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Professional & Institutional Presentations
- Strategies for Transitioning to the Age of Digital Media
(2005)
Presented by Sarah Cheverton and Christina Updike
Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management
July 8, 2005 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
Presentation File: ppt
version
Sarah Cheverton, Manager of Faculty Development Services and Christina
Updike, Visual Resources Specialist facilitated a 2-hour workshop
for SEI participants on strategies for successfully transitioning
their departments and their faculty to a digital media environment.
The workshop was presented in a lecture and experiential format.
SEI Key Player Concerns Activity Results (Word)
(PDF)
- Investigating Options in the Blackboard Gradebook
Andrea Adams, Presenter
Innovative Teaching Strategies for Faculty Using Blackboard, Track
Presentation
April 7, 2005 at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Presentation
File (PDF)
Do you know instructors who are frustrated with and want to learn
more about the Blackboard™ Gradebook? Discover numerous
options that the Blackboard Gradebook offers and determine how
the different options interact with each other. Participants will
receive a decision making flowchart and packet that will help
instructors accurately set up the Blackboard Gradebook. The flowchart
and packet will show instructors how to record grades in a point
or percentage based system, display scores to the students as
points, percentages, letter grades or complete/incomplete as well
as ensure that student grades are calculated correctly. Techniques
and advantages of downloading grades to Excel (such as dropping
the lowest test score) and uploading them back into Blackboard
will also be discussed.
- A Collaborative Approach to Faculty Development
Sarah Cheverton, Presenter
EDUCAUSE 2004 Poster Session
Presentation
File (PDF)
As the use of instructional technology tools continues to proliferate
throughout the University’s faculty ranks, it is more important
than ever for faculty to develop skills in the technical operations
and the pedagogically-sound application of those tools. However,
as faculty constantly face new technology, experience busier schedules,
and battle for parking near workshop facilities, it is also more
challenging than ever to attract large numbers of faculty to instructional
technology workshops.
To broaden its reach, CIT’s Faculty Development Services
staff has developed an extensive set of online resources, initiated
an outreach program to physically-distant areas of campus and
created an annual Teaching and Learning with Technology conference
for University faculty. However, the most successful venture has
been the development of collaborative relationships with other
University organizations and programs. These organizations and
programs touch faculty for purposes other than technological training,
but have identified instructional technology skill deficiencies
among their constituents or have been interested in using instructional
technology tools to deliver academic content. Faculty Development
Services responds to these organizations by coordinating and/or
facilitating customized learning opportunities for the identified
faculty groups. The number of faculty served has increased and
the scope of training has expanded.
- Strategies for Transitioning to the Age of Digital Media
(2004)
Presented by Sarah Cheverton and Christina Updike
Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management
July 8, 2004 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
Presentation File: ppt
version
Sarah Cheverton, Manager of Faculty Development Services and Christina
Updike, Visual Resources Specialist facilitated a 2-hour workshop
for SEI participants on strategies for successfully transitioning
their departments and their faculty to a digital media environment.
The workshop was presented in a lecture and experiential format.
SEI Key Player Concerns Activity Results (Word)
(PDF)
- Strategies for Transitioning to the Age of Digital Media
Presented by Sarah Cheverton and Christina Updike
Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting of the Visual Resources Association
April 30, 2004 in Charlottesville, Virginia
Presentation File: ppt
version
Sarah Cheverton, Manager of Faculty Development Services and Christina
Updike, Visual Resources Specialist facilitated a 2-hour workshop
for SEI participants on strategies for successfully transitioning
their departments and their faculty to a digital media environment.
The workshop was presented in a lecture and experiential format.
VRA Chapter Key Player Concerns Activity Results (Word)
(PDF)
- Strategies for Transitioning to
the Age of Digital Media
Presented by Sarah Cheverton and Christina Updike at Visual Resources
Association
Annual Conference, March 12, 2004 in Portland, Oregon
Presentation File: ppt
version or html
version
Sarah Cheverton, Manager of Faculty Development Services and Christina
Updike, Visual Resources Specialist facilitated a 3-hour workshop
for VRA members on strategies for successfully transitioning their
departments and their faculty to a digital media environment.
The workshop was presented in a lecture and experiential format.
It included three primary components:
1) a summary of survey data collected from visual resources
professionals, faculty and administrators across the country
who have experienced some degree of transition from traditional
media to digital media;
2) a review of strategies by which visual resources professionals,
faculty, and administrators can successfully transition to the
use of digital media; and
3) an opportunity for workshop participants to assess and discuss
ways in which their own institutions are managing the transition
to digital media and to consider additional or different strategies
for enhancing the transition process.
Sixty-two VRA members participated in the workshop.
