Dear faculty members,
This is a reminder that if you haven’t done so already to please be sure to register for the Associated Colleges of St. Lawrence Valley Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference scheduled on Saturday, November 10, 2018. The conference will feature Dr. Wren Mills and eight associated college faculty/staff, at this year’s full day, interactive conference, participants will learn about current and emerging technologies designed to enhance student learning.
Please register today at: https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPage.aspx?origin=shell#FormId=6Caribb_Ik-bl4JqQEsZAtso4szMondErW54LdlVcElURTQ0UlhQV01GQ1RHSVg5VkoyRjNFRTlWRS4u
Registration deadline is November 1, 2018
Topic: “Technology Tools for Learning”
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Registration opens at 9:00-9:30am (conference concludes at 3:30pm)
Eben Holden Conference Center, St. Lawrence University
Conference Format
Registration 9:00-9:30
Poster Session 9-10am
Welcome Remarks 10-10:15
Keynote 10:15-10:45
Lightning Round Presentations 11-noon
Lunch noon-1
With Special Session @ 12:30
Sandbox (break out) session 1-3
Wrap up/Evaluations 3:15-3:30
About Dr. Wren Mills, our Keynote Speaker:
Biography
Wren A. Mills, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director for the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Western Kentucky University. She provides both in-person and virtual training and consultations for faculty who wish to better their skills with technology in the classroom and online teaching. She also serves as a facilitator for the Graduate Assistant Teaching Institute (GATI), which prepares graduate students to be teacher of record in WKU’s classrooms, and she facilitates other Professional Learning Communities for faculty at WKU. Wren came to work in faculty development from faculty: she is in her 21st year of teaching English, and she began teaching in WKU’s Organizational Leadership program in 2016.
Keynote: Technology, Learning, and Your Comfort Zone
The keynote will highlight research on metacognition and whether technology in the classroom is beneficial, offering tips on how to effectively integrate it into our classrooms.
Special Session: Online lectures and presentations are a snap with Screencast-o-Matic!
Screencast-0-Matic is a tool that can be useful for both in-person and online classes. SOM enables instructors to record lectures or other content, and students can record presentations to save class time or make online classes equitable to their face-to-face counterparts, too.
Lightning Round and Sandbox Presentations:
- Tech Tools for Teaching by Dr. Lora Lunt, Professor of Modern Languages, SUNY Potsdam and Gisele El Khoury, Director, Language Resource Center, St. Lawrence University
- Applying 3D technology to STEAM Education at SUNY Potsdam by Linghong (Lily) Li, Associate Professor of Physics, SUNY Potsdam
- Teaching Proper Attribution with Turnitin by Jane Oppenlander, Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Systems, Clarkson University and Eva Williford, Adjunct Instructor, Reh School of Business, Clarkson University
- Utilizing Video for Student Success by Christina Smith, Instructional Technologist, SUNY Canton; Bruce Hanson, Math, SUNY Canton and Leah Payne-Worden, Nursing Lecturer, SUNY Canton
- Creating Online Instructional Videos with Adobe Spark by Sarah Knobel, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, St. Lawrence University
- OneNote in the Higher Ed Classroom by Laura Perry, Manager of Academic Technology, Clarkson University and David Crouse, Professor / Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University
- Virtual Reality and Empathy in the Classroom by Anthony Betrus, Professor of Business Administration and Educational Technology, SUNY Potsdam
- Using Voicethread to Engage Online Learners by Karen Gregory, Director of TESOL and Assistant Professor, Education, Clarkson University
