cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog For many reasons it was exciting today to visit with friends and former colleagies at the Maricopa Community Colleges, visiting Scottsdale Community College today for a fantastic format idea for an event they came up with for TechTalks 13. It is vaguely familair to some guy named Ted, without the red logo and the staunch requirements. This was the baby and brainchild of Charles Pflanz, a series of 10 18 minute talks, and a refreshing change from the usualy conference format. Instead of th eusualy keynote and shuttling off to breakout rooms, the audience of 200+ stayed as one in the Performing Arts Center. Another really nice touch was having the opening and closing sessions be ones by SCC students. There were talks on filmmaking, gaming, MOOCs, online teaching, 3D printing, and the amazing closer on midi / guitar [...]
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Two Months On the Lam
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by woodleywonderworks It has been a little over two months since I left the building at the NMC, two months of not working, not getting a paycheck. How is it? If you’ve been around me lately, you know my new favorite theme song. If you are not a reader of this here blog, then you don’t know the story. If you are affiliated somehow with the NMC, then all you know is that, in an unusual break from my pattern the last 5 years working there, I’ve not blasted you with email nor been part of a webinar nor posted anything on their web sites. Beyond that, my presence is only an absence. I’ll refrain from saying much more, but lest you miss something between the lines, let me say that sometimes taking the high road is a PITA when others decide [...]
(see the full barking...)Gearing Up for TCC 2005 Keynote
Next week, April 19-21, is the 10th annual Teaching, Colleges, Community (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference, or affectionately known as “the online conference from Hawaii where you do not get to go to Hawaii”. I’m ramping up to deliver a live keynote session on April 21 (see below). The theme this 10th anniversary year is “Looking Back Toward the Future”: Since the 1970s, the impact of educational technology has been relentless and ever changing. What can we learn from our past? What’s hot and what’s not? Where are we going? What would we like to see? Through your experiences, we ask that you remind us, guide us, and help us navigate towards the future. Join us on our 10th anniversary of the TCC Worldwide Online Conference to share your expertise, experiences and knowledge relevant to the use of information technology in learning, teaching and academic services. This event will also be [...]
(see the full barking...)The Kiwi Workshop Brigade
I’m about halfway through my three week visit to Auckland New Zealand for an ambitious series of workshops at several schools here, and am bouncing between my regular CogDogBlog and its flipped over variant here CogDog(kiwi)Blog as well as two (or more) flickr sites. I may be losing track of where I leave my dribbles of ideas. One thing that has gone well has been providing all of my workshop materials and presentations in wiki format. For one thing, the “quick quick” comes in handy for producing them minutes before a session starts. But more than that, I have tried to give participants a good amount of hands on in the wiki activities, and from the feedback I overhear, there will be a level of interest/demand for access to wikis after I leave. I got a chance to dabble more with UseMod settings, and tweaked some to allow me to [...]
(see the full barking...)Post-Blog Wrap of of PhotoBlogging Presentation
Well I think it went well. You just are not 100% sure doing an online presentation who is snoring at the other end. But we had some good discussion and some folks finally popped some images to a Conference PhotoBlog– oops, I forgot the context. Last week, I presented “Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images” for the Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference. It was a half baked idea when I proposed it in December, as I had not even tried nor had access to a mobile telephone capable of posting images. But I had been playing around with FotoLog and Buzznet, and had even gotten Robert Burget, an adjunct art/computer photographics instructor at Chandler-Gilbert Community College to try using Buzznet this semester for his students to post examples of their work. See his experiences blogged as Testing the Waters and his shared Buzznet Gallery for his [...]
(see the full barking...)Pachy-ing it Up in The City
Doing double duty with the Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference (Tues-Thursday) and a Pachyderm Project meeting in San Francisco (Wed-Friday). I read today in a tourist mag, that only out of towners refer to this place as “Frisco” or “San Fran” and that the proper local name is “San Francisco” or “The City”. The New Media Consortium has assembled an awesome group of educational and museum collaborators to build what should be a revolutionary tool for building elegant content from learning objects. Maricopa is not an official member on the grant funded projects, I am just riding on the coat-tails of others, standing on the shoulders of giants, etc. The past few months has been a torrid pitch of developing user scenarios, converting them to requirements, and sorting through all of that to reach the specs for the software. The final requirements docs are more than 100 pages [...]
(see the full barking...)Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference
The Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference is 2/3 over, with one more day of events tomorrow. I’ve had less then available time to participate for reasons to be blogged below, but leave it to say, I am representing Arizona at a virtual conference hosted in Hawaii while I am at a meeting in San Francisco. The platform for TCC2004 is the Learning Times site and I have to see it is a well designed and organized site for a conference. The major hurdle for international online conferences is getting the right time for synchronous events, and LT handles this nicely (although their time zone menu preference lacks an option for Arizona, which as an oddball entity, dies not follow daylight savings time, so we bounce between 2 time zones). LT also does some automatic relating of content from different parts of the site, and allows participants to attach [...]
(see the full barking...)TCC2004 PhotoBlog Taking Off
My presentation on PhotoBlogging at the Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference is inching along- tomorrow is the big sprint to wrap up all the audio for the Breeze Presentation. Biff is out of town, so I will have to wing it alone. I have a tape of digitized audio from a group of students I interviewed who are using Buzznet in their photo-imaging course this semester. There are some great views on this technology in their audio. I am asking conference attendees, after seeing the presentation, to upload via email or mobile phone, and image of themselves “where they sit” for accessing the conference. To seed the pot, I have been asking friends and colleagues (and now anyone reading this post) to contribute an image, even if they will not be participating in the conference. It looks like the Ozzies and the Kiwis are taking the lead, [...]
(see the full barking...)Coming To a Browser Near You: 2 Presentations on PhotoBlogging
I have two presentations looming for the April 20-22 Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference, both related to creating online content out of primarily digital images. The wraps are still up, the ink is wet, and the typos run freely, but it is falling into place nicely. I am fishing for some folks that might be interesting in testing my set up and posting a few images, so if you really have nothing better to do this week, and do not mind posting a picture of yourself in the place you do computer work, just let me know. Mostly done is “Students Communicating Visually: Publishing Digital Photos with the jClicker Slide Show” about the use of our jClicker slide show template by a class of computer graphics / digital photography students. Well heck, that one is pretty much done, so go ahead and take a peek. Just do [...]
(see the full barking...)Blogs Quiet on the Western Front
The cogdog has been busy, and hopes to be back barking soon. As a reprieve of insane early heat and sun in Phoenix (97 in late March is a bit much, and early), we have enjoyed a rare outbreak of weather with a few days of major, very much needed rain. Up here in my mountain escape, we got more than 2 inches in 3 days, almost more than we have received since January 2004. But enough weather blab. I am in a bind getting three presentations lined up for the April 20-22 Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference. One is on using our simple web slide show template, the jClicker, for student art presentations, another on “photoblogging” (so in learning more I am having to bum colleague’s mobile phones that have picture taking capability), and a roundup of some Maricopa faculty to “share stories around the digital [...]
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