Conference Schedule
| Thursday, April 3 | |||
| Session Title | Presenter | Affiliation | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | |||
| Breakfast & Registration | Please arrive early | 8:00-9:00 | |
| Welcome and Introduction to Keynote Speaker | Dr. Mark Workman, Dean |
UALR Extended Programs | 9:00-9:10 |
| Keynote | |||
| Collaborative Learning & Exemplary Courses | Connie Weber, Senior Manager, Blackboard Training | Blackboard | 9:10-9:50 |
| Description See how the Blackboard Exemplary Course rubric can help schools measure interaction and collaboration, increasing student retention and making a more effective course design. | |||
| Concurrent Sessions 1 & 2 | |||
| Assessing a Testing Lab: Pass or Fail | Angela Sivia, Carl Walker, Paula Kirby |
Harding University | 10:00-10:50 |
| Description Participants will learn about how Harding University’s online Testing Lab environment went from a Failing to a Passing grade. | |||
| Copyright Law and the TEACH Act | Chris Corbitt, Attorney |
Corbitt Law Firm | 10:00-10:50 |
| Description A discussion of copyright law and the TEACH Act, with an emphasis on the special rights and limitations that apply to online teaching. | |||
| Break 10:50-11:00 | |||
| Concurrent Sessions 3, 4 & 5 | |||
| Assessing Learning Discussions and Student Projects During the First Week of Class | Lida Criner, Adjunct Instructor |
Southern Arkansas University Tech | 11:00-11:50 |
| Description Learn how to use Discussions and Student Projects to help students and teachers assess course content readiness as well as learner strengths and weaknesses in their first week, adding to student retention. | |||
| Audio, Video, and Graphics the Easy Way | Kimberly Morton, Director of Informatics, & Crystal Hunnicutt, Research Education Manager |
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing | 11:00-11:50 |
| Description A demonstration of 5 inexpensive and easy-to-use software programs that will help faculty and technology personnel learn new ways to add content driven pizazz to standard on-line courses. | |||
| Accessibility Round Table | Mark Burris, Director of STaR, & Mickey Kamer |
UALR | 11:00-11:50 |
| Lunch | |||
| Lunch | 12:00-2:00 | ||
| Best Practices & How to Form a Blackboard Users Group | Jan Day, Senior Director of Blackboard Client Success | Blackboard | 12:30-1:00 |
| Lead Participants Discussion on Forming Users Groups | Mark Burris, Director of STaR | UALR | 1:00-2:00 |
| Concurrent Sessions 6, 7, & 8 | |||
| Reaching Beyond with Cross Listing | Tim Westbrook, Associate Director |
Institute for Church & Family/Harding University | 2:10-3:00 |
| Description This presentation will demonstrate how cross-listing multiple sections of courses from Harding University’s campuses in Australia, Italy, Greece, England, Scotland, and the US can create a global community of learning through online instruction. | |||
| Web Directed Learning: Self-Directed Learning & Web-Based Education | Drs. Gary Szirony, Tresvil Pack & Carrie Boden |
UALR | 2:10-3:00 |
| Description Web-Directed Learning offers an open learning style with almost limitless resources & supports multiple learning modalities. This open presentation offers theory & real tools & techniques for better DE curriculum. | |||
| Blackboard Connect | Jack Sharon, Manager, Technical Solutions Engineering | Blackboard | 2:10-3:00 |
| Description Improving retention and increasing student involvement are key institutional objectives. How can technology help drive these objectives through timely and effective campus communication? Join us for a discussion about Connect-ED - the newest offering in the Blackboard product family - and how this solution can help drive your campus communications strategy. | |||
| Break 3:00-3:10 | |||
| Concurrent Sessions 9, 10 & 11 | |||
| Implementing Blackboard Snapshot AKA: The Good, the Bad, and the Errors | Terry Patterson, Director of DL, & Chris Sullivant, Database Administrator |
South Arkansas Community College | 3:10-4:00 |
| Description The presentation illustrates how SACC has implemented Blackboard Snapshot to update student info, as well as the plan to have the procedure live by Spring 2008. | |||
| Learning Upside Down: Using CE6 Assessments and Grading Form Tools | Mark Burris, Director of STaR |
UALR | 3:10-4:00 |
| Description Longing for quality discussion postings and collaborative learning that can be easily graded? Use CE6’s Assessment tool to prepare students for collaborative learning! | |||
| Making Class Time Available All the Time with Tegrity Class Capture | Bryan Arvison, Regional Director |
Tegrity, Inc. | 3:10-4:00 |
| Description An overview and demonstration of Tegrity class capture capabilities and examples from institutions that are reporting Tegrity’s impact on improving student grades and satisfaction, as well as increasing retention rates. | |||
| Wimba Social Hour | |||
| Wimba Social at Rumba Restaurant | Click here for Google Map | 4:00-8:00 | |
| Clinton Library Tour | Click here for Google Map | 4:30-6:30 | |
| Friday, April 4 | |||
| Breakfast | |||
| Breakfast | 8:00-9:00 | ||
| Workshops & Sessions 12 | |||
| Hands-on Workshop: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, Hands-On Session(Limit 33 Attendees) | Crystal Hunnicutt, Research Education Manager |
UAMS | 8:30-10:30 |
| Description This easy to follow workshop will begin by familiarizing participants with each tool available in Adobe Photoshop Elements (Version 6) software program and using these tools to perform a specific tasks. | |||
| Hands-on Workshop: Windows Movie Maker | Merritt, ABUC 2008 Team |
UALR | 8:30-10:30 |
| Description Learn how to add a video intro to your online course. | |||
| Student Perceptions of Distance Learning in a Streaming Video Environment | Drs. Gary Szirony, Tresvil Pack, William E. Garner & Gerry Murray |
UALR | 9:00-9:50 |
| Description An online survey designed to examine graduate students’ attitudes toward online DE at UALR. Other issues are discussed along with a description of the unique videostreamed format in Blackboard and the online survey design. | |||
| Break 10:00-10:30 | |||
| Concurrent Sessions 13, 14 & 15 | |||
| TeachByDesign | Linda Digby McFarland, Adjunct Instructor |
University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Ouachita Technical College | 10:30-11:30 |
| Description Prof. McFarland shares her process for designing her writing course and discusses how educators can make the most of the rhetorical canonic design. | |||
| Collaborative e-Learning Environment Using Wimba | Nancy Taylor, Regional Sales Manager, & Mark Burris, Director of STaR |
Wimba & UALR | 10:30-11:30 |
| Description This hands-on presentation demonstrates how Wimba’s collaborative product suite can allow any faculty to easily create a complete and engaging teaching and learning environment by adding numerous interactive elements to their online courses. | |||
| Teaching Graduate Research/Statistics Online / Comparing with Face-to-Face Courses | Carolyn Turturro, Assistant Professor |
UALR | 10:30-11:30 |
| Description Learn an innovative approach to student assessment using small group discussions, online quizzes and journal articles. | |||
| Lunch and Closing Session | |||
| Lunch | 11:40-12:45 | ||
| Blackboard Roadmap: Where We’re Heading | Jack Sharon, Manager, Technical Solutions Engineering | Blackboard | 12:00-12:45 |
| Door Prizes | |||
| Adjournment | |||