General+Sessions

=General Sessions=

The following is a list of general sessions scheduled for TCC 2008.
 * 1) Global Integration in an Online Classroom Setting
 * 2) Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Facilitate Communication with Students
 * 3) Cultural Diversity and it's impact in an online education environment
 * 4) Top Three Characteristics of and Online Instructor and My Teaching Philosophy
 * 5) Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?
 * 6) Orienting and Preparing New Adult Online Students Online
 * 7) The Tablet PC as an all-in-one computer for faculty
 * 8) Personalizing the Online Course Through Instructor-Developed Video Presentations (Withdrawn 4/5 -byk)
 * 9) What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?
 * 10) Using Moodle tools to facilitate student reflection
 * 11) Skoolaborate - Virtual Education to improve student engagment
 * 12) Open source content editors and SCORM
 * 13) Learning Objects: Where to Find Them and Why
 * 14) Next Steps in the Support Instructional Assistants for Emporium-Based Math Courses: Using a Wiki as an Electronic Performance Support System (Cancelled 4/13 -byk)
 * 15) Embedding eLearning on the North Coast of NSW
 * 16) Looking Back to Go Forward
 * 17) Teaching strategies that enhance online communities
 * 18) iStream: Innovation at Your Fingertips
 * 19) Applying the HedgeHog Principle to Online Higher Education
 * 20) Leadership in Online Learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Minority Women
 * 21) Strengthening Seldom Taught Languages Through User Generated Community
 * 22) High-Tech - High-Touch: The CUNY Online Baccalaureate
 * 23) Extreme Makeover: Course Edition
 * 24) Online Education: Message in a Bottle or the Medium Is Not the Message
 * 25) Faculty and Student Impressions of the Strengths and Challenges of Having an Embedded Librarian in an Online, Graduate-level, Research Course
 * 26) Advising and Supporting Online Learners: Faculty and Student Perspectives of a Model Addressing the Academic and Non-Academic Needs
 * 27) Challenges and Successes; reflecting on five years of video conferencing speech classes between Hawaii and Japan
 * 28) Web 2.0 Solutions to Course Development Communication Challenges
 * 29) Facilitating New Faculty in Using Learning Spaces in Second Life
 * 30) Designing Instruction for Second Life
 * 31) Designing a Virtual Graduate School
 * 32) Learning in a Virtual Environment: Managing Emergency Preparedness and Health Security Using Second Life as a Teaching Tool
 * 33) Is Internet-based Learning Effective in EFL?
 * 34) EFL Faculty Online: Support and Development Issues
 * 35) Collaborative Web 2.0 Tools Changing the Face of Higher Education: Instructional Uses of Google Apps
 * 36) Using a Social Bookmark Site to Assist in Diffusion of Online Information to Support Professional Practices
 * 37) An International Collaboration Involving Developed and Developing Nations: The Global Digital Divide
 * 38) Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier
 * 39) Past Perspectives, Future Imperatives: A Factor Analysis of Identified Barriers to Distance Education from an Administrative Perspective
 * 40) LANCELOT - LANguage learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers
 * 41) Digital Dynamics: Culture and Technology in Second Life Education
 * 42) Using MOODLE to Promote Collaboration and Community from Atlanta to Manila
 * 43) Building a Learning Community with MAGGIE
 * 44) Second Life: A debate about virtual reality
 * 45) Using Various Online Library Databases via an iPhone/iPod Touch
 * 46) What works best in a web-enhanced class -- a podcast or a study tool game? (Cancelled 4/1 -byk)
 * 47) Making Audiobooks Using PodText and iPods
 * 48) Changing Mindsets -- Switching On-Ground Industry Training to Blended & Online
 * 49) Internet Tools: Key Success Factors in Building STEM Support in Hawaii
 * 50) Online Library research Success for Students
 * 51) Hybrid Learning Environments In Higher Education: Can Transformative Learning Outcomes Be Achieved
 * 52) What Do Online Instructors Need to Know?
 * 53) The Future of Online Learning in Early Childhood Teacher Education
 * 54) Using the Ordinary to Get Better (Not Extra-Ordinary) Results
 * 55) Creating and teaching a college-level undergraduate course in social networking
 * 56) External Representations of Structures of Knowledge as a Strategy of u-Learning
 * 57) Educators on the Move: Phi Delta Kappa International Association of Educators is Recreating Itself Through New Technologies