Symposium

Symposium Schedule

  Room 282
9:00 - 9:15am Introduction and Welcome
Dr. Janie Fouke
Provost & Assoc. Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Florida
9:15 - 10:00am Keynote Address
Beyond Button Pushing
Integrating Technology Literacy into Our Teaching

Dr. Susan M. Zvacek
University of Kansas
  Room 285 Room 286
10:00 - 10:30am Architectural Textures and Imagery Database
John Maze, Assistant Professor
School of Architecture
Interactive Website for Children with Phenylketonuria
Heather Stalker, Assistant in Pediatrics
Genetics
Dr. Roberto Zori, Assistant Professor & Chief
Genetics
Helen McCune, Shands Staff
Food Science/Human Nutrition
10:30 - 10:45pm Break
10:45 - 11:15am Interactive Online Simulations
Dr. Jane Southworth, Assistant Professor
Geography
Dr. Pete Waylen, Professor & Chairman
Geography
Technology Facilitates Translation Studies
Dr. Elizabeth Lowe, Associate Scholar and Associate Director, Distance Learning and Program Development
Latin American Studies
11:15 - 11:45am Feast or Famine Game
Dr. Lori Unruh Snyder, Lecturer & Undergraduate Coordinator
Agronomy
Dr. Kenneth H. Quesenberry, Professor
Agronomy
Interactive Workbooks
Dr. L. Douglas Ried, Professor & Assistant Dean
Pharmacy Health Care
Scott Blades, Instructional Designer
College of Pharmacy
Sawaeng Watcharathanakij
College of Pharmacy
11:45 - 12:15pm Educational Tools for Busy Faculty
Marcela Piñeros
Center for Instructional Technology & Training
Interactive Plant Cam
Dr. Greg MacDonald, Associate Professor
Agronomy
12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 - 2:00pm   Virtual Field Day
Al Williamson
IFAS Communication Services
Improving Chinese Listening Skills
I-Chun Pier, Lecturer
African-Asian Language and Literature
Dr. Cynthia Hsien Shen, Lecturer
African-Asian Language and Literature
Online Interview Teaching Tools
Rebecca R. Pauly, MD, Associate Professor and Chief
Division of Internal Medicine
Margaret Duerson, PhD, Administrative Director
Harrell Professional Development and Assessment Center
2:00 - 2:20pm Hands-on Workshop:
Introduction to WebCT Vista
JoLaine Jones-Pokorney,
eLearning Support Services
Copyright & Intellectual Property Issues for Faculty
Dr. R. Raymond Issa, Professor
Director of Graduate and Distance Education Programs
  The Case for Open Source Software in Higher Education
Clinton Collins, BEBR Operations Director
2:20 - 2:40pm Securing Your Research Data
John Sawyer
UF IT Security Engineer
Life in a Multi-Platform World
John Li
2:40 - 3:00pm Break
3:00 - 3:20pm Hands-on Workshop:
Video and Collaboration Technologies for Teaching at UF
John Pankow
Academic Technology
The Challenges and Benefits of Moving Large-scale Classes Online
Dr. Richard E. Ferdig, Assistant Professor
Distance Learning
Dennis Beck
Jade Coutts
  Introduction to R for Statistical Analysis and Research
Allen Rout, Computing and Network Services Systems Programmer
3:20 - 3:40pm
  Room 282
3:40 - 4:00pm Symposium Wrap-up
Dr. Fedro Zazueta
Director of Academic Technology