Contact:
Elizabeth Blevins, Director, Office of Communications
Office: (740) 351-3810; FAX: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 464-4854
940 Second Street – Portsmouth, Ohio 45662
E-mail: eblevins@shawnee.edu 
Web site: www.shawnee.edu

            Shawnee State University will be hosting a Teaching and Learning Center Expo from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Friday, March 26 in the Flohr Lecture Hall.
            “During the past year, many of our faculty and staff have been expanding their approaches to teaching and learning and developing technical skills to better address the needs of 21st century learners at Shawnee State University,” Barbara Kunkle, professor of English, said.
            The expo will showcase 21st century knowledge and skills in both exhibits and short presentations geared to the entire university community.
            Exhibits and demonstrations by SSU faculty about their research and exploration of Web 2.0 technologies — including Elluminate, Screencast-O-Matic, Jing, YouTube, Yammer, microfilms and more, as well as reports from faculty who are presenting their work at the expo.
            Kunkle will give a presentation on Quality Matters, a certification process for quality in online instruction at 11:30 a.m.
            The keynote speaker for the expo will be head of the Health Sciences Copyright Office at The Ohio State University Medical Center, Anne Gilliland. Gilliland’s presentation, “Copyright: Issues for Universities Today,” will begin at noon.
            “My talk is intended to educate and give information about copyright, not to be legal advice,” Gilliland said.
            Gilliland who is both a lawyer and librarian is the former assistant director of OhioLink where she was employed for 15 years.
            “Everyone in higher education both creates and uses copyrighted work in teaching, presentations, and in communicating with others,” Gilliland said. “The Internet, social software, and all kinds of digital media have made that creation and are easier to use, but they have also made the legal issues and social issues more complex.”
            Gilliland will cover practical copyright information for all university employees.
            The Expo is free and open to the public. Both students and faculty are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be available.
            For more information, call Mary Cummings at (740) 351-3461 or e-mail mcummings@shawnee.edu or call Kunkle at (740) 351-3739 or e-mail bkunkle@shawnee.edu.