Friday, February 12th
Technology Exposition Schedule FEbruary 2016
Northwest Campus
2016
7600 N. Shannon Rd.
Keynote Speaker
Technology Workshops
Room/Time
A 207
8:15am –
8:50am
A208
A209
A207
12:00pm –
12:50pm
1:00pm –
1:50pm
a.m.
8:00 to 8:15
Check – In
and
Registration
11:00am –
11:50am
2:00pm –
2:50pm
Workshop Descriptions
A210
A211
A217
A316
“Technology Integration in the 21 Century Classroom”
Dr. Lawrence Gallagher, Director of Faculty Professional Development
at Northern Arizona University (NAU)
st
“Microlectures”
“Teaching with your
Cell Phone”
“Recipes for
Engagement in
the D2L Online
Classroom Part 1”
“Recipes for
Engagement in
the D2L Online
Classroom Part 2”
Lunch
“Grading Citations
is Easy with
EasyBib.com”
“Student
Response System
and Maestro in
SMART
Notebook”
“Feeding Your
Students: Serving
the Right App to
Connect to
Student Success”
9:00am –
9:50am
10:00am –
10:50am
Lunch
“Introducing Multimodal Components to
the Traditional College
Essay”
“D2L: Tools for Face-toFace Classes”
“Using Audacity to Edit
Sound Recordings for
Classroom Use”
“Simple Ways to
Caption your You
Tube Videos”
“Twitter in the Higher
Education Classroom”
“A Road Trip in Google
Drive”
“Augmented
Reality Sandbox”
“Increasing Student
Participation
through
Technology”
Lunch
“Cyber Security: What
is at risk, how would
you be attacked, and
what can we do?”
Lunch
“Google Apps and
Student-Centered
Learning”
“Why Create a Blog
for Your Class?”
“Student Collaboration Utilizing Web
Evaluation and
Research Guides”
“Socrative”
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
“Managing Google
Drive in the
Classroom”
“Problem Posing
Activities in STEM
Classrooms”
“Microsoft Office
Accessibility Checkers”
“Using Technology
to Understand
Weather”
“Twitter in the Higher
Education Classroom
(Advanced Edition)”
“Using Technology
to Facilitate
Student Group
Work”
“Student-Centered,
Interactive Learning:
Developing and
Enhancing Employability Soft Skills”
“Accessibility
Technologies Checklist:
Choosing Accessible
Technologies for Class”
“Google Forms in
the Classroom”
“Plickers – Paper
Clickers”
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Presenter
Presentation Title
Description
Odile Wolf
“Microlectures”
Find out how to develop 5-10 minute condensed
audio and video segments which summarize key
points of lectures to engage your in-person and
online students.
Charles Becker
“Teaching with your Cell Phone”
Turn an obsession into a learning tool. Make
sure your student’s Smartphone is not simply a
modern day distraction by using it as a learning
tool that enables hands on assignments,
presentation and communication, and creative
critical inquiry. This workshop provides the
pedagogy behind using Smartphones in teaching,
and provides easy to use tips, techniques,
activities, and apps that will engage learners.
Maha Baddar
“Introducing Multimodal Components to the
Traditional College Essay”
The session will cover the different modalities
that are used to construct a multimodal
assignment. It will also cover the different
options instructors have to incorporate multimodal
assignments in their class from simply creating a
trailer for a traditional essay to writing a fully
multimodal visual essay.
Mark Nelson
“Using Audacity to Edit Sound Recordings for
Classroom Use”
Audacity is a free program available for PC users
that is an easy to use and fully functional sound
editing program. The workshop will focus on the
program, including installation, loading sound
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clips, editing, exporting, and use in Power Point
and a website.
Janet Fukuda
“Simple Ways to Caption your You Tube Videos”
Learn how to make videos and You Tube
postings accessible with closed captioning.
Jorge Caballero
“Twitter in the Higher Education Classroom”
Dreading using twitter as a means to engage
your students? Want to use twitter to make
classroom management easier? It doesn’t have
to be difficult. Join Jorge Caballero and find
easy ways to incorporate twitter into everyday
lessons.
Stephanie Slaton
“Recipes for Engagement in the D2L Online
Classroom Part 1: Discussions, Dropbox, and
Collaborative Work
Engagement in the online environment is not only
a necessary ingredient for student success, but
also one of the most challenging to come by.
This workshop will give you “recipes” to cook up
engagement with easy to implement activities
using the tools inside D2L.
Sara O’Hara
“Grading Citations is Easy with EasyBib.com”
Are your students’ citation pages driving you
crazy? Do you find yourself saying things like,
“You should have learned this in high school.”
Do you refer your students to handbooks from
the dark ages? How’s that working for you? Let
me help!
Michael Amick
“D2L:
Explore how D2L Brightspace tools like
Gradebook, Dropbox, Content, etc. can be used in
face-to-face courses to save faculty time and
provide methods for students to access
Tools for Face-to-Face Classes”
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information and submit assignments.
Leta Sharp
“A Road Trip in Google Drive”
Tales of taking wrong turns, U-Turns, and sailing
along straight-aways using Google Drive for
collaborative work. We will discuss the thrills and
pitfalls of using Google Drive for doing
collaboration online and providing feedback on
peer writing.
