Tagged: technology
Introduction to Blackboard Instant Messenger with Brian FinneganBlackboard
Learn how to use Blackboard Instant Messenger to facilitate communications with students and colleagues.
Location: Tinker Mountain at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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Introduction to Blackboard Instant Messenger with Brian FinneganBlackboard
Learn how to use Blackboard Instant Messenger to facilitate communications with students and colleagues.
Location: Tinker Mountain at Wednesday 3:00 p.m.
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Introduction to Blackboard Instant Messenger with Brian FinneganBlackboard
Learn how to use Blackboard Instant Messenger to facilitate communications with students and colleagues.
Location: Tinker Mountain at Wednesday 1:45 p.m.
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Blackboard Administration Updates with David Carter-TodBlackboard
New features and deployment issues for Blackboard Administrators.
Location: Crystal A at Friday 9:00 a.m.
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Performance Dashboard and Early Warning System with Donna LevyBlackboard
Performance Dashboard and Early Warning System are time saving tools at your fingertips.
Location: Wilson Computer Lab at Thursday 3:15 p.m.
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Blackboard Wimba (Voice Tools) with Bo YangBlackboard
Bring your own voice into Blackboard system.
Location: Wilson Computer Lab at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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Grading Rubrics in Blackboard with Dorothy ConnellyBlackboard
Happy instructors and happier students; use Blackboard rubrics to make grading easier for you and to clarify your expectations to students.
Location: Wilson Computer Lab at Thursday 11:00 a.m.
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Beginner Blackboard with Dyan LesterBlackboard
Foundational tools and customized training to refresh your skills or learn how to use Blackboard.
Location: Wilson Computer Lab at Thursday 8:30 a.m.
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Macmillan’s Deeper Integration with BlackBoard Learn with Brian DonnellanVendor
An overview Macmillan Higher Education's new deep integration with Blackboard followed by a Question & Answer period.
Location: Roanoke E at Wednesday 3:00 p.m.
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LEARNSMART and SMARTBOOK…the Evolution of Learning! with Ashley GessVendor
McGraw-Hill LearnSmart is the evolution of learning. Discover how LearnSmart is improving student performance by one full letter grade.
Location: Washington at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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Apps for Learning on the Go with Juliette MersiowskyTechnology
Come learn about the LoGo course & a set of mobile apps LoGo studentsidentified that can be used to improve productivity & engage learners.
Location: Washington at Thursday 4:30 p.m.
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HootSuite: Sorting through the Social Media Clutter with Leslie BowmanTechnology
Using social media to actively engage students takes time. Learn about a tool that consolidates up to five social media sites into one account.
Location: Wilson Computer Lab at Wednesday 3:00 p.m.
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Yoga Basics for Everyone with David ShivettsPersonal Wellness
Fundamental yoga techniques to make you feel better, physically,emotionally and spiritually. Teacher-assisted adjustments & modifications.
Location: Shenandoah B at Friday 9:00 a.m.
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Planning for Collaborative Group Learning Environments with Ed GillikinMoving Forward
VCCS Architect for the Colleges Ed Gillikin, AIA, will present Collaborative Group Learning Environments.
Location: Tinker Mountain at Thursday 8:30 a.m.
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Blackboard Collaborate Enabled Hands-on Laboratory Instruction with Thomas StoutBlackboard
Details the use of Blackboard Collaborate to deliver hands-on instruction remotely to the career and technical student.
Location: Tinker Mountain at Thursday 9:45 a.m.
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Reaching the Learning Paradigm in Online Courses with Ed McGeeEngaged
Student engagement in online courses depends heavily on students' ability to take an active and cooperative role in their own learning.
Location: Tinker Mountain at Friday 9:00 a.m.
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Ensuring Student Success in a Visual Arts Program with Christina RupschTeaching and Learning
Ensuring Student Success in a Visual Arts Program: Orientation, Expectations, Dynamic Communication, Practical Experiences and Assessment
Location: Tinker Mountain at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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Increasing Efficiency and Productivity with Ian TaylorTechnology
Increase efficiency on the following aspects of a course: syllabus, lecture videos, email, virtual office hours, and discussion board responses.
Location: Washington at Wednesday 4:15 p.m.
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The MindTap Initiative & Higher Ed’s Accelerated Movement to Digital with Windley MorleyVendor
Cengage taps into new models for delivering digital content, collaborating with publishers & enhancing the personal learning experience.
Location: Washington at Thursday 8:30 a.m.
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Simply Eco-Logical with Shalini UpadhyayaTeaching and Learning
Green Me up Scotty- Teaching Environmental sustainability one course at a time
Location: Shenandoah A at Thursday 8:30 a.m.
