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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Wednesday, 8:00 am to 10:30 am

UNC Distance Learning Forum/TLT Distance Education Interest Group Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: James Sadler	Capital Ballroom G
This is a meeting of the UNC Distance Learning Forum and the TLT Distance Education Interest Group.

Wednesday, 11:00 am to 11:30 am

Plenary: Opening Welcome Session Presenters: Frank Prochaska	Grand Ballroom 1-3
Frank Prochaska, Executive Director of the TLT Collaborative, will summarize highlights of the conference program with assistance from other UNC representatives.

Wednesday, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Plenary:
From a Different Perspective
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Diana Oblinger

Grand Ballroom 1-3

Generational differences and dissimilar expectations often cause faculty, administrators, and staff to view programs and services differently than learners. This may be especially true when it comes to information technology. The mismatch of expectations may be particularly acute between the Net Generation and Baby Boomers, however, there are some surprises. This presentation explores the different perspectives of students, faculty, administrators, and employers as well as the implications for college and university practices and programs.

Wednesday, 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm

GIS Live: Crossing Boundaries Through the Power of Technology
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Rita Hagevik, Cris Crissman

Dogwood Rm 1

GIS Live is a live, interactive, Web-based conference that partners GIS professionals with educators to implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technologies as curriculum-learning tools. It is the collaborative effort of many government agencies, educational institutions, and professional organizations including NC A & T State University, NCSU, Wake County GIS, Mecklenburg County GIS, NC Council of Geographic Information and Analysis, NC Urban and Regional Information Systems Association NC Department of Health and Human Services, NC DENR , and NCDPI's Distance Learning . Our research focuses on how we can use distance learning technologies to cross the boundaries that have traditionally made school learning artificial and contrived rather than real-world and relevant. Problem-based learning challenges that engage students in the use of real-world tools and the research, publishing, and presentation of their work for a real audience holds one promising solution.

The Once and Future Classroom
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Beverly King

Related Material: The Once and Future Classroom

Capital Ballroom C

Classrooms today are not substantially different from their counterparts of 100 (or more) years ago (Fulton, 1989) including, in higher education, the use of lecture-based instruction (McKeachie, 1999). Despite the ways in which technology has changed the way we live and work, many instructors (and students) are resistant to embrace the paradigm shift that technology demands. Changing the centuries-old lecture mindset can be difficult but is necessary if we are to produce graduates who can live in a world of rapid change—who must know not just facts, but how to learn. This presentation is mainly for faculty who are interested in moving from a lecture-based to a more learner-centered classroom. The presentation will detail why such a change is necessary as well as how to make the change as painless as possible. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their own strategies for change; handouts will be provided.

Panel discussion: Update from the UNC e-Learning Policy Council Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: Alan Mabe, Phil Richman, James Sadler, Dr. Warren McDonald, Maurice Mitchell	Capital Ballroom F
Representatives from the UNC e-Learning Policy Council will provide an update on the work of the council and its four subcommittees: Tuition and Fees, Multi-Campus Programs, Infrastructure and Standards, and Faculty Support. A second session will be held Thursday at 4:30 for the Faculty Support Subcommittee to gather input from conference attendees on faculty support issues.

Panel discussion: Plagiarism and Cheating: The Dark Side of the IT-Enhanced Learning Environment Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Sarah Stein, Henry Schaffer, Paul Cousins, Carrie Zelna, Christopher Anson Related Material: Cheating in a Technology Environment, Cheating In a Technology Rich Environment	Capital Ballroom G
The benefits of the Internet in scholarship and learning increase as users and technology mature. The negative impact of the Internet is in the uses made of it for plagiarism and other forms of cheating. We present diverse views on the problems and how to combat them, including high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech methods of prevention and detection.

Engaging Students: Using Technology in the Library Classroom
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Lisa Williams, Anne Pemberton

Sandalwood Rm 7

Engaging students during library instruction can be extremely challenging for even the most experienced librarian. Unfortunately, students who could benefit most from these sessions are frequently uninterested, as the format is yet another lecture and the materials don’t always have direct relevance to class assignments. Using technology has vastly improved our ability to engage students. Going beyond PowerPoint and basic web searching, librarians at UNCW’s Randall Library rely on several forms of technology to encourage student participation. These technologies are free and self supported and are categorized into three forms of active learning activities: Classroom, Outside the Classroom, and Follow-Up Technology. Classroom activities include the Student Response System, CRITIC model, Interactive Web Site Analysis, and the Search Strategy Builder. Outside classroom tools include self-paced tutorials (such as TILT and our Library Skills Game). Post class activities include using Instant Messenger, Chat, and E-mail to continue educating students about library resources.

Panel discussion:
How To Maximize The Value Of Online Learning Assessment
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: J. Garvey Pyke, John Sherlock, Steven Breiner

Capital Ballroom E

Assessing online learning is an important topic in higher education, because assessment can have a transformative power to improve teaching, learning, and the institution as a whole. Naturally, there are many motivations for assessing online learning, and we will explore the philosophical and practical issues in conducting assessment of online learning. We will sort through the issues in light of the recent research and our own experiences, and we expect participants to contribute their own experiences as well. As a result of attending the session, participants will be able to: 1. Understand the value of assessing online learning. 2. Identify both the best practices and stumbling blocks to assessing online learning. 3. Develop the foundations of a system or method for assessing online learning.

Online Case Studies, Simulations, and Role-Playing
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Robert Brown, Nora Reynolds, Scott Brewster, Sam Roberts

Capital Ballroom A-B

Online instruction should consist of more than simple presentation of materials. UNCG teams consisting of a faculty member, an instructional designer, a computer programmer, a videographer, a graphic artist, and an editor have created learning objects intended to promote critical thinking. Such objects include online case studies, affective learning activities, interactive simulations, role-playing, and constructivist activities. The presentation will be a demonstration of some of these learning objects.

Demonstration:
Putting It All Together: A Multimedia-Based Interdisciplinary Approach to Spanish Instruction
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Linda Carl, Claire Lorch, Elizabeth Tolman, Robert Henshaw

Capital Ballroom D

“¡A su salud! Spanish for Health Professionals” is an intermediate level e-learning course (delivered on DVD-ROM) developed at the UNC-Chapel Hill to help students and working health care professionals improve their Spanish oral proficiency and cultural understanding. Salud! combines interactive multimedia courseware with broadcast quality video components, including a compelling “soap opera”, a workbook and website. At UNC-Chapel Hill Salud! is offered as an elective in the health science schools and the School of Social Work, a continuing education course, and a stand-alone credit course. Salud is also offered inside and outside North Carolina in health science schools and community colleges. Salud provides a superb example of how an interdisciplinary project team works together and with outside partners (e.g. Yale University Press and a production company) to develop and sustain a complex project spanning many years and multiple projects. Salud has just won WCET’s WOW! Award.