Noah Fay
“Augmented Reality Sandbox”
This session will demonstrate the power of
technology in the science classroom. The AR
Sandbox takes digital measurements of a sandbox
“landscape”, projects topographic maps, produces
virtual rain and flowing rivers, all in real-time as
the user modifies the landscape.
Mana Kariman and Pam
Gautier
“Student Collaboration Utilizing Web Evaluation and
Research Guides”
This session focuses on providing an environment
that allows students to practice leadership,
teamwork, and how to conduct research. Use of
teams to engage students to present their
research with the support of library staff.
Stephanie Slaton
“Recipes for Engagement in the D2L Online
Classroom Part 2: Quizzes, Self-Assessments,
Surveys
Engagement in the online environment is not only
a necessary ingredient for student success, but
also one of the most challenging to come by.
This workshop will give you “recipes” to cook up
engagement with easy to implement activities
using the tools inside D2L.
Jerry Cherrington
“Increasing Student Participation through Technology”
How technology can be used to enhance the
relationship between students and the instructor,
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leading to a better outcome for students.
Will McCullen
“Cyber Security: What is at risk, how would you be
attacked, and what can we do?
Cyber Security at Pima: Come see how attacks
are launched and real world examples of what
malware steals. How will attacks come and what
can we do? Why is higher ed. a target? How
can you better your chances of survival here and
at home? Come join us and find out.
Paulo Sudhaus
“Google Apps and Student-Centered Learning”
Collaboration and presentation, critical thinking
and problem-solving, initiative and leadership.
These are just some of the critical skills students
need to develop in order to succeed in today’s
professional world. In this workshop, we will talk
about ways to integrate Google Apps in your
course in order to develop learner independence
and autonomy. This free set of tools can be
very effective for your instruction and helpful to
students as they develop these essential skills.
In this workshop, we will discuss and show the
many benefits of creating, and using a class blog
along with viewing various blogging platforms.
Dorothy Brown-Smith
“Why Create a Blog for Your Class?”
In this workshop, we will discuss and show the
many benefits of creating, and using a class blog
along with viewing various blogging platforms.
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Ryan Daily
“Socrative”
Socrative empowers you to engage and assess
your students as learning happens. Through the
use of real-time questioning, result aggregation,
and visualization, you have instant insight into
levels of understanding so you can use class
time to better collaborate and grow as a
community of learners.
Michele Anderson
“Student Response System and Maestro in SMART
Notebook”
SMART Response VE is an interactive response
system using mobile devices and SMART
Notebook. SMART Response keeps students
engaged by giving them a way to respond to
questions using their mobile device and allows
the instructor to transition between lesson
delivery and student assessment.
Kevin Milton
“Managing Google Drive in the Classroom”
This session will teach you how to use Google
Drive to securely share files with your colleagues
and with your students. You will be presented
with concrete tips on how to develop a system
that will contribute to improved student success
by providing better communication between you
and your students, regardless of physical location.
Alexander Shayevich
“Problem Posing Activities in STEM Classrooms”
The workshop will focus on identifying and
participating in problem posing activities while
developing specific problem posing strategies.
Jon Howe
“Microsoft Office Accessibility Checkers”
Learn how to use the on-board tool from
Microsoft Office 2010 or newer to evaluate and
enhance the accessibility of Word and Power
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Point documents and the PDF you can make from
them.
Glen Sampson
“Using Technology to Understand Weather”
Numerous resources are freely available on the
web, such as animations, simulations, research
data sets and computer-based learning modules.
This session describes how to find these
resources, and use them to better engage
students in their understanding of a topic.
Jorge Caballero
“Twitter in the Higher Education Classroom
(Advanced Edition)”
Do you want to find ways to twitter more
effectively? Join Jorge Caballero and explore
additional ways to use this tool to engage
students in your classroom.
Keith Rocci
“Feeding Your Students: Serving the Right App to
Connect Students to Success”
There are so many educational apps available. It
can be overwhelming to evaluate and decide the
ones to use in your classroom. Several questions
need to be answered before you implement an
app into your teaching. Which apps have been
shown to help students succeed? Which apps do
students like? In this session, we will explore
those questions and what is available that can
help promote student success.
Mollie Minke
“Using Technology to Facilitate Student Group Work”
Learn how to use technology tools to facilitate
group work and provide for greater student
engagement.
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Gene Trester
“Student-Centered, Interactive Learning:
and Enhancing Employability Skills”
Developing
Jon Howe
“Accessibility Technologies Checklist:
Accessible Technologies for Class”
Ed Gallagher
“Google Forms in the Classroom”
This session will introduce Google Forms to
faculty and demonstrate how to use this free
feature as an assessment tool in the classroom.
Jorge Caballero
“Plickers – Paper Clickers”
Want to use clickers to poll your students, but
have no department funds? Use paper clickers –
a free resource to anyone!
Choosing
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The world’s top employers search for graduates
with soft skills. Soft skills are the catalysts that
enable students to put their technical skills to
optimum use. Modern brain science suggests
that soft skills flourish in an interactive learning
environment. Human brains need social
interaction to promote neural plasticity.
A demonstration of how a person can use access
technologies to work with educational materials.
The difference in the user experience between
accessible, somewhat accessible, and nonaccessible materials. What to look for when
deciding which technologies to use for class.
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