7:30am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am – 9:30am Introduction to the Day and Beginning to think about take homes
What is your objective for the day? What are our objectives?

9:30am - 10:30am A Collage of College and Consortium Community Creation
Speaker: Ted Fondak, Educational Technologist, Hamilton College

Ted will host a talk-versation about building connections to and within the community that are supported by inclusive, extensible structures. To illustrate these ideas, he will enlist examples of efforts both at Hamilton and in the New York 6 consortium of liberal arts schools, of which Hamilton is a member. After these examples, Ted would like to learn about attendees' experience with community-building at their individual institutions. If time permits, there will also be a conversation about qualities of successful connection efforts through theoretical lenses supplied by Jane Jacobs, Steven Johnson, and E.O. Wilson.

10:30am - 10:45am Break

10:45am - 11:45am Putting a Face on Academic Technology Presenters
Speakers:
Lance Eaton, Coordinator of Instructional Design, North Shore Community College
Andrea Milligan, Director of Instructional Technology and Design, North Shore Community College

In Fall, 2012, our department launched a project that set out to listen to and engage with the faculty (and the college at large) about the uses and concerns of instructional technology at North Shore Community College. The project has completed the first (of three) phases wherein we met with or made opportunities to meet with the faculty to discuss and learn about their usage and concern of instructional technology. A major component of this project was to interact with faculty face to face as much as possibly and improve their understanding of who we are and how we can support their work. The presentation will look at the planning phase, the actual launch of the project, and the first phase results, identyfing what worked, what didn't, where the project currently stands as it begins the second phase. All materials used for the project will be made available to attendees.

11:45am - 12:40pm Lunch

12:45pm - 1:45pm Collaborative approaches to Foster Learning Innovation at Wentworth Institute of Technology 
Speakers: 
Tes Cotter Zakrzewski, Director of Learning Innovation & Technology, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Sarah Walkowiak, Instructional Designer, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Wentworth Institute of Technology is continuing on a journey to partner with academic leadership and faculty to foster excellence in teaching and learning. The Learning Innovation & Technology group is striving to empower faculty to innovate through active, experiential and transformational learning methods. We are enhancing our academic technology toolkit by implementing several new tools for use this fall: lecture capture, streaming video, online tutorials, secure testing, plagiarism detection, and online collaboration.
The approach for engaging faculty with these new technology tools is through targeted, supported pilots. We'll share best practices from managing multiple vendors and rollouts at once and how we are leveraging support and training. A collaboration model with Colleges of the Fenway and UMass Online partner institutions enables us to share costs and practices. A new service delivery model enables faculty support through targeted context-specific training, hands-on support, an online resource center, and informal social learning opportunities. You'll get an in-process view into Learning Innovation & Technology at Wentworth!

1:45pm - 2:15pm Break

2:15pm - 2:30pm Bugs, Pow Bubbles, and Candy: Outreach Gets a Little Sweeter 
Speaker: Jes Caron, Senior Instructional Technologist, Worcester Institute of Technology

What do bugs, pow bubbles, limited editions, and candy all have to do with outreach? This session will talk about the ways that we have tried to make outreach a little sweeter!

2:30pm – 3:00pm Wrap-up – Bringing it all home!

3:00pm End