The 5th annual Jossey-Bass Online Teaching & Learning (OTL) Conference ONLINE will equip educators and administrators just learning the intricacies of online course design, development, instruction, and assessment with a comprehensive understanding of 'the WHAT' and 'the HOW' of online teaching & learning.
You'll learn both the concepts and the real-life applications and tools, directly from the experts in the field - everything you need to build a foundation for success.
TED, a nonprofit organization that produces a popular annual conference on ideas, is launching TED-Ed, an online collection of lessons it hopes will bring the best educators to any classroom with an Internet connection.(march 2012)
iFree Skype Recorder is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for recording Skype voice conversations. You can free use it to record Skype2Skype / SkypeOut / SkypeIn / Skype Conference calls.
Higher education conferences over the past few years have been
full of presentations, papers and panels on the processes
involved in migrating a campus and its people to Google Apps
for Education. While it is useful to hear about marketing
tchotchkes, data validation, and the pros and cons of web clients,
what seems to get ignored is the process that led to the decision
to move to Google Apps in the first place. At North Carolina
State University, where students were already using Google
Apps, the decision to move employees involved almost as much
time, effort and heartache as the technical migration. As the
users saw it, they had a working system, even if that system only
worked because of huge expenditures of time and money both
on the backend server maintenance and the client need to
implement terribly complex workarounds for simple
functionality. The end result: a 94-page white paper and the
realization that it's hard to sell ice to Eskimos1
, even if you
show them that their ice has already melted. This paper and
presentation will discuss the information gathering and needs
assessment done by NC State prior to the decision to move
employees to Google Apps, and the successes and difficulties
involved.
Explore iStream…the League's web-based, multimedia portal where faculty, staff, administration, and students find quick solutions for research and reference needs using the latest web 2.0 technology. An iStream subscription provides everyone at your campus access to videos, articles, publications, and learning programs, along with the best of the League's conferences, services, partnerships, and collaborative communities.
Minding the Gap: Social Media Revolution Education Evolution - Presentation at Directors of Educational Technology / California Higher Education conference, San Diego, Dec 2010
Using Twitter at social media conferences has become a great way to do just that. But Twitter isn't appropriate for every situation.
Your audience isn't on Twitter.You don't want the discussion to be public.You need to see only relevent updates.That's where TodaysMeet comes in. TodaysMeet gives you an isolated room where you can see only what you need to see, and your audience doesn't need to learn any new tools like hash tags to keep everything together.
recently attended a conference session featuring Keith Sawyer. In addition to being a jazz pianist (a musical collaborator), Sawyer is an expert on the effectiveness of group efforts. His presentation focused on what has been and potentially can be accomplished through collaboration, but he hinted that just getting people into groups is not the answer.
Participants will collaboratively build a set of shared online resources as they gain knowledge and skills to help faculty integrate technology. In each activity, groups will develop materials as Google Docs that will be immediately available to all. Participants don't need to be wizards but should be familiar with digital learning tools. Each participant must bring a laptop and should be able to create and edit Google Docs. The intended audience includes instructional technologists and technology integration specialists.
Power to the People! Jennifer Ditkoff, Keene State College
Give students the power to guide their own education. Using Wallwisher an instructor gains insight on student needs and opens up a classroom discussion. After library instruction short tutorials are posted on Voicethread. Students experiment with the concepts, actively participating in assessing their own research efforts, as well as their classmates. Students have control over their own learning experience and can revisit the course materials throughout the semester to add content, ask questions, and receive feedback. Diigo is used rather than a static handout. Students provide links to helpful materials for their peers, highlighting the community aspect of ongoing education.
Jennifer Ditkoff has worked in academic, public and medical libraries, learning every type of classification system, including the elusive Cutter system. When she is not troubleshooting electronic resources, she teaches information literacy, staffs the reference desk, and shows up early to committee meetings. She enjoys learning about new technologies.