CTD2010 Session Descriptions
Key Note: Technology and Tomorrow's University
George Siemens, Researcher, Social Media Strategist
Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, Athabasca University
Social media, mobile devices, networks, location-based computing, and "the internet of things" are changing how people communicate, find information, and connect with each other. Learners bring their networks into classrooms. They study, share information, and make sense of complex topics in networks. For many learners, social and technological networks are cognitive agents - extending and augmenting in-class or in-course learning. This presentation will review prominent technology trends and suggest ways in which they will alter the university's teaching, learning, and research practices.
George Siemens' PowerPoint presentation
Presenter:
Kristina Verner, Centre for Smart Community Innovation
Kristina Verner, Centre for Smart Community Innovation
Windsor and Essex County has been recognized as one of the top 21 most intelligent communities in the world by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). The ICF is a global organization that studies the economic and social development of the 21st Century community. It seeks to share the best practices of the world's Intelligent Communities in adapting to the demands of the broadband economy, in order to help communities everywhere find sustainable renewal and growth. When the ICF selects a community to be one of the top intelligent communities of the year, it shines the international spotlight on the region, and demonstrates that we are a community that is thinking forward, and capable of collaborating to advance the well being of residents, businesses and organizations.
This year’s application theme was the Educational Last Mile, which examines how the community is preparing its youth to enter the workforce. A suite of programs from the Odette School of Business was the primary focus, including the innovative MBA program and the activities of the Centre for Business Advancement and Research.
This award builds upon the previous successes of the Connecting Windsor-Essex’ Smart Community initiative, which is making our community one of the world’s most connected regions and uniting diverse organizations and individuals to champion the cause of connecting people “at the speed of life.”
Presenter:
Katie Putnam, Liaison & Student Recruitment/Mathematics & Statistics
Katie Putnam, Liaison & Student Recruitment/Mathematics & Statistics
Many university campuses in Ontario have taken advantage of YouTube as a communication tool. This session will present the use and structure of YouTube channels, market share, most viewed video categories, viewer traffic, content analysis, and recommendations for successful uses of YouTube for the University of Windsor.
Presenter:
Candace Nast, History
Candace Nast, History
With new tools emerging nearly every day, it can be difficult to determine which will make life easier and which will just complicate things. Twitter is based on 140 character messages that can be directed to specific users or broadcast to the web. It has great potential for building networks and engaging with students. As an example, members of the “twitterstorian” community of historians on Twitter number near 500 (as of mid-March 2010). The community includes faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, humanists, instructional technologists, museums, curators, public historians, incoming students, amateurs.
Twitter is used for real-time announcements, linking to resources, highlighting student, colleague, or your own work, and discussing ideas or course material. Conference calls for papers are forwarded and panels formed; job market highs and lows are cheered and supported as needed.
On Twitter, graduate students interact with potential advisors and learn about the culture of academia. They have an opportunity to become part of the community before they ever step on a campus. With a Twitter backchannel, conference virtual-attendees can participate by making comments and asking questions. Twitter also allows discussions to continue after conferences are over.
This presentation will demonstrate the basics of using Twitter and will highlight some of the more interesting applications to date.
Presenters:
Ken Cramer, Psychology
Chris Legebow, English
Chris Legebow, English
Jill Singleton-Jackson, Psychology
Three professors at the University of Windsor have found ways to use collaboration and peer review as part of writing instruction in their courses. Ken Cramer from Psychology has developed a unique online program that gives students the opportunity to submit writing assignments on-line and receive peer feedback that results in assignment scores. Jill Singleton-Jackson from Psychology uses peer review as a means of teaching constructive criticism and drafting/editing skills. Chris Legebow from English has experience withTurnitin.com and the Grademark program, which she uses to help her students gain experience with peer review and avoidance of plagiarism. This session will feature points of interest from these three professors and suggestions regarding ways that peer review can be incorporated into any course.
Presenters:
Anne Carrick, Acting Human Rights Advisor
Anne Carrick, Acting Human Rights Advisor
Much of the campus community is aware that the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 requires all employees to be trained to provide accessible customer service. We're currently engaged in that training now. But there are four other key areas that the Act addresses. The next key area expected to be addressed includes making information and communications accessible. This has profound implications over a broad range of areas across campus. It covers the Web, classroom presentations such as PowerPoint presentations, video, etc. It will affect the way we work, our budgets, and a wide range of other aspects. This presentation will provide a status report of what's been done to date and what we can expect to happen along with implications and challenges we will face.
This presentation will be of interest to those of us responsible for the delivery of information and communications and the administrators who have to ensure that the University complies with these new regulations. You will have to come to the presentation to discover the three other key areas that the AODA requires us to address.
