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Extending Community: Stories, Culture & Technology In The Classroom, Ginna Allison

Sandanona

How can cultural experience help to develop language skills? How can we reach beyond the classroom to create a sense of community? This session explores the spheres of personal narrative and technology and how they intersect with ESL to open rich opportunities for teaching and learning.

Research Poster: Losing The Lake: Misconceptions Regarding Water Resources And Climate Change, Marissa Owens, Michael Nussbaum, Gale M. Sinatra

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

Research poster

Mco Track: Online Teaching And Learning Best Practices From Mco Cod Award Winners, Dona Cady, Anne Hird, Michelle Manganaro, Susan Todd, Lori Weir

EdTech Day

Massachusetts Colleges Online created the Courses of Distinction (COD) Awards to recognize faculty whose course designs best exemplify online education’s potential to enhance teaching and learning. Recent COD Award winners share their course sites and best practices in online teaching and learning.

Social Networks As Tools For Learning In Higher Ed, Aimee Mcalpine

EdTech Day

Social networks are ubiquitous in students’ (and many faculty members) non-academic lives. Facebook, My Space, LinkedIn, and Twitter have increasingly become part of our vernacular. The potential of social networks to connect and engage people with one another through various web-based mediums for free and with relative ease provides fertile ground for thinking about how these tools can enhance student learning in academic environments. This session will explore the possibilities and challenges of social using social networks with students for the purpose of academic learning. The presenters experience delivering a graduate course via a custom social network will be shared …

Mco Track: The Human Side Of Online Learning: 7 Critical Components Of Course Design And Implementation, Michelle Manganaro

EdTech Day

Participants will examine seven critical components that are necessary for qualitative and successful learner outcomes, and a teaching and learning model for online classrooms that blends structure, redundancy, and opens learning opportunities both ‘onscreen and off.’ Sample online classrooms will be shown as part of the session, including Blackboard and OLS. Presenter will share personal online teaching outcomes from the past five years, (the positive and not so positive), and demonstrate evidence of best practices via components of the online teaching and learning model.

Mco Track: Using An Institution Wide Template In Lmss To Promote Best Practices In The Use Of Online Course Spaces, Aimee Mcalpine

EdTech Day

In early 2009, a primary goal of the Massasoit Online Learning Team became the promotion of the use of Quality Matters™ standards in the development of online spaces. As a means of supporting all Faculty in their pursuit of using a LMS to support F2F classes, teach hybrid courses, or teach fully online courses, templates were developed. Use of a template is optional and various training models have been implemented to support and promote the use of templates. This session will include:

• information about the development and implementation of the template;
• examination of the two templates currently in use; and …

Keynote: Teaching Outside The “Box”, Alexandra Pickett

EdTech Day

Web 2.0 has brought about a grassroots revolution resulting in a global democratization of access to tools, information, experts, content, and education, and in many ways has begun to change how education is delivered, conducted, and defined. I believe it is my obligation as a responsible netizen and educator in this moment to participate, to evaluate, to document, and to expose and engage students and faculty to and in this process. This presentation will endeavor to challenge and inspire you to think outside your box to consider possibilities for your own instruction. I will demonstrate my “box” and how I …