Category Archives: Conferences

Off the Beaten Path: A Pathway Model for Faculty & Staff
Co-Presented with Lynn Kanne
May 2019

Washington Annual Canvas Conference (WACC)
March 2019

Come learn how to create dynamic and esthetically pleasing Canvas pages to help students more effectively and efficiently navigate your course.

At the end of this sessions, participants will be able to

1. access Canvas Style Guide
2. create buttons to more effectively navigate within a page
3. develop page elements to help visually chunk and sequence course content.

National Cooperative Grocers’ HR Conference
October 2014

Come learn how Common Ground Food Co-op created a Human Resources Department that is digital and 98% paperless. This workshop will start with the basic structure needed for digital filing. Participants will also discuss security concerns and learn about different tools available for transitioning to a digital/paperless environment, such as e-signature software and commonly used Online Human Resource Management Systems. Demonstrations included.

Creating Change National Conference
January 2012

We’re back and still moving UP. Members of the UP Center find community connections vital to our success. Therefore, sharing our experiences and learning from others is what this workshop is about. If you are a small organization (or want to start one), this workshop is for you. Come learn strategies for developing community partnerships and planning large-scale events on a small budget. We will share templates and other resources with participants.

Online Teaching & Learning Conference
October 2011

The four phases of engagement as explained by Rita-Marie Conrad and Ana Donaldson lend themselves to a variety of fun technology tools. Engage your learners through audio, video, collaborative tools and more! Tool-masters Jonathan Finkelstein, Kevin Johnson, and Susan Manning will enliven your morning with a survey and demonstration of gadgets and gizmos that even beginners can use to enhance engagement and learning.

Wiley Learning Institute
October 2011

Through the use of social networking tools, individuals can share pictures, stories, experiences, and insights with the entire Internet community. How can you meet students where they are and harness the tools they are already using for academic purposes? In this workshop, technologists Manning and Johnson will define social networking and delve into discussions about and demonstrations of how some of the social networking tools can be used in an academic setting.

Wiley Learning Institute
October 2011

What do you get when you mix strategies for managing an online instructor’s workload using Conceição and Lehman’s four-step process with Manning and Johnson’s strategies for choosing technology tools to solve a problem? You get an amazingly useful session that introduces specific technology tools that help online instructor’s solve problems specific to managing their workload within the context of design, teaching, support, and time allocation. In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate specific technology tools that help solve problems specific to designing online courses, teaching online, supporting online instructors, and allocating the instructor’s time.

University of Illinois: Faculty Summer Institute
May 2011

Among the challenges for online instructors are two key questions: what technology tools should I use to support my teaching, and how I do this while keeping universal design in mind? This session will overview what we mean by universal design and how that relates to online education. We will then match technology tools to solving appropriate instructional problems with an eye to universal design.

Creating Change National Conference
January 2011

The UP Center of Champaign County is a new community center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning, and ally community in the Midwest. Within seven months of being incorporated as a nonprofit, The Center had developed twelve educational, support, and social programs, hosted the community’s first organized Pride Festival, and connected to over 20 local resources in order to serve the LGBT community needs better. This workshop provides attendees with the challenges we faced and shares some the successes we had in developing our center in order to help others wanting to develop similar initiatives. Come learn and share ideas for incorporating and structuring a community center, utilizing the Internet and social networking tools to promote your organization, and strategies for raising money.

Elgin Faculty Mentoring Conference
December 2010

Want to encourage quality course design in your online programs while promoting instructional strategies based on best practices? Join Kevin in this all-day workshop l distribute the rubric and attendees will participate in a discussion on how to use this tool to design, redesign, and/or evaluate online courses.

University of Illinois: Faculty Summer Institute
May 2010

If you followed a typical, white-collar American  worker for a day, you might be surprised at how many technology tools he uses and the degree to which he collaborates with others on the job. This session will step through the work lives of four such professionals.  We will then align their work practices with instructional strategies and tools we can use in the traditional, hybrid, or online classroom. Come prepared to collaboratively build an instructional matrix or skill set, tools, and instructional strategies.

Elgin Community College
March 2010

With so many technology tools out there, how do you know you which one is right for you? Do you simply use what everyone else is using, or do you spend hours, days, and/or weeks looking for that perfect tool? Join us as Kevin presents a matrix for reviewing, evaluating, and determining if a tool is the right one for your needs based on his new book The Technology Toolbelt for Teaching, coauthored with Dr. Susan Manning.

