Tagged as “instructional design”

According to the ThinkWorks website, Derek Cabrera, the company’s founder, believes, “We are preparing students for jobs that don't exist, that will use technology not yet invented, to solve unknown problems in a society we can only imagine."

Dr. Cabrera will be speaking on "Rethinking Education and...

A paper entitled, “Integrating Commercial Off-the-Shelf Video Games into School Curriculums,” co-authored by Dennis Charsky, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, has been published in the September/October 2008 issue of TechTrends, a publication of the Association...

Dennis Charsky, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, was an invited speaker at the Games in Education Symposium on August 18-19. Charsky’s presentation, entitled "A Framework of Integrating Games into the Classroom," was part of a panel on Learning Outcomes with Games.

The Games in...

Jessica Briskin ’09 is a communication management and design (CMD) major, concentrating in instructional technology, a professional field with great opportunities. She spent her summer in the Park School’s Los Angeles program, interning with two companies, one of which aligned perfectly with her career goals.

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Amanda Butts and Joshua Keniston are two of only ten Ithaca College seniors recognized in 2008 for their outstanding contributions to the IC community with the Campus Life Award, an award that is "a coveted goal and valued honor" according to Brian McAree, vice president for student affairs and campus life.

The first annual year-end celebration of the Strategic Communication Department was by all accounts, a fantastic success!  Replacing former program-centered events, the Strategic Communication  Banquet, Showcase, and Awards on May 1^st  highlighted the accomplishments of both communication management and design, and integrated marketing...

An article in the May 1^st Ithacan by Tricia L. Nadolny, “Class Revitalizes Historic Group with New Technology,” features the volunteer work of communication management and design seniors, Amanda...

Elise Kain '09 and Michelle Duffy '09 are CMD's newest members of the Lambda Pi Eta honor society. The society's mission is to recognize, foster and reward outstanding scholastic achievement in communication studies.  

Strategic Communication Department chair, Steve Seidman, awarded Kain her membership certificate at the ceremony on...

CMD seniors Julie Tausend and Nicole Zaehringer, and junior Jessica Briskin, along with faculty Diane Gayeski, Howard Kalman, and Dennis Charsky, attended the 2008 International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) Conference in New York City this spring.

"I couldn't have asked for...

The communication management and design (CMD) program was well represented at the 18^th annual  Educational Technology Day on March 27^th.  Jessica Briskin ’09 and assistant professors Dennis Charsky and Mary Lou Kish showcased their e-learning collaboration, in an exhibit called, ...

Gordon Rowland, professor in the communication management and design program and chair of the communications graduate program, will be giving an invited keynote address for the Design and Technology special interest group (SIG) at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2008 Annual Meeting March 27^th in New York City.

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Diane Gayeski, associate dean in the Park School and professor of strategic communication (CMD program), will be honored by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) with the prestigious Thomas F. Gilbert...

Three papers authored by communication management and design (CMD) students have been selected for presentation at the 22nd National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 22), April 10-12, 2008, at Salisbury University, in Salisbury, Maryland.  NCUR 22 will bring together undergraduates...

Julie Tausend '08 and Nicole Zaehringer '08 have been working at Ithaca's other premier institution of higher education—Cornell University. Specifically, they intern at eCornell, a university owned business which provides a comprehensive online, professional and executive development curriculum in the areas of strategy, leadership and management development,...

When Rachele Ceccorulli studied in Sevilla during her junior year in the Park school, she fell in love with Spain’s old world charm, and promised herself that she would return.  In October she delivered on the promise, landing a position as a...

Dennis Charsky created the winning logo for the Association for Educational Communications and Technology's (AECT) Teacher Education Division (TED) online community.

TED Live! 2007 is a member-generated e-newsletter of anything and everything related to TED during the 2007 AECT convention. It features robust RSS capabilities and will...

Dennis Charsky, assistant professor of communication management and design in the Department of Strategic Communication, recently attended the international convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology in Anaheim, California, and made two presentations: "Mini-games for E-Learning" and "Activities for Integrating Video Games...

Howard K. Kalman, assistant professor of communication management and design in the Department of Strategic Communication, participated in a panel presentation, "Best Practices for Teaching an Introductory Instructional Design Course," at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology conference in Anaheim, California, on October 25.

Steven Seidman, associate professor of communication management and design, and chair of the Department of Strategic Communication, presented his paper, "The Design of Nazi Election Posters, and American Advertising and Public Relations," at the 39th annual conference of the International Visual Literacy Association in Curitiba, Brazil, on October 10.

CMD junior Cornell Woodson spent his summer working with the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance, establishing a program known as the Circle of Friends. The necklace he proudly wears (pictured at right) is a training tool; each person who enters the Circle of Friends network receives one. ...

Three mini-courses were successfully offered during the spring 2007 semester. Leigh Hurst '92 facilitated Social Marketing Campaigns and Instructional Design on Feb. 23-25, 2007. This mini-course examined the use of traditional instructional design philosophies in...

Janet Williams '05 has been awarded a Fulbright grant to teach, study, and work in Spain for the 2005-2006 academic year. Janet will teach English as a foreign language at a Spanish public school, and...