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Program Schedule
8:00 – 9:00 AM: Continental-style breakfast and Registration/Check-In
- Carter Physical Education Center
- Partner exhibit booths open
9:00 – 9:15 AM: Welcome by Athens State President Dr. Robert Glenn and ACCS Chancellor Dr. Mark Heinrich
- Carter Physical Education Center
9:15 – 10:00 AM: Opening Keynote by Dr. Shannon Parks
- Carter Physical Education Center
10:00 – 10:15 AM: Exhibitor Break
- Carter Physical Education Center
- Partner exhibit booths open
10:15 – 11:10 AM: Breakout Session 1
The Future of Video in Education - From the LMS to the 'Campus YouTube'
In the face of the rich media revolution, educational institutions are using video to power every aspect of campus life. The challenge is finding media infrastructure that is agile, scalable, and cost effective. More universities are using video internally and externally for teaching and learning, distance learning and hybrid instruction, training, enhancing assignments, and as a means of collaboration between students and faculty.
This session will explore how video and new forms of multimedia-enabled learning are revolutionizing education across Europe. Video in education now goes beyond simple publishing and includes internal university 'YouTubes', deep learning management system integrations into Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, or more, creating a central media repository, collaborative video assignments, video for distance education and libraries, and media-powered blogs and social networks.
- Waters Hall, Room N-201
- Presented by Michael Hageloh (Kaltura)
Pearson Education's MyFoundationsLab
With increasing accountability and decreasing resources, colleges are looking for creative and collaborative ways to ensure that students are prepared to be successful in collegiate work. Pearson's MyFoundationsLab can help prepare students in math, reading, writing and study skills, decreasing the chance that developmental coursework will be needed at all or reducing the time needed in non-credit bearing courses. Pearson’s MyFoundationsLab can now be accessed directly within Blackboard Learn 9.1, providing an efficient and convenient experience for faculty and students.
- Classroom Building, Room 104
- Presented by Eileen McClay (Pearson Education) and Stacie Hughes (Athens State University)
Increase Student Success with Dynamic Multimedia Content from NBC Learn
Engaging students by providing contemporary and/or historical context to their learning has always been critical, and using various media tools to that end is increasingly important. This workshop, facilitators will demonstrate how to enliven classes and stimulate critical thinking and debate with nearly 14,000 multimedia resources generated during 80 years of NBC News.
- Classroom Building, Room 204
- Presented by Matt Adams (NBC Learn) and Judith Lea (Northeast Alabama Community College)
Improve Student Outcomes with Tegrity’s Cloud-based Lecture Capture Service
Tegrity Campus, the only Cloud-based Lecture Capture solution, makes class time available all the time by automatically recording, storing and indexing every class on campus – without the need to install any hardware or software in classrooms. Come learn how Tegrity Campus is making an impact in leading institutions across the nation.
- Waters Hall, Room N-206
- Presented by Anna Connaughton (Tegrity)
Teach Smarter, Not Harder
Teaching today’s student at the college level requires effort that includes forethought and planning on the part of the instructor. Your challenge as an instructor is to meet students where they live! Think outside the box and capture their attention using the technology tools that students are most comfortable with. Learn how to use the technology that permeates their daily lives and incorporate interactive tools to engage students in their own active learning process.
- Waters Hall, Room N-202
- Presented by Jacqueline McArthur (Tuskegee University)
WOW! A Workshop on Wimba
Looking for ways to build a sense of community in your classroom? Want your students to feel connected to the content, each other and you? Then this session is the right one for you! The session will provide an overview of how to successfully incorporate Wimba Live Classroom into all course formats. Presenters will demonstrate how they have used Wimba to engage students, promote interaction and provide for collaborative teaching and learning. Session attendees will leave this presentation with ideas for incorporating Wimba into their courses.
- Waters Hall, Room N-205
- Presented by Bill Wilkes (Athens State University) and Wendy Cowan (Athens State University)
Using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Rubric to Improve Your Courses
In this session, participants will review example courses/components from the Exemplary Course Program along with Exemplary Course Rubric, focusing on four major categories for effective, high-quality online/blended instruction.
