Welcome to the Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence website

Designed for all faculty, facilitators, and trainers
at Texas community colleges

Registration is required but there is NO workshop fee.
Register with Bennie Clark at [email protected]

Note: Bayfront Plaza Hotel (800-246-8357)has a limited amount of rooms available
for you at $70 a night but you must reserve these before June 26th...
ask for Coastal Bend College Beeville when making the reservations.

Room	8:30-10:00 a.m.	10:00-11:30 a.m.
401	Online Tutoring Services *Danny Clark, St. Petersburg College, Seminole, FL*	A Record of Success in Math *Terry Harris, Addison Wesley Publishers* *Eric Moller, Del Mar College, CC, TX*
433	Beyond PowerPoint *Juan Primo, North Harris College, Houston, TX*	Setup for Lunch
434	Wireless Security Technology *Audrone Matutis*, Northwest College, Houston, TX *Luis Manuel Perez*, SWTJC, Eagle Pass, TX	Modern Course Scheduling *Charles Smith*, Comquip, Inc., West Chester, PA
432	Meeting Student Disability Needs *Mickey Slimp, Northeast Texas Consortium of Colleges/Universities, Tyler, TX*	Disability Perspectives in Online Environment *Norma Jean Brand, Houston CC-Northwest, Houston, TX*

11:30 – 12:30 LUNCH AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS- Library 433
(Door prize drawings)

12:30 – 3:30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS- (See table below)

Room	12:30-2:00 a.m.	2:00-3:30 p.m.
401	Podcasting 101 Jeff Getchell, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX	Camtasia ™ Frank Jones, Third Coast Learning, Corpus Christi, TX
433	WebCT Support Groups Panel Discussion Enrique Garcia, Luis Vasquez & Jerry Sifuentes, Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX Maricela Garcia and Michelle Duran, STCC, McAllen, TX	Afternoon Snack
434	What’s New at Texas Instruments Sal Martinez, Texas Instruments, Brownsville, TX	Apreso™ Capturing Software Mike Gawlikowski, Anystream, Inc., Katy, TX
432	Electronic Portfolios Denise Raney, Nuventive, Allison Park, PA	Hybrid Fast Track Elise Brazier, Northeast Texas CC, Mount Pleasant, TX

3:30 – 4:00 WRAP-UP AND WORKSHOP EVALUATION- Library 433
(Door prize drawing FOR iPOD Shuffle)

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS:

8:30-10:00 a.m.

Online Tutoring Services- 24/7 instructional support for math and writing students via the web. St. Petersburg College was awarded a Title III grant in 2004 that encouraged faculty-designed projects with the goal to improve student retention in developmental studies. The presented project implements online teaching and tutoring services by SMARTHINKING™ designed to increase expanded access to individualized instructional support delivered at the teachable moment for the students served in these classes. Evidence has shown that students using SMARTHINKING™ for intervention showed more success in their respective courses than those who did not use the services. Participants will be show key features of the SMARTHINKING™ services, given the opportunity to interact with the services, shown how the services can be implemented into the disciplines, given information and materials that pertain to implementation and provided successful implementation practices in math and writing courses.

Beyond PowerPoint-Engaging Students with Multimedia. In this session you will actively participate in an honest discussion of the advantages, disadvantages, and real life issues and problems of creating multimedia to engage students in learning. This fully interactive multimedia session includes interviews and samples of multimedia projects created and used by professors in the classroom. The participant will experience and identify different approaches to implementing multimedia for content delivery, identify the serious real life problems and issues when dealing with the development of custom designed multimedia, discuss different realistic approaches to empowered faculty to develop custom designed multimedia for classroom use, and encouraged to exchange information to created an informal network to exchange and foster ideas to develop support systems for faculty interested in the use of multimedia options.

Wireless Security Technology. This session describes the need for, and the collaborative development effort of the wireless security technology curriculum. Wireless technologies encompass a broad range of devices from smart radio communication systems to the ubiquitous household wireless router. In this session, the respective configurations for SOHO (small office/home office) type devices are given. Some of those configurations will be meant for regular household use, others are geared more towards a production environment. Pertinent options for securing and maintaining them are provided.

Meeting Student Disability Needs-A Tutor's Workshop-. Are you looking for ways to assist students with learning disabilities and other special needs? This session is a DVD based program offering you skills and strategies for recognizing special needs and adapting instruction accordingly. This will be made available to all Texas community colleges this summer. You will find resources to help you identify major categories of learning disabilities and other special student needs, locate websites and materials to understand more about learning disabilities, gain strategies for working with adult learners, under the learning process form the perspective of a student who is disabled, and use the training materials on an individual basis.

10:00-11:30 a.m.

