Presentations

Fall 2008

NMC’s Rock the Academy Conference, November, 6th, 2008

  • “The Revolution will be Syndicated”, co-presented with Tom Woodward, involved some virtual performance art in an effort to “revolutionize” how we imagine web-based publishing in education. A more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the session coming soon.

EDUCAUSE 2008, October, 29th, 2008

  • “Don’t Call It a Blog, Call It an Educational Publishing Platform,” co-presented with Gardner Campbell, offered an alternative means of conceptualizing how university networks might approach supporting teaching and learning technologies by designing their online publishing systems around an RSS-rich aggregation system of open syndication, rather than closed, labyrinth-like repositories and learning management systems that seldom, if ever, see the light of day. A more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the session coming soon.

Open Education 2008, September, 25th, 2008

  • “Radical Reuse,” co-presented with Brian Lamb, combined practical demonstration with web-based provocation. We examined the components for powerful, scalable personal learning environments using open source tools and formats that allow for near-limitless recombination of content and components. For a more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links from the session click here.

Spring 2008

EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, June 2-4, 2008

  • “Supporting Faculty Adoption of Emerging Technologies: Wanderlust or Creating a Campus Roadmap?,” with co-panelists Gardner Campbell, Jean Ann Derco, and Dolly Young, explored the relationship between faculty and instructional technologists, offering unique campus perspectives on adopting emerging technologies. A more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the session coming soon.
  • “Data-Rich Blogging in the Undergraduate Science Lab,” co-presented with Steve Gallik, examined the creation of a syndicated lab notebook for a Cell Biology course. A more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the session coming soon.

University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy, May 13-14th, 2008

  • “UMW Blogs Begins,” co-presented with Gardner Campbell and Andy Rush, frames the history of how the UMW community has used a blogging platform to foster collaboration, interaction, and an enaged learning community around the academic work happening on campus. For a more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the session click here.
  • “Why Wikipedia?,” co-presented with Mara Scanlon, examined some interesting questions and issues surrounding the academy’s role in creating and shaping the content that people will be accessing on Wikipedia. Should colleges and universities be contributing to this global resource of information? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks? For a more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the session click here.
  • “Raiding the Archive” examines the innumerable cultural resources available for teaching and learning online. Using the Internet Archives as one example, this presentation explores the wide array of documents, videos, music, and images freely available online that may be of use in the classroom. For a more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the session click here.

NMC’s Symposium on Mashups, April 3, 2008

  • “Welcome to the People’s Republic of Non-Programistan,” co-presented with Tom Woodward, was an online presentation that explored the possibilities of using open, portable and user-friendly tools for teaching and learning. For a more in-depth description, the presentation site, and links to a recording of the online session click here.

ACCS of Virginia Conference, March 14, 2008

  • “Don’t Call It a Blog, Call It Educational Publishing,” co-presented with Andy Rush and Jerry Slezak, offered an alternative means of conceptualizing how university networks might approach supporting teaching and learning technologies by designing their online publishing systems around an RSS-rich aggregation system of open syndication, rather than closed repositories and Learning Management Systems (LMS) that seldom, if ever, allow or enable communication outside the walls of the course. For a more in-depth description, presentation resources, and audio from the talk click here.

Northern Voice, February 24, 2008

  • “Don’t Call it a Blog, Call it an Educational Publishing Platform,” co-presented with Brian Lamb, Bill Fitzgerald, and D’Arcy Norman, poses a series of questions about how we might re-imagine the role of instructional technology within academia. From the abstract: “What if we didn’t understand what we do in education with blogs as blogging but as a quick and easy way to publish online within a learning community?…What if we understood ‘campus blogging initiatives’ as a community publishing platform to share, learn, and integrate various resources from around the web into a more specific community?” For a more in-depth description and audio from the presentation click here.

Fall 2007

CUNY IT Conference, November 30, 2007

  • “Open Source, Open Learning, Open Communities: Exploring Alternatives to Blackboard.” This panel treats three uses of open-source tools, beginning with Baruch’s cac.cophany, a blog which has allowed the Schwartz Institute to share its work with local and global audiences. Next is a CUNY Online new-media studies course in which students used open-source tools in their collaborative writing and research projects. Finally, we consider an innovative blogging initiative at UMW which has brought an entire institution into conversation with itself and the world.

