The 3rd Annual Tools for Teaching and
1st Annual Northwest Regional Showcase
Using Technology to Enhance Instruction
Friday, February 24, 2012
Davies Center
UW-Eau Claire
Participating in this regional showcase are the four northwest UW campuses; Eau Claire, River Falls, Stout, and Superior, along with UW Colleges-Barron and Wood County. This event is supported by UW System's Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC). The showcase focuses on faculty and instructors who are incorporating online instructional tools and other existing and emerging technologies into their courses to ramp up student learning and engagement.
Session Titles and Presenters
Keynote: Barry Dahl
"Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?"
Description: Based largely on the 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves to Death," by Neil Postman, this is a journey looking at some of the questions related to edutainment and the current paths that higher education appears to be heading down. Network television forever changed the seriousness of public discourse related to politics, religion, and many other areas. Has the Internet and information technology had a similar affect on education? During this presentation we will consider how technology is impacting the teaching and learning experience. Are the fears of 1984 finally coming true, or are we entering a Brave New World?
Breakout Sessions
| Presenters | Institution | Session Title |
| Alexander Basyrov | Stout | Online Homework in Mathematics: Assessment and More |
| Ephriam Nikoi | Superior | The Use of Technologies to Enhance Intercultural Communication and Global Engagement |
| Mary K. Churchill | Superior | No Money? No Budget? No Problem!: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance a Student-Centered Classroom |
| Mickey Fitch | Superior | The Twitter Project: Twitter and First Year Seminars |
| Carlos G. Garcia | Eau Claire | Develop communication skills using social media |
| Lynn M. Goerdt | Superior | Toward Critical Consciousness: Using Skype to Internationalize Curriculum for Meaningful Learning |
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Erick Hofacker |
River Falls |
Flipping Classroom Instruction Through ScreenCasting |
| Karen G. Mumford Joyce Johnson |
Eau Claire | Use of Prezi for Class Assignments |
| Shelley-Rae Pehler Cara Gallegos |
Eau Claire | Hybrid Course Design—Tools for Success |
| April Pierson Mary Canales Lisa Herb Charlotte Sortedahl |
Eau Claire | Plunging into the Blog-osphere: Integrating structured blogs into undergraduate education |
| Daisy Pignetti | Stout | Teaching with Twitter: 2008-2011 |
| Cathy J. Rex | Eau Claire | Facebook, Wikis, and Skype:Cross-Campus Collaboration and Research on early America |
| Quentin Vieregge | Colleges | The Geography of Technology in the ITV Classroom: Theory and Practice In Creating a Community in the ITV Composition Classroom |
| Matthew Vonk | River Falls | YouTubeNation: Using videos in the classroom |
| Jamie G. White-Farnham | Superior | Making the Most of Multimodality in an Online Course |
| Todd Zimmerman | Stout | Calibrated Peer Review |
