2004 AVLN Conference Schedule

2004 AVLN Conference Program Information

Subject to Change. Last Updated June 27, 2004

June 30, Wednesday
3:00-6:00 p.m. Registration. Dining Commons Room A.

Snack Web
6:00-9:00 p.m. A smorgasbord of food and technology. Come sample cool media tools, online courses, online learning tools, and more.
Bob Paulson, Jogging Online; Shelley Bacon, My Online Portfolio; Jerry Chi, SWAU e-learning system; Shirley Freed, What AVLN Can Do for You; Marilyn Eggers, TappedIn, Ann Greer, Association of Seventh-day Librarians (ASDAL); Colin Hill, Moodle; Ana Salazar, e42; Janine Lim, Cool Tech Tools. Willing to share? Email janine@janinelim.com.
July 1, Thursday
6:30-7:30 a.m. Exercise. Choose from PUC Backwoods Experience or Swimming.
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30-9:00 a.m. Welcome, Worship
9:15-10:30 Concurrent Sessions
Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace and Beyond
Rena M. Palloff, PhD and Keith Pratt, PhD
K-20 Online Learning
Teaching in the cyberspace classroom requires that we develop practices that are more facilitative. Additionally, attention needs to be paid to the development of a sense of community among participants in order for the learning process to be successful. Web enhancement of courses, or the use of the Internet to supplement or support face-to-face teaching, has been shown to be one of the most effective ways of teaching and learning. This workshop offers a successful framework for online distance education involving the development of a learning community along with suggestions to enable faculty to organize online and web-enhanced courses in such a way so that learners can take charge of the learning process. Come and learn about such topics such as the development of guidelines and a syllabus for the class, managing discussion, dealing with participation, the various ways that web-enhancement can be used, incorporating faith-based learning into our pedagogy, and evaluating student progress.
Continues throughout the day.

Adventist LEAP
Shelley Bacon and David Bullock
K-20 Online Learning
Educators around the country have begun talking about a seamless K-16 program that encourages high school students to continue on to college. Research indicates that high school students who take college classes are more likely to succeed in college. Public education has been offering dual enrollment/dual credit programs for quite some time, and every state has some sort of program. What do we have to offer Adventist students? Come learn about an initiative to offer exceptional Adventist students faith-based dual enrollment/dual credit classes through distance learning.

Searching and Learning
Marilyn Eggers
Beginning K-12 Technology Integration
Want to hone your web searching skills? Want to be part of an online learning community? Want to keep learning for your whole life in the comfort of your own home?
Workshop Web Page

Classroom Projects with Excel
Janine Lim
Advanced K-12 Technology Integration
Feel intimidated by Excel? Maybe you already use it all the time? Either way, come to this session and try out several neat projects you can do with students, either to teach them Excel skills, or to use Excel to teach curriculum skills such as data collection and analysis.

10:45-12:00 Concurrent Sessions
Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace and Beyond cont.
Rena M. Palloff, PhD and Keith Pratt, PhD
K-20 Online Learning

Classroom Projects with PowerPoint
Shelley Bacon
K-12 Technology Integration
How can you make assessment, learning, and faith integration come alive through the use of Power Point? Come learn some new tricks and share ideas for effectively using Power Point in the classroom.

Best Tools for Technology Integration
Janine Lim
K-12 Technology Integration
Did you know the Internet has wonderful free resources for teachers? Worksheet makers, assessment creation tools, tools to guide student Internet research, and many other useful tips and tricks for technology integration will be shared. Opportunity will be given for participants to share favorite tools.

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Concurrent Sessions
Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace and Beyond cont.
Rena M. Palloff, PhD and Keith Pratt, PhD
K-20 Online Learning

Using the Internet to Enhance Classroom Instruction
Monty Fisher
K-12 Technology Integration

Integrating Faith, Service and Technology
Shelley Bacon
K-12 Technology Integration
How can you help your students use technology to impact the world for Christ? Come share and discover ways to truly integrate faith into your classroom using technology.

Digital Video Workshop
1:00-6:00 p.m.
Trevor Murtagh and Junior Artigas
Technology How-to

2:45-4:15 Concurrent Sessions
Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace and Beyond cont.
Rena M. Palloff, PhD and Keith Pratt, PhD
K-20 Online Learning

Mathematics Virtually: Multiple Delivery Models for Learning and Teaching
Courtney Pindling
K-20 General
Classroom computer assisted mathematics education has now been integrated with Internet technology. This session demonstrates ways in which the computer through the Internet is used for mathematics instructions, course management, assessment and adaptation to students learning styles and disabilities. This presenter has build an extensive on-line resource for mathematics education covering such topics as: basic math, algebra, precacalclus, calculus and statistics.

Classroom Projects with Word and Inspiration
Janine Lim
K-12 Technology Integration
Wondering how you can integrate technology in your writing projects other than just writing papers? In this session, you'll learn about some unique projects you can have your students create using a word processor and/or Inspiration, a brainstorming tool.

