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The 8th Annual WebCT User Conference
Chicago, IL

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

5:00 PM-6:00 PM
1 Welcome to the New Blackboard – Blackboard 2.0
 
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

8:30 AM-9:30 AM
2 Re-thinking Knowledge: Everything is Miscellaneous

10:00 AM-11:00 AM
A-1 Ask Support
A-2 Blending with Quality
A-3 Curriculum and Instructional Technology Masters: Outreach Improves Practice On-site
A-4 Delivering Secure Online Assessments
A-5 Designing effective training for CE users moving to Vista.
A-6 EDUNET: Innovative Ideas with a Wireless Wide Area Network
A-7 Foundations for Teaching Excellence
A-8 Lessons Learned: Helping faculty transition from CE to VISTA 4
A-9 Migrating to WebCT CE 6: A Pilot Program Post Mortem
A-10 Online Multi-Media Student Presentations for Newbies
A-11 Podcasting: A Strategy for Improving Access and Learning
A-12 Service-Oriented Approaches, Web Services, and the Integrated Learning Architecture
A-13 Speed Networking
A-14 The Night the Lights Went Out in South Georgia
A-15 UCF: Best Practices, Strategies and Assessment - Pedagogy that Works!
A-16 WebCT Campus Edition 4 to WebCT Campus Edition 6: UBC's Strategy and Project Planning

11:15 AM-12:00 PM
B-1 "Introduction to Online Teaching": Modeling the Use of New Technologies
B-2 A Systems Approach: Training on a Large Scale
B-3 Application Pack 1 Overview: Active Learning at its Best!
B-4 Ask Support
B-5 Bb Community System: Enhancing Academic Collaboration and Services
B-6 Building a Campus-wide Community for WebCT-based Teaching and Learning
B-7 Building and Sustaining Community Online: Research and WebCT Strategies
B-8 Customizing your e-Learning Environment with the WebCT Vista PowerLinks Kit
B-9 Flourishing Faculty – What’s in Your Toolbox?
B-10 Innovative Instructional Strategies to Support Online Learning
I-4 Microsoft’s Technology Roadmap and What it Means for Education
B-12 MyMathLab for WebCT - Proven Student Success in Math
B-13 Next Generation Learning: Online Problem-based Learning (PBL)
B-14 Smooth Sailing with Online Student Support
B-15 Supplementing Your Site with Free Online Services: What, Why, and How
B-16 WebCT Campus Edition 6 System Administration Basics for Linux / Oracle

1:30 PM-2:15 PM
C-1 A Study on Comparing Dropouts and Persistence in e-Learning Courses
C-2 Ask Support
C-3 Best Practices in Asynchronous Discussion Design: Synthesis of Recent Research
C-4 E-Learning CME Style
C-5 Empowering WebCT Vista with In-House Development of Tools and Technologies
C-6 Enhancing Agility Distance Leaning Implementation with Real Application Clusters
C-7 Introducing the WebCT Portfolio: The Key to Your Project's Success
C-8 One Day per Week: A Hybrid RN Program
C-9 Outcome Improvements with Technology
C-10 Portals to Pastoralism: The Care and Nurture of Online Faculty
C-11 Template for the Design and Development of Online Courses
C-12 This Old Course: Remodeling Your WebCT Campus Edition 6 Course with CSS
C-13 Using Case Studies to Support Professional Development at Deakin
C-14 Using Web Technologies to Enhance Student Learning in WebCT
C-15 WebCT Your Way: Bringing More Faculty on Board with e-Learning
C-16 i>clicker: Improving Student Engagement in Large Lecture Courses using Classroom Response Systems

2:30 PM-3:15 PM
D-1 Ask Support
D-2 Assessing e-Learning: A Value-Thinking Approach for Measuring the Effectiveness of e-Learning Systems
D-3 Developing Experiential Courses Online: A Case Study
D-4 How Horizon Wimba Can Revolutionize Communication within WebCT
D-6 Moving to Mainstream: 20 Lessons learnt creating an e-Learning Strategy
D-7 Newsflash! Freshmen Don't Learn Like Graduate Students!
D-8 Project Caliper: Blackboard’s New Outcomes Assessment Product
D-9 TaskStream PowerLink: Designing, Implementing, and Managing Competency Assessment and e-Portfolio Initiatives
D-10 Third -Party Tool Implementation and Testing with WebCT Vista
D-11 This Works So Much Better Online: Tips from WebCT ECP Instructors
D-12 Tips for Managing WebCT Campus Edition 6 in Production
D-13 Two Birds, One Stone: Teaching and Developing Courses in WebCT Vista
D-14 WebCT Vista for Library Usage
D-15 WebCT with LiveJournal - Producing Creative Collaborative Communities
D-16 “Every Instructor Should Use This!”: An Asynchronous, Multi-player e-Learning Game

