Spring breakout schedule 2015
Monday, May 18
Session 1
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Student metacognition: do students know what they know?
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
In this session, research findings concerning student metacognition will be examined, This will be followed by a discussion of alternative strategies that may be used to help students improve their metacognition.
Session 2
Time: 9:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Blackboard Learn Open Sessions
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Doug Hemphill, Kathi Dutton, and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 206
This workshop is an open session where we will work individually with you to prepare your course(s) for the Summer and Fall 2015 semesters.
Session 3
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Calibrated peer review
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
This workshop will examine the calibrated peer review software that SUNY-Oswego is evaluating this year. An overview of the calibrated peer review process will be presented. A discussion of lessons learned from last semester's use and a discussion of student reactions (from a survey of over 300 students) will also be provided.
Session 4
Time: 10:30 - noon
Session Title: Blackboard Learn WS 1 - Introduction to Bb Learn and Content Creation
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Doug Hemphill, Kathi Dutton, and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 206
This workshop provides an introduction to the content tools available in the Blackboard Learn learning management system. This hands-on workshop will focus on how to create various types of content in online/hybrid/web-enhanced courses. Participants will learn how to upload/create a course syllabus, add various types of information/files, link to content and internet-based resources.
Session 5
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Creating a calibrated peer review assignment
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
This session is a hands-on session in which faculty considering the use of the calibrated peer review system for the spring 2015 semester will create one or more peer-reviewed assignments. This requires that participants have an instructor account on the calibrated peer review server. If you do not yet have an account, please register for the workshop at least 2-3 days before the workshop so that an account can be created.
Session 6
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Putting mobile devices to work: Notetaking
Presenters: Lisa Langlois
Room: CC 202
This workshop will examine how mobile devices may be used for effective notetaking. Techniques for encouraging effective notetaking by students will be discussed as wello as a variety of collaborative tools that can be used for shared notetaking.
Session 7
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Migration to Blackboard - pilot faculty panel
Presenters: Kat Blake, Theo Rhodes, Kevin White, and ?
Room: CC 206
In this session, faculty that participated in the pilot stage of the transition from ANGEL to Blackboard Learn will discuss their experiences intransitioning their courses.
Session 8
Time: 2:00 - 3:20
Session Title: Advisement Bootcamp: Basic Training
Presenter: Julie Pretzat Merchant
Room: CC 206
This workshop will discuss advisement tools including: DegreeWorks, undergraduate catalog, GPA calculations, General Education requirements, MyOswego, forms, and transfer issues.
Session 9
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Using Students' Devices for Informal Course Assessments: Mobile Apps That Work
Presenter: Kathleen Gradel, SUNY-Fredonia
Room: CC 208
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, easily graded or non-graded activities that serve as formative "barometers" for instructors and learners. They are not new, but current web-based tools help make CATS more efficient in coursework; they are equally applicable for professional development. This session will feature examples of functional mobile tools in action, as well as guiding you to resources for scaling up your own practice. (We know that the academic year is nearly over...wouldn't this be a good time to think about next term?). This is the 9th of 9 webinars in a series sponsored by the FACT2 Mobile Technology Task Group, in collaboration with CPD. You may watch it on your own computer by registering in advance here.
Session 10
Time: 2:00 - 3:20
Session Title: Scholarship as a Conversation--Come Join the Conversation: Roundtable on Information Literacy
Presenters: Jim Nichols, Karen Shockey, Michelle Bishop, Ray Morrison, and Brandon West
Room: CC 210
What does mastery of research and scholarship look like in your discipline? What guidance on the use of information sources can we offer to our students as they progress toward graduation and careers?
The Library Faculty are revising our "Information Literacy Learning Outcomes for SUNY Oswego Undergraduates" in order to bring the matrix up-to-date and to make the learning of information literacy more engaging and challenging for our students. This roundtable conversation will be a chance for you to review and contribute to a draft of learning goals for the practice of scholarly and professional communication.
Session 11
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Effective Online discussions
Presenters: Susan Skripac Camp (Skype?), Paul Tomascak
Room: CC 208
An open conversation on ways instructors can engender and guide active and effective discussion in online courses from any discipline. Useful for people considering teaching online courses as well as those interested in closing the interaction gap in existing online courses.
Session 12
Time: 3:30 - 3:50
Session Title: Mobile devices in the classroom - should they be encouraged or banned?
