2015 Higher Education
Technology Forum
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY:
CHANGE AND INNOVATION
Cedar Valley College
Performance Hall
8:00-9:00
Registration / Breakfast
9:00-10:30
General Session I
8:00 to 9:00—Registration (Hallway)
10:30-10:40
Break
10:40-11:30
General Session II
9:00 to 10:30—General Session I (Performance Hall)
Welcome and Overview
11:30-12:30
Lunch and Adaptive
Classroom Tours
Jennifer Wimbish, President
Cedar Valley College
12:40-1:30
Breakout Sessions - Round 1
1:30-1:40
Break
1:40-2:30
Breakout Sessions - Round 2
2:30-2:40
Break
2:40-3:30
Breakout Sessions - Round 3
Christine Hubbard, President
North Texas Community College Consortium
Keynote Address:
Google Apps and Higher Education
Joe Carter, Executive Director, Institutional Research and
Strategic Planning, Cisco College
Joe Carter shares how Cisco College has used Google Apps to create a student retention
survey and early alert system, conduct institutional effectiveness and assessment reporting,
collect faculty and staff recommendations to the college executive council, collect and post
online syllabi and CVs, provide faculty and staff access to student data, display a college
performance dashboard, and offer online filtered search of college course offerings.
North Texas Community
College Consortium
1155 Union Circle #310800
Denton, TX 76203
940 565-4035
ntccc@unt.edu
http://ntccc.unt.edu/
This keynote session provides background on Google Apps, outlines sample higher education applications, takes participants through the Google Apps erector set, explains how to
build apps, provides resources to support the use of Google Apps, and provides a preview of
Google’s future plans for Google Apps and Google Classroom.
10:30 to 10:40—Break
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Conference Speakers
Cedar Valley College
Paul Francis, Tutor & Online Tutor Trainer
Helena Grant, Instructional Associate,
Mathematics
10:40 to 11:30—General Session II (Performance Hall)
Keynote Address:
Open Educational Resources at Tarrant County
College Southeast Campus: A Case Study
Shannon Kratzmeyer, Professor, Mathematics
Mikal McDowell, Professor, Mathematics
Mary Merchant, Professor and Coordinator,
Mathematics
Fred Osei-Frimpong, Math Tutor Coordinator
& Adjunct Faculty
Tommy Thompson, Professor, Mathematics &
QEP Director
Collin College
James Latham, Professor, Economics
Jo Klemm, Director of Library
Services, Tarrant County College Southeast Campus
Krista Robisheaux, Coordinator of Academic Support Services, Tarrant County College
Southeast Campus
Pennie Boyett, Assistant
Professor, English, Tarrant
County College Southeast
Campus
Jo Klemm, Krista Robisheaux, and Pennie Boyett share how Tarrant County College
Southeast Campus has worked to reduce educational materials costs through Open Educational Resources (OER).
Dallas Colleges Online
LeCroy Center for
Educational
Telecommunications
A faculty committee of 15 members representing 11 disciplines studied and promoted
OER use. The library coordinates and supports professors using OERs. Together they
identified and evaluated OER teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium
that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits
their free use and re-purposing by others.
Janice Christophel, Instructional Designer
In the Fall 2014 semester, 765 students were able to save $119,707, and those numbers
have grown in Fall 2015.
Stephen Govea, Software/Systems Trainer
June Haldeman, E-Campus Software Trainer
Kay Hampshire, Instructional Designer
11:30 to 12:30—Lunch and Adaptive Classroom Tours
Pick up your lunch outside the Performance Hall
Benjamin Nye, Instructional Support Specialist
Lunch Option 1: (D 230) Limited to 60 Participants
Robert Rosenbalm, Managing Director, NUTN
Using Adaptive Technology in a Personalized
Learning Space
Steven Rothschild, IT Facilitator
James Bryan Smith, Lead Instructional
Designer
Rick Walker, Director, STARLINK
Kilgore College
William Stowe, Faculty, Biology
North Central Texas College
Dax Stokes, Librarian
Tommy Thompson, Professor of Mathematics & QEP Director, Cedar Valley College
Mikal McDowell, Professor of Mathematics, Cedar Valley College
Mary Merchant, Professor & Coordinator of Mathematics, Cedar Valley College
Shannon Kratzmeyer, Professor of Mathematics, Cedar Valley College
Helena Grant, Instructional Associate of Mathematics, Cedar Valley College
Cedar Valley College redesigned mathematics classrooms to increase interaction between
the instructor and student, collaboration among students and also to create a unique space
to promote personalized learning. Faculty will share how the classroom experience has
changed as a result of the redesign. Participants will tour the redesigned space.