3:45 PM-5:00 PM
E-1 Ask Support
E-2 Asynchronous Online Foreign Language: Meeting the Challenge
E-3 Blackboard Beyond Initiative
E-4 Blogging – a Tool in the Assessment Kit
E-5 Building Communication for Teachers and Learners
E-6 CE6 Transition: Making it Work
E-7 Developing a Scalable, Reliable WebCT Vista Infrastructure
E-8 Developing the Developers: Experiences from a WebCT Certified Trainers Community
E-9 How We Made Vista 4 Work
E-10 Making WebCT more Accessible to Everyone, including People with Disabilities
E-11 Middleware Applications to Extend WebCT Vista Functionality
E-12 Migrating from WebCT Campus Edition 4 to WebCT Vista 4
E-13 Supporting Web-Based Learning at a Medium Size University
E-14 Training and Maintaining Student Support for WebCT
E-15 WebCT Vista Beyond Deployment: A Customer Panel
E-16 Yakity Yak-They'll Talk Back
 
Thursday, July 13, 2006

9:00 AM-9:45 AM
F-1 International Travel + Online Hybrid Courses in WebCT
F-2 A Learner-Centered, Multi-Chromatic Approach
F-3 Achieving Strategic Objectives with WebCT Vista
F-4 Are Your Students Successful Online Learners?
F-5 Bb Content System: Enhancing the Value of Learning Content
F-6 Beyond Eye Candy: Wikis for Collaborative Student Presentation Web Sites
F-7 Enhancing the WebCT Client Support Experience
F-8 FlashMX Presentations of Online Film Scenes and eExercises
F-9 Implementing a Vista Disaster Recovery Environment: Purdue University's Experience
F-10 Integrating Innovative Open Source Solutions with WebCT
F-11 Monitoring Techniques for WebCT Vista at the University of Florida
F-12 Online Professional Development for K-12 Educators
F-13 Research and Accountability Reporting from WebCT Vista Data
F-14 Seamlessly Integrate Text-Specific Content and Resources into your WebCT Course with a WileyPLUS PowerPack!
F-15 The Secrets of Selective Release in WebCT Vista
F-16 Using Respondus Applications to Increase Faculty Use of WebCT

10:00 AM-10:45 AM
G-1 "WebCT Rocks": Mainstreaming Online Learning
G-2 Building for Change: Flexible Integration Solutions in a Dynamic Environment
G-3 Capture the Classroom Experience with Apreso!
G-4 Designing for Universal Accessibility
G-5 Incorporating Flash Tools in an Online Anatomy & Physiology Course
G-6 Instructional Technology Use at Texas A&M University
G-7 Integrating WebCT Vista with LDAP and PeopleSoft
G-8 Integrating and Supporting WebCT Vista 4 at Napier University
G-9 Introducing the WebCT Portfolio: The Key to Your Project's Success
G-10 Introduction to the WebCT Vista PowerLinks Kit
G-11 Library On-Demand: Information Literacy Delivered to Your Desktop
G-12 Making the Upgrade to WebCT Campus Edition 6 at Rowan University
G-13 Managing and Training Non-Experts
G-14 Online Icebreakers: First Impressions Matter!
G-15 Small College Model for Efficient Development of Online Degree Programs
G-16 Summer School for Faculty: Learning WebCT via WebCT

11:15 AM-12:00 PM
H-1 30 Minute e-Course: Quick Tips for Effective Course Design
H-2 Adobe Integration with WebCT
H-3 Building Learning Communities On and Off-Campus with WebCT
H-4 Building a Scaleable WebCT Vista Solution
H-5 Developing Courses in WebCT that Talk and Talk Back!
H-6 Do You See What I See? Using the WebCT PowerSight Kit
H-7 Integrating a Home-Grown Student Registration System with WebCT Vista
H-8 Listening Session: Blackboard Executive Team
H-9 Professional Development in e-Learning: An Online Program for Faculty Developers
H-10 RSS “Plumbing” in WebCT: Here is How
H-11 The Matrix – Morphing WebCT Course Assessment
H-12 Understanding and Improving Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment
H-13 Using WebCT To Conduct Student Elections
H-14 Using the ICARE Format for Structuring Online Courses
H-15 WebCT Design Techniques for Linking Lecture and Composition Courses
H-16 WebCT Vista in the UNC System: From One School to Many

1:30 PM-2:15 PM
I-1 "Start Here" – An Effective WebCT Vista Student Orientation Module
I-3 Evaluating an e-Pack in 10 Minutes or Less: Using the WebCT Key Features
I-2 Listening Session: Blackboard Product Management Team
B-11 Microsoft’s Collaboration Infrastructure for Education: What’s on the way in Office 2007?
I-5 Migrating Content to WebCT Campus Edition 6
I-6 Next-Level e-Learning: From Increasing Adoption to Increasing Effectiveness
Optimize WebCT E-Learning Deployments with Citrix NetScaler Solutions
I-7 Portal Integrations with CE6 and WebCT Vista
I-8 Secure Online Quizzes
I-9 Streamlining Course Requests in WebCT Vista
I-10 Supporting Education Excellence: Using Technology to Advance Learning in WebCT
I-11 The E-Learning Imperative: Does Strategy Matter?
I-12 Tools to Teach Faculty How to Teach Online
I-13 Using WebCT to Create a Model Healthcare Residency
I-14 Using WebCT to Facilitate Virtual Learning Communities
I-15 Wikis and WebCT: Sharing Responsibility For Content

