Faculty Technology Showcase

CSALT and Digital Campus Announces
FACULTY TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE
Wednesday -  January 20, 2010 - 8:30 am – 4:15 pm
University Business Center & Peter’s Auditorium
 
Gear up for the spring semester with a one-day technology conference! Highlights include:
Keynote presentation by Maggie Beers from San Francisco State University on "Online Approaches to Learner Centered Instruction".
Faculty panels on using technology to meet teaching challenges such as engaging students in learning, increasing student access and success, and providing effective and efficient feedback on student work.
Technology resource fair will give you the opportunity to chat one-on-one with faculty members who have used a wide range of instructional technologies.
A light breakfast and lunch is included, as well as nifty door prizes.
 
Register On-line: at http://depot.csuprojects.org/registration?campusid=9.
 
Agenda:

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and registration

9:15 KEYNOTE – Maggie Beers, San Francisco State University

Online Approaches to Learner Centered Instruction

Morning Sessions:

·         Developing an Online Degree – The MAT- Wally Ullrich & Glenn DeVoogd
·         Teaching Challenges - Ida Jones & Ethelynda Harding
What do survey data tell us about Fresno State faculty? What teaching challenges do faculty members identify?

Concurrent Sessions:

·         Engaging students in learning - David Frank, Ida Jones & Sean Seepersad
·         Increasing student access - Jennifer Ivie & Bryan Berrett
Lunch

Afternoon Sessions:

·         Using MERLOT - David Andrews & Rassoul Yazdipour
·         The Day After Tomorrow: Clouds and Tweets - Brent Auernheimer
·         Assessing student work - Kim Morin, Della Duncan, Miguel Perez
& Manal Samaha

·         Increasing student success - Ken Ternate, Sean Seepersad, Arun Nambiar
& Mary Bennett

Resource Fair and refreshments

Learn how your colleagues use Blackboard 9, podcast, produce accessible documents, and use web conferencing, clickers, blogs, Twitter, computerized scoring of essays, journals, animations, videos, Google Apps, Second Life, Facebook, and other assorted technology tools.

Presenters:

Kenneth Balint, Mary Bennett, Bryan Berrett, Laura Burke, Angelica Capucino, Della Duncan, David Frank, Monica Fusich, Terry Garvin, Randy Haar, Jenn Ivie, Katie Johnson, Ida Jones, Tim Kubal, Kim Morin, Arun Nambiar, Eric Person, John Pryor, Scott Sailor, Sean Seepersad, Ken Ternate, Dawn Truelsen, Vang Vang, Eileen Walsh, Eric West

 Door Prize Drawings

 Maggie Beers – Biography:

Maggie Beers, Ph.D. is Director of Academic Technology at San Francisco State University (SF State) where she oversees the units that provide services, and best practices, for online learning and teaching, technology development, media distribution and support, learning spaces, and creative services. She also coordinates visioning, planning and implementation of Academic Technology within SF State, and in collaboration with sister campuses in the California State University system. She has an appointment as an Associate Professor in the Instructional Technologies Department in the College of Education.

Maggie completed her Ph.D. in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (in Dr. Goldman's Multimedia Ethnographic Research Laboratory), where she participated in the research and development of emerging web-based technologies, and researched ways to prepare teachers to use educational technology to teach culture in second languages. She received her undergraduate and Master of Arts degrees in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has taught extensively in the US, Canada, Spain and France. Formerly, Maggie was an Instructional Development Consultant and the Academic Lead for the Technology Enabled Knowledge (TEK) Initiative at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, a Polytechnic Institute, where she developed interactive multimedia learning environments, launched faculty development and research initiatives, and researched their effectiveness.

Areas of interest / keywords

Major fields: educational technology, faculty development, intercultural communication, interdisciplinary studies, modern language education, multimedia development, post-secondary leadership, video ethnography

Other keywords: academic technology, faculty development, intercultural communication