FALL 2008 :: WEEK 1 INTRODUCTIONS

[Brandy]

I'm Brandy Thatcher, the facilitator for the workshop. I'm a media
developer in our faculty development area at Illinois Central College.
I've worked at ICC for about 7 years. I work one-on-one with faculty
to develop instructional materials in all sorts of media for their
courses, both online and traditional. I also teach a variety of
software based and web 2.0 workshops for faculty and for our community
Funshops. I eat, sleep, and drink technology and love all of the new
and emerging technologies being introduced daily.

My background is in Graphic Design and I just completed an Associates
in Web Technologies (web design and programming). My favorite
programming language is Actionscript, but I do a lot of javascript,
xhtml, ajax, xml and a little php/ asp.net.

Your Turn? Tell us a little about yourself, your job, your interest?
Any special technology interest?

What do you hope to get out of this workshop?

[lwh...@lab.icc.edu]

I began teaching in 1964. I still teach but only one student each
time period. This
method of teaching is fun and rewarding. I retired from classroom
teaching in 2000. One
reason for retiring is that, MANY PEOPLE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN THINK.
An example is the
German people in the 1930s and 1940s. The Germans decided that they
could conquer Europe,
set up an empire, and make slaves of the non-European people.
Naturally they failed. They
were not thinking. Of course, MANY PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THINK THAN
DIE. An example is the
founding fathers (Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, for example)
of the United States
of America.

In the video, many students are complaining. They should be thinking
and educating
themselves. It is not the teachers fault if the students don't want
to think.

[Gayle]

I'm Gayle Carr. I teach Respiratory Therapy in the Health Careers
area. I am interested in what new technologies have that I can add to
my "tool box". Perhaps there are many things that I can use that will
help improve my teaching techniques and be helpful to students. After
viewing the YouTube video, it is obvious that students are interested
in using new technologies as part of their learning styles.

Gayle

On Oct 20, 6:31 pm, Brandy <bthatc...@icc.edu> wrote:

[tnic...@prairiestate.edu]

My name is Thomas Nicholas. I'm an English professor at Prairie State
College, and this is my 7th year teaching (though my first at PSC).
Over the years, I've taught online using a variety of course
management systems and was part of Computers in Composition and
Literature/The Digital Media Project , which was dedicated to helping
faculty incorporate new media into the literature and composition
classroom at The Ohio State University. I've dabbled in a number of
new technologies, and as a young faculty member who can see the effect
the use of these technologies has on my learning styles/abilities, I'm
interested both in the ways in which new technology can be used to
help teach and in the effect these technologies have on our
fundamental thinking processes. Interestingly, I've always considered
myself to be on the technological forefront when it came to education,
as I have used AIM office hours, online peer review sessions, and a
number of other things, but I'm increasingly finding myself out of
date--none of my students use AIM anymore and have instead replaced it
with facebook and cell phone-based texting--and am hoping this
workshop will help me stay current, to help me understand my students
if nothing else.

On Oct 20, 6:31 pm, Brandy <bthatc...@icc.edu> wrote:

[Bess]

Hello, I am Elizabeth (Bess) Kershisnik. This is my first year
teaching general chemistry courses at Oakton Community College. I use
a lot of Powerpoint and youtube videos in my classes. I enjoy
technology and would like to implement more into my classroom.
Hopefully, this class will help me figure out what technology will
work in my class.
Look forward to learning A LOT over the next three weeks!!!

On Oct 20, 6:31 pm, Brandy <bthatc...@icc.edu> wrote:

[mattwi...@gmail.com]

Hello all! My name is Matt Wiediger and I am currently an Adjunct
Faculty at Lincoln Land Community College. I have a MS in
Experimental Psychology and I am currently finishing my Ph. D in
Experimental Psychology at Washington State University. I taught
Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, and Sensation and
Perception at WSU, and am currently teaching Intro at LLCC.

I have found that interacting and engaging with students in the
classroom, and competing with their use of technology in the
classroom, can be a challenge. Instead of fighting the use of
technology I want to try to use that technology to interact with my
students. My theory is that the more unique ways I can interact with
them, no matter the medium, the more likely they will be to retain the
information.

[kmayesdenker]

Good Morning! I am Kelli Mayes-Denker and I am an instructor at Carl
Sandburg College. This is my first semester teaching economics and
business.
Currently, the technology that I am using in the classroom includes
youtube, radio clips, Powerpoint
and Blackboard. I look forward to learning more about other aspects
of
technology that I can utilize to further engage students.

On Oct 21, 2:58 pm, "mattwiedi...@gmail.com" <mattwiedi...@gmail.com>
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