FETC National Conference
January 2010

Come explore technology tools that encourage communication and collaboration in the online environment.  Participants will get a firsthand look and demonstration of a variety of Kevin’s favorite technology tools.  Kevin will also present strategies for matching specific tools to your individual needs. 

Sloan-C International Conference
November 2007

If you followed a typical, white-collar American  worker for a day, you might be surprised at how many technology tools he uses and the degree to which he collaborates with others on the job. This session will step through the work lives of four such professionals.  We will then align their work practices with instructional strategies and tools we can use in the traditional, hybrid, or online classroom. Come prepared to collaboratively build an instructional matrix or skill set, tools, and instructional strategies.

Joliet Junior College
January 2007

This workshop will focus on how to encourage student-to-content, student-to-student, and student-to-instructor interaction using both asynchronous and synchronous tools in an online classroom.  Participants will be provided pedagogical rationales for activity choices as well as a set of templates to use within their own online classes.

South Korean College & University Instructors
July – August 2006, July – August 2005

The Illinois Online Network will provide fifteen days of instruction during which you will be exposed to topics such as the role of the instructor in online courses, instructional design and storyboarding online courses, the appropriate use of technology in online courses, and the assessment of student learning. This will be a hands-on workshop that will require you to interact with our instructors, critique courses, and design a model for your own online course.

University of Illinois: Faculty Summer Institute
May 2006

Want to measure the quality of your online courses? Join Kevin and members of ION’s QOCI Committee who worked hard to development an online course rubric. At this workshop, we will distribute the rubric and attendees will participate in a discussion on how to use this tool to design, redesign, and/or evaluate online courses.

University of Illinois: Faculty Summer Institute
May 2006

Think that team teaching online is impossible or more work than it’s worth? Come here how Susan Manning and Kevin Johnson have overcome obstacles, divided work, and maintained a united presence inside their course.

UNESCO (Beirut)
September 2005

This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge needed to create, manage and teach high quality, interactive, fully online or Web enhanced courses.  Participants design course syllabi and other documents that conform to best practices for online courses.  Learning activities will include presentations, discussions of important issues, exploration of example online courses, and hands on training with FrontPage. We’ll focus on the differences between traditional and online teaching and learning.  Guidelines for online course design will be based on educational research in student learning.  Microsoft FrontPage training will result in participants creating course documents that use good design principles.

University of Illinois: Faculty Summer Institute
May 2005

In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to utilize Elluminate’s features as moderators. Attendees will upload slides from PowerPoint, create breakout rooms, upload and push multimedia files, create online quizzes, poll participants, initiate a web tour, and more. Come learn the true meaning of having an online good time.

University of Illinois: Faculty Summer Institute
May 2005

This session will introduce future online instructors to designing and implementing online courses starting with strategies for transitioning from onground to online. Using Moodle as our Course Management System, we will look at elements of design in the areas of course organization, instructional design, and student support. Participants will leave this session with a Course Template they can use or reference upon returning to their campuses.

University of Illinois: Faculty Summer Institute
May 2005

Come learn how you can implement synchronous tools in your online classroom as another way to encourage communication and collaboration. In this workshop, we will discuss competencies and facilitation strategies for successfully implementing Chat, Audio Only, and Web Conferencing applications into your online classes. Attendees will participate in a chat and web conference session as a part of this fun and exciting program.

University of Illinois – Illinois Online Network
September 2006

This workshop will focus on basic syntax and a few basic tags every online instructor should know. If you use a CMS that allows you to create and or edit html type documents, this is the place for you. Come learn how to manipulate text (bold, underline, subscript, superscript, etc.), create hyperlinks, and create anchors to link to other sections of the same page.

University of Illinois – Illinois Online Network
June 2006

This Webinar will focus on providing online educators with an arsenal of free to “close to free” resources to use when teaching online. Resource topics will include blogs, wikis, audio editing, and more. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own list of resources to share.

University of Illinois – Illinois Online Network
April 2005

Want to find out more about your students but need some fun, new ideas to break the ice? Well, here’s your chance. This Live Webinar will provide a variety of asynchronous and synchronous icebreaker activities instructors can use in their online courses. Please bring ideas to share. The more the merrier. As one of the activities, we will offer an online art gallery. Participants who wish to contribute to the art gallery are encouraged to create a pictorial representation of themselves on a single slide in PowerPoint. Once you enter the session, you will be given instructions on how to upload your artwork to the gallery. Participation in the art gallery is not required to participate in this session.