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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.

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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

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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 and Public Health—resulted in a synergy that made the seemingly impossible, possible. From concept to content delivery, learn how communication, collaboration and cooperation got the players connected, the technology purchased, the infrastructure assembled and the system implemented at a fraction of what it would have cost any one school to go it alone.

Thursday, 2:10 pm to 3:40 pm

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Uses of Computational Science in the Classroom
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Shawn Sendlinger

NCSU 1B

Interactive models can be constructed with relatively easy-to-use software to teach scientific and/or mathematical concepts in a more effective manner. These models can deepen student understanding of difficult topics and also allow for the exploration of "what if...?" scenarios. Several models will be demonstrated and sources of complete models will be discussed. Participants will also have the opportunity to construct their own models.

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Using Bb to Increase Student Achievement Through Innovative Course and Community Design
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Kate Bishop

Related Material: Presentation

NCSU 2

This session will present strategies and client best practices for using the Bb Academic Suite to increase student achievement. The focus of the session will be on the use of collaborative, community-building tools and innovative teaching practices as the source for excellence in institutions around the world. Participants will garner specific, applicable strategies and techniques for using the Blackboard in their own institutions.

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop Respondus: Quiz Management for Your LMS Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging Presenters: Sam Eneman	NCSU 1A
Respondus is a time-saving quiz management tool you can use with WebCT, Blackboard and other LMSs. Learn how to import existing quizzes from word processing files, add quiz settings, upload exams into your online course and even print quizzes and answer keys for classroom use. Respondus is a Windows-only program.

Thursday, 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Demonstration:
Guided Accessibility: On Demand Assistance With Developing Accessible Web Content
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Johnathan Hurteau, Saroj Primlani

Related Material: Presentation Slides, Example for Usability Vs. Accessibility Slide

Capital Ballroom F

Accessibility concerns are not new, but many faculty and staff still don't understand exactly how to make content accessible and why they are required to do so. Miscommunication and misunderstandings have lead to the misconception that accessibility means avoiding innovative technologies or lots of duplicated effort to accommodate people with different needs. This is rarely the case. These problems can often be avoided with informed design decisions, good pedagogical practice, and the proper application of technology. ITECS and ITD at North Carolina State University are collaborating to create a tool that provides assistance on demand for understanding and incorporating accessibility into new or existing websites. This system has a deep repository of knowledge, but provides need based information so users do not feel overwhelmed. Concepts are explained in a frame of mind where web accessibility practices are a sub-set of web usability, so the process is justified from both ethical and self-serving points of view. The intended outcomes of using the tool are users that are better informed and more receptive to diverse needs and sites that are more accessible and usable.

Vanquishing the Cyberbully: Policies of Prevention and Prohibition
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Jennifer Summerville, John Fischetti

Related Material: Presentation

Capital Ballroom C

In our changing educational system with increased emphasis on online classes, students need to feel comfortable and safe in those environments. Our institutions may have policies to protect on campus students from harassing and threatening behavior, but what about in the online environment? How can we take existing policies and modify them to include provisions for the online environment? Two colleagues recount a "cyberbullying" experience from the Fall of '04 with suggestions for preventing and prohibiting such behavior before it affects the class.

Demonstration:
Enhancing Language Instruction with Audio and Video Activities
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Heather McCullough, Daniela Cunico Dal Pra, Yulia Baldwin, Ceily Hamilton

Related Material: UNCC languages web public.ppt

Capital Ballroom D

This session will demonstrate the use of audio and video exercises to enrich second language instruction. Examples of audio-only and video-enhanced activities will be presented. The presentation will cover activity design and assessment as well as technical considerations when choosing a software program. Each of the voice recording software programs considered is either freeware or bundled with Office XP: Windows Sound Recorder, Audacity, and the Dartmouth College Recorder. The video activities are created with iMovie, a software bundled with Macs. An overview of features of popular audio and video software will be included in the presentation. The demonstration will be of interest to foreign language instructors, ESL instructors, distance educators, and instructional technologists looking for ways to develop and incorporate online speaking activities into instruction. The recording and video tools may be used to enrich teaching in many disciplines. Weblinks and a PowerPoint presentation will be provided for the electronic proceedings on the conference website.

Demonstration:
Online Text Embedded in a Traditional Blackboard Course
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Celia Hooper

Grand Ballroom 1-3

The first online text created for an introductory course in communication sciences and disorders (Atomic Dog Publishers, 2004) was utilized in Fall 2004 at UNCG as part of a “traditional Blackboard” course. This interactive text, which allowed for professor editing, adding of notes, and insertion of extra material, also saved tremendous amounts of time and money by providing interactive models, as well as audio and video clips of normal and disordered children and adults. No longer is the instructor required to seek confidentiality approval or HIPPA approval for this permission, plus the student can review these examples before observing in a real clinic. Applications for this text moving to an online course will be discussed. Additionally, creative ways to use the client/patient clips in an interactive manner for speech and language evaluation will be discussed.

Panel discussion:
Teaching with Technology: A Comprehensive Business School Perspective
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Ramin Maysami, Howard Ling, Sharon Bell, Xin Li

Capital Ballroom G

The School of Business Administration at UNCP has been on the forefront of online course offering. Virtually, the entire program may now be completed online. Teaching an entire curriculum via the Internet poses unique challenges both to students and professors. The teaching with technology experience would certainly vary among classes, and as a matter of fact, among various disciplines and specializations. The current study aims to compare and contrast the online teaching experiences of professors in different areas of business curriculum. Understanding varied challenges in “Teaching with Technology” for professors in Accounting, Decision Science, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, and MIS would be an informative exercise. Therefore, we propose a session in which the Business faculty from UNCP would discuss their experiences in Teaching with Technology. The session will be structured around opinions and comments on a number of questions posed by the organizers of the TLT conference.

