Tri-IT Spring 2009 -- Conference Materials
The Tri-IT conference at Elon was a success! For all those that participated, we'd like to say thank you very much. In keeping with the spirit of the conference we are offereing the materials collected from breakout session facilitors. If the session had materials, they have been linked below.
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| Randy Piland, Lecturer in Communications at Elon University, defined Web 2.0 and focused on the ease of use for teaching. Examples are on pilandonline.com/web2.html (in new window). |
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Rick Palmer, Instructional Designer with Elon Univerisy, and Matt Lewis demonstrated how blogging has evolved into an instructional tool, and explored the ways blogging can be employed to facilitate the development of course-based intellectual communities. Take a look at the Pedablogy site (in new window) Rick has used to teach this topic to students and faculty. |
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This session will guided participants through a discussion on specific Web 2.0 applications and how they’re being implemented on various campuses. To see a full list of items discussed download Word document: Panel_Discuss_Web20.doc. |
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Aurora Collado, Instructional Applications Consultant, ITS Teaching and Learning, UNC Chapel Hill, and Jolie Tingen, Instructional Technology Analyst, Wake Forest University provided an overview of a Sakai Pilot Evaluation project. Reactions to the pilot from their respective campuses were shared. To see the presentation materials, download the following PDF document. SkaiPilot_TRI-IT.pdf |
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Megan Bell, Production and Project Manager, UNC Chapel Hill presented an overview of interactive multimedia products designed at UNC-CH to engage learners and improve student learning outcomes; including XML, flash, animation, and video components. For more information about UNC-CH's projects go to: http://its.unc.edu/TeachingAndLearning/tlinteractive/tliMedia/index.htm |
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Matt Lewis, Instructional Designer at Elon University, and Rick Palmer demonstrated a wetpaint wiki, a powerful, web collaboration tool. Participants were challenged, through a couple of thought-provoking activities to see how the wiki might be applied for academic purposes. To see the results of the session, go to http://mattsid.wetpaint.com. Look under ABC Company. |
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Jim Murphy, Director, Instructional Design and Development, Elon University, showed participants how freeware and open source software can often take the place of more expensive commercial software. This session will focused on solving the need of purchasing software by choosing the right combination of free and open source packages. The group shared their favorites and compiled a list of the most popular packages. Download the list: Free-Open_List.pptx |
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Joel Galbraith, an Instructional Analyst from School of Government, UNC, covered projects completed in Adobe Presenter and discussed some of the undocumented “gotchas” and best practices that were discovered. To see Joel's PowerPoint presentation, open Adobe_Presenter_TRI_IT_sp09.pptx |
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Joel Galbraith also lead this session that showcased cool tools used by various institutions. To see a list compiled from the session, download the Word document: Cool_Tools.doc |
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