Complete Program for the 2005 TEL@York Conference

Date, Time and Location
Program for Wednesday May 4
Program for Thursday May 5

Date, Time, Location

TEL@York

Date: Wednesday May 4 & Thursday May 5, 2005

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Location: TEL Building, Keele Campus (Wednesday) and York Hall, Glendon Campus (Thursday)

Wednesday May 4 at Keele Campus

9:30 a.m to 10:00 a.m – Opening Plenary Session in 0016 TEL

Welcome to conference attendees
Rod Webb, Associate Vice President Academic
Introduction to the TEL Coordinating Committee and overview of the conference program
Ros Woodhouse, Chair of TELCC and Director of the Centre for the Support of Teaching

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. – Concurrent Sessions A

Getting Started with TEL in Your Course 1: Technology for Teaching
Monique Adriaen (Arts/French & CST)
0013 TEL

In this first session we explore ways to use technology to enhance teaching. It is assumed that participants routinely use e-mail, word processing and the Internet in their daily activities but otherwise do not currently use technology for instructional purposes. We will talk about the instructional use of discussion lists, course web sites, PowerPoint, course management systems such as WebCT, online quizzing, and point to resources. At the end of this hour participants will know how to begin to integrate technology and where to seek assistance.
Faculty Development Initiatives in the Faculties
Avi Cohen (Arts), Joseph da Silva (Atkinson) & Thomas Keil (Schulich)
0015 TEL

Several of York's Faculties have already or will soon embark on programs for faculty development in technology-enhanced teaching and learning. In this session, representatives from Arts, Atkinson, and Schulich will discuss initiatives including Arts do TEL! and Student Technology Assistant programs, Atkinson's recent external review, and Schulich's experiments with multi-media and multi-format course content delivery.
Making Courses Accessible to Students with Disabilities
Annette Symanzik (OPD), Pam Millett (Education/Deaf & Hard of Hearing Program) & Tina McColl (Scott Library)
0009 TEL

Are you prepared for a student with a disability in your classroom? This session will address some of the technologies and services used to accommodate students, such as FM wireless systems, sign language interpretation, adaptive software, and the transcription of required readings into alternate format for persons with various disabilities.
TEL Demos in 0016 TEL
1. Introduction to Breeze for Creating & Managing Rich Communications
  Meron Hrycusko (ATS)
  
  Breeze includes everything you need to create, manage, deliver, and track rich communications. Narrate PowerPoint slides, add surveys and quizzes to slides for evaluation and training and publish it all in Flash format for viewing in standard web browsers. Manage course activity, and adapt and re-use presentations. Breeze even includes online meeting and collaboration features.
2. Introduction to Contribute for Managing Course Web Sites
  Alex Neumann (ATS)
  
  Contribute is an intuitive web page editor that can be used to update web sites as well as HTML pages in a WebCT course. If you can use a browser and a word processing program, then Contribute is a snap. The demonstration will include the ease of creating server connections, editing existing pages and creating new ones, as well as Contribute's ability to integrate with Micosoft programs.

11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions B

Getting Started with TEL in Your Course 2: Technology for Learning
Monique Adriaen (Arts/French & CST)
0013 TEL

In this session we examine how common technological and communication tools (email, the Internet, various programs) can be used to promote active learning. The development of critical and reflective skills, collaborative projects, formative evaluation, learning communities, instructional models such as inquiry-based or problem-based learning are some of the topics we can examine in their relationship to technology according to participants' needs. This session may be useful to faculty developing hybrid or online courses.
Going Hybrid: Course Re-Design Projects from Arts do TEL
Christiane Dumont (Arts/French) & Frances Flint (Kinesiology & Health Science)
0015 TEL

"Graduates" of the Faculty of Arts do TEL Faculty development course discuss their experiences in transforming an existing face-to-face course to take advantage of the learning and accessibility possibilities afforded by the web. Christiane Dumont presents the first findings of a collaborative experiment conducted between York and the U. of Mauritius via videoconferencing and WebCT, and will try to identify the learning environments that have been most conducive to second-language acquisition. Frances Flint examines what she has learned through the first iteration of her blended-mode Athletic Therapy course, concluding that "The challenge to be more student-centred in pedagogy, to encourage critical thinking skills, and to engage students in the learning process has brought freshness to my teaching.... Enhancing learning through technology applies equally to students and faculty."
Moving from Research to Practice: Lessons from the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) Program
Janet Murphy (ABEL) & Susan Spence (CNS)
0009 TEL

The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program seeks to develop new technological and pedagogical knowledge that is aligned with today's learner. This research program provides insight into the support, infrastructure and instructional approach required for teachers/faculty as they work to incorporate technology into their teaching and curriculum design.
TEL Demos in 0016 TEL
1. New Services & Tools from the Learning Technology Services (LST)
  Rob Finlayson (CNS/LST)
  