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Enriching Nursing Curricula Online Resources with Theresa KennonTechnology
A panel of nursing faculty will discuss some of the best classroom, clinical and independent learning activities developed from web-based resources.
Location: Shenandoah A at Thursday 3:15 p.m.
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Show and Tell: Langugage Instruction at Your Fingertips with Veronica CamposTeaching and Learning
An innovative online approach to making English grammar and writing instruction easily accessible to all faculty and students.
Location: Shenandoah A at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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Blackboard Learn Usability Forum with Stephanie WeeksVendor
Let's collaboratively design Blackboard Learn!
Location: Shenandoah B at Wednesday 4:15 p.m.
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How to Provide Free Computers to Your Students with Gary NoahTechnology
An overview of how TCCs Computers for Students Success Program has provided 2,000+ computers to students and members of the community.
Location: Shenandoah B at Thursday 9:45 a.m.
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Mobile Games for Language Arts by NRCC Games with Carlotta EatonTechnology
See mobile games created by NRCC Games team of students for teaching Language Arts. These games are used worldwide for E2L.
Location: Pocahontas B at Thursday 3:15 p.m.
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Mobile Games for Math by NRCC Games with Carlotta EatonTechnology
See mobile games created by NRCC Games team of students for teaching Math. These games can be used by college students and younger.
Location: Pocahontas B at Thursday 4:30 p.m.
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Ensuring Student Readiness for Online Learning: The “Are You Ready?” Orientation Designed for Any Distance Learning Class with Cheryl HuffRetention
GCC, as part of our QEP, designed, piloted, assessed, and revised a readiness orientation that can be used in any class, any semester.
Location: Pocahontas B at Friday 9:00 a.m.
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Simulation: Thinking Outside of the Classroom with Karla YatesTeaching and Learning
Simulatio: Thinkining Outside the Classroom explores the multiple uses of a simulation lab in a variety of curricula.
Location: Pocahontas B at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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eLearning and Psychology with Shelly TomlinVendor
Create a Flipped-classroom experience in Psychology
Location: Roanoke E at Wednesday 1:45 p.m.
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Expanding Technology Training & Integration with Online Learning Resources with Deborah MeesterVendor
Learn about a cost-effective online tool to increase technology training and support for all your campus' faculty, staff and students.
Location: Roanoke E at Thursday 8:30 a.m.
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Engage, Connect, Inform with Steve AdamsVendor
Attend to learn how Desire2Learn is partnering with institutions globally to help them succeed in their eLearning initiatives.
Location: Roanoke E at Thursday 9:45 a.m.
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5 Realities of 21st Century Living: A Guide for Teachers & Learners with Michael GreeneTechnology
Explore the future we're creating and what skills it will take to learn, live, and prosper in today's tomorrow.
Location: Roanoke E at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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The MindTap Initiative & Higher Ed’s Accelerated Movement to Digital with Windley MorleyVendor
Cengage taps into new models for delivering digital content, collaborating with publishers & enhancing the personal learning experience.
Location: Roanoke E at Thursday 3:15 p.m.
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Lessons in Leadership: Crossing Academic Disciplines Using Oral History and Documentary Film with Cynthia BotelerTeaching and Learning
A multimedia presentation on student involvement in two oral history projects, production of a documentary film and leadership workshop.
Location: Roanoke E at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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15 Years Later-Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going with Greg CookTechnology
A somewhat serious look at the history and future of instructional technology in the VCCS, featuring examples from each of the 23 colleges.
Location: Roanoke F at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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Virginia Education Wizard-NEW Career and Course Planner with Erika PoindexterMoving Forward
Come see the newest enhancements to the Virginia Education Wizard, including the NEW VCCS Career and Course Planner!
Location: Roanoke G at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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Transforming the Study of Anthropology into a Rich Online Learning Experience with Kim MontiTechnology
Presenters discuss online Anthropology courses using textbooks, publisher web content, OERs, Blackboard tools & iTouches to engage students.
Location: Pocahontas A at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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How to Keep Your Students Engaged in the Classroom with Martha SwirzinskiEngaged
Based on John Medina's book Brain Rules, this session will explore ways to keep your audience engaged.
Location: Mill Mountain at Wednesday 4:15 p.m.
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PenCasting 101-Let Your Pen Do the Talking! with Patricia ParkerTechnology
Come meet Einstein, my talking pen. See how we help students by creating a talking document that explains content and answers questions.
Location: Mill Mountain at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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How QUINN Can Help with Course Improvement, Retention, and Student Success with Bruce BartekMoving Forward
See how data from QUINN provides new insights about your students and courses that aid in course planning and student success.
Location: Mill Mountain at Thursday 3:15 p.m.
