CRLA 2010 Technology and Distance Learning SIG

AGENDA

I. Introductions

 Co-Chairs:

Dr. Dorothy Chase Dr. Melissa Burgess

 CRLA Tech/DL Members present at meeting

II. Announcements

 If you are presenting, send your presentation PPT/handouts to [email protected] so that we may post these materials to the CRLA Conference site wiki http://onlineteachingandlearning.wikispaces.com/2010+Conference+Materials

 The Technology SIG Meeting will be held at 6:30, Friday at Café Molise (Reservations under the name CRLA TECH SIG) http://www.caffemolise.com/Caff%C3%A9_Molise/Caff%C3%A9_Molise.html or Macaroni Grill http://www.macaronigrill.com/Home/Home.aspx

 The CRLA conference sessions have been extended through webinars (see front page of CRLA Conference Website for further details)

III. Ways to Communicate:

 A Yahoo group was established to disseminate information on computer applications to members of the group - [email protected]  Newsletter – Submit an article or share information/resources for publication the CRLA Tech SIG (will be sending out to members after the conference)

IV. Technology

 Favorite applications

 What is your institution using?

 What would you like to try?

 What’s Hot?? Which emerging technologies do you foresee being big in the next 3-5 years? 2

 21st century teaching and learning – What does this mean to you? What are the characteristics of 21st century students? What are the characteristics of 21st century educators?

V. Distance Learning

 What delivery platforms does your institution use?

 What online delivery tools do you use (i.e., discussion board, chat, email, blog, wiki)? In what ways?

 Are you using hybrid, or fully online?

 How do you foresee developmental education being delivered in the next five years?

VI. Best Practices

 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy

 Community of Inquiry (CoI) www.communitiesofinquiry.com

o Address access, attitude, and educational issues prior to technology implementation.

o Identify concept/strategies to be learned.

o Design activities based upon a cognitive presence

o Create opportunities for a social presence.

o Provide a teaching presence through support, guidance, and feedback

VII. Current/Upcoming Publications

 The Community of Inquiry Model as an Online Framework for Developmental Literacy (Journal of Developmental Education – TechTalk column) Melissa Burgess, Ed.D., Sam Houston State University David C. Caverly, Ph.D., Texas State University-San Marcos 4

 Picture a World Without Pens, Pencils, and Paper: The Unanticipated Future of Reading and Writing, (Journal of College Reading and Learning – JCRL Forum Karen Bromley, Ed.D., Binghampton University