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC210
Some faculty prohibit mobile technology in the classroom while others require their use This session will begin with an overview of research on this topic and will then turn to a focus on how mobile technology may be productively used.
Tuesday, May 19
Session 13
Time: 9:00 - 9:20
Session Title: Detecting and Reporting Spam and Phishing Scams with LakerApps Gmail
Presenter: Nicholas Ross
Room: CC 202
Raise your information security awareness by learning the differences between spam and phishing scams. As we review examples of each, you will become an expert at detecting them. But, that's not enough. We'll show you how to take the next step and help all Gmail users by correctly reporting them to Google.
Session 14
Time: 9:00 - 9:20
Session Title: Mobile devices untethered: Apple TV in the classroom
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
In this session, participants will examine how an inexpensive Apple TV (current price = $69) may be used to provide wireless projection over a Bluetooth connection from recent model iPads, iPhones, iPods, or Macbooks. This allows students and instructors to present materials from any app or website to the class from anywhere in the room without being tethered to the projector. Control can be simply and quickly switched from one device to another. Participants in the session will be encouraged to try projecting from their devices to the projector during the session. Wireless projection over bluetooth requires a 3rd generation (or later) Apple TV, an iPad, iPhone, or iPod running iOS 8 (or a Macbook).
Session 15
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Using LakerApps Calendar Invitations To Productively Schedule Meetings
Presenters: Nicholas Ross and Nicholas Sperduti
Room: CC 202
Is your typical way of scheduling a meeting emailing participants and asking for their availability? Learn how to use LakerApps Calendar to view participants' schedules and efficiently schedule a meeting without having to ask for their availability. Then send them an email invitation with the click of a button.
Session 16
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Google Classroom
Presenters: Kevin White and Doug Pippin
Room: CC 206
Google Classroom provides a simple alternative to Blackboard Learn in which multimedia materials are shared and all work is submitted through Google Apps. Kevin White and Doug Pippin will demonstrate the use of Google Classroom and share their experiences in using this tool in their classes.
Session 17
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Putting student mobile devices to work: free classroom response tools
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
This hands-on workshop will examine how Socrative and PollEverywhere may be used to provide increased student engagement, more learning, and more immediate feedback on learning. Both Socrative and PollEverwhere allow you to conduct multiple choice, true-false, or free-response polls in which students submit responses from their smartphones, tablets, or laptops. (PollEverywhere also allows students to submit responses by text message). Students rarely come to class without a mobile device. Let's let them use them productively.
Session 18
Time: 10:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Tips and Tricks with Gmail's New Compose Feature
Presenter: Andy Goldzweig
Room: CC 202
This session will give some tips and tricks with using the Gmail Compose feature. We will review some drag and drop features with email recipients and attachments, keeping sane with formatting especially when copying and pasting into your message, attaching Google Drive documents, sending calendar invites and working with inline images.
Session 19
Time: 10:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Putting student mobile devices to work: Backchannels
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
Backchannels are real-time online communications that occurs in conjunction with a group activity such as a class presentation or discussion, guest speaker, or performance. A wide variety of mobile and web-based apps may be used for private or public backchannels. Among these are; twitter, socrative, poll everywhere, todaysmeet, and padlet. These tools can give every student a voice in a discussion. This session will focus on a discussion of how these tools can enrich class activities and keep the discussion going beyond the classroom.
Session 20
Time: 10:30 - 10:50
Session Title: CLEP Testing Information Session
Presenter: Sarah Wehrle, Division of Extended Learning, Academic Planning Coordinator and Testing Coordinator
Room: CC 208
A presentation of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) Tests offered through SUNY Oswego and the upcoming summer testing dates. The benefits of CLEP testing for students will be discussed in hopes to raise more awareness of CLEP as an option.
Session 21
Time: 10:30 - 10:50
Session Title: Putting student mobile devices to work: digital story telling
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
Smartphones and tablets provide simple and powerful tools that allow students to create digital stories that include images, videos, sound, text, and narration. In this session, we will examine free (or inexpensive) digital storytelling tools available that run on mobile devices or on the web.
Session 22
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: eText Pilot Initiative
Presenters: Marilyn Ochoa, Library, Dan Laird & Sean Moriarty, CTS
Room: CC 206
SUNY Oswego is looking to integrate more digital materials into the learning curriculum. Join members of the etext initiative to discuss the advantages of etexts and the plan for a pilot in the 2015-16 year.