Digital Natives - The Millennial Student (Apple Presentation)
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Barry Adams

Grand Ballroom 1-3

While we are talking a great deal about leaving no child left behind, we need to pause and consider who these 21st century students are, the educational revolution that is underway, and how technology and the millennial student are changing our classrooms. Our classes are filled with a new type of learner who reacts to a daily barrage of instructional and social stimuli in ways that we have difficulty comprehending. In this fast paced and informative session, we will attempt to describe this new, ‘millennial student’, and then offer concepts and practices designed to engage their innate curiosity.

Wednesday, 2:10 pm to 3:40 pm

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Faculty as Adult Learners
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Dianne Raubenheimer

Boxwood Rm 2

This session will focus on a model of professional development for faculty that is embedded in adult education theory, and is intended for instructional designers and those who offer consultancy services to faculty. We will explore some of the characteristics of adult learners, consider principles of adult learning, look at models for professional development activities and the implications for our own work. It is a practical, hands-on session.

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Teaching Visualization Through Design Thinking
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: John Antoine Labadie

NCSU 2

The field of visualization is based on lessons learned in design practice. Constructing learning objects for teaching visualization based on design thinking provides access to a deep literature focused on the clearly defined principles and elements of visual perception and cognition. Pedagogical resources based on design thinking are directly assessable, easily transferable and lend themselves to digital environments. This presentation deals with defining and elaborating basic principles of design and their relationship to teaching visualization utilizing digital resources.

Wednesday, 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Demonstration:
Laptop Computers in the Classroom
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Jeff Brown

Capital Ballroom C

Since the fall of 2000, the Computer Science Department at UNCW has offered an Advanced Web Programming course devoted to the latest Internet technology. The course uses a combination online and classroom instruction. The topics covered, the online learning tools, and the student work environment change continuously to keep up with current trends. The most recent version of the class included material on Grid computing with the Globus Toolkit (GT3). This software is difficult to install and maintain, and students need to have administrative privileges to work effectively with the product. With funding from UNCW and the UNC Office of the President, we were able to purchase laptop computers, install the necessary tools and lend them to the students in the class. This talk will focus on the impact that the student laptops had on the class and how they changed the way the class is taught.

Demonstration: Storyboarding to Success: How to Begin Building Your Online Course Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Sam Eneman Related Material: Storyboarding to Success	Capital Ballroom D
Not quite sure where to start with designing an effective online course? Performing the four steps of the Storyboarding to Success process can move an instructor into the online environment with a minimum of stress, guesswork and anxiety. Instructors and designers can use this simple set of guidelines to plan their online course.

Roundtable discussion: UNC TLT Interest Group Meeting: Instructional Professionals Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Chris Weaver	Capital Ballroom F
This is a group meeting for TLT Instructional Professionals.

Demonstration:
A Template Approach to Scalable Multimedia Content Development
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Jerry Calleson

Capital Ballroom A-B

Online courses provide an opportunity to deliver more interactive, multimedia content, which can enhance learning when designed according to proven guidelines. Most instructors typically do not have the time or the skills to create such content on their own, and schools that employ design and development teams often find that creating customized multimedia content can be costly and difficult to scale to growing programs. One solution that minimizes these difficulties is to develop flexible multimedia templates that can be repurposed and adapted to different content. While initial development may still be resource intensive, that cost can then be spread among subsequent projects. As more courses employ the templates, the development cost per course decreases. This presentation will showcase several Macromedia Flash-based templates that have been designed according to instructional design principles and are currently used by the UNC School of Public Health.

Roundtable discussion: Electronic Homework and Exams Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Alton Banks	Dogwood Rm 1
Electronic Homework and/or exams is a technology that provides promise and peril. Participants will share experiences/solutions/information on experiences with electronic systems for homework and/or exam administration.

Demonstration:
Finding Online Instructional Resources with MERLOT
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Hilarie Nickerson, Laurie Godwin

Related Material: MERLOT web site, Finding Resources handout

Capital Ballroom G

In this session, we’ll take a tour of the MERLOT web site, where teaching faculty, instructional support staff, and librarians can find a variety of online materials for learning and instruction such as simulations, case studies, and tutorials. On this community-oriented web site, you can read comments and peer reviews, find learning assignments, search personal collections of materials, invite virtual speakers to participate in your course, visit discipline-based portals, and more!

Demonstration: Managing Digital Assets Using iPhoto Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging Presenters: Ronnie Lewis	Grand Ballroom 1-3
For many people, archiving photos and other digital assets can be a chore. Aside from storage challenges other problems persist like safety, exposure, etc. Using Apple\'s iPhoto software, this demonstration will show the power and convenience or archiving assets using a Macintosh computer and Apple\'s iPhoto.

OpenSeminar Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging Presenters: Michael Rappa Related Material: OpenSeminar, Open Course Lab, Managing the Digital Enterprise	Capital Ballroom E
OpenSeminar is an open courseware platform that enables instructors at different universities to work collaboratively and create online course resources that can be customized to the needs of their own students. The first OpenSeminar (in the field of Software Engineering) was launched in August 2004. OpenSeminars on other topics are being developed.

Wednesday, 3:40 pm to 4:30 pm

Poster presentation:
Utilizing the Internet to Teach Meteorology at an Ethnically Diverse Institution
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Dennis Edgell

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

UNC Pembroke was created as a school for Native Americans and continues to graduate a large number of Native American students. An introductory Weather and Climate course has recently been added to the UNCP General Education curriculum, and as a result, a large number of Native American and other minority students now have an opportunity in a field formerly unavailable to then. Several UNCP graduates will go on to be public school teachers in our local area, which is significantly Native American in population. Online Weather Studies (OWS) is regarded as a wonderful opportunity to entice greater numbers of minority students into science course work, and perhaps as a major field of study. The course was offered during the 2003-2004 Academic year, primarily as a way of meeting the unique needs of UNCP=s distance learning students. The Geography 246 Weather and Climate course was taught completely online for the first time in the Fall Semester 2003, and continues to the present. This presentation will illustrate some of the advantages and disadvantages to offering OWS completely online. Student demographics, comments, success stories, problems and prospects are discussed.

Poster presentation:
Building Solution Communities through Case Study Analysis and Problem Solving
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Robert Sanders, Roma Angel

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

Our roles and responsibilities as educators are changing. Unfortunately, little dialogue takes place among media coordinators, principals, and instructional technologists to discuss these changes regarding what we do and how each can be supported through collaboration. The presenters will share the results of an online dialogue that emerged from an analysis of a shared case study by both pre-service media coordinators and principals. Handouts of the findings will be provided.

