Internet, Multimedia and E-Business Conference

Conference Events for June 25, 2004

Continental Breakfast and Sign-in: 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. in Upper Level of College Community Center
(Building B)
Welcome by Dr. Andrew Jones: 8:30 a.m. in Recital Hall in Humanities and Arts Building (Building E)

Presentations:

10:00-10:50	P11	Meet the Author and Book Signing -- Marc Prensky, Author, Digital Game-Based Learning (All) (J-202) Come to meet our keynote speaker, purchase his book, and have him sign your book.
	P12	Word of Mouse: Marketing the Clicks -- Rosemarie Cramer, CCBC Essex (All) (J-208) A customer's online experience is just a mouse click away from venturing onto another site. In this roundtable we will discuss the major benefits of e-marketing CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and how marketers can provide online CRM solutions as a means of attracting and keeping customers. We will also share ideas on how Web sites use the Internet for advertising, marketing public relations, sales promotions, and direct marketing.
11:00-11:50	P13	Successfully Using an Online Presence to Support a Face-to-Face Course -- Veronica Noone, CCBC Catonsville (All) (J-202) Teaching, especially teaching technology driven subjects, should incorporate any tool that aids in student success. Why not use the web as an organizer and secondary source of information for your students? This is a non-technical presentation, focusing on ideas rather than "how to's", and exploring methods currently used by the presenter for her face-to-face courses.
	P14	How to Have a Career in Computer Game Development -- Kathleen Harmeyer, CCBC Essex (New) (J-208) Learn how to guide your students to a rewarding and fun career. This session describes the opportunities for employment in the computer game industry, academic opportunities for the requisite degree, and outlook for the seemingly recession-proof computer game industry. Handouts will be provided.
1:00 - 1:50	P15	Modeling, Simulation and Data Visualization Technologies for Entertainment, Military, and Training Applications -- Christopher David Clark, BreakAway, Ltd. (All) (J-202) The citizens of the modern world are becoming digital natives. They process data in ways remarkably different than their parents and grandparents. Standards of pedagogy must change in order to train these new learners in a way that they understand. What if you could -- use the learning tools that they want to use? Create learning tools micro-adaptive to the learner? Increase knowledge retention? Track and measure whether learning has taken place? The modern world has also become a more dangerous place requiring our military, state and local governments, and citizenry to become more aware and prepared to deal with new threats. What if you could create tools that -- enable us to better defend our homes, communities, and country? Contain simulated humans that learn, and communicate with each other and with you? Track ideologies, people, and objects as they move through a population? Show the ripple effects of a political or military action? Game technologies and design principles are the answer to what ifs!
	P16	Using an Electronic Bulletin Board to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills -- Wayne Alt, CCBC Essex (All) (J-208) Philosophers rely on logic to establish their conclusions. So it is important for introductory students to be able to identify arguments, distinguish conclusions from premises, inductive from deductive, and sound from merely valid. But acquiring these skills requires practice, an opportunity to make mistakes, timely non-punitive correction, and immediate rewards for success. All of these requirements can be met with extra credit bulletin board exercises.
	P19	Multimedia Success Stories -- Kathleen Harmeyer, CCBC Essex (All) (J-200) Showcase of Perfect Little Programs (PLPs) produced by students from the Internet & Multimedia Technology Program at CCBC. They will answer questions about the production of multimedia applications they created for faculty and staff members in need for a solution of a difficult concept.
2:00 - 2:50	P17	Building Your Business Online and Using Open-Source Products -- Elias Darraj, E-Global Interactive, Inc. (All) (J-202) This presentation will provide small businesses with insight on how to start their business online. Other topics will include protecting your business online, computer security, using alternative products to save money.
	P18	Filling in the Learning Cracks with Multimedia Spackle -- Roseanne Hofmann, Linda Moulton and Pat Rahmlow, Montgomery County C.C., PA (New) (J-208) Faculty from different disciplines have collaborated to develop short multimedia learning objects which can be used in other disciplines to "shore-up" cracks in the students' background knowledge and skills. The presentation will describe the process of selecting the topics, storyboarding the delivery, creating the learning object and making the object available across the disciplines. The learning objects shared will be from computer science and mathematics. The transferability of these learning objects to other seemingly unrelated disciplines will be discussed.
	P20	Student Designed Games -- Mike Ziegler, CCBC Essex Student (All) (J-200) Showcase of games produced by students from the Simulation and Digital Entertainment Program at CCBC. They will answer questions about the production of their games.

