Breakout Room

Ursa Minor

9:00 - 9:35

Dr. Lin Wu
Class in session - work in progress

Dr. Lin Wu will share her experience in designing, developing, and teaching a complete online upper division GE synthesis course: Geography of California.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the aspects and issues concerning the effectiveness of an online course structure in facilitating student learning and maintaining faculty time efficiency
  

i>clicker
Interactive demo of i>clicker

Learn how easy it is to implement i>clicker into your class to make it more engaging, increase participation and attendance, and have more fun in your course.

Faculty Liaison: Dr. Gilbert Brum

9:40 - 10:15

Dr. Louis A. Foster
Dr. Eileen Wallis
Dr. Anne Wohlcke
Dolce da Solo: Innovative digital approaches to online teaching

DOLCE (Designing Online Learning-Centered Environments) da Solo is a course redesign program for medium to high-enrollment courses and was designed for the development of online or hybrid courses through a special program administered by the Faculty Center for Professional Development, I&IT Learning, and the Chancellor’s Office.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to construct quizzes that address some of the concerns of testing on-line
• Learn how multimedia can create an interactive and engaging online teaching presentation

Pearson
eLearning Solutions from Pearson Education

With larger enrollments and fewer resources, educators are increasingly asked to do more with less. Pearson's Technology applications help instructors develop quality web-based resources for traditional, online or hybrid classes quickly and easily. Our MyLabs and Mastering products are some of the most widely used online teaching and learning applications in higher education, and they include tutorials, homework, testing and assessment. Pearson also offers another learning solution called CourseConnect, a library of customizable online courses with recommended course descriptions, syllabi, lessons containing rich media, graphics and interactivities, discussion questions and assessment banks. Additional products we offer include TestGen, a test-creation program that allows tests to be exported to and delivered on-line, Digital Video Tutors, problem-specific tutorial videos on CD-ROM or DVD; and a free, two-way tutoring service available by toll-free phone, email, and fax.

Faculty Liaison: Dr. Tina Hartney

10:20 - 10:55

Wimba
Collaborating with 21st Century Students and Wimba

This presentation is focused on providing new and enhanced capabilities that can help you enrich all aspects of the academic experience. It is especially useful in highlighting differences between Blackboard releases and how faculty can enhance aspects of student engagement, collaboradtion and assessment.

SoftChalk
If it's not easy, it's not SoftChalk

SoftChalk creates software for educators. SoftChalk LessonBuilder easily transforms your flat Word or PowerPoint documents into interactive, engaging lessons. SoftChalk LessonBuilder creates content that integrates with Blackboard and other LMSs, or can be placed on a CD or any web/file server.

Student learning is re-enforced using LessonBuilder activities and tools. These activities include the easy creation of flash content such as crossword puzzles, image mapping, slide shows, and sorting exercises. As well as comprehension questions such as true/false, multiple answer, multiple choice, and short answer. And all graded activities can automatically be entered into the Blackboard grade-book.

At this presentation you will see why we say “If it’s not easy, it’s not SoftChalk”.

11:00 - 11:35

Blackboard
Blackboard Learn, Release 9

This presentation is focused on providing new and enhanced capabilities that can help you enrich all aspects of the academic experience. It is especially useful in highlighting differences between Blackboard releases and how faculty can enhance aspects of student engagement, collaboration and assessment.

Faculty Liaison: Dr. Don St. Hilaire

11:40 - 12:15

12:20 - 12:55

Dr. Mark Meskin, RD
Dr. Bonny Burns-Whitmore, RD
Adventures in teaching a GE course online

Dr. Mark Meskin and Dr. Bonny Burns-Whitmore will discuss technological and didactic challenges of developing, and continuously improving the quality of their online GE nutrition course.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the challenges and benefits of online class teaching
• Learn the benefit and importance of continuous quality improvement for both faculty and the student
• Learn how to avoid and overcome some of the time management pitfalls of online teaching

Echo 360
Lecture Capture - the Four Rs (Review, Retention, Remediation and Recruiting)

Echo360 is an easy to use automated lecture capture solution for one to one hundred classrooms. Full rich media recordings are automatically scheduled so faculty need only "walk in, teach, and walk out." There are no buttons to push and no post-production steps necessary by faculty or staff. Within an hour the complete recording of the lecture is available online through access with the course management system. Podcast versions are automatically produced as well. Find out how lecture capture affects student outcomes.