Poster presentation:
Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching of Cell Division using TELS
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Gail Hollowell

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

The Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) Center is a research consortium supported by the National Science Foundation to study how instructional technology can benefit teaching and learning in science. One of the TELS units recently developed and currently being tested is a Cell Division Module. In this module several research questions are being asked. Specifically, how can educational technology support student learning about cell division? When a student generates an animated representation of the process of cell division processes, does this lead to a deeper understanding of the process of mitosis? In addition, how can the study of defects in cell division processes, such as those that occur in many human diseases, help students to develop a deeper understanding of mitosis and meiosis in healthy cells? And finally, to what extent do we use TELS to understand what students are learning from the cell division models they build? Preliminary data from both pre-assessments and post-assessments will be discussed.

Poster presentation:
CSERD: The Achievement Implications of Building Pedagogy Into an Online Scientific Resource
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Marty McClelland, Cameron Seay, Shawn Sendlinger

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) is an authenticated online scientific resource, consisting of extensive information and activities. Because the information is authenticated by scientists, users of the tool have some assurance as to its accuracy. A portion of CSERD, a set of math resources called Interactivate, is tightly mapped to NC state educational standards, allowing students and teachers to understand how each module relates to a given standard or set of standards. This paper will describe the authentication process, and how pedagogy is incorporated into the architecture of CSERD. The implications of such an instructional design allow teachers and students to better meet academic standards in the sciences and mathematics. CSERD can also help in the evolution of the standards themselves as new knowledge is created. Finally, there are important implications for individuals and groups who may face specific academic challenges due to socio-cultural factors.

Poster presentation:
Playing Computer Games and Creating Webquests for Math Education
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Mary Timothy, Arthur Quickenton

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

Playing Computer Games and Creating Webquests for Math Education Abstract This research examines preservice teachers’ math awareness in learning and teaching math. This in-progress research project examines the role of playing computer games to help students learn and creating adventure Webquests teach math. Computer games allow education students to connect field-based implementation with constructivist theory of coursework. It takes time to change core beliefs regarding the use of games as a teaching/learning strategy. Students in a math method courses will participate in the study. Students’ efforts and reactions to playing five different computer games as practical and effective tools and creating Webquests will be explored. Information will be shared about the emerging themes as preservice teachers play games as a method of learning math skills along with the Webquests created for children. This session will describe the games and what preservice teachers learn from their experiences. This research informs teacher educators how preservice teachers’ core beliefs can change through experimenting with different learning/teaching strategies.

Poster presentation:
Advances in Technology Tools and Their Role in Improving Standardized Data Collection
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Jeff Jolly, Len Lecci

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

Using Web CT and other recent advances in technology, researchers can greatly enhance their ability to collect data in a standardized fashion. Other advantages include the potential for data to be collected anonymously and to gather data from remote sites. Such technology can also be used to enhance the demographic representation of the research sample by drawing on different geographic regions from across the United States and the world. The latter point is especially relevant given that many campuses do not adequately reflect the ethnic diversity observed in communities at large. Importantly, such data collection can occur without compromising consistency in the experimental procedure and without affecting the manner in which the data is collected. Recently published research using this technology will be demonstrated by a team consisting of a researcher in psychology and a university information technology specialist. Challenges associated with implementation and data interpretation will be discussed.

Poster presentation:
On the Design and Implementation of a Location-Aware Computing Infrastructure
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Ron Vetter, Eddie Dunn

Related Material: Poster , Handout (paper version of poster)

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

Recent technology developments, such as the widespread adoption of wireless networks and small, handheld computing devices, has made mobile computing a reality. From coffee shops to college campuses, wireless networks are being installed at a rapid rate. This new infrastructure is enabling a whole new set of handheld devices and associated software applications. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a location-aware computing infrastructure at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. We describe the overall system architecture, some design tradeoffs, and user applications that are being deployed over this new infrastructure. We conclude with future work.

Wednesday, 4:30 pm to 5:20 pm

Copyright Basics and the UNC Ownership Policies Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: David Harrison	Capital Ballroom F
This presentation will begin with the basics for copyright use in higher education, including exclusive rights, infringement, fair use, and defenses. The presentation will then analyze the UNC copyright ownership policy and the application of that policy at constituent institutions.

Panel discussion:
Distance Learning within the NC Community College System and UNC: Searching for Common Ground
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Bill Randall, Darryl McGraw, James Sadler, Frank Prochaska

Capital Ballroom E

North Carolina Community Colleges and UNC confront many of the same problems, obstacles, and opportunities regarding distance learning delivery of higher education. To initiate a dialogue with our NCCCS colleagues and enhance our understanding of Distance Learning in the NC Community College System, two sessions are being offered. In this first session, Drs. Randall and McGraw will review Distance Learning in the NCCCS, and the four panelists will initiate a discussion about mutually beneficial ways the two systems might work more closely together in the DL area. The second session will be Friday at 9:00.

Appal iMovie Fest: Engaging Students with Creative Technology
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Nikki Crees, Daniel Lightfoot

Grand Ballroom 1-3

Appalachian State University and Apple Computer have combined efforts over the last two years to put together the annual Appal iMovie Festival. The project enables teams of first-semester freshmen to document their freshmen experience at Appalachian in original short films. Although several other institutions have designed similar iMovie competitions around freshmen residence halls, Appalachian decided to take the iMovie competition into the classroom. Participating teams consisted of up to 6 first-semester freshmen who had a common membership in one of Appalachian’s academic learning community programs. We will present student reactions to the project, the logistics involved in creating a partnership of this nature, and replication ideas for a single class assignment. Inviting students to explore creative technology can be an amazing tool not only for learning the technology itself, but more importantly for developing valuable skills that we all hope our students are gleaning from a college education: leadership, collaboration, delegation, project design, and critical thinking.

Demonstration:
Discussion Boards in Action
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Chris Weaver

Capital Ballroom D

While offers to use the latest and greatest technologies to create learning environments cram our Inbox, all we really need to do is to look no further than our course management’s Discussion Board. This simple, ubiquitous tool can help us accomplish what matters the most, building a sense of community and creating a learning environment that spans Bloom’s entire taxonomy. The intent of this session is to provide the audience with low threshold strategies to yield the greatest learning potential.

Integrating Technology in Field Experiences: Moving from Theory to Practice?
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Monica Lambert, Jane Nowacek

Capital Ballroom A-B

This presentation will provide an overview of a year long student teaching seminar that taught students to synthesize theory and practice using technology. Students developed and applied their philosophy of education by creating a graphic organizer using Inspiration software and I-movie that required them to synthesize theory, practice, reflection, and professional goal setting. During the senior internship, students were asked to develop their philosophy of education by researching theories that supported their beliefs and by creating a list of websites that explored educational theories. In student teaching we provided instruction and these technological tools to promote collaboration between student teachers and their cooperating teachers. We taught student teachers to create I-movies showing the application of their philosophy to their instruction. As a group, we viewed their I-movies and reflected on their practice. We will be showing samples of the student teachers graphic organizers as well as clips of I-Movies.