Workshops:

10:00 - 12:00	C1	Introduction to PDA Programming via Caslsoft's IDE -- Dr. Lawrence Muller, LaGuardia C.C./CUNY (All) (J-201) This workshop will introduce programming for the Palm and Pocket PC using Caslsoft's high-level scripting language and its development environment (www.caslsoft.com). The workshop will start with a general overview of PDA programming, then proceed to Caslsoft's IDE, where attendees will explore its features and develop some simple programs (e.g., Helloworld), and examine a game program.
	C2	Using Viewlet Builder to Add Tutorials to Your Online Course -- Anne Comins, CCBC Essex (New) (J-204) Learn how Viewlet Builder can be used to create tutorials for your online class. In this session you will create an online tutorial that includes screen shots and images, sounds, text balloons, and annotations. You will also see how to upload the tutorial to an online course.
	C3	Image Manipulation and Preparation for the Web -- Todd Abramovitz, CCBC Essex (All) (J-228) This workshop will look at methods for making detailed selections in Photoshop to manipulate images. The session will include managing layers, using the marquee tools, crop tool, and keyboard management. The final output of files created in this workshop will be produced for web output. Be prepared to use the digital camera or scanner to create digital files for manipulation. Participants may want to bring their own images to prepare for specific uses.
	C4	Making GIF Animations -- Gary Kaiser, CCBC Catonsville (All) (J-200) This workshop will introduce some of the basic skills for making GIF animations. Programs used will be Adobe Illustrator and CoffeeCup GIF Animator.
1:00 - 3:00	D1	Instructional Images, Purpose to Production -- Todd Abramovitz, CCBC Essex (All) (J-204) This workshop will use a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Snag-It, to produce images for educational purposes. Photographic images bring you closer to reality, but when is a simplistic rendering or a part of an image more effective in conveying a message or focus to a concept? This workshop will evaluate image purpose and apply techniques in graphics applications to render effective educational images.
	D2	Not a Programmer? Let Me Introduce You to Visual Basic.NET -- Ric Pavese, CCBC Essex (New) (J-201) You will be introduced to the Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and walk through the creation of a Visual Basic.NET project. We will employ a variety of objects such as Labels, Textboxes, Radio Buttons, Check Boxes, etc.; and introduce the use of variables to create a simple order entry form. This workshop assumes no prior programming experience.
	D3	Creating Animated GIFs for the Artistically Challenged -- Norman Smith, CCBC Essex (Intermediate) (J-228) Participants will be introduced to the techniques of creating animated gifs, using prepared art materials and Photoshop/Image Ready. They will create 3 pieces of work: using Clip-Art; using presenter prepared artwork; using artwork collected from the web.

Poster Sessions and Publisher/Vendor Exhibits: 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m., Upper Lobby of College Community Center (Building B)

Grace Hopper Scholars Program for Women in Computer Science -- Barbara Leitherer and Project Team, CCBC Essex This program is designed to prepare women for success in required mathematics courses, build their confidence, create awareness of careers in computer science, and emphasize the impact women can make in this vital field. By offering solutions to acknowledged barriers, the focus is to demonstrate whether the key to attracting more women to the field of computer science lies in support for rigorous mathematics training, multiple applied learning opportunities, or female role models and mentors. The Community College of Baltimore County's Role in Information Security Education -- Casey O'Brien, CCBC Essex The CCBC Network Security Certificate program is a four-course sequence designed to provide the knowledge and skills needed to create a comprehensive incident-response plan, analyze security vulnerabilities, and implement the equipment, policies and procedures that protect a network and its related resources from unauthorized intrusion, information damage, or theft. Behaving ethically, writing policies and procedures, securing operating systems, installing and administering contemporary intrusion detection systems and firewalls, implementing network defenses and countermeasures, responding to intrusions, and utilizing system-wide, multi-layered, compliance-based approaches are emphasized. CSEM Scholarships - Who Receives Them? -- Sylvia Sorkin, CCBC Essex Over a period of two and a half years, 73 students at CCBC and 6 students at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland received NSF-funded Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships, generally for $3,125 a year. Come see the award criteria, graduation and transfer rates, and major programs for these students. Pick up a brochure for a new CSEM Scholarship program now pending funding. IMMT's Simulation and Digital Entertainment Program -- Kathleen Harmeyer, CCBC Essex At the special request of the game development industry in Hunt Valley, MD CCBC and Univeristy of Baltimore teamed up to design a new degree program for creating games for entertainment, advertising and learning. This session showcases student work, curriculum items and information about the rapidly growing computer game industry. Instructional Multimedia Institutes for Science, Math and Technology -- Sylvia Sorkin, CCBC Essex Secondary school and college educators in science, math, and technology have participated in intensive two-week summer institutes to create and share Multimedia Learning Activities for classroom use. See what they've created using Dreamweaver, SnagIt, Photoshop Elements2, and Flash. The CCBC E-Business Program -- Anne Comins, CCBC Essex Stop by the E-Business Program exhibit to learn about CCBC’s online E-Business Program. Learn how this industry-driven statewide program is fully online, transferable, affordable, and flexible. Find out about the E-Business courses that are now being offered and the degree and certificate options this program provides. CCBC Admissions Office -- Linda KaiKai, CCBC Essex CCBC Admissions and Enrollment Information. Learn more about CCBC admissions and enrollment how-to's.

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