Pre-conference Workshop 1
Investigating Portals
Presented by:
Bill Wilson, Director of Instructional Technology and Training
Gettysburg College

This pre-conference workshop will take attendees into the wonderful world of portals. Gettysburg College has had their portal, CNAV, in operation for three years. We will look at the services and audiences this portal provides as well as review data collected from over 1000 users or potential users of portals to see which services they feel are most important and what they would use most. We would also investigate the local work that must be considered as a campus starts to think about a portal product. We will also have access to a number of different portal products for attendees to have hands on lab time.

About the Presenter:

Bill Wilson has a PhD in Child and Developmental Psychology from the University of Connecticut and was an early adopter of computers in the classroom during his teaching years. He has been active in academic computing since 1979 when he became Coordinator of Academic Computing at Gettysburg College. He has held many positions while at Gettysburg, and he is currently Director of Instructional Technology and Training. Bill has been involved with ASCUE for over 15 years and has presented many papers and conducted a number of workshops for ASCUE.

Pre-Conference Workshop 2
Build Database-Driven Websites Using Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev
Presented By:
Janet Hurn, Miami University Middletown
Cheryl Reindl-Johnson, Wilmington College
Nancy Thibeault, Sinclair Community College

Do you want to add dynamic content to your Web pages without learning a complicated scripting language? Then Macromedia's Dreamweaver UtlraDev is for you! With UltraDev you can quickly and easily connect web pages to a database and create dynamic e-business web sites such as storefronts, directory listings, customer registrations, and tracking systems. UltraDev can also be used to keep your educational site more up to date. You can create web-based drill and practice applications, online quizzes, and more. UltraDev simplifies the process of developing customized web sites by automatically writing the Active Server Pages (ASP), JavaServer Pages (JSP), or Cold Fusion Mark Up Language (CFML) scripts that interact with a database to generate customized web pages that will run on any browser.

In this workshop participants will use UltraDev to create a dynamic web application that interacts with an Access database. Workshop exercises include: Basic web page formatting, UltraDev development environment, Database connections, Data source definition, Recordset creation, Write simple SQL statements, Add dynamic text to a page, Display database records, Build pages that search databases, Build pages that update database records.

About the Presenters: Janet Hurn is is a Physics Instructor and Co-Coordinator of the Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching with Technology at Miami University. She has also been co-cordinator of the annual technology fair and chair of the Retention Committee at the college. Her special area of interest is multimedia in Physics education.
Nancy Thibault is the Computer Services Manager at Sinclair Community College and the other Co-Coordinator of the Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching with Technology and annual technology fair at Miami University. Her special area of interest is Web/Database programming.
Cheryl Reindl-Johnson is the Evening College Coordinator for Wilmington College, a 4-year liberal arts institution in Wilmington, OH. She has worked in higher education for the past 14 years, and been involved in distance education and computer technology for the past 6 years. She earned her B.A. in International Business and Communication from Wilmington College in 1989, and her M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition from Miami University in 1993.

Pre-conference Workshop 3
Supporting Team-Based Instructional Design
Presented by:
Carol L. Smith, Coordinator of Faculty Instructional Technology Support,
Carl P. Singer, Director of Faculty Instructional Technology Support
Julianne M. Miranda, Coordinator of Instructional Technology, School of Music
DePauw University

In today's academe, supporting faculty members' instructional design projects, especially those involving new technologies and teaching methods, often demands a team with members of wide-ranging expertise and backgrounds¼. teacher, subject matter expert, instructional technologist, web designer, production manager, network administrator, assessment expert, etc. This means that team members must understand their roles and be able to work together to achieve the project goals.

This interactive workshop consists of presentations, discussions and activities through which participants will learn guidelines for managing and supporting different types of instructional design projects. It promotes a systematic approach to facilitating team projects and instructional design based on principles we have learned from case studies and several years of experience.