- Blackboard and Centra: Companion
Tools for Dynamic Distance Learning
Presented by Sarah Cheverton, Manager of Faculty Development Services
at VCCS New Horizons 2003: Enterprising Connections, April 3-5,
2003 in Roanoke, Virginia
Distance learning instructors are challenged to effectively facilitate
learning through text-based delivery tools that limit interaction
in the virtual classroom. An online graduate program at James
Madison University has successfully addressed this issue by using
Centra Symposium, an audio and video-capable system, as a companion
tool to Blackboard. The purpose of this presentation was to briefly
discuss the events that led to the integrated use of these tools,
demonstrate their use in an online session and describe the results
of their use in the graduate program.
- Summer
Online Courses: A Distance Learning Alternative for Traditional
Campuses
Presented at the North East Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP)
Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 18, 2003 by Sarah Cheverton,
Manager of Faculty Development Services and Dr. Jim Mazoué,
Coordinator of Distributed and Distance Learning.
Presentation Abstract:
How can institutions with a predominant traditional student demographic
better serve their students through distance learning? A faculty
development specialist and distance learning coordinator discuss
course design, training, and support issues involved in implementing
a successful summer online course program.
- Faculty
Development for Distributed and Distance Learning
Presented at Mid-Atlantic Teaching Technology Support conference
at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., April 19,
2002
By Sarah Cheverton, Manager, Faculty Development Services
ABSTRACT: The Center for Instructional Technology at James Madison
University has established a variety of customer-focused methods
to train and support faculty who use distance and distributed
learning tools. Methods include regularly scheduled and customized
workshops, information sessions, online tutorials and house calls.
The Manager of Faculty Development Services will describe these
services and make recommendations for establishing a successful
service organization.
- A
Collaborative Digital Archive to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Presented at American Education Research Association in New Orleans,
LA, April 2002
By Dr. Julia Harbeck, Instructional Technologist and Dr. Barbara
Slater-Stern, School of Education (Dr. Slater-Stern presented
the paper at conference)
ABSTRACT: The Collaborative Digital Archive (CDA) is a sophisticated
database with a web-based interface which allows access to a
comprehensive, dynamic set of support resources. The CDA provides
a provides a common knowledge structure where materials can
be added, edited or deleted by faculty administrators. The presentation
described the collaboration, technology, process and design
behind the CDA.
- Supporting
Distributed and Distance Learning Faculty
Presented at EDUCAUSE, October, 2001
By Sarah Cheverton, Julia Harbeck, Jim Mazoue and Sharon Pitt
ABSTRACT: James Madison University employs several methods to
support distance and distributed learning faculty including workshops,
information sessions, online tutorials, and instructional house
calls. Workshops incorporate instruction in best practices with
technical skills acquisition. An administrator, faculty trainer,
and instructional technologist discuss their experiences in providing
a multilevel faculty support system.
Proceedings paper written by: Sharon Pitt, Sarah Cheverton, Julia
Harbeck and Jim Mazoue
- Integrating
an Image Library into an Internet-based Teaching Tool for Art,
Architecture and Beyond
Presented at EDUCAUSE, October, 2001
By Sharon P. Pitt and Christina B. Updike
ABSTRACT: Conference presentation by Sharon P. Pitt and Christina
B. Updike. Though many databases allow search and access of images,
the Madison Digital Image Database is an online search engine
and a teaching and learning tool. The system permits instructors
to remotely generate annotated "slide shows," which can be placed
online for study or archived for testing or future use. More information
can be found at http://cit.jmu.edu/mdidinfo/.
- Adding Technology to Education: Better or Just Different?
Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, June, 2001
Hosted by James Madison University
Sarah Cheverton co-presented with Dr. Bob Herring (Winston Salem
University) and Dr. Cathy Sullivan (James Madison University)
at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference for the Organizational
Behavior Teaching Society. Sarah and her co-presenters demonstrated
the use of Blackboard and Centra as independent and companion
tools for distance and distributed learning. They also discussed
issues related to administration, instructional strategies and
"classroom management."
- Teaching
and Learning with Digital Art Images
To be presented at a Practicum in Instructional Technology, Collaborations
in Bringing Data to the Classroom, hosted at Gettysburg College,
June 4, 2001, by Sharon P. Pitt.
ABSTRACT: Funded with an internal grant from its Center for Instructional
Technology (CIT), James Madison University has designed an Internet-based
image database connected to a flexible, in-class teaching and
learning tool. The system has the capacity to retrieve, sort and
package digital images for yse in teaching and learning. Each
year, the system is evaluated to inform redesign activities and
to determine user demographics, usage statistics and instructional
impact. This instructional system is an example of how technology
can positively impact faculty and student success when appropriately
integrated into the teaching and learning process. At the practicum,
the background, development process and evaluation of the project
will be discussed. The system will be demonstrated. Challenges
to the institution, including copyright, technology transfer and
technical support will be addressed.
