Day two of the Seminars on Academic Community conference in lovely Snowmass…. I am reflecting that conferencing blogging is tiring work for me… Yesterday, in the morning keynote session, I was sharing note writing with Cyprien Lomas in a shared space of SubEthaEdit. We both talked later about how that experience played out- we were […]
What Are We Playing At
What it means to integrate games into the curriculum and why we should
Richard Van Eck
University of North Dakota
Presentation and Game Analysis Packet available
http://idt.und.edu/
A good session with a sound approach to Game-Based Learning, look for resources from the presentation. Good discussion form the audience. Bottom line- games are interesting, have great potential, yet we have a huge educational struggle to soundly integrate without trying to produce at the level of commercial games- recommendation is to integrate rather than create.
Principles of Distributed Representation
Stephen Downes
“Not another metadata talk” he promises…. since Stephen puts his presentations online, and I saw him turn on Audacity to record his own session, I am bowing out of taking copious notes (well no, I changed my mind, see below)
While the intros are going, Stephen has a nice slide show of his photos from a visit to Aspen.
Before the notes, it’s worth saying that Stephen in person is how he is in hos written work – deeply thoughtful, self effacing, sarcastic, humorous, challenging…) also in his presentation, note the use of references and information just published yesterday.
And Stephen was on spot- challenging us, saying boldly what is crap and what is not… curious to hear from others how it was heard.
Onto a few notes (Cyprien Lomas was taking more detailed notes than I, but trying to do it together in SubEthaEdit, we ended up stomping on each other…)
Open Source in Education- Evolving the IT Marketplace
Bernadine Chuck Fong (President, Foothills College)
Chris Coppola (President, rSmart)
One sentence summary: Open source is good, happening, the game of institutional software is evolving.
Open Courseware and the Emerging Global Meta University
Charles M. Vest
Persident Emeritus, MIT
Seminars on Academic Computing
Claire Maple Address
(Notes via collaborative SubEthaEdit session with Cyprien Lomas- I had never done this- it is very effective but tiring!)
flickr foto Another Conference Bagavailable on my flickr Another satchel bites the dust For me, the worst part about registering at a conference is when they hand you over the conference bag. Yechhhh. The only comfort is that 300, 1000, 6000 other participants are stuck with the same appendege. Out of 12 years in this […]
On the first leg of my flight from Phoenix to Aspen, I’ve listened to Malcolm Gladwell’s ITConversations podcast on Human Nature. Author of the popular Blink and Tipping Point books, Malcolm Gladwell seems in voice to to find a great way to bring about data, research, and human nature to an interesting place. In this […]
I’ve got time on my hands in the Phoenix Airport. My short flight in the small commuter jet to Aspen is delayed because… ahem.. one of the crew has now shown up yet. Yikes. Beyond munching on over priced food that one does not really need, and not wanting to read your magazine not wanting […]
Just found Yet Another Social Bookmark Tool- BlinkList offers site marking and tagging: BlinkList is a tool that allows you to create a mental map of the internet of sites that are important to you. It’s a bookmarking manager designed to work in the same way your brain stores data and thinks about things. When […]
Whew! The guys down in the power department apparently flicked the switch on for Maricopa’s internet connection, (though email is still pending, but who the spam pile?). Wow, almost 28 hours without blogging, I almost have the shakes 😉 While the blog was down, I came across the wildly dynamic Vox Delicii , Michal Migurski’s […]