Technology Enhanced Learning Communities
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Michael Worthington, Kim Stevenson

Related Material: Technology Enhanced Learning Communities

Capital Ballroom E

Learning communities consist of two or more class sections attended by a cohort. In this case Freshman Seminar and Introduction to Business were linked together. Instructors divided each class into groups for collaborative activities and the same grouping was used in both courses. Seating charts ensured that groups sat together. Blackboard Group Pages allowed students to easily email members of their group. In addition the group discussion forums provided both a means of communication between group members and a means to post a group project. The file exchange feature functioned as network file storage with common access by any group member. Survey results, grades and persistence will be compared with that of freshmen who did not participate in the shared experience. In addition Blackboard tracks the usage of different features both by student and by time of day and date, which will be correlated with other measurements.

Effects of Learning Styles on Group Dynamics in Online Learning Environments
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Mahnaz Moallem, Erika Robertson

Capital Ballroom A-B

The purpose of this presentation is to share the results of a study that examined the effects of learning styles on group dynamics within an online learning environment. The presentation will specifically focus on the ways in which group members' learning styles contribute to the sequential stage development process and to the group members' interaction process? The theoretical framework, methodology, and preliminary results will be discussed.

Demonstration:
When The World Came to Harlem
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Ronnie Lewis

Dogwood Rm 1

This project is being undertaken in conjunction with Dr. Jeffrey B. Leak, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at UNC Charlotte. The challenge before us was getting millennial-generation college students to understand the significant cultural, political, social and economic changes that occurred during the Harlem Renaissance. Textbooks and other static media hardly do justice to conveying the Renaissances’ rich artistic expressions. This project introduces students to some of the seminal figures of the Harlem Renaissance through the use of video, audio, photos and text. Students will learn about this exciting period in ways that engage all of their senses.

Thursday, 3:40 pm to 4:30 pm

Poster presentation: Camtasia Studio 2 : Creating Voice Narration Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Priscilla Leggett, Virginia Dickens, Marge Scheuerlein Related Material: Creating A Smart Lecture:Camtasia Studio 2	Grand Ballroom Prefunction
This poster session demonstrates the effective use of Camtasia Studi0 2 to add voice narration to power point presentations which are later incorporated into Blackboard.

Poster presentation: System-Wide Online Writing Collaborative Project Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Kimberly Abels, William Wisser, Philip Adams, Marcia Toms	Grand Ballroom Prefunction
The Writing Centers at UNC-CH, UNCG, NCSU, and ECU have undertaken a collaborative project to build a centralized writing support service built on an open-source platform. This poster will explain the challenges of inter-campus collaboration and the potential for sharing resources and expertise throughout the UNC System.

Poster presentation:
Using Research to Teach in a Technological Classroom
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Karen Palmer, Urania Harrell, Rose Hotchkiss

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

As adjunct professors, we are implementing and exposing our students to strategies acquired through our participation in Explornet, a nonprofit educational organization providing educators research-based, hands-on ways of integrating technology and learning. This poster session will be a shared experience of the progress, successes, and obstacles that we have experienced in implementing a technological classroom environment with our students. Moving the implementation of our Explornet acquired strategies from the primary and middle grades public schools to the college classroom has benefited our students and has expanded our repertoire of creatively structuring learning experiences. Through the use of various available multimedia and software, we are preparing our pre-service students to create integrated and differentiated instruction which is based on researched best practices.

Poster presentation:
Web Design and Review Question Formats in a Computer-Assisted Instructional Environment
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Rebecca Green, Marion Eppler, Marsha Ironsmith, Karl Wuensch

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

In this session we will share information on research evaluating the effectiveness of two types of instructional web materials. We tested the application of empirically based web design guidelines and two methods of embedded review question formats in a computer-assisted mastery learning course in developmental psychology. Students received either a branching practice quiz format that redirected them to relevant portions of the study module after incorrect answers or a linear format that only gave students the correct answer and continued to the next review question. The effectiveness of web design guidelines was evaluated based on students’ opinions. Students with positive opinions about the readability and navigational usability of the module scored higher on their first attempt to pass the mastery quiz. In addition, students who used the branching format scored higher on the mastery quiz and required fewer tries to achieve the 90% mastery criterion.

Poster presentation:
Critical Thinking: The Concept and Applications
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: William Porter

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

In the classroom, CT has been used to improve comprehension at the public school and the undergraduate levels. More recent ideologies within CT led to the development of the Critical Thinking Through Technology Center (CTTTC) at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) in 1994. Computer technology is evolving as a major strategy in the learning process. Presently, “Online Weather Studies” (OLWS), a distance learning course utilizes the internet and includes a review of CT concepts and strategies that may enhance the ability of students taking the course to comprehend subject matter. Each of the course’s 12 weeks has a specific cognitive skill and affective attribute for the teacher to consider, as well as an example of how students might use these skills and attributes to better comprehend a specific weather situation.

Poster presentation: MERLOT: A Source of Online Materials for Learning and Instruction Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Hilarie Nickerson, Beverly King, Laurie Godwin Related Material: MERLOT web site	Grand Ballroom Prefunction
MERLOT, a community-oriented web site designed by and for higher education faculty, provides free access to thousands of online materials organized by discipline, plus reviews, learning assignments, and more. Stop by and learn what MERLOT can do for you!

Poster presentation:
Using Learning Objects to Make Instruction More Engaging
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: James Kirk

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

During this poster session I will share my experiences creating interactive learning objects in the form of Macromedia Flash games and simple applications. The learning objects are available at my Learning Fever website (http://ceap.wcu.edu/kirk/Learning Feaver/LFindex.html). The site currently contains 10 learning objects and 300 sample activities. The games are in the form of board games, card games, exercises, TV game shows, puzzles, and quizzes. I will explain how the content of the objects can easily be modified with the use of simple .txt files created by students with Word Pad or Note Pad. Participants will be provided a handout containing directions on how to download my learning objects free of charge, as well as, how to create and load their own content into the objects. The session should be of interest to any instructor desiring to create interactive subject matter specific media for use over the web or published to a CD. Participants will be able to make their instruction more interactive and effective through the use of selected learning objects. Instructors can use the objects without owning or knowing anything about the Macromedia Flash software program.