- Waters Hall, Room N-105
- Presented by Misty Cobb (Blackboard)
11:15 AM – 12:10 PM: Breakout Session 2
Kick Start Your Students’ Careers Today
Presentation of the free Internships.com Building Block for Bb Learn and how it can help kick-start your students' careers, including a case study of the benefits that Athens State University has attained.
- Waters Hall, Room N-201
- Presented by John Giangregorio (Internships.com) and Steve Clark (Athens State University)
Discover the Advantage of Going Digital with WileyPLUS and Blackboard Learn™
Did you know you can extend Wiley’s rich collection of learning content and tools right from within your Blackboard Learn course? Come hear directly from faculty who have been using WileyPLUS to easily add digital content to their courses in Blackboard Learn and synchronize grades from Wiley’s research-based, online teaching-and-learning-environment, WileyPLUS. Instructors like: “The ability to design a learning environment that provides all the resources my students need to be successful.” Students like having: “A convenient and organized place for all my course work.” Come discover the advantages of using Blackboard and WileyPLUS together to not only integrate all of your course materials in one place but to enhance the pedagogical value of your online course materials for your students.
- Classroom Building, Room 104
- Presented by Andreea Cimoca (Wiley) and Valerie Simmons (Wiley)
DON'T FEAR THE EVAL!
There's no need to start a civil war between paper and web-based course/instructor evaluations. Each has their charms. The point is to transmit actionable feedback to instructors, and with luck, improve teaching and learning. Attendees will be exposed to a palette of best practices pertaining to the administration of web-based course evaluations, including the reasons to remain on a paper-based system, with only the occasional reference to the speaker's favorite product, CoursEval.
- Classroom Building, Room 204
- Presented by Brian Hopewell (ConnectEDU)
Flipping the Gap
We know that students are changing but we struggle with how to meet their evolving instructional needs and still address our own. Come to this session and learn how to identify the gap between the instructional needs and goals of you and your students. Then the “Generation Gap Game” will help us shed some light on why that gap exists. Finally, participants will learn strategies for selecting and implementing resources, and applying the flipped classroom model to bridge the gap.
- Waters Hall, Room N-202
- Presented by Bobbi Jo Carter (Calhoun Community College)
Using Rubrics within the Course Management System to Validate and Promote Student Learning Outcomes
Students are given various assignments to be completed, ranging from a simple Q&A to the more complex project. To significantly improve the student assessment process, rubrics have become a critical assessment tool for student learning outcomes. This session will detail the process of developing a rubric that is precisely aligned to student learning outcomes and implemented in the Course Management System (Blackboard or Moodle) to enable students to better understand assignment details to be completed.
- Waters Hall, Room N-205
- Presented by Ken Scott (Trenholm State Technical College) and Syed Raza (Trenholm State Technical College)
Tegrity Remote Proctoring: A Quality Solution For Distance Testing
How do you know your student is the one actually taking your online test? In 2011, Athens State University piloted the Tegrity Proctor System to answer this question. This testing system is now being used across the accounting curriculum to enhance quality in distance learning. This session will explore some of the challenges and rewards we experienced in implementing the Tegrity Proctoring System.
- Waters Hall, Room N-206
- Presented by Linda Hemingway (Athens State University), Stacie Hughes (Athens State University), and Anna Connaughton(Tegrity)
"Wikis, Blogs, Forums, and Journals – Which One Do I Use & Why?"
In this session participants will learn about various collaborative tools and effective practices for using the tools to improve student motivation, behavior, and involvement in the course.