Session 23
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Blackboard Learn Migration: Project Update
Presenters: Kathi Dutton and Greg Ketcham
Room: CC 208
In this session, we will discuss the migration to Blackboard Learn. We will explain why we are transitioning and discuss the timeline for moving classes to Blackboard.
Session 24
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Putting student mobile devices to work: Collaborative work in the cloud
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
This session will focus on how Google drive, docs, sheets, slides, and hangouts can facilitate collaborative work and presentations by students from laptops and mobile devices. Participants are encouraged to bring a smartphone, laptop, or tablet to this session to engage in a brief collaborative work session.
Session 25
Time: 11:30 - 11:50
Session Title: The Digital Campus - technology for an enhanced Tomorrow
Presenters: Kelly Roe & Sean Moriarty, co-chairs of SUNY Oswego's IT Strategic Planning Committee
Room: CC 208
Based on the introduction of the College's recently released Tomorrow - Greater Impact and Success strategic plan, Campus Technology Advisory Board and the Provost are sponsoring the creation of the next campus IT strategic plan.
Come and have input on what your view of a digitally enhanced campus would look like and in how we will create that campus here at Oswego.
Session 26
Time: 11:30 - 11:50
Session Title: Putting student mobile devices to work: VoiceThread
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
This workshop will examine how Voice Thread may be used to create interactive multimedia online discussions.
Session 27
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Easily Create and Give Presentations From Anywhere with Google Drive Presentations
Presenters: Nicholas Sperduti and Nicholas Ross
Room: CC 202
In this session, you will create a presentation similar to PowerPoint using the Presentation application in Google Drive. See how to easily create slides, insert images, add animations and transitions. Work on it from anywhere, share it with others that need to work or comment on it, review the changes they have made and if necessary revert to an earlier revision. When you are ready for the actual presentation, present it over the Internet, download it as a PowerPoint and/or publish it to the Web.
Session 28
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Learning Adobe CC with Lynda.com
Presenter: Kelly Roe
Room: CC 206
This session focuses on how the campus's subscription to Lynda.com can assist you in learning how to use the very rich collection of tools available in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of multimedia editing tools that are now available on campus.
Session 29
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Streaming live video from mobile devices
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 208
In the last year, several new apps have been released that allow users to stream live video directly to other users: Meerkat (iOS), Periscope (iOS), Hang w/ (iOS and Android), and Stringwire (iOS and Android). These join older apps such as Ustream, livestream, and justin.tv. In this session, we will discuss educational uses of live video streaming, compare the features of these apps, and demonstrate the use of Periscope.
Session 30
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Session Title: Reading Your Email More Efficiently with LakerApps Gmail
Presenter: Andy Goldzweig
Room: CC 202
Are you reading email in the classic style where all your messages are clumped all together including ones you don't really care about? Do you wish there was a way to dedicate your valuable time to the most important messages first? This workshop will teach you how to use Gmail's inbox styles and importance tags to separate out your most important messages.
Session 31
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Session Title: Editing PDF documents on a tablet computer
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 208
In this workshop, participants will examine how PDF Expert on an iPad or iAnnotate on an Android tablet may be used to annotate and comment on Word or PDF files. A brief examination of Skitch, a more limited free annotation/mark up tool, will also be provided.
Session 32
Time: 2:00 - 3:20
Session Title: Advisement Bootcamp: Advanced training
Presenter: Julie Pretzat Merchant
Room: CC 206
This workshop will focus on advising students in academic trouble, transfer equivalencies, campus resources for students, and case studies.
Session 33
Time: 2:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Flipping the Classroom
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 208
This session will provide an introductory discussion of possibilities for "flipping the classroom." Under this approach, low-level tasks and assignments are completed by students outside of class and class time is devoted to individual and/or group work on higher cognitive level tasks. This approach might use such tools as just-in-time teaching and team-based learning.