Poster presentation:
Integrating Library Services for Distance Learners
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Mary Ann Painter, Geraldine Purpur, Lisa Abbott

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

The Distance Learning Team of the Appalachian State University Libraries' is conducting four outreach projects. The goal of these projects is to integrate library resources and services into course structure and the research process. Two projects target faculty preparing online components for off-campus classes; another, AppEdTEch brings a library presence into an online virtual community where students and faculty can meet, hold class activities, and "go" to the library- and the fourth is an online tutorial called Virtual Research @ ASU Libraries: A Guide for Off-Campus Students: A web-based tutorial with 8 modules containing Flash animation and audio.

Poster presentation:
Marketing Your Educational Career With Electronic Portfolios!
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Susan Peck, Claudia Twiford

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

Is the portfolio just a personal reflective tool for students or does it really make students marketable? We will be examining the effects of LiveText e-portfolio in students acquiring employment. Data will be presented that will reflect public school teachers' and Human Resource administrators' assessment of student e-portfolios, and what impact it has on employment decisions. Data on student and faculty perspective will be presented. Additionally, an example of a LiveText e-portfolio will be available to tour.

Poster presentation:
The Effects of Computer Mediated Communication on Interpersonal Relationships in the Classroom
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Daniel Heskett, LaTeisha Howie, Lori Blue, Laura Vaughan, Timothy Horne, Kirk Duthler

Grand Ballroom Prefunction

A team of graduate students led by Dr. Kirk Duthler undertook a research project wherein they examined the effects of online course supplements on interpersonal communication. The goal was to accurately gauge how the use of WebCT impacted student to student, student to professor and professor to student interactions. The graduate student team first contacted professors that were using WebCT, the University’s course supplement system. The professors were asked to fill out a short survey. This survey was designed to judge how and why professors use WebCT, and their perceptions of how it affected classroom interaction. After the survey results were assessed, the students in each of the professor’s classes were asked to fill out a different survey. These questions were designed to judge how the students perceived the use of WebCT affected classroom interaction. Although the results were not complete at the time of this writing, we expect that WebCT use will foster better classroom interactions, including discussions and questions.

Thursday, 4:30 pm to 5:20 pm

Roundtable discussion: e-Learning Policy Council Faculty Support Subcommittee Information Gathering Session Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: Maurice Mitchell, Linda Carl, Betsy Brown, Frank Prochaska	Capital Ballroom F
Representatives from the Faculty Support Subcommittee of the UNC e-Learning Policy Council will gather input from conference attendees about e-learning faculty support issues. An initial session, presenting an update of the work of the e-Learning Policy Council, will be offered Wednesday at 2 p.m.

Assessing Blackboard Discussions: A Rubric in Progress
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Mary Lou Veal

Boxwood Rm 2

This session will focus on the planning, implementation, and assessment of Blackboard discussions in a professional preparation class. The instructor will share her reflections on how the discussions have increased students’ understanding of course content, as well as how the course has contributed to more effective communication skills and a sense of community among the students. The development, use, and revision of a rubric for the assessment of learning will be discussed with opportunities for audience discussion of assessment strategies for Blackboard discussions.

Demonstration:
Considering Students' Preferred Learning and Thinking Styles in the Design of Web-Based Instruction
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Mahnaz Moallem

Related Material: TLTSping05.pdf

Capital Ballroom A-B

The purpose of the presentation is to analyze the literature on learning styles to develop a list of assumptions and guidelines that can be used to identify a learning style model for designing and developing a web-based course. It describes the process of integrating the learning style model into the design and development of an online course, and provides information on the effects of the course design specifications on students’ learning and their attitude and satisfaction.

From Conception to Completion: How UNCW's E-Merging Technologies is Bringing Teaching and Technology Together
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Dana Little, Dana Ward, Erika Robertson

Capital Ballroom D

E-Merging Technologies is UNCW’s new, cutting-edge faculty support structure, fostering collaboration between the Department of Client Services and over 700 full and part-time faculty members. This presentation will highlight the milestones of the birth of E-Merging Technologies - from developing its mission, conducting a full-scale needs assessment, and seeking faculty input to designing the “look” and layout of the actual center. Attendees of this session will get an inside look at what is involved in developing a new support model and partnering with faculty to help integrate technology into their instructional strategies.

Panel discussion:
Navigating the Path to an Online Master's Program: Understanding Student Perceptions and Enhancing Faculty Capacity
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Peter Whittaker, Beverly VanHook-Schrey, Meagan Karvonen, Jacque Jacobs, John LeBaron

Judicial Rm 4

WCU’s Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations recently decided to offer an option for students to complete the entire Masters in School Administration (MSA) degree online. This program has historically emphasized personal attention in a face-to-face environment, including internship experiences and supervision courses. With the push toward the online program, questions have emerged about how to create pedagogically sound online courses that are responsive to student needs and interests. The proposed information sharing session will feature two interrelated presentations. Fostering effective online environments: Student perceptions and recommendations (Karvonen, et al.) will report the findings from a study of current MSA student views of factors that can contribute to effective online experiences, including strengths, barriers, and needed supports for online learning. Supporting transformational change when faculty migrate from onsite to online teaching (Jacobs & LeBaron) will describe informal and formal initiatives being implemented to enhance faculty capacity for effective online instruction.

Panel discussion:
Promoting the Scholarship of Teaching at WCU through a Campus-Wide Faculty-Lead MERLOT Initiative
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Jeanne Dorle, Debra Randleman, Irene Mueller, Robert Orr

Capital Ballroom E

A panel presentation by members of WCU’s MERLOT Committee on the partnership between faculty and the Faculty Center in leveraging the resources in MERLOT to promote and support faculty engagement with technology for teaching and learning. The panel will describe both the successes and the lessons learned over the past three years, including the recent implementation of a peer-reviewed learning object repository and the committee’s commitment to improve the recognition of digital scholarship across the campus.

