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Sharing
Christ Through Technology
Conference
Session Descriptions by Presenter
June 23-28, 2002, Southern Adventist University.
AVLN Invitational Session: Integrating Faith and Learning and Worldview Issues
Sunday, June 23, 1:30-5:30 pm.This invitational is for those faculty who already teach an SDA foundations class and who will give feedback to AVLN members about the online resources they are developing. When we are finished, it is our goal to have whole courses or modules that each institution may use online. Our plan is to have these materials available to English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
AVLN Coordinators: Don Roy, Curriculum Director, Australian Union Conference,
and Marilyn Eggers, North American Division/Home Study International
AVLN Invitational Session: Technology Support and AVLN Standards Issues
Wednesday, June 26, 8:30 am - 12:30pmThis invitational is for people involved in faculty development and technology support. We will preview the Active Online Teaching course modules and get feedback about how those materials might be used by your institution. And we invite you to share ways you are providing for training and support. AVLN is prepared to serve our modules off of our server or to provide them to your institution to use for faculty development. We plan to facilitate a conversation that will result in at least one more "course" where the primary objective is to develop a course and have it (or major parts of it) ready for online instruction.
AVLN Coordinators: Shirley Freed, Professor of Education, Andrews University, and Eva Pereira Nascimento, Professor of Ecology and Environmental Education, Brazilian SDA University at São Paulo
AVLN Invitational Session: AVLN Faithware and Credit Issues
Wednesday, June 26, 1:30- 5:30 pm.This invitational is for Schools of Education who might be interested in three courses AVLN has prepared and is ready to share: Integrating Technology in the Curriculum, Internet in the Curriculum, and Developing WebQuests. These can be previewed at http://webct.avln.org/ using the name - AVLNguest and password - AVLNguest. Most importantly though is that the K-12 superintendents and the K-12 technology committee will be present at this session and we expect this to be an opportunity for everyone to clarify directions needed for teacher development in the SDA system of education regarding technology competence.
AVLN Coordinators: Janine Lim, Instructional Technology Consultant, Berrien County Intermediate School District, and Lee Davidson, Principal, Beavers Adventist Academy, OK ,
Bacon, Shelley
K-12 Distance Learning: On-line or Video-conferencing - talk to those who are doing it!
AE21 Distributed Education: the Video-conferencing Experience
How can you encourage service, integrate curriculum, and promote a sense of community through distance learning? Come participate in this interactive session as a student in AE21 would in a normal day. Experience cooperative learning methods, debate, and discussion during this 45-minute presentation.Handout (PDF)
Davidson, Lee
7-12 Online Teaching Basics
Find out what others have learned through hands on experience in the teaching of online classes. Lee Davidson will lead out in a presentation followed by a discussion of the basics of teaching an online class.Introduction to Video Streaming
Have you wondered if you could create video that others could view over the interent or over your network? Come find out what it takes to begin your own streaming video project.
Freed, Shirley
Jigsaws & Online Communication (with Janine Lim)
Experience the jigsaw group strategy in an online chat. Explore the possibilities for structuring discussion and group learning in an online environment.
Korniejczuk, Victor
Training Teachers for Online Courses: An Experience at UM
This session presents the experience of the University of Montemorelos staff development team who recently taught a 20 hour online course to about 130 faculty members as part of their regular faculty training program. The intensive was developed to teach faculty how to design and deliver online courses. The course was taught June 3 - 7, 2002 and this session reports on the preparation and assessment of the training. It also gives the background of how distance education became a part of the strategic plan for Montemorelos University. The presentation describes the creation and the organization of the team, the criteria adopted for developing online courses and the way the team is looking for future development.
Lim, Janine
Easy Internet Activities
Learn about some simple ways to integrate the Internet into your face-to-face and/or online instructions. Collaborative projects with other classrooms, scavenger hunts, hotlists, and ways to structure Internet research will be addressed.Jigsaws & Online Communication (with Shirley Freed)
Experience the jigsaw group strategy in an online chat. Explore the possibilities for structuring discussion and group learning in an online environment.Structures for Online Courses
Routine and structure in an online course are the safety net that helps students feel comfortable and safe in an online learning environment. Come experience a process for creating a course structure and template that you can use for your own online course.WebQuests
A WebQuest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web." Learn about webquests, find useful WebQuests for your curriculum area, and get started on creating your own WebQuest. The WebQuest instructional strategy can be used in both face-to-face and online courses, and is used at all grade levels, including higher education.Handouts for all these sessions.
North American Division Technology & Distance Education Committee
Integrating Technology in the K-12 Classroom
Have fun learning many ways to use common application programs as tools for critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity. Find out how to enhance learning with the Internet. Explore creative ideas for classroom management of one to four computers plus how to maximize using labs effectively. Investigate innovative instructional strategies. This practical and inspiring session will help teachers get ready for next school year!This session is presented by the North American Division Technology & Distance Education Committee. The TDEC membership consists of one representative from each of the nine unions of the North American Division, Home Study International, and North American Division Office of Education. Members: Gerald Kovalski, Chair; Larry Blackmer, Secretary; Alan Bohman; Bonnie Eder; Marilyn Eggers; Colin Hill; LaVona Gillham; Tim Kaldahl; Jim Mason; Brian Thornhill; Alayne Thorpe. Richard Thomason, Madison Academy, will join with the committee for this presentation.
