multi-media-filled minutes, learning what it takes to use podcasting in the classroom and how to defend your choice to naysayers.

Materials - PowerPoint

Using the Writing Studio to Extend and Enhance the Environment of Your Writing Class

Jill Salahub - Colorado State University

Writing@CSU (http://writing.colostate.edu) is the home of Colorado State University's online learning environment, the Writing Studio. This site can be used to learn to write, save your work using various writing tools in a free password-protected account, access more than 150 guides and interactive activities for writers, participate in Writing Studio Classes and Co-ops, create ePortfolios, and get feedback on your writing.

Materials - PowerPoint (14MB)   SWF (8MB) (same presentation)

Virtual Worlds in Online Education: Are You Ready to Teach in Second Life?

Cynthia Calogne - Colorado Tech

Second Life offers a rich landscape for online classroom interaction, investigation and research. Over 100 universities use Second Life and the number is growing. Join us for an introduction to the future of online education and discover the fascinating techniques that educators are employing in this virtual world.

Materials - PowerPoint

Why reinvent the wheel? Internet resources for online science and math instruction

Gail Krovitz - eCollege and CCCOnline

While new technologies are exciting, every instructor may not have access to these groundbreaking additions to their classes.This presentation will cover some free internet resources that can be used in online science classes, as well as creative uses for these resources in discussion groups or other activities.

Materials - PDF