Large Enrollment Course Redesign: Moving Forward with the UNC Pilot
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Sallie Ives

Sandalwood Rm 7

This general session is open to anyone who wants an overview of the preliminary steps that UNC is taking to enhance the learning experience of students in Large Enrollment classes in resource effective ways. The Pilot Project for Large Enrollment Course Redesign has been examining the use of a nationally recognized methodology for course redesign that was initially tested in a three year project funded through the Pew Foundation on courses from 30 institutions in higher education in a variety of subject areas, including science and math, English composition and Spanish, Psychology and Political Science, as well as others. Many other colleges and systems have used the methodology to plan and implement course redesign. The goal of this presentation is to: 1) describe the learning and management issues that are associated with large enrollment courses; 2) explain why the Pew methodology was selected for review; 3) summarize what the Pilot Project process has taught us about course redesign strategies.

Online Delivery Transforms Classroom Excellence: Project-Based Learning Approach
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Pil-Won On, Charlene Sox

Dogwood Rm 1

The business education program at Appalachian State University provides a high-quality learning experience in the cohort based alliance with various community colleges to teach afternoon and evening classes for the alternative licensure teachers. With the soaring demand and needs of alternative course delivery, this program is in the process of a 2-year long transition into entirely online instruction. The courses are restructured based on the project-based learning approach in order to provide learning activities of long-term, cross-subject matters; learner-centered, incorporated with real world practices, and collaboration, which have been offered in the classroom. Multimedia technology is applied to enrich and provide a quality learning experience. The presenters will show two courses that have been successfully implemented. The progress and challenges faced in each course will be discussed.

Professional Development Portal Redesign
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Ray Purdom, Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Steven Hopper

Related Material: PDP Redesign, http://pdp.unctlt.org

Boxwood Rm 2

The UNC Professional Development Portal (PDP), launched in 2000 by the TLTC, is a growing database including over 2,500 resources submitted by and for UNC faculty, administrators, librarians, and staff. The TLTC has redesigned the graphical user interface and technical platform of the PDP. Based on user feedback the redesign introduces customization of features, streamlines the search process, connects UNC colleagues with similar interests, pushes relevant content to users, and improves the efficiency of the underlying technical and content systems. Attend this session to learn more about the content, functionality, and technical aspects of the PDP redesign.

Panel discussion: Synchronous Learning Management Systems Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Sharon Pitt, Scott Brewster, Robert Hambrick, David Whisler Related Material: Presentation, Uses of Synchronous LMS in UNC	Capital Ballroom G
Each panelist will give an overview of their use of Centra or Elluminate, focusing on instructional uses of the selected synchronous LMS, then serve as a panel for a moderated discussion including participant questions. Panelists are from UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Greensboro and North Carolina State University.

Demonstration:
Using Rapid Prototyping to Teach Art at ECU
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Wayne Godwin

Related Material: RP Art Slides

Capital Ballroom C

Rapid Prototyping (RP) is a new technology that creates a physical 3D model from a virtual 3D computer file. At East Carolina University the production of the RP models is a cooperative effort between the School of Art and Design and the School of Industry and Technology. Last year two methods of producing 3D computer files have been investigated. One system tested uses a traditional modeling method through the software package FormZ. The other uses a non – traditional modeling method with a touch sensitive feed back system in combination with FreeForm software from SensAble technology. Files generated by these two methods were put onto CD and taken to the School of Industry and Technology. In the School of Industry and Technology the 3D computer files are sent to a StratSys FDM Rapid Prototype machine that makes a physical 3D model from the virtual 3D computer model. Sculpture undergraduate student are successfully entering the RP model into national art shows. Metals graduate student are using the RP experience to prepare for teaching the Universities of the future.

Wednesday, 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Developing and Teaching Studio Art Online
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Audrey Kilgore

Sandalwood Rm 7

The focus for this presentation is on the developing and teaching of an art studio course taught online for distance learners. ART 1001 - Color and Design is for non-art majors. Art studio courses are different then typical lecture courses; new concepts are learned through actively applying them in the creation of artwork, a “hands-on” approach. Constant observation and interaction is a requirement for the successful completion of this course by the student. My greatest concern in developing and teaching this course is to retain the content and experience a student would have in a traditional setting. I will include problems foreseen and encountered, and how I resolved them, by presenting one project from the course. Although this is a unique situation for teaching online, some of the resolutions imply broader applications for other courses that require higher interaction with students and more observation of students' work on a regular basis. Materials created to support this course include web page development, use of Blackboard, creation of video clips and extensive email communication with students.

IT Innovation Program: Linking Faculty with IT and Accelerating the Learner-Centric Model in the Classroom
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Beverly Vagnerini, Robert Tyndall, Kim Kelly

Capital Ballroom C

An ongoing challenge for small to mid-sized academic institutions is to stimulate innovative uses of technology. Experience has taught us that small amounts of funding made available in a timely effort is a way to engage faculty with the necessary stimulus to develop practical innovations which can be transferred to other areas. Many institutions have also struggled with the idea of linking IT staff in an intimate way with constituencies by working directly with faculty—an important investment that can build trust and collaboration. The UNCW Information Technology Innovation Program has resolved these two issues by engaging faculty in a collaborative process and by facilitating innovational development opportunities through its funding model. This funding model facilitates development of a “proof of concept” proposal that can be used to leverage other external grant dollars for broader development. Since beginning the process, UNCW and private funding sources have generated $375,000 which has in turn yielded additional grant awards and corporate investments.

Demonstration:
Successful Application of Streaming Video Enhanced with Multimedia Technology
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Pil-Won On, Charlene Sox, Carol Harding

Dogwood Rm 1

Video is one of the popular teaching and learning aids easily used in the classroom with simple AV support. However, when an online environment becomes an issue of its application, not only technical barriers but also pedagogical concerns can turn into a causing hindrance. In this presentation, two topics will be discussed: faculty concern of applying learning activities involved in the video and instructional design approach of creating the effective application enhanced with multimedia technology. Two cases which have been successfully implemented at Appalachian State University will be demonstrated.

Evaluating e-Books: Licensing, Statistics, and Beyond
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Scott Rice

Capital Ballroom E

E-books have been on the brink of being “the next big thing” for several years now, but have not quite made that leap to primetime status. Instead, their use has been quietly and steadily growing in academia. This presentation will first look at the current state of e-books, touching on the topics of licensing models, digital rights management and copyright issues. The second part of the presentation will be an analysis of how e-books are currently being used at UNCG, involving a look at statistics on how many books are being used and in which subjects, how often and in what categories access is being denied and how this e-book usage compares to print. The third part of the presentation will look at options for future usage of e-books.