SAKAI: Exploration of an Open Source Course Management System
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Steven Breiner

Capital Ballroom C

Over the last decade, Course Management Systems (CMS) have become increasingly critical components of campuses' efforts to incorporate technology into their educational missions. Because of the great efforts expended to implement effective uses of these technologies, many participants have become uncomfortable with being essentially "locked into" a single, proprietary CMS purveyor. This presentation will describe the Sakai project, demonstrate some components of the Sakai open-source CMS, and begin a discussion about how the UNC constituent institutions (and others who may be interested) might participate in the Sakai project and/or obtain access to the system for evaluation. Topics envisioned for discussion include the possible creation of an inter-institutional consortium to provide access to the Sakai system, the pros and cons of considering open-source software for adoption, how a consortium might be organized and implemented, and on what resources (human and financial) would be required and how they might be marshalled.

WebCT’s e Packs Program (WebCT Presentation) Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Matt Davis, John Lowe	Grand Ballroom 1-3
WebCT will discuss the e Packs program, and how off-the-shelf content can be used within both Campus Edition and Vista.

UNC TLT Librarians Interest Group: Blogging & Text Messaging
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Cynthia Saylor, Lisa Nickel, Angela Ballard

Dogwood Rm 1

Librarians are constantly seeking new technologies to communicate more efficiently and to provide better service. Lisa Nickel of UNC Charlotte will discuss Weblogs or "blogs", their popularity, usefulness, and how they can apply to libraries. She'll explain why librarians should be interested in them and how can they start their own. Angie Ballard will discuss how the NCSU Libraries, after a review of instant messaging clients and server solutions, implemented an open source IM messaging solution for use by library staff in 2004. Fully supported by the library systems department's desktop support and training services, text messaging provides a dynamic mechanism for quick communications among staff that enhances both collaborative efforts and service to patrons. This session also serves as a meeting of the UNC TLT Librarians Interest Group.

Thursday, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop
iPods and Podcasting in Education
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Fred Brackett, Francis Shepherd

TRG Building 203

Podcasting is an innovative new technique to deliver content to iPods, smartphones, computers, and other devices using RSS and web services. The session will highlight unique educational opportunities which leverage audio, video, and photos with simple technologies to enhance the learning experience on your campuses. Please join us as we explore in depth the current podcast revolution. This workshop is being held in the Tech Resource Group building behind AmeriSuites at 3301 Benson Drive, Suite 400, Room 203.

Thursday, 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Roundtable discussion: Creating an Achievement Gap: What Happens When Universities have Technology and Public Schools Don't Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: Jeremy Dickerson, Dennis Kubasko, Aimee Greene	Capital Ballroom A-B
This round-table discussion will highlight the discussion surrounding the training of future public school teachers to use technology and how this affects them when they enter their career as a public school teacher when they do not have technology available for use in their classrooms. This presentation/discussion will include University faculty, technicians, and public school teachers.

Demonstration:
Fostering Innovative Technology and Teaching with Good Outcomes in CSD at UNCG
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Celia Hooper, Jane Harris

Capital Ballroom D

New in fall 2003, the School of Health and Human Performance hired a full time ITC staff member and supported, with faculty incentive funding, an UNLIMITED number of innovative teaching/technology grants. Seven of the fifteen faculty members in Communication Sciences and Disorders received these grants. Representatives from CSD will demonstrate these projects, their educational goals, OUTCOME MEASURES, and at least one take home \"doable\" tip for teaching \"live\" or online. The projects included the following: practice exercises in language and literacy; Blackboard small group work for instruction in language development; narrated Power Point and the software, Impatica, for access to auditory and visual information related to vocal cord movement and sound, Universal Precautions in a speech and hearing clinic, and hearing screening procedures for children and adult; the use of video clips in a Blackboard enhanced clinical course for increased counseling skills in graduate students; and simulated hearing aid fitting using a Blackboard format.

Shedding Light on WebCT: Assessing the Faculty Usage of WebCT at UNC Charlotte
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: J. Garvey Pyke

Grand Ballroom 1-3

We asked the entire WebCT instructor population at UNC Charlotte to complete an online survey during the Spring 2004 and Spring 2005 semesters to assess various dimensions of WebCT usage, particularly the pedagogical applications of WebCT and the adequacy of the support systems for these pedagogical usages. We will present a summary of our findings and recommendations. We will also discuss the methods we used for developing the study, our online assessment tools, and implications for further study. The session will encourage participation and collaboration by giving attendees materials that they could use in designing similar studies and by asking for feedback from attendees regarding questions, concerns, and suggestions they have for us.

Development of the CTDDP (Course/Training Design/Development Package)
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Forrest McFeeters, Antionette Moore, March Hajre-Chapman, Irene Chief

Related Material: CTDDP Powerpoint Presentation, CTDDP at a glance2.doc

Capital Ballroom E

Under the direction of Winston-Salem State University's Distance Learning Strategic Planning Committee, CITTLE (Center for Innovative Teaching, Technology, Learning and Evaluation) was charged with providing the faculty at WSSU with a systematic process of creating and evaluating web-based instruction. This design template incorporates procedures and materials that are useful in analyzing and organizing a course, designing a syllabus, specifying learning outcomes and goals and objectives, connecting objectives to instructional strategies, aligning those objectives with technologies, and also provides some evaluative methodologies. We will review our experiences, both positive and negative, in using a collaborative approach to overseeing the design of the template and its development and implementation. Our original team consisted of the staff of CITTLE, the School of Education and Arts and Sciences DL Program Coordinators, the Director of DL, and faculty and staff from a number of other academic programs. We will also discuss the implications of evaluations from Distance Learning courses created the previous semester using the CTDDP.

