The Academic Technologist: June 2005 - CSU Center for Distributed Learning

CATS Outstanding Professional Award Winners!

The entire CATS community congratulates the following members, all winners of the 2005 CATS Outstanding Professional Awards. They are pictured above in the following order.

Doug Borcoman, CSU Dominguez Hills
Judy Swanson, CSU Channel Islands
Michael Penney, Humboldt State University
Paul Nozicka and Harish Chakravarthy, San Jose State University (team award)

Beta Test VOILA!

CDL unveiled the VOILA authoring tool at the 2005 CATS conference in March. This tool allows non-technical authors to produce video-based lessons that can be accessed through the web. Step-by-step instructions make this easy to use, and an organized author can produce a simple lesson within two hours. Lessons can include text, images, video, audio, charts, and tables.

This tool was adapted from the Light Bridge project. You can visit the Light Bridge site to see how they used the tool.

If you are interested in joining our beta testers, please contact Kathleen Willbanks.

CSU, Chico Named NMC "Center of Excellence"

CSU, Chico received The "Center of Excellence" award at the annual NMC Conference, which was held in Honolulu, June 15-18. Kathy Fernandes, Director of Academic Technologies, and Claudine Franquet, Information Technology Consultant, accepted the much-deserved award before 400 attendees. The Academic Technologies department has a long history of involvement with CATS, back to day-one, in fact. Congratulations to the entire department!

Do You Know the Way to Monterey?

The 9th annual CATS Conference will be held at CSU Monterey Bay March 20 - 22, and there are ways that you can help ensure another successful event. You can

•Provide Input Send it to the suggestion box.
•Join the Planning Team 9 positions currently available - which one do you want to grab?

Read about the positions and how you personally can have an impact!

Joan Van Duzer and Kathy Muñoz Win Blackboard Prize

Our very own Joan Van Duzer (Humboldt) and Kathy Muñoz, a faculty member, recently won Blackboard's international competition, "Bbionic Course Contest." Way to go, Joan!

Read about the course they developed in the press release from HSU.

Blogging to Document Class Activities

Candace Egan teaches Interactive media Design at CSU Fresno. During Spring semester, the class experimented with the production of a Web documentary. In order to document the process and progress of the class, she experimented with reporting their activities using a blog. Go to the class "blogspot" to read about what went on during the course.

Professional Announcements

Riley Quarles has been appointed HSU's Interim Manager of Instructional Media Services. Go, Riley!

CSUS's Teaching Using Technology (TuT) Summer 2005

CSU Sacramento's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) believes that teaching using technology creates learning opportunities for faculty members to embrace their changing role from “the sage on the stage” to “the guide on the side.” Toward that end, the CTL began addressing the challenges of technological support for teaching and learning in 2000 by offering faculty-driven Teaching Using Technology (TuT) Summer Institutes. This article submitted by Arthur Shmarak.

Read the full article.

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