4:30-6:00 Concurrent Sessions
Exploring Project-Based Online Learning: A Changing Online Pedagogy
Randy Siebold and Marsha Beal
K-20 Online Learning
Embracing education that advocates lifelong (eternal) learning with holistic outcomes, and a service focus has long been a desire of Christian educators. In fact, E.G. White admonished the same in the first paragraph of her book Education. Realizing the experience of moving from a content-centered to an activity-based courses (ABC) can be a major mind shift, this presentation will share a step-by-step process designed to walk the course designer through creating ABC's for online delivery that helps to integrate principles of good course design. A handout with the presentation overview and a supporting website will be shared.

Technology in the Early Elementary Classroom
Janine Lim
K-12 Technology Integration
Wondering how to use technology in K-3 classrooms? Learn how to use digital cameras and KidPix in the classroom. Lots of practical classroom ideas will be shared. This session covers some of the material in AVLN's online class by the same name.
Technology in the Early Elementary Classroom Online Course

Web Pages on a Budget
Monty Fisher
Technology How-To

6:30-9:00 Banquet

July 2, Friday
6:30-7:30 a.m. Exercise Choose from PUC Backwoods experience or Swimming.
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration/Information Desk Open
8:30-9:00 a.m. Welcome, Worship

9:15-10:30 Concurrent Sessions
Blackboard The Basics
Donica Ward
Technology How-To

Moodle: Explore an Inexpensive Course Management System
Colin Hill
K-20 Online Learning
This session will review where MOODLE fits in comparrison to other platforms, show its basic functionality and features, and hopefully inspire you with what can be done for institutions on a limited budget.
Moodle

Student Self Regulation in Online Learning
Jorge O. Trisca
Higher Education Online Learning
This session will present research measuring the levels of self-regulation in students using different course modifications and alternative tutorials.

Why Technology Integration?
Shelley Bacon and Jim Epperson
K-12 Technology Integration
Why Technology Integration? How can we use technology to save our small schools? Come to an informative session with plenty of time for brainstorming where we will look at some current ideas and create some new possibilities using collaboration.

Website Evaluation: Teaching Students to Think
Janine Lim
K-12 Technology Integration
Now more than ever, it is crucial to give students guidance when they use the Internet. Learn strategies for structuring research to keep students on task and focused. Learn new tools for analyzing the source and credibility of online information.

Creating Educational Web-Sites: An Introduction to Macromedia
Dreamweaver
Randy Siebold
Technology How-To
Designing online courses as well as enhancing face-to-face ones are often done through the use of a course management system (such as WebCT or Blackboard). While this is true, a minimal understanding of web page design is not only helpful, but essential. This session will introduce conceptual and practical tips for developing your own web pages using Dreamweaver. Analogies, examples, and demonstration will be used.

10:45-12:00 Concurrent Sessions
Advanced Blackboard
Donica Ward
Technology How-To

Overview of Montemorelos e42 System
Ana Salazar
K-20 Online Learning
Have an up close look at the Montermerlos courseware system. This overview will be a guided tour by the people that created and service the program.

The One Computer Classroom
Janine Lim
K-12 Technology Integration
Learn about software and management ideas for using technology in your curriculum when you have limited access in your classroom.

Digital Photography in the K-12 Classroom
Marilyn Eggers
K-12 Technology Integration

Motivating Originality
Rosemary Dibben
7-20 Technology Integration
Just as the online environment provides students with opportunities to appropriate other people's words and ideas for their own, so it also provides teachers with powerful tools to provide deterents to this behavior. In this session, we will look at positive, pro-active methods teachers can use to encourage their students to do their own work. We'll also look at detection tools that can help teachers determine and document plagiarism.

12:00-1:00 Lunch; Higher Education Brainstorming; K-12 Brainstorming
1:00-2:30 Concurrent Sessions
Moderating Online Communication
Dave Jeffery, Shirley Freed, and Shelley Bacon
K-20 Online Learning
This interactive experience includes discussion boards, chat rooms, class emails, and the rationale for multiple online interactions. Other tools for virtual learning will be shared.
Creating Learning Communities in Online Classrooms
Jigsaw on Online Interactions
Metaphors and Reflective Dialogue Online

Overview of SWAU E-Learning System
Jerry Chi
K-20 Online Learning
This presentation will overview the outcome of 1st version of Southwestern e-Learning System at SWAU and present the updated features for the second version, inclusing online testing, grade book, content management, online assignment submission and grading system, chat room, bulletin board, academic network, streaming video, administrative grade report, online payments and registration and library book check-out. The students will be able to use one ID and password for contents management, campus portal communication, registration and onlien payment, as well as library book checked-out. The new system covers all the functional features separately programmed by Blackboard, Campus Solution, Web-CT, eCampus, e-Solution, and etc. This new system will intend to provide some ideas for Adventist institutions' decision making: Either we are going to depend on those secular companies products and paying high premiums, or we can save dollars economically by using our own Adventist service.

The Brain, Learning, and Technology
Linda Caviness and Marilyn Eggers
General
Creating Online Student Activities
Janine Lim
Technology Integration
Learn about many ways to use Internet communication to share projects and learning with other classrooms around the world. Create your own online activity for your students.
Macromedia Flash
James McDuffie
Technology How-To
3:00-3:30 Closing Session and Prizes

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