Catherine Stephens
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Instructional Technology Services
School of Education
Room 118, Teacher Education Building
225 North Mills Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: cstephens@education.wisc.edu
Phone:
http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/
Responsibilities include providing instructional technology support and design consulting to SoE faculty, coordination of the MERIT course related instruction and outreach efforts, outreach work with key campus partners and area schools. I also help guide faculty in the navigation of technology support at UW-Madison.
- TEL - Technology Enhanced Learning.
- Help and assistance with Learn@UW (Desire2Learn), Moodle; help with instructional design and organization of online content.
- Explorations into new elearning trends into the classroom (social networking tools, simulation tools, wikis, blogs, podcasting).
- SoE staff support tied to Engage project grants.
- Learning opportunities for technology integration into curriculum.
- Consultation to bring new approaches to learning to your classroom: where to begin.
- Tapping sources for online K-12 curriculum.
- Collection development in the area of educational technology in education.
- MERIT online news
BA, UW-Madison, English, 1982
Teacher Certification, UW-Platteville, 1984
Masters in Education with Instructional Technology emphasis, Edgewood College, 2000
Workshops and course-integrated work:
Teaching and Learning with Second Life
Introduction to Learn@UW
Exploring Concept Maps in T&L
Introduction to Moodle
Learning Objects in Education: an Emerging Resource
For copies of materials, see Instruction resources posted online.
Service and Outreach Activities
May 2009, LessonShare: A Community-Building Resource for Faculty and Teaching Staff, 2009 Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW-Madison, Madison, WI.
May 2009, Designing Learning Experiences with Second Life, 2009 Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW-Madison, Madison, WI.
May 2009, "Teaching and Learning in Second Life: On the ground stories", Future Technologies Conference 2009, WisNet, Madison, WI.
April 2009, "Supporting Learning in Second Life", 2009 Annual WAAL Conference, Green Lake, WI.
February 2009, "Teaching and Learning on the UW-Madison Island in Second Life", Emerging Trends in Educational Technology, ComETS event, UW-Madison.
November 2008, WLA Annual Conference - Building a Better Tomorrow. "Supporting Learning in Virtual Worlds", panel participant speaking about "School of Education Support for Second Life and Critique It".
December 2007, Coordinated and facilitated ComETS Emerging Trends and Cool Class Cases, Madison, WI. Link to Videocast.
December 2007, Coordinated Art 356 student art exhibition in Second Life with Professor Michael Connors.
July 2007, Participation in Educause Learning Technology Leadership Institute, Madison, WI.
June 2007, "Second Life - the big picture view for education", featured at the 2007 Teaching and Learning Symposium.
May 2007, NMC Teacher Buzz, studio tour and overview of the Virtual Design Process and class activities in Second Life, hosted by Professor Michael Connors and Catherine Stephens.
April 2007, ComETS Emerging Trends Mashup, sponsored by ComETS.
December 2006 - Social Networking: Building Community Online, an overview of "Technology Integration for Teachers and Learners" MSPE online course. ePedagogy session sponsored by DoIT, ComETS, and the Teaching Academy.
December 2006 - Second Life Panel presentation, sponsored by the ComETS SIG on Simulations & Gaming
November 2006 - Innovative Models Supporting Faculty Endeavors, Thinking Outside the CMS Box, CIC Learning Technology Conference, University of Minnesota.
May 2006 - Designing Informal Learning Spaces, May Teaching & Learning Symposium
March 2006 - Designing Web-based Tutorials Delivered at Point of Need, WEMA conference.
August 2005 - Lessons Learned from a VCOP (ComETS), 2005 D2L User Conference, Madison, WI
June 2005 - Offered Exploring Concept Maps in T&L to Summer Institute on Teaching and Learning, sponsored by the Teaching Academy.
November 2004 - "Shifting Gears: Merging Information Technology & Literacy", Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference
June 2004 - "Partnerships to Develop a Shared Vision of
Online Resource Management" presentation offered at NECC, New Orleans, LA.
June 2004 - participated in the Summer Institute on Teaching and Learning, sponsored by the Teaching Academy, UW Madison.
April 2004 - "Let's Play MetaTag" presentation offered at WEMA conference, Madison, WI
January 2004—May 2004 - “Let’s Play MetaTag” – Leadership and Planning for collaboration and team work between area school districts and University to develop professional development around learning objects.
http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/metatag
December 2003 - Offered presentation to highlight collaboration efforts between CIMC and MMSD, including description of upcoming “Let’s Play MetaTag” for WiscNet Online Professional Development Forum in Madison.
October 2003 - An Exploration in Classroom Interactive Technologies, GWETC conference, La Crosse.
April 2003 - Interactive Technologies for the Classroom: Tools for Student Engagement presented at WEMA, Milwaukee.
March 2003 – “Teaching and Learning Online” – Five week professional development course offered online to area school districts through “Dane County Online Learning Consortium.”
Academic Staff Mentoring Program
ComETS (Community of Educational Technology Support)
SoE Committee on Outreach and Services
Learning Through Story
Office of Equity and Diversity Advisory Committee
MSPE (Masters in Science for Professional Educators) Planning committee
Moodle Council, Chair
UW Madison Virtual Worlds Support Group
Member of Choral Union, UW-Madison. For concert information, click here.
September 2005 - Special commendation from the Academic Staff Executive Committee for “leadership and community work with Atwood Community Center to provide housing, support and friendship for 12 individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina.”