In this presentation, we will describe and show student work from interdisciplinary assignments in which we used the wiki feature on Epsilen EPortofolio for students in three courses--one non-credit, one intro and one upper-level --to collaborate on revising and adapting a traditional essay into an illustrated essay or digital story. We seek faculty members from HETS member institutions to join our wiki groups and expand the collaboration from being situated on one campus to being an intercampus project.
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The Distance Education Program (DEP) develops distance education using a variety of technologies and media as television and Internet. Our goal is to make accessible and inclusive education to enhance student learning. To achieve this goal we use multimedia tools and computer programs such as: Captivate, Engage, Articulate, Elluminate, Wimba Voice among others. These programs and tools make possible the creation of tutorials, simulations, diagrams, and animated presentations which integrate audio and video.
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This session will discuss steps taken to develop Bronx Community College’s Teaching with Technology (TWT) Level 2 faculty development program. The session will describe how BCC’s program has added Web 2.0 applications to the online tools instructors can use. Web 2.0 tools allow students and instructors to easily communicate, collaborate, and share content online.

Every educational institution providing distance education ought to be aware of the importance of student support service as a key factor for program success. The Internet Studies Centers have been created to offer academic and technical support for students taking both online and face to face courses, as well as reliable access to all necessary tools for success. The centers are managed and operated out of traditional service hours and are conveniently located in different municipalities along the Island, private companies, and commercial centers to enhance student access to tools that support their assignment completion without having the need to actually go to the campus. Uniquely, with this project, the college campus goes to the student.
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Since 9/11, federal, state and local government agencies have invested heavily in putting sophisticated emergency management procedures in place, but until now college communities have been largely ignored. BMCC will present a collaborative campus emergency management model. The models should address Emergency Management Response Protocols of campus departments. The Higher Education Modules will also include provisions for C-CERT, AED, CPR and First Aid Training.

The Digital Storytelling Project creates a virtual learning community and a student-centered learning space through the technology of EPortfolio and Epsilen groups. Three classes, one each from Basic Educational Skills, English and Speech Communications and Theatre Arts will all collaborate on a Wiki in the creation of multi-media digital stories which incorporate images, film, music, voice and text, and which will be created through Power Point and Camptasia. The Basic Education and English classes focus on the development of writing skills, while the Theatre Arts class will create performance pieces from the writings, in the form of video logs, or vlogs. An important component will be the dialogue that will be held as writing students present drafts to the community. Performance students interview writing students to learn more about how to make their choices as actors, while the writers are given opportunity to clarify their ideas. The interdisciplinary nature of the virtual community assists students to strengthen general educational objectives such as developing effective reading, writing, speaking skills, and honing critical thinking while they are making connections both across disciplines, and in a social network which creates a sense of belonging and meaning. The use of social networking and the format of the vlog meets the students using what, for many of them, is on their native digital language.
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Engineering education has special needs such as the delivery of mathematical and scientific content and the demonstration of software packages to the student. These requirements led us to the incorporation of different forms of Video and Audio in our Smart Classrooms and online courses. Remote students, as well as in campus students, can benefit from the integration of Screen Recording, Tablet PCs, Smart Boards and Videoconference technologies in the classroom. Participants will learn how to inexpensively incorporate some of these technologies to their distance education efforts. Participants will see a summary of our efforts in implementing these technologies that will be useful to their own future or continued efforts in this area. We will share any assessment efforts that we are carrying out.
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Podcasting and course capture are two proven methods of providing high quality educational materials in distance learning and in the traditional classroom. Participants should leave the session motivated to return to their colleges and apply what they have learned to create and implement new technological teaching tools.
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Workshop participants will learn how Kutztown University faculty uses clicker technology to enhance classroom engagement with students. Clicker technology has proven especially effective in our large classroom settings and auditorium-type lecture halls. Discover how lecture sessions incorporating “clicker aware” PowerPoint presentations enable professors to reach all students in class while empowering shy or reluctant students who might be otherwise uncomfortable participating in classroom interactions.

