Preconference 2009 Teaching and Learning

We have requested a half-day Preconference Session on Tuesday July 7th to share teaching and learning results:

Five Minutes of Fame

A teaching incident or teaching practice that worked well; a pedagogical practice that was made possible or more effective because of the use Sakai.

Five Minutes of Shame

A teaching incident or teaching practice that failed; some problem that interfered with good teaching, and provided a lesson.

Five Minutes to Frame

A description of an upcoming Teaching & Learning conference session.

Presentation PowerPoint Template

UPDATE (6/17/09): I have uploaded a new and final version of the presentation template slides.

We have created a General Template for the workshop that outlines suggestions for what to include. All presenters should use this template and plan to send it to Josh Baron at josh.baron@marist.edu by Monday, June 29th.

Volunteer Participants (order and format to be determined):

Presenter	Institution	Topics (incorporating effects on teaching and learning)
Steve Foehr		Fame: Starting to close the loop of Curriculum Development, Professional Development, Student Work, and Assessment. Shame: Don't underestimate change Frame: K12 is coming to Sakai
Josh Baron		Fame: Using project sites to support courses; Performance Portfolios Shame: Making faculty do their own course roster associations
Robin Hill	University of Wyoming	Fame: Manual account creation and course join, allowing flexibility in guest instructors Shame: Dropbox tool confused with eCollege Dropbox Frame: Databases for portfolios and other teaching
Sue Roig	Claremont Graduate University	Fame: 1. TWISA Award winners. 2. CUC population (students and faculty) each have account and access to project site creation. Shame: 1. Project sites - "Sustainability Group" everyone maintain role instead of giving specific permissions, one member deleted entire site; "Treasures site" confidentiality issue not understand groups and permissions. 2. Use of Sakai for international seminar, guests accounts not students, disastrous problem with access and guest accounts. Frame: Training in different modalities, Bootcamp in development.
Mathieu Plourde	University of Delaware	Fame: Using the Schedule Tool as a Syllabus (James Dean, English). Shame: First week in full production... Frame: Strategies to Support Your Users: Custom Documentation and Help Files & An Honest Look at Sakai: What Should We Tell Potential Adopters?
Kate Ellis & Madeleine Gonin	Indiana University - Bloomington	Fame: Collaborative Multimedia Projects Shame: Special Characters Frame: More presentations about process
Deb Boisvert/Mary Rubega		Fame: Using matrices, forms and portfolio to support K-8 portfolio work as means to demonstrate 21st Cenutry literacy and ISTE NETS standards Shame: Publishing matrix after student work was added.
Martin Ramsay	Appalachian College Association / CEATH Company	Fame: Winning the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration Shame: Losing Member Schools that don't see the value of Sakai Frame: Submitted, but pending ...
Whitten Smart	Texas State	Fame: Using podcasts to teach an online course Shame: upgrading system right before finals and failing.
Chuck Severance	Michigan	Fame:how I use Google App Engine to build simple tools in Sakai that function like Class Room Clickers so I can add interactivity to my lecture. Shame:
Cherry Stewart	University of New England (Australia)	Fame: Wiki work Shame: Testing Errors with 600 students Frame: Fifth Generation Distance Education: Who's Responible

We are interested in diverse stories as along as they are described in terms of their effects on teaching and learning.