- Waters Hall, Room N-105
- Presented by Misty Cobb (Blackboard)
12:15 – 1:45 PM: Lunch
- Carter Physical Education Center
- Partner exhibit booths open
1:45 – 2:40 PM: Breakout Session 3
Design and Launch a Complete Cross-Campus Media Suite
Use of online rich-media has become a necessity in the modern learning environment. Colleges and Universities are using all forms of online media for both on and off-campus education, to enhance the appeal of campus websites, and increase collaboration between students and faculty. However, education institutions attempting to implement a cross-campus media solution encounter a range of technology and policy related challenges. Determining and enforcing acceptable usage policies in light of evolving DRM considerations, allowing individual departments the autonomy to maintain unique deployments, and how to apply pre-defined metadata standards so content is properly tagged, cataloged and searched are just a few of the topics today’s educational institutions are taking into consideration when evaluating potential solution providers.
This presentation will explore the many possibilities that educational institutions now face when choosing, designing, and launching a cross-campus media management solution. We will cover how video and new forms of multimedia-enabled learning are revolutionizing education. In addition to the technology supporting institutions’ requirements this session will share current best practices used by today’s leading universities.
- Waters Hall, Room N-201
- Presented by Bob McDonald (Kaltura)
Access Made Easy: Experiences with the Blackboard Learn/McGraw-Hill Integration
Technology and digital resources continue to enhance the educational experience for students and instructors every day. The need to make the digital teaching and learning experience simpler is apparent, including access, results management, and high-quality options in content. Join Stacie Hughes, Professor of Accounting at Athens State University, as she shares her user experience with the Blackboard Learn/McGraw-Hill digital content integration.
- Classroom Building, Room 104
- Presented by Kathy Shackelford (McGraw-Hill Higher Education) and Stacie Hughes (Athens State University)
Increase Student Success with Dynamic Multimedia Content from NBC Learn
Engaging students by providing contemporary and/or historical context to their learning has always been critical, and using various media tools to that end is increasingly important. This workshop, facilitators will demonstrate how to enliven classes and stimulate critical thinking and debate with nearly 14,000 multimedia resources generated during 80 years of NBC News.
- Classroom Building, Room 204
- Presented by Matt Adams (NBC Learn) and Judith Lea (Northeast Alabama Community College)
Fair Warning and Fair Use: Copyright in the Digital Age
In the digital world we inhabit, it’s easy to run afoul of copyright. What does fair use mean in class management systems, the classroom lecture, or handouts? How can I legally get permissions for using material? How have the recent court cases affected the law? If you have ever wondered what constitutes fair use in this age of video and music clips, Google and open source materials, then this session will provide some guidelines.
- Waters Hall, Room N-202
- Presented by Lisa Hullett (Wallace State Community College)
How Wimba Can Help Bridge the Gap Between the Busy Student and On-Campus Activities
The ASU Accounting Department has provided an opportunity for distance learning students to be involved in the Accounting Club in a synchronous (real-time) or asynchronous (archived) format by using Wimba. As a result of incorporating Wimba into the Accounting Club meetings, we have increased student participation by nearly 30%. With the continued increase in transportation costs, this may be a worthwhile option for other campus clubs to consider.
- Waters Hall, Room N-205
- Presented by Emily Corzine (Athens State University), Jackie Russell (Athens State University), and John Berzett (Athens State University)
Practical Proctoring for Distance Learning
Need a practical, viable solution to online testing concerns? If the answer to this question is yes, partner with ProctorU. In this session, Enterprise State Community College and ProctorU will illustrate a method your institution can implement to successfully administer online tests. The session will demonstrate the methodology that ensures your institution is meeting federal guidelines and regional accreditation standards involving authentication of students enrolled in online courses while satisfying faculty concerns regarding academic integrity.
- Waters Hall, Room N-206
- Presented by Wanda Flowers (Enterprise State Community College), Oretha Harper (Enterprise State Community College), Rhonda Hemphill (Enterprise State Community College), Amy Wise (Enterprise State Community College), and Luke Brymer (ProctorU, Inc.)
"Methods for Encouraging Academic Honesty"
In this session participants will learn about four countermeasures for improving academic honesty, pros and cons for each countermeasure, tips for implementation, and evidence that supports that the countermeasures work.
