Faculty Presentations in Summer 2004

Technology Serving Learning Summer 2004

Faculty Presentations

May 18th through May 21st

Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

Tuesday:

Time:	Presenter:	Title:	Description:
9:00 a.m.	David Kunz	Transitioning Technology to the Classroom	Describing the transition in views of using technology/online courses in the classroom
9:45 a.m.	Leon Book	Technology in the Face-to-Face and Online Classroom	How I use technology in my classes, both online and face-to-face.
10:30 a.m.	Leslie Jones	Using Audio Files to Teach Music Appreciation Online	A Music Appreciation class would be an impossibility as an online course without the availability to include examples with the class materials and quizzes. This presentation will demonstrate one instructor's use of audio files as part of that type of online class.
11:15 a.m.	Ken Callis	The Online Classroom

Wednesday:

Time:	Presenter:	Title	Description:
9:00 a.m.	Bijan Pashaie	Successful Implementation of a Constructivist Perspective in a Senior-level Engineering Course	In short, constructivism is "how one attains, develops, and uses cognitive processes (Airsian & Walsh, 1997). Here the learner takes ownership of a project and eventually creatively determines the project direction with the help of the then "instructor" & now "mentor". Constructivism has been implemented in early childhood and secondary education for some time now. However, its practice in medicine and Engineering relatively new. Computer-Interfacing was taught in Engineering-Physics at Southeast by learning all basics for the popular game, the Nintendo (GAMEBOY-COLOR) architecture, software and graphics alongside traditional topics in this course. A final project was then chosen by the class to program a game for the Gameboy-Color and test it by the end of the semester (Fall-2003). The class was able to coordinate the final semester-project & complete it in time with minimum direct supervision once all relevant basic topics had been learned and practiced in weekly lectures and laboratories. The authors are happy to present this successful implementation of a constructivist perspective in a senior-level engineering course within a traditional framework and would like to thank the Department of Physics & Engineering-Physics at Southeast for their support.
9:45 a.m.	Deborah Cohen	Teaching Health and Nutrition as an Online Course	Discussion on how a web course is set up and the few problems encountered with the web class; as well as some advantages of teaching this course online.
10:30 a.m.	Mike Readnour	An Online Advanced Placement Chemistry Teacher Development Institute	An Online Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry Teacher Development Institute has been taught the last two summers for both UCLA and SEMO. The organization, objectives and operation of the course will be discussed.
11:15 a.m.	Allen Gathman	Fostering Active Discussions on OIS Forum	Most of us have had experiences where we tried to get students to discuss course material on Forum, only to be disappointed -- they wouldn't post, or they would only post once without responding to other students, or their partication lacked depth of thought. After attending some workshops and reading on the topic, I had a number of ideas for improving the quality of online discussion. When I tried these ideas out in my online Science and Religion class, they seemed to work pretty well. I'll share some sources, the ideas I tried, and how they worked for me, and we'll discuss how these ideas might be applied in other courses.
12:00 p.m.	Stephen Overmann	Course Web Pages and Internet Assignments	The use of course web pages in support of BS 105, Environmental Biology and UI 360, Recycling and Waste Management will be described. Specific student assignments on internet usage related to the two courses will also be covered, including the Internet Encyclopedia of Garbage.

Thursday:

Time: Presenter: Title Description:

9:00 a.m. Rebecca Summary Enhancing Communication via MSN Messenger (or instant messaging) A discussion of my experience over the past 1 1/2 years using MSN Messenger to hold "office hours" in web and non-web classes. I have a breakdown of the type of questions asked by students and data on frequency of contact. Pluses & minuses of using this form of communication will be discussed.

9:45 a.m. Dennis Seyer Establishing TH100 Theatre Appreciation as an Online Class

TH100 Theatre Appreciation: establishing an online class that deals with an overview of theatre as a performing art.

10:30 a.m. Karie Hollerbach Which Teaching Method Performed Best? Chalk and Talk to Technology A discussion over an experiment in the communication department in November 2003 related to the teaching of radio audience measurement. Three MC101 (mass communication and society) classes were used with three experimental groups in each class that were matched on gender, GPA, and declared major (Mass Communications or not). Pre-tests were given to all three groups. One group then heard a chalk and talk lecture on audience measurement. The second group watched a video about the topic. The third group completed an interactive web lesson about the topic. All three groups were then given a post test.

11:15 a.m. Craig Roberts Promoting Active Learning via Web Pages Do you want your web site to be a site where students can interact with the concepts that are presented in your class? While this is a worthwhile goal, it is a daunting task to design such a site. We will discuss reasonable strategies for increasing the interactivity of a web site that do not require extensive programming skills.

Friday:

Time: Presenter: Description:

9:00 a.m. Matt Fasnacht Success Stories Detecting Plagiarism using Turnitin.com The use of turnitin.com to detect plagiarism in papers and lab reports will be discussed. Classroom examples will be shown to give you an idea how turnitin.com can be used in your classes.

9:45 a.m. Margaret Hill Challenges and Strategies for Active Learning in a Web Course During the past year I have adapted the popular astronomy course, PH109: Exploring the Universe, to the web. In doing so I needed to be sure I included a laboratory component and addressed the relevant university study objectives. One of the real challenges in administering a web course is making sure the students are interacting with the material and getting something from the course. Here I'll share my experiences with web course development and some of the strategies I used to engage students on the web.

10:30 a.m. Steve Hoffman Incorporating Student Web Page Development into the Curriculum Having students develop web pages as part of the curriculum.

11:15 a.m. Bill Snell PY101: An Online Showcase for Psychological Perspectives on Human Behavior As part of the showcase, the presentation will demonstrate how students in this class complete the assignments (video and non-video) and tests (weekly quizzes) for PY101. The challenges of teaching this "University Studies" class online.