http://cogdogblog.com/best/ Presentations and materials from our dog and pony appearances around the globe (and up your alley). en-us cogdogblog@gmail.com Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:45:00 -0600 http://www.nmc.org/lab/pachytips06/ My 3 Pachyderm Tricks as part of a panel session for the 2006 Pachyderm Users Conference in Austin. The three things included Breaking out of the Square IMage Box, Evening out Sound with the Levelator, and Tricking out a Hotspot Screen. The whole presentation is even done with Pachyderm! Wed, 7 Nov 2006 3:45:00 -0600 http://www.slideshare.net/cogdog/nmc-20-the-content-is-you/ Co-presented with Tom Hapgood, this was for the 206 NMC Fall Regional Conference at Trinity Univeristy, San Antonio Texas. We presented ideas and exaples of sites inspiring us in the development of NMC's new web site. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:00:00 -0700 http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/k12online06 A keynote for the 2006 K12 Online Conference. Here, I am trying to demonstrate some lesser known things that you can do with common web tools or some specialized web tools that do things that would perhaps spark the interest of an educator. The only requirement is it must be completely free to use... Thu, 25 May 2006 11:00:00 -0700 http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/nau06/keynote.html A keynote co-presented with Brian Lamb (UBC) for the Northern Arizona University's e-Learning Institute. Not your run of the mill, start here, end there PowerPoint! Our session was steered via a bunch of resources we had assembled into a "tag cloud" od web sites bookmarked in del.icio.us. Thu, 25 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/NauWorkshop A workshop co-presented with Brian Lamb (UBC) for the Northern Arizona University's e-Learning Institute. Participants experienced first hand the notions of tagging, folksonomy, etc with the tools of del.icio.us and flickr, ultimately producing a collective tag cloud of social software web sites. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:00:00 -0700 http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/PodcastOnTheCheap Presented at the NMC Online Conference on Personal Broadcasting. This session covers ways to go from idea to published podcast using all free web tools including OurMedia, Blogger, Feedburner, and Odeo. Before rushing into the "how," it's important to brainstorm some "whys" and "whats" for effective ways teachers and students can use and produce audio content. The presenter will draw on his experiences at Maricopa Community Colleges to provoke some ideas on where education can go with podcasting – while leaving the hype behind. Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:30:00 -0700 http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/podcasting Invited demos for faculty and staff at GateWay Community College (and repeated 2 days later at Glendale Community College). Podcasting... what's it all about? Do I need an iPod? (no). Do I need expensive software? (no). Can I easily create my own content? (oh yes) Are there interesting resources I can use right away in my courses? (definitely). This is a introduction to some of the things that can be done now (February 2006, it may all change in a month) with the audio and now video technologies that can be automatically delivered to your desktop computer and then optionally deployed to a digital audio player. Sit back as we try to cut through the hype and get to something that might be useful for you. Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:00:00 -0700 http://fishtacos.notlong.com/ EDUCAUSE ELI Annual Conference (San Diego)- copresented with Brian Lamb. As Weblogging matures, the supporting technology and techniques become more sophisticated, from online diaries to powerful social networking and Web publishing tools. Participants will plunge headlong into the pitfalls, perils, and payoffs associated with supporting social software use in educational settings. Disruptive technologists and skeptical academics are especially welcome. Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:00:00 -0700 http://learntech.pbwiki.com/ A workshop for Maricopa Community College library staff at Chandler-Gilbert Community College with Tom Foster (Chandler-Gilbert Community College) and Alan Levine (MCLI). There are so many technologies "out there" and no one can truly keep up with them all. This workshop is intended to introduce a few broad areas of technology, give you some examples to explore, and some more resources for following up. It is a lot to taste so keep the line moving! One of the new technologies is this very web site-- this is a "wiki", a kind of website set up where other people can add/edit/create new content Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:00:00 -0300 http://cogdog.wikispaces.org/CollabTools Seminars in Academic Computing Discussion session co-led with Stephen Downes and Philip Long: What are practical considerations in using collaboration tools for teaching from the perspectives of students, faculty, and support staff? This session will explore wikis, blogs, image sharing tools (such as Flickr), and bookmark/URL managers (such as de.licio.us) through these different viewpoints. Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:00:00 -0400 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/itl05/ EDUCAUSE Instructional Technology Leadership Program 2005: As an Instructional Technologist my disclaimer sometimes reads, "I am not an Instructional Designer, but I play one on the Internet". You can be the most effective support for faculty and learners in your system if you can manage to live at these IT and ID crossroads, and need not be an expert in either. In this session, hands-on experiences with a few simple technologies will provide examples of this intersection as you explore just what "design" means in the spaces where the Net Generation lives. You will leave with some practical ideas on how to move towards that center. Fri, 17 Jun 2005 5:30:00 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc05/5mof/ NMC 2005 Summer Conference 5 Minutes of Fame: RSS is cool, but how many people really know how to insert content into their web pages by parsing XML? Maricopa Community College built a web site service and open source code, Feed2JS, to provide a way for ordinary humans to take the URL for a RSS feed, and convert it to a JavaScript line of code that can be put into any web page. Thousands of users are actively "feeding" content from Feed2JS. Thu, 16 Jun 2005 7:15:00 -0700 http://cat-diaries.blogspot.com/ NMC 2005 Summer Conference: Blogs are "in" but often viewed as just for "online diaries." However, once the templates are harnessed, weblog software can publish sophisticated web sites. See how the Low Threshold Applications site was converted from a tedious manual editing job to a more coherent and automated site using MovableType. Other examples include project sites and presentations, all published via blogware. Learn some of the secrets that have been extracted for doing more than what comes in the box. Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:57:27 -0700 http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/wiki?HarryMudd TCC 2005 Online Conference Keynote: edictions of the future are easily analyzed in hindsight and ought to be skeptically questioned -- you will have to tune into this session to see the connection with an old Star Trek episode. However, author William Gibson's insightful quote, "The future is here. It is just not widely distributed yet" is the framework I use to peek at the future. For the use of technology in teaching and learning, where is this "not widely distributed future?" I am not sure, but in this session, we will take some guesses at places you may find the future. The present form of the web was visible, but not widely distributed in 1992. Is there something of this scale already here? Will text messaging displace email as a communication mode? We will look at the drivers of consumer used technologies that become disruptive? For example, digital cameras have taken the lead in the consumer photo market and MP3 players are re-shaping the music industry. And how about those multitude of technology gadget web sites? Are small pieces of "loosely" joined technologies (often open source) displacing large comprehensive commercial tools? The future is here and it (or IT) is not. Explore hands-on some of the interesting "social" and connection technologies such as "tags", RSS, wikis, podcasts, and perhaps whatever else pops up between now and the conference. Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:27:48 -0700 http://realgar.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/wiki?CrossTalk MIT Crosswalk Seminar: The Arizona desert is a land of extremes and curious creatures that have adapted to these conditions. No, this is not an ecology lecture, but an overview of some of the research and development in learning technologies from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI). Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:47:17 -0700 http://graphite.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/wiki?Innovations05 Innovations 2005:League For Innovation... Since 1987, Ocotillo has been a faculty led initiative to promote the effective use of instructional technology. Like its desert plant metaphor, Ocotillo has evolved again into four new action groups, leading a range of face to face and online activities in the areas of Learning Objects, ePortfolios, Hybrid Courses, qnd Emerging Technologies. Learn what the groups have done and see how they have used a "small technologies loosely joined" approach of weblog, wiki, discussion board, RSS, and streaming video technology to support their projects Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:34:21 -0700 http://realgar.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/wiki?RipMixLearn Unitec Symposium: Conversations in Teaching and Learning.. Just as Napster and Apple's ad campaign ("Rip. Mix Burn") shook up the music industry, new internet based, "social" technologies that are used extensively by the digital generation will be revolutionizing the shape and modality of future learning. We will break out the crystal ball and show you new technologies on the horizon, including electronic portfolios, digital storytelling, web logs, wikis, RSS, instant messaging, and more. Many of these technologies have roots in creating informal, internet enabled, peer to peer, social connections, and open new avenues for learning beyond current technologies that are linear and lecture-based to ones that are creative, constructive and communication-rich environments. Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:13:20 -0700 http://realgar.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/wiki Resources and the content itself from 13 presentation workshops delivered to 23 audience groups during my 3 week November 2004 visit to New Zealand. Topics cover Web As a Learning Tool, Hybrid Courses, Weblogs, Learning Objects, Electronic Portfolios, RSS, Digital Photography, Digital Storytelling, PhotoBlogging, Ocotillo at Maricopa, EduWikis. All content is developed and shared in a wiki. Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:27:03 -0700 http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/wiki?ObjectsEducause04 or as we relabeled it: "Rip. Mix. Feed". A pre-conference workshop for the EDUCAUSE 2004 Conference (Denver). "Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations via Trackback." Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:37:06 -0700 http://graphite.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/emerging/wiki?RipMixLearn This was a presentation for the Training Expo - Partners Conference in Phoenix, AZ. "Just as Napster and Apple's ad campaign ("Rip. Mix Burn") has shook up the music industry, new internet based, "social" technologies that are used extensively by the digital generation will be revolutionizing the shape and modality of future learning. This session will start with a brief overview of current technologies in wide use at the Maricopa Community Colleges (course management systems, classroom projection, open computer labs, hybrid course formats). Next we break out the crystal ball and show you new technologies on the horizon, including electronic portfolios, digital storytelling, web logs, wikis, RSS, instant messaging, and more. Many of these technologies have roots in creating informal, internet enabled, peer to peer, social connections, and open new avenues for learning beyond current technologies that are linear and lecture-based to ones that are creative, constructive and communication-rich environments." Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:41:01 -0700 http://graphite.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/objects/wiki?ASUFreeStuff This was a session for the course Social and Ethical Issues in Educational Media (Arizona State University). "This class has pretty much covered copyright and fair use issues in education, so now we take a different twist on thr topic- rather than telling you what you cannot do, we hope to shine the light on what you can do in using web-based media in your learning materials. The goal is to provide you a good set of resources, have you explore, find some things you find there, and then give you a "wiki" experience to share what you find." Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:22:52 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc0604/ The Maricopa Learning eXchange has almost 2 years of experience in building a collection of not only reusable "objects", but also "reusable ideas" and we've learned an important lesson: Building it is easy, filling it is something else. We will share the challenges and strategies used to not only build the collection, but to also expand its usage. In addition, we will share some newly developed features of interest and discuss how others might approach creating similar collections (and the rumored "open-source MLX"). Presented at the NMC 2004 Summer Conference (Vancouver, BC). Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:35:55 -0700 http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SmallPiecesLooselyJoined To effectively collaborate via the net does not require monolithic, expensive tool suites. In this session, the three presenters will share and demonstrate the use of readily available, mostly free, discrete sets of tools - weblogs, wikis, instant messaging, audio/video chat. We refer to these as "informal" collaborations because they happen as needed, and not under any direct sanction of our institutions or any other coordinating bod. Presented at the NMC 2004 Summer Conference (Vancouver, BC). Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:21:00 -0700 http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes The recording of an international live interview with Alan Levine of Maricopa Community College and Garry Putland of EdNA Online (Australia). Michael Chalk (Australia) conducted the interview, supported by LearningTimes member Michael Coghlan. This event coincides with the launch of Edition 5 (June 2004, http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/knowledgetree/index.html) of the Knowledge Tree e-Journal of Flexible Learning in Vocational Education and Training where Michael Coghlan's eagerly awaited article 'Finding Your Voice Online' is available for download (Online Webcast). Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:57:19 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/tcc04/photoblog/ In this presentation, you will learn more about blogging, moblogging, and photoblogging by showing provide examples of different photoblog tools, both of which are free to use, and example photoblogs. We will try and speculate on the cutting edge of how such a technology may be used in an educational context. The presentation is delivered as Macromedia Breeze. Featured presentation for the Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference (http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/). Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:09:21 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/tcc04/jclicker/ In this poster session, we will demonstrate how a group of art students are learning how to comunicate a message or idea with a series of digital images and little to a a very minimal amount of text. For the past few semesters, students in Robert Burget's photography class at Chandler-Gilbert Community College have assembled collections of their work using an online slide show template called the "jClicker." This is an easy to use slide show template that allows anyone to create a web based slide show without requring a high degree of technical skill. Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:50:32 -0700 http://www.nmc.org/events/2004spring_online_conf/index.shtml Keynote presentation for the New Media Consortium Spring 2004 Online Conference. Tue, 09 Dec 2003 02:04:40 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/show/gcc_1203.html The answer is, "as much as your colleagues can put into it." This was presented to Glendale Community College's CTC Meeting (Dec 9, 2003) with an overview of MLX, exmaples of our syndication tools, a plea to participate, etc. Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:35:10 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/league2003/mlx.html The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources that support learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges, represented as mysterious wrapped "packages", from a Flash animation for a chemistry lab to a faculty development program. See how we tripled our collection with a friendly competition for software prizes. Learn how we are syndicating content with RSS news feeds. Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:55:45 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc1003/ Customized Collections of learning objects from multiple repositories can be achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This presentation will demonstrate the approach via a scenerio of two faculty members who create RSS views into the collections from different organizations. Their blogs are connected to the RSS feeds and provide a component of object contextuality that is beyond the meta-data. Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:10:06 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/show/believe_it.html Watch our DVD of real-world experiences of faculty who have contributed and/or re-used content from the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:06:36 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/merlot03/ Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations via TrackBack. Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:44:28 -0700 http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/000152.html The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources that support learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges. See how we tripled our collection with a friendly competition for software prizes. Learn how we are syndicating content with RSS and connecting to other collections. Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:09:00 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/league2003/mlx.html The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources that support learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges, represented as mysterious wrapped "packages", from a Flash animation for a chemistry lab to a faculty development program. See how we tripled our collection with a friendly competition for software prizes. Learn how we are syndicating content with RSS news feeds. Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:29:16 -0700 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/league2003/lg.html The Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction (MCLI) coordinates an internal grants program that awards over $180,000 each year to improve, advance, and enrich student learning at the ten Maricopa Community Colleges. Learn about the variety of grant projects and their outcomes, and how the process is supported. This session will describe the program and its impact and will demonstrate the online (paperless) application and review process. Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:56:43 -0700 http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/000095.html This was paper for the July 11, 2003 LOVCOP teleconference (Learning Objects Virtual Community of Practice) an EDUCAUSE/NLII focus area. Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:30:15 -0700 http://www.nmc.net/events/2003summerconf/fmof.shtml A rapid fire showing of the Maricopa Learning eXchange at the New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conferemce 2003, in Blacksburg, Virgnia. We had only 5 minutes to try and explain all about the MLX (we got gonged)!