  In support of the TELCC and their strategy of making course components traditionally found in a learning management system available to any course website, Learning Technology Services has been prototyping a number of low threshold applications that allow you to focus your time on pedagogy rather than on the enabling technology. We'll demonstrate some of the tools and services we make available as plug-in course components, including a personal and course website, class discussion, course calendar, quiz, poll, image gallery, blog (weblog), gradebook, survey, web form and a database application. In addition, we'll touch on other services that faculty have found valuable, such as videotape/cd/dvd duplication, multimedia streaming, document conversion and course website password protection.
2. ELearning Experiments at Schulich Business School: Early Impressions from the Instructor's Point of View
  George McLeod, Thomas Keil & Detlev Zwick (Schulich)
  
  ELearning is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies, including personal computers, CDs and the Internet, that facilitate and enhance learning. We are currently seeing a move beyond the first stage of eLearning technologies that emerged during the late 1990s and enabled institutions to create online courses with simple non-reusable content. At Schulich, we have begun experimenting with multi-media and multi-format content delivery, using the online environment to allow for a more personalized and self-directed learning experience. Organized according to learning points, enriched by video and audio features, and linked to outside material and web pages, these early eLearning environments are tested for their usability and benefits they may or may not deliver. At this point, the experience with the eLearning environments has been sobering. Student reactions have been lukewarm at best and delays in implementing and delivering the environment have proven disruptive for the class structure and frustrating for the instructor, who no longer has full control over the delivery of content.

12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. – Lunch

At the complimentary lunch, you are invited to meet with technical support staff and faculty members from your own Faculty.

1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. – Keynote Address in 0016 TEL

M.S. (Gosha) Zywno on Engaging Students in a Blended, or Hybrid, Learning Environment

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions C

Techniques for Effectively Structuring Online Discussion Groups: Lessons Learned from Experience!
Ron Owston (Education & IRLT)
0013 TEL

Planning on setting up an online discussion for your course but aren't sure how to begin? Or have you set up an online discussion, but just aren't happy with the results? If that's the case this session is for you. Ron Owston will describe techniques that he has successfully used in his courses over the past ten years. The techniques he will talk about are drawn from research in the field, but honed by his experience in applying them in his graduate and undergraduate classes.
Learning Objects for the Sciences
Seonaid Lee-Dadswell (CST)
0015 TEL

What is a "Learning Object" good for? A textbook's effectiveness depends upon how the student uses it. In the same way, what we get students to do with digital resources needs to be carefully considered. The prettiest interactive applet in the world will not be of much use if students simply "play" superficially, or don't look at it at all. We will explore how to select and frame digital resources in ways that complement your existing teaching strategies.
Advanced WebCT: Creating and Sustaining an Online Community
Lisa Caines Ogini (CNS/LTS)
0009 TEL

Creating and sustaining an online community is essential for successful online teaching. We will discuss some effective strategies and some challenges in engaging students in the learning process. We will also discuss course planning, course orientation, course instruction and management techniques that can be used, and demonstrate the related tools in WebCT, as well as digital games.
TEL Demos in 0016 TEL
1. QuickPlace and the E-Support of In-Class Teaching
  Larry Lyons (Atkinson/Arts Social Science)
  In this session, participants will explore the use of QuickPlace to support teaching and learning in a political theory course. Available in some Faculties at York, QuickPlace enables instructors to post lecture materials, assignments, summaries of the readings and other course materials on the web quickly and easily—which in this course has led to greater interaction by students in the classroom.
2. TEL Classroom Tour
  Raul Edelhauser (ITC)
  
  New classroom technologies offer many different ways to represent course material and promote active learning among students. In this demo, participants will tour a TEL classroom and consider the ways in which they might use document cameras, PCs with Internet connection, audio and video recordings, interactive DVDs, and other digital teaching materials to express concepts, add emphasis, display events, and simulate effects in new ways.

Thursday May 5 at Glendon Campus

9:30 a.m to 10:30 a.m – Keynote Address in 129 YH

William (Bill) C. Found on Bringing the "Real World" to the "Ivory Tower": Enlivening the Classroom through Appropriate Technology

10:40 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. – Concurrent Sessions D

Copyright & Intellectual Property for Digital Resources
Barbara Switzer (University Counsel Office)
151 York Hall

This session will discuss issues of copyright in the use of digital resources in the classroom and on course websites, including what is copyright, what is covered by copyright, infringement of copyright, fair dealings and exceptions, educational institution exceptions, and internet material and web linking.
Oceans Apart: Video Conferencing from York to South America
Ron Sheese (Arts/Psychology & CST) & Jim Poole (ITC)
144 York Hall
York has excellent facilities for conducting videoconferences with individuals or classes in locations all over the world. Jim Poole will describe these facilities and Ron Sheese will provide an example of their use to promote discussion between students in his fourth-year Psychology course and a group of students at the University of La Serena, Chile. To view the videoconference, go to Ron Sheese's web site and click on the link to the University of La Serena Video Conference.
TEL Demos in 129 YH
1. RefWorks for Bibliographic Management
  Adam Taves (York Libraries)
  
  This session will provide an overview of the basic features of RefWorks, a user-friendly online database program that stores and organizes citations and formats bibliographies. The session will cover some of RefWork's possible applications, including support for solo and collaborative work, and its ability to create online reading lists.
2. A Tightly-Controlled Study into the Purported Efficacy of Technology-Enhanced Learning in a Classroom Setting
  Stanley Jeffers (FSE/Physics & Astronomy)
  
  An analysis is given of data accumulated from teaching a large Natural Science course over a period of some 7 years during which the mode of delivery of the course material evolved from pure "chalk and talk" to extensive in-class and Web based modes of presentation. Relevant factors such as course enrolment, course content, course director, grade breakdown etc. remained constant over this period as did the Grade Point Average and its standard deviation.