Session 34
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Team-based learning
Presenter: Kristen Munger
Room: CC 210
This presentation will feature a discussion of team-based teaching and learning strategies based on methods proposed by Dr. Eric Mazur. Dr. Mazur has served as a teaching consultant over the past year to a group of SUNY Oswego faculty members. The strategies to be discussed will include the use of peer-based instructional and learning strategies that were applied in two classes in different ways. In one class, the instructor facilitated team-based learning within the context of quizzes on course readings. Students' responses to quiz items were submitted through the use of "scratch off" cards - similar to scratch off lottery cards. At the beginning of each class, small groups of students took a five item quiz in which they were required to discuss possible correct responses. When members of a group reached consensus on a response, they scratched off an answer and received immediate feedback as to whether their answer was correct. This same technique was used in a class in which students first completed a more traditional quiz independently, and then for additional points, they met in groups and were required to reach consensus on correct responses, using scratch off cards. Specific procedures used to facilitate each class activity will be discussed, and a sample of scratch off cards will be given to workshop participants.
Session 35
Time: 2:30 - 2:50
Session Title: Using Google hangouts for teacher supervision
Presenter: Marcia Burrell
Room: CC 202
Google hangouts provides a process for doing the three way conference with your supervisor, cooperating teacher and student teacher candidate. The best time to discuss how well a lesson unfolded is immediately after it has been taught, but that would be disruptive. Why not schedule a three way conference using google hangouts the same day. There is something about seeing everyone at the same time, online or face to face, and google hangouts is an option.
Session 36
Time: 2:30 - 2:50
Session Title: Tools for Flipping the Classroom
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 208
This workshop will provide a quick overview of tools hat are available to support the construction of flipped classrooms. This discussion will cover both content creation tools such as Jing, Camtasia, Panopto, Explain Everything as well as online content sources such as Khan Academy, Merlot, MOOCs, open access educational sites, and YouTube.
Session 37
Time: 3:00 - 3:20
Session Title: Using SnagIt to provide feedback to students
Presenter: Marcia Burrell
Room: CC 202
SnagIT is a free (for Chromebooks, and inexpensive on other systems) online video recording system, that records, converts, and posts directly to Google Doc, for viewing. The Chromebook camera allows the user to record video on and off line, with a simple process for sharing on google for critique and discussion. Consider using SnagIT to streamline your conversations with your student teacher candidates.
Session 38
Time: 3:00 - 3:20
Session Title: Google Hangouts
Presenter: John Kane (and others TBD)
Room: CC 208
Google Hangouts is a replacement for Google Talk in Laker Apps. This session will focus on how the enhanced group text, audio, and video communication capabilities provided by Google Hangouts can be used to facilitate collaborative student (and faculty and staff) work, conduct online office hours, and facilitate guest lectures.
With the activation of Google Hangouts in the oswego.edu domain, we have a powerful new tool to conduct text, voice, phone, or video conferences. Hangouts may be initiated from a computer or an iOS or Android device. Video calls initiated from a campus account are capped at 15 simultaneous users.
In this session, we will demonstrate how:
- Google Hangouts may be enabled on your computer,
- to initiate and invite others to a hangout,
- to invite people to join a hangout from their phone,
- to join existing hangouts.
Educational uses of Google Hangouts for collaborative work, guest lectures, and online office hours will be discussed.
Session 39
Time: 3:30 - 3:50
Session Title: CTS self-service website
Presenter: TBD
Room: CC 202
TBD
Session 40
Time: 3:30 - 3:50
Session Title: Google Hangout on Air
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 208
Google hangouts on air expands the capabilities of Google hangouts. In simple terms, a google hangout on air is a google hangout that is scheduled in advance, broadcast through YouTube, and a recording remains on YouTube after the session ends. Hangouts on air also provide additional tools, such as the ability to post questions in advance, and to eject or silence participants within the hangout. In this session, we will examine how:
- a hangout on air might be used in an educational environment,
- to create a hangout on air,
- to share a screen, and
- to use the moderation tools.
Wednesday, May 20
Session 41
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Getting started with Prezi
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
Prezi allows you to create rich multimedia presentations using a simple online tool. In this hands-on workshop, participants will create a Prezi presentation that integrates text, images, and video. Participants may wish to create a free Prezi account at http://www.prezi.com before the workshop. We will also show how Powerpoint presentations may be converted into Prezi's format and how one can create a series of Prezi slides that can be posted online as a pdf file.
Session 42
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Assessment via ePortfolio
Presenter: Xiaoyu Pu
Room: CC 211
In this session I will present some findings on the using of ePortfolio in student learning and assessment. In the attempt to integrating competence based education, the technique of ePortfolio has been adopted by many higher education institutions as a mechanism to incorporate student record keeping and assessment. Participants are invited to join me and discuss the possible strategy and outcome of implementing ePortfolio. (This talk is given as part of the University Assessment Fellows program.)