Faculty Support Services - How Does Your Institution Compare?
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Maurice Mitchell

Related Material: Faculty Support - ver 2.ppt

Dogwood Rm 1

This session will include a demonstration of the use of the EDUCAUSE Core Date Service to retrieve information that compares institutions on IT information. Also included will be interpretation of the information, and a review of the annual survey. EDUCAUSE hosts a comparison data repository of institutional information about IT operations. EDUCAUSE members are offered the opportunity annually to add their institutional data to the Service. Those institutions that participate in the annual surveys then have access to the database and its reporting tools. 11 institutions in the UNC currently participate in the CDS. Over 800 EDUCAUSE member institutions have data resident for the first 2 years of the CDS. The information categories include: • organization, staffing and planning • financing and management • faculty and student computing • network and security • information systems • comparative ratio analyses

Roundtable discussion:
Using Standards to Enhance Your Documentation
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Caryl Gordon

Boxwood Rm 2

The UNC Charlotte’s Faculty Center for Teaching and e-Learning has established standards for text and visual elements contained in workshop handouts, information sheets and web pages. When all personnel adhere to the same style and agreed upon guidelines, the documentation is concise and easy to understand. Your audience knows how information will be presented and what to expect from it. Creating standards will decrease the time spent on creating documentation and troubleshooting client issues. I will present this topic as a Roundtable discussion. I will spend about 15 minutes explaining how our standards have evolved and how we use them. I will distribute a workshop handout and discuss how the standards are applied – about 10 minutes. I will then open the discussion to the participants and ask what standards are used and how effective they are for creating documentation and troubleshooting client issues. Is there any one standard or guideline that they found particularly useful? Is anyone doing something different that they find effective?

Demonstration:
Interactive Chemistry Lab Forms with Java Server Pages
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Roger Jones

Capital Ballroom C

Interactive lab form pages, based on Java Server Page technology can be easier for the student and be a more effective use of instructor time. As students enter data, the interactive form will perform checks on the students’ answers and give immediate feedback to the student as to their correctness. If the student continues to err, the student is forced to a web page which discusses the type of error in more detail. Information about errors accumulated for the lab exercise are accumulated and reported to both the instructor and the student. The form can be delivered using a department or lab server and is easy to maintain. Each lab form is built automatically from a Microsoft ExcelTM spreadsheet describing the lab and the results. The generated web page is then placed on the web server. Several introductory chemistry lab forms are shown as examples.

Friday, April 1, 2005

Friday, 8:30 am to 10:00 am

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop Learning to Moderate in a Virtual Classroom Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Roger Hanley	NCSU 1
This session will introduce attendees to the Elluminate Live! virtual classroom environment. Participants will experience Level #1 Training in a computer lab environment, and will have a hands-on opportunity to learn how to utilize the features and functions available in Elluminate Live! in an instructional setting.

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop
Overview of SAS Enterprise Guide
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: DeShelia Spann, Sue Walsh

NCSU 2

SAS Enterprise Guide provides a graphical user interface that allows transparent access to the power of SAS. A process flow diagram facility lets users organize, view and maintain their projects visually. SAS Enterprise Guide also delivers many out-of-the-box reporting, graphical and analytical tasks, as well as more than 60 wizard-based tasks. SAS Enterprise Guide allows users to visually access any data types supported by SAS and native Windows data types. Users can create, update, subset and join tables themselves without involving IT specialists using a powerful, graphical Query Builder. SAS Enterprise Guide provides a dedicated, intuitive and advanced interface for analyzing business information stored in OLAP data cubes. The OLAP Analyzer supports all the functionality required to navigate through multidimensional data, add topic-specific business calculations and extract information from multidimensional sources for further analysis. SAS Enterprise Guide presents users with only the tasks they need to perform their jobs based on their roles in the organization.

Friday, 9:00 am to 9:50 am

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

Capital Ballroom E

North Carolina Community Colleges and UNC campuses 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. This second session will be an “issues forum” at which conference attendees will be encouraged to brainstorm ways in which the two systems can better cooperate and leverage resources in order to maximize efforts to provide the best DL instruction to our students across the state. Part One will be Wednesday at 4:30pm.

Open Access Environments: Balancing Privacy, Property, and Pedagogy
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Kenneth Mentor

Capital Ballroom C

Many online learning environments are hidden from public view through the use of passwords and other access limitations. Concerns about privacy, intellectual property, and accreditation are offered to justify this practice. Course management systems may also lead to a tendency to close entire course environments, including many things that could, and perhaps should, remain publicly available. While there are legitimate reasons for restricting access, there are equally compelling reasons for building “open access learning environments.” Techniques for creating open access learning environments that peacefully coexist with standard course management systems are described and demonstrated.

Roundtable discussion:
Peer Review of Digital Scholarship: A UNC Peer Review Process for Personnel Evaluations?
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Yogendra Kakad, Gerald Ponder

Capital Ballroom F

The purpose of this roundtable discussion is to gauge interest and discuss the promise and pitfalls of developing a system-level process for peer review of digital scholarship/TLT for faculty being reviewed for reappointment, tenure and promotion. UNC could provide an important service to its faculty and to the scholarship of teaching and learning by developing a process for an optional "external review" process for faculty members involved in personnel evaluations. How would such a process work? Would faculty use it? Would it be sustainable? These questions need to be explored before we decide on developing a pilot program for the peer review process. This roundtable will provide a forum for this exploration.

