- Age of the “Literate” Machines? Plagiarism Detection Services
(McQueeney Pat: 8/5/2006)
- Essay raters, placement tests, and plagiarism software involve human language with all its complexities, some of which are easily parsed for technological interpretation, and some of which are not. How are these tools making and shaping learning, and how can we re-shape them to support our pedagogy?
- Blogs and Wikis and Podcasts – Oh My!
(Tracy Newman: 8/5/2006)
- This handout for a SIDLIT session, covers blogs, wikis and podcasts as instructional tools and how you can use them to enhance your courses. The differences between these mediums and what the advantages and disadvantages of each are covered.
- Capturing Your Media to Your Computer and Beyond
(Michael Rea: 8/5/2006)
- This handout is for a SIDLIT 2006 session that covered how to import and store photos, video, and audio from capturing devices such as digital and video cameras on your computer. The session featured Roxio Media Creator and demonstrated how you can manipulate media after it has been digitized on your computer.
- Creating Video for the Classroom
(Tracy Newman: 8/5/2006)
- This SIDLIT session explored the use of video in distance learning – and when NOT to use it! Low budget solutions for simple video acquisition and editing are explored, including Windows Movie Maker, Apple’s iLife Suite, Quicktime Pro, and capturing video with a digital camera. We’ll also touch on how to get your movies into Blackboard.
- Developing New Online Faculty
(Antonacci David : 8/5/2006)
- As part of the faculty development efforts, the Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) department at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) added a course about Teaching & Learning Online at KUMC. Unlike many similar courses that emphasize technology training, this course is unique in its focus on the application of theory, research, and best practices. This presentation will examine the design, development, content, delivery, and evaluation of this course, as well as faculty outcomes. Additionally, we will describe and demonstrate our methods to broaden faculty understanding of interaction, and the use of learning activity templates to assist faculty with selecting appropriate learning strategies and developing quality learning activities with much less time and effort.
- Exploring the Mysteries of the PDF File
(Jonathan Bacon, Marsha Cousino, Saul Epstein, Davy Jones, Marziah Karch, Jeff Kosko, Tracy Newman, Greenup Nick, Michael Rea, John Stone, Judi Vaughn: 8/4/2006)
- Covers details on the many and varied uses of PDF files
- How Not to Act Like a Dweeb in Second Life
(Marziah Karch: 8/1/2008)
- How to Determine if Your Web Site is Accessible
(Jonathan Bacon, Epp Bob, Marsha Cousino, Saul Epstein, Davy Jones, Marziah Karch, Jeff Kosko, Ed Lovitt, Tracy Newman, Greenup Nick, Michael Rea, John Stone, Judi Vaughn: 8/12/2006)
- SIDLIT presentation by Tim Sears on web site accessibility
- Microsoft Viewers
(Jonathan Bacon: 8/12/2006)
- Word, Works, WordPefect, Visio, PowerPoint and Excel documents can be viewed without the application on your computer using Microsoft Viewers
- The Tao of Twelve Steps to research success on the Internet
(Lord Lissa: 8/5/2006)
- The Tao = the Way and academic inquiry leads the inquirer on a research journey. Where do you start? Where are you going? How will you know when you get there? How will you know the end? This is a "no nonsense" presentation with a mission: to take the "overwhelmed" out of limitless resources available to the online researcher. We’ll share search methods, resources and results with each other. Attendees will gain information on the process of online research in an academic setting. Databases will be covered lightly while “open resources” on the Internet will get a more in-depth approach. Focus is on research techniques; finding resources; tracking research; and how to apply academic research standards to achieve precise, "clean" results.
- What Is an Institutional Repository and Why Do We Need One?
(Ludwig Deborah, Mercer Holly: 8/5/2006)
- Institutions of higher education have long been the centers of research and scholarship in our society, but how does an institution preserve and enable access to the wide range of scholarly and professional works created by faculty? The University of Kansas' Digital Initiatives program first offered an institutional repository called KU ScholarWorks in early 2005. This institutional repository makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation. This program will talk about the institutionally repository movement in higher education and KU's decision to provide KU Scholarworks. Topics will touch on technology issues (the decision to support open source versus a commercial product, OAI Harvesting, persistent URL's, preservation issues), factors that contribute to a successful repository service (working with faculty to promote use of the repository, creator responsibilities, faculty involvement), and potential differences in the scope and scale of repositories for Universities, colleges, and 2-year schools.
- Why Angel Learning?
(Cheney Darrin: 9/1/2006)
- The University of Kansas Medical Center recently switched from Blackboard to ANGEL Learning to better support learning initiatives within the schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health. This session explores the planning and design process, the politics, and the technology used to support this exciting enterprise level project. The presenter will discuss strategies to obtain faculty buy-in, explore course conversion issues, and discuss faculty training strategies. How to implement ANGEL as an enterprise level solution for collaboration and resource sharing among departments and researchers will also be discussed. In addition, using ANGEL components to support the design, and delivery of online instruction will be covered. The presentation will: - share how the instructional designers and faculty use collaboration groups to help facilitate in the design of online instruction and instructional programs; - explore how researchers and departments use ANGEL to support initiatives and accreditation processes; - demonstrate how templates are used to design learning components; - demonstrate how an Object Repository is used to manage curriculum, lectures, and course components; and - discuss how Modules are created with linked content from an Object Repository to provide students access to teaching resources in a large lecture format with limited support resources.
- You Want to Implement ePortfolios When?
(Cheney Darrin: 9/1/2006)
- The School of Medicine requested an integrated ePortfolio to demonstrate student competency in the medical curriculum. The School of Allied Health requested an ePortfolio initiative to demonstrate student competency in the Physical Therapy program. The purpose of this session is to explore the process, the challenges and the solutions that the University of Kansas Medical Center used in the design and integration of not one, but two ePortfolio initiatives in less than 6 months. This session will explore the planning/design process, the politics, the challenges, and the technology used to support both projects. Participants will learn valuable insights to take back to their institution.
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