Nugent, Gwen and Hochstein, Jill
Blended learning, e-learning, Webcasting, Internet 2, SCORM.
New terminology for you or old hat? This presentation will demonstrate instructional examples of learner-centered, interactive instruction and training using both the Web and CD-ROM. These technologies provide the opportunity to create customized learning environments, adapting the instruction to the needs of the learner and enabling communication with the instructor, other students, and external experts. The concept of learning objects, modular development, and embedded assessment will also be addressed.
Note: This session will be presented from Nebraska in a videoconference.
Paulson, Bob and Rice, Gail.
Online Testing: A Model for Collaboration.
Testing students in groups of two or three offers a number of benefits: reduced anxiety and more learning, better teacher evaluations, and higher test scores on individual final exams. Experience two ways to test online and apply what you have experienced to your own on-line course.Paulson, Bob and Siebold, Randy
Web-enhancing College Courses: A Conversation with Bob and Randy
What does it mean to web-enhance a course? Why would a teacher attempt this? If a teacher was interested, how would they go about getting started? Could you show us some examples? These are some of the questions that Bob and Randy intend to answer in this informal, yet informational, morning session. They will talk about WebCT, Blackboard, listserves, e-mail, web pages, as well as other pertinent topics.
Payne, John
Creating Online Forms
John is an web application developer. He specializes in Active Server Pages and SQL database. In this seminar, he will be teaching you how to setup forms on your website that will allow other people to email you data. He will also show you how to use a scripting language called JavaScript to validate the form fields.
Pindling, Courtney A.
The Use of Technology in Mathematics and Technical Education to Optimize Learning
Show how computers and technology are being used and planned to be used to make education accessible and adaptable to individual learning both in and outside of the traditional classroom. Attention is given to how Mastery learning and cooperative learning methodologies can be integrated into technology so that students may learn through an online "mentor" - technology at their own pace.
Session Handouts
Roy, Don C., Ph.D
Faith Online: Faith-Communities in Cyberspace
What are the particular and distinctive connotations of ‘community’ for Adventists? This session explores the notion of “community” and the “cultural implications” in the Christian context, thus developing a context for other sessions. Principles to help facilitate such a community will be explored.Faith Online: Implications of the AVLN Standards
This session seeks to identify key terms and ideas expressed in the AVLN Standards and explore the major concepts underpinning them. The purpose of this is to provide deeper conceptual and experiential understanding for their relevance.
Russell, Gary
K-12 Distance Learning: On-line or Video-conferencing - talk to those who are doing it!
MAAVS Distrubuted Education: the Online Experience
The Mid-America Adventist Virtual School initiated its low-profile experiment with asynchronous courses for secondary students last July. It has assisted twenty-one students. This session shows how students get connected to courses from HSI and Class.com and shows what online school is like for them. It also describes the training of MAAVS teachers.
Siebold, Randy and Paulson, Bob
Web-enhancing College Courses: A Conversation with Bob and Randy
What does it mean to web-enhance a course? Why would a teacher attempt this? If a teacher was interested, how would they go about getting started? Could you show us some examples? These are some of the questions that Bob and Randy intend to answer in this informal, yet informational, morning session. They will talk about WebCT, Blackboard, listserves, e-mail, web pages, as well as other pertinent topics.Siebold, Randy
Designing Online Courses: A Process Approach
Too often the process of designing a course is more like making a new copy of the syllabus and/or lesson plans and trying to stay at least a day ahead of the students. This session will show a mission centered model for continuous course design--the Mission-Infinity model. This model, in a clear graphic, shows the corollary relationship between thinking and doing, two crucial parts of the curriculum development process. Further, this session will show how the model has been applied to the creation of a website resource for people wanting to create online courses.Redesigning Adventist Education in the 21st Century: A Conversational Approach to Applying the Principles of E.G. White.
Adventist education has, and is changing lives; God is very clearly working. Could it be, however, that we have room for improvement in our schools? Research indicates that few Adventist educators feel that our educational philosophy is truly being practiced. In this interactive session, participants will be lead in a group process to redesign Adventist Education. This series of exercises will start with individual and group visioning and move toward designing a new Adventist school; a school consistent with the writings of E.G. White and ready for living within the 21st century.Handouts for all these sessions
Smith, Susan B. and Cress, Pamela
The Weakest Link: Course Development for Techno-Dummies
Participation in an online course doesn’t have to be an anxiety-producing experience for teachers or students. Rich learning experiences can be created for participants in distance education courses using low-tech mediums. Learn about course development with an emphasis on the learning process adapted to online delivery.
PowerPoint (in PDF)
Syllabus (in PDF)
Trainers: WebCT and Blackboard Trainers TBA
BlackBoard / WebCT Bakeoff and Cooking Lesson
You say you teach on Blackboard or WebCT and would like to know a little more about the other courseware! Come on into the kitchen for a tour of each course software in the morning and hands on training session in the afternoon.
Wittenberg, Merlin
Students: Resources for Online Learning
1. Present foundational principles for the use of students in the creation of online learning material.
2. Focus on identifying areas in which students can contribute and interact in the development of online learning.
3. Show examples of how students can be involved in the design process for online learning material.