NERCOMP EVENT
Teaching and Learning with Mobile Technologies
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As wireless networks expand and mobile devices such as PDAs, laptops, tablets, cell phones, and portable media players become more common, how do they impact the teaching and learning environment on our campuses? Can we leverage these technologies to enhance teaching and learning? What have been the results when mobile technologies have been used? At this session you’ll get an overview of the mobile learning landscape and learn about projects at several institutions where mobile technology is being used in teaching and learning.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Amy Ricci of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date/Time:
Friday, January 25, 2008
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center
14 Mechanic St.
Southbridge, MA
Special instructions:
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $105
Non-Members: $205
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am - 10:00am Mobile Learning: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
Speaker: Judy Brown, Strategic Advisor, Emerging Educational Technologies
This presentation covers the status of the mobile industry and how mobile devices relate to learning. Several examples of mobile learning applications will be provided, along with some hardware trends, a discussion of things to consider when starting a mobile learning project, and recommendations.
10:00am - 10:45am Student Use of PDAs at the UConn Health Center School of Medicine
Speakers:
Evelyn Morgen, Library Director, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, University of Connecticut Health Center
Benjamin Smith, Academic Computing Specialist II, University of Connecticut Health Center
Second and third year students at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) School of Medicine are required to use PDAs during their clinical rotations to find answers about issues such as possible drug interactions or best practices in patient care. Students also keep track of patient encounters on their PDAs using a Student Experience Log created by the IT Dept at UCHC. The library staff has played a key role in recommending PDA models, teaching students how to use them, and purchasing the databases needed to provide content. Begun in 2001, PDA use continues to grow. This presentation will describe the steps taken by the library staff to help support PDAs and provide content for students.
10:45am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm Expanding the Benefits of Mobile Studio Classrooms
Speaker: Don Lewis Millard, Ph.D., Director, Academy of Electronic Media, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Today’s students are adept at using web browsers, search engines, instant/text messaging, and multi-user on-line environments to access diverse content at will. Although extremely computer literate, today’s engineering students don’t enter college with the same level of hands-on “tinkering” with hardware that prior generations exhibited. As a result, students have less “gut intuition” than prior generations possessed when entering the job market. This presentation will describe and demonstrate how Rensselaer is developing and using educational technologies to eliminate the boundaries between theory provided in a lecture and practice; apply concepts in directed problem sessions; and enable/encourage our students' "hands-on" exploration of engineering principles, devices, and systems that have historically been restricted to specific laboratory facilities. Recently developed software and hardware – the Mobile Studio I/O board provides similar functionality to the laboratory equipment that is currently associated with a fully instrumented studio classroom.
We will discuss how Rensselaer’s Mobile Studio Concept for technology enhanced education is beginning to: 1) change the role of instructors, 2) increase interactivity in the classroom and 3) improve student learning. We will show how technology can be used to help students understand engineering concepts while having fun and explain how students can guide themselves through materials at their own pace and level. Results from the past year’s utilization of the Mobile Studio pedagogy in RPI’s Circuits and Electronic Instrumentation classes will be presented along a demonstration of how it is used to enhance the scaffolding of concepts. It will conclude with a view of a how an electric guitar can be used to help students understand basic electrical engineering and physics materials.
The Mobile Studio I/O Board includes a dual trace oscilloscope, two function generators, a multimeter and DC power supplies that can be provided to each and every student. With the advent of this personal laboratory, many hardware intensive course offerings can be held in normal classrooms rather than in specially equipped facilities. In addition, students can perform hands-on experiments outside of the classroom anywhere/ anytime (e.g. their dorm room), thus facilitating new opportunities for them to “tinker” and gain valuable insight through practical experience.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm iPods at Middlebury College
Speaker: Alex Chapin, Principal Curricular Technologist, Middlebury College
iPods introduce radically new ways to produce, organize, deliver and use media, be it text, images, audio and/or video or, more often than not, multimodal. Middlebury College has been formatting more and more of its media resources for delivery to iPods, particularly audio and video resources for language learning. As well, mobile media devices are being used at Middlebury to capture audio for upload to course and community web sites.
2:00pm - 3:00pm Extending Campus Resources to the Mobile Device
Speakers:
James Trella, Director of IT Project Management, Quinnipiac University
Janice Swiatek-Kelley, Associate Director Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University
Quinnipiac University is developing a program to extend its campus resources to the mobile device. The program provides students with innovative campus communication, community building, and academic tools on Windows mobile devices. We offer students Windows mobile devices (smart phones and Pocket PCs) pre-loaded with applications that enrich the lives of those within the program. The devices are also fully functional mobile phones complete with voice calling, multi-media messaging and access to the Internet. Some devices are preloaded for the Physician Assistant Program with applications to be used in both clinical and classroom settings (e.g. Merck Manual, Tarascon, InfoRetriever, E*Value Clinical Suite).