North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library: Expanding a Successful Project through NC ECHO
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Emily Gore, Michael Reece, Linda Teel, Hazel Walker

Grand Ballroom 1-3

Participants will be shown the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library (NCHFDL), available at http://www.lib.ecu.edu/ncc/historyfiction/ as an example of a successful NC ECHO grant project that is now being expanded to include partner museums, Historic Hope Foundation, the Country Doctor Museum and Tobacco Farm Life Museum. As the successful recipient of the NC ECHO Heritage Partners Grant, ECU, in conjunction with the museum partners, is expanding the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library to include more works of Eastern North Carolina History and Fiction, alignments and lesson plans, and museum artifacts with rotating and zoomable images as well as streaming video. Lessons learned from the first NC ECHO NCHFDL grant will be shared along with adjustments made for the Heritage Partners grant. Process, equipment and staffing will be discussed, and the audience will be invited to ask questions of the presenters following the presentation.

State-Wide Collaborative Grid Computing Course
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Barry Wilkinson, Mark Holliday

Related Material: Powerpoint slides

Capital Ballroom A-B

In this presentation, the experiences of a new collaborative undergraduate grid computing course are described. The course involves a partnership of several NC universities. It was broadcast on the NCREN network from Western Carolina University in Fall 2004 to UNC-Wilmington, NC State University, Appalachian State University, Elon College, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Greensboro. The course is perhaps the first undergraduate grid computing course in the country. Three major sites established a collaborative grid computing platform. About 44 students and several faculty members attended the Fall 2004 course. Major technical challenges in deploring a distributed grid had to be overcome, which will be described. The course contents include web and grid services, Open Grid Services Architecture, Globus, grid security, schedulers, workflow editors, and grid portals. Several programming assignments were given. WebCT was used for collecting assignments and for quizzes. A comprehensive home page was produced that included 627 lecture slides and detailed software documentation.

WIMBA: Tell Us What You Think Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging Presenters: Scott Despain Related Material: Presentation	Capital Ballroom D
WIMBA server technology allows instructors and students to "seamlessly" interact with each other, both synchronously and asynchronously, using VoiceChats, VoiceEmail, VoiceBoards and VoiceAssessment. WIMBA was purchased for NCSU through a UNC e-learning grant in 2004. This presentation will demonstrate how the tools are administered and used for communication and assessment.

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Thursday, 8:00 am to 8:50 am

Roundtable discussion: UNC TLT Interest Group Meeting: Blackboard Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Kathleen Thomas	Grand Ballroom 4-5
This is a group meeting for those interested in Blackboard.

Roundtable discussion: UNC TLT Interest Group Meeting: e-Learning Support Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Hilarie Nickerson	Grand Ballroom 4-5
This is a group meeting for those interested in e-learning support.

Roundtable discussion: UNC TLT Interest Group Meeting: Assessment Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Steven Breiner	Grand Ballroom 4-5
This is a group meeting for those interested in assessment related to teaching and learning with technology.

Roundtable discussion: UNC TLT Interest Group Meeting: Web Accessibility Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Lisa Fiedor, Jason Morningstar	Grand Ballroom 4-5
This is a group meeting for those interested in web accessibility.

Thursday, 8:30 am to 10:00 am

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop Leveraging Your Campus Edition Experience in Vista Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Matt Davis, John Lowe	NCSU 2
For those thinking of moving to WebCT Vista, this workshop will explore the ways in which faculty/course designer experience in Campus Edition can be utilized when working in the Vista platform.

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop
Painting a Picture with Numbers
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Van Nguyen

NCSU 1B

The ability to generate a meaningful graphical representation of a data set is a powerful skill for both students and teachers alike. Using this graphical representation, humans can quickly analyze vast amounts of data and discover important relationships and trends within the data. It is an extremely efficient and effective means to understand and convey the meaning behind a collection of numbers and should be viewed as an indispensable tool for the disciplines of science and math. AVS/Express is an object oriented visualization engine designed for this task. We present an AVS application, called CLYDE, to quickly display and explore 2D and 3D data. Data are assumed to be organized in a simple table format, such as a text file saved from a spread sheet application (Microsoft ExcelTM). CLYDE provides a simple graphical user interface for all application operations. Note: AVS/Express is licensed for all UNC campuses by UNC-OP.

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop Wikis: A Collaborative Online Workspace Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging Presenters: Douglas Kline	NCSU 1A
Demonstration of Wiki technology. Topics covered include the basic technology, differences between wikis and other technologies, how to work with the technology, and possible uses in a learning setting.

Thursday, 9:00 am to 9:50 am

Intellectual Property Rights: A Comparison of the Sixteen UNC University Policies
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Mary Anne Nixon, Jim Addison, Jr.

Capital Ballroom G

Western Carolina University’s Intellectual Property (IP) Task Force examined the IP policies of all 16 UNC campuses plus those of other recommended institutions in an effort to develop an IP policy for WCU. We were charged with creating a workable policy balancing encouragement of individual initiative and creativity and consideration of institutional interests. This presentation will discuss our analysis of the matrix and the emerging WCU IP policy.

Blackboard and the Network Learning Environment (Blackboard Presentation)
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Karianne Naughton, Kate Bishop, David Monsen

Grand Ballroom 1-3

Networked Learning Environments are the future of education and make it possible to connect and integrate courses with libraries, research labs, other institutions, advisors, alumni and many other elements of campus life. In this presentation, Blackboard will discuss the path to reaching a true Networked Learning Environment. In addition, we will present on how the latest functionality in Application Pack 3 will help provide significant advances in learning outcomes for our clients.

Demonstration:
Creating a Virtual Healthcare Community in WebCT: The WCU Model for Collaborative Teaching
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Mary Teslow, Irene Mueller, Charles Tucker, Barbara St. John

Related Material: Handout

Capital Ballroom D

Interdisciplinary teams are becoming the norm in clinical and administrative areas of healthcare. Simulating these cross-functional work groups is a challenge for educators. WCU faculty members, representing a wide variety of departments, have collaborated to create a model for a complex, reality-based virtual healthcare system. This innovative use of WebCT provides a resource for use by students in many programs to access information for completing individual and group learning activities. This cooperative approach is highly time and resource efficient for faculty. We will present the evolution of this collaborative project including our first semester experiences. This model is easily adapted to other educational disciplines.