Demonstration:
Using Technology to Meet Professional Standards and Improve Teaching and Learning
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Francine Madrey

Capital Ballroom D

This interactive session will entail demonstrations of and discussions about various technology resources (e.g., Blackboard, TaskStream, Grade Book, textbook companion software, and online library resources) used in two teacher education courses to acquaint students with professional standards, provide access to online learning resources, improve instructional quality, enhance higher-order thinking skills, cultivate reflective learning, create opportunities for cooperative learning, integrate diversity and multiculturalism in instruction, and improve the quantity and quality of out-of-class interactions among students and between students and faculty. Participants will observe the alignment of class activities with professional standards, as well as demonstrations of various technology resources used to meet standards. A discussion on the effectiveness and challenges of technology as a teaching and learning tool will also be shared, along with information about professional development opportunities that have facilitated the efforts of faculty to revise courses so as to meet professional and technology standards.

Apreso Classroom: Fully-Automated Lecture Capture and Web Publishing System (Anystream Presentation) Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Geoff Allen	Capital Ballroom A-B
Increasingly, schools are recording lectures and publishing them online for on-demand review by students. Apreso Classroom is the first system that automates the entire process, from capture, through distribution, to making the content available in popular course management systems. See a demonstration of the first system practical enough to make lecture capture commonplace.

Demonstration: Creative Delivery Techniques in the Live Virtual Classroom: Using 3rd Party Devices to enhance e-Learning Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: David Whisler	Sandalwood Rm 7
Dave will be demonstrating various devices (interactive whiteboard, LCD Graphics Tablet, RF remote controls, document camera) that can be used to enhance live e-Learning for both the presenter and the students. Time will allocated for Q&A and "hands-on" time for those who attend the session.

Panel discussion:
CMC Cubed: Studying, Researching, and Utilizing Computer-Mediated Communication
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Kirk Duthler, Laura Vaughan, Daniel Heskett, LaTeisha Howie, Lori Blue, Timothy Horne

Related Material: CMC Cubed Power Point, Syllabus & Reading List of CMC Class

Capital Ballroom G

In the fall of 2004 at UNC Charlotte, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), a graduate class offered by the Department of Communication Studies, was taught by the lead presenter. Applying CMC theory and research to contemporary communication experience was a major learning objective for the class. To engage students in active learning three main activities were constructed: (1) an intense review of CMC theory and research, (2) a student research project examining the impact of WebCT technology on communication in the University's classrooms, and (3) a student research project collaboration utilizing the full capabilities of WebCT technology. Students maintained an anonymous on-line interactive journal telling of their experiences in using, researching, and reading about CMC. This presentation will highlight student experiences and reactions to this immersive learning event, as well as offer insights and reflections on refining the experience.

Friday, 10:00 am to 10:30 am

Community Building and Analysis in eLearning Environments Using Social Network Analysis
Presenters: Julia Hersberger

Sandalwood Rm 7

Is an online course also a virtual community? What can an instructor do to provide an environment in which distance education students can develop their own form of a community? What practical tools can we utilize to analyze eLearning environments? Social network analysis provides useful insights and methods for examining relationships and relationship building within groups. In this presentation a constructive delineation of concepts that define and underpin a community are applied to online seminars. What works when it comes to forming a community in an online course of geographically dispersed students? What are the challenges and barriers to community building in such virtual communities? Information sharing and information exchange are the key elements for building online relationships. Examples of how online social networks develop primarily because they are information networks that meets both cognitive and affective needs of students will be presented.

Demonstration:
Making Rhetorical Conventions Visible: Cooperative Student Groups Create Animated Prompts
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Todd Finley

Capital Ballroom D

English education majors at East Carolina University demonstrate lack of schema regarding how to create inspiring, constructivist, and effective writing assignment prompts that illustrate strategic thinking concerning rhetorical mode development. This semester, education majors applied contextualized rhetorical prompt theory using the CRAFT method to create interactive and animated PowerPoint presentations, based on the work of Dr. Steve Mark. Researchers studied how team-development of animated PowerPoint prompts deepened novice teachers’ critical thinking and understanding of rhetorical conventions. In short, oft-criticized slide show technology was enhanced by sound, animation, and voice-over narration to create deeply stirring multi-modal writing assignments that teaching interns could use in their future high school classrooms. Be warned. This is not your father’s PowerPoint! CDs of students’ projects, assignment rubric, and other research data will be provided at the time of the session.

Demonstration:
They Said It Couldn't and Shouldn't Be Done: An On-Line Course in Educational Leadership
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Anna McFadden

Capital Ballroom C

The purpose of this session is to demonstrate the first asynchronous on-line class developed and taught in the Master of School Administration Program at Western Carolina University. The presenter will demonstrate features of the course including on-line group midterms and finals, projects, and the use of Wimba voice technology. She will present evaluation data from the class from individual student evaluations. In addition, she will describe the support she received from the library, technology support services, administration, and colleagues in the development and delivery of the course. Opportunity for questions and interaction will be included.

Panel discussion:
Integration of Course Management Systems with Integrated Library Systems (ILS)
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Lionell Parker

Capital Ballroom G

North Carolina Central University is migrating to a new Integrated Library System while increasing the use of its course management System (Blackboard ) throughout the curriculum. While the Library Systems will offer electronic reserves, and other technological advances in the Library catalog, the Blackboard Course management system can serve to bring the BBCMS and the ILS into one virtual environment that supports both. NCCU has, over the past few months, started to develop a model of linking the CMS to the catalog. This presentation will target how to provide library materials and resources to students through the Blackboard course management system.

Demonstration:
UNC TLT Training Compendium Demo
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Andrea Eastman-Mullins

Related Material: Compendium Handout

Capital Ballroom F

Do you need to develop a new TLT training workshop for your campus? Would it be helpful to see what other UNC campuses have created on the topic first? The UNC TLT Compendium of Training (http://www.unctlt.org/training) provides a single access point to over 200 workshop syllabi, online tutorials, and relevant training materials that the 16 UNC campuses are willing to share with each other. See a demonstration of this site and learn how you can make the best use of this resource.

