Customize Your Course With New Technology
McKendree College

July 31-August 1, 1997

 

Workshop Abstract

Customize Your Course With New Technology is a workshop about how to transform an existing course into a "technologized" course. The main emphasis is that technology can't simply be "velcroed" onto an existing course. The technology must be tailored to fit the demands of particular courses from the beginning.

Another main point is that any traditional teaching method--fieldwork, homework, lecturing, readings, etc. can be supplemented or enhanced by new technology.

  

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Workshop Sessions

The workshop opened with a keynote address by Elaine Lawless on how and why she got into teaching with technology. She shared her academic journey and how she turned to technology "on a whim, a total whim, two years ago." She has learned to use listservs and web pages for student interaction, writing and publishing ongoing course archives.

The "Customizing You Course With New Technology" workshops were organized as special breakout groups from similar disciplines.

Sessions:

Humanities Workshop

Gretel Hickman led the humanities workshop discussions on how to integrate technology into courses. She also showed faculty how to get the best results from the main web search engines.

Social Science Workshop

Tom Spark led the breakout workshop on technology in Social Science courses. The workshop included the use of SPSS, chat rooms, networks, e-mail and web sites of interest to social science studies.

Nursing Workshop

Sharon Lambert led discussions with nursing faculty through the possibilities of using technology in nursing programs.

Math/Computer Science Workshop

This workshop focused on the use of technology in math and computer science courses.

Business/Education Workshop

This workshop examined the use of technology in business and education courses.

 

  

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Workshop Leaders

Dr. Elaine J. Lawless is Professor of English and Women Studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She gave the keynote presentation "Passionate Speaking: Ars rhetorica en communitas, Reinstating the Voice in Electronic Writing." Her e-mail address is englel@showme.missouri.edu and her web page is at: http://www.missouri.edu/~englel.

Erin Vincent was one of the workshop leaders. E-mail her at evincent@a2.mckendree.edu.

Dr. Mike Kolitzky, Associate Vice President for Instructional Technology at the University of Texas at El Paso, was one of the workshop leaders. E-mail him at mkolitsky@utep.edu.

Dr. Gretel Young Hickman, McKendree College, coordinated this workshop. Her e-mail address is ghickman@a2.mckendree.edu.

Dr. Sharon Lambert, nursing workshop leader, has e-mail at slamber@siue.edu. She is an assistant professor of Nursing at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and led the nursing related workshop. Warning: SIUE's website is heavily loaded with Java and may crash out your system or be extremely slow loading.

Phil Myette, workshop leader, has e-mail at pmyette@greenville.edu.

Dr. Mike Sawdey, workshop coordinator, has e-mail at msawdey@admin.aurora.edu.

Tom Spark, social science workshop leader, has e-mail at tsparhawk@a1.mckendree.edu

Dr. Dennis Witte, another workshop coordinator, has e-mail at witte@curf.edu.

Dr. Candace Suriano, workshop coordinator, has e-mail at faccssuriano@vax.colsf.edu.

  

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1997 Faculty Technology Development Workshops

Sponsored by Ameritech and Associated Colleges of Illinois