KEYNOTE PANEL on Wednesday! Play On The Road Again as background.
Welcome to the first ever live AND interactive keynote session “On The Road Again” Your bags are packed; you’re ready to head home and now we’re going to talk about how to make that journey safely and painlessly. How exactly do you take all you’ve learned in the past two days and get it home in one piece?
How will this work? With us are 3 guests; 2 virtual and 1 in person. In a minute I’m going to ask each of our guests to dish up a few introductory comments. Following their comments, you will have the opportunity to guide what happens by asking questions and suggesting the direction we take on this road. You can do that by stepping out to a microphone or filling out a question card and passing it to the aisle where a staff member will pick it up and run it to me. For our guests who are listening in via Elluminate, you can type your questions in the text chat area and these will be extracted and forwarded to me as well. My job is to act as crossing guard to keep our intersections safe!
Let me introduce our guests. Each of them will approach today’s ideas from different perspectives
(Show photo of Dan) Live from Florida where he’s been soaking up the sun and conferencing, Dan Balzer is going to represent our faculty view. An experienced online instructor, Dan previously worked for the ILCCOLearningAcademy and several of you might recognize him from some of the training he conducted for the past 3 years around the state on the issue of online course development. Today Dan works for IMSA where he develops and leads instructional programs for K12 faculty on information literacy.
(Show photo of Jonathan) From New York – very much live and a significant web presence is Jonathan Finklestein. Jonathan is the President of Learning Times. If you haven’t found this virtual community – and you need to – Jonathan’s organization creates and manages many different virtual communities that extend professional development and conferencing. Probably most salient to our purposes are the communities for the Illinois Online Conference and Learning Times.net – communities that support professional sharing and exploration of new technologies and old issues related to teaching and learning. So Jonathan will help us see possibilities that extend beyond out institutional boundaries.
On stage, and still live, is Janice Kinsinger. (Wave, Janice) Janice is the Director of Instructional Innovation, Faculty Development and Learning Resources at IllinoisCentralCollege. Representing the administrator’s voice, Janice will help us balance faculty concerns with institutional priorities.
And me? I’m Susan Manning, crossing guard and online faculty with the MVCR program. Just as it is when I’m teaching, it’s my job to ask the questions, get you to think and help you to find connections.
Let’s get started.
Dan, you’ve been at this conference before and can imagine what it’s like to have your head spin with too many ideas. Where does one start? What would be the first thing you would do with all this information?
Jonathan, every time I interact with you, you seem to have a new tool or a new idea in the works. For those of us who are not as creative and adventurous, how does one keep up with the changing times?
Janice, it’s one thing to have great ideas and enthusiasm. It’s another to have this matched by institutional resources. What should we know when taking this information home to our campuses?
- Find out what your institution has to offer you in support---
- College and Department Initiatives
- Teaching and LearningCenter,
- Instructional Technologist for online course development,
- Course management system,
- Grant opportunities for the extra time it will take???
- Workshops and sessions
- Connect with some online and Web-support faculty. Ask to "visit" their course------
- Take gradual steps----web-support a current F2F class----move at your comfort level
- Realize you will improve your F2F teaching by moving toward online or web-support---so if you need some invigoration in your teaching this will do it!