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NERCOMP EVENT
Steal This Workshop! Faculty Development Workshops to Go!
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Want to ramp up your workshop offerings to faculty? Don't reinvent the wheel!
Attendees of this SIG will go home with access to lesson plans, scripts, handouts, slides, and exercises from colleagues at other institutions. Presenters will walk us through a streamlined version of their workshop and best practices for using their material. Workshops will focus on areas that translate well to many campuses; the menu includes web 2.0 tools, managing personal digital resources and using multimedia in teaching and learning.
But wait... there's more! The day includes an exploration of ways to improve assessment of faculty training or development programs.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Sarah Walkowiak and Karrie Peterson of Brandeis University
Date/Time:
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center
Third Floor - Ballroom
Worcester, MA
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Special instructions:
Parking is at the Hogan Campus Center
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $92
Non-Members: $217
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 & Coffee
9:00am - 9:10am Introduction and Welcome
Speakers:
Sarah Walkowiak, Research and Instruction Technology Specialist, Brandeis University
Karrie Peterson, Asst. Dir. for Research & Instruction, Brandeis University
9:10am - 9:40am Using Web 2.0 Tools to Build a Personal Learning Network
Speakers:
Stephanie Cheney, Director, Training & Development, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Ron Frattura, Instructional Designer, Training & Development, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Benefits of a Personal Learning Network are numerous and well documented. Anecdotally, those with a wide-ranging PLN say the wealth of information, resources, links, reflection, and contacts are rich. Implementing a couple of tools as part of your PLN will allow you to easily connect with people around the world, stay up to date in your field, and extend your thinking about current educational issues and trends. This session will highlight the benefits of a Personal Learning Network and demonstrate some of the most powerful (and simple) Web 2.0 tools for developing one.
9:45am - 10:15am Facebook Series - Introduction, Advanced, Privacy and Fan Pages
Speakers:
Mimi Royston, Associate Director of Information Technology, Assumption College
Stephanie McCaffrey, Assistant Director Campus Ministry, Assumption College
We ran a very successful Facebook workshop series. We did 4 classes in the series: Basic, Advanced, Privacy and Creating Fan Pages. Attendees were allowed to pick and choose the classes they wanted to attend. We will provide everyone the handouts for the classes, give a brief overview and go over our key notes (not in the handouts) for each class.
10:15am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 11:00am Windows Movie Maker: the Quick and the Free
Speaker: Paul Worster, Multi-Media Librarian, Morse Music & Media, Harvard University
WMM is a quick and intuitive entry-level program that will help you combine video, music, narration, and picture files into one playable movie file. That file can then be emailed, placed on a website, or loaded onto a DVD. Best of all for these times of budgetary cutbacks, it's free. This workshop will explain why you'd want to use a media authoring program, guide you through the three step WMM workflow, highlight a couple of the program's gotchas, and point you towards the ever expanding and free online support community for Windows Movie Maker.
11:05am - 12:00pm Using Free Online Resources Such as Flickr and YouTube to Generate Conversation, Create a Presentation or Make a Multimedia Mashup
Speaker: Susan Simon, Instructional Technology Specialist, Dartmouth College
Flickr is an amazing resource with a wide range of images that can be used in presentations, multimedia compositions, or an embedded slideshow placed on a blog or in a content management system. YouTube contains so much more than dancing babies and kitty Mozarts in the making! YouTube has an abundance of videos such as interviews with artists, politicians or commercials from long ago. This session will show you how to navigate through a few free online resources and discuss ways to engage students to be active participants in a class by posting images, media or creating multimedia mashups.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 1:30pm Assessing Educational Media Projects: An Introduction to Instructional Design and Learning Objectives
Speaker: Kate Vale, Director of Academic Technology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology, Harvard University
How do you know whether the time, money and effort spent on an educational technology project was worth it? In this seminar we'll look at simple ways of using the basics of instructional design to plan assessment of IT-related projects.
1:30pm - 2:50pm What do you Want to Know? The Assessment Game
Speakers:
Karrie Peterson, Asst. Dir. for Research & Instruction, Brandeis University
Sarah Walkowiak, Research and Instruction Technology Specialist, Brandeis University
Part of every faculty development program is assessing the quality of your training and the way your program meets campus needs. To do assessment well, it's important to frame your questions appropriately. The goal of this activity is to learn about developing good research questions for assessment in a fun and engaging atmosphere.
2:50pm - 3:00pm Wrap-up & Evaluations
Speaker:
Karrie Peterson
Karrie Peterson has been in academic libraries – large and small – since 1999, overseeing operations in government information, data services, GIS and instruction support at different times. At Brandeis, where librarians and instructional technologists are merged into the same service unit, Peterson leads the instructional support program which encompasses traditional library research, multimedia and communication skills, and technological fluencies.
