Tuesday, April 15, 2008
“Welcome to the People’s Republic of Non-Programistan”
The New Media Consortium’s Symposium on Mashups, April 1-3, 2008
This online presentation pushed the boundaries of presentation and performance while exploring the possibilities of using open, portable and user-friendly tools for teaching and learning. Following is the session description:
The time for revolution is here! The tools are now in the hands of the people. We’ll focus on how to use the mashup as a way to both save time and create a more powerful products using free and easy tools like WordPress, Google Apps and MIT’s Simile project. Now is the time to rise up and end mindless drudgery. Come and be educated! Come and learn the tools that will mean your freedom!
Session website: http://bionicteaching.com/ihatecode
Co-presenter:
Tom Woodward, Academic Technology Consultant, University of Richmond
To view the archived version of this session in Adobe connect follow this link.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
“Don’t Call It a Blog, Call It Educational Publishing”
ACCS Conference of Virginia, March 14th, 2008
This presentation 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. Specifically, we described how the University of Mary Washington is using WordPress Multi-User to build an enterprise-level educational publishing platform, and how it has fundamentally transformed the online component of teaching and learning beyond the tools of the standard LMS. You can also take a look at the presentation website we created for this presentation here and/or listen to the audio from this session below.
Co-presenters:
Andy Rush, New Media Specialist, University of Mary Washington
Jerry Slezak, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington
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Monday, April 14, 2008
“Don’t call it a Blog, Call it an Educational Publishing Platform”
Northern Voice, February 22-24, 2008
Session 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? Or a place to feature a portfolio of students best work? Or a site where professors and staff track their professional and personal development? 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? What if blogging were no longer the focus as a keyword, and a publishing community was the crux of the process of development? What if faculty, staff, and students are given the ability to shape their online presence and frame their intellectual community alongside one another? What would be the nature of such a syndicated publishing architecture that could support such a change in the ways we think about teaching, learning, sharing, and archiving the academic work done on college campuses? This presentation will offer 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.”
Co-presenters:
Brian Lamb, Coordinator of Emerging technologies, University of British Columbia
D’Arcy Norman, Educational technology Developer, University of Calgary
Bill Fitzgerald, Project Lead and “proprietor”of OpenAcademic.org
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