Large Course Redesign at UNC Chapel Hill and at UNC Greensboro: Early Lessons Learned
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Ray Purdom, Charles Green, Robert Henshaw

Boxwood Rm 2

UNC at Chapel Hill and UNC at Greensboro were recently selected as participants in the National Center for Academic Transformation’s Roadmap to Redesign (R2R) program. The goal of the R2R project is to use technology to redesign instruction and achieve cost savings as well as increase student learning. Both institutions are redesigning precalculus courses and offering pilot courses this spring. UNCG is also redesigning its introductory statistics course. This presentation will focus on lessons learned from the planning and implementations of these redesign programs in these two campus cultures. Initial observations on the effectiveness of the pilot projects will also be discussed.

SCALE-UP: Student Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Robert Beichner

Capital Ballroom E

The primary goal of the Student- Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) Project is to establish a highly collaborative, hands-on, computer-rich, interactive learning environment for large-enrollment courses. (Of course, smaller classes can also benefit.) Class time is spent on hands-on activities, simulations, or interesting questions and problems. There are also hypothesis-driven labs. Students sit in three teams of three students at round tables. Instructors circulate and engage students in Socratic-like dialogues. Rigorous evaluations of learning have been conducted in parallel with the curriculum development effort. We have seen improved ability to solve problems, increased conceptual understanding, better attitudes, and drastic reduction in failure rate, especially for women and minorities.

Teaching, Testing, & Technology: Effective Management of Large Undergraduate Classes
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Dr. Teresa Dail

Dogwood Rm 1

This presentation addresses pedagogical and technological issues related to the effective teaching of classes with large enrollments. Specifically, the lecture addresses the following topics: 1) ideas for efficient and effective testing 2) ways for providing timely feedback 3) techniques for promoting active interaction 4) using technology to assist in lecture planning 5) using Blackboard for research While the remarks focus on teaching undergraduate health, suggestions for innovative use of technology apply to any teaching situation.

Gaining Real World Skills - Giving Your Students A Workplace Edge
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: DeShelia Spann, Fay Payton, Polly Mitchell-Guthrie

Capital Ballroom A-B

Students used live data and SAS' Customer Relationship Management software to work on real applications for a pet store in the UK solving "live" problems. Students worked in teams to develop client deliverables and present their final work to the management team. Topics covered include project, supply chain and data management; and industry trends. Students drew from their knowledge of database management, systems analysis, networking, accounting, finance, operations management and marketing courses. Road trips and/or outside class activities were a major part of the course. Each student was given a role/responsibility similar to a team in a real work environment (i.e. project manager; technical writer, statistician, analyst, researcher). NCSU students also merged their teams with students from two area high schools that have business/IT focuses.

The TEACH Act Part II: Effective Downstream Controls
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Peggy Hoon, Lou Harrison

Related Material: Presentation

Capital Ballroom C

The TEACH (Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization) Act of 2002 was intended to update copyright law in the area of digital distance education. One of the primary obstacles to ready use of this exemption by higher education has been the requirement that the copyrighted works used on the class website be reasonably technologically protected to prevent the student from having them in accessible form for longer than the class session. While streaming technology is considered acceptable protection at this time for music and audio-visual works, there remains a significant challenge for protecting the display of a work like images or text. That is, there has not been a solution that is scalable, automatic, faculty-friendly, functions across platforms, and does not require hardware or software installation on the user\'s machine. NC State has developed a solution and will soon deploy it. This session would provide a short overview of the TEACH Act requirements, plus a longer presentation on how the technology controls for are actually implemented.

NCREN and the Statewide Grid - Next-Generation Infrastructure for Teaching and Learning
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Wolfgang Gentzsch

Related Material: Presentation

Capital Ballroom F

The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is one of the nation's leading statewide research and education networks, developed over the last 20 years to support teaching and learning. This advanced statewide network now serves all public universities and many private universities and colleges with high-speed Internet, video, audio, data and computing services. Four years ago, NCREN served as the foundation for the North Carolina BioGrid, a testbed to experiment with distributed networked computing resources, grid middleware, and applications. Today, NCREN is the backbone for our education and research community to build the North Carolina Statewide Grid. This next-generation technology backbone will enable new methods for teaching and learning by providing access to vastly increased resources for computing and communication, creating new opportunities for collaboration and bringing real-world simulations into the classroom.

Thursday, 10:00 am to 10:30 am

Configuring Groups to Optimize Student Engagement in Online Teaching
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: John LeBaron, Gayle Moller

Related Material: http://paws.wcu.edu/jlebaron/GrpWrk-OL-PDF_050331.pdf

Capital Ballroom D

Postsecondary online course instructors are challenged to promote peer student dialogue where all learners become stakeholders in the course community. Accordingly, we shall describe the development of two tactics to promote purposeful student engagement. The first is a three-week jigsaw role-play designed to address a common problem from diverse problem-solving perspectives, and to allow students to negotiate issues in consensual and confrontational modes. The second is the purposeful formation of discussion groups to function as a work group to complete a project. The students’ data suggest that the format builds community more easily than individual assignments that request posting to a discussion board. We conclude with reflections, lessons learned, and future plans as we explore the challenges of group configurations in graduate-level online courses.

Universal Design for Learning
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: John Spagnolo, Terry McClannon, Larry Kortering

Capital Ballroom F

This presentation examines preliminary data collected by the ASU UDL Grant Project. The grant provides support and training to assist high school teachers in the development and implementation of innovative interventions using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The primary goal of this project is to provide access to core content for students with disabilities by creating learning environment where the curriculum is accessible to all students. The UDL activities also create an opportunity for improving teacher education candidate knowledge of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and their ability to incorporate it as part of their teaching routine.

Roundtable discussion: What is an Effective Electronic Tutoring Session? Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Jennifer Courtney	Capital Ballroom A-B
Writing centers resist electronic (or remote) tutoring because of its contrast to traditional face-to-face sessions. Centers miss the benefits of the electronic medium because they fail to reconsider effectiveness criteria. Electronic tutoring effectiveness cannot be measured using traditional criteria, and until a new mindset is learned, the electronic environment cannot be considered effective.

Demonstration:
Building an Accessible Net-Generation Virtual Computing Lab: Challenges and Strategies
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Saroj Primlani, Sina Bahram

Dogwood Rm 1

In August 2004, NC State University’s College of Engineering and Information Technology Division’s High Performance (HPC) team launched a Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) pilot project (http://vcl.ncsu.edu). VCL is an emerging effort to provide on-demand and reservation base remote access to the University’s extensive library of Engineering, Design and Scientific software to address the 24x7 access needs of both local and distance education students and faculty. In keeping with the University’s IT Accessibility Initiative, accessibility for people with a disability is being incorporated in the early stages of the implementation process. The presentation will discuss and demonstrate challenges and strategies for accessibility solutions to a multiplatform remote environment.

