Program
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010
8:30-9:00: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:30: Conference Welcome
- Jerry Slezak, Director, Teaching and Learning Technologies
- Jay Harper, Provost
- Rick Hurley, Acting President
9:30-10:45: Concurrent Sessions
Panel Discussion in B210
- Is Course Design Only for Online Courses?
Steve Greenlaw, Janet Asper, Teresa Coffman, Marie McAllister
Presentation Session in B122
Convener: Nina Mikhalevsky
- The Bullet Fires Online: The Story Behind the Story
Michael McCarthy, Jim Groom - Ethology in Music: Chickadees in the Concert Hall
Craig Naylor - DitLit: Time to Re-Imagine the Place of Technology in the Curriculum at UMW
Jim Groom - Blog Experiences in a Hazardous Semester
Jackie Gallagher
Presentation Session in B115
Convener: Krystyn Moon
- TED@UMW
Tim O’Donnell, Jeff McClurken - Place-Based Learning and Interactive Mapping Systems
George Meadows, Martha Burtis - Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences, and Some of the Perils of Web 2.0 Teaching
John Morello - So Easy a Caveman Could Do It or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog
Jason Davidson
10:45-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30: Faculty Academy Keynote Address
- The Googlization of Higher Education
Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of Virginia Law School)
Special thanks to our Keynote Sponsor the UMW Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning.
12:30-2:00: Lunch and Deck Wars
2:00-3:15:Plenary Presentation
- We Are All The Pretender Now: Learning In an Age of Just-in-Time Instruction
Mike Caulfield (Keene State College)
3:15-3:30: Break
3:30-4:45:Concurrent Sessions and Guest Workshop
Presentation Session in B210
Convener: Zach Whalen
- The Effectiveness of Peer Instruction in Principles of Economics
Robert Rycroft - Creating a Website with “Luddite” Students
Andrea Smith - Promoting Creative Thinking Through UMW Blogs
Betsy Lewis - Initial Thoughts on Teaching with an iPad
John St. Clair
Presentation Session in B122
Convener: Tom Woodward
- Student Publishers
Claudia Emerson, Jim Groom - James Farmer at UMW: Publishing Oral Histories with UMW Blogs
Jess Rigelhaupt - WordPress for Libraries
Paul Boger - Exploring an Improved Multidimensional Framework of Cultural Intelligence in the Context of IT Workforce
Mukesh Srivastava
Guest Workshop in B124
Convener: Martha Burtis
- Practical Twitter
Julie Meloni (Washington State University)
Seating limited; Please register online or at the front desk.
4:45-6:00: Wine and Cheese Reception
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010
8:30-9:00: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00: Concurrent Sessions
Panel Discussion in B210
- Finding Their Own Way: Student Digital History Projects
Jeff McClurken, Lauren Milner, Taylor Brann, MacKenzie Murphy, Jenn Arndt
Presentation Session in B122
Convener: Robert Rycroft
- Fostering Connections in Business Communities through Social Networking
Raul Chavez, Lisa Ames - Wake Up!: Blogs as a Tool to Encourage Students Progress from Learning to Acting
Melanie Szulczewski - Curriculum, Community, and the Capacious Blog
Mara Scanlon
10:00-10:15: Break
10:15-11:30: Plenary Presentation
- System, Self, and Society: Understanding and Controlling the Rhetoric of Information
Julie Meloni (Washington State University)
11:30-11:45: Break
11:45-12:45: Concurrent Sessions
Panel Discussion in B210
- Is Digital Scholarship Really Scholarship?
Steve Greenlaw, Jeff McClurken, Zach Whalen
Presentation Session in B122
Convener: Beth Searcy
- Using JING to Create a Software Demonstration Video
Debra Hydorn - Demographic Characteristics of Synchronous Online Learners: A Quantitative Study
Cheryl Hawkinson Melkun - Connecting Across Campus: An Interdisciplinary Software Project
Esther Yook, Jennifer Polack, David Moore
Presentation Session in B115
Convener: Nabil Al-Tikriti
12:45-2:00: Lunch and Lightning Slides
2:00-3:15: Concurrent Sessions and Guest Presenter Workshop
Panel Discussion in B210
- Digital Fluency, Online Communication, History and American Studies: One Department’s Engagement with Social Media & Pedagogy
Jeff McClurken, Krystyn Moon, Susan Fernsebner
Presentation Session in B122
Convener: Suzanne Sumner
- Can iPod Touches Help Students Learn Neuroscience?
Allison Czapracki - A Wiimote-Based Interactive Projection System
George Meadows, Patrick Murray-John - Our Western Civilization II Chapter Blogs
Nabil Al-Tikriti, Jim Groom - Student Blogging
Rachael Wonderlin
Workshop in B124
Convener: Jerry Slezak
- Integrative Course Design
Mike Caulfield (Keene State College)
Seating limited; Please register online or at the front desk.


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