PRE-WORKSHOP TUTORIALS

WEDNESDAY

JUNE 28, 2000

The location of the Pre-workshop tutorials will be posted in the hotel and on the Web site, best to check for last minute changes. Workshops are open to non-workshop registrants after June 1 depending on availability. An additional fee of $50/ full day and $25/half day will be charged to non-registrants except to University of Utah staff. We reserve the option of canceling workshops with fewer than six registrants.

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m WWW Online Courseware Development & Delivery Tools: Comparisons & Contrasts. ($85 with lunch) Panel/Demo. Preregistration Required. Cost to workshop non-registrants is $110. Marriott Library Room 1725.

INSTRUCTOR: Paul E. Burrows, KUED Media Solutions, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Who Should Attend: Beginners and experts who are investigating Web-based curriculum development and delivery for a course or institution. Save time selecting a “package” by taking advantage of the experts who have worked with different course development and administration management packages. Find out how usable and modifiable they are.

Synopsis: Strengths, weaknesses, and a comparison of Blackboard, WebCT, and Lotus Learning Space will be discussed. Update yourself on the competitive and expanding training and eLearning environments. Participants are encouraged to submit or bring questions as well as contribute their experiences with other development tools they have used. Internet demonstrations of courses built with each of these tools will be included. This is NOT a teaching session, it is a comparison session. It is designed to assist course directors and institutions in selecting the best tools for Web-course development.

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Automating the Evaluation Process: From Form Design to Results Reporting. ($150 with lunch). Hands-on. Limit 32. Preregistration Required. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $200. Marriott Library Room 1745.

INSTRUCTOR: Richard Rathe, Associate Dean for Information Technology and Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. with assistance from Nancy Lombardo, Eccles Library.

Who Should Attend: This workshop is intended for educators, administrators and support staff who must evaluate programs, faculty, and students. Participants should have a basic knowledge of Web browsers and text editors. Familiarity with spreadsheet and presentation software is helpful but not required. No computer programming or HTML authoring skills are required.

Synopsis: This workshop will start with issues of evaluation and examination online. The class will learn to use EvalCGI and the Evaluator's Tool Kit (both programs are free to participants) by building a functional evaluation Web site during the sessions. Exercises include: form definition, form security, submission tracking, item analysis, data manipulation, and results reporting. Both tools have data export functions for use with spreadsheets, databases and presentation software. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring prepared materials such as paper forms you would like to begin using online. Contact: rrathe@ufl.edu with questions.

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Producing and Using Quicktime Virtual Reality in Medical Education. ($150 with lunch) Preregistration Required. Limit 30. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $200. Marriott Library Room 1715.

INSTRUCTORS: Jens Dørup, Section for Health Informatics, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Robert B. Trelease, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles and Gary L. Nieder, Department of Anatomy, Wright State Univ., School of Medicine, Dayton, OH.

Who Should Attend: Those curious about using QTVR to make “movies.” Basic computer skills required (Mac or PC). We recommend for workshop participants to read/bring: Susan Kitchen's book,"The Quicktime VR Book".

Synopsis: A practical hands-on session where you will produce QTVR movies, as well as capture images for a simple panorama and object QTVR movie. Topics include: preparation of images, use of QTVR Authoring Studio (Mac), VR Toolbox (Mac/PC) and other tools to produce 3D object movies and zoom in panoramas for visualization. Use of the macropanorama technique for visualizing small anatomic spaces. Produce virtual bones and joints, a virtual microscope or virtual MR scanner and put it on the web for your students. Multiple examples will be shown.

9:00 a.m. –4:30 p.m. XML - An Overview of eXtensible Markup Language. Limited to 10. ($150 with lunch). Preregistration Required. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $200. Marriott Library Room 304B

INSTRUCTOR: Chris Candler, University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK.

Prerequisites: A working knowledge of HTML is strongly recommended.

Synopsis: Participants will be presented with an overview of XML 1.0 and the XML family of standards as a way to structure information. Like HTML, XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a new subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). HTML is more of a page layout language. XML permits user defined discipline-specific tags to give meaning to content. XML has the ability to separate style from data, which will allow media-independent portability (e.g., CD-ROM, hard copy, PDA). In these ways XML will bring more features to the Web as it provides a more powerful framework to visualize, manage and share information. Advantages include more precise searching and more advanced linking within and among courses. When fully implemented across the curriculum it will allow schools to better understand the information they are teaching by revealing discrepancies, duplications, and new relationships between courses and topics.

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Introduction to ASP: Building Interactive, Database-Driven Web Applications. ($150 with lunch). Limit 14. Hands-on. Preregistration Required. Cost to non-registrants is $200. Computer Lab, Eccles Health Science Library, lower level.

INSTRUCTORS: Sharon Dennis and Susan Roberts, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library

Prerequisites: Intermediate knowledge of HTML is REQUIRED; you should have experience hand-coding HTML pages and understand the code, even if you have used a WYSIWYG editor. You should be able to code an HTML form or to quickly pick up on the coding; forms coding will be assumed and not explained in detail. Some experience with a scripting language such as HyperCard or JavaScript is recommended, but not necessary. Windows PCs only.

Synopsis: Are you interested in adding more interactivity to your educational Web sites? Using Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology, you can build interactive, dynamic, database-driven Web applications. This makes updating and maintaining your content much easier and less time consuming than manually editing static pages so your content stays "fresh" and interesting for your students. Learn how to move from creating Web "pages" to creating Web "applications”. For more details see the Web abstract.

1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Cognitive Issues in Information Representation and Graphic Design ($75) Lecture/Demo. Preregistration Required. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $100. Marriott Library Room 1725.

INSTRUCTOR: William G. Cole, PhD, Information Design Seattle, Seattle, WA

Who Should Attend: No previous experience is required to benefit from this workshop. Dr. Cole has ten years experience delivering tutorials and workshops that help people understand what works (graphic design principles) and why (cognitive psychology research).

Synopsis: Information design is an emerging multidisciplinary field drawing on several core disciplines, including graphic design, cognitive psychology, statistics, philosophy, semiotics, and linguistics. Very few people are well versed in these core disciplines or in the new multidisciplinary field, yet in health care today many of us are called upon to design human-computer interfaces, Web sites, or multimedia education modules. This workshop covers information design in health care with an emphasis on cognitive psychology research and principles of graphic design. Case studies will be presented from the instructor’s experience as a consultant. Attendees are invited to apply lessons learned during the workshop to the improvement of sample designs.

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Computer Testing: Use of LXR Software to Create Questions Banks and Examinations. ($75) Hands On. Preregistration Required. Limit 18. Cost to non-workshop registrants is $100. Computer Lab, Eccles Health Sciences Library, lower level.

INSTRUCTOR: Larry J. Fabry, Applied Measurement Research, Lenexa, KA and Timothy Fitzharris, Medical University of South Carolina.

Prerequisites: None, only basic computer literacy.

Synopsis: Create and manage question banks for standard written paper exams, as well as online exams using a server or individual computer. Learn how to use commercially available software in a variety of question formats, catalog questions for grouping, analysis and sorting by type and multiple version tests. Import questions from a word processor as well as photos, charts and line drawings. Scoring of exams online will be demonstrated, as well as the creation of grade books by direct importing of test results into standard spreadsheet software.

Wednesday Evening

No-host dinner for users and those interested in PDA’s or other handheld devices.

Coordinated by Elise Eisenberg, NYU

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