Faculty Summer Institute Agenda

Monday, 18 May 1998

• 11:00 am - 12:00 noon—Registration

• 12:00 noon - 1:15 pm—Lunch

• 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

• Welcome: Chancellor Michael Aiken, UIUC
• The Third Revolution; Speaker: Steve Ehrmann, Vice President of the TLT Group, the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Affiliate of AAHE

• 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm—Break

• 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm—Demonstration of Internet-enhanced courses

• 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm—Electronic poster session & hors d’oeuvres

Tuesday, 19 May 1998

• 7:30 am - 8:30 am—Breakfast

• 8:45 am - 10:15 am—Functionality workshops (breakout groups)

 

• Introduction to the World Wide Web and HTML, Tom Ramage
• Integrating Databases with the Web Using FileMaker Pro, Lynn Ward
• Real-time and Asynchronous Communications/Conferencing Tools, Burks Oakley II
• Instructional Design Issues, Iris Stovall and Mary Ellen Michael
• Administrative Issues, Charles Evans and Illinois On-Line Network Steering Committee Members

• 10:15 am - 10:30 am—Break

• 10:30 am - Noon—Plenary Session: Collaborative Education: Realizing the Potential of Distributed Teaching and Learning; Speaker: Professor Barbara O'Keefe - UIUC

• Noon - 1:30 pm—Lunch (Welcome Address, Dr. Keith Sanders, Executive Director of the IBHE)

• 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm—Breakout Sessions

 

• Converting Existing Documents for Use on the Web, Lynn Ward
• Using PowerPoint to Make Slide Presentations for Class and for the Web, Burks Oakley II
• Introduction to Streaming Audio on the Web, Tom Ramage
• Using Macromedia Dreamweaver, Iris Stovall
• Introduction to JavaScript: Part I, Sigfried Gold
• Administrative Issues, Charles Evans and Illinois On-Line Network Steering Committee Members

• 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm—Break

• 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm—Breakout Sessions

 

• Working with Graphics for the Web, Lynn Ward
• Introduction to FrontPage 98, Burks Oakley II
• Introduction to Streaming Audio on the Web, Tom Ramage
• Quizzing and Testing on the Web, Iris Stovall
• Introduction to JavaScript: Part II, Sigfried Gold
• Student Support Services for Online Courses, Charles Evans and Daniel Kies

• 6:00 pm—Cookout

 

• 7:30 am - 8:30 am—Breakfast

• 8:45 am - 10:15 am—Breakout Sessions

 

• Uses of Integrated Course Management Programs,Tom Ramage
• Creating Audio Presentations with Synchronized Slides for the Web, Lynn Ward
• Real-time and Asynchronous Communications/Conferencing Tools, Burks Oakley II
• Quizzing and Testing on the Web, Iris Stovall
• Getting Started with an Online Course, Richard Crang

• 10:15 am - 10:30 am—Break

• 10:30 am - Noon—Plenary Session: Learning as an Expedition, Technology as a Unifying Tool; Speaker: Bill Graves, President, COLLEGIS Research Institute

• Noon - 1:00 pm—Wrap-up and box lunches

• 1:30 pm — Optional tour of NCSA Virtual Reality Cave