Educause Conferences 2001-2005 (to view the abstract, please click on the link)
Aligning IT Planning with New Literacies for New Learners
As learners face the growing glut of information, they require new literacies to prepare them for academic success. Higher education IT services must be revised to better articulate these literacies. Seminar participants will gain hands-on knowledge on how to address the new literacies and incorporate them into their strategic planning.
Corralling Educational Content: From Learning Objects to Knowledge Networks
Knowledge networking represents an innovative way to organize and manage educational content so that it can be seamlessly integrated into and accessed from within e-learning environments. Participants will learn how to build a knowledge management strategy for developing an end-to-end solution to manage, organize, preserve, share, evaluate, and ultimately transform educational content.
Faces and Facets of Knowledge Management: Learning Objects to Knowledge Networks
Knowledge management represents an innovative way of organizing educational content so that it can be seamlessly integrated into e-learning environments. Seminar participants will learn how to mine an institution's knowledge for the purpose of molding it into reusable learning objects that can be managed, stored, preserved, accessed, shared, and evaluated.
The Promise and Pitfalls of Learning Objects: From Metatag to Module
The future of online learning promises a new and innovative way to create courses with objects gleaned from various digital repositories. This seminar will introduce participants to key issues and to the organizations working on learning object development. It will also provide a collaborative experience for metatagging, accessing, sharing, and evaluating online educational content.
The Promise and Pitfalls of Learning Objects: Status of Digital Resource
Collections
One of the many promises of the future of online learning is a new and intelligent way of creating courses with learning objects or modules that are gleaned from various digital repositories. Whether you are an administrator, IT professional, or faculty member, this innovative and informative preconference seminar will provide you with collaborative, hands-on experience (using wireless laptops) for accessing and sharing knowledge and educational content.
with Susan Metros
2001, Indianapolis, IN, October
EdMedia 2002 and 2004
Corralling Educational Content: From Learning Objects to Knowledge Networks
Knowledge networking represents an innovative way to organize and manage educational content so that it can be seamlessly integrated into and accessed from within e-learning environments. Participants will learn how to build a knowledge management strategy for developing an end-to-end solution to manage, organize, preserve, share, evaluate, and ultimately transform educational content.
with Susan Metros
2004, Lugano, Switzerland June
Designing a Collaborative Activity for Deeper Learning
with Patricia McGee
Wireless Instructional Strategies in the Humanities
with Julie Little, Shane Colter, and Michael Burke
2002 Denver, CO, June
Syllabus 2005
Knowledge Management: Leverage your current CMS into a Next Generation Model
Course management systems (CMS) are both the bane and the promise of universities challenged with controlling costs and providing effective and efficient tools to instructors and students. And yet, CMS still don't quite meet the administrative, instructional, or knowledge management needs of users. This session will help participants analyze their current usage, identify the must-have features of next generation CMS, and introduce the variety of plug-ins and add-ons that can expand CMS functionality.
with Patricia McGee
Los Angeles, CA July 2005
NLII
"The Promise and Pitfalls of Learning Objects: Status of Digital Resource
Collections"
with S. Metros
Featured Session at NLII Annual Meeting,
San Diego, CA, January 2002
Planning team for Fall Focus Session on Learning Objects, hosted at OSU, October
10, 2003
MTSU Technology Conference
The Art of Designing Collaborative Activities
This workshop will give participants direct experience in designing effective collaborative activities. Collaborative activities in a networked world re-define the roles of instructor and learner. Well-designed activities bring out the best of an instructor's skills in designing the learning experience and challenge students to assume increased responsibility for their learning. First, we will provide an overview of key issues in collaborative learning. Next, participants will engage in a structured learning activity in triads and then, using that experience, they will work in teams of two to design an activity within their discipline.
Quality Writing and Critical Thinking: Using Email and Discussion Forums to Enhance Student Learning
Mid-South Instructional
Technology Conference
2001 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, April
MERLOT
Co-presented Faculty Development Showcase
The goal of this session will be to demonstrate the components of an effective faculty workshop. Faculty talent can be drawn into the community of MERLOT contributors through several paths. This workshop will present activities that can be adapted to create MERLOT workshops on your campus. First, we will explore effective search strategies with the goal of enriching a course from the multimedia repository. Next, we will move to creating those resources. Powerful teaching lessons of all types are already embedded in many courses. We will discuss how to mine existing courses for their submission potential. The hands-on workshop mode will give participants a chance to practice these skills and then discuss the challenges involved in creating effective workshops. Participants will leave with handouts, model activities, and a glossary of terms.