Attend this hands-on session to experience clicker technology in a mock lecture session, learn how faculty and management developed a viable clicker program at Kutztown University, and see how easy it would be to adopt this technology for use in your classroom.
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Production and use of a blog, a wiki and a site course to share information and knowledge beyond the classroom experience in the graduate course on "Introduction to Information Technology". Students were authorized as content developers for the blog together with the professor. Quality standards, timeliness and relevance were emphasized as major criteria for content development. In another course, a Seminar on Knowledge Management, videoconferencing and a content management system were part of a dual collaboration strategy used to create the virtual learning environment.
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With a growing number of students at the University of Texas-Pan American, reaching out to them is becoming more difficult. However, due to the increasing use of mobile devices like Smartphones, iPods/iPhones, and laptops, we found a way to support students and faculty much easier and quicker. With the use of certain in-house applications (blogs), social networks, like Facebook, Twitter, and Short Message Service (SMS), students are constantly fed mass amounts of information while on the move. We have taken advantage of these new technologies and have implemented them in our applications to reach our users through everyday ways. Other institutions will also learn how the Center for Online Learning, Teaching and Technology uses internal applications to enrich students’ experience when enrolled in a course utilizing Blackboard. The Center for Online Learning, Teaching and Technology will provide a handout with a couple different documents; Overall Blackboard usage for several terms, different applications we provide/support, and a brief run through of their specs, what they are running on (hardware/software/frameworks), when/why they were implemented, and application feedback.

This presentation will focus on the Health Related Science Academy, and the various ways in which technology has served to disseminate information, strengthen community and form processes to demonstrate student learning through its Epsilen Academy Groups; EPortfolio/Cornerstone classroom experiences, and Clickers in the Classroom.
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The Clinical Simulation Experience Room and Nursing Virtual Lab, is the more complete and modern academic Laboratory for teaching clinical skills in Puerto Rico, and its primary focus is directed exclusively for nursing students. The project benefits the University in the institutional promotion and recruitment of nursing students and experienced faculty. It also helps the faculty in the incorporation of new student centered strategies through the use of high tech, such as the patient simulations and virtualization of clinical processes.
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At the Center for Online Learning, Teaching and Technology at the University of Texas-Pan American we focus on meeting the technological needs of our faculty members, as well as our students. We provide developmental and technical assistance primarily for the sole purpose of creating online courses. Faculty members are trained on the best practices to implement in their online courses. They are also properly trained on how to reach their online students and have access to the latest technologies. The results have proven to be successful and beneficial not only to our faculty but also to our students.

Research confirms that Latino parents, regardless of their education, have strong college aspirations for their children (Gasbarra & Johnson, 2008; Roderick, Nagaoka, Coca, Moeller, Roddie, Gilliam, & Patton, 2008). However, a recent study by the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) found that Latino students were the least likely to plan to go to college, or apply. According to CCSR, only 60% of Latino students who said they aspired to attend a four-year college actually planned to enroll the fall after graduation, compared with 77% of African-American and 76% of white students (Roderick, Nagaoka, Coca, Moeller, Roddie, Gilliam, & Patton, 2008). Using social capital theory as a conceptual framework, the authors of this study propose that Latino parents living in low-income districts have a more difficult time navigating the complex “inside” knowledge required to apply to college and for financial aid as compared to their suburban and upper-class counterparts. Our research study utilizes technology to help foster social capital among low-income Latino parent populations so that they may be able to successfully assist their children with navigating systemic college entrance processes.
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Frustrated with the inadequacies of textbooks in supporting innovative teaching, we launched, in 2000, a novel online learning environment, Visionlearning (http://www.visionlearning.com). The site provides high-quality, peer-reviewed science learning resources in both English and Spanish, specifically designed to be used in the classroom. The materials are housed within an environment that provides communication tools and mechanisms for instructors to customize the resources. Both in-classroom and public use of these materials has grown considerably: there are over 40,000 registered users for the site, and the materials receive almost half a million visits per month. International traffic has grown extensively, with Mexico, India, Canada, the Philippines, and Australia ranking as primary users behind the United States. The materials have been evaluated in relation to traditional textbook resources and have shown considerable advantages – student performance was significantly higher among groups using these resources than control groups (J. College Science Teaching 23(1):12). The site continues to expand and has recently launched learning content for portable electronic devices.
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This presentation will include a description of the elements of the online Discipline-Based Dual Language Model®, its benefits for the Hispanic population and an interactive demo of an actual course in the Blackboard® learning platform.
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Commuter students spend little time on campus before classes start. Using the mantra, “it takes a village,” the college community at Borough of Manhattan Community College has collaborated to provide a 2-day experience in which students meet members of the college community, complete workshops, receive academic advisement and register for classes. As a result, students are connected to the college before they begin classes. Besides providing the audience with steps for replicating the process, the presenters will share preliminary assessment outcomes and show how they have been used to improve the experience.
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In this session, we will present the steps taken to implement a course-capturing and podcasting project using Tegrity technologies at Huertas Junior College. Academic programs included in the project include associate degrees in instrumentation, respiratory care therapy, computer aided drafting, dental assistant, graphic design, and informatics.
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Attendees can expect to learn about three simple and proven effective internet-based technologies that can enhance classroom instruction and student-teacher communication, and facilitate distance or blended learning: instant messaging/online office hours, voice over PowerPoint video lectures, and modular course content on Visionlearning.com.