Developing a Peer Review for the Alternate Delivery of Instruction
Topic: Scholarship, Rewards, and Incentives
Presenters: Chris Weaver, Susan Colaric, Ginny Sconiers

Capital Ballroom A-B

In higher education student course evaluations are the most commonly used method of course review. In course evaluations, students are asked to rate a faculty member on overt behaviors that are presumed to be characteristic of effective teaching. Students, however, are not in a position to evaluate such important aspects of teaching expertise as content coverage, best practice for a content area, content representation, use of appropriate strategies for the content area, or content and assessment alignment. Since 1993, East Carolina University has used a face to face peer review system in addition to student evaluations. This session will present the process of developing a peer review system that is appropriate for the alternate delivery of classes. This will include the process for developing the tool, validity testing and the development of supporting documentation.

Friday, 10:30 am to 11:40 am

Workshop: Sign up for this workshop Distance Education Classroom Tour Topic: Instructional Resources Presenters: Willie Pearson	NCSU Centennial
Come to NC State's Centennial Campus for this tour, in which you will visit a Distance Education classroom. Transportation will be provided by van (board outside the Grand Ballroom entrance to the Hilton at 10:00 a.m.).

Friday, 10:40 am to 11:30 am

Panel discussion:
Mapping Cyber-Affectiveness
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Diane Chapman, Colleen Wiessner, Paula Berardinelli, Leslie Jones

Capital Ballroom F

Attend this session to explore the human, emotional, and affective aspects of online teaching and learning. Studies have shown the importance of acknowledging emotion and other aspects of the affective domain in adult learning. The same holds true for people engaged in online courses. Many instructors now believe that having students see their "human" side enhances student learning by making instructors seem more approachable and students more willing to engage in courses. But, then the question becomes, how do we operationalize this in the online environment? Hear about the presenters' initial inquiry into what they call Cyber-Affectiveness, the ability to portray instructors as "whole" beings in the online classroom. The session will involve audience participation in developing a mind map of Cyber-Affectiveness and a discussion of how the presenters and the audience address this phenomenon in their e-learning activities.

Panel discussion: Promoting Effective Communication Between Faculty and IT Administrators Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology Presenters: Brenda Shaw, Yogendra Kakad, Maurice Mitchell, Robert Tyndall, Mary Anne Nixon	Capital Ballroom G
This panel, comprised of campus CIOs with a background in educational technology and Faculty Assembly delegates serving on the FA Technology Committee, will discuss ways to promote effective faculty/ IT administrator communication on educational technology issues. Brenda Shaw, Director of the Center for University Teaching and Learning at NCCU, will moderate the panel.

Guiding Students to Think about How They Think: An Online Course for RN's in a BSN Completion Program
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Lienne Edwards

Related Material: Guiding Students to Think.ppt

Capital Ballroom A-B

Dr. Edwards will share her experience facilitating an online course, Enhancing Clinical Judgment, which focuses on getting students to think about how they think. The course and its assignments are designed to facilitate reflective learning as well as self-directed learning and shared responsibility for peer learning. Students in the course are registered nurses enrolled in a BSN completion program at UNC Charlotte School of Nursing; one section of the students are in the Distance Education track. Who should attend: faculty interested in discovering (1) ways to design an online course for reflective thinking/learning and (2) how thoughtful discussion can be accomplished via an asynchronous discussion forum. Outcome: participants will leave with (1) an understanding of types of assignments in an online course that can enhance students’ reflective thinking and learning and (2) a greater appreciation of why an online course may be a better learning environment for accomplishing reflective thinking and learning than the traditional classroom. I will provide my Powerpoint presentation slides for the electronic proceedings on the conference web site.

Demonstration:
The Masterstroke Project: Applications and Development
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Laura Cruz, Nathan Best

Capital Ballroom D

This presentation will discuss the Masterstroke project, an on-line tool for hosting historical diplomatic simulations developed at WCU by a student-faculty team. The project has evolved from a simple set of interactive databases for tracking role-play simulations to a more full-featured site which includes different forms of communication, adaptive features for different levels and types of simulations, and tactical, strategic, and logistical elements of military engagements. The presentation will showcase the new features but also discuss the trials and tribulations of developing and implementing educational technologies. We intend to highlight legal issues; assessment strategies, and technological requirements. Finally, we will report on the first trials of a Masterstroke simulation held in single classrooms and the first multi-school simulation. The presentation should be of interest to those who teach in the social sciences, to those who use role-playing as a pedagogical method, and to those students and faculty who are interested in developing their own educational technology tools.

Roundtable discussion:
Planning for the Use of MERLOT On Your Campus
Topic: Instructional Resources
Presenters: Hilarie Nickerson, Jeanne Dorle, Laurie Godwin, Joyce Joines Newman

Related Material: MERLOT web site

Sandalwood Rm 7

This session will focus on how UNC campuses can make effective use of MERLOT, a community-oriented web site that can help with locating and using online materials for learning and instruction. People who participated in the UNC TLT Collaborative’s regional workshops this year are especially encouraged to attend. Topics for discussion include getting going, promising practices, and support needs.

Synergy Through Inquiry: Developing an Inquiry-Based Approach for Serving e-Learning Needs
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Kirk Duthler, J. Garvey Pyke

Related Material: Synergy Through Inquiry

Capital Ballroom C

To highlight a collaborative research effort between the Faculty Center for Teaching and e-Learning at UNC Charlotte and the professor and students of a masters-level course entitled Computer-Mediated Communication. In the fall 2004 a mutual relationship was formed to share resources and expertise of both constituencies for the purpose of examining WebCT use on the campus. Results of the collaborative effort will be discussed. Topics include: (1) lessons learned and recommendations for future collaborative efforts, (2) methods for applying research results to the university for immediate impact, (3) how to incorporate inquiry/research for curricular development, and (4) how faculty centers and professors can extend the support model to facilitate collaboration and research.

