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 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:00 -0050 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise; we are at the point now where we can do some very compelling content creation with nothing more complex than a web browser. In this workshop you will: * Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video. * And then create it quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use. * Plus, you will share in this wiki site your example and observations on the value of the tool We are using the word "story" in a general sense; it may be a deeply personal one of the digital storytelling variety, or it may be a tale of a travel trip, or a simple multimedia presentation. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +1200 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Powerful+Personal+Portals Australian Flexible Learning Framework Speaking Tour, Perth Western Australia (October 23, 2007). The term "portal" is kind of old Web 1.0-ish concept (remember when everything was "My_____"?) that is being reinvented using Web 2.0 technologies. Learn how to use free web tools such as Google Home Pages, PageFlakes or NetVibes to quickly and easy build custom portal-like web sites that aggregate information from multiple web sites, RSS feeds, and offer add-on "widgets" or small useful tools built into a web page; use to create topic hubs, student generated information resources, etc or to organize your own private web dashboard. Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:00:00 -0700 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=149 Keynote for K12 Online Conference, with Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman. There is no shortage of “Cool New Web Tools” out there and all three of us are guilty as charged for presenting them to teachers via the firehose effect. In our session, we will begin with a nostalgic nod to our presentation past where just 3 years ago we were talking up “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” - blogs, wikis, and a little RSS. Now there is so much more, almost too much. So we may talk about some cool tools, but more at a level of looking at the affordances which make them compelling, and why these and future breeds of tools and platforms matter to K12 teachers. Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1200 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Virtual+Worlds Invited keynote as part of Australian Flexible Learning Framework Speaking Tour, Adelaide, South Australia (October 22, 2007); Perth Western Australia (October 23, 2007); Brisbane, Queensland (October 26, 2007). For quite some time, the promise of full navigable 3D environments has been an elusive vision. The age of powerful computers, faster networks, and complex environments like action video games finally make it something we can use now. And who has missed the high arcing buzz of Second Life? This presentatio will share some of the greatest potential for these environments, take you on a whilrwind tour of examples, share what the New Media Consortium has been fostering in this area, and then get to the harder questions about the unproven potential of vitual worlds. We might leave with more questions that answers, but we will have an interesting dialogue. Wed, 19 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0900 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Web+Gems Invited workshop as part of Australian Flexible Learning Framework Speaking Tour, Canberra, ACT (Oct 19, 2007). Try something new! There are many poster children thought of when you say "Web 2.0". Flickr. del.icio.us. Digg. YouTube. Google Anything. But there are literally hundreds of other free, useful applications available for you to use. In this workshop, we will work from a framework of those giant lists of Web 2.0 applications, and spend some time exploring ones we do not know so well. Perhaps there is something for you in ToonDo, MapWing, Fauxto, Numbler, dotSub... Participants will document what they find in a public wiki to be shared in later workshops. Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1100 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Horizon Invited keynote as part Australian Flexible Learning Framework Speaking Tour; Melbourne, Victoria (October 16, 2007); Sydney, New South Wales (October 18, 2007). For the last four years, the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project highlights six technologies that are on three different time frames of becoming prevalant in higher education. In addition to reviewing the picks for the 2007 report and looking back at the ones form 2004-2006, this session will unfold the process of how 200 some suggestions boil down to 6, and how you can participate in the next level activity of action research on them. We will also look at some results of organizations and projects that ahve used this report in various ways/ Its less about picking the "right" things from a magical crystal ball to predict the future, and more about the process of looking beyond where we are now. What is on your horizon? This is intended to be only half presentation and move into a discussion/activity mode. And your ideast can feed the ongoog process of the 2008 Horizon Report, which will be in the research gathering stage during this conference. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1100 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways Invited keynote as part of Australian Flexible Learning Framework Speaking Tour, Hobart Tasmania (October 15, 2007); Darwin Northern Territory (October 25, 2007). Putting together a multimedia presentation can be easily done now competely online with a wide array of web sites that allow you to import media from various sources, use templates to style the output, and add text, audio, video to create a product which can be shared, republished in various ways to other web site. In this workshop, you will try out one of the 50, create a short story, and document your assessment on the tool on a shared wiki site. This is less so about learning "tools" themselves, and more about the process of using text, images, and audio together to generate a powerful message. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1000 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Being+There Invited keynote as part of Australian Flexible Learning Framework Speaking Tour; presented Hobart Tasmania (October 15, 2007); Melbourne, Victoria (October 16, 2007); Sydney, New South Wales (October 18, 2007); Canberra, ACT (October 19, 2007); Adelaide, South Australia (October 22, 2007); Darwin Northern Territory (October 25, 2007). How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technlogy, how can we face this brave new world without a sense of dread? "Keeping up" is a myth, and the way of dealing with this is creating, sustaining, and being in your extended networks of friends, colleagues, etc. Likewise, one cannot readily assess the value of new technology from the outside "looking in". This presentation will lead you through a range of examples of ways to practice more "being there-ness" so you can face technology with a child like sense of wonder. Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:00 -0700 http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/sets/72157600226433215/ Invited keynote session for Faculty Academy 2007 at University of Mary Washington... Starting back in 1993 with a strange program called "Mosaic", for me, a singular arc extends from listservs to the early web environments (and dreadful home pages) through blogs, wikis, to YouTube, Second Life, Twitter, and beyond. As an optimist, I am hopeful these are pathways to Doug Englebart's notions of organizations increasing their improvement capacity to solve complex problems by becoming "smarter faster" -- yet at the same time sense what is likely a common dread of the tsunami of change. The magic keys, at least for me, are to discard notions of being an exert and to instead be an active node in a network of people that, in sum, generate expertise. By "being there", I refer to the importance of being in the nwtwork, not on the sidelines, and embracing newer modes of communication, community, and content. Through a series of live demos, quirky photos, and perhaps annoying video clips, I aim to convince you that the question is NOT "How can technology X improve my teaching and students learning?" but really "How can I leverage, tweak, exploit technology X"-- and the answer more often than not relies on the networks and connections we make, as well as having some wide-eyed wonderment of Chance the Gardner-- just by "being there." Wed, 16 May 2007 11:00:00 -0700 http://facultyacademy.org/wiki07/page/Nmc_101 In 2006, the University of Mary Washington joined the New Media Consortium-- and actually so did I! After working 14 years in instructional technology for an NMC member, the Maricopa Community Colleges, I joined the NMC staff. Speaking from both experiences, in this session, I aim to show the resources and opportunities available to UMW staff and faculty. This is a web wiki buffet. I'll be moving through the line in this order, but feel free to grab a plate and pick something that looks appetizing, the chef will not be insulted. Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:00:00 -0700 http://openconnectedsocial.learningparty.net/wiki/page/Main_Page#stuff_for_the_MacLearningEnvironments.org_presentation In 2004 three of us presented a concept of decentralized connecting web content with RSS -- "Small Technologies Loosely Joined" (http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/smallpieces), playing off of the book title by David Weinberger. Looking back at what we might call "Web 1.5", using RSS to interconnect blogs, wikis, and chat seem rather simple. At that time, flickr and del.icio.us were still truly unknown betas, Google was just a search engine, folksonomy might not even had been coined as a term, podcasting did not exist, online videos were relegated to basic downloading to view-- what a long way the web has come since then. However, underneath the shiny hood of the new tools, RSS remains a key integration factor Now we sit in 2007 with an explosion and continued expansion, of "small tools" leaving many educators overwhelmed and excited at the same time. In this session, like a loose jazz quartet, four presenters will "jam" on the potential for teaching and learning as well as the state of web technology in four general areas Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:30:00 -0700 http://www.cni.org/tfms/2007a.spring/abstracts/PB-what-levine.html Co-presented with Bryan Alexander (NITLE) and Cyprien Lomas, this session at the Spring 2007 Task Force Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) highlighted the results and processes that produce the NMC's annual Horizon Report. Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:45:00 -0400 http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI07102 EDCUASE ELI Annual Conference, Atlanta. The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session will review the research and process behind the report and the findings of the 2007 edition. The 2007 Horizon Report will be officially released at this session. Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:45:00 -0400 http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI07163 EDCUASE ELI Annual Conference, Atlanta. The use of virtual worlds affords students and educators the ability to break free from the confines of traditional classrooms and online learning spaces. Pioneers of this emerging technology will discuss the creation of the New Media Consortium virtual campus as well as present case studies that will illustrate successes and challenges in this new learning frontier.