January Workshop:
Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Technology

Friday, January 26, 2001, 9:30-3:30
Hindle Auditorium, The Science Center
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts

Open to faculty, Librarians, and Academic Computing and IT&Sstaff.
Please register by calling Diane Demelo at the Kollett AcademicComputing Center, ext. 3924.

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Description:

Morning session: an introduction to Blackboard coursemanagement software.

This system has been acquired by the College, after being previewedby the Library, Technology and Learning Committee and by Librarians.The Committee invites proposals from faculty wishing to developa spring or fall-semester web-based course through Blackboardas part of an initial pilot program. Pilot courses will be showcasedat the May technology workshop.

The Blackboard system is already being used to deliver theOnLyon courses offered this spring by Professors Ed Tong, BarbaraDarling-Smith and David Powell. It will be available for generaluse by all faculty for the fall semester and enables faculty touse course web sites to:

• post an electronic syllabus (some 40+ courses had electronic syllabi last fall)
• activate a class listserv or other online discussion (28 courses did this last fall)
• provide audio and visual clips and access to other electronic resources, such as those available through the Library's home page, directly to students in the course
• access many other teaching tools currently in use and others which may be new to many faculty.

It has been widely adopted at other many colleges (e.g., Amherst,Bentley, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore) and was the subject of a recentN.Y. Times piece (To view article clickhere).

Afternoon session: "Information Technology Goalsfor Liberal Arts Students."

This part of the workshop is sponsored by the Library, Technologyand Learning Committee and will focus on the Committee's draftstatement of information technology goals for our students (click here).This is part of the Committee's effort to insure that the roleof technology in the education of our students is an integralpart of the curriculum review.

After framing the discussion in a plenary session, participantswill break into smaller groups for discussions led by membersof LTLC. Each group will report back to the whole at the end ofthe afternoon.

Schedule

9:00-9:30	Coffee & refreshment, Science Center Lobby.
9:30-11:15	Morning Session I: The Wheaton Curriculum and The Web
Welcome and Introductions
Blackboard Course Management Software System
	Introduction: David Caldwell, Wheaton College Presentation: Phillip Knutel, Director of Academic Technology, and Diane McCorry, Academic Technologist/Software Specialist, Bentley College. Presentation: Michael Gousie, Asst. Professor of Computer Science, Wheaton College.
11:15	Break
11:30-12:00	Morning Session II: Implementation Plans and Issues: discussion
12:00-12:30	Departmental Web Sites -- a review of recent work and plans
12:30	Buffet Lunch, Science Center Lobby (prior registration required)
	Speaker: Anne Scrivner Agee, Executive Director, Division of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies (DoIIIT), George Mason University Click here and then on the first article to see a piece co-authored by Anne Scrivner Agee (To read this article you need Adobe Acrobat Reader).
2:00	Afternoon Session: Technology Goals for Wheaton Students
	Framing the discussion (refer to "Information Technology Goals for Liberal Arts Students," by the Library, Technology and Learning Committee, available on the Workshop web site and at the workshop)
2:15-3:00	Small Group discussion, led by members of LTLC
3:00-3:30	Reconvene: reports from groups

Registration

Please register by called Diane Demelo at the Kollett AcademicComputing Center (ext. 3924) by Monday, January 22, 2001.

All participants (faculty, librarians, Academic Computing andIT&S staff) are welcome at both the morning and afternoon sessions,but are asked to register for them separately. Be sure also toindicate whether you plan to attend the buffet lunch in the ScienceCenter Lobby.

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