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NERCOMP EVENT
Student Collaboration: The Journey Continues
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The use of team projects and collaborative tools continues to grow. Continuing on last year’s efforts to present best practices for collaboration in higher education, this year’s event will focus on pedagogically grounded techniques, examples of curriculum enhancement and innovation, and perspectives of collaboration from the faculty and student point of view. In addition, a number of computer stations will be set up as a sandbox to allow attendees the opportunity to try out several applications on their own.
Note: A wiki will be set up prior to the event and will be available for comments throughout the event and after as a tool for brainstorming and intercampus collaboration. You are encouraged to bring your laptop computer. A limited number of laptops will be available to use during the hands on portion of the schedule if you are unable to bring one.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Enoch Park and David Gannon of Bryant University
Date/Time:
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Wesleyan University
Usdan University Center
Wyllys Avenue
Middletown, CT
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There is Visitors parking on Vine Street with walkways leading to Wyllys Ave where Usdan is located. There is also street parking on most surrounding streets - High Street, Court Street, Mt Vernon Street, Wahington Terrace...
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $112
Non-Members: $237
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 10:00am Enhancing Student Collaboration Through Web 2.0 Tools
Speakers:
David Gannon, Associate Director, Academic Computing & Media Services, Bryant University
Enoch Park, Instructional Support Specialist, Bryant University
This session will introduce various (both commercial and free) Web 2.0 solutions to enhance collaboration among students in online and blended learning environment. Depending on a simple analysis of the nature of the course activities, instructors can choose solutions including virtual meetings, video teleconferencing, file sharing and others. This session will also share examples of courses across discipline.
10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:15am Working Together with Wikis: Why, How, Wow!
Speakers:
Siobhan Ross, Coordinator, Instructional Technology Program, Providence College
Robert Hackey, Professor Health Policy and Management, Providence College
This presentation will highlight the variety of ways wikis are being used by students to create collaborative projects at Providence College, from a wiki walking tour of historic buildings both on- and off-campus created for an architectural history course to an online resource for the entire campus community researched and designed by non-major students in a biology course. The talk will include input from the faculty and students involved in the projects, as well as a discussion of how training and support is provided. A sandbox wiki will be available for participants for a hands-on experience.
11:15am - 12:15pm Fostering Collaboration: Student Projects, Work Teams, and Curricular Support
Speaker: Phillip Knutel, Executive Director of Academic Technology, the Library, and Online Learning, Bentley University
Bentley University has been utilizing collaborative technology for many years, including voice-over-IP for its hybrid online classes since 2000. It has 13 hybrid online classrooms with webcams, and its $17M library renovation features 19 collaborative study rooms with 42” LCDs, PCs, laptop connections, and an online/touchscreen reservation system. Library staff use wikis and blogs to solicit student input, and provide reference chat support as well as chat to address noise complaints throughout the building. Google docs/surveys are used in conjunction with Blackboard to foster faculty-student and student-student collaboration, and students in Dr. Knutel’s class review nascent online collaboration tools each semester and recommend an “ideal” tool. Staff overseeing online classes use Google docs to enable collaborative support of course administration and pedagogical “best practices”.
12:15pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Review of Microsoft’s Collaborative Tools
Speakers:
David Gannon, Associate Director, Academic Computing & Media Services, Bryant University
Enoch Park, Instructional Support Specialist, Bryant University
Over the course of several semesters, a number of business courses at Bryant University have made use of various Web 2.0 applications to facilitate online collaboration among student project team members. With a planned strategy of outsourcing student email to Microsoft’s Outlook Live, an effort was made to explore, introduce and make substantial use of the collaborative tools associated with Microsoft’s email offering - giving the students a "one stop" toolbox of applications for individual and team use.
2:00pm - 2:50pm Digital Sandbox / Hands On Demonstrations
An opportunity for attendees to try out the various tools discussed throughout the day.
2:50pm - 3:00pm Wrap-up, Reactions, Shared Experiences
3:00pm End
Speaker:
David Gannon
David Gannon is the Associate Director of Academic Computing and Media Services at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. In his current position, David oversees the student laptop program at Bryant and works with the Instructional Technology Specialist/Faculty Development Coordinator to maximize the utilization and effectiveness of technology in the classroom. He has been a member of the faculty at Bryant for over fourteen years, and has been involved in education for over eighteen.
Speaker:
Enoch Park
Enoch Park is an Instructional Support Specialist at Bryant University. He manages Blackboard as System Administrator, and consults faculty on using educational technology both on-campus and blended learning environment. His recent interests include web 2.0 collaboration, tablet PC and pen-based instruction and learning, on-demand video systems, computer assisted language learning (CALL), IP video conference, and multimedia contents management. Enoch has taught courses in Colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences.
Speaker:
Phillip Knutel
Phillip. Knutel is Executive Director of Academic Technology, the Library, and Online Learning at Bentley University, where he is also an assistant professor of information design and corporate communication. He recently oversaw a $17M library renovation that has increased gate count 470%. In his 9+ years at Bentley, he has worked extensively with faculty, students, and staff to design and build $40M in academic facilities that integrate collaborative and other technologies into teaching and learning. He holds a BS magna cum laude from Vanderbilt, an EdM from Harvard, and a PhD in higher education administration from Michigan.
Speaker:
Robert Hackey
Robert Hackey is professor of Health Policy & Management at Providence College and uses wikis extensively in several of his courses. Dr. Hackey has been awarded a number of teaching excellence awards, including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Rhode Island Professor of the Year and Providence College’s Joseph R. Accinno Excellence in Teaching Award. His principal research and teaching interests lie in the area of comparative state health care policy.
Speaker:
Siobhán Ross
Siobhán Ross is the coordinator of the Instructional Technology Development Program at Providence College, where she works with faculty on using technology both in and out of the classroom. She also has experience as an instructional technologist at Brown University and SUNY Stony Brook.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Inn at Middletown, for $123 per night.
To make reservations contact the Middletown Inn at 860-854-6300 or 1-800-637-9851 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block". The room block will be released on May 24, 2009.
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