Session begins in D 230 for a brief presentation followed by breakouts to view personalized
learning spaces in B 215, B 218, B 209, and B 228.
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Conference Speakers
North Lake College
Sherry Boyd, Professor
Ulanda Forbess, Director, Faculty Professional
Development and Distance Education
Brandi Harris, Professor, English, and Faculty
Technology Coach
Lunch Option 2:
Networking Lunch in Breakout Session Rooms
Enjoy lunch with your colleagues in any of the afternoon breakout session rooms:
 A 206D
B 110
B 225
 B 109
B 111
B 226
12:40-1:30 — OER Hands On (Performance Hall)
Continue the discussion with our keynote presenters in this hands-on session. Bring your own device
(computer or tablet) and learn how to access and use OERs at your institution!
Joby Leahy, Professor, Speech
Communication, and Faculty Coach
Shani Suber, Professor, English, and Faculty
Technology Coach
Jared Westover, Professor, English
Six Concurrent Session Tracks to Support Your Work
Track
Round 1 (12:40-1:30 pm)
Round 2 (1:40-2:30 pm)
Round 3 (2:40-3:30 pm)
Richland College
Kelly Dreier, Faculty, Reading
Tarrant County College
District
Pennie Boyett, Assistant Professor, English,
Southeast Campus
Colin Jenney, Research Analyst
Increasing Engagement
Don’t Put Your Phones Away:
Using Mobile Apps and
Using Cellphones to Engage
Software
Students
(A 206D)
Remind Texting App and
Website
PowerPoint to Prezi
Gamification and
Engaging Millennials
(B 109)
7 Secrets of Effective Teaching
of Millennials Via Technology
Best Practices for Classroom
Gaming
Composition Apocalypse
Flipping the Classroom
and Using
Collaborative Learning
(B 110)
Having Fun in a Flipped Class
Tools for a Flipped Classroom
An Engaged Classroom:
Technology-Enhanced Group
Learning
Using Technology in
Academic Support
(B 111)
Libraries: Rethinking Roles,
Rethinking Spaces
Library Services for Dual Credit
Students
Cedar Valley College Online
Tutoring Program
Open Educational
Resources , STARLINK,
and NUTN
(B 225)
Something Old, Something
New: Is Open Source Working
for You?
Making the Most of Open
Educational Resources
STARLINK and NUTN:
Instructional Technology and
Professional Development
Resources
Powtoons, Adaptive
Learning, and
Humanizing Digital
Spaces
(B 226)
Transforming Presentations
Using Engaging Media
Reading College Texts Using
Adaptive Personalized Learning
in Multiple Modalities
Finding Humans in Digital
Spaces
Jo Klemm, Director of Library Services,
Southeast Campus
Krista Robisheaux, Coordinator of Academic
Support Services, Southeast Campus
Holly Stovall, Lead Research Analyst
Rosalyn Walker, Director, Academic Operations
Texas State Technical College
Penny Shriver, Senior Instructor, English
Department
Tyler Junior College
Manouchehr Khosrowshahi, Professor
University of
North Texas
Judy Hunter, Operations Manager
Jo Monahan, Librarian
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Concurrent Breakout Sessions
12:40-1:30 — Breakout Sessions, Round 1
A 206D—Don’t Put Your Phones Away: Using Cellphones to Engage Students
Shani Suber, Professor, English, and Faculty Technology Coach, North Lake College; with Ulanda Forbess, Director for Faculty Professional Development and
Distance Education, North Lake College
Padlet is a wonderful and engaging tool for the classroom and or meetings. This virtual wall opens the possibilities of ideas by
inserting pictures, videos or web links. It has a built in QR and embedded codes for students and staff to interact real time using
computers, phones or tablets.
