CTELT Newsletter Fort Hays State University

New Staff | Articulate Presenter Case Study | Professional Conferences

New Staff

We are excited to have two new additions to CTELT in the fall: Dr. Robert Luehrs and Dr. Hong Wang. Dr. Luehrs, a retired professor from the History Department at FHSU, joined CTELT as Teaching Excellence Coordinator. He will be a consultant with faculty members who wish to improve teaching techniques.
Dr. Wang, who has just finished her PhD in curriculum and instruction specializing in educational computing, design and online learning at Kansas State University, joined FHSU as Assistant Director of the Virtual College and Coordinator of CTELT. As Coordinator of CTELT, she coordinates faculty professional development programs, designs projects, supervises CTELT staff, and manages CTELT budget.

Articulate Presenter Case Study

For the past semester, CTELT has been offering training on a new tool called Articulate Presenter, which allows faculty to deliver PowerPoint lectures to students through Blackboard. This software has proved to be very popular among FHSU faculty and we are seeing a fast adoption rate. Fort Hays State University was the first educational institution in the country to sign a site license agreement with Articulate, and this prompted the company to write a case study about FHSU's adoption of their flagship product. Click the FHSU logo at http://www.articulate.com/company_clients.html to download the PDF file for the in-depth case study.

Professional Conferences

Dennis King chaired the Kan-Ed Central Region's Delegate Assembly and attended the Kan-Ed Re-imagineWorkshop in June. He has been Chair of the Kan-Ed Central Region's Delegate Assembly for the past three years.

Dennis King attended the Colleague-to-Colleague Summer Institute on Distance Learning (Sidlit) August 3-4 in Kansas City, Kansas, where he chaired the awards committee and assumed the role of the organization’s Vice Chair.

Martin Kollman attended Increasing Success for Underserved Students: Redesigning Introductory Course Seminar sponsored by EDUCAUSE January 28th in Orlando, Florida. He participated in roundtable events with experienced faculty from many institutions about how their redesign decisions led to greater student learning. He also learned how to design learning environments using technology that will increase student success by tapping the expertise of those who have done it.

Martin Kollman attended Summer Institute on Distance Learning August 3-4 in Kansas City, Kansas, an annual conference sponsored by Colleague to Colleague (C2C) and the Kansas Digital Learning Advisory Council for Higher Education (KANDL). He attended presentations, topic-oriented special interest discussion groups, hands-on workshops, and demonstrations.

Hong Wang attended World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education June 27-July 2 in Montreal, Canada, where she presented a paper entitled “A Case Study of Faculty Roles and Teaching Strategies in Web-Based Instruction.” She also attended presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions on a variety of topics on instructional technology and e-learning.