10:16 a.m., Sept. 10, 2009----University of Delaware faculty and staff are being provided a unique opportunity to participate in an interactive Web conference with colleagues on campus and across the country. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2009 Online Fall Focus Session, "Flattening the Classroom: Building Collaborative Learning Environments," will be held from noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23, and Thursday, Sept. 24, with the UD event in Room 011 of Smith Hall.

THIS STORY

E-mail

Print

Twitter

This is an EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative online interactive event hosted in Adobe Connect and cosponsored locally by the UD Sakai group and IT/Academic Technology Services.

According to EDUCAUSE, “This virtual event will be much more than just a 'usual' online seminar. You'll exchange ideas and collaborate interactively with the ELI community -- all without leaving your campus. You'll also receive all the resources and guided activities you need to help frame discussion and organize team events locally while simultaneously participating online.”

Register to take part in the focus session with peers at UD, joining in live local discussions and participating as a member of the UD team in the national virtual event through polling and chat and other technologies. Participants can register for an individual day or both days. Once registered, you can attend as long it as suits your schedule. Drop in for an hour or stay all afternoon. Light refreshments will be provided.

The program will include a keynote each day and plenary sessions followed by related “project parlors” in which speakers will make 10-minute presentations and then invite interactive chat between themselves and session participants.

According to Carie Page, ELI program administrator, "Each plenary session actually addresses a sub-topic within collaboration, such as interdisciplinary collaboration or spaces for collaboration.” Page added that the project parlors that follow are designed to showcase what campuses are doing within those areas.

“For the 'spaces on collaboration' parlor, for instance, the plenary speaker is talking broadly about how space impacts collaborative activities. And then we'll have a half-hour 'lightning' round of 10-minute campus presentations on either physical or virtual spaces they've developed for collaboration," Page said.

Persephone Braham, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, will speak on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 1:50 p.m. in one of the project parlors in A Lightning Round of Innovative Projects in Collaborative Spaces. She will present her use of wikis in Latin American studies. ELI selected her based on her presentation to the Learning Management System Committee in March 2009.