Tuesday, May 08, 2007

DoIT's May Events

Event 1: MyLiteracies - Understanding the Net Generation through LiveJournals and Literacy Practices (sponsored by Innovate: Journal of Online Education)

Join Dana Wilber as she provides as an introduction to LiveJournal as well as the nature of social networking sites. She also will discuss connections to potential practices in higher education research and pedagogy. Review her article at http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=384

Event 2: Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students? (sponsored by Innovate: Journal of Online Education)

Join John Thompson as he explores the meaning and application of Web 2.0 and how Net Generation students with Web 2.0 expectations will reshape institutions of higher education. Review his article at http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=393&action=article

Event 3: Faculty Summer Institute (sponsored by the University of Illinois)

Join other educators, developers, and innovators from across the state of Illinois and beyond in this four-day conference devoted to the exchange of information and ideas.FSI 2007 will offer more than 50 presentations, including hands-on workshops, forums, poster sessions, keynotes, and roundtable discussions. Focus will be on:introducing participants to the use of the Internet and computer technologies in teaching and learning; advancing the knowledge of those already familiar with the web and its uses in education; creating a network for sharing in the development of the curriculum and use of learning technologies; and providing an opportunity for faculty teaching in similar disciplines to share best practices.

Event 4: Tips and Tricks for Teaching Math Online (sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council)

  • Date: May 15, 2007
  • Time: 1:00-2:00PM
  • Location: Your computer and telephone
  • Cost: $25.00
  • Registration: contact Sarah Stark, DoIT, at 847.925.6805 before the event for registration and support for event cost)

Whether you are experienced or just getting started, Fred Feldon will offer advice on how to increase retention, provide a sense of community, produce your own instructional material, pick a course management system, manage assignments, group work and testing, and other techniques for successfully teaching mathematics online.

Event 5: Teaching Language with Technology (sponsored by the Illinois Online Network)

Teaching a language, online or in a traditional classroom, has come a long way from cassette tapes and workbooks. This webinar will feature some innovative uses of technology tools for language instruction. The program will be presented by Susan Manning, Ed.D., an ESL instructor at Waubonsee Community College and her students! They will share how they used digital audio, digital video, podcasts, and Skype to enhance speaking and listening skills. Susan will also discuss blogs, wikis, and other text-based tools for reading, writing and vocabulary acquisition.

Event 6: Teaching Music Appreciation Online (sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council

  • Date: May 15, 2007
  • Time: 1:00-2:00PM
  • Location: Your computer and telephone
  • Cost: $25.00
  • Registration: contact Sarah Stark, DoIT, at 847.925.6805 before the event for registration and support for event cost)

The explosion in distance education has impacted the performing and visual arts, in addition to the traditional core curriculum (math, letters, and science). Advances in technology have allowed colleges to offer classes that require large audio and visual components effectively in an online environment. Music appreciation is an example of a course that can use multimedia to present important concepts and enhance student learning. Streaming formats in audio and video not only engage students more effectively than traditional Web sites, but these technologies also help those students we consider to be “aural” or “visual” learners.

Event 7: Dynamic Collaboration, Discussion and Facilitation Practices (sponsored by SLOAN-C)

  • Date: May 23-June 1, 2007
  • Time: Virtual
  • Location: Your computer
  • Cost: $145.00 contact Sarah Stark DoIT , at 847.925.6805 before the event for a membership registration code to get this price)
  • Full time faculty: Consider applying for a Technology Grant to pay for the registration cost
  • Registration: http://www.sloan-c.org/workshop/laboratory_apr07.asp

In the online classroom, interaction prompts more interaction by stimulating more perspectives, points of view, ideas, questions, and disagreements. Through collaboration and discussion, both facilitators and students help each other in the learning process. This workshop examines how facilitators can increase and provide quality engagement in an online academic environment. Strategies for designing discussion threads as issues for consideration rather than topics for debate, sequencing discussion prompts, using Socratic dialog, modeling reflective exchange, and closing down an exchange are explored. Exemplary exchanges are illustrated. Issues such as threading, pace, and helping students communicate clearly without the aid of nonverbal communication cues are discussed. Workshop participants can tap into a vast wealth of experience and idea sharing to enhance the online learning experience.

posted by Sarah Stark @ 10:23 AM