QR Codes open the learning environment to invite technology with various disciplines to increase students' higher level thinking skills.
Faculty and staff will be able to use this simple virtual wall to level feedback and accountability in classrooms and meetings.
B 109—7 Secrets of Effective Teaching of Millennials Via Technology
Manouchehr Khosrowshahi, Professor, Tyler Junior College
The laptop is dead, the desktop is gone. Never underestimate the power of millennials in technology. "Business as usual" is dead.
Most professors teach today exactly the same way they taught a hundred years ago. What are the 7 SECRETS of effective teaching of
millennials via technology?
New models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models. We are shifting from "teacher-centered" to
"student -centered” education, and engaging students by connecting the curriculum to real life issues. We have sold ourselves into a
fast food (industrial) model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our
physical bodies. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. The idea of content-only curriculum in
any classroom will not be effective. Engagement rules the day. We are at the bleeding edge of educational innovation. Are we taking
advantage of it?
B 110—Having Fun in a Flipped Class
William Stowe, Biology Faculty, Kilgore College
In this workshop, participants will learn about innovative flipped classroom activities. The content in this workshop is presented at the
beginner level for faculty or administrators who are considering providing engaging flipped classroom instruction in a technologyimmersed environment. This interactive workshop allows participants to experiment with activities. All of the flipped activities that will
be discussed are either free or very low cost.
Session participants need to bring their own device (BYOD) to the workshop. Almost any smartphone, Ipad or other mobile device that
has internet access can work with these activities. The primary goal of this session is for participants to take away technology-based
activities that can be used in their next flipped class.
B 111—Libraries: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Spaces
Jo Monahan, Librarian, University of North Texas; with Judy Hunter, Operations Manager, University of North Texas
The evolution of the library has impacted faculty, librarians, and students. Computers, e-books, and makerspaces give students the
opportunity to have interactive and engaging learning experiences that are enhanced through technology resources. Across campus,
the notion of what constitutes a library is changing.
An academic librarian and technology staff member will identify current technologies used to help meet student needs related to
studying, research, and learning. It is critical for faculty, librarians, and technologists to work together to learn how to manage
resources for students. Presenters will introduce the following initiatives: embedded librarian, libguides, e-books, e-readers, laptop
checkout, web printing, and Makerspace (3-D printers, Google Glass, littlebits, Arduinos, raspberry pi’s, and cameras).
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Concurrent Breakout Sessions
12:40-1:30 — Breakout Sessions, Round 1 (Continued)
B 225—Something Old, Something New: Is Open Source Working for You?
Janice Christophel, Instructional Designer, Dallas Colleges Online LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications; with James Bryan Smith, Lead
Instructional Designer, Dallas Colleges Online LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications; and Kay Hampshire, Instructional Designer, Dallas Colleges
Online LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications
Many classroom and online courses currently utilize OERs and open source software. How successful are we, as educators, in
blending new resources with "old" principles of instruction? Do traditional principles still apply? Share your experiences as we explore
the challenges of adopting open source materials while delivering effective instruction.
Presenters will discuss "something old" - Merrill's four principles of instruction and "something new" - examples of how these principles
have been incorporated through OERs in courses they have designed. Presenters will also demonstrate that the same types of
resources, i.e., open source textbooks can be implemented in very different ways due to the nature of the content or preferences of the
faculty and designers.
B 226—Transforming Presentations Using Engaging Media
Colin Jenney, Research Analyst, Tarrant County College District; with Holly Stovall, Lead Research Analyst, Tarrant County College District
Slide presentation software such as Microsoft Power Point has been the canonical method for dissemination of educational information
for over a decade. However, due to the static nature of most slide shows, presentations can become boring, engagement may be low,
and, most importantly, an educational opportunity may be lost. This presentation is an introduction to Powtoons, a software that has
promise as a beneficial educational resource. Through animation and character development, complex concepts become less daunting
and more accessible, and knowledge is gained with a bit of humor and excitement in the process. Specifically, the presenters will show
how Dan and Daphne, data interns, have transformed data analysis, which is often perceived as boring, into something that
interesting, relevant, and most significantly, important.