Session 43
Time: 10:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Blackboard Learn WS 2 - Bb Learn Communications and Interaction Tools
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Doug Hemphill, Kathi Dutton, and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 202
This workshop provides an introduction to the communication and interaction tools available in the Blackboard Learn learning management system. This hands-on workshop will focus on how to use various types of communication and interaction tools in online/hybrid/web-enhanced courses; including announcements, course messages, email, discussions, notifications, and other communication and more.
Session 44
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Prezi - Beyond the basics
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 206
This workshop is for those who want to learn about additional features of Prezi, including:
- fade-in animations,
- linking objects,
- 3D backgrounds and parallax effect,
- reusable objects ("My Content"),
- presentations over the web,
- embedding a Prezi on a web site,
- auto-play,
- adding audio to a Prezi path to create an online narrated presentation, and
- adding a background audio track to a prezi.
Session 45
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Presenting from a mobile device
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 211
This session will discuss how students and faculty can conduct presentations from a smart phone or tablet over a tethered or wireless connection. Among the free apps discussed and demonstrated will be:
- Google slides
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Keynote (iOS only, free with iOS devices purchased after 9/2014)
- Slideshark (iOS only)
- Prezi
This will be followed by an examination of Splashtop whiteboard and Doceri, apps that let you control a desktop machine remotely while providing graphic whiteboard tools that allow you to markup the display.
Session 46
Time: 1:00 - 2:20
Session Title: OSCQR rubric
Presenter: Dan Feinberg
Room: CC 202
This workshop presentation by Dan Feinberg will discuss the OSCQR developed for the evaluation of online OPEN SUNY courses.
Session 47
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Blackboard Learn WS 3 - Test (Quizzes) and Pools*
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Doug Hemphil,l Kathi Dutton, and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 206
This workshop provides an introduction to creating and managing tests(quizzes) in the Blackboard Learn learning management system. This hands-on workshop will focus on how to create tests (quizzes), and pools in online/hybrid/web-enhanced courses. Participants will learn how to create a test, create a question pool, setup adaptive release on assessments, and how to setup text exemptions.
*Attending a Blackboard Learn WS 1 session or prior experience using Blackboard Learn is helpful.
Session 48
Time: 1:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Enforced Prerequisites in Math: What the !@#$% is going on?
Presenters: Pat Pacitti, Terry Tiballi, and Lisa Brancato
Room: CC 211
Beginning Fall 2015, prerequisites for MAT 104, 120, 208, and 210 are being enforced. During the first half of the session, the necessity of enforcement will be discussed and the benefits and interactive features of ALEKS PPL will be presented. There will be a discussion of the opportunities for advisors to encourage students to take advantage of the multiple testing opportunities for placement and review modules of ALEKS PPL to improve their skills prior to and during their math courses.
During the second half of the session, there will be an overview of the data available through ALEKS PPL that may be of interest to departments in which math competency is important for student success.
Session 49
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Syllabus 101
Presenter: Liz Dunne Schmitt
Room: CC 210
This workshop will examine effective practice in the creation of course syllabi. Among the questions to be addressed in this workshop are:
- what does the college require in a course syllabus?
- how can a course syllabus create a positive environment for learning?
- how can a course syllabus reduce uncertainty for students?
Session 50
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Blackboard Learn: Using Blogs and Wikis*
Presenters: Douglas Hemphill, Theresa Gilliard-Cook, and Kristen Flint
Room: CC 206
This workshop provides an introduction to the Blog and Wiki tools in Blackboard Learn. These new tools offer a functionality not previously available. This workshop will focus on how to create and use blogs and wikis within Blackboard Learn, and will also delve into the pedagogical use of blogs and wikis, as well as the difference between using them within and outside of the LMS.
Session 51
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Jedi Mind Tricks in the Classroom
Presenter: Liz Dunne Schmitt
Room: CC 210
Based on the popular topic in the In the Classroom CHE forums, Liz Schmitt will discuss ways to design course polices and evaluation as well has handle student conflict that achieve course objectives while appealing to students.
Session 52
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Enhancing your face-to-face, online, or hybrid courses
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Doug Hemphil,l Kathi Dutton, and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 206
Looking for external materials for your course? Activities that may be more engaging to your students? Come brainstorm with your colleagues and the campus Instructional Designers. We'll discuss ideas, suggestions for activities and materials that may be just what you are looking for regardless of modality.
