Designing and Using Grading Forms for On-line Assignments
This is a 45-minute session
“Designing and Using Grading Forms for On-line Assignments” Purpose of presentation: The target audience is on-line instructors in any discipline who are troubled by our current students’ two great writing issues: failure to observe the manuscript conventions of written Standard American English and conscious or unconscious plagiarism. Using grading forms also makes it easier for [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/designing-and-using-grading-forms-for-online-assignments/
More about this session...It’s All About The Love – Creating and Supporting A Technology-supported Learning Community (TLC)…
This is a 45-minute session
It’s All About the Love handouts Sharing the Love presentation handouts Title of presentation: It’s All About The Love – Creating and Supporting A Technology-supported Learning Community (TLC) in a Community College, Professional-Technical, or Undergraduate Setting Purpose of presentation (why is this important and who is the target audience): With full workloads, many undergraduate and community college faculty members find [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/its-all-about-the-love-creating-and-supporting-a-technologysupported-learning-community-tlc-in-a-community-college-technical-and-undergraduate-program-or-department/
More about this session...Knowledge Management in Education
This is a 45-minute session
The management of knowledge has always been at the heart of education and research in terms of development and improvement. This reality together with the complex interplay of social, economic, and technological forces are strengthening the importance of knowledge and its management. Significant changes have been witnessed with the arrival of the knowledge age. During the [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/knowledge-management-in-education/
More about this session...Teaching Beyond the Book
This is a 45-minute session
Teaching Beyond the Book Purpose of presentation: This Presentation is meant to introduce the thought and possibilities of using the Internet as a viable and up-to-date data source for teaching. In many fields of study books are outdated before they make it to the shelf. There are often Internet sources that are updated by experts in the field [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/teaching-beyond-the-book/
More about this session...Ready, set, blog! Using blogging effectively in the college classroom.
This is a 45-minute session
Title of presentation Ready, Set, Blog! Using blogging effectively in the college classroom. Purpose of presentation The purpose of this presentation is to help educators understand how easy it is to set up and use a blog to communicate with students. Additionally, educators will have the opportunity to see how blogging can be used by the students as [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/ready-set-blog-using-blogging-effectively-in-the-college-classroom/
More about this session...The Cheatability Factor
This is a 45-minute session
PowerPoint for The Cheatability Factor Nobody wants students cheating in their online class. Could you be making it easy for students to cheat? What is your Cheatability factor? Presenters will discuss their rubric for cheatability in an online course. We will look at the main influences on cheating and show you how to [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/the-cheatability-factor/
More about this session...Empowering Language Students to Share the Arts Through Technology
This is a 45-minute session
Title: Empowering Language Students to Share the Arts Through Technology Purpose: This presentation will describe how technology-medium art projects helped ESL students in an intensive English language program to practice their listening and speaking skills. The use of simple, but exciting, technology-based art projects motivated students to collaborate and apply advanced content and language. The use of [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/empowering-language-students-to-share-the-arts-through-technology/
More about this session...Orienting Students for Online Learning
This is a 45-minute session
Orienting Students for Online Learning Purpose: This presentation targets those who develop online curriculum in general, but may be of special interest to those who oversee programs and seek ideas for providing a positive experience for online students and increasing their chances of success and completion. Objectives: We plan to provide a very brief overview of [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/orienting-students-for-online-learning/
More about this session...Measuring the educational IMPACT of your program: How much is it really worth?
This is a 45-minute session
Title of presentation: Measuring the educational IMPACT of your program: How much is it really worth? Purpose of presentation: (why is this important and who is the target audience) Why is this important? It was Friedrich Nietzsche who said, “Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! . . . It is only through evaluation that value exists: [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/measuring-the-educational-impact-of-your-program-how-much-is-it-really-worth/
More about this session...Text Messaging: An Innovative Educational Method
This is a 45-minute session
Text Messaging: An Innovative Educational Method Home visitation has proven effective in some cases, but continues to have limitations. Child-bearing women and single, young mothers, who are often recipients of this visitation continue to need education to increase compliance and follow-up; which ultimately relates to the well-being of both the mother and child. Due [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/text-messaging-an-innovative-educational-method/
More about this session...Creating a Collaborative Course using Google Tools
This is a 45-minute session
Title: Creating a Collaborative Course using Google Tools Purpose: In today’s classroom it’s more important than ever to collaborate with our students and keep them apprised of valuable resources and upcoming schedules. The average instructor needs to devote most of his/her time towards developing pertinent curriculum, without the added burden of trying [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/creating-a-collaborative-course-using-google-tools/
More about this session...The Separation of Course and Classroom
This is a 45-minute session
Purpose of presentation: Over the years of working with faculty in the development of online courses one thing has remained the same…course content interwoven into the Course management system. So much so that one cannot be pulled from the other. Now that Course Management Systems are being combined, changed, bought out and unreliable we [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/the-separation-of-course-and-classroom/
More about this session...Integrated Computer Essentials/Profinciency Course Design
This is a 45-minute session
TITLE: Integrated Computer Essentials/Profinciency Course Design PURPOSE: Although students may feel confident in using computer software, few only know a limited set of features available in the Microsoft Suite (i.e. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access), and even fewer understand the importance of learning an integrated approach to accomplish tasks and/or projects. Therefore, this presentation is [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/integrated-computer-essentialsprofinciency-course-design/
More about this session...Challenges and Advantages of Online Learning
This is a 45-minute session
Title: Challenges and Advantages of Online Learning Purpose: To demonstrate a new (21st Century, Web 2.0) platform for authoring, delivering and consuming content and courses. Objectives: The objective of the session is to open the mind to the possibilities of a rich, engaging online learning experience. No longer is it simply text in a browser. Today’s students demand a graphical [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/challenges-and-advantages-of-online-learning/
More about this session...What the Heck is an Operational Principle?