Roundtable discussion:
UNC Content System Discussion
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Scott Simkins

Related Material: Handout

Capital Ballroom E

A UNC-wide committee is considering the development or acquisition of a content system that would enable teaching, research, and training-related materials developed by UNC faculty and staff to be easily shared across the UNC system. This system could also provide a space for ongoing collaboration among UNC faculty and staff developing such materials. The committee is in the beginning stages of gathering feedback from all UNC campuses on this topic. In this roundtable discussion learn more about what the committee is hearing from campus focus groups and share your own ideas on the subject.

Friday, 11:40 am to 12:10 pm

Roundtable discussion:
Enhancing Student Success: Aligning Computational Content and Skills in Introductory Courses Across North Carolina
Presenters: Robert Panoff, Jose D'Arruda

Capital Ballroom C

In this session we will describe a new response to the National Science Foundation's revised program for Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (NSF-CCLI). As part of a Phase I proposal, Shodor will work with a team from both UNC and NCCCS to identify the core computational skills and content in introductory courses. Our goal is to align instruction and learning to enhance success in upper division courses for all students. The materials, training and assessment will help North Carolina close the digital divide at the undergraduate level. The project design and goals will serve as a model for other states to address articulation between two- and four-year institutions. This project will have two specific dissemination channels. First, the materials will be collected, validated, verified and accredited by the Computational Science Education Reference Desk, a Pathway of the National Science Digital Library. Second, the National Computational Science Institute will incorporate lessons learned into their workshops for two- and four-year institution faculty across the country.

Demonstration:
Bioinformatics Using MatLab
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Deok-Hyun Hwang

Capital Ballroom D

MatLab is a high-performance language for technical computing. It integrates computation, visualization, and programming in an easy-to-use environment where problems and solutions are expressed in familiar mathematical notation. Typical uses include algorithm development; data acquisition; modeling, simulation, & prototyping; data analysis, exploration, & visualization; scientific & engineering graphics; and application development. The Bioinformatics Toolbox extends MATLAB with basic sequence analysis and gene expression analysis functions. It is a collection of tools built on the MATLAB numeric computing environment. It supports a wide range of common sequence analysis and expression analysis tasks, from accessing web-based databases, to sequence alignment, to microarray normalization and visualization. It has more than 100 functions implemented using M-files, and includes features like Data I/O, Sequence Alignment, Sequence Utilities and Statistics, Microarray Normalization and Visualization, Protein Structure Analysis The presentation introduces the MatLab, and presents several examples that demonstrate how to use the functions in the Bioinformatics toolbox.

Demonstration:
Evaluating Accessibility
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Technology
Presenters: Jason Morningstar

Related Material: Cheap, Free, and Cool Resources for Evaluating Accessibiltiy

Capital Ballroom G

This session will provide helpful tools and tips for performing a variety of accessibility evaluations, from casual once-over to formal review, focusing on electronic content. Topics will include developing procedures and templates, the use and abuse of automated tools, and strategies for systematizing accessibility review. Participants will take away helpful examples of evaluation instruments and practical advice on the surprisingly straightforward art of accessibility review.

Demonstration:
Incorporating Mathematics Software in the Economics Classroom: An Alternative Approach to Teaching the IS-LM Model
Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Presenters: Hal Snarr

Capital Ballroom E

Maple is a mathematics software package that is available on many college campuses. Maple’s interface is easy to use because students type equations in Maple exactly how they would on a TI-83 graphing calculator. The author of this paper describes how Maple can be used to teach undergraduate macroeconomic topics such as the ISLM model. Specifically, this article shows economics instructors how to build and graph the IS and LM curves using Maple in way that is both instructive and understandable to undergraduate macroeconomic students. This article is designed to assist students in understanding the effects of instruments of monetary policy under alternative market conditions. The Maple code contained in this paper is designed so that instructors or students can choose values of the model’s variables to alter market conditions and/or policies and view the results numerically and graphically. The economics education literature suggests that software is an effective learning tool because students have a more enjoyable and “hands on” learning experience than their counterparts in the more traditional economics classroom.

Roundtable discussion: UNC TLT Interest Group Meeting: e-Learning Pedagogy Topic: Effective Practice in Teaching and Learning with Technology Presenters: Laura Rogers, Jane Harris	Sandalwood Rm 7
This is a group meeting for those interested in pedagogy to facilitate e-learning.

Demonstration:
Innovative Teaching Strategies using Technology to Improve Classroom Instruction
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Christina Lengyel, Pamela Howe, Bob King

Capital Ballroom A-B

Hybrid courses use a combination of face-to-face and online instruction techniques to engage students and increase their learning opportunities. The purpose of this session is to illustrate creative uses of technology to enhance the learning environment for both instructors and students. Session participants will learn how to incorporate Internet-based technologies such as online discussion boards to enhance the teamwork experience in group projects, online quizzes to review material, and an online text-based environment (MOO) for synchronous online communication. This session will be delivered using MOO with two face-to-face presenters and one located in Canada. This delivery method will demonstrate the flexibility in presenting in an online environment.

Demonstration:
Visual Perception, Thinking, Communicating and Learning
Topic: Technology: Learning, Research and Emerging
Presenters: Mary Anna LaFratta

Related Material: Visual Perception, Thinking, Communicating and Learning

Capital Ballroom F

Multimedia Arts and Sciences (MMAS) majors enrolled in Advanced Interactive Design at the University of North Carolina at Asheville were assigned a service learning project working with two groups of students enrolled in local schools. Each group consisted of young students outside of the mainstream, fifth graders enrolled in the English as a Second Language Program at Emma Elementary School, and disabled high school students enrolled in the Progressive Education Program at TC Roberson High School. Unique characteristics of these students necessitated that emphasis be given to image-based communication. The learning objectives evolved from collaborations between teachers and students at each institution. Vision is a highly articulate medium and offers rich information about objects and events in the world. It is a primary medium of thought. Images are powerful, and complex phenomena. The MMAS students applied their understanding of visual communication and perception, design, and technical skills to developing creative interactive learning materials. Examples of student work and supporting material via a web site will be presented.