"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Next week, Jeff Nugent and I will be attending the 18th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, October 10-12, 2012, at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, FL. This will be the first time I have attended the SLOAN-C conference, so I am looking forward to it. Jeff and I will… Read more Where I Am Going Next Week
May is always a crazy time here in the Center, and this has been a busy week leading up to two more busy weeks. On Monday, our Center of Teaching Excellence hosted our first Online Learning Summit. Yesterday, several of us did a road trip to Fredericksburg for University of Mary Washington‘s 17th Faculty Academy. … Read more A Summit and Academy
At the recent NMC Retreat, the hashtag #NMChz had 998 tweets over the three days (at least that I could capture with Archivist). I copied the text of the tweets, removed NMChz and RT as two obvious repetitious terms, and then dumped what was left in Wordle. Interesting results: Click on the image above to… Read more A Thousand Tweets
Day Two at the NMC Future of Education Retreat was just as amazing as the first night, if not more so. Take one hundred colleagues from higher education, K12, museums, and corporate technology companies and have them think out loud for a day…that was the process at this retreat. Just look at the sticky notes… Read more Day Two at NMC Retreat
I have enjoyed two full days at the 2012 Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore. I previously posted materials from our presentation and my Twitter 2o2 session. By the way, Skyping Jon Becker in for Twitter 202 went just fine, and Jon added some great observations on the personal, professional, and academic use of Twitter. … Read more Two Days of MARC
Our entire tech team is here in Baltimore for the Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. Bud Deihl, Joyce Kincannon and I are presenting today on our use of online courses to prepare faculty to teach online (with thanks to David McLeod, our CTE Grad Fellow, who helped with the analysis). Without the words, the slides may… Read more At Educause MARC 2012 Conference
At next week’s Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, I have been asked to lead an “Experience IT” session on Twitter 202. Per the program, “…the “Experience IT” format offers a hands-on, highly interactive introduction to newer tools and technologies so you can explore their potential impact in the workplace and classroom and on your… Read more Twitter 202
Back home in Richmond, VA tonight, but my brain is still buzzing from the excellent sessions and networking at ELI 2011. My post on the first day of ELI 2011 is here. David Wiley kicked off the second day with a keynote address on Open Educational Resources and Learning Analytics. Wiley noted that “open” carried… Read more ELI 2011 Wrap-Up
This is Day One of one of my favorite conferences, the Educause Learning Initiative Annual Conference…even though this is only my second one that I have physically attended. As usual, the tweeting using hashtag #ELI2011 has been superb, such that I have interacted with attendees in my sessions, other sessions, and those not physically here… Read more Day 1 at ELI 2011
Next week, I will be attending the Educause Learning Initiatives 2011 Annual Conference in Washington DC. With several members of our 21st Century Literacy Faculty Learning Community, we will be presenting in a poster session the results of our research last spring on differing perspectives of faculty and students to technology. Openness to integrating technology.eli… Read more Differing Perspectives on Technology