Evaluating Narrated Presentation Software for the NCSU TLT Community
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Capital Ballroom C

In August 2004, a twelve member Narrated Presentation Software Evaluation Study Team was formed, consisting of representation from the Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) unit and other colleagues on the NC State University campus. This team developed a ruberic and matrix for evaluating narrated presentation software that encompasses three categories of products: a) desktop; b) production and c) enterprise systems. The team also began evaluations for each classification. Products under consideration include: Microsoft Producer, Impatica, Accordent Presenter, Camtasia, SnapzPro, ViewletBuilder, Apreso for Powerpoint, and AuthorGen in the desktop and production categories as well as Macromedia Breeze in the enterprise systems category. Faculty perspectives and experiences with many of these products were also obtained. This presentation will highlight the progress and results-to-date of the NCSU Narrated Presentation Software Evaluation study.

Demonstration:
Interactive Physics Material using webMathematicaTM
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Ken Flurchick

Capital Ballroom E

The statewide availability of Mathematica and the web-based (html form) capability of webMathematica are used to provide interactive material for self-paced review for undergraduate students or an interactive teaching tool for different concepts. The delivery of these materials over the internet requires no additional software on the client computer, just a web browser is required. Also, as the computational work is done on the server, the download of client side executables is unnecessary. Using the available webMathematicaTM technology (licensed for all UNC campuses), interactive web pages can be built without using applets. To show the application of this technology, several interactive applications from an algebra and calculus review to introducing thermodynamic equations of state applications and an optics lens design lab are presented. The ability to develop web pages including MathML for mathematics mark up is an excellent match for mathematics and the sciences.

Supporting Technology Innovation and Scholarship: A Department Chair's Perspective
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: John Fischetti

Related Material: A Department Chair's Perspective

Capital Ballroom G

It is one thing to encourage faculty to explore, use and research emerging technologies. It is another to provide them with the time, resources, promotion support, encouragement, facilities and trust to accomplish this. How can a department chair support faculty in their scholarship related to emerging technologies and assist faculty in applying this scholarship in teaching? How can the chair lead his or her department in this scholarship (or be at least enough of a hack) to have the respect of faculty—both technology specialists and those who are emerging themselves? This session will share specific administrative strategies used in a diverse department of 25 full time faculty and 20 part-timers.

Thursday, 10:00 am to 11:20 am

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop
Student Learning when Teaching with Technology: Aligning Objectives, Methods, and Assessments
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Stan Martin, Karen St.Clair

Related Material: Online copies of all resources provided during the workshop

Boxwood Rm 2

This interactive workshop enables participants desiring a way to assess the impact of classroom technology on student learning to experience a condensed version of an assessment method. The method’s rationale and steps were developed from attempts to gather several types of evaluative data, and a review of a dearth of literature on the effects of the use of classroom technology on student learning. Participants will be asked to imagine teaching in a classroom with technology. With the goal of assessing the impact of teaching with technology, participants will establish at least one technology-related learning outcome, an appropriate technology to enhance the traditional pedagogy, and an aligned assessment instrument. Facilitators will guide participants through the steps and provide take-away materials for future use. Participants will leave the session with an abbreviated plan that can easily be expanded. Conference attendees unable to participate will be able to access materials after the conference.

Thursday, 10:40 am to 11:10 am

Breaking Through the Ethnic Barriers of Technology Usage
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Ronda Henderson

Related Material: Breaking Through the Ethnic Barriers of Technology Usage

Capital Ballroom C

Research has shown that there is a discrepancy between those that have access to computers and those that do not. Although governmental initiatives have resulted in improvement of computer access at many schools and universities, the issue of computer access continues to be a challenge for many educators. This presentation will involve a discussion of the possible reasons for the digital divide and the e-learning issues that arise as a result. The presenter will also provide resources and strategies to help educators encourage technology use outside the classroom.

Demonstration:
Using Standardized Online Writing Tools to Enhance and Assess Learner-Centered Writing Proficiency
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Robert Ussery

Capital Ballroom E

Enhancing learner-centered writing proficiency across the curriculum is a worthy goal in higher education. This session will consist of a presentation of a campus-wide, cross-curriculum writing evaluation system implemented at North Carolina A&T State University and an assessment process for new and continuing students at Averett University. Topics covered in the session include the rational for this project, goals, project planning, deployment, assessment procedures and early results. An online demonstration of this innovative writing diagnostic and evaluation learning tool will be provided. A discussion period will also be provided so participants may engage in a question and answer dialog.

Demonstration:
Academic Advisor: An Electronic Solution for Advancing Candidate Performance, Assessment, and Advising
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Sharon Spencer, Earl Mathis, Sandra Vavra, Masila Mutisya

Capital Ballroom G

Assessment and advising are key components of effective teaching and learning. However, they are often considered additions to, as opposed to integrated parts of, teaching and learning. They become even more challenging with time and location barriers. In this formal presentation, we will share the Academic Advisor -- an innovative, web- based assessment and advisory portal solution that provides an environment where faculty and administrators can manage data and track individual candidate, program and unit performance; schedule appointments, develop action plans for candidates, use dynamic e-mailing, administer surveys, provide electronic forms, and develop custom reports from the data. Students, both on- and off- campus, have greater access to a common knowledge database, advisory support, and self-assessment resources, ensuring more predictable outcomes and increased accountability. The program as a whole easily achieves its goals of educational leadership, enrollment mandates, accreditation, distance and alternative learning initiatives, student / faculty morale, and cost management.

Roundtable discussion: UNC TLT Interest Group Meeting: WebCT Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Jana Avery, Lorraine Stanton	Grand Ballroom 4-5
This is a group meeting for those interested in WebCT.

Web Log Assignments in a Reporting Course: Student Reactions
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Kevin Lee

Related Material: TLT Blogs Student Reactio.doc

Capital Ballroom A-B

The prevalence of web logs, or blogs, has increased markedly since their introduction in 1997 (Grossman, 2004). Blogs are web sites featuring daily musings and links regarding a plethora of subjects, including news, politics, sports, popular culture and war. Blogs have been at the forefront of several recent news events, including the CBS memo debacle, the Trent Lott resignation and the Lewinsky scandal. This paper provides an overview of the blog phenomenon, and describes a public affairs reporting course assignment where students studied blogs and created their own individual web logs. It also reports student responses to a questionnaire regarding their experiences. They were asked about their perceptions regarding the variety, quantity and quality of information available on blogs, favorite sites, the level of difficulty in creating their blogs, the benefits of blogs for research, and whether they intended to become regular consumers of blog content.

Assessing the Potential of Technology Grants to Develop the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Topic: Scholarship, Rewards, and Incentives
Presenters: Dianne Raubenheimer

Related Material: Assessing the potential o.ppt

Dogwood Rm 1

Documentary analysis was conducted on 50 mini-grant proposals submitted by staff and faculty as part of the NCSU LITRE project. The proposals were analyzed for a number of qualitative dimensions which reflect faculty conceptions about learning and the role of technology in the teaching and learning process. Proposals were categorized into dominant themes. Thereafter, a rubric was applied to the proposals to determine the extent to which they were likely to meet the criteria for the scholarship of teaching and learning (Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin & Prosser, 2000). Suggestions will be made for how faculty and staff can be supported to implement technology projects that build towards the scholarship of teaching and learning.

