Faculty and staff members from participating institutions who are interested in participating in NITLE programs should contact their campus liaisons. Liaisons will know whether the institution has program units available to support program participation and will also know the institution's policies on participation in NITLE programs. Access to NITLE events is a benefit of participation in the NITLE Network.
For technologists and other staff members at participating colleges who support multipoint, interactive videoconferencing on their campuses. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, July 11, 2008)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. An instance of the "Special Topics for Instructional Technologists" series featuring Sharon Fass, Director of Academic Computing, Southwestern University; Donnie Sendelbach, Academic Technology Specialist, Lake Forest College; and Bryan Alexander, Research, NITLE. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, July 18, 2008)
For faculty members, technologists, librarians, administrators, and others at participating colleges who are interested in basic training on the use of multipoint, interactive videoconferencing (MIV) for use on campus or to participate in a NITLE program delivered online via MIV. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, July 25, 2008)
For faculty, technologists, and librarians from Albion College and other participating colleges who are interested in effective writing for web 2.0 based narratives. (4 program units. Liaisons' deadline: Thursday, July 3, 2008)
For technologists and other staff members at participating colleges who support multipoint, interactive videoconferencing on their campuses. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, July 25, 2008)
For faculty, technologists, and librarians from the University of Puget Sound and other participating colleges who are interested in effective writing for web 2.0 based narratives. (4 program units. Liaisons' deadline: Friday, July 11, 2008)
For faculty and staff at participating colleges who are interested in the Sakai learning management system and how it might contribute to campus academic programs. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 8, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in a conceptual overview and introduction to the Moodle learning management system. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 8, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in an introduction to the DSpace interfaces and the processes for creating collections and communities in a institutional repository. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 8, 2008)
For technologists and other staff members at participating colleges who support multipoint, interactive videoconferencing on their campuses. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 8, 2008)
For faculty members, technologists, librarians, administrators, and others at participating colleges who are interested in basic training on the use of multipoint, interactive videoconferencing (MIV) for use on campus or to participate in a NITLE program delivered online via MIV. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 8, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in further developing their abilities to manage digital content within a DSpace Repository. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 8, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, GIS specialists, and librarians--of all skill levels and from participating colleges--who are interested how GIS can support critical thinking in across disciplines and how mapping practices can be leveraged to tackle complex problems. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty members, technologists, librarians, administrators, and others at participating colleges who wish to use multipoint, interactive videoconferencing effectively to lead events and/or teach. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. The specific topic for this program is under development and will feature one or more leaders and practitioners from the community as presenters, with discussion moderated by NITLE staff. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 22, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in a conceptual overview and introduction to the Moodle learning management system. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, September 12, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, GIS specialists, and librarians--of all skill levels and from participating colleges--who are interested in learning to use six ArcGIS skills to create simple maps with major pedagogical benefits. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, September 12, 2008)
For faculty and staff at participating colleges who are interested in the Sakai learning management system and how it might contribute to campus academic programs. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, September 12, 2008)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, September 12, 2008)
For system administrators, system integrators, or application developers at participating institutions who are interested in participating in a pilot program focused on supporting campus-based cloud-computing projects. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, August 29, 2008)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. An instance of the "Special Topics for Instructional Technologists" series featuring Michael Spalti, Associate University Librarian for Systems, Willamette University, and Stacy Nowicki, Library Director, Kalamazoo College. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, September 19, 2008.)
For faculty members at participating colleges--and their academic support partners--who are interested in exploring new approaches to creative expression that enable and encourage the crossing of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Participants will consider how best to take advantage of new possibilities fostered by digital technology and how best to meet the challenges they present. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For participating colleges interested in implementing the Shibboleth federated identity management technology, and planning for campus policy and process decisions related to adoption and germane to small, independent colleges and universities. Campuses will benefit from sending teams of two from different campus roles, including technologists, CIOs, network directors and other network staff, registrars, librarians, and others involved in managing student and staff identity information. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For technologists and financial/business officers from participating colleges interested in learning about the Kuali Financial Systems (KFS) software and discussing the future of KFS as a solution for smaller, independent colleges. Campuses will benefit from sending teams of two comprised of one representative of the finance/business office and one IT person. (5 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who are interested in a conceptual overview and introduction to the Moodle learning management system. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 3, 2008)
For faculty and staff at participating colleges who are interested in the Sakai learning management system and how it might contribute to campus academic programs. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 3, 2008)
For faculty members, academic administrators, instructional technologists, and librarians at participating colleges who are interested in using visualization to create scientifically rich curricula and in furthering their own understanding of visualization as a component of pedagogy, research, and communication. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, and librarians from participating colleges who are interested in exploring how real-time collaboration technologies—from interactive videoconferencing to social presence tools to virtual worlds such as Second Life—can be used to expand the boundaries of the physical classroom and shape the curriculum. (7 program units. Registration deadline: August 15, 2008)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 10, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, GIS specialists, and librarians--of all skill levels and from participating colleges--who are interested how interactive web-maps can be used to track and visualize a food supply chain, from farm to college dining plate. Participants will also discuss applications to calculate associated carbon costs and strategies to disseminate this information to the public. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 10, 2008)
