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May/June 2006: Issue 130
Register Now for the UAMS Teaching With Technology Symposium
The UAMS Teaching and Technology Committee (TNT) is holding a symposium on technology –based education.
The Teaching with Technology Symposium is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, July 21 at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute. It is designed for higher-education instructors, corporate trainers, and others who participate in technology-based education.
The cost for faculty and staff is $45 before July 7 and $55 after that date. Students can attend for $25 if registering before July 7 and $35 after that date. The price includes lunch.
The Keynote speakers are Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, authors of the book Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. Palloff and Pratt are consulting editors on a series of faculty guides for online learning and have contributed to the book series Collaborating Online: Learning Together in Community.
Sessions will include topics such as good practices for online courses, copyright and fair-use issues, computer-based testing (including WebCT 6.0) and security issues, digital photo editing, and more. Vendors will present new products, and participants can tour the UAMS Clinical Skills Center and the Library Video Conference Center. The complete program can be found at http://www.uams.edu/tnt/Symp_files/full_program.pdf.
To register go to http://www.uams.edu/tnt/sympmain.asp
For more information, please contact Heather Smith at 501-686-8116
or by email at hlsmith@uams.edu.
- Heather Smith, M.Ed