Call for Presentations

The Call for Presentations is Now Closed.

All ANGEL customers are invited and encouraged to submit proposals to present at AUC ‘09. The Call for Presentations requests proposals in specified tracks for identified audiences and offers suggested session topics. The conference planning team encourages you, however, to propose presentations on any topic you feel will benefit your fellow ANGEL users.

 

The ANGEL User Conference Planning Team historically receives more presentation proposals than the conference schedule can accommodate. Presentation proposals that demonstrate successful ANGEL uses and implementations with supporting data (if applicable) will be given priority in the presentation selection process.

Proposal Guidelines

• All proposals must be submitted online.
• Proposals may be submitted by individuals or by a group of presenters.
• Presentations must be based one of the following versions: ANGEL LMS 7.2, 7.3, or 7.4; ANGEL ePortfolio 2.0 or 2.1.
• Deadline for submitting proposals has been extended to Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 11:59pm.
• All who submit proposals will be notified of proposal status no later than March 20th.

Accepted Presenter Requirements

• All presenters are required to submit a copy of their accepted presentation PowerPoint and a written narrative that describes the conference presentation no later than April 24th.
• Presenters must register and pay the registration fee for the conference.

Presentation Format Options

Breakout Sessions (45 Minutes) – Lecture-style presentations.  These sessions may be given by a single speaker or team that addresses high interest topics within the particular track.

How-To Hands-on Sessions (45 Minutes) – Sessions should be interactive, hands-on with content that can be covered within 45 minutes. Not suitable for sessions requiring specialized software that isn't widely available or can't be downloaded from the Internet. Pre-registration for these sessions will be required by attendees due to limited seating.

Poster – A poster session offers the opportunity to share information through informal, interactive, brief presentations. This format, with multiple sessions in the same room, gives attendees and presenters the opportunity to share and examine problems, issues, and solutions in a more casual, direct, one-on-one environment.

Track Descriptions

HE Teaching & Learning: Higher education faculty members this is your opportunity to demonstrate how you use the ANGEL LMS and ANGEL ePortfolio for teaching and learning as well as how ANGEL impacts your instructional methods, student interactions, learning outcomes management, and related topics. Suggested topics:

• Effective instructional use of ANGEL to increase learner performance
• Learning outcome management/standards and objectives
• Effective uses of ePortfolio
• Assessments, surveys and question banks
• Using agent technology
• Effective uses of ANGEL for Andragogy
• Personalized learning paths
• Effective teaching techniques for web-blended classes
• Moving past actions to agents
• Course design and delivery
• Effective uses of LORs and master courses

K12 Teaching & Learning: K12 community members this is your opportunity to demonstrate how you use the ANGEL LMS and ANGEL ePortfolio to impact instructional methods, student interactions, learning outcomes management, and related topics. Suggested topics:

• Integrating state standards
• Enhancing parent-school communication
• Facilitating professional development
• Delivering classes virtually, e.g., credit recovery and/or AP
• ANGEL use in K-4
• Developing 21st century skills
• Sharing content across curriculum
• Using ANGEL to save resources
• Effective uses of ePortfolio
• Differentiated instruction with ANGEL 
• Managing the classroom
• Home-bound schooling
• Preparing and planning course plans
• Using ANGEL as your portal

Instructional Design: Instructional Designers this is your opportunity present how you create instructional tools and content to help facilitate effective learning with the ANGEL LMS. Suggested topics:

• Effective course design for blended or virtual classes
• Designing courses for NCLB or accreditation
• How to drive personalized learning
• Accessibility for special needs students
• Lessons learned during an ANGEL implementation
• Engaging students
• Best practices for content distribution and control
• Assessment item management
• Approval workflow processes
• Facilitating professional development
• Delivering classes virtually, e.g., credit recovery and/or AP
• Sharing content across schools
• Developing effective assesments

Systems & Technology: ANGEL administrators and IT personnel this is your opportunity to present and demonstrate how you support, extend, manage and implement ANGEL products. Suggested topics:

• Optimization and tuning
• Effectively managing and sharing content
• Maintenance and monitoring
• Integrating ANGEL in the enterprise
• Back-up and disaster recovery
• Infrastructure design, configuration and scalability
• Security
• Lessons learned during an ANGEL implementation
• Term rollover policies
• Customizing and extending
• Change management: migration planning, the system upgrade process and best practices

Support & Training: All who support ANGEL or provide end-user training are invited to demonstrate the support and training processes and procedures that have proved effective in your educational environment. Suggested topics:

• Effectively bridging the communication from end-user to ANGEL support
• End user PC trouble shooting
• Rolling out ANGEL/Change management
• Strategies and planning techniques used for upgrading
• Effective communication plans to communicate with end-users
• Handling dual roles
• Promoting and training for LORs, agents and assessments
• Change management –lessons learned
• Using ANGEL to train on ANGEL 
• Best practices for rollover and achieving
• Monitoring ANGEL
• New student orientation/training
• Help desk support
• Uses of multimedia to train faculty
• Training ANGEL users
• Encourage and increase adoption rates

ANGEL Outside the Classroom: This track is designed to share the many ways community members find to implement ANGEL to extend the value of the software beyond the classroom and promote adoption. Suggested topics:

• Creative use of ANGEL groups
• Professional development
• Emergency contacting
• Staff training and collaboration
• Community outreach programs
• Incorporating parent involvement, e.g.; PTA
• Recruiting and placement evaluations
• Athletics programs
• Alumni associations

Hands-on How-To Sessions: This track is designed for ANGEL community members to demonstrate and present through step-by-step instructions.
Please note: Sessions should be interactive, hands-on with content that can be covered within 45 minutes. These are not suitable for sessions requiring specialized software that isn't widely available or can't be downloaded from the Internet.  Laptops will be provided for participants.  Limited seating available. Suggested topics:

• Building institutional surveys
• Designing themes
• Releasing content with agents
• Creating and repurposing nuggets
• Unique set-up of courses and course presentation
• Creating and using lesson plans
• Creating rubrics
• Integrating other technology
• How to set-up your semester
• Using SQL to manage your environment
• Building effective assessment with questions banks
• Upgrading to the ANGEL LMS 7.4 institutional hierarchy
• Aligning standards and objectives

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