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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. Upon seeing a number of these tools appear last summer, such as Slideshare and VoiceThreads, I began to wonder how many of them were actually viable. The answer astounded me, as there are more than 50!</description></item><item> <title>Being There in the unevenly distributed future</title><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:30:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cogdogblog.com/2008/05/14/being-there-maricopa/</link><description>Maricopa Community Colleges Teaching &amp; Learning With Technology Conference. How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technology, 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." This session is meant to be provocative, challenging, but also inspire excitement over "web 2.0 stuff"</description></item><item> <title>50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell A Story</title><pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:30:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways</link><description>Northern Voice 2008. On a crazy whim, last summer I set out to find if there were fifty Web 2.0 tools (free ones) for creating and sharing multimedia stories -- and found there are more! To explore them, I created the same story in each.The tools themselves have been presented elsewhere; in this session I will highlight the most compelling ones that might be of interest to bloggers.  In real time, the audience will also participate in creating one about Northern Voice.</description></item>	<item> <title>50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell A Story,</title><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:00 -0050</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Powerful Personal Portals </title><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +1200</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Powerful+Personal+Portals</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>More Than Cool Tools</title><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=149</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Virtual Worlds: Promise and Perils</title><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1200</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Virtual+Worlds</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Precious Web 2.0 Gems</title><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0900</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Web+Gems</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>What's On Your Horizon?</title><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1100</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Horizon</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell A Story,</title><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1100</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Being There in that Unevenly Distributed Future.</title><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +1000</pubDate><link>http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Being+There</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Being There: nets, tweets, avatars</title><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/sets/72157600226433215/</link><description>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."</description></item><item> <title>NMC 101</title><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://facultyacademy.org/wiki07/page/Nmc_101</link><description>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. </description></item><item> <title>Mac Learning Environments - (Many, Too Many?) Small Technologies Loosely Joined: Open, Connected, and Social</title><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://openconnectedsocial.learningparty.net/wiki/page/Main_Page#stuff_for_the_MacLearningEnvironments.org_presentation</link><description>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</description></item><item> <title>What's in Your Horizon? Process, Technologies, and Impact of the 2007 Horizon Report</title><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:30:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.cni.org/tfms/2007a.spring/abstracts/PB-what-levine.html</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>The 2007 Horizon Report: Six Technologies to Watch</title><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:45:00 -0400</pubDate><link>http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI07102</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>The Next Generation of Digital Learning Spaces: Exploring the Frontier of Virtual Worlds</title><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:45:00 -0400</pubDate><link>http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI07163</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>You Can Be a Pachyderm Rock Star</title><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:45:00 -0600</pubDate><link>http://www.nmc.org/lab/pachytips06/</link><description>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!</description></item><item> <title>NMC 2.0 The Content is You!</title><pubDate>Wed, 7 Nov 2006 3:45:00 -0600</pubDate><link>http://www.slideshare.net/cogdog/nmc-20-the-content-is-you/</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>I Didn't Know You Could Do That with Free Web Tools</title><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/k12online06</link><description>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...</description></item><item> <title> Rip, Mix, Feed - Reloaded: Social Software and Learning</title><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/nau06/keynote.html</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title> Rip, Mix, Feed - Reloaded: Social Software and Learning</title><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/NauWorkshop</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Podcasting On The Cheap (and Thinking Before You Hit "Record")</title><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/PodcastOnTheCheap</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Podcasting, Schmodcasting.... What's All the Hype?</title><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:30:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/podcasting</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Beyond the Blog: Ready For Prime Time</title><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://fishtacos.notlong.com/</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>New Learning Technologies Buffet</title><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:00:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://learntech.pbwiki.com/</link><description>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 </description></item><item> <title>Collaboration Tools: What's Out There?</title><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:00:00 -0300</pubDate><link>http://cogdog.wikispaces.org/CollabTools</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Living @ the Crossroads of IT &amp; ID</title><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/itl05/</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Feed2JS Makes Embedding RSS a Cut and Paste Effort</title><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 5:30:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc05/5mof/</link><description>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. </description></item><item> <title>More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing with Weblogs</title><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 7:15:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cat-diaries.blogspot.com/</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Unevenly Distributed Future</title><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:57:27 -0700</pubDate><link>http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/wiki?HarryMudd</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Jackalopes, Ocotillos, Learning eXchanges, RSS, and Other Arizona Learning Technology Curiosities</title><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:27:48 -0700</pubDate><link>http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/CrossTalk</link><description>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).