- Waters Hall, Room N-105
- Presented by Misty Cobb (Blackboard)
2:45 – 3:40 PM: Breakout Session 4
Kick Start Your Students’ Careers Today
Presentation of the free Internships.com Building Block for Bb Learn and how it can help kick-start your students' careers, including a case study of the benefits that Athens State University has attained.
- Waters Hall, Room N-201
- Presented by John Giangregorio (Internships.com) and Steve Clark (Athens State University)
Cengage Learning & Blackboard Learn 9.1: Integrated Content for your Institution
Cengage Learning’s innovative new service, MindLinks, allows our market leading content to be fully integrated into Blackboard Learn 9.1. One of the key solutions available via MindLinks is MindTap, an online learning solution that fuses together authoritative textbook pedagogy with customizable Learning Paths, offers innovative access to a variety of instructional utilities, through a unique app model known as MindApps and engages students with a powerful, innovative PERSONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE.
- Classroom Building, Room 104
- Presented by Troy Anderson (Cengage Learning)
DON'T FEAR THE EVAL!
There's no need to start a civil war between paper and web-based course/instructor evaluations. Each has their charms. The point is to transmit actionable feedback to instructors, and with luck, improve teaching and learning. Attendees will be exposed to a palette of best practices pertaining to the administration of web-based course evaluations, including the reasons to remain on a paper-based system, with only the occasional reference to the speaker's favorite product, CoursEval.
- Classroom Building, Room 204
- Presented by Brian Hopewell (ConnectEDU)
Are FAQ-Discussions necessary in Blackboard Learn?
The purpose of this session is to discuss the elements of Frequently Asked Questions Discussions (FAQ-D) that encourage stress-free interactions between instructor-peer-peer in online and hybrid Blackboard Learn environments.
- Waters Hall, Room N-202
- Presented by Suhana Chikatla (Wallace State Community College)
Tearing Down the Walls: Bringing the Library into the Online Classroom
A panel of librarians will discuss how their institutions have developed library services to assist online/distance learning faculty and students, as well as challenges faced. Topics will include chat/instant messaging services, postings/announcements in Blackboard, discovery products, online tutorials, electronic databases, and more.
- Waters Hall, Room N-205
- Presented by Julia Everett (Northeast Alabama Community College), Dusty Folds (Gadsden State Community College), Barbara Goss (Jeff State Community College), and Clare King (Jeff State Community College)
Tegrity Lectures: Tips and Tricks to Better Impact Your Students
What do students think of your Tegrity recordings? Students make comments such as “Turn off the cell phone please!” and “I really like interactive sessions with the instructor writing on the tegrity board”. Course surveys from Athens State College of Business students have revealed some of the best and worst practices for producing a Tegrity video. This session will use the survey results and the student comments to develop these best and worst practices so instructors can enhance their Tegrity presentations to better impact their students.
- Waters Hall, Room N-206
- Presented by Jeff Johnson (Athens State University)
Best Practices in Online Course Design
A number of different rubrics have been developed to help determine the level of quality in an online course. Many of these rubrics share the same underlying concepts. In this session, we will look at three of the most popular quality rubrics and explore the underlying themes so that you can take your online course from static to engaging.
- Waters Hall, Room N-105
- Presented by Mark Gale (Athens State University)
BamaBUG Quarterly Meeting
BamaBUG is a Blackboard Users Group that aims to provide members with opportunities for networking and collaboration with other higher education Blackboard users in the State of Alabama. BamaBUG seeks to produce and distribute best practices for establishing minimum quality standards in e-learning and traditional instructional methods, providing faculty development opportunities, getting faculty buy-in regarding effective use of Blackboard, and using educational technologies that supplement Blackboard as well as learning from one another's experiences, both good and bad.
- Waters Hall, Room S-200
- Led by Carey Smouse (Jacksonville State University)
3:40 - 3:50 PM: Drop Your "Passports" in the Raffle Box
- Raffle drop box located next to speaker podium in Carter Physical Education Center
- Partner exhibit booths closed
3:50 - 4:15 PM: Prize Raffle Drawing and Closing Remarks
- Carter Physical Education Center
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