Faculty Liaison: Dr. David Lord

1:00 - 1:35

Christy Stevens
Integrating Online Research and Library E-Resources into Your Classes

This presentation provides ideas for helping students become more sophisticated researchers using both the free web and library e-resources. It also introduces library e-learning modules as an effective and efficient way to enhance student's information literacy competencies without taking up a lot of class time.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about ideas and ways to help students become better researchers
• Learn about how the library can help improve student information literacy

McGraw Hill
Lecture Capture and new innovations in McGraw-Hill Technology

McGraw-Hill introduces Connect: a powerful, web-based assignment management system that makes creating and grading assignments easy for you and learning convenient for students. It saves you time and makes learning for students accessible anytime, anywhere. During this session, we will demonstrate how Connect can enable you to easily manage: Assignments, Practice, Auto-Grade, and Progress.

McGraw-Hill is proud to announce a new partnership with Tegrity, a web-based lecture capture service that can be implemented at the course, department, or campus level. You speak approximately 120 words per minute during lecture, while your students write only 20 words per minute. This forces them to decide between listening or taking notes. With Tegrity Campus they no longer have to make that decision. Your students can engage in class discussion, listen more intently and retain more – all improving course performance. During this session, we will demonstrate how Tegrity can be used from both the instructor and student perspective.

1:40 - 2:15

Dr. James Kim
Toward a Student-Centered Design: Experiences with the Online/Hybrid Course Medium

The goal of this presentation is to share one instructor's approach to designing an online/hybrid course.
The presentation calls for taking design seriously by emphasizing the philosophical and practical underpinning of an online/hybrid course. The presenter will also consider some avenues for assessment and evaluation of performance.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the various approaches to online/hybrid design and organization, student participation and interaction
• Learn how to build incentive structures to learning in an online medium

Apple
iTunesU

Join Jay Matheson, Apple Development Executive, for a session on the power and potential of iTunes U within the CSU system. During this session we will discuss how iTunes U seamless integrates podcasting as well share some best practice and strategies to incorporate student generated content into your classroom. We will also cover accessibility and the latest information on iTunes U and 508 compliance.

Faculty Liaison: Dr. Ruth Guthrie

2:20 - 2:55

Cengage
Effective, interactive and affordable course solutions from Brooks/Cole, Wadsworth and South-Western

Today’s learners are rapidly changing… shouldn’t the tools they use reflect those changes? Learn more about how you can engage your students and drive even better results in your classroom and on-line.

Adobe
eLearning with Adobe

Take advantage of tools like Adobe® Acrobat® Connect Pro, Adobe Captivate®, and Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended as well as instructional resources such as the Communication and Collaboration Resource Center — which offers step-by-step Learning Management System (LMS) integration guidance and community support — to accelerate learning and increase retention on your campus.Take advantage of tools like Adobe® Acrobat® Connect Pro, Adobe Captivate®, and Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended as well as instructional resources such as the Communication and Collaboration Resource Center — which offers step-by-step Learning Management System (LMS) integration guidance and community support — to accelerate learning and increase retention on your campus.

Faculty Liaison: Dr. Paivi Hoikala

3:00 - 3:35

Docsoft
Docsoft, Captioning made simple

An overview of what Docsoft does, why captioning is important and how it adds value. Also, a discussion on how captioning is done at Cal Poly Pomona.

Faculty Liaison: Dr. Amir Rezaei

Elluminate
Social Learning in a Higher Education System

Facebook, Flickr, and Ning are all wonderful platforms for social networking. This session will explore how higher education can implement and leverage such systems for teaching and learning.