Presenters:
Srabanti Chitte, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Darrel Laurendeau, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Srabanti Chitte, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Darrel Laurendeau, Centre for Teaching and Learning
System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM 2007) is an enterprise solution developed and built on Microsoft technologies to manage IT systems efficiently. SCCM 2007 assesses IT inventory, deploys OS installations remotely, and update all clients and servers across physical, virtual, distributed and mobile environments. SCCM 2007 provides solutions for prime IT areas such as IT asset intelligence, software update management, software distribution, desired configuration management and operating system deployment. It can automate the update process and hence increase availability and performance of the network.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) manages approximately 150 computers across the campus. Many of which are individually located in classrooms. CTL adopted this tool to more effectively and efficiently manage computers within its responsibility.
During the presentation we will be discussing the rollout of SCCM across campus on CTL machines. SCCM will be demonstrated to show its different features and how efficiently it can deploy all updates and software. Highlights of configuring both the server and clients will be discussed as well.
Presenters:
A panel of students, facilitated by Jelena Magliaro, Education
A panel of students, facilitated by Jelena Magliaro, Education
What are the University of Windsor students’ perceptions and usage of technology? The diverse student panel will elaborate on how they create, contribute, collaborate, connect, share and participate in a learning community. Of particular interest will be students’ engagement through the social media tools, nursing practice, and marketing.
Presenters:
Lorie Stolarchuk, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Wayne Tousignant, Education
Lorie Stolarchuk, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Wayne Tousignant, Education
What happens when a university jumps into a pedagogical support development process in which external accreditation and an open source learning management system meet?
One possible and constructive result is outcomes based pedagogical development for instructors and graduate students. Two innovative classes at the University of Windsor evolved out of a Course Design: Constructive Alignment class and a Faculty of Education graduate level instructional design education course.
The demands of aligned curriculum design and creative approaches to teaching and learning pushed the boundaries of the learning management system creating opportunities, frustrations and progress in developing the instructional capabilities of this online environment. After attending this session, participants will be able to describe successful approaches and the pitfalls in teaching online using Sakai. Models of constructive alignment and rapid prototyping will be discussed, in addition to the downward movement of online education into the K-12 environment.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
· describe at least two successful strategies when designing online learning environments using Sakai
· discuss at least two lessons learned from the challenges of the online environment, and
· identify components of effective instructional design models
Presenters:
Mark Charlton, Finance
Purita Bristow, IT Services
Mark Charlton, Finance
Purita Bristow, IT Services
A review of current eCommerce applications and processes will identify the processes, choices and efforts at the University of Windsor to date. Further applications in development and under consideration will be discussed and lead to input on future projects and selection criteria. Available and new payment options will be examined along with a discussion on costs and security. Demonstration of transactions will affirm ease and accuracy.
Presenters:
Nick Baker, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Anthony Gomez, Student Disability Services
Heather Hartley, Women's Studies
Jelena Magliaro, Education
Kirsten Poling, Biological Sciences
Philip Smith, IT Services
Jim Winter, Communication, Media & Film
Nick Baker, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Anthony Gomez, Student Disability Services
Heather Hartley, Women's Studies
Jelena Magliaro, Education
Kirsten Poling, Biological Sciences
Philip Smith, IT Services
Jim Winter, Communication, Media & Film
Have you noticed an increase in the use of technology such as wireless devices (laptops, netbooks, PDAs, Smartphones etc) by students in your classes? Have you considered the implications of these devices for student learning? It has been argued that the use of technology in the classroom is inevitable and even desirable. Counterarguments consider such technologies as unnecessary distractions and cognitive challenges for students who should be concentrating their energy on classroom learning. What does the evidence tell us about the two sides of this argument? What are the real issues and how might we begin to solve them?
These and other questions around the use of technology in classrooms will be discussed by a panel of faculty and staff who have experienced the challenges and opportunities posed by student technologies in class. The panel will discuss possible solutions to these challenges from their own experience, and participants will be exposed to a wide range of ideas, as well as being invited to contribute their own ideas to session.
Presenters:
Enrique Chacon, International Student Centre
Enrique Chacon, International Student Centre
Shafqat Hanif, Law
Bob Hodge, Biological Sciences
Margaret Mayer-McKnight, Education
Bob Hodge, Biological Sciences
Margaret Mayer-McKnight, Education
John Powell, Office of the Vice-Provost, Students and Registrar
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've no doubt seen the University's new Web presence. It's the result of a lot of hard work by many people across campus. The front line shock troops who spearhead much of the effort includes Information Providers (IPers). They are the people who mastered the intricacies of a new Content Management System (CMS), redesigned their department's web site and forged ahead to add new content and features. Their results are pretty impressive. This panel discussion will feature a few of these intrepid IPers who will describe their Web building experiences over the last few months. An added feature will be to highlight and recognize the achievements of some of these technology leaders from across campus.
This panel discussion will be of interest to IPers who want to see what others are doing across campus, administrators who want to know more about our new Web presence, and anyone else who is contemplating building out a website for any purpose.
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