Presentations
Session: 10:20 AM - 11:10 AM
Achieving Universal Design: Retrofitting Streaming Media with Captions
Presenter: Darryn Ostrander, Director of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning, Darton College
Co-presenter(s): Isaac Dixon - Darton College
Achieving universal design and ADA compliance while providing rich multimedia content can be a technology challenge, especially when trying to re-task previous non-compliant content. By synchronizing streaming text transcriptions with audio, video or other streaming media, captioning can be added to existing content. The content and the captioning are embedded in a SMIL file format viewable in a standard web browser with common plug-ins installed. Content reconstruction to add the captioning is simplified by the use of template files containing code to display the embedded content players. Delivery of captioned content within WebCT Vista will be demonstrated. Coding examples and links to template resources will be provided.
Room: 240
Baby Steps: Building Online Courses from Existing Materials
Presenter: Vesta R Whisler, Assistant Professor, Adult and Career Education, Valdosta State University
You are asked to develop your favorite course for online delivery. Where do you start? Learn how to build on your basic computer skills to prepare interactive courses that digital natives and immigrants alike can relate to. After experiencing this presentation, teachers will be better prepared to: (1) apply basic computer skills to the development of online course materials, (2) integrate course materials from existing face-to-face classes into WebCT for online delivery, and (3) morph online materials from an "information" perspective to an "interactive" perspective. This presentation will help educators connect skills they already have to skills they will need to help them meet the upsurge in demand for online course delivery.
Room : 243
Exploring the World of One-Click Podcasting and Narrated Virtual Web Tours
Presenter: Scott Smith
This session will introduce attendees to two tools recently adopted by Valdosta State University: the Wimba Podcaster and the Wimba Voice Presentations Tool. The Wimba Podcaster works both within and outside of WebCT courses, and allows faculty to create and post podcasts with one click of the mouse. The Wimba Voice Presentation Tool provides faculty with an easy to use interface to create guided audio tours of websites or web based resources of any type.
Teaching Media in a Converging Environment
Presenter: Mike P Savoie, Associate Professor, Communication Arts, Valdosta State University
Co-presenter(s):
Frank Barnas, Associate Professor, Valdosta State University, Department of Communication Arts, Mass Media area.
Patrick McGuire, Assistant Professor, Valdosta State University, Department of Communication Arts, Mass Media area.
The purpose of this panel is to discuss the convergence of media and its impact on training students for occupations in the ever-changing media industries. Additionally, the panel will address professional development and currency issues concerning the transition from traditional to new media environments.
The panel consists of three mass media professionals from distinct areas of media production. The discussions will address approaches to utilizing technology and digital media for instructional purposes and for student application.
.Room: 360
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Session: 11:20 AM - 12:10 PM
Georgia Digital Innovation Group
Presenter: Jessica A Somers, Executive Director, Academic Innovation,
Advanced Learning Technologies, University System of Georgia Board of Regents
Co-presenter(s): Jim Wolfgang, Director, Georgia Digital Innovation Group, Georgia College
The Georgia Digital Innovation Group is an initiative that fosters innovation by faculty, staff and students in the use of digital technologies to enhance the total learning experience through immersion, sharing, collaboration and "iDreaming". Through the DI Group, podcasting services are provided, leadership institutes are held, and digital technology workshops are offered. The DI Group, housed at Georgia College, serves all 35 University System institutions.
This presentation will demonstrate several recent academic technologies being promoted by the DI Group with emphasis on how they enhance teaching and learning. Participants will learn how they can take advantage of the resources and training available through the Georgia Digital Innovation Group.
Room: 240
Building Community Through Small Group Work: Going Beyond Shared Interests
Presenter: Janet Huntzinger, Associate Professor, ECESPED, North Georgia College and State University
This presentation includes an integration of a formal presentation and a planned short informal audience share time. As experienced technology users, the conference audience has a wide range of insights.
Small group work is an integral part of an on-line course. Determining group membership often follows the traditional face to face procedure of grouping by student interest or by self selection. The unique qualities of online interaction provide additional procedures to be considered.
Room: 243
Podcasting and Podcatching
Presenter: Andew J Brovey, Associate Professor, Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology, Valdosta State University
iPods are more than just music players. Thousands of audio files are available on the WWW in the form of podcasts, including many for education and professional development. Several websites now offer collections of podcasts related to teaching and learning, addressing numerous subjects, from elementary through higher education. Nearly all these podcasts are free, and you can set up simple software to receive your favorite podcasts automatically as new episodes become available! This session will help you to understand what podcasts are, and how to find, capture, manage and play them. We'll also explore how to transfer them to a digital audio player such as the iPod. Come and learn more about time-shifted, portable, personalized audio. Make your iPod a learnPod!
Room: 360
“Let’s Give ‘em Something to Talk About”: Using Discussion Boards to Facilitate Student Interaction in Reading-Based Courses
Presenter: Sharon L. Gravett, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Valdosta State University
Co-presenter(s): Pat Miller, Professor of English, Valdosta State University
Presentation description: Looking for a (fairly) painless way to incorporate WebCT into your courses? Consider using the discussion tool to set up a classroom discussion board. It’s a great way to get students to engage material while they engage each other in an informal conversation about shared reading or in-class material. The practice allows students to hone writing and argumentation skills while it provides the professor an easy way to gauge student participation. The discussion board allows students to keep a record of their “thought” development that they can use as a basis for papers or presentations.
This presentation will be primarily “show and tell” in the context of an informal conversation with colleagues.
