Program

Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Place: E. H. Hereford University Center, the University of Texas at Arlington

Session 2A
9:00-10:20 am
Red River/Concho Room
Title: Asking the Wrong Questions of Instructional Technology
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Conway
The successful use of Instructional Technology can only matter, take hold, and get results if it is predicated on a commitment to active and experiential learning. Conway's presentation shifts the discussion of instructional technology away from hardware and intimidating technological know-how to a conversation about the creative freedom that professors rarely exercise in their classes.

Session 2B
Title: Webcasting and the Active Learning Classroom
Speaker: John Garrigus
Inspired by José Bowen's 2006 article "Teaching Naked," Garrigus describes a World History class in which he presents half of his lectures as on-line "webcasts," using the user-friendly program Camtasia. Students use the newly available class time to present, debate and evaluate materials they would draw on to teach "113.33 World History Studies" in the Texas public school system. Presented using Camtasia, his talk will demonstrate the software, describe the hands-on work students do in class, and discuss the goals of the course.

Reference: José Antonio Bowen, "Teaching Naked: Why Removing Technology from your Classroom Will Improve Student Learning," National Teaching and Learning Forum 16, no. 1 (2006), http://www.ntlf.com/html/ti/naked.htm

Session 3
10:30–11:50 am
Rio Grande Ballroom
Title: Collaborative Spaces: Fostering Architectures of Participation
Speakers: Dr. Carolyn Guertin and Dr. Mary French

This talk will explore how we have used digital methodologies and technologies for purposes of social networking and collaborative practices both on campus and off. Common Ground is a new collective intelligence awakened on our campus that functions at a grassroots level as a modus operandi for peer-to-peer technology-based campus-wide initiatives. It succeeds through the application of an open source model to connect faculty, projects, labs and departments. Similarly, our service learning program draws upon the wisdom of crowds to draft initiatives that employ our students at a grassroots level within the community. Everyone is richer for these undertakings.

Session 4
10:30-11:50 am
Red River/Concho Room
Title: Faculty versus Copyright
Speaker: Steve Rosen, Specialist for Copyright, Office of the General Counsel, UT System

Sound like a legal case? It might become one if faculty aren't careful about the copyright laws. This session will address the top 5 copyright concerns of the UT System Office of General Counsel - provisions of the TEACH Act, NIH requirements to publish, addendums to publishers' agreements and more. Bring your own questions for discussion.

Keynote Speaker
Luncheon
12 noon
Bluebonnet Ballroom
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David Pogue, New York Times columnist, author, Missing Manual publisher, and Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent
Title: Five Technologies for the Next Five Years

As a journalist on the cutting edge of personal technology, David Pogue of the New York Times will display, discuss, and dissect the five technological advances--out of the hundreds introduced each year--that will have the most impact on the audience in the next few years. In this fast, funny presentation, he'll explore topics like Internet cellular phones, radio ID tags, the on-demand TV revolution, Web 2.0, and more. Learn more