- Technology
Competency at JMU
Presented at IT Everywhere, hosted by George Mason University,
April 30, 2001 by Linda Cabe Halpern, Sharon P. Pitt, Moderator,
and David Brunner. In 2001, the State Council for Higher Education
(SCHEV) established guidelines for institutions to assess and
report on technological competencies within their Reports of Institutional
Effectiveness. JMU has met those requirements. Presenters discussed
the assessment of student technology competencies, now in its
third year, at James Madison University. Needed resources, implementation
issues, current results and lessons learned were addressed.
- Training
and Support Issues with Blackboard (click
here for .ppt version)
Presented at New Horizons, April 8 and 9, 2001 by Sarah Cheverton
and Julia Harbeck, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT: Blackboard/CourseInfo is an online course development
software created and sold by Blackboard, Inc. and currently available
at JMU. The presentation at New Horizons included recommendations
for successfully adopting the courseware as a distance learning
and in-class supplemental teaching tool.
- Educating
in the Workplace: The Workforce Development Campus
(click
here for .ppt version)
Presented at New Horizons, April 9 and 10, 2001 by Julia Harbeck,
Ph.D. and Edmund Vitale, Jr.
The James Madison University Workforce Development Campus is an
inventive online certification program to help educators provide
relevant, meaningful and timely performance enhancing education/training
in the workplace. Presentation topics inlcuded marketing strategies
through contract negotiation, organizational needs assessment,
curriculum design and instruction through program evaluation.
- The
State of Distributed and Distance Learning at JMU
Presented to Academic Council at JMU February, 2001
- Partnering
to Train Professional Workforce Educators
Presented at EDUCAUSE, October, 2000
Proceedings
Paper Written by Sharon P. Pitt, Julia S. Harbeck, Ed Vitale,
Diane Foucar-Szocki, and Miriam E. Guthrie.
Conference presentation by Sharon P. Pitt and Julia Harbeck, Ph.D.
Capitalizing on innovative technologies, effective partnerships,
and a nationally unique curriculum, Virginia's Workforce Improvement
Network, based at James Madison University, provides quality anytime,
anywhere certification opportunities to professional workforce
educators. This presentation demonstrated the online system, challenges
of its implementation, and strategies for delivering online training
to workforce educators.
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Putting Technology to Work (click here
for .ppt version)
Presented at Connections 2000: Cultivating the Seeds of Success,
September, 2000, Richmond, Virginia by Sarah Cheverton.
Connections 2000 was the 15th Annual College Conference of the
Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Sarah demonstrated
various distance and distributed learning applications including
CourseInfo, IBEX (Internet-Based Exams and Exercises) and Centra
as tools for substance abuse prevention efforts.
- Digitally
Invested: Teaching and Learning with Online Images
Presented at EDUCAUSE, October 1999
Proceedings
Paper, by Sharon P. Pitt and Miriam E. Guthrie
Conference
Presentation, by Sharon P. Pitt and Miriam E. Guthrie
Watch the DID Assessment Video, by Jeff Butler (56k
/ ISDN)
View
the Instructional Impact Results
The online digital image database and multimedia viewing system
was developed in response to increased student enrollment generated
by the new General Education program at James Madison University.
Already utilizing its resources to the fullest, the Visual Resources
Library projected its inability to meet demands of added course
sections and instructors. In 1998, faculty members were awarded
an in-house grant from the Center for Instructional Technology
to develop a system to alleviate this strain. This system is
an example of how technology can positively impact faculty and
student success when appropriately integrated into the teaching
and learning process. Current assessment data offers a significant
correlation between the frequency of student use of the system
and their interest in Art History, preparation for exams, and
learning of course content. This presentation will encompass
project development and design, cost, instructional impact,
institutional impact, and faculty and student assessment.
- The Instructional
Impact of the Online Digital Image Database at James Madison University
Presented at "Rethinking Key Issues in College Learning," hosted
by Elon College, September 24, 1999
- On-Line
Task Force Report at JMU
Presented to Executive Council and the Board of Visitors, Dec.
1997
The On-Line Task Force addressed issues surrounding the development
and delivery of course components, courses, and degree programs
in an on-line environment. This initial ad-hoc committee has
resulted in the formation of a Distance Learning Steering Committee
at James Madison University. This committee will hold its first
meeting in August 1998.
- Using
the Internet to Teach a Technical Writing Course
Presented at the 1997 Fall CCUMC
In the summer of 1997, we worked in association with the Institute
of Technical and Scientific Communication to develop an on-line
technical writing course. Incorporating the World Wide Web,
interactive software and collaborative activities, the course
explored the complexity and importance of writing software documentation.
This presentation highlighted the center's course development
efforts.
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