A Study of Online Teachers’ Perceptions and Views of Online Students
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Lillie Robinson

Capital Ballroom D

Online teaching and learning has grown tremendously over the past three years. However, some teachers and administrators are very leery about using this delivery system. Some believe that teaching and learning is best delivered face to face for interaction and better learning outcomes. This study provides insight into the learning outcomes of online students; it describes who they are and why they enroll in online courses. It answers questions such as: Are online students’ grades equivalent to grades of onsite students? Are most students in online courses equipped or disciplined enough to succeed? Do students have problems with the technology? Are there concerns with academic dishonesty? The results of this research will allow participants to assess the outcomes of teaching and learning in this environment, and to determine the best pedagogy for online students. It will help them make decisions as to whether to use this delivery system as a mode of instruction.

Blogging and Real Simple Syndication for Research and Collaboration
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: John Spagnolo

Capital Ballroom F

This presentation explores the emerging opportunities for blogs and real simple syndication (RSS) to enhance academic research, professional dialogue, resource sharing and the teaching and learning activities of a community of practice. Examples from the Reich College of Education and related K-12 grant activities will be shared and explored. A simple tool for syndicating blogs and other web-based resources will be demonstrated.

Thursday, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Plenary:
Technology, Outcomes, & Transformation
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Gary Brown

Related Material: Presentation

Grand Ballroom 1-3

In his presentation, “Technology, Outcomes, & Transformation”, Gary Brown will describe a variety of teaching, learning, technology and assessment strategies in the context of the new era of accountability. Drawing from those experiences, principles have been identified and implemented in a larger effort to create a method for assessing (and guiding) innovation implementation and assessment as well as deepening the efficacy of our efforts.

Thursday, 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm

An Overview of Security Issues Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: Carter Heath	Boxwood Rm 2
This presentation will provide an overview of network, end user, and personal security issues encountered on UNC campuses. Current state and UNC security guidelines will be discussed.

Panel discussion: Copyright Policies for Online Teaching Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: Lolly Gasaway	Capital Ballroom F
Copyright is often a barrier for faculty who teach online courses or portions of courses online. Clear policies on copyright protect the individual faculty member, the institution and students.

Panel discussion:
Systemic Technology Infusion
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Karen Wetherill, Cathy Barlow, Alisa Chapman

Related Material: Systemic Technology Infusion

Capital Ballroom G

The Technology for Reflection and Assessment Coalition is a significant initiative designed to accelerate the infusion of technology throughout the teacher preparation program leading to significant restructuring at the University of NC at Wilmington. This session will provide an overview of the grant, the results of the first three years, and insights that have been gained regarding the development of a cross-disciplinary coalition of active, longstanding partners including university faculty, school districts in southeastern NC, a DOE regional education lab, businesses and the state’s department of education and board. A new perspective will be offered which envisions each classroom as a computer lab with the role of the teacher remaining a critical and important element. The session is designed to provide information that may be useful for those working with instructional technology, P-16 educators, professional organization representatives, or corporate/business entities.

The Impact of Social Dynamics in the Teaching and Learning Process
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Robert Tyndall

Dogwood Rm 1

There is a significant body of research emphasizing the impact of social dynamics on the learning process. The patterns identified while varying in degree appear to hold relatively constant from early childhood experiences through adulthood. Individuals seem to have more powerful learning experiences when they are given the benefit of rich intellectual engagement and interaction with others. Obviously, recent technological revolutions and evolutions have expanded the possibilities for interaction exponentially in every direction. Time, place, age and gender and ethnicity do not constrain learners in the ways that we have experienced in the classrooms of the past. At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, we are interested in not only exploring the Internet as a learning tool based on heightened interactive social activity but in how groups working together on campus can conduct research, create and respond to scenarios and collaboratively produce learning products. This presentation focuses on the impact of the technology in shaping habits, influencing interest and redefining the conditions under which students work and associate.

Demonstration:
An Introduction to Graphic Design Principles: A Class Project Using Microsoft Windows MovieMaker
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: David Ozag, Maureen Ellis

Capital Ballroom C

The overriding objective of the presentation is to discuss findings related to a college-level graphics design class project. The primary objectives of the project are for students to integrate graphic design principles discussed in class into a movie project and to introduce student to the Microsoft Windows MovieMaker software program. Secondary objectives of the class project include discussion of facilitating student learning through the use of a “blog” and introducing students to basic movie-making principles including writing, editing, producing and directing.

Authentically Interactive Learning: Deploying Virtual Classroom Software to Impact Learner Outcomes (Elluminate)
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Roger Hanley

Grand Ballroom 1-3

Research in learning continues to emphasize the importance of authentic interaction in order to facilitate effective teaching and learning. Synchronous collaboration software, such as Elluminate’s virtual classroom, allows for real-time interaction between educational stakeholders, impacting the learner experience in a significant way. This session will provide participants with an understanding of the various features available in the virtual classroom software, as well as the reasons for using these to engage learners. Data will be presented that supports the idea that synchronous activities can increase student achievement and success, while also impacting satisfaction rates. Two Elluminate clients from around North America will join the session online to discuss how this software has benefited and impacted their programs, explaining the unique ways that it has been deployed in each institution. By the end of this session, participants will have a practical understanding of the ways in which synchronous activities can impact learner outcomes, of strategies to engage learners, as well as an understanding of virtual classroom software available for education.

Roundtable discussion: Instructional Uses of Multimedia Distribution Services Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Jill Lane, Joni Petschauer	Capital Ballroom D
In this roundtable discussion faculty will share their experiences using multimedia distribution services such as iTunes, Rhapsody, and Napster for instructional purposes. Come to share your own ideas and/or learn more about the use of these services in the classroom.

Panel discussion:
Synergy Makes the Impossible Possible
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Sharon Grayden, Todd Nicolet

Related Material: Presentation Slides, Presentation Handout

Capital Ballroom E

Four schools with varied needs were exploring Macromedia Breeze™ technology. One unit needed an easy-to-use tool to create and deliver narrated slide presentations over the internet, another an integrated system for online training that included PowerPoint presentations, surveys, tracking, analysis, course administration, and content management, and a third an online meeting and collaboration mechanism for holding real-time, e-training sessions. The fourth needed some of the capabilities of all three. And by the way, all of the content had to be delivered over both narrowband and broadband networks. A partnership among the schools—Dentistry, Education, Pharmacy a