Speaker: Baynard Bailey

Baynard Bailey is an Academic Computing Consultant for Vassar College. Baynard has a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Instructional Technology. He taught K-12 for 16 years before coming to Vassar. He loves helping to develop multimedia projects in support of learning and teaching. He especially likes video and audio podcasting projects and anything Web 2.0 (blogs, wikis, & social networking).
 

Speaker: Angelika Festa

Angelika Festa has taught writing courses at NYU and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a focus on rhetorical strategies and critical thinking, and since 2010 she has taught “Free Speech, Free Art and Law," at MassArt, an upper-level student-centered Social Science course on controversial works of art. Students select the art and artists they will research and write about, do classroom presentations for discussion of their research on the art and related socio-cultural and legal issues, and on their essay drafts, and then do peer reviews of essay drafts in Moodle forums. Her use of the online guided student peer reviews has been very successful in this course and has served as a model for other courses. Angelika will be teaching a similar course, “Controversial Art and Freedom of Speech” at the Tufts Experimental College in the spring term using their Sakai environment for the online guided student discussion and peer review.

 
Speaker: Liz Hartman, Ph. D

Liz Hartmann is an Assistant Professor of Education at Lasell Collge. Prior to Lasell, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) at Boston College, in collaboration with CAST. She is a graduate from the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. She is a licensed special educator and has published, presented, and consulted in her field.
 

Speaker: Hubert Hohn

Hubert Hohn is Director of Technology for Teaching and Learning at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he supports pedagogically effective use of online course sites in Moodle. Hubert has been actively involved in the use of technology to facilitate student-centered learning in a variety of ways since the 1980s. He has created interactive visual mathematics teaching tools for a number of textbooks and for college and university courses, including remedial Basic Math, Algebra, Calculus, and Architectural Structures, and for MIT’s OpenCourseWare in mathematics, a set of interactive visual Differential Equations tools.

Speaker: Ye Liu

Ye Liu is the coordinator of Instructional Technology with the Teaching and Learning Center at Lasell College. As the Instructional Designer, Ye consults with faculty members about instructional design and technology needs, explores and promotes pedagogy and best practices for enhancing teaching and learning, provides training of learning management system and other instructional technologies, and offers faculty professional development about designing and teaching online courses.
 

Speaker: Mary Morrisard-Larkin

Mary Morrisard-Larkin serves as Director of Educational Technology at the College of the Holy Cross. Her responsibilities include supporting faculty who use technology in their teaching and research, and collaborating with other departments on campus-wide technology projects. She has directed initiatives that have included transitioning Holy Cross’ course management system from Blackboard to Moodle and converting all academic Web sites to Drupal. In addition, she has assisted numerous faculty with course, grants and book projects that have required the implementation of technologies that allow faculty more flexibility in creating materials. As a member of the College’s library staff, she is a member of the Library Director’s Council and is currently involved in its strategic planning initiatives.
Mary has a M.A. in French from Penn State University where she first began experimenting with technology-enhanced instruction. Originally, she was the Director of Holy Cross’ Self-Paced Language Program where she worked with a team of Spanish faculty to create hybrid courses that offer students an alternative to traditional language instruction.

Speaker: Lori Rosenthal, Ph. D

Lori Rosenthal is Chair of the Department of Social Sciences and an Associate Professor at Lasell College in Newton, MA where she teaches a variety of courses including Group Dynamics, Child Development, Introduction to Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Consumer Behavior. Her research focuses on the application of social psychological principles of persuasion to better understand behavior change in applied fields such as health, the environment and higher education.

Speaker: Matthew Schultz

Matt received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English literature from John Carroll University, and earned his PhD in English literature from Saint Louis University in 2010. During his time at SLU, he specialized in twentieth-century Irish and British literature, taught extensively for the English Department, and directed the Graduate Writing Center. He currently directs the Writing Center at Vassar College where he also chairs the Freshman Writing Program and teaches courses in modern and postcolonial fiction, composition, and pedagogy.
 

Speaker: Cathy Zeek, Ed. D

Cathy Zeek is Director of the RoseMary B. Fuss Teaching and Learning Center and associate professor of education at Lasell College. She facilitates professional development for faculty teaching face to face and online and consults with faculty on their teaching. She has published and presented on strategies that encourage critical thinking and reflection.
 

Speaker: Fred Zinn

Fred Zinn is the Manager of Faculty Support for OIT Academic Computing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has been supporting faculty use of “new” technologies since the days of overheads, copystands, and mainframe-based online discussions. His group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is just completing a two-year, all-campus transition from Blackboard Vista to Moodle.