Day: 1 Session: 1 Track: 1
How to Flickr: New Tools for Capturing Images for Teaching and Learning
Jeanne Vilberg
Clarion University
In this session you will learn about Creative Commons, a free resource that allows access to creative works in the spirit of Web 2.0 collaboration, and FlickrStorm, a free online application that aids in the capturing of images you can use in your teaching.
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Day: 1 Session: 1 Track: 2
Data that Clicks yields Concepts that Stick
Janet Winter
Penn State University Berks College
Using examples in statistics education, participants will learn about the use of power point and clickers, experience clickers, and examine students' performance in clicker classes.
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Day: 1 Session: 1 Track: 3
Statistical Software Review: SPSS
Paul Arsenault
West Chester University
Utilize this predictive analytics technology to draw reliable conclusions about current conditions and future events. This hands-on session will enable you tointegrate this analytical application into your research and classroom curriculum.
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Day: 1 Session: 1 Track: 4 
Windows Vista
Sue Halon, Treiva Dungee, JT Singh, Juli Szonntag and Samantha Varrella
West Chester University
The wow starts now! Preview Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista. Basic features will be demonstrated with an opportunity for Q&A. Office 2007 and Internet Explorer v.7 will also be featured. This session is not hands-on.
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Day: 1 Session: 1 Track: 5
Blackboard - Innovative ways to Drive your Blackboard Course
Paul Gargiulo and Joseph Enea
West Chester University
The objective of this track is to transform conversional thinking in regard to uploading content to Blackboard. We will help you identify if you have “Parked” your content, and provide ideas on how to get it to “Drive” your course to success!
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Day: 1
Open Forum with Students
Virtual Communication
Presenters: Sue Halon, Chris Penny, Daniel Gold, Kevin Partridge, Amanda Paugh, Shaun Spence and Samantha Varrella
West Chester University
An interactive student discussion on web-based communications systems. Focus on E2Campus, Blackboard, WebCourse, LiveText and Turnitin.
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Day: 1 Session: 2 Track: 1
Cloud Computing: The move to web apps
Christian Penny
West Chester University
This session will cover some of the latest Web 2.0 applications/services including Flock, Instapaper, Picnik, Netvibes, delicious, and flickr. There will be discussion on how Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way we interact and how we can use these tools to enhance teaching and learning.
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Day: 1 Session: 2 Track: 2
Using Relevant and Appropriate Technology to Help Students Acquire Sustainable ICT Skills
Punnipa Hossain
Lock Haven University
The use of relevant and appropriate technology in this context implies readily available software and hardware within the reach of most students which do not call for learning curve and/or assistance to operate. By using such technologies, students can be trained to hone sustainable skills which will have their use not only in their academic pursuits but also in meeting their personal media needs.
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Day: 1 Session: 2 Track: 3
Group Cohesion in Collaborative Learning Environments
Donna Ashcraft, Samantha Stevick, Troy Teeter and Fred Keen
Clarion University
Thomas Treadwell
West Chester University
This study compared CORAL classes to traditional
classes that employ the use of short-term, intermittent group
work. Overall, attitudes toward group work improved for CORAL
students over the course of the semester but remained relatively
constant for students enrolled in traditional courses utilizing
minimal group work in an objectivist classroom. The CORAL
student teams also became more cohesive throughout the semester
because of their enduring collaborative experiences, i.e.,
they made a conscious progression through Tuckmans later stages.
Group cohesion decreased significantly for students in traditional
learning environments where the focus is short-term, intermittent
groups, most likely because they were not given the opportunity
to progress through the more cohesive stages of team development.
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Day: 1 Session: 2 Track: 4
Emergency Preparedness – e2Campus
Kimberly Slattery, Melissa Nejbauer, and Kevin Partridge
West Chester University
What is your University doing to prepare for a campus emergency? Join us as we discussed what steps West Chester has done to prepare itself and its student for an emergency. Mass communication procedures, including E2campus, web site readiness, and emergency protocol will be presented.
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Day: 1 Session: 2 Track: 5
Chat awhile about Security
Frank Piscitello
West Chester University
Bring a cup of joe, and paper and pencil. We’ll be chatting about security issues on the internet. Topics to include federal and state regulations, internet stalking, spam, state of viruses protection, etc.
