Vendors BlackBoard | EMC Paradigm | Gateway | HorizonLive | Illinois Virtual Campus | Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company | Matchware | Merlot | Plato Learning | Thomson Higher Education | Tribeworks | University of Illinois at Springfield | WebCT | The Williams Group Colleges City Colleges | College of Lake County | William Rainey Harper College | Illinois Central College | Kankakee Community College | Sauk Valley Community College | Waubonsee Community College Vendors BlackBoard Presenter - Brian McHugh Products - The Blackboard Academic Suite and The Blackboard Academic Framework Company Description - With a common, cross-campus learning environment that students, instructors and other community members quickly acclimate to, the Blackboard Academic Suite™ is flexible enough to support multiple approaches to teaching, learning, research and collaboration. Across art departments and engineering schools; bridging professors and students; supporting in-house staff and outreach programs, the Blackboard Academic Suite supports widely diverse constituencies and education missions. The Blackboard Academic Suite provides one common interface across applications, one set of system management tools, and a totally scalable solution from one department to an entire institution. The Blackboard Academic Framework is based on technology adoption on a Double S curve, taking known challenges for institutions and melding them with known paradigms in technology to provide a strategic initiative from an exploratory to mission critical platform in eLearning for Higher Education EMC Paradigm Presenter - Kathi Cartwright - Account Manager Products - Benchmark Series Office 2003, Marquee Series Office 2003, Computers: Understanding Technology Series, Netability Series Company Description - For over 50 years, EMC/Paradigm Publishing has had a rich and successful history of commitment to developing quality educational materials and providing excellent personalized service to educators. EMC/Paradigm publishes textbook programs in the areas of accounting, allied health, computer technology, business communications, keyboarding, and office technology. Programs are available in a variety of media, including online delivery of Web courses and Web support materials. Gateway Presenter - Beth Gemmill - Senior Account Executive Products - Gateway Computer Products, Peripherals, Laptops, Projectors, Digital Camera, Plasma Displays Company Description - Since its founding in 1985, Gateway has been a technology and direct marketing pioneer, working hard to build direct customer relationships. As a branded integrator of personalized technology solutions, Gateway offers schools a wide range of thin TVs, digital cameras, connected DVD players, enterprise solutions and other products which work together seamlessly with its award winning line of PCs. Gateway is now the third largest PC company in the US. HorizonLive Presenter - Jody Wexler - Regional Accounts Manager Products - HorizonLive OpenCampus 4.0 HorizonLive OpenRoom 4.0 Company Description - HorizonLive provides the most accessible real-time collaboration software designed for distance education and live, online, interactive communication. HorizonLive enables educators and learning professionals to teach live online classes and lectures, conduct virtual meetings, deliver interactive webcasts, hold remote office hours, train personnel, and allow students to collaborate on group projects. HorizonLive's web-based architecture ensures accessibility to users regardless of geographic location, bandwidth, operating system or physical disability. Based in New York City, HorizonLive is the leading solution for educators and learning professionals who want to offer their users an accessible, collaborative tool. For more information, contact info@horizonlive.com. Illinois Virtual Campus Presenter - Teri Karpman - Assistant to the Director Product - IVCTutor Product Description - IVCTutor is a web-based tutoring system that uses qualified college tutors to provide individual help to students through synchronous chat rooms, white board sessions and asynchronous email. Tutoring is available in a variety of college subject areas including Math, English and Chemistry. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company Presenter - Jay Schiesl - Editor, Digital Publishing Product - Publishers of Educational Textbooks WebCOM Company Description - WebCOM™ offers a unique approach. Our approach is to bring you a Website that adds educational value as opposed to offering the tool. WebCOM™ provides you the opportunity to create a Website that is based on your needs and the needs of your students. With our philosophy, Kendall-Hunt works on a course by course basis, becomes a publishing partner that assists in developing and building the site, will format and typeset, upload the educational content, has the ability to create interactive exercises designed specifically for your course, custom programming, maintain the site, and pay royalties. Matchware Presenter - Ulrik Merrild - Educational Advisor Products - Mediator 7, ScreenCorder 4, OpenMind Product Description - Mediator is a drag-&-drop tool for creating Flash, HTML and CD-ROMs. ScreenCorder records your desktop actions including audio and exports