2007 Axio Learning Community Conference

Pre-Conference Workshop with Axio's Instructional Designers

Plan on attending the instructional designer pre-conference! From 9 - 10 a.m., there will be a presentation on "Creating an Online Course for the First Time". Beginning at around 10 a.m., there will be small group discussions and one-on-one instructional design consultations. Participants are encouraged to bring their course ideas, draft syllabi and other materials from their own courses for shared discussions and one-on-one instructional designer support. Come meet other professionals like yourself in this pre-conference, and share some of your own insights, too. A light breakfast will be served. This instructional design pre-conference will wrap up at noon.

Instructional Designers for Mediated Education

Shalin Hai-Jew (Ed.D. Seattle University) has taught for many years as a college instructor in English and Communications. She has taught online since 1997. She is interested in eLearning, educational games, simulations, and automated learning.

Ask the Experts

Members of the Axio staff will be available to answer all the Axio-related questions you have. The following persons will be present:
Scott Finkeldei, Assistant Director
Angie Chauncey, Application Manager
Amanda Tross, Content Specialist
Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer
Swasati Mukherjee, Instructional Designer
Ben Ward, Instructional Designer

Welcome/State of Axio

Join us as Rob Caffey, director of Axio Learning, welcomes you to the 2007 Axio Learning Community Meeting and Conference and gives the annual "State of Axio" presentation. This kick-off session is not to be missed!

IT Help Desk Presentation

Ever wonder how the IT Help Desk works? Meet the Help Desk Training Coordinator and get the scoop on how they operate and provide you with excellent customer service.

What is Axio Survey and why would I use it?

Get a quick training and overview on Axio Survey, the extra survey creation program available to all Axio members. Create and distribute web-based surveys to poll, assess, report and analyze respondent's thoughts, feeling and opinions.

Monique Millender is a member of the Quality Assurance team and is responsible for ensuring that Axio projects pass our rigorous software standards. She reviews all user feedback and helps translate requests into reality. Monique also conducts many beta-training sessions. "It can become very challenging when testing our programs, because you never know how one change will effect another program. However, that is what makes my job fun. It's like a million-piece puzzle the Quality Assurance team is always putting together."

Angela Chauncey manages Axio's Quality Assurance team and is the project manager for projects such as Axio Learning, Axio Survey and many more. She provides high-level technical support for the Axio Assessment Suite and other tools. Angela has been with Axio since 2000 and is currently completing her Masters of Business Administration at Kansas State University.

Axio 3.0 New Features Overview

This session will cover all the new features and changes to Axio with the 3.0 release. This is a summary session showing and describing the changes but will not provide training on how to use the tools. Great session for people wanting an overview of the changes and new features.

Scott Finkeldei

Scott Finkeldei is a graduate of K-State University with a BA in Political Science and a BS in Secondary Education. Scott has worked with K-State Online (the first incarnation of Axio Learning) and Axio from its beginning in 1998. Currently Scott is the Associate Director of Axio Learning and coordinates the activities of the Axio Learning team.

The New Wimba Live Classroom; Internet conferencing with video

One of the challenges of teaching online courses and having virtual meetings is the limited vocal and visual interaction. Wimba's Live Classroom addresses this issue by adding student-to-teacher interaction and student-to-student interaction to existing courses. The virtual classroom includes tools such as streaming audio and video, application sharing, chat, whiteboard, polls and surveys, 508 accessibility, and archives, and is especially useful for adding a human touch to online courses. Note to 2006 Conference Attendees: Consider coming to this year's session, as Bryan will talk about the new additions to Wimba.

Bryan Vandiviere

Bryan Vandiviere is Axio's Web Presentation Technology Coordinator. He is our resident podcast, Wimba, Tegrity, VoIP, and Apple computer expert. Bryan has won technical support awards from both UCEA and C2C and traveled to Paris in 2006 to train new Wimba users.

"If the World is Flat, Why Am I Trudging Uphill? Musings on How Distance Education, the Internet, and Globalization Impact Teaching in Kansas"

Academics are finding words and phrases such as globalization, the world is flat and emerging technologies sprinkled liberally throughout the new literature. Even the stodgiest keepers of the most turgid disciplines have begun grumbling that a revolution of sorts is underway. At the same time, the popular press has convinced the layperson that everything - from buying goods and services in China to exploiting the nearly thawed Northwest Passage across Northern Canada to instant intelligence on the Internet - has become part of daily life. This leaves many excellent teachers and learners averting their eyes ashamed to admit they lack the skills to "Google" their way out of an empty box. But should they feel this way? Should teaching and learning be easy? Anecdotal evidence will be presented to demonstrate that Kansas has been "flat" far longer than the rest of the world and many K-State teachers are no strangers to technology adoption. Others, not on the technology vanguard, will discover teaching infrastructure can be improved with premeditated forays into Thomas Friedman's flat world where distance education techniques can be brought back into the traditional classroom.