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Day: 1
“Birds of a Feather” Roundtable Discussion
Lunch session on Thursday will include optional “Birds of a Feather” tables with moderator at each table. General lunch tables will be available for informal discussions. Topics to be included: Web design and services, Blackboard, Collaborative Projects and Open Faculty Topic. Additional topics are welcomed.
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Day: 1 Session: 3 Track: 1
Nothing, but Webpages
Han Liu
Shippensburg University
Webpage is the major medium today to provide, organize,
and convey information. This session will use real examples
to demonstrate how to use web page as an instruction delivery
tool and how to use integrated online resources as curriculum
elements to engage the millennials to strive for excellence.
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Day: 1 Session: 3 Track: 2
How did your class go?
Sonja Heeter
Clarion University
Blogs can be a just-in-time method to assess student
understanding. Two faculty members will describe Web 2.0 technologies
(blogs, wikis) that you can use to stimulate thinking outside
the classroom.
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Day: 1 Session: 3 Track: 3
Clickers in the Classroom: Using Classroom Response Systems to Assess Learning
Michele Mislevy, Karen Jogan and Rosemary Deegan
Albright College
Using a classroom response system gives instructors
another way to integrate technology into the classroom and
gives the students an interactive learning experience. It
also provides an effective formative assessment tool for the
instructor. During this interactive session, the presenter
will demonstrate how to design a presentation using this technology
and participants will follow along, answering questions with
clickers.
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Day: 1 Session: 3 Track: 4
Evolution from the Techno-Stone Age
Gerardina Kenney, West Chester University
Miranda Morehead, West Chester University
The staff of the Learning Assistance and Resource Center would like to share with you the implementation of various technology into our tutoring methodology. We have succeeded in bridging the gap between traditional tutoring and the incorporation of instructional resources.
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Day: 1 Session: 3 Track: 5
Paul Gargiulo and Joseph Enea
West Chester University
Joseph will discuss the advantages of integrating Live Classroom into your course, and demonstrate how your course can become a Hybrid.
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Day: 1 Session: 4 Track: 1
Paperless Mark-ups: Using Tablet PC's In Writing Classes
Bill Broun
East Stroudsburg University
The presentation will survey some of the innovative, surprising ways that tablet PC technology allows instructors in "paperless" classrooms to employ older, well-tested methods of marking-up essays without sacrificing the benefits of online educational engagement.
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Day: 1 Session: 4 Track: 2
If I can do it, So Can You: Switching them from “I Hate College” to “I like this” by Using Games and Other Resources for the Electronic Classroom
Adenike Bitto
East Stroudsburg University
The purpose of this presentation is to share and learn about student remotes and the classroom response system. Because of the plethora of electronic gadgets available in daily life, students may sometimes have jaded views. However, this system enables direct student input including jeopardy, fastest finger games, testing and assessment. Additional information includes fantastic updates to the CPS (Classroom Performance System) main module and PowerPoint presentation modules that really enhance teaching and learning. This technology is a must-have tool for all teachers and learners.
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Day: 1 Session: 4 Track: 3
Communication Patterns in On-Line Collaborative Research & Learning
Thomas Treadwell, Glenda Wonsock, Kate Custer, Taryn Cain
West Chester University
Donna Ashcraft
Clarion University
Collaborative on-line research and learning communication
interactions has been studied to identify communication patterns
in on-line learning environment. The purpose of this research
project is to understand the various types of electronic communication
patterns that emerge in an online collaborative environment.
The goal of this research project is to identify online collaborative/cooperative
communication patterns in an electronic collaborative environment.
In an initial review of on-line collaborative communication
data the following communication patterns have emerged among
participants: blocker, collaborator, cooperator, non-compliant,
and turn around. Communication patterns might predict future
roles the students take on in an online collaborative environment.
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Day: 1 Session: 4 Track: 4
e-Learning Goes to School: Challenges and Prospects of Online Education in American Basic Education
Zak Hossain – Lock Haven University
Kazi Hossain – Millersville University
e-Learning in becoming more prevalent in American basic education. According to one estimate, nearly a quarter of a million high school students have been taking online courses every year since 2005. The increasing popularity of e-learning in basic education raises some pedagogical, technical, and sociological issues. This presentation will attempt to bring those issues to the forefront.
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Day: 1 Session: 4 Track: 5
Converting Video Formats
Brad Hollaway and Eleanor Walton
West Chester University
Obtaining knowledge through video is a communication essential. Learn how you can integrate current video technology to broadcast information supplementing teaching and learning as well as collaboration.