Session 53
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: COIL
Presenter: John Kane and TBD
Room: CC 211
This session will provide an overview of the SUNY-COIL program and the process of developing a COIL class.
Session 54
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Historical GIS: Impact of Digital Tools on History Courses
Presenter: Murat Yasar (over Skype or Google hangouts)
Room: CC 210
TBD
Thursday, May 21
Session 55
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Low-stakes testing in Blackboard
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 211
This session will begin with a discussion of the overwhelming evidence concerning the effect of low-stakes testing on student learning. This will be followed with a discussion of ways in which low-stakes testing techniques can be implemented in Blackboard using i>clickers (and associated mobile apps) and using random question pools.
Session 56
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Session Title: Using rubrics to provide transparent assessment of student work
Presenter: John Kane and Judith Littlejohn
Room: CC 211
This workshop will provide a discussion of the role that rubrics may play in making it clear to students how their work will be (and how it has been) evaluated by their instructor. A short demonstration of how to create and use a rubric will be provided.
Session 57
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Introduction to Collaborate
Presenter: Kathi Dutton
Room: CC 202
Collaborate is a web conferencing tool that may used to conducting online webinars, holding team meetings, facilitating guest speakers in a class, holding online office hours, or for small group online meetings. A Collaborate plugin/building block is available in Blackboard. This workshop is intended to provide users with the basic information needed to begin using Collaborate.
Session 58
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Alignment
Presenter: Judith Littlejohn
Room: CC 211
Judith Littlejohn, the Instructional Designer at Genesee Community College, will demonstrate how Blackboard Learn makes it possible to align course content and assessments with general education, institutional, program, and/or course learning objectives. This facilitates the use of embedded assessment, in which existing course materials are directly used to assess student learning outcomes.
Judith is in a relatively unique position of working on this course alignment from several perspectives. In her former role as Online Learning Coordinator and a Blackboard administrator at GCC, Judith was responsible for facilitating the addition of learning objectives to Blackboard Learn. As a history instructor, she has ongoing experience in aligning course materials in her own classes. In her instructional designer role, Judith works to foster effective course design by aligning course content and assessments with the relevant learning objectives.
Session 59
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Overtly Infusing Critical Thinking
Presenter: Judith Littlejohn
Room: CC 211
Students in survey history classes (flipped and online) learned about and applied Dr Richard Paul and Dr Linda Elder's elements of reasoning to course materials through group activities, writing assignments, and discussion forums. This session looks at the changes in the students' work after explicit instruction in the elements of reasoning, as well as the students' reaction to this introduction to critical thinking. An overview of how the skills were applied plus student feedback and comments from surveys will be shared.
Friday, May 22
Session 60
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Building a better user experience while preparing for CMS migration
Presenters: Tim Nekritz and Rick Buck
Room: CC 202
In 2015, oswego.edu will move into a new, powerful and more user-friendly content management system. The ambitious project will result in a better web experience for users and web editors alike. The session will cover what you can do to prepare for migration, the new CMS and presenting prospective students and all other stakeholders with a more awesome website experience.
Session 61
Time: 9:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Blackboard Learn Grade Center*
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Doug Hemphill, Kathi Dutton, and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 206
This workshop provides an introduction to the Grade Center in the Blackboard Learn learning management system. After an overview of the Blackboard Learn Grade Center, we will offer one-on-one consulting to assist you in setting up your gradebook in Blackboard.
*Attending a Blackboard Learn WS 1 or WS 2 session or prior experience using Blackboard Learn is helpful.
Session 62
Time: 9:00 - 9:20
Session Title: Basics of video recording and editing using iMovie on iOS
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 211
Participants in this session will explore the basics of using iMovie on iPads and iPhones.
Session 63
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Using YouTube to generate closed captioning to meet accessibility standards for video content
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 211
This workshop will demonstrate how YouTube's automatic captioning service may be used to automatically create closed captioning to meet accessibility standards for short videos. This is particularly useful for faculty creating video content to support a flipped classroom.
Session 64
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Common Myths about Teaching and Learning
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
In this session, we will discuss some of the most common misperceptions that many faculty and students share about teaching and learning. Some of these myths are harmless, but others result in behavior that significantly reduces long-term knowledge retention and transfer.
