8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Pre-Conference Workshops

Session 1: Newcomer Orientation – Top Things to Know About Getting Started with eCollege

If you are planning to develop and/or to teach a course using eCollege, this session will get you started! We will look at course structure, basic content creation, and at the tools you will use to communicate with and to manage your students’ interactions and progress as you teach. The presentation will be infused with best practice tips and tricks, and you will have access for one year to an online reference course following the conference.
Vicki Harsh, eCollege (Room 320 A)

Session 2: Newcomer Orientation – What’s New in Blackboard 8: A New Hope

This session will provide a concise overview of the changes in Blackboard v.8, with a focus on the newly improved Grade Center interface.  
Anna Thai & Patrick Lowenthal, CU Online (Room 320 B)

Session 3: Citation management with Endnote Web

Looking for an easy way to manage your library of citations?  EndNote Web <http://0-www.myendnoteweb.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/> is here and it's free for the campus community.  This presentation will explore everything from 'getting connected' to quickly searching, downloading and organizing your citations, sharing references with students or colleagues, and using the Cite-While-You-Write feature.  Even if you are not quite ready to ditch the index cards you will find this web-based software intuitive and simple to use from anywhere. 
Lorrie Evans & Gayle Bradbeer, Auraria Library (Room 320 C)

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Refreshments

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks & Intro Video

Bob Tolsma, Academic Technology & Extended Learning

9:40 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions:

Session 1: Case Study: Extending Blackboard via Community Sites &
Adobe Presenter

Community Sites are like bulletin boards on steroids.  Use all of the features of Blackboard in a non-course environment, to post materials and facilitate information exchange between students, faculty, preceptors or volunteers.  Develop narrated learning modules with Adobe Presenter.  This easy-to-use PowerPoint enhancement gives you the ability to create engaging, self-running presentations which incorporate images, audio, links and attachments.  See examples ranging from Ethics, to Histology, to Evidence and Outcome Measures.
David Weil, Physical Therapy (Room 320A)

Session 2: :The Future of eCollege: Presentation of Product Roadmap and Q&A with eCollege

Heather Shoemaker, Senior Product Director at eCollege, will present highlights of new eCollege products scheduled for release in 2008 & 2009. The presentation will focus on the Teaching Solutions .NExT product, which is the next generation of the eCollege online course platform. .NExT enhancements range from globalization and new style support to specific functionality improvements in the Dropbox, threaded discussions, course authoring and many other areas of the platform. She will demo the beta version of .NExT that is currently running in production. Heather will field questions from faculty about the .NExT platform as well as present information about other product enhancements planned for this year and next.
Heather Shoemaker, eCollege (Room 320 B)

Session 3: Linking library content to online courses

Did you know that you can quickly and easily include electronic content from the Library into online course materials? You can create links to journal articles for course readings in the
Library's databases, include a             search for Library books, journals, and articles on your web
pages, and even set up RSS feeds to receive         alerts from resources in your areas of
interest. There are a number of possible ways to customize this content that are as easy as
Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V! Join Gayle Bradbeer, Distance Services Librarian, and Nina McHale, Web
Librarian, to learn these easy techniques for connecting your students with quality,
peer-reviewed, online materials.
Gayle Bradbeer and Nina McHale, Auraria Library (Room 320 C)

10:40 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Session 1:Coordinating student work and groups with Google Docs

Online collaboration and the management of documents online are two of the many benefits of Web 2.0.  It’s likely the supporting applications will be part of the working environment into which our graduates enter.  Moreover, these tools offer unique advantages to learning environments where efficiencies in team projects as well as individual research objectives are imperative.  We’ll demonstrate some of the key uses of one such application developed by Google, focusing on practical uses in academia.
Storm Gloor, College of Arts and Media (Room 320 A)

Session 2: Enhancing social presence in online courses

Because of the critical role that social presence plays in inspirational and meaningful learning, online courses need to include opportunities for rich and relevant learning opportunities that (1) create a sense of learning community in which learners learn from each other and from the teacher, (2) encourage the sharing of multiple perspectives, and (3) promote high quality work through collaboration and peer review – without creating an instructional situation in which everyone is online constantly. In this session, we will examine various instructional strategies that can be used to accomplish an appropriate level of social presence in online courses.
Joni Dunlap, School of Education and Human Development and Center for Faculty Development
(Room 320 B)

Session 3: Adobe Connect: Case Study with Communications

Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze) has been a staple at UCD for several years. Faculty, Staff and Departments are continuously finding new and innovative ways to utilize this diverse resource. The UCD Communication Department is no exception. They have reinvented the process of evaluating student projects using Adobe Connect. This presentation will explain the steps, techniques and resources used to enable this process.
Barbara Walkosz, CLAS Department of Communications (Room 320 C)

11:30 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. Lunch and Keynote

“The Public Professor: How New Technology Opens Up Education Outside the Classroom Walls”

Josh Fischman supervises technology and science coverage for The Chronicle of Higher Education as a senior editor. He has written about attempts to reinvent the Internet, campus emergency alert systems, and teaching classes using blogs, tablet PCs, and cellphones. Previously he was a senior writer and editor at U.S News &World Report, editor-in-chief at Earth, deputy news editor at Science, and a senior editor at Discover. He has won the Blakeslee Award for excellence in medical reporting, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. He is the author of the leading medical education guidebook, The U.S. News & World Report Ultimate Guide to Medical Schools (Sourcebooks, 2006).

1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Session 1: University Policy vs Robot Police: University Anti-plagiarism Efforts vs Commercial Anti-plagiarism Software and Services

This presentation evaluates the content of commercial and academic anti-plagiarism software and services and then raises questions as to their effectiveness and necessity.  After examining and evaluating these software applications and services, the authors report the results of their statistical analyses of the degree of plagiarism found in two sections of an upper division course, one offered online and one in a regular classroom setting.
Roxanne Byrne, CLAS, Mathematical Sciences
Michael Tang, Engineering
(Room 320 A)

Session 2: 2008 a Student Panel Odyssey:

Okay, so you have read your Midterm evaluations and FCQs, but now it is time to learn from this student panel what truly makes an online course exceptional! 
Kate Miller and Naomi Wahls, CU Online (Room 320 B)

Session 3: Images, videos and other cool free stuff you can make online

Are your courses drab and dreary, heavy on text and filled with nothing but scrolling pages of desolate black and white?  Technology can help!  Free online tools can make you a flashy graphics developer in no time. Find out how to create custom graphics, edit video and capture desktop lectures and demos. Best of all, it’s easy! Come learn about tools from the future than can help you make better courses, today!
David Thomas CU Online (Room 320 C)

2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Concurrent Session

Session 1:CU Online Data & Evidence-Based Decision Making 

This session will introduce the data analysis and evidence-based decision making project for the ATEL division.  Primarily focusing on the data collected from the Spring 2008 Census Profile we will look at online enrollment trends and our student profile and discuss how this data can inform decision making and raise questions for further research to guide online programs development.  
Bob Tolsma and Daniel Parks, Academic Technology and Extended Learning (Room 320 A)

Session 2: Top technologies to watch

A symposium favorite! What's new in technology? What's hot? What's not? This lively presentation never fails to point toward the potentials for online technology.
 Brian Yuhnke CU Online (Room 320 B)

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Closing Session Grand Prizes, evaluations and wrap up

If you’ve lasted this long, turn in your evaluation and join us for the big prize giveaways!!! 

Bob Tolsma, Academic Technology and Extended Learning (Room 320 A & B)