Course Development Summer Institute Professional Development

Theme: "Low" Technology In Instruction

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The 2002 T3 Summer Institute will be held Tuesday, May 28 - Friday, June 7. Sixteen faculty have been selected to participate in the 9-day event focused on applications of technology to support instruction.

This first annual Summer Institute is designed to introduce instructional technologies and applications. Institute activities will consist of group seminars as well as individually prepared discipline-focused projects that are based on the technology theme.

This summer's institute will be geared toward those who do not consider themselves as experts with technology, but rather as novices willing to learn and experiment with the application of technology that is new to them.

Topics include hands-on applications such as PowerPoint, Groupwise, and Blackboard; discussion topics such as effective instructional design and increasing student participation and hardware use such as the electronic classroom and scanners.

Dr. W. Terry Whisnant
A native of North Carolina, Terry now resides outside Richmond, Virginia and is President of Horizon Seminars, a conference presentation and workshop company specializing in leadership, motivation, team management, and self-improvement seminars. Terry has personally conducted over 500 such presentations to business, industry, and public service agencies during the past 25 years.   Continued...

Terry will be presenting two programs at the 2002 Summer Institute: "Communication Skills for the Hard of Listening" and "Learning Styles and Teaching Strategies: A Match made in . . .the classroom"

Greg Cook
Greg has been an Instructional Technologist at Blue Ridge Community College since 1997 and managed a variety of information technology, instructional technology, and distance learning departments at TCC before that. With a healthy and ongoing suspicion of technology, he works with faculty to humanely incorporate various technologies into instruction.

Greg will be spending an hour or so discussing the incorporation of "low-tech" tools in teaching both in the Distance Learning and hybrid or blended-learning environments.