CFP: Creating a Paperless Campus (5/10/05; SAMLA, 11/4/05-11/6/05)

Greetings! At the November 2005 SAMLA, I am chairing a special session titled, "Creating the Paperless Campus." If you are interested in participating on the panel, please e-mail me at cbutcher_at_shorter.edu. The deadline is May 10th, 2005, for 15-20-minute proposals, and if your proposal is accepted, you would need to be a member of SAMLA by June 1, 2005 (not July 1st, please note). Last year I created my own website with blog at www.carmenbutcher.com, and it has been well-received by my technologically-savvy Korean students. (I am a Fulbright Lecturer at Seoul's Sogang University for a year.) Also, my website has saved me much time. A personal site is obviously always a work-in-progress, and that also generates much excitement for me as a teacher/scholar. There are more ways to improve always. I would like this session to explore those ever-expanding ways college and university professors can make our campuses ripe with technology (even on shoestring budgets) and fe!
 cund with communication. At Sogang University the use of technology in the classroom has also been stupendous and effective. Every classroom has a wide range of technology (that always works), and all the teacher has to do is create handouts beforehand and then download them onto the web and retrieve them in class. I have also been able to direct students in class (by simply clicking) to websites that have photos and other interactive information. I find that students love the Internet and will happily offer their expertise at this point. My handouts and web presence have been greatly strengthened by student input. Sogang University requires professors to post their syllabi on the web, and communication here is more effective because everyone is wired. Eighty-year-olds carry cell phones that also work as credit cards, and they know how to use them. The same goes for five-year-olds. America seems slow to change and long to ponder such technological advances, but Kor!
 eans are in the forefront of this new wave of technological co!
 mmunicat
ion. Did you know, for example, that Seoul has greater broadband width than California's Silicon Valley? I would like to the session to discuss cutting-edge classroom technology and also what anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of the Net can do. Other topics might include how to help students surf the Net intelligently--how to vet sites. Please e-mail me your short proposal (some 500 words or less) to cbutcher_at_shorter.edu, and, again, the deadline is May 10th. Thanks! I look forward to hearing your sinewy ideas! Best wishes, Carmen
 
Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Fulbright Scholar
Sogang University
Department of English
113 Xavier Hall
Seoul, Korea 121-754
(822) 705-8303
www.carmenbutcher.com

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