Jan. 25 - Feb. 15, 2010
"Utilizing Web 2.0 Apps to Enhance Teaching & Learning"
24/7


Cell phones, social networking applications and small screen wireless devices are typically used by students for leisure activities.
This workshop demonstrates ways they are being used in the classroom as well, to motivate and boost student learning in a
variety of disciplines. Tips and methods for incorporating them into your curriculum will be provided.

Presenters include:

Dr. Curtis J. Bonk, Instructional Systems Technology in the School of Education at Indiana University and
 adjunct in the School of Informatics.

 He has received the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, the Most
 Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and the Most Innovative
 Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana. Curt has given more than
 800 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning. has written articles for over 200
 publications on topics such as online learning pedagogy, massive multiplayer online gaming, Wikibooks,
 blogging, open source software, collaborative technologies, and synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing.
 He is author of the The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (2009) as well as
 Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008).


Roger Lee Boston, Rockwall Endowment Chair, Associate Chair, Southeast Houston Community College

 Roger Boston is currently with the faculty of the Houston Community College System and holds the joint titles
 of "Rockwell Chair" and "Consultant for Creativity", an innovation supported by the Rockwell Foundation since
 1985. He is a member of the PBS Going the Distance Advisory Group, the State of Texas Distance Learning
 Master planning group, a teacher with the Virtual College of Texas, and is instrumental in the restructuring efforts
 now ongoing within the Houston Community College System to deliver distance courses more effectively. He has worked with more
 than four dozen organizations coast to coast to help them in their efforts to implement electronic and multimedia instructional delivery
 systems and is a frequent presenter at gatherings of the ITC and other groups interested in Distance Learning. He is pioneering in the
 use of low-bandwidth collaborative tools for instruction delivery across the internet and often teaches his classes from remote areas to
 test the technology. He was the 1995 recipient of the ACCT Western Region Faculty Award, and his former students have built up a
 scholarship fund in his name of more than sixty thousand dollars, going to deserving students electing a career in computers and
 information technology.


 Alexandra M. Pickett, Associate Director of the SUNY Learning Network at the State University of New York

 Her leadership and direction of this area of the program were recognized when in 2001 SLN was honored to receive the first Sloan
 Consortium Award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development. In 2002 SLN received the Sloan-C award for Excellence in
 Institution-Wide ALN Programming, and the Educause award for Systematic Progress in Teaching and Learning for 2001. Most
 recently SLN was honored with the 2006 USDLA 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Leaning.