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Judy Brown
Judy Brown is an Education Technology Consultant who recently retired as the Emerging Technology Analyst in the Office of Learning and Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin System Administration. From 2000 to 2006 she was the Founder and Director of the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab in partnership with the Department of Defense; conducted research on new computer directions and related technologies for the UW system, focused on partnerships for improving learning with corporate, government, and educational institutions as the Academic ADLN Co-Lab in Madison, WI; and represented UWSA on instructional technology initiatives including The Masie Center e-Learning Consortium. She continues to work with Elliot Masie and the Learning Consortium as a Masie Fellow and to work with ADL. She serves on the Army’s Distance Learning Training Technology Subcommittee. Judy also helps coordinate the eWEEK Corporate Partner Program and writes freelance technology columns. Judy was named one of the Top 100 women in computing by McGraw Hill’s Open Computing magazine (December 1994) and wrote a business technology column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 1994 through 2000.
Speaker:
Alex Chapin
Alex Chapin is a Curricular Technologist at the Middlebury College. He has been directing the development of a number of open source curricular systems including the Segue Collaborative Knowledge System; Concerto, a digital assets management system; and Harmoni, a service-oriented framework for curricular applications based on Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I) standards for systems interoperability. He has received a grant from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) that supports some of this work. Alex has a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and an M.A. in History of Religions from the University of Virginia. He has a keen interest in Tibetan Buddhism, is a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee (which translates Tibetan texts), and is the multimedia designer of "Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues," a CD-ROM for learning Tibetan. As well, he is the author of the iSpeak phrasebook series.
Speaker:
Don Millard
Don Millard directs the Academy of Electronic Media, which specializes in the development and use of engaging interactive electronic media. During his many years at Rensselaer (since 1981), he has served as a faculty member of the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department and held several administrative roles at Rensselaer; including five years as the director of the Center for Integrated Electronics during which time he founded the Academy. He has been actively involved in the development of multimedia authoring tools and the integration of digital media for nearly 20 years and has produced a variety of electronic multimedia-based presentations involving the use of video, music, and interactivity. The author of numerous technical papers, presentations, and book contributions, he has received such distinguished awards as the 2003 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, and the Best Paper Award of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) International Electronic Manufacturing Technology Symposium. Dr. Millard serves as a principal investigator on a number of NSF grants; currently directing CCLI projects that develop materials and technologies for use in engineering education.
Speaker:
Evelyn Morgen
Evelyn Morgen, MLS is the Director of the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at UConn Health Center (UCHC). She joined UCHC in November 2001 and helped plan and implement a Faculty PDA Champion Program, and a Student PDA Champion Program for the UCHC School of Medicine. PDAs are now required of all second and third year medical students at UCHC. She has taught several CE classes to librarians about supporting PDAs, participated in a NERCOMP workshop in January 2003, and exhibited the PDA Champion Program with the UCHC Family Residency Program faculty at the AAMC meeting in 2004. She helped the library staff create a PDA web page http://library.uchc.edu/pda/.
Speaker:
Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Smith is the lead Academic Computing Specialist at the Computer Education Center (CEC), a department within the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at UConn Health Center (UCHC). He joined UCHC in 2004 and has provided technical support of PDAs to all students. In addition, he and CEC staff have tested and recommended PDA models for purchase by students, and created detailed instructions for downloading databases that are posted on the CEC website: http://library.uchc.edu/departm/cec/. He and the CEC staff provide front line support when students first begin using PDAs. Ben and a UCHC librarian taught a CE class about PDA use in New Jersey this past fall.
Speaker:
Janice Swiatek-Kelley
Janice Swiatek-Kelley holds a Masters in Library Science and is currently working on her dissertation in Information Science at Nova Southeastern University. She has worked in health sciences information for over 15 years in for-profit, non-profit, and university settings. Currently she is the Associate Director for the Arnold Bernhard Library at Quinnipiac University where she is working to enhance information services to the health sciences program.
Speaker:
James Trella
James Trella is Director of IT Project Management at Quinnipiac University. Born and raised in Connecticut, he has interests in boating, computing, golfing, networking, reading, skiing, and traveling. Jim earned a BS in Geography from Southern Connecticut State College in 1981 and an MS degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of New Haven 1985. He has been gainfully employed in the computer field since 1985, acquiring and maintaining director status since 1994. His responsibilities have included the overall managerial direction, operation, and support of IT Services.
Related Media Files:
http://64.3.162.168/media/QU-Mobile-JimNercomp012508.ppt
http://64.3.162.168/media/NERCOMP-1-25-08.ppt
http://64.3.162.168/media/pdaNerJan08.HANDOUTS.ppt
http://64.3.162.168/media/pda2008.pdf
http://64.3.162.168/media/PDA Recommendations Checklist.doc
http://64.3.162.168/media/pdaRes.doc
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Please call the Southbridge Hotel directly at 508.765.8000. The room rate is $119.
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