2:30 PM-3:45 PM
J-1 A Framework for Designing E-Learning Support Infrastructure
J-2 A Hop, Skip, and a Jump: Implementing Digital Learning
J-3 Academic Analytics: Using the CMS as a Early Warning System
J-4 Benchmarking CMSs: Faculty Reactions and Perceptions
J-5 Customizing the WebCT Vista Platform
J-7 Deploying the WebCT Portfolio: Perspectives from EAP Participants
J-8 Instructor Training Support Systems
J-9 It Takes A Village to Run a Successful Training Program
J-10 Lessons Learned Migrating to WebCT Campus Edition 6 and WebCT Vista 4
J-11 OOPs: How to Obtain, Organize, and Place Images in WebCT
J-12 Staff Development to Improve Student Experience via WebCT
J-13 USG Training Endeavors: A Consortia Perspective
J-14 Using the Discussions Tool: Course Design, Pedagogy, and Assessment
J-15 WebCT Vista and Banner (SIS) Integration: Views from Two Consortia
J-16 WebCT on Linux: An Administrators Roundtable

4:15 PM-5:00 PM
K-1 Automating Administrative Procedures in WebCT Vista
K-2 Beyond TechPrep: Preparing Students to Transition from On-ground to Online
K-3 Blackboard ASP: Leave the Worrying to Us
K-4 Developing a Library Resource Tool in WebCT Vista
K-5 Development of a Blended Physiology Laboratory Course Using WebCT Vista
K-6 Embedding Paradigms, Practices, and Pedagogy within Portfolios
K-7 Enhancing WebCT with Synchronous Classroom Environments
K-8 GeorgiaVIEW: WebCT Vista Implementation in the University System of Georgia
K-9 If You Build It, Can They Teach It?
K-10 MERLOT & WebCT – The Next Generation
K-11 Straight Talk about Distance Learning
K-12 Teaching Marketing in WebCT
K-13 Template or Standards? Making the Right Design Choice
K-14 The “Living Notebook”: Supplementing Undergraduate Education in WebCT
K-15 Using WebCT to Deliver Pre-study Courses in Accounting and Mathematics

5:00 PM-6:15 PM
3 Poster Sessions
 
Friday, July 14, 2006

8:30 AM-9:30 AM
L-1 A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words!
L-2 Blending Emerging Technologies in Online Courses – The Next DC-3
L-3 Chunking Revisited: Low Investment ,High-Yield Course Revisions
L-4 How We Made Vista 4 Work -- Administration and Migration
L-5 Leveraging Online Technology to Teach (Very) Large Classes
L-6 Measuring Learner Presence, Participation, and Interaction Patterns
L-7 Mixing the Physical and the Virtual: Implementing Blended Pedagogy
L-8 Ready or Not: Helping Students Soar!
L-9 Supporting a WebCT Vista Consortium
L-10 The Blended Learning Project: A Foundation for Undergraduate Academic Transformation
L-11 Under the hood of Vista 4: Installation, Deployment, Operational Improvements
L-12 University of Florida's Approach to Turnitin: Beyond the Obvious
L-13 Using WEBCT to Expose Students to Service Learning
L-14 WebCT Vista User Group Membership and Business Meeting
L-15 WebCT Vista's Learning Modules Build Strong Courses 12 Ways
L-16 WebCT and West Virginia: Bridging the Distance With Effective Training

10:00 AM-10:45 AM
M-1 "On-Time" WebCT Training: A Faculty Development Model
M-2 Advantages of Standardizing Your WebCT Courses
M-3 Becoming a Development Detective: Investigative Questions for Faculty
M-4 Blackboard Building Blocks: Parallels to PowerLinks
M-5 Decentralized Administration and Faculty Support
M-6 Gateway to Mathematics
M-7 Guiding Nursing Students toward Reflective Thinking
M-8 In-Class v. Online Teaching and Learning: UALR's Criminal Justice Experience
M-9 Integrating the MSU Podcasting Initiative and RSS Feeds into WebCT
M-10 Stepping Outside the Classroom - Physically And Mentally
M-11 The Odd Couple: Successful Faculty/IT Collaboration
M-12 Upgrading Your Training While You Upgrade Your Campus
M-13 Using Small-Group Threaded Discussion: Research on What ‘Works’
M-14 Using WebCT Tools to Support Students with Disabilities
M-15 Using WebCT for non-instructional community building
M-16 Work-based Learning and Assessment: An Online Pilot

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
4 ePortfolios: Digital Stories of Deep Learning