2010 Instructional Technology Roundtable November 35, 2010 University of Oregon in Portland – White Stag Block Portland, Oregon
Wednesday, November 3rd
5:30 PM Check‐in begins; Meet and Greet at Southpark Seafood Grill (901 SW Salmon Street). Sign‐in and seating in upper dining room; free validated parking at 1027 SW Salmon.
6:00 PM Welcome: Marty Ringle, NWACC President & Hae Okimoto, University of Hawaii
6:15 PM Dinner Social
Thursday, November 4th
8:00 AM Breakfast | White Stag Events Room 142/144
9:00 AM Keynote Address: W. Gardner Campbell, Academy for Teaching & Learning, Baylor University: Universities in an Age of Cognitive Surplus
9:45 AM Break
10:15 AM Breakout Sessions:
ePortfolios (Andrew Bonamici, U. of Oregon) | Room 150 How currentgeneration web publishing environments and portfolio practice work together to help students make connections between their courses, develop habits of mind that lead to lifelong learning, share their academic work with the world around them, and build information management skills for 21st century careers and citizenship.
LMS Update – Report from the Field (David Schlater, U. of Idaho) | Room 152 Join a discussion between those who have recently moved to an entirely new Learning Management System (LMS), those who have completed a major upgrade, and schools in the throes of planning transitions. We hope to have users of all major LMS platforms join us for discussion of how upgrades, features and interfaces are changing for better (or worse) in the first half of this session. In the second half we switch gears to discuss how faculty members and instructional designers are developing new ways of leveraging current LMS platforms.
11:30 AM Lunch | Events Room 142/144
12:30 PM Plenary Session: Doing Less Alone, Doing More Together (Peter Gunn, U. of Oregon) | Events Room 142/144
1:45 PM Break
2:15 PM Breakout Sessions:
NWACC Shared Services/Repositories (Hae Okimoto) | Room 150 Simply put, are we ready to collaborate to share services and support? What would it take? How do we get started?
Faculty Development – Challenges and Best Practices (Erica Andree, Pacific U.) | Room 152 What do faculty members want to learn about instructional technology? What do they need to know? What are the best methods to provide professional development to faculty? In this panel discussion, we will address: 1) a number of faculty development models such as training on demand, scheduled workshops, online resources, and outsourcing (lynda.com); 2) what and who determines the content of training options (faculty demand, technologist's whim, administrative fiat); and 3) our experience encouraging and rewarding faculty participation. Share your success stories or lessons learned providing quality faculty development opportunities.
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM Plenary Session: Instructional Technology Award Presentation | Events Room 142/144
4:45 PM Crowd Sourcing Dinner‐Planning Activity
Friday, November 5th
8:00 AM Breakfast | Events Room 142/144
9:00 AM Breakout Sessions:
Classroom Response Systems (Kimmy Hescock, Oregon State U.) | Room 150 Classroom Response Systems, commonly called Clickers, are instructional technologies that allow instructors to collect and analyze student responses to multiplechoice (and sometimes freeresponse) questions during class. This discussion focuses on what struggles and solutions your institution has experienced in supporting these devices for faculty/staff and students, and what methods of training are provided to teach instructors how to use the technology. Share how and why your institution settled on the model (or models) that they are utilizing today.
Mobile Technologies (Gloria Doherty, George Fox U.) | Room 152 Join us for a collaborative work session where our institutions can share lessons learned and strategies we have used to manage the emerging mobile environment. We'll look at case studies and share some resources. Our goal will be to have some takeaways that help us assess mobile usage, engage devices and favored apps, and provide services across platforms.
9:45 AM Break
10:15 AM Breakout Sessions:
Learning Spaces (Trina Marmarelli, Reed College) | Room 150 Join us to discuss the spaces where technology helps students learn on your campus planned or actual, formal or informal, lab or classroom. We'll talk about successes, failures, lessons learned, and best practices for planning and using these spaces. We'd love to enhance the conversation by projecting images of the spaces we discuss, so please send links to Trina ([email protected]) beforehand, or just bring them along.
Creating Your Teaching Toolbox (Amy Greene, Evergreen State College) | Room 152 A discussion on helping faculty create customized, dynamic learning/teaching environments across multiple tool sets and data sources.
11:00 AM Plenary Session: Support and Professional Development “Infinity & Beyond: Getting There on a Shoestring” (Hae Okimoto) | Events Room 142/144
12:00 PM Adjourn
2010 Instructional Technology Roundtable Useful Directions
From PDX to the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower: At the airport, board the MAX Red Line train to Beaverton TC. Get off at Mall/SW 5th Ave Max Station. Walk 0.2 miles southwest to 921 SW 6th Ave.
From the Hilton to Southpark Seafood Grill (Wednesday evening dinner location): From the east entrance to the Hilton (on SW 6th Ave), head south on 6th to Salmon St. Turn right on SW Salmon St and walk 3 blocks to 901 SW Salmon St.
Directions to the workshop location – U. of Oregon in Portland: The University of Oregon in Portland is located in the White Stag block in Portland's Old Town neighborhood. The entrance to the White Stag block is at 70 NW Couch St, between NW Naito Parkway and NW First Ave. The White Stag building is conveniently located on the Blue and Red lines of Tri‐Met’s MAX light rail, at the Skidmore Fountain station.
By car:
Coming from the north: take I‐5 South to Exit 300B for Hwy 99E and OMSI/US‐ 26/Oregon City. On the ramp, bear right to Morrison Street and City Center. After crossing the Morrison Bridge, proceed to SW 2nd Avenue. Proceed north to NW Couch St, and turn right. The White Stag Block is on Couch Street between NW 1st Avenue and NW Naito Parkway.
Coming from the south: take I‐5 North to Exit 299B on the LEFT to I‐405 to City Center. Shortly, take Exit 1A on the LEFT for SW Naito Parkway. The exit becomes SW Harbor Drive. Continue until the intersection with Naito Parkway and turn RIGHT. The White Stag Block will be on the left between the Burnside Bridge and NW Couch St.
The most convenient long‐term parking to White Stag is the Smart Park garage one block north of White Stag, at 33 NW Davis Street, between Naito Parkway and NW 1st Avenue. Parking there is $1.50/hour up to four hours, or $7/day.
On foot from the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower: From the Hilton at 921 SW Sixth Ave, walk north two blocks SW Yamhill and catch any eastbound Blue or Red line train on the south side of Pioneer Courthouse Square. Get off in four stops at the Skidmore Fountain station (notable with a large neon sign for Portland’s Saturday Market). Walk north to NW Couch Street. Turn the corner; the entrance to UO‐Portland is to the right at #70.