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Presentation Handout (PPT) • Purpose of presentation (why is this important and who is the target audience) Many TTIX attendees are involved in some aspect of instructional design. The literature about instructional design fails to mention some key ideas that lie at the heart of design activity. Operational principle is one of these ideas. The purpose of [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/what-the-heck-is-an-operational-principle/
More about this session...Technology in the Arabic Classroom
This is a 45-minute session
An integrated Approach to develop Intermediate-Low learners’ cultural awareness and language acquisition Presentation Handout (PPT) Purpose of the project: It has been a recurring complaint of non-native students of Arabic at a novice-high/intermediate-low level of proficiency that they cannot retain the vocabulary they study and that at many times, even when they recognize the words they learnt [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/technology-in-the-arabic-classroom-an-integrated-approach-to-develop-intermediate-learners-cultural-awareness-and-language-acquisition/
More about this session...Teaching Technology to Digital Immigrants
This is a 45-minute session
Online Teaching Resources How to Make a Web Page with SeaMonkey Teaching Technology to Digital Immigrants Slideshow Teaching Technology to Digital Immigrants • Purpose of presentation (why is this important and who is the target audience) The purpose of this presentation is to share with others what the presenters have learned about helping faculty gain skills and confidence using instructional [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/teaching-technology-to-digital-immigrants/
More about this session...A Next Generation Digital Video Repository
This is a 45-minute session
This session offers a demonstration of the INTELECOM Online Resources Network, a ground-breaking new service from INTELECOM. A digital content repository of curriculum-based video learning objects, INTELECOM Online organizes video clips by academic discipline and course. The clips are easily importable into online, hybrid, and web-enhanced courses as well as PowerPoint or classroom [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/a-next-generation-digital-video-repository/
More about this session...Imaginative Instruction: What Master Storytellers Can Teach Instructional Designers
This is a 45-minute session
Materials Further Readings Practical Suggestions Presentation Materials Presentation Abstract Stories play a crucial role in human learning. It’s no wonder, then, that good stories have been part of the teacher’s toolkit for generations and are currently being re-examined by educational scholars. These scholars are discovering (or perhaps rediscovering) that using stories to facilitate learning can motivate people to make significant [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/imaginative-instruction-what-master-storytellers-can-teach-instructional-designers/
More about this session...Openness and Higher Education
This is a 45-minute session
* Title of presentation: Openness and Higher Education * Purpose of presentation (why is this important and who is the target audience) The purpose of this presentation is to familiarize conference attendees with the “open education†movement, which draws inspiration from the “right to education†and “open source software†movements. The topic is important because the idea [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/openness-and-higher-education/
More about this session...2008 Pre-Conference Workshop Participants
This is a 45-minute session
The following individuals have signed up for Learning Objects Pre-Conference Workshop. If your name is on this list and you do NOT plan to attend, please e-mail us ASAP. http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/2008-pre-conference-workshop-participants/
More about this session...Open Source LMS Advocacy
This is a 45-minute session
Open Source LMS Advocacy at Weber State University: Challenges and Opportunities Although Weber State has been using the Blackboard/WebCT LMS for the last six years, it has also been investigating the promise of open source learning management systems. Weber’s rationales for deploying an open source LMS will be outlined, and the strategies and challenges that Weber has faced in [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/open-source-lms-advocacy-2/
More about this session...Teaching the Facebook Generation: A Wish List for Course Management Software
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Teaching the Facebook generation: A wish list for course management software Brian Whitmer and Devlin Daley Today’s generation of students know how to use the web for a lot more than just checking their email. They’re perfectly comfortable with dynamic web pages and highly interactive content. They spend hours a day on social networking sites communicating [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/teaching-the-facebook-generation-a-wish-list-for-course-management-software/
More about this session...Early Bird Workshop: TTIX Social Software Run-Down
This is a 45-minute session
Blog, Twitter, Backchannel This half-hour session will run at least twice on both Thursday and Friday starting at 8:00 am and again at 8:30 am. This is a short, fairly intense session that orients participants to the several “Web 2.0″-type tools used by TTIX this year. While this session may not give you a full training [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/early-bird-workshop-ttix-social-software-run-down/
More about this session...2008 Thursday Keynote: Bob Clougherty
This is a 45-minute session
R. J. Clougherty, Jr. is the Director of the Institute for Technological Scholarship at Tennessee Tech University. He is a Fulbright Scholar who is also the founder and director of TTU’s Web Design program and a Professor of English. He is on the founding board [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/2008-thursday-keynote-bob-clougherty/
More about this session...2008 Friday Keynote: Sandy Mills-Alford
This is a 45-minute session
Here’s Sandy’s Keynote Presentation from TTIX 08. Sandy Mills-Alford is the CEO of AliveTek, Inc., an organization known for designing highly interactive e-learning environments for a multitude of organizations at all educational levels. Ms. Mills-Alford belongs to the first generation of web-based course designers in higher education. Her career as an educator has included many roles including [...]http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/2008-friday-keynote-sandy-mills-alford/
More about this session...2008 Friday Speed Demos
This is a 45-minute session
We’ll be posting the speed demos given today during the open mic session of lunch, including videos! So get ready to demo something cool related to teaching with technology. http://ttix.org/archives/2008-sessions/2008-friday-speed-demos/
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