Learning by Design, November 9th, 2007

  • “‘Small Pieces Loosely Joined’: Open-Source Possibilities for Course Redesign” explored how open-source applications can help shape and sustain vital communities of learning. We discussed collaborative research/learning management systems such as Sakai; blogging platforms such as WordPress Multi-User; social networking applications such as Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter; web-hosting options both on- and off site; and other innovative practices that center on emerging technologies.

Open Education Conference, September 27, 2007

  • “Out of Print: Building a Digital Environment for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship,” co-presented with D’Arcy Norman, framed out the creation of a web-based, Open Content educational resource for Early American literature, along with a series of documentation/support materials to enable others to easily and effectively create their own using freely available tools and services. For audio and web resources from this presentation go here.

Spring 2007

University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy, 2007

  • “‘Small Pieces Loosely Joined’: Web 2.0 Learning Environments at UMW” discusses some of the innovations and issues involved in recent courses at UMW using a multi-user blog solution. Read more here.
  • “Monster M*A*S*U*P*S” outlines the conceptualizations of a mashup as they relate to the mission of higher education. The presentation examines mashups as an artistic and interpretive practices used to re-imagine a course management system. Read more here.
  • “Hey, You Got Your Folksonomic Tags in My Semantic Web!” examines the potential possibilities of re-thinking the relationship between social tagging and the semantic web. With particular interest paid to questions of information resources such as informal and formal taxonomies as they relate to issues of organizing, searching, and re-combining data from various applications. Read more here.

(MAC) Learning Environments Conference

  • “Open, Social, Connected” reviews emerging tools and trends in instructional technology. My portion of the presentation focused specifically on creating hybrid applications that recombine the functionality of blogs and wikis. Read more here.

ACCS of Virginia Conference, 2007

  • “Needles, Haystacks and Omnivores: Finding and Consuming Information through Social Tagging and the Semantic Web” examines the ways in which folksonomic tagging and the semantic web can work together to make a more intelligent, searchable environment for web-based teaching and learning tool at the University of Mary Washington. Read more here.

The New Media Consortium’s Web Video Convergence Online Conference

  • “Web 2.0 Online Learning Film Festival” presents some exciting educational applications of web video as well as imagining the possibilities for wed-based multimedia in education given the emergence of an unprecedented accessibility to these resources over the least two years. Read more here.
  • “Vapers: Video Papers and the Future of Composition at the University” imagines the possible role of multimedia authoring in higher education providing an annotated list of online multimedia resources. Including image sharing sites, archival resources, as well as free online audio and video editing applications. Read more here.

Northern Voice

  • “More than Just a Blog!” explains how open source applications such as WordPress and Drupal offer educational institutions a lot more than simply a blogging platform. This discussion is part of a larger push to provide colleges and universities with powerful and free web-based tools that allow for easy and accessible authoring on the internet. Read more here.

Educause Learning Initiative Annual Conference

  • “Notes Towards an Open (Source) University” presented at the ELI 2007 annual conference focuses on the questions surrounding where innovation has gone in the era of proprietary Course Management Systems (CMS) over the past decade, and what colleges and universities have to gain by exploring the potential of open-source tools. Read more here.

Fall 2006

City University of New York IT Conference

  • “Keeping the University Open,” presented at the 2006 CUNY IT Conference, focuses upon specific ways of incorporating open source applications into the toolkit of teaching and learning technologies.

Museums and the New Web (Seminar)

Spring 2006

University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy, 2006

  • “A Fantastico Expedition: Massive Web Innovation on $6.95 a Month,” this presentation discusses the possibilities that affordable, off-site web hosting offers instructional technologies at a small, liberal arts college like the University of Mary Washington. Read more here.

ACCS of Virginia Conference, 2006

  • “Bluehost: A Fantastico Expedition,” this presentation focuses upon the grand experiment at UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies which has efficiently introduced open source tools into the campus environment by means of affordable, off-site web hosting. Read more here.