1:30 to 1:40—Break
1:40-2:30 — Breakout Sessions, Round 2
A 206D—Remind Texting App and Website
Shani Suber, Professor, English, and Faculty Technology Coach, North Lake College; with Brandi Harris, Professor, English, and Faculty Technology Coach, North
Lake College
Looking for a more simple and flexible method to communicate with students? Remind is a website and/or mobile app that instructors
use to send one-way text messages to their students with voice memo, text, picture or document. It's incredibly easy to use and may
be embedded in Blackboard. Remind is a website and text application available on multiple devices and platforms. It generates a
number for the instructor to text students, so their personal number is protected. Students may receive these messages by text, email,
or see the message on Blackboard. Instructors will be amazed at the student feedback and increase in productivity for assignments.
Session participants will create a free Remind account. In addition to setting up their classes, participants will learn how to send a text
to one or multiple classes and how to embed Remind in Blackboard for viewing in minutes.
B 109—Best Practice for Classroom Gaming
William Stowe, Faculty, Kilgore College
Attendees will learn methods to teach with games and competition in the classroom. Videos will be used to demonstrate easy
classroom games, and participants will be able to pick from a wide variety of different games to work into their instructional techniques.
Attendees will learn how to use web-based games in the classroom with limited technology experience, how to use traditional low tech
games to create an engaging classroom environment, and how games can impact student learning.
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Concurrent Breakout Sessions
1:40-2:30 — Breakout Sessions, Round 2 (Continued)
B 110—Tools for a Flipped Classroom
Sherry Boyd, Professor, North Lake College
"Zaption" gives the user the ability to add images, text, and questions to any online video, creating interactive lessons that meet your
learners’ needs. "Kahoot.it" creates a fun learning game in minutes made from a series of multiple choice questions provided by the
instructor or from hundreds of ready-made quizzes.
Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a Kahoot.it game as well as see how it can be used to increase active learning in
a flipped, F2F, or hybrid classroom.
B 111—Library Services for Dual Credit Students
CLARA Project
Dax Stokes, Librarian, North Central Texas College
The libraries of North Central Texas College have recently begun reaching out to off-campus dual credit students through various
means of instruction. This project was designed to explore ways that the libraries can offer services to dual credit students without
traveling to individual high schools each semester.
B 225—Making the Most of Open Educational Resources
Jared Westover, Professor, English, North Lake College; with Ulanda Forbess, Director, Faculty Professional Development and Distance Education, North Lake
College
There is an alternative to the expensive and sometimes restrictive curriculum created by the large text book corporations: Open
Education Resources. Innovative individuals and organizations have developed teaching methods, content, delivery systems and
assessments that are free and open to be used and modified by anyone. No matter what subject an instructor may teach, there are
other incredible educators somewhere in the country putting a great deal of thought and experimentation into crafting effective teaching
methods. And they want to share what they have found, for free.
This presentation will explore the benefits of OERs to both students and instructors, the different types of OERs, online repositories,
barriers to using OERs in the classroom, the need to consider copyright before using a source, and ideas for using OERs along with
apps that are popular in the classroom.
B 226—Reading College Texts Using Adaptive Personalized Learning in Multiple Modalities
Kelly Dreier, Reading Faculty, Richland College
Are your students struggling to read their course materials? View what we have found to be successful with our underprepared
students. Using multiple components within one software platform, our students have found both help and success in traditional, flipped
and self-paced courses designed to support the college level materials.
This presentation demonstrates how the Connect Platform was used and deployed within our LMS and shows how we used corequisite courses and supplementary instruction offerings to support our developmental and college level courses' reading/textbook
offerings.
2:30 to 2:40—Break
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2:40-3:30 — Breakout Sessions, Round 3
A 206D—PowerPoint to Prezi
Shani Suber, Professor, English, and Faculty Technology Coach, North Lake College; with Joby Leahy, Professor, Speech Communication, and Faculty Coach,
North Lake College
Learn about lesson ideas for student use of Prezi in your classrooms and how your students may embed their Prezi work in
Blackboard. See how to import your existing Power Point presentations into Prezi for a smooth transition.