11:50 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions E

Data Sources for the Social Sciences
Jennifer Dekker (Frost Library) & Walter Giesbrecht (Scott Library)
151 York Hall

Data sources are often overlooked when considering primary sources of information on a variety of social science topics. We will present an overview of the wide range of Canadian census and survey data available (both current and historical), and show examples of assignments for teaching quantitative social and behavioral science. International sources will also be discussed.
Optimizing Digital Images for Your Teaching
Bob McKenzie (CNS/LTS)
153 York Hall

Using still images effectively from digital cameras—is it easy or hard? How difficult is it to grab still images from motion video and use it in PowerPoint or on the web? What is the best resolution to use when scanning images that are to be used in a number of different ways? Can I create a slideshow on a DVD Video disc and use it at a conference anywhere in the world? Is it complicated to simply add audio annotation to a slideshow? Faculty ask similar questions every day in Learning Technology Services. Bring along your own questions and explore these and many other issues related to creative use of still images in developing custom teaching materials.
TEL Demos in 129 YH
1. Academic Integrity: Resources & Strategies
  Vivienne Monty (Frost Library)
  
  Our discussion on Academic Integrity will deal with some of the tools York has developed to aid faculty in detecting and avoiding plagiarism including, but not limited to, Turnitin.com. York's Academic Integrity web site can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/academicintegrity/
2. YQuiz Writer for Creating Online Quizzes
  Cheryl Dickie (CST)
  
  York has a new web-based tool for creating online quizzes and tracking class participationCreate a quiz and add questions with YQuiz Writer's forms interface. Send the quiz page location to your students, and later get statistics and detailed class reports from the YQuiz Statistics & Reports tool. For further information see the Spring 2005 News U Can Use newsletter.

12:50 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. – Lunch

Complimentary lunch.

1:50 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions F

Going from 0 to 100 in No Time at All... An Action Plan for Online Course Development
Lindsey Gutt (YUELI)
151 York Hall

How do we integrate technology into an existing "offline" curriculum? What is the difference between a course online to an online course? We will look at various steps in course development. These steps, at first considered "action items" become critical stages in the successful integration of IT into any given curriculum.
A Versatile Online Discussion Tool
David Clipsham (Glendon/English), Ron Sheese (Arts/Psychology) & Rob Finlayson (CNS/LTS)
153 York Hall

A discussion tool is one of the applications that TELCC has proposed as part of a "Low Threshold Applications" strategy. We will describe the specific application supported by Learning Technology Services and demonstrate the versatility of this tool in meeting a range of teaching needs for two different instructors during the past academic year, from class discussion and study groups to management of multiple course needs. To view Ron Sheeses' dialogue forum, go to his web site and click on the link to the Dialogue Forum.
TEL Demos in 129 YH
1. Teaching "Computer Algorithms and Techniques for Imaging Cognition"
  Tuan Cao-Huu (Glendon/Computer Science), Josée Rivest (Glendon/Psychology) & Duncan Appleton (Glendon/ITS)
  
  PSYC/CSLA 4635, given in Winter 2005 at Glendon College, is truly inter-disciplinary. The challenge of teaching this course is to engage non-specialist students in critical thinking about advanced technology. Toward this end, this course utilizes non-traditional media such as MATLAB, video streaming of lectures and other readily available distance-learning technologies. The course web site is http://yh340.glendon.yorku.ca/~imaging/ and access to multimedia course materials and streaming videos are available on-line upon request. I share my experience and discuss the important relationship between educational technologies and the learning environment in which they operate.
  
  Le cours PSYC/CSLA 4635, donné l'hiver 2005 à Glendon, est véritablement interdisciplinaire. Le défi d'enseignement de ce cours est d'engager des étudiants non-spécialistes à penser de façon critique à la technologie avancée. Pour arriver à ce but, ce cours utilise des médias non traditionnels tells que MATLAB, la diffusion en temps réel des séquences vidéos du cours et autres technologies éducatives facilement disponibles. Le site Web du cours est http://yh340.glendon.yorku.ca/~imaging/ et l'accès aux matériels du cours sont disponibles en ligne sur demande. Je partage mon expérience et discute de la relation importante entre les technologies éducatives et l'environnement dans lequel ils fonctionnent.
2. Image Collections
  Michael Moir (University Archivist, Archives & Special Collections)
  
  Digital imaging offers new opportunities for access to unique research collections, but the technology has its limitations. This presentation will explore the use of imaging at York University and elsewhere to create virtual repositories of rare documents and publications, as well as the impact of these initiatives upon "memory", institutions, instructors, and students who use primary sources.

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Closing Plenary Session in 129 YH

Wrap up and future directions for TEL@York