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NERCOMP EVENT
Blackboard User Group Spring 2006
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The NERCOMP Blackboard User Group has been designed to address the needs of the local Blackboard user community by providing a venue for networking and the sharing of ideas. Come learn about how your peers in the Northeast area are using Blackboard for innovation in teaching, learning and community building and to learn more about Blackboard's latest products and services.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Andrea Pickles and Robin Robinson both from Framingham State College
Date/Time:
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center, 3rd Floor
Grand Ball Room
Parking is at the Hogan Campus Center
Worcester, MA
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Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $45
Non-Members: $95
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 7 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 9:15am Welcome
9:15am - 10:00am Encouraging open URL access to library databases in Blackboard
Speaker: Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian, Quinnipiac College
In the Fall of 2005, it was noted that many faculty members were going through the process of scanning articles and adding them to their Blackboard pages as files. It was observed that the teachers were bypassing the millions of articles that were already available, fully licensed, from the library’s collection of web resources. To solve this problem, we began a campaign to show them how to link articles from the major databases into Blackboard – beginning with a web page, which can be found at http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/bblinks.html . A talk was given at the monthly meeting of professors who were most interested in using technology in teaching, and we are working on making presentations at the department level. The main sticking point is the fact that off-campus users need to validate using one of two methods that we provide, but the library feels that this is something that every student and faculty member should be familiar with in any case.
10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:00am Plagiarism Detection Using the Turnitin Blackboard Building Block
Speakers:
MaryAnn Niles, Asistant Dean of Academic Resources and Instructional Technology, Middlesex Community College
Matthew Olson, Director of Interactive Online Learning Network, Middlesex Community College
This presentation will cover the basics of the Turnitin plagiarism detection software. We will show how Turnitin works with the Blackboard integration that is now available, and discuss how Turnitin has been used at our community college, including faculty feedback about its strengths and limitations.
11:00am - 12:00pm Spanning the Distance
Speakers:
Bonnie Mitchell, Director of Library Services, Framingham State College
Peg Snyder, Circulation Librarian, Framingham State College
Robin Robinson, Director Distance Education, Framingham State College
The resources and services of the Henry Whittemore Library support the academic programs and research needs of the Framingham State College community. The goal of the staff is to ensure that all library services are available to faculty and students, on and off campus, and that the library is part of the education framework. To understand the specific needs of the online community the library staff conducted a survey to identify what services are used, learn what faculty need, prioritize those needs, and decide how to best deliver the required services. The result was a project that places a librarian in a class discussion board. The steps we took to develop this plan and the status of the project is explained in this presentation.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 3:00pm Blackboard 7 Overview
Speaker: Darrin Schmautz,, Regional Sales Manager, Blackboard
Get a look a the new teaching and learning tools available in release 7.0 of the Blackboard Academic Suite. The latest release enables teachers and learners around the globe to educate and innovate everywhere by bringing powerful multi-language and mobile capabilities to Blackboard software. This major global release provides a robust platform upon which future Blackboard innovation will follow. Release 7.0 of the Blackboard Academic Suite comes with standard language packs providing support for English, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Any other language can be created with the Blackboard system by utilizing the new Language Pack Editor. In addition to the enhanced foreign language capabilities, Release 7.0 of the Blackboard Academic Suite features a wide variety of capabilities that enhance teaching and learning and enable it to occur anytime, anywhere.
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Bonnie Mitchell
Bonnie Mitchell has been a Librarian at Framingham State College for 20 years and has been in her position as Director of Library Services for 9 years. As a former Circulation Librarian, efforts to improve public service and resolve access issues are at the heart of her work at the college. She works with her staff on instructional support projects, with campus I.T. staff on electronic access enhancements, and with her colleagues in the Academic Technology and Distance Education department on planning and implementing online education initiatives.
She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Framingham State College.
Speaker:
MaryAnn Niles
MaryAnn Niles is the Assistant Dean of Academic Resources and Instructional Technologies. She has a Master’s Degree in Library Science from the State University of New York at Geneseo. A major focus of her work in libraries has centered on the use of technology to provide access to information in all formats. She has over twenty years of experience working in college, school, and public libraries.
Speaker:
Matthew Olson
Matthew Olson is the Director of the Middlesex Interactive Online Learning Network at Middlesex Community College. He also serves as the Senior eLearning Consultant for the online training firm of Instructional Solutions. Matthew has a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research focuses on the relationship between new digital technologies and student learning. He has twelve years of experience in higher education and distance education.
In addition to his online learning expertise, Matthew has actively participated in a variety of consortia for distance education including the Massachusetts Consortium of Distance Education (MassCODE), the Massachusetts Distance Learning Consortium (MDLC), and most recently, Mass Colleges Online (MCO). He has vast experience in technological professional development, and has presented on online teaching and learning in a variety of local, national, and international venues. Matthew has also been a key participant in a three year Department of State grant implementing an online learning program at the Azov Academy of Management and Information Technologies in Berdyansk, Ukraine.
Speaker:
Peg Snyder
Peg Snyder has been the Circulation Librarian at Framingham State College since 2001. Among her duties is providing reference assistance to distance education students and providing access to library resources. She works with both online students and students in the International Education Program. Peg has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.
Speaker:
Robin Robinson
Robin Robinson is the Director of Distance Education at Framingham State College, where she has worked for the past three years. Robin works with both on-campus and online faculty in all phases of their Blackboard course development. She is the liaison to Mass Colleges Online (MCO) and has been an active participant in the annual MCO e-Learning Best Practice conference, and the MCO Web Camp Initiative. Prior to coming to higher education, Robin earned a Master's degree in Technical and Professional Writing from Northeastern University in Boston, and worked in the corporate world for over twenty years.
Speaker:
Terry Ballard
Terry Ballard is the Automation Librarian at Quinnipiac University. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona School of Library and Information Science. Since 1990, he has been a librarian at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, St. John’s University, and has been at Quinnipiac since 1997. He is the author of INNOPAC: A reference guide to the system, and well as more than 50 articles in the professional literature.
Related Media Files:
Spanning_Distance_Handout_MarchSig.doc
March7.doc
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Comfort Inn, 426 Southbridge Street in Auburn, MA.
Please state that you are with NERCOMP and you will receive the reduced rate of $85, includes continental breakfast & internet access.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-508-832-8300
The room block will be held until February 20, 2006.
For additional information go to:
http://www.comfortinn.com
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