Announcing the 2nd annual InstructureCon
Save the date: June 14th & 15th, Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah
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InstructureCon 2012 Schedule
(attendees may participate in any session)

June 14th
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 Keynote Presentation - Josh Coates (CEO Instructure)
10:00 - 10:30
Level Up - Canvas as an Educational Gaming Platform - Gerol Petruzella (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts) Fast Track to Canvas Implementation - Brenda Frieden and Susan Dellasega (Pittsburg State University) Visualizing Data from Canvas - Seth Gurell (Utah Valley University) Navigating the Maze of Canvas and Google Apps - Merea Bridges, Elizabeth Joyce, Cheryl Yeatts (Rockingham County Schools)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
Organization Can Set You Free: A Look at Managing the Gradebook - Annette Moulder (Salt Lake Community College) Piloting and Navigating Our Way to Quality Courses - Georglyn Davidson (Bucks County Community College) ABC's of SIS Imports - Cody Cutrer (Instructure) If Content is King, Shouldn't it be Rich? - Sue Evans (SoftChalk)
11:30 - 12:00
Killing PowerPoint: Effective Online Lectures Using Canvas Tools - Rebekah Grow (TACC-IMS, University of Utah) Beyond Lecture Capture: Using Panopto for Student Recording, Event Webcasting, and More - Eric Burns (Panopto) Breeding Tigers: Building On What Canvas Can Do For Your Power Users - Neal Legler (Utah State University) Process as Product: LMS Community Engagement in the Selection Process - Catherine Zabriskie, Hong T. Chau, Wendy Drexler (Brown University)
12:00 - 12:50 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 General Session
1:40 - 2:10
How to Keep a Faculty Journal: A Guide for Educators - Chris "Choffman" Hoffman (Westminster College) Seamlessley Incorporating Learning Outcomes into Online Course Design - Linda S. Ralston, Ph.D. & Lin Zhang (University of Utah) Implementing Canvas Open Source - Christopher Bennell (OCAD University) Making It Easy To Get Content Into Canvas - Curtiss Barnes (Cengage)
2:20 - 2:50
How ESC Uses Canvas for More than Just Courses - Melissa Rizzuto and Dobin Anderson (Edison State College) Always Be Smarter than the People that Call You - Amy Carpenter - (Utah State University) Using Mobile, Like a Boss - Mark Suman (Instructure) Canvas K-12, Unify Your Staff With One Central Technology - Mike Kisow (Instructure)
2:50 - 3:10 Coffee Break
3:10 - 3:40
"A Tremor in the Source" - The Canvas Documentation Partner Program - Allison Brown & Michelle Allgood (Instructure) Track Student Performance with Clickers - Todd Pinney (Turning Technologies) Canvas and Sungard Banner Integration - Enrique Cardenas (New Mexico State University) Integrated Communication - the Human Touch - Ron Schilling & Donna Gaudet (Scottsdale Community College)
3:50 - 4:20
In-Class and Synchronous LMS Use for Just-In-Time Teaching - Michael A. Caulfield (Keene State College) Training Models for Successful Canvas Adoption - Aimee McAlpine (Massasoit Community College) New Feature Showcase - Devlin Daley (Instructure) Respondus & Canvas: Take Quizzing to the Next Level - Nick Laboda (Respondus)
4:30 - 5:00
Easy to Build, Easy to Maintain, Easy to Update--Building Courses in Canvas - Kevin Reeve (Utah State University) Expanding your Course with LTI and Other Cool Stuff - Bracken Mosbacker (Instructure) Supporting Foreign Language Learning Using Canvas - Carlos Alarco (Utah Valley University) The Selection Process: How We Chose Canvas - Kathy Craig (Creighton University)
5:30 - 8:30 Dinner and Reception
7:00 - 10:00 Hack Night
June 15th
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 Keynote Presentation - TBA
10:00 - 10:30
Department Evaluations in Canvas - Robbie Grant (New Mexico State University) How to Win Friends and Influence Canvas Users - Matt McGhie (Instructure) Canvasian - Learning a New Language - Laura Lawrence and Dr. Laura Reza (Alamo Colleges-NLC, NVC) Canvas Solutions for Pearson MyLabs and Mastering - Charles Ward and Andy Hall (Pearson)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
Building the Canvas Cloud for Uptime and Awesome - Benji Edmund (Instructure) Engaging Grade 7-12 Students: Online Courses with Canvas - Patrick Colclough (Granite Connect) Depth Perception: Identifying Quality Posts in Online Discussions - Carrie Saarinen (Brown University) Outworld, In Canvas: Leveraging and Integrating Blogs - Jared Stein (Instructure)
11:30 - 12:00
A Self-Guided Tutorial for Effective Course Design - Beverly Brehl, Ph.D. and Nate Sanders (University of Utah) The New Era of Digital Content Integration - Erin Davis (McGraw-Hill) External LTI Tools for Proctored Testing Environments - Jihoon Yoo (TACC@ The University of Utah) A Beginner's Guide: The Canvas Revolution, What Will Be On Your Canvas? - Troy J. Hahn (Auburn University)
12:00 - 12:50 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 General Session - Lightning Talks
1:40 - 2:10
Accreditation? Oh Right, That Silly Thing - Outcomes - John Louviere (Utah State University) Maximizing Publisher Resources within Canvas - Pamela Hill, Ed.D. (Alamo Colleges: San Antonio College) API: Easy as 123. Using the Canvas API for Fun and Profit. - Zach Pendleton (Instructure) Migrating from Bb Vista to Canvas: The Utah Consortium Story - Scott Allen (Utah Education Network)
2:20 - 2:50
Managing Mobile Expectations in Online Learning - Rick Murch-Shafer (Creighton University) If We Only Knew! Lessons Learned in Our Move to Canvas from Blackboard - Lisa Frazier (Great Basin College) Banner to Canvas via Luminis Demystified - Blake Rich (Utah State University) Leveraging the Power of Media in Instructional Technology: An Introduction to the ShareStream Video Platform and Video Extension for Canvas - David Weinstein and Gayraud Townsend (ShareStream)
2:50 - 3:10 Coffee Break
3:10 - 3:40
Using Canvas to Create Community in Online Courses - Daniel L. Randall (Brigham Young University) Exploring the Efficacy of Online ASL Instruction Using Canvas - Curt Radford and Neal Legler (Utah State University) Magical, Practical OER Remix - Justin Ball, Seth Gurell, David Wiley (OER Glue) 7 Lessons for Managing Extremely Large Courses on Canvas (ELCs) - Ben Adams, MSE (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
3:50 - 4:20
Everybody Wants to Be a CAT: Introducing the Canvas Authorized Trainer program - Allison Weiss (Instructure) Celebrating Student Support, Documentation, and Retention - Tera Ulbert, M.Ed. and Kim Munzo (Ross College) Beyond the Level of Course: Canvas as a “Digital Habitat” - Donna H. Ziegenfuss (University of Utah) Reading in Canvas - Elizabeth Joyce, Merea Bridges, Cheryl Yeatts (Rockingham County Schools)
5:00 - 8:00 Dinner and Reception

Schedule subject to change

Grand Summit Hotel
Room rates
Hotel or Studio Guestroom - $119 plus tax
One Bedroom Residence Suite - $159 plus tax
Two Bedroom Residence Suite - $199 plus tax
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To book your room

Visit canyonsresort.com/instructure.html or call 1-888-CANYONS and mention you are with the Instructure group.