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Connecting Students and Businesses Through a Virtual Resource Center (VRC) with Ian TaylorOpportunity
This project gives students access to resources to apply skills learned in course instruction to the local high-demand jobs.
Location: Mill Mountain at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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Using your Senses When Doing Accounting with Agatha EngelTeaching and Learning
Explore different ways to learn accounting using your senses; visual, aural, kinesthetic.
Location: Monroe Computer Lab at Wednesday 1:45 p.m.
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Sharing Learnings through Social Media with Tameka SpencerTechnology
Incorporating learning through social media
Location: Monroe Computer Lab at Wednesday 4:15 p.m.
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Bridging the Divide: Bringing Redesigned English into Effective Online Learning with Tondalaya VanLearTechnology
Create clear, effective online course interactions for ENF developmental levels through a redefined view of Bb and web-based tools.
Location: Harrison / Tyler at Wednesday 3:00 p.m.
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Open Text Initiative System (OTIS): An NRCC Collaboration to Customize English 112 Course Content with Janice SheltonMoving Forward
Faculty will share OTIS, a collection of digital resources that is openly added to, edited, & accessed by English 112 faculty.
Location: Harrison / Tyler at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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Putting the Past Online: Digital Resources in early British Literature and other Humanities Courses with Abigail MontgomeryTechnology
Chaucer and Shakespeare didn't have the Internet; we who study them do. Technologies of the present enrich our study of the past.
Location: Madison at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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Canvas Learning Management Platform-What’s All the Fuss About? with Mark BlosilVendor
VCCS will be introduced to Canvas, the modern, intuitive, and open Cloud-based learning management platform.
Location: Buck Mountain at Thursday 8:30 a.m.
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Providing Flexible Professional Development to Faculty-the TOTAL Project with Joan OsborneProfessional Development
We will share information about the TOTAL project and how it supports professional development of faculty who teach online/hybrid courses.
Location: Buck Mountain at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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What You Don’t Know About Fraud Could Hurt You with Nauri AhmedPersonal Wellness
Consumer and occupational fraud is proliferating. Common fraud schemes and methods of protection and detection are discussed.
Location: Buck Mountain at Thursday 3:15 p.m.
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Digital Storytelling: Multimodal Narration, Research, and Inquiry with Tom GearyTechnology
Digital storytelling challenges today's scholars to reach academic audiences in multimodal spaces through narration as a vehicle for inquiry.
Location: Crystal C at Friday 9:00 a.m.
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Meeting the Needs of Our Learners: Sharing Audio and Video Content in Your Blackboard Course Areas with Kelly GoscinskiBlackboard
Come and take a look at tools that will allow you to add audio and video content to your course areas in Blackboard.
Location: Crystal E at Friday 9:00 a.m.
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Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard with Kelly GoscinskiBlackboard
The interactive rubrics tool makes it easy to incorporate rubrics into assessment to provide consistent and quality feedback to students.
Location: Crystal E at Friday 10:15 a.m.
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The Open Source Classroom-Almost 101 Free Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Beyond with Richie CrimTechnology
This session will cover free Cloud based and Open Source applications from lecture capture to content creation.
Location: Appalachian at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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Mobile Campus Maps and Navigation with Chérie AuklandTechnology
Campus Mapping: Reduce first-time student stress with mobile campus maps and free Google indoor mapping.
Location: Brush Mountain at Wednesday 3:00 p.m.
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Attention: Our National Deficit. Let’s Measure It and Discuss Solutions with Ramezan DowlatiEngaged
How much attention is expected from a 21st century student? How can we measure students' attention and adopt suitable methods and tools.
Location: Brush Mountain at Thursday 8:30 a.m.
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Teacher as Student: What My Students Teach Me about Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom with Sarah LiberatoreTechnology
Learn how to incorporate digital media into your art history and history classes to create an engaged and interactive classroom.
Location: Brush Mountain at Thursday 2:00 p.m.
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Google Apps for Education: Cloud-based Tools for the 21st Century Classroom with Richard SebastianTechnology
Move your teaching into the cloud with Google Apps for Education, a powerful suite of collaborative tools available to VCCS faculty.
Location: Appalachian at Wednesday 3:00 p.m.
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VPT MathSite: a Free and Open Online Resource for Preparing for the Virginia Placement Test-Math with Richard SebastianMoving Forward
Learn more about a TAACCCT-funded online resource freely available to anyone who wants to improve their math skills.
Location: Appalachian at Wednesday 4:15 p.m.
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Introducing Library QuickSearch with Tara CassidyTechnology
Gone are the days of choosing a specific library resource to begin online research. Join this session to get acquainted with QuickSearch, the library's new discovery tool, as well as an update on major library e-book developments.
Location: Appalachian at Thursday 8:30 a.m.