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Day: 2 Session: 1 Track: 1
Is e-Learning e-Essential?
Zak Hossain
Lock Haven University
E-learning (both online and blended modes) has been a part of our corporate and education settings for over two decades. It is about time to raise a very critical question: where is the beef? This presentation will critically examine several issues involving the technology, pedagogy, and learning outcomes of e-learning.
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Day: 2 Session: 1 Track: 2
Word and PowerPoint in the Interactive Classroom
Brad Holtman
Mansfield University
I have found a number of techniques that allow me to use Word and PowerPoint in a very engaging and interactive manner in the language classroom. I will discuss and demonstrate many of these techniques and offer participants the chance to try it themselves. Often, the same document you have already produced in Word, for instance, can easily be presented in a different manner and involve students more effectively. Indeed, Word as a presentational tool does not often come to people's minds. I will, however, also show a few tricks with PowerPoint as well.
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Day: 2 Session: 1 Track: 3
Polish/American Electronic Cultural Connections
Elizabeth Casner
Kutztown University
This presentation discusses the planning, execution, results,
and analysis of a project in which Polish ESL students at Lodz University
and American Composition students at Kutztown University participated
in an electronic cultural exchange. Examples of students’ communications
(emails, DVD, podcast) and evaluations of both students and professors
are included.
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Day: 2 Session: 1 Track: 4
Online Forms
Kimberly Slattery and James Huang
West Chester University
What are they? We will discuss how various online forms from a basic word document to forms which updates databases. Learn how online forms can enhance your website, increase user satisfaction and yet save you time.
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Day: 2 Session: 1 Track: 5
Blackboard – Tools of the Trade
Al Unrath
Millersville University
Learning to:
Create an interactive syllabus
Use Jing to create quick instructional videos
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Day: 2 Session: 2 Track: 1
Laptop as a Tool for Teacher Preparation
Christian Penny
West Chester University
This session will highlight the initial results of a pilot project that placed laptop computers into the hands of 20 teacher candidates within the College of Education at West Chester University for a full year. We will share positive outcomes of the program, obstacles encountered, and next steps.
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Day: 2 Session: 2 Track: 2
Discussing Video Conference Technology as a Format for Distance Supervision of Teacher Candidates
Eduardo Valerio
Lock Haven University
This session will be used to discuss a variety of topics relating to the need for distance supervision of teacher candidates. The session will include a short survey in support of soliciting research and development of equipment that are tailored to provide quality supervision through video conference technology.
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Day: 2 Session: 2 Track: 3
(Moving beyond) Death by PowerPoint
Robert Hails
PA State System of Higher Education
Creating a presentation using PowerPoint is easy. Creating a presentation that isn't deathly boring is--apparently--hard. This session will focus on how to create effective and interesting presentations using PowerPoint Long Description: Creating a presentation using PowerPoint is easy. Creating a presentation that isn't deathly boring is hard. One source says that bad PowerPoint presentations are wasting over $250 million every day. Each day people leave meeting rooms and classrooms with a glazed look in their eyes.
This session is NOT about how to create whizbang effects in PowerPoint. Not about how to create flying words, or how to change templates. It’s not about creating visual tedium. It’s about how to use a tool like PowerPoint to create more effective and interesting presentations.
During the session you will see several examples of good and bad presentations. But most importantly, you will learn techniques for improving your own presentations.
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Day: 2 Session: 2 Track: 4
Tips and Tricks with Flash
Dan Gold, Student
West Chester University
Interested in creating flash animations that will
improve the look to your website or PowerPoint presentation?
Learn how to easily make custom animations that will be sure
to turn heads.
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Day: 2 Session: 2 Track: 5
PDF Files
Juli Szonntag
West Chester University
PDF (portable document format) files allow you to view and print a document as the author intended it. They are widely used for brochures, magazines, forms, reports, interactive online reading and other materials with complex visual designs.
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Day: 2 Session: 3 Track: 1
Why we should all use Turnitin--and how to use it
Larry Udell
West Chester University
After briefly outlining why every university teacher should require all papers to be submitted using Turnitin, the session will cover how to use the Turnitin's Grademark feature, and compare it with an alternative method of grading using your word processor.