For faculty members, program administrators, instructional technologists, and other campus professionals from participating colleges who are interested in incorporating service learning and issues of social justice into their curricular and extracurricular programs. Participants will explore how digital technologies from social software to data analysis tools are increasingly being used to support service learning and advance an institutional commitment to issues of social justice, social equality, and the digital divide. (7 program units. Registration deadline: August 15, 2008)
For campus leaders such as CIOs and directors of IT, library, and merged organizations from participating colleges who are interested in focusing on leadership, management at the enterprise level, and networking with peers. Participants will consider significant, emerging developments in practice and share expertise in order to evaluate emerging options regarding the applicability of specific enterprise technology tools that are being developed and offered. Early adopters are encouraged to register and share their experiences. (2 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who use or may use the Sakai learning management system and are interested in discussing current topics about Sakai. Sakai users from participating colleges will lead discussion about a timely and relevant topic with time reserved for discussion of other topics and issues. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 24, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who use or may use the Moodle learning management system and are interested in discussing current topics about Moodle. Moodle users from participating colleges will lead discussion about a timely and relevant topic with time reserved for discussion of other topics and issues. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 24, 2008)
For faculty and staff from participating colleges who use or may use DSpace to maintain an institutional repository and are interested in discussing current topics about DSpace. DSpace users from participating colleges will lead discussion about a timely and relevant topic with time reserved for discussion of other topics and issues. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 24, 2008)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. An instance of the "Special Topics for Instructional Technologists" series featuring Gary Ploski, Assistant Director of Academic Computing, Sarah Lawrence College, and Veronica Pejril, Coordinator of the Music Instructional Technology Center, DePauw University. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, October 24, 2008)
For faculty, program administrators, instructional technologists, and librarians from participating colleges who are engaged in developing or implementing curricular or extracurricular programs that provide students with an international perspective on learning. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, GIS specialists, and librarians--of all skill levels and from participating colleges--who are interested using GIS to discover and evaluate correlation/causation among spatial variables and discussing approaches to validating and assessing the patterns that emerge in map form. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, November 7, 2008)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, November 7, 2008)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. The specific topic for this program is under development and will feature one or more leaders and practitioners from the community as presenters, with discussion moderated by NITLE staff. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, November 21, 2008)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, November 21, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, GIS specialists, and librarians--of all skill levels and from participating colleges--who are interested in discussing key issues related to managing and supporting GIS on a liberal arts campus. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, December 5, 2008)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. The specific topic for this program is under development and will feature one or more leaders and practitioners from the community as presenters, with discussion moderated by NITLE staff. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, December 19, 2008)
For faculty members, instructional technologists, librarians, and directors and staff members of writing centers at participating colleges who are interested in exploring the intersection of student writing and research within liberal education contexts in the digital age. Those who participated in NITLE’s "Learning to Write in the Digital Age: Writing Across the Curriculum" and "Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age" will be interested in this conference; however, previous participation in these earlier NITLE conferences is not required. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, November 21, 2008)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, January 16, 2009)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. The specific topic for this program is under development and will feature one or more leaders and practitioners from the community as presenters, with discussion moderated by NITLE staff. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, January 23, 2009)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, February 13, 2009)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. The specific topic for this program is under development and will feature one or more leaders and practitioners from the community as presenters, with discussion moderated by NITLE staff. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, February 20, 2009)
For faculty, instructional technologists, and librarians from participating colleges who teach or support the teaching of foreign languages. Participants will address the challenges of locating, evaluating, and manipulating resources for teaching culture in the language classroom. Both technical and pedagogic issues will be addressed; workshop sessions will teach skills at both a beginning and intermediate level. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, November 21, 2008)
For librarians, faculty members, and technologists from participating colleges who are interested in ethical questions that digital forms of communication and access pose for information services organizations. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, November 21, 2008)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, March 13, 2009)
For those with leadership roles in instructional technology and academic computing at participating institutions. Individuals in this role may have a range of titles, but all are responsible for integrating technology into the curriculum. (7 program units. Registration deadline: November 21, 2008)
For cross-functional campus teams of faculty members, instructional technologists, librarians, and their leadership that are interested in networking with peers from other participating colleges, presenting and receiving feedback about their efforts to advance their institutions' teaching and learning missions, and learning from and collaborating with peers pursuing similar efforts. (5 program units. Registration deadline: November 21, 2008)
For instructional technologists and others from participating colleges who, regardless of title, provide direct support and assistance to faculty members in using technology in teaching and learning. Also for those who manage the instructional technology function. The specific topic for this program is under development and will feature one or more leaders and practitioners from the community as presenters, with discussion moderated by NITLE staff. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, March 20, 2009)
For faculty members and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning. The specific topic for this program is under development. Delivered online via MIV. (1 program unit. Registration deadline: Friday, April 10, 2009)
For faculty, instructional technologists, librarians, and other staff members at participating colleges who use or support the use of spatial software to visualize, understand, and address human impacts on environmental and cultural systems. Participants will consider how GIS and digital mapping shape the discourse on sustainability within higher education, with examples drawn from research, teaching, and institutional planning and outreach. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, November 21, 2008)