</description></item><item> <title>Maricopa's Ocotillo Evolves Again: 18 Years of Faculty Led Instructional Technology Initiatives</title><pubDate>Mon,  7 Mar 2005 15:47:17 -0700</pubDate><link>http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/wiki?Innovations05</link><description>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</description></item><item> <title>Rip Mix Learn</title><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:34:21 -0700</pubDate><link>http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RipMixLearn</link><description>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.</description></item><item><title>New Zealand Presentations</title><pubDate>Mon,  1 Nov 2004 09:13:20 -0700</pubDate><link>http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, Trackback, and Related Technologies</title><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:27:03 -0700</pubDate><link>http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/wiki?ObjectsEducause04</link><description>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."</description></item><item> <title>Rip. Mix. Learn... The Digital Generation, Social Technologies, and Learning </title><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:37:06 -0700</pubDate><link>http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/emerging/wiki?RipMixLearn</link><description>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."</description></item><item> <title>Finding (and Using!) Good Free Stuff (August 30, 2004)</title><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:41:01 -0700</pubDate><link>http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/objects/wiki?ASUFreeStuff</link><description>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."</description></item><item> <title>New Directions At the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) </title><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:22:52 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc0604/</link><description>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). </description></item><item> <title>Small Technologies Loosely Joined: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control </title><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:35:55 -0700</pubDate><link>http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SmallPiecesLooselyJoined</link><description> 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). </description></item><item> <title>RSS, Blogging and What it Means for Teaching and Learning   </title><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:21:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes</link><description>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).</description></item><item> <title>Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images </title><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:57:19 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/tcc04/photoblog/</link><description>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/). </description></item><item> <title>Students Communicating Visually: Publishing Digital Photos with the jClicker Slide Show </title><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:09:21 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/tcc04/jclicker/</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange </title><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:50:32 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.nmc.org/events/2004spring_online_conf/index.shtml</link><description>Keynote presentation for the New Media Consortium Spring 2004 Online Conference.</description></item><item> <title>What do You get Out of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)? </title><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2003 02:04:40 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/show/gcc_1203.html</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Maricopa Learning eXchange... Building an Innovation Collection (with a bit of Competition and Bribery)  (League for Innovation CIT, Oct 20, 2003)</title><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:35:10 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/league2003/mlx.html</link><description>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. </description></item><item> <title>Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Weblogs, and Trackback (NMC Online Conference)</title><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:55:45 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc1003/</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title>Learning Objects: Believe It or Not! (NLII Learning Objects Focus Session)</title><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:10:06 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/show/believe_it.html</link><description>Watch our DVD of real-world experiences of facultywho have contributed and/or re-used content from theMaricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)</description></item><item> <title> Connecting Learning Objects with RSS and Trackback (MERLOT)</title><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:06:36 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/merlot03/</link><description>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.</description></item><item> <title> Building the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MERLOT)</title><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:44:28 -0700</pubDate><link>http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/000152.html</link><description>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.</description></item><item><title>Building an Innovation Collection with a bit of Competition and Bribery (League for Innovation CIT)</title><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:09:00 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/league2003/mlx.html</link><description>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.</description></item><item><title>Supporting Faculty Innovation with Maricopa Learning Grant$ (League for Innovation CIT)</title><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:29:16 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/league2003/lg.html</link><description>The Maricopa Center for Learning &amp; 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.</description></item><item><title>What's the Fuss about RSS (LOVCOP teleconf)</title><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:56:43 -0700</pubDate><link>http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/000095.html</link><description>This was  paper for the July 11, 2003 LOVCOP teleconference (Learning Objects Virtual Community of Practice) an EDUCAUSE/NLII focus area.</description></item><item><title>MLX 5 Minutes of Fame (NMC)</title><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:30:15 -0700</pubDate><link>http://www.nmc.net/events/2003summerconf/fmof.shtml</link><description>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)!</description></item></channel></rss>