Dr. Roger McHaney

Roger McHaney is a professor of management information systems and a Faculty Fellow in Kansas State University's College of Business Administration. A K-State faculty member since 1995, McHaney teaches courses in enterprise systems, information resources management and systems analysis. His areas of research include discrete event simulation, computer-mediated communication systems, SAP and organizational computing. McHaney has bachelor's and master's degrees from Lake Superior State University and doctorate in computer information systems and quantitative analysis from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He is the current director of K-State's business and international education grant program and has lectured in a variety of countries including New Zealand, Australia, China, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Greece, Belgium and The Netherlands. McHaney has published in numerous journals, written textbooks, and developed a variety of instructional material. He recently accompanied Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius on a trade mission to China.

Ask the Experts

Members of the Axio staff will be available to answer all the Axio-related questions you have. The following persons will be present:
Scott Finkeldei, Assistant Director
Angie Chauncey, Application Manager
Amanda Tross, Content Specialist
Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer
Swasati Mukherjee, Instructional Designer
Ben Ward, Instructional Designer

Human Futures for Technology and Education

New technologies have profound implications for education and force us to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching. As the technologies change at an ever-increasing rate, several scholars are currently engaged in attempts to predict the future so we can prepare ourselves and our students for what is to come. This presentation will examine three of the most compelling scenarios (".edu@2020" by Richard Katz at Educause, Karl Fisch's "Did you Know?" project, and the 2007 report from UNESCO on emerging technologies) and build from these by incorporating anthropological approaches that add human elements into the possibilities.

Though predicting the future is impossible, the scenarios presented through the exercise of trying help us build a more open and flexible mind, rethink our most basic assumptions about education, and prepare us for whatever the future might bring.

Dr. Michael Wesch

Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University exploring the impacts of new media on human interaction. After two years studying the impacts of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the impacts of Web 2.0 and digital technology on global society. His video introduction to Web 2.0, "The Machine is Using/Us" has been viewed over 3 million times and is in the Top 100 favorite videos of all time on YouTube, in the illustrious company of Beyonce' and Nora the piano-playing cat. He is also a multiple-award winning teacher whose teaching projects have been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and other major media outlets worldwide.

Adventures in Marketing: Using Technology to Expand Your Institution's Reach

Letting the public know about your course opportunities is a never-ending challenge. Even with a top-notch instructor and the superb capabilities of Axio Learning's course management system, if potential students don't know about the course, it goes no further than the planning stage or fails to meet minimum enrollment. Fortunately, a plethora of technology tools exist today to not only deliver the educational experience anytime, anywhere, but to also promote and publicize the opportunities to maximize enrollment and ensure a good fit for successful retention. Deciding what technologies to use, and determining how best to utilize it in promoting your institution's courses, is the focus of this presentation. The presenter will highlight some of K-State at Salina Continuing Education's successful (and unsuccessful) adventures in marketing its courses, ranging from radio and television to YouTube to iPod.

David Swisher

David Swisher is an instructional technology specialist for K-State and serves as the classroom technology coordinator for the Salina campus, K-State's College of Technology and Aviation. As such he oversees, installs, and maintains all classrom technology equipment on the Salina campus and trains faculty in their use and applications. He also serves as a consultant/trainer to faculty who are preparing online courses and works closely with the Continuing Education office in the development and promotion of targeted course offerings. Prior to his current role, Swisher worked in the Public Information Office, the marketing/development arm of K-State's Division of Continuing Education. His professional expertise spans over a decade of various roles involving print/publishing/publicity, web/multimedia, and distance education.

Podcasting and RSS - can I really use Axio to do this?

Yes, and it's easy with Axio's new Voice Recording tool and RSS feature. Learn how to create podcasts within Axio and different techniques to make your podcasts unique.

Bryan Vandiviere

Bryan Vandiviere is Axio's Web Presentation Technology Coordinator. He is our resident podcast, Wimba, Tegrity, VoIP, and Apple computer expert. Bryan has won technical support awards from both UCEA and C2C and traveled to Paris in 2006 to train new Wimba users.

Axio Experiences

Participate in this panel discussion as Axio members from Manhattan Christian College, Wichita Area Technical College and K-State at Salina share their stories of successes, trials and tribulations, and great online learning ideas.

Dr. Joye Gordon

Joye Gordon is an associate professor at the A. Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University. Her research focuses primarily on risk communication. She holds a doctorate from Purdue University in the areas of public affairs and issue management. She has taught online courses for more than two years at K-State and has several pedagogical publications and presentations. Recently she presented "Click and brick: How to incorporate online Associated Press style instruction into a seated mass communications classroom" and "Internet Supported Teaching: Adding Click to Brick" at annual conferences of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.