Room: 222
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Session: 12:20 AM - 1:10 PM
Digital Immigrants in the Land of Natives
Presenter: Jerry R Siegrist, Professor, Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology, Valdosta State University
Co-presenter(s): Frances Paterson, Professor, Valdosta State University
This presentation will explore alternate methods of allowing aspiring leadership candidates to engage in and to demonstrate the higher level thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, especially the practical aspects of integrating narrated PowerPoints into instruction, either as stand-alone asynchronous class sessions or for enrichment.
Student response to the use of narrated PowerPoints has been, virtually without exception, highly enthusiastic. Students' positive reactions, the wide availability of the software, and instructors' and students' familiarity with the program translate into a mode of instruction that is extremely easy to adapt to a variety of college and university courses.
Room: 240
Using Video Conference to Provide Remote Interpreting, Tutoring, Supervision and Instruction
Presenter: Nanci A Scheetz, Professor, Special Education & Communication Disorders
Co-presenter(s): Chris McCuller VSU
This presentation will focus on the technology and the techniques used to deliver remote services to deaf and hard of hearing students. Equipmemt needs will be discussed, pros and cons of using this type of technology will be described, and future directions will be highlighted.
Throughout the presentation video segments depicting the way the technology has been utilized will be featured. This interactive presentation allows for a question and asnwer segment geared toward helping others implement the technology after leaving the conference.
Room: 243
Online Learning Using Microsoft Producer 2003
Presenter: Kenneth D Ott, Associate Professor, Adult and Career Education, Valdosta State University
Co-presenter(s): J. D. Thomerson, Professor, Valdosta State University
Producer 2003 is an exciting tool for creating dynamic multimedia presentations in a timely and cost-effective manner. It can be an effective tool for distance learning and other technology-based classes. Producer 2003 can be used to develop training content, generate high-quality online presentations, create informal business communications, produce on-demand executive broadcasts, archive departmental meetings, and a host of other endeavors. This software allows the user to import PowerPoint slides, video, slides, and images and then capture, synchronize, and publish other audio, to provide a completed rich-media presentation. Audio and video content can be either prerecorded or created within Producer as you create the presentation. Producer 2003 is ideally suited for secondary and post-secondary teachers and students, media professionals, training specialists, and anyone who wishes to create exciting presentations.
Room: 360
Creating Course Lectures for Online Environments
Presenter: Barry J Monk, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Macon State University
Co-presenter(s): Mary Dwyer Wolfe, Assistant Professor , Mathematic, Macon State College
There are many who subscribe to the notion that online courses require more than a textbook, an electronic version of course notes, and the occasional quiz. Professors Barry Monk and Mary Dwyer Wolfe from Macon State College utilize the philosophy that for every component in the traditional classroom there should be an analogous component in the online environment that is at least as good. There exists a great deal of relatively inexpensive equipment that instructors can use to make online course lectures of their own. In this presentation, Monk and Wolfe will discuss some of this equipment and will demonstrate the production of an online course lecture from scratch using tools including Mimio, Camtasia, and PowerPoint.
Room: 222
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Session: 1:20 AM - 2:10 PM
Lights, Cameras, Action! (Using library instruction movies in your online classes)
Presenter: Shilo M Smith, Reference Librarian/Instructor, Odum Library, Valdosta State University
Co-presenter(s): Apryl Price, M.L.I.S., Reference Librarian/Instructor, Odum Library, Valdosta State Univeristy
The Reference Team at Odum library has been collaborating on various projects highlighting library services. During this presentation we will show “Crime & Punishment”, a movie concerning the issues of plagiarism and academic dishonesty. This movie is an original production created by members of the Reference Team, Media Services, and students from VSU. We will also preview online tutorials created using Macromedia Captivate. These tutorials will soon be available via streaming video from the library’s website. In addition, attendees will learn about alternative methods available to help their students learn how to use available library services.
Room: 240
"Who's Online"? Using Technology for Informal Assessment of Student Comprehension
Presenter: Kathleen S. Lowney, Professor, Sociology, Valdosta State
Ever wonder if your students understood that concept covered yesterday
in class? Don't want to wait until the next test to find out? Then
consider the utility of little-used function in WebCT Vista - the
"Who's Online" tool - as an easy way to obtain student feedback and
increase the connectedness of students and faculty. Come explore this
tool and see how I use it to assess student learning quickly.
Room: 243
Survival Strategies for Living Online
Presenter: Ellen W. Wiley, Professor, Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology, Valdosta State University
One of the most challenging survival tasks for an online instructor is how to manage all the “stuff” within a course. You know stuff like all those learning modules which generate all those student submissions, which then need feedback, which then must be returned, and finally need to be archived for things like accreditation visits. You know the drill if you have been an online instructor. Sometimes it becomes an issue of survival just to keep your head above the digital waters.
Room: 360
Using Tablet PCs to Improve Teaching and Learning
Presenter: Barry Hojjatie, Assistant Professor, Physics, Astronomy, & Geosciences, Valdosta State University
Co-presenter(s):
Homa Hooshmand, VSU
Beatriz Potter, VSU
Joe Newton, VSU
The purpose of the HP-funded study is to demonstrate applications of Tablet PC in teaching and learning, and to investigate the efficacy of the technology. In an initial comparison of student achievement in a technical drawing assignment, the mean student grade was higher when the students and instructor used the Tablet PC. The presenters will demonstrate teaching techniques using the Tablet PC and discuss the initial project findings.
Room: 222
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