Presentations and Workshops

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This four hour technology and copyright course was requested by HCC's Instructional Media Center and Instructional Design Coordinators. The course will migrate to an online WebCT course in the Fall of 2007.

This hands-on workshop demonstrates to faculty how they can harness the power of RSS to deliver great instructional information from LibLine, the HCC Libraries blog, straight to their distance education students using a handful of different tools. By the end of each session, faculty will have added some combination of Library tools to their WebCT classrooms. HCC Curriculum Innovation Centers at Central, NE, and NW colleges, Spring 2006.

A brief overview of RSS technology, instructional applications of podcasting, and more.

NETnet is a consortium of mostly smaller 2 and 4 year colleges in NE Texas. For their 2006 meeting, they asked me to come talk to them about some of the tools we'd used at HCC to deliver DE services with little or no budget. The workshop involved plenty of explanation as well as a good dose of hands-on training of the tools we used, including blogs at Wordpress.com and Meebo.

This presentation highlights and expands upon the article "Getting a Foot in the Door: Experiments with Integrating Library Services into the Online Classroom," published in the Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning 2(3). Examples of free and easy ways to deliver library content to distance learners are shared along with an explanation of the path that the Houston Community College Libraries have taken toward serving this population. Jointly presented with Barret C. Havens at the Texas Community College Teachers' Association Annual Convention, Houston, TX. 25 February 2006.

This presentation focuses on how instructors can, with little technical expertise, harness the power of RSS to feed live, dynamic content into their WebCT classrooms, and uses the HCC Libraries Virtual Library program as an example of how we've used that ability to deliver library content through WebCT classes. Jointly presented with Barret C. Havens at the WebCT Texas Users Conference, San Antonio, TX. 6 October 2005. (Particpants' Evaluation)

A remix of "RSS In Your CMS" (above), "Info To Go" is a workshop that introduces the concept of RSS and provides hands-on opportunities to explore free RSS-to-email and RSS-to-Javascript tools, with a focus on HCC-specific applications. Barret C. Havens and I originally presented this workshop to the faculty trainers in the HCC Instructional Media Center, Houston, TX. 13 December 2005.

I presented this in conjunction with colleagues Linda Comte, Larry Mers, and Doug Rowlett at the New Media Consortium's 2005 Summer Conference.  The NMC is a national consortium focused on the effective implementation of new technologies in higher education. This presentation details the evolution of HCCS's Virtual Librarian Program from a WebCT-based program to a blog-based one, a move that I spearheaded. Honolulu, HI.  19 June 2005.

This presentation deals primarily with how instructors can implement blogging in their classrooms to encourage student literacy and participation. This was presented as a workshop at the Curriculum Innovation Centers of HCC's NW and Central College campuses. Houston, TX. Spring 2005.

This is an exploration of blogs for beginners, specifically focusing on reading blogs and using RSS aggregators to keep up with daily reading. It includes Flash demonstrations, and was originally delivered to the Houston Community College faculty at the 2005 annual HCC Faculty Conference. Houston, TX.  5 February 2005.

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