This project consists on the effectiveness of implementing a free Web tools known as Moodle, to develop an institutional Web presence courses and academic programs focus on our Hispanic population’s needs. The institute promotes strategic efforts to encourage faculty to use these tools and other emerging technologies, providing training workshops based on Moodle, advising to a new educational instructional modules and supporting their initiatives based on the online courses. Participants can increase their knowledge and also be motivated to improve their online education community by receiving our work in progress effective model. They can also combine their best practices with ours in order to address major challenges with respect to student’s satisfaction, learning effectiveness, assessment and evaluation.
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The Center for the Application of Information Technologies (CAIT), developers of GED-i, provide a comprehensive professional development training calendar to ensure that program administrators and instructors have all of the resources and support available to provide engaging and meaningful distance learning instruction. In order to achieve this goal, the GED-i team uses a variety of tools and delivery methods.
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Participants who wish to provide inexpensive email accounts to their students utilizing Google Apps for Education or those already doing so, can use this information to integrate authentication of Google applications into their existing Windows Active Directory (or any other LDAP compatible) authentication platform.
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The presentation will simulate the actual experience the students had using the Google tools. The process of working on the same document and communicating with each other using chat, email and the Google Calendar will be demonstrated. The two presenters will each operate online using different laptops with one computer connected to the video output to be shown on the screen to the audience. The audience will see how both users can contribute to the same document in real time and the audience will be able to witness the collaboration in updating a document as it occurs.

The PowerPoint will then be uploaded to share with the audience. This Google account will be available following the conference so that audience members can experiment with these tools on their own and an audio and video tutorial will be created to assist them. The idea is to have the presentation serve as a practical how-to for the audience so that they can easily adapt the technology for use in their classrooms.

This presentation is an opportunity to share the pedagogical strategies, the use of social networks as a way of supporting ongoing discussions and critical evaluation of students‘ proposals for the visual products and the results of the students’ efforts in producing these video adaptations. The presentation will include clip of the videos produced within the project.
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In establishing a Supplemental Instruction program in the Natural and Social Sciences at Lehman College, we have created a non-traditional curriculum based on the development of two hybrid non-credit bearing courses in education and administration connected to paid internships that utilize principles of constructivist pedagogy, facilitation, and project management. The presentation will focus on presenting an overview of these hybrid courses and the use of WileyPlus, social networking, and e-portfolios for training and assessment.
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Participants will learn about a collaborative project conceived entirely for a virtual environment. Both the COBIMET experience and the strategies used provide the framework for such virtual projects. *Presentation in Spanish/Simultaneous Translation Available

This presentation will explore specific best practices currently used in the on-line teaching environment. It will further examine how traditional on-site techniques can be adapted to the on-line environment through the use of technology. Specific reference will be made to how these techniques can be used to advance the educational opportunities of the Hispanic, non-traditional student.

The presentation will address and demonstrate techniques used by the presenters to enhance online learning and capitalize on onsite teaching experience. These methods will include the use of: adapted communication techniques; modified and enhanced assignment formats; the use of multi-media tools; and links to valuable professional and industry specific sites.

This presentation describes the work of the City Colleges of Chicago’s Center for Distance Learning in incorporating group work into two sections of an online social science course. Students in the course thought it was impossible to conduct group-work on line. As a result of the training offered by the presenter, the students learned to work in online groups.
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This presentation will show how the integration of Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis, and podcasts) increased positively the student retention percentile in the institution‘s ESL classes. Before the integration of Web 2.0 technology in the ESL classroom, English classes were only retaining 64% of its students. After the integration of Web 2.0 technology the courses increase to a dramatic 93% in a year.
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