Reaching the Y generation: Utilizing Podcasting in college classes

When: Wednesday 2:00 - 5:00 (Room 111B)

Participants attending this session will engage in hands-on activities, which will enable them to create and publish their own personal podcasts. (Description)

Edina Renfro-Michel and Courtney N. Volpe, Montclair State University

Gaming in Education

When: Wednesday 2:00 - 5:00 (Room 111A)

Games in education have been building.  The workshop will review several games and play them; discuss the effects of games in teaching and learning.  Are games effective in accomplishing pedagogical goals?  Do they teach students team building, resourcefulness, to communicate more fluidly with each other?  What risks are there in each game?   (Description)

Gayle Stein, Associate Director for Instructional Technology
Karen Campbell, Senior Instructional Designer
Jesse Schibilia, Senior Instructional Designer Catherine Weresow, Application Developer
Betzalel Anolik, Student Intern

CI-ACT Workgroup: Cyberinfrastructure –Advanced Computing Technology Workshop

When: Wednesday 2:00 - 5:00 (Room 112A)

Formed at last year's NJEDge.Net Annual Conference, the NJEDge CI-ACT co-chairs have organized a program that will bring you up-to-date with current efforts to develop shared, statewide cyberinfrastructure. We have also enlisted major vendors in the high performance computing arena to discuss a range of topics critically relevant to the successful deployment of advanced computing and storage strategies. Join us, let us answer your questions and learn why high performance computing is so intimately linked with the frontiers of research and economic development. (Description)

Leslie Michelson, John Kerrigan, Ryan Golhar, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
David Perel, Gedliah Wolosh, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Eric Marshall, Rutgers University
Wenping Yang, UMDNJ

Identity Management — Authentication and Access

When: Wednesday 2:00 - 5:00 (Room 112B)

Informative workshop for ID managers and implementers covering overview and review of LDAP, overview of shibboleth, implementing and identity provider and policy issues for accessing the wireless shibboleth community.
(Description)

Charles Hedrick, University Director of Instructional and Research Technology, and Chief Technology Officer,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Better Writers, Not Just Better Writing: Online Strategies to Support Writers in All Disciplines

SAVE THE DATE:    Spring 2009

This hands-on workshop will take participants through the process of planning, developing, designing, and delivering online writing resources to support students across the curricula  (Description)

Ellen Spaldo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Janet Boyd, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator, Metro Writing Studio,
   Metropolitan Campus, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Kenneth Ronkowitz, Director, Writing Initiative, Passaic County Community College
Elizabeth Nesius, Coordinator of the Writing Center, Passaic County Community College