A Record of Success in Math-Online Homework, Tutorial and Assessment with MyMathLab. With large math enrollments and fewer resources, mathematics educators are increasingly asked to do more with less. Addison-Wesley’s MyMathLab™ helps instructors develop quality web-based resources for traditional, online or hybrid classes quickly and easily. MyMathLab™ and MathXL™, the most widely used online teaching and learning applications for developmental and collegiate math courses, include tutorials, homework, testing and assessment. Participants will learn how schools have increased their success and retention rates using MyMathLab™ and MathXL™, will how to save time assigning and grading homework and tests as well as easily track and manage student results, will create personalized study plans for self-paced learning, and will learn how to create consistent courses, content and assignments.

Modern Course Scheduling-Current day technology affords community colleges the opportunity to generate and communicate course schedules with extraordinary efficiency. IQ.Session® is a product solution that runs on your PC network on a SQL server or Oracle database, that integrates with your existing administrative system, that produces optimal schedules, that generates clear schedule reports for viewing, printing or web posting, and that generates comprehensive performance reports.

Disability Perspectives in Online Environments-Things That Go Bump. In this session, faculty using online delivery systems will gain a better understanding of what adaptive software and hardware students use when accessing online classes to better assist those students and help other students as well. Participants will learn what software that students who need accommodations use to access online materials, why it is important for faculty to understand how students access online classes, understand what problems assistive technologies can cause, how to pre-plan courses to accommodate these students, and see live demos of common assistive software used.

12:30-2:00 p.m.

Podcasting 101-Introduciton, Creation and Use of Podcasts in the Classroom. This highly interactive session deals with podcasts, podcasting and their use in any classroom environment. Participants will learn what a podcast is, how it is created, how it is used in both seat-based and web-based classrooms, what tools are needed to create it, and how to publish it to the web or to an online course in a web-based classroom. During the last part of the session, participants will create a podcast, edit it using free downloadable audio software, and then publish it to both a website and to a web-based course.

WebCT Support Groups Panel Discussion-Providing a Good Structure for the Delivery of Online Courses. This workshop is being presented by the Prescription for Effective Retention (Rx for ER) WebCT Support Group which consists of distance learning technology experts from over 9 community colleges. The workshop will presents options for distance learning instructors, and administrators to undertake for building an efficient and effective platform for delivering online courses. A series of short topics will be covered to generate questions from the audience. A panel of experts from different colleges will be assembled to provide a question and answer session. Topics covered are:

Demonstration of WebCT version 6.
Faculty transition training for delivering effective online courses in WebCT CE6.
Ensuring effective quality control for online courses.
Best practices for delivering effective online testing, and maintaining course integrity.

A CD packed with resources will be provided for participants to take home.

What’s New at Texas Instruments. Come experience the latest offerings from Texas Instruments for Math and Science students. Learn ways to integrate multiple technologies. TI-Navigator enables instructors to see who’s getting it and who’s not with real-time formative assessment capability that can lead to higher student achievement. It seamlessly integrates with TI Graphing calculators in classrooms via wireless communications. TI-SmartView emulator is an easy-to-use demonstration tool for leading the classroom instruction of math and science concepts. Based on the popular TI-84 Plus family of graphing calculators, the TI-SmartView emulator complements classroom calculators by displaying an interactive representation of the calculator, plus offers many unique instructional capabilities.

Electronic Portfolios-Linking Community Colleges and Employer Partners. Electron portfolios hold the promise for creating a common electronic ecosystem linking Colleges and their employer partners. Nuventive™’s iWebFolio electronic portfolio management system allows schools to have a common framework for competency definition and management that is shared within a school or system and with the key members of the community. In this session you will see a demo of this system that shows portfolios built from templates stored in a common library that everyone in the system uses to track and manage competiencies, and competency tracking based on rubrics with full reporting features.

2:00-3:30 p.m.

Camtasia™-Enhance Classroom and Online Presentations. Recognizing that students possess different learning styles, Camtasia™ allows faculty to develop multimedia presentations for both classroom and online use. This session will consist of short sample presentations to demo some of the possible uses, a short tour of the Camtasia™ website, and a chance to create a Camtasia™ presentation. Participants will be able to enhance their presentations, provide a means of clarifying content, accommodate various learning styles, utilize various multimedia tools, and create a short presentation.

Apreso™ Classroom-Lecture Capture and Web Publishing System. Apreso™ Classroom is the first fully automated lecture capture and web publishing software solution for higher education. It automatically captures audio, video and course content and creates a rich media version of the lecture for students to review online via their course management systems. Called a TiVo for the Classroom, it delivers high quality, synchronized, real time lecture content at less that $5,000 per classroom. Benefits are complete automation that eliminates the need for faculty/staff training, automated Podcasting, students significantly increase comprehension and reduce attrition rates, students can review anytime anywhere, and faculty have better use of classroom time and office hours.

Hybrid Fast Track-A Degree Revolution. Miss that face-to-face time with your online students? Come learn how to develop, implement and deliver a successful hybrid program in your area. This session will teach participants how lecture and online delivery formats are combined in a structured learning environment, how to aid in student enrollment and retention, how to gain support and approval from administrators, faculty and community members, how to partner with business and industry in targeting your audience, how to implement a hybrid program and track results, and how to use financial resources to launch a successful program.