as a video. OpenMind is a MindMapping tool ideal for planning, critical thinking, brainstorming and storyboarding. OpenMind can export MindMaps to Word, PowerPoint and HTML. MERLOT Presenter - Cathy Owens Swift - Editorial Board Coordinator Product Description - The MERLOT project is an international initiative enabling faculty to integrate technology in higher education. Twenty–one systems and institutions of higher education as well as the National Science Foundation support MERLOT. Over 110 faculty from these institutions have been performing the peer review of instructional technology, modeled after the peer review processes for research and scholarship. The MERLOT project is an online community of faculty and institutions collaborating to increase the quantity of high quality, web-based, interactive teaching and learning materials. A continually growing collection of high quality online teaching and learning materials is realized through the peer review process. Plato Learning Presenter - Jessie Trickett Product - PLATO Library; Academic Systems Products Product Description - PLATO curricula offers adult content in mathematics, reading, writing, science, social studies and life and job skills. PLATO also offers specific alignments in its curricula to GED, Workkeys, TABE, CASAS, Accuplacer, PPST and other adult-related assessments. PLATO curricula can be tailored to the specific needs of adult learners in basic education courses as well as developmental studies in colleges. It is highly interactive multi-media content. In addition, with the merger of Lightspan's Academic Systems division, PLATO now offers complete developmental and freshmen level math and composition courses. Thomson Higher Education Presenter - Jill Staut Product - WebTutor for Blackboard, WebCT and other leading course management systems. Product Description - Thomson is a leading global provider of educational content and learning solutions for individuals, businesses, and educational institutions. Our WebTutor content products provide educators with textbook-specific, pre-formatted, and customizable text and multi-media content to enhance traditional classroom materials or provide the basis for distance learning courses. WebTutors are available for a wide variety of academic and vocational disciplines and operates in the leading Course Management Systems. Thomson consultants are available for on-campus training and support. Tribeworks Presenter - Jon Ward - Manager of Membership Services Products - iShell and iShell Mobile Product Description - iShell and iShell Mobile are multimedia authoring tools that are object-oriented and drag-and-drop in terms of their authoring approach (no scripting required). They compete w/ Macromedia Director and Authorware, but promise a much easier learning curve, and faster development time. For six years artists, designers, photographers and programmers have used iShell for creating compelling multimedia and distance education applications. University of Illinois at Springfield Presenter - Holly McCracken WebCT Presenter - Elizabeth Curran - Account Executive Products - WebCT Campus Edition, Vista Company Description - WebCT is the world's leading provider of integrated e-learning systems for higher education. WebCT's e-learning systems deliver the most advanced educational technology available to support a full range of teaching and learning styles, while making the most intelligent and efficient use of an institution's intellectual and technical resources. Using WebCT allows institutions to provide more personalized learning options for students, to expand access to academic programs, and to continually improve course and degree program quality. The Williams Group Presenter - George Williams - President Product - NetOp School Product Description - NetOp School is a software program that gives the teacher total control of the learning environment. It allows the Instructor -to demonstrate the teacher's monitor or a student's screen to all students, -to freeze all student monitors, -to restrict any or all internet sites and applications, -to monitor one or all student screens, -to record student or teacher computers, -to send and receive messages and files, -to launch applications and multimedia files, -to remote control any student computer, -to create dynamic lesson plans and record them -record teacher or student actions -to log out, restart or shut down PCs. In brief, NetOp enables the Instructor to keep students focused and on task. Back to Top Colleges City Colleges Presenter: Peggy Rademaker Description: City Colleges online programs. College of Lake County Presenter: Page Wolf Description: College of Lake County online programs. William Rainey Harper College Presenter: Sarah Stark Description: Harper College online programs. Illinois Central College Presenter: Patrice Hess Description: Will feature their Quality Guidelines, Mini-Bb Institute and faculty projects. Kankakee Community College Presenter: Jeff Bathe Description: A copyright training CD (via a LSTA grant). Sauk Valley Community College Presenter: Tim Hunter Description: Sauk Valley Community College online programs. Waubonsee Community College Presenter: Dave Schmutz Description: Waubonsee online programs.
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