Topics include the stages of design and development, understanding and articulating project objectives, project management principles, roles of team members, and methods of assessment. Although we will focus on full-length projects as a point of study, we will also offer guidelines for applying these methods to walk-in consultations.

Faculty members, instructional technology support staff, and computer support staff, will benefit from this workshop. We especially welcome small teams to participate.

About the Presenters:
Carol Smith had been Coordinator of User Services and Computing Labs at DePauw University for five years when she changed her title to Coordinator of Faculty Instructional Technology Support. She spent six years at Indiana University in user support before coming to DePauw, where she is currently responsible for creating support mechanisms for all students, faculty and staff on campus. She is also part of a team which is developing a new faculty instructional support program at DePauw. Carol has presented papers and given tutorials on team-based methods for project management at two previous ASCUE Conferences.
Carl Singer has been Director of Academic Computing and Professor and Chair of Computer Science for many years. Along with regular duties, Carl has been actively involved in promoting effective and appropriate use of technology in teaching and learning. For the past several years Carl has successfully promoted the use of teams for problem solving and process inprovement. He has given workshops and consulted on team-based methods for project management at ASCUE Conferences and elsewhere.

Pre-conference Workshop 4
Mastering the Fundamentals of Photoshop
Presented by: Joanna Almasude, Fine Arts Center, Francis Marion University

Discover a cutting-edge imaging software. In just a half day, you will learn and understand the mystery of communication through graphics and images. With simple and yet powerful techniques, you will both appreciate the art of imaging and learn how to design eye-catching graphics for the web or multimedia products. In this workshop, we will cover:
1. Preparations needed (such as scratch, saving, memory) before one starts a project
2. Tools (Grids, guides, fade, CMYK, history)
3. Selection of Tools: pen, lasso, color range
4. Vignetting and soft transitions
5. How to correct images (adjusting color, fixing scratches, working with contrast and
backgrounds)

6. How to add creative treatment with focus, tricks, motion blur, depth of fields, filters, etc.
7. Layer effects, options, clipping groups, modes, collaging with layer masks
8. Layering textures, live type tool, working with Postscript, working with effects such as
chrome, glass, ~ plastic, lightning effects, shadows, etc.

About the Presenter:
JoAnna Almasude is a professional artist (BFA '91, MFA '93) exhibiting her digital and oil paintings, works on paper, and sculpture internationally. JoAnna Almasude has been working with digital graphic since 1990, and has been a digital designer for ARTWORK International Systems since 1998. She has developed and given many presentations, workshops and consultations dealing with various aspects of digital graphics and web based technology.

Pre-conference Workshop 5
Web Graphics and Animation
Presented by:
Jim Workman, Director of Information Technology,
Dwayne Stevens, Pikeville College

This three-hour hands-on workshop will provide an introduction to Macromedia Fireworks 4, a fast, flexible image editor designed for the unique needs of Web graphics. Fireworks combines bitmap- and vector-graphics tools with HTML-generation features that make short work of complex rollovers and image slicing. Fireworks' automation tools take the drudgery out of repetitive production chores, and its GIF and JPEG export modules ensure the best image quality at the smallest file sizes. Some of the topics to be included in the workshop are: creating and editing a vector image ( path tools, fills, strokes, objects, text), working with pixel-based images, optimizing graphics, slicing images, importing and exporting, image maps, rollovers, and animations. In addition, you will find out how Fireworks integrates seamlessly with all your favorite Web application tools including Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, and Adobe Photoshop.

About the Presenters:
Dwayne Stevens is the Webmaster at Pikeville College. He has been at Pikeville for four years now and this is his second year at ASCUE. Dwayne presented a paper at last year's conference and is for the first time presenting a workshop.
Jim Workman is the Director of Information Technology at Pikeville College. He has been at Pikeville for five years now and this is his fifth year at ASCUE. Jim has made presentations at the past two conferences and this is his first time as being a workshop presenter.