Seminar Intensives
Included in your conference registration, choose two of these these 2 ½ hour hands-on seminar intensives on MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013. Each provides opportunities to examine the latest technologies and practice implementing technological tools and solutions. Offered in a classroom setting allows participants to experience technology and interact with peers. You’ll be able to take away your learning to use at your institution without delay. From integrating iPads, to IT Leadership issues and building MOOCs -- there are plenty of relevant session topics higher education technology professionals won’t want to miss!
M01 Expanding Your Technology Tool Belt with New Gadgets
Monday, April 29, 2013 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Steve Pillow, Assistant Professor/Technology Specialist, MidAmerica Nazarene University, MO
Learn about gadgets that can enhance your teaching, engage students, increase efficiency and improve learning! Physical gadgets, web 2.0 gadgets, and iPad gadgets will be the focus of this hands-on session. Participants will have a fun, interactive workshop with time to try all the latest technological tools.
M02 IT Governance: Keeping IT's Plate Full with the Right Stuff
Monday, April 29, 2013 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Bill Balint, Chief Information Officer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA
IT governance in higher education has never been more important and achieving strong results has never been more challenging. Users from executive leadership down to virtually every departmental office are trying to leverage IT in order to help do more with less, while IT demands from faculty and students are exploding. This presentation will explore how one institution took on this challenge by developing a 'Request For Service' Governance process that integrates all requests (help tickets, projects, operational support and production needs) into a single, transparent model. The unique 'virtual IT' organization concept using multi-queue project governance will also be reviewed.
M03 Community Colleges: Are they Technology Gazelles?
Monday, April 29, 2013 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Lawrence Miller, Director, National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD), University of Texas at Austin, TX
If universities are elephants, then two-year colleges must be gazelles. Community, technical and junior colleges typically have the ability to move quicker, adopt more readily, and drive innovation into practice. This means that technology opportunities are most often embraced by the culture of these schools. BYOD to this interactive session.
M04 Get your iPAD on: Innovative Powerful Apps Discovered
Monday, April 29, 2013 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Teresa Pinkston, 3D Design & Animation, Tulsa Technology Center, OK
Learn how to use an iPad to teach, engage, motivate, and collaborate and problem-solve with students in and out of the classroom. Utilize various innovative and powerful apps to keep students engaged and motivated while problem-solving and collaborating with others. Be an active participant, bring your iPad and download the following apps from this wiki site http://getyouripadon.wikispaces.com/
M05 Meta MOOC|| An Experiment in Engagement
Monday, April 29, 2013 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Jeannie Crowley, Manager of Digital Media and Learning, Bank Street College of Education, NY
MOOCs have rapidly increased in popularity, but there are still concerns about the engagement opportunities for learners. Working collaboratively within Google Course Builder and the Google Aps suite, a set of diverse educators experimented within a MOOC to construct online courses with student-centered, constructivist learning experiences. Participants of this session will learn about the pros and cons of Google Course Builder, how to set up experiential course development environments for their own faculty and receive a set of recommendations from the group for making MOOCs more engaging for learners.
M06 Bring Pages to Life with iBooks Author and Create Your Own Interactive eBooks
Monday, April 29, 2013 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Mark Riley, Technology Coordinator, Ohio University, OH
Bring pages to life like never before with iBooks Author. iBooks Author is a free application that allows you to create your own interactive multi-touch books that can be viewed on the iPad. The means to create and publish your own book is finally here! This session will show participants around the basics of iBooks Author like adding widgets, creating new chapters, previewing your project on an iPad, and publishing your final product to iBookstore. Participants will get the opportunity to see the entire iBook creation process on screen. Whatever your project, from a college textbook to a middle school newspaper, this session will help you make the most of what iBooks Author has to offer.