In this hands-on session, participants will quickly convert a current PowerPoint presentation into an interactive Prezi to embed in
Blackboard. In addition, participants will discuss best practices for creating engaging presentations.
B 109—Composition Apocalypse
Penny Shriver, Senior Instructor—English Department, Texas State Technical College
Game On! Is gamification ruining freshman composition, or is it adapting an online--and in class--course to entice students to complete
by playing their way through your knowledge?
This presentation incorporates Moodle's course activity completion settings with gamification abilities, Softchalk's lesson building
software, and a little creativity into a freshman composition course. Students in the course are required to read and write their way
through zombies. Each section of the course contains its own Zombie battles that may, or may not, hinder the student from saving
composition from an apocalypse started by Zombie Fred's entourage.
B 110—An Engaged Classroom: Technology-Enhanced Group Learning
James Latham, Professor, Economics, Collin College
Transitioning traditional lecture courses to utilize active group learning techniques is challenging and time intensive. This workshop will
provide examples and strategies for enhancing student participation and application of knowledge. The session will include
implementation of free and low-cost technology systems including Learning Catalytics and CATME to support group learning.
CATME is free web-based system that prepares students to function effectively in teams and supports faculty-managed team
experiences. CATME provides tools for assigning students to teams, self and peer evaluations and rating team processes, training
students to rate teamwork, training students to work in teams, and making meetings more effective. CATME helps instructors to hold
students accountable for contributions and provide feedback to students. Learning Catalytics is a "bring your own device" student
engagement and assessment system. It creates opportunities for classroom discussion, guided lecture, and promotes peer-to-peer
learning with real-time analytics.
B 111—Cedar Valley College Online Tutoring Program
CLARA Project
Rosalyn Walker, Director, Academic Operations, Tarrant County College District; with Fred Osei-Frimpong, Math Tutor Coordinator & Adjunct Faculty, Cedar Valley
College; and Paul Francis, Tutor & Online Tutor Trainer, Cedar Valley College
This presentation provides insight into the development of an Online Tutoring program at Cedar Valley College (DCCCD). The
program was an initiative from the Center for Independent Studies to assist the institution with students’ retention and persistence
rates, particularly students utilizing the online learning modality.
This presentation includes the initial proposal, an overview of the development process of the product, and a review of the end product.
During the session, presenters will utilize two computers to demonstrate a live tutoring session.
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2:40-3:30 — Breakout Sessions, Round 3 (Continued)
B 225—STARLINK and NUTN: Instructional Technology and Professional Development Resources
Rick Walker, Director, STARLINK; with Robert Rosenbalm, Managing Director, NUTN
The impact of technology on education is moving at unprecedented pace. How do you, whether faculty, program director, or
instructional designer, know where to invest your time and financial resources? How do you leverage new technology to have the
biggest impact on the teaching and learning process?
Session attendees will gain insight from leaders in the field through resources developed to support higher education faculty, staff, and
administrators.
STARLINK provides higher education professional development for staff, faculty, adjuncts, and CEOs. All Texas Association of
Community Colleges (TACC) institutions and their employees are eligible to participate in these online professional development
modules. The National University Technology Network (NUTN), a consortium of higher education institutions, provides networking and
professional development for the advancement of teaching and learning using educational technologies.
B 226—Finding Humans in Digital Spaces
Benjamin Nye, Instructional Support Specialist, Dallas Colleges Online LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications; with Stephen Govea, Software/Systems
Trainer, Dallas Colleges Online LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications; June Haldeman, E-Campus Software Trainer, Dallas Colleges Online LeCroy
Center for Educational Telecommunications; and Steven Rothschild, IT Facilitator, Dallas Colleges Online LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications
This session addresses the topic of isolation in digital spaces. What can instructors do to put a human face into their digital space?
What tools can be implemented to help students recognize their group of peers and identify themselves as part of a community? We
have some suggestions.
Presenters share information about Kahoot! and Socrative - two programs that facilitate student-to-student and student-to-teacher
interaction. tricks of the trade for using Blackboard Collaborate to facilitate real time interactions in the online classroom, and features
of instructor videos and best practices for using this tool to put a human face where online learners only see light on a screen.
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