Speaker:
Katie Vale
Dr. Katie Vale is Director of Academic Technology in the FAS IT organization at Harvard University. Previously she was Assistant Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at MIT. Katie has taught courses in educational technology and social media at both MIT and Boston University and is a member of Harvard’s Committee on Pedagogical Improvement.
Speaker:
Mimi Royston
Mimi Royston is the Associate Director of Information Technology at Assumption College. Ms. Royston is an experienced leader with a strong technical background, developed over the past 18 years. Her experience includes depth and breadth of IT management and operational experience in the following areas; networking, server, security, helpdesk, desktop support, training, web support and instructional technology. Mimi was the principal investigator of an NSF, HPNC grant which helped the College build access to Internet2. During this time she served on the board of the Goddard Collaborative working to help other schools and non-profits gain access to Internet2. She has presented at NERCOMP and ResNet conferences on numerous topics, often focused on how small schools can compete with services provided at large institutions. Mimi holds an M.B.A. from Assumption College. Outside of her professional life, Mimi serves on the board of Baby’s Breath, a non-profit focused on infants and toddlers whose families are in crisis and minimizing the long-term effects of attachment disorder. They have just opened Massachusetts’s first crisis nursery.
Speaker:
Paul Worster
Paul Worster is the Multimedia Librarian of Lamont Library, Harvard University's Undergraduate Library. In addition to teaching media authoring workshops, Paul also creates library screencast tutorials and generally evangelizes the use of digital media collections in interdisciplinary course work.
Speaker:
Ron Frattura
Ron Frattura is an Instructional Designer within Training and Development at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. He has over fifteen years of instructional design experience and previously worked at Monster.com as an Instructional Design Program Manager where he designed and developed online and classroom courses. Prior to Monster, Ron was at The Boston Globe as a Training Manager. He enjoys working with faculty to identify and implement technology to enhance teaching and learning; “Technology pushes the boundaries of teaching beyond the classroom providing a much richer learning experience.”
Speaker:
Sarah Walkowiak
Sarah Walkowiak is a Research and Instruction Technology Specialist at Brandeis University, where she works with faculty and students to integrate technology into teaching and learning, with a focus on new media and information literacies. Sarah teaches workshops on research and educational technology topics and is a multimedia lab instructor for the Journalism program.
Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Technical, Scientific & Professional Communication from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a Masters in Professional Communication from Clark University. She has presented at local and national conferences on instructional technology and faculty support topics.
Speaker:
Stephanie Cheney
Stephanie Cheney is the Director of Training and Development within the Division of Technology Services at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. The Training & Development team works with faculty to help them effectively integrate technology into curriculum to meet course goals. The unique 1-1 laptop initiative at Wentworth provides students and faculty with powerful tools to transform the educational experience.
Stephanie worked in K12 education for a number of years, partnering with teachers across New England to develop and implement technology-rich curricula. She has delivered engaging presentations at state, regional, and national conferences including Association of Supervision and Curriculum National Conference and the National Educational Computing Conference. Stephanie was named an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2005 for innovative work with iPods in the language learning process.
Speaker:
Stephanie McCaffrey
Stephanie McCaffrey is Assistant Director of Campus Ministry at Assumption College, having received her Master of Divinity degree at Weston Jesuit School of Theology (now Boston College School of Theology and Ministry) in 2000. Stephanie joined Facebook in March 2005 as a way to minister electronically with the Assumption College student body. She has used it over the years to reach out to students, to create a fan page and several groups associated with Campus Ministry, to stay connected to alumni, and to post photos from a variety of Campus Ministry programs. Stephanie has enjoyed the opportunity to teach others about the positive ways in which Facebook can be used by professionals serving in college and university settings.
Speaker:
Susan Simon
Susan Simon is part of the curricular computing team at Dartmouth College, where she works with faculty, students and librarians to encourage the incorporation of multimedia assignments across the curriculum. She assists faculty with the design of each assignment for the specific course and teaches workshops on the processes involved. In addition to training students on production and editing skills, Susan guides them as they conceptualize their media compositions. She is also a senior collaborator supporting RWIT, Dartmouth’s student peer tutoring center. Prior to her current position Susan worked in the graphic design department at Savannah College of Art and Design and spent several summers as an instructor and teaching assistant at the International Film and Television Workshops in Rockport, ME.
Related Media Files:
Personal_Learning_NetworkWIT.pdf
PLNTraining_OutlineWIT.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Comfort Inn, 426 Southbridge Street in Auburn, MA.
Please state that you are with NERCOMP and you will receive the reduced rate of $85, includes continental breakfast & internet access.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-508-832-8300
The room block will be held until November 20, 2009.
Technical Requirements:
Speaker material posted at:
http://sites.google.com/site/stealthisworkshop/
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