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Poster sessions are held on Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:00 - 3:00 in the Exhibit Hall.

Jeffrey Frey, Manager, Web Services, Rice University

Podcasting is a powerful tool that allows instructors to take their message further than ever thought possible. In this workshop, Jeff Frey will lead participants step-by-step through the seven stages of podcasting: preparing, recording, producing, encoding, uploading, configuring RSS and subscribing. Along the way, he will impart best practices from research and demo hardware/software for all budget levels. If you’ve ever wanted to truly know how to podcast, don’t miss this workshop. You’ll be podcasting the minute you get back to campus! 

Participants should bring a laptop with wireless capability with them to this workshop.

Steve Fitzgerald, Director Office of Classroom Management, Nathan Meath, Associate Analyst, and Anya Norton, External Reports Analyst, University of Minnesota

Looking for methods and metrics to quantify classroom performance and needs? This “how to” workshop looks inside the University of Minnesota model for managing classroom technology, facilities, scheduling/utilization, support and planning. It examines the metrics-based approach that includes a comprehensive Balanced Scorecard, a” Classroom Performance Index” decision aid for resource allocation and interactive dashboards. This workshop includes a unique “How to Develop Dashboards in Four Steps” segment. IT managers and administrators charged with the oversight of learning spaces should not miss this workshop.

Kara Stiles, Senior Education Consultant, rSmart

As an IT professional, faculty member, or instructional designer you have heard about the open source collaboration and learning environments. Now is your chance to get hands-on training with implementing Sakai. During this workshop, attendees will use their own laptops to create a pilot course in a live, hosted instance of Sakai. Taking the mystery out of implementation issues, the presenter will show you how to build content, assessments, and encourage collaboration with Sakai tools. Learn how to configure Sakai tools and course permissions and add students into the course. Following this workshop, you’ll be able to run the pilot course for an entire semester. 

Participants should bring a laptop with wireless capability with them to this workshop.

Siobhán Ross-Humphries, Coordinator, Instructional Technology Development Program Providence College and  Robert Hackey, Professor, Health Policy and Management, Providence College

The Wiki as a tool is appealing because it helps make student thinking visible and places importance on the process of learning as well as the outcome. Join this workshop to learn how you can use wikis in your courses for group projects, field notes, co-creating reference materials and collaborative class note-taking, among other uses. Examples will be drawn from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Participants should bring a laptop with wireless capability with them to this workshop.

Alexandra M. Pickett, Associate Director, State University of New York System Administration

If you are ready to take a fast-paced tour of Web 2.0 applications and their potential in the classroom, put on your seatbelt! It’s an amazing ride as the presenter details “How, why and what happened when I stitched together Web 2.0 technologies into one online course.” Applications include Twitter, voicethread, diigo, edublogs, jing, meebome, Audacity, YouTube, polldaddy, Breeze and more. This workshop will demonstrate ways in which these tools were used in the presenter's online course and how they can be used to enhance instruction. During this workshop attendees will be invited to join and explore selected tools.

Participants should bring a laptop with wireless capability with them to this workshop.

Greg Bronson, Classroom Technologies Project Leader, Cornell University

AV systems have become more central to today's educational facilities, while the current fiscal conditions require the highest efficiency and effectiveness of all institutional resources. Great for IT managers and higher level administrators, this workshop will provide insight to mapping subjective assessment criteria against objective technical standards for educational learning spaces to enhance the ability to manage resources while influencing new standards used by the design-build community.

David Middleton, AVP Finance and Technology, Mary Zedeck, Instructional Designer, Seton Hall University

To shed light on mobile computing in higher education, this workshop explores the mobile technologies initiative at Seton Hall University, SHUmobile. To allow time to examine the potential of mobile technology for education in depth, just one aspect of SHUmobile will be highlighted during this workshop digital storytelling with mobile technologies. In this hands-on experience, participants will use storyboard to create a digital story on a mobile device. Participants will discuss ideas and strategies for engaging college and university communities in mobile initiatives. Faculty and administrators alike will benefit from these discussions. 

Participants should bring a laptop with wireless capability with them to this workshop.