Session 65
Time: 10:30 - 11:30
Session Title: Oswego's New Hybrid Course Policy
Presenter: Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 206
This session will provide an overview of the new Hybrid Course Policy approved by Faculty Assembly. The session will include the definition of a hybrid course, background information that helped in the development of the policy as well the process.
Session 66
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: World Englishes in the Classroom: Developing a Policy on International Student Writing?
Presenter: Michael Murphy
Room: CC 211
How normalized and idiomatic should we expect the writing of international students to be? How should it affect the grades we give them? Is it possible to write English "with an accent"? This session will be an open discussion, intended more to explore questions than to offer answers.
Session 67
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Research-based methods of encouraging long-term learning
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 210
This is a follow-up to the previous workshop on "Common Myths about Learning and Teaching." The focus of this session will be on methods that enhance student ability to retain and apply the skills and knowledge acquired in our classes. Particular focus is placed on instructional methods that have been demonstrated as being effective in increasing long-term learning, including:
- frequent low-stakes testing (including mastery learning quizzing, clicker questions, etc),
- peer instruction, and
- interleaved practice
Session 68
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: What does research tell us about clicker use?
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
This workshop will examine some of the findings concerning the effect of clicker use on student learning outcomes. An overview of best practice will be provided. This workshop is designed for those who are considering using clickers in their classroom.
Session 69
Time: 1:00 - 4:00
Session Title: Blackboard Learn Open Sessions
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Doug Hemphill, Kathi Dutton, Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Room: CC 206
This workshop is an open session where we will work individually with you to prepare your course(s) for the Summer and Fall 2015 semesters.
Session 70
Time: 1:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Twenty Years After: The Re-founding of the Oswego Normal School (1881-1901)
Presenter: Bob Schell
Room: CC 211
The story of the founding of the Oswego Training School is well known. When our founder, Edward Austin Sheldon, began to train teachers to use the object method proposed by Pestalozzi in the public schools of Oswego, New York, he started the Oswego Movement that eventually transformed the public schools of New York, the nation, and the world; however, within 20 years, the movement faltered. The popularity of object teaching waned, many of the teachers produced by the Training School had left the profession, and Sheldon had resigned his Principalship. In spite of this, the next 20 years would prove to be as fruitful as the first 20. The curriculum was revamped to focus on the emerging educational psychology of Herbert, a training program for kindergarten teachers was introduced, and Oswego became known for its new emphasis on vocational education as it initiated teacher training programs in the areas of manual arts (industrial arts), domestic arts (home economics), and agriculture. New leaders emerged to prepare teachers for the 20th century. This presentation will focus the dynamic second phase of the Oswego Movement that formed the foundation of the College we know today.
Session 71
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Panel session of i>clicker users
Presenters: Liz Dunn Schmitt, Kevin White, and others TBD
Room: CC 210
Faculty that have recently used i>clickers will begin this session by briefly discussing their experiences. This session is designed for those that are considering the use of clickers during future semesters. If you have questions about the use of clickers, stop by and discuss them with colleagues that have been using them.
Session 72
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Beyond Filling in the Blanks: Writing Assignments that Promote Thinking
Presenter: Michael Murphy
Room: CC 210
This session will offer recommendations about how to compose writing assignments that encourage students to think creatively and critically.
Session 73
Time: 2:30 - 4:00
Session Title: Thinking about Retirement?
Presenters: members of the Emeriti Association
Room: CC 211
How do I decide when to retire? How should I prepare for the day after I retire? What are the benefits and challenges I may face in retirement? What lifestyle changes come with retirement? What are the psychological issues of retirement? How should I prepare to deal with the new medical issues that usually appear in retirement? Come and converse with several members of the SUNY Emeriti Association about our experiences in approaching, achieving, and thriving in retirement. Our insights may help others to plan and prepare to enter retirement optimistically and successfully.
Session 74
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Integrating i>clicker into Blackboard
Presenter: John Kane
Room: CC 202
This workshop is designed for those that plan to use i>clickers during the Fall 2015 semester. There are now two options available:
1. you can run i>clicker software on a usb drive, or
2. you can use the new cloud-based REEF polling software (this allows students to log in to REEF polling and view the questions and their own responses).
Bring a usb drive if you wish to run the i>clicker software, or just bring yourself if you wish to use REEF polling.
During this workshop, we will set up the Blackboard integration that allows students to register their i>clicker's id number and set up the software needed to automatically upload clicker scores into your online course gradebook.