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Day: 2 Session: 3 Track: 2
Millennial Leaders: Using Technology to Engage Today's Students
Shelly Gross-Gray, Shippensburg University
Darla Ausel, Clarion University
Who are today's students? What technologies are they using in everyday communication? What is the implication for teaching and learning? This session will focus on the various technologies available to engage the millennial student. Such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, rss, screen capturing/casting, clickers, digital storytelling, YouTube/TeacherTube, and Second Life.
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Day: 2 Session: 3 Track: 3
On-Line Collaborative Communication patterns that evolve in on-line learning environments
Tom Treadwell, Diane Cipriano, Leah Lockes and Katie Unks
West Chester University
Donna Ashcraft - Clarion University
The purpose of this study was to identify collaborative communication patterns that evolve in online learning environments over a 16-week semester. Most of the research collected focus on characteristics needed to successfully collaborate rather than identifying communication patterns. One study, Chen, Wang, and Ou (2003), found six on line or virtual communication patterns: the ideal, fragmented, dominant leader, tête-à-tête, unresponsive, and unsocial.
The current Collaborative on-line research and learning study found ten communication patterns that appear to go beyond the Chen, Wang, and Ou study. The communication patterns begin with a general or basic pattern, the social loafer, the aggressor, and the confused, and as time/weeks move on, different patterns seem to take over by the ninth week of interaction. The patterns are Blocker, Manipulator, Collaborator, Cooperative, Turn-a-round, Silent Contributor, and Non-compliant. The different patterns we have identified will be discussed.
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Day: 2 Session: 3 Track: 4
Microsoft Office 2007 Overview
Sue Halon, Treiva Dungee, Juli Szonntag and Samantha Varrella
West Chester University
Explore and experience the redesigned look and feel of the Office 2007 suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Although this latest release has a totally new look, the reliability and flexibility of your trusted software essentials remain. This is “blue ribbon” stuff!
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Day: 2 Session: 3 Track: 5
Creating Online Surveys… Using “Survey Monkey”
Jeannie Carpenter
West Chester University
Online surveys have become an important mechanism for gathering information, conducting research and performing assessments. Survey Monkey is an online tool for developing and launching online surveys, which also includes functionality for compiling and analyzing respondent data. Come learn the basics of this inexpensive and feature-filled program.
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Day: 2 Session: 4 Track: 1
Using RefWorks
Mame Purce and Rachel McMullin
West Chester University
Students have been and will continue to be confused by how to format citations and a works cited page. Help them (and yourself!); join us and learn the basics of using RefWorks Online Research Tool to import and organize references, construct citations, and format bibliographies in almost any citation style.
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Day: 2 Session: 4 Track: 2
Getting Smarter: Using the Smartboard in Instruction
Ellen Newcombe
West Chester University
This session is a comprehensive introduction to the SmartBoard an interactive white board. Basic features and uses of SmartBoard instruction will be introduced. Participants will explore (hands-on) the use of Notebook software for presentations or lessons, use of the SmartBoard with Microsoft Office and the Senteo Personal Response System.
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Day: 2 Session: 4 Track: 3
Revisiting PowerPoint in the Classroom: Creation from A Communication Theory Perspective for New to Moderate Skill Users
Kanan Sawyer
West Chester University
Presentation revisits concerns regarding classroom PowerPoint use from a Communication Theory perspective with specific attention given to users new to this technology – but appropriate for all audiences. Attendees will learn how to master slideware basics, create presentations in less time and be better received by student audiences, and will leave with slides in-hand.
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Day: 2 Session: 4 Track: 4
Local & global management tools to display student's performance
Deivy Petrescu
Cheyney University
We present some in house software to manage locally and display globally the performance of all our current students. We currently use Excel as our spreadsheet program, but this could be substituted by any text editor.
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Day: 2 Session: 4 Track: 5
Web 2.0
Kevin Partridge, Student
West Chester University
The new trends and technologies surfacing and being implemented on the World Wide Web. Discussion topics include social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and RSS feeds. Use the web to captivate your audience, providing them with opportunities to participate and interact with others in acquiring knowledge.
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This will be a “special session” from 12:00 – 1:00 on Friday
Blackboard – Off-Track with the Blackboard Administrators
Paul Gargiulo – West Chester University
This collaborative session veers outside of the traditional RECAP Agenda. It is an opportunity for the Blackboard administrators to discuss the challenges of maintaining the Bb system; collaborating about developing training materials, supporting users, and the testing of new features.
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