A new meta-resource educational technology site has appeared on the scenes– The Academic Commons: offers a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education. Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, Academic Commons publishes essays, reviews, interviews, showcases of innovative uses of […]
Here at Maricopa, we’ve been trying to corral the herding cats of electronic folios for several years, back to a Dialogue Day in 2002, to a not so fruitful play with a consortium (it put the software cart before the eport need horse), to creation of our Ocotillo Action Group in 2004 to an excellent […]
flickr foto SAC 2005 Session on Collaboration Toolsavailable on my flickr "Everybody say, I give permission to post my image on flickr!" Well, there is no way I am blogging my own session… that is someone elses job! This was the wild and open range discussion on “Collaboration Tools: What’s Out There?” and it was […]
flickr foto SAC 2005 at Snowmasavailable on my flickr Not convinced of the “expertise” around Snowmass Village? This is the way to start a conference morning at the Seminars in Academic Computing (SAC) conference. Monday was an early morning hike “up the hill” (past the ski lift end) with Phil Long, Trent Batson, and Cyprien […]
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 […]
