ctw2007: A History and Issues of Social Collaboration
Part 1: Social Collaboration Technology Then, Now, and Beyond “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay What are social collaboration technologies? What are the issues surrounding the development and use of them? Bob Price discussed a history of social collaboration technologies and ended with a discussion of the open source virtual world project Croquet. Campus Technology Winter 2007 Technology Leadership in Practice Leading Change in Social Collaboration Environments http://www.campustechnology.com/conference/Winter07/sessionDetails.aspx?section_id=2160 Track Leaders:
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ctw07: Information Technology Governance
Jack McCredie reports out on an ECAR study and shares his Top Ten Tips for IT Leadership. Campus Technology Winter 2007 Technology Leadership in Practice John W. (Jack) McCredie Keynote Their Title: Placing Yourself at the Forefront of Change: Inside the IT Governance Findings, and More His Title: Governance and Leadership in Information Technology in Higher Education What makes IT hard to Govern? Independent research projects Departmental computing organizations Colleges & professional schools Campus wide organization System wide coordination …
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TYCA West: Guidelines for Online Teaching and Learning
TYCA-West Conference October 12-13, 2007 Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners Teaching and Learning Effectively Online Vartouhi Asherian, College of Southern Nevada Nancy Webb, College of Southern Nevada Asherian and Webb are instructional designers from CSN’s office of eLearning. The presenters started by saying that every time they googled “best practices online,” they’d always hit the same model of Seven Principles of effective pedagogy and …
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TYCA West: Open Source BABY!
TYCA-West Conference October 12-13, 2007 Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners Everyone is an Expert at Something: How the Open Source Software Movement and Community College Generated Content Empowers Local Communities, Local Action and Changes the World Chris Riseley , Snow College Huge movement that is occurring and a lot of people in education, esp. two year college faculty, do not know about it...open source. Open source is “sharing.” Who does this sharing? Institutions across the planet! What does this …
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TYCA West: My Presentation
TYCA-West Conference October 12-13, 2007 Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners Using Web 2.0 to Build Online Communities of Lifelong Learners Rochelle Rodrigo, Mesa Community College I had a whopping three people attend, eventually four, people attend. However, my partner watched me in action for the first time. During this presentation I focused on how Two-Year college instructors could use social bookmarking and document sharing in both their teaching and other professional activities. I’m excited that one participant had …
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TYCA West: My Colleagues Doin Cool Stuff
TYCA-West Conference October 12-13, 2007 Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners Multimedia, Multilevel Magic: An Extraordinary Approach to Teaching the Research Paper Robin Ozz, Phoenix College Patricia Zaccardo, Phoenix College Nancy Matte, Phoenix College Dawn Wilson, Phoenix College I was unable to attend my Maricopa Colleague’s panel. However, I had a lovely chat with them over breakfast. …
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TYCA West: Keynote
TYCA-West Conference October 12-13, 2007 Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners Keynote: Robert M. Sherfield, College of Southern Neveda Building Bridges of Lifelong Learners October 12, 2007 The original keynote speaker, Howard Tinberg, was unable to attend :-( Education is tools to help build a bridge to get to the rest of your life. As teachers we help students understand what they need for their own survival; bridge building is to help them understand …
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CIT: Jetsons Workshop
League for Innovation in the Community College 2007 Conference on Information Technology 11 May 2007 Jetson’s Workshop By yours truly… Whooo hooo…5 technologies (Social Bookmarking, Blogs, RSS, Wikis & Personal Portals), three hours, and the occasional technological glitch. I had a lovely group of participants from across the North American Continent. I did forget to test the video to make sure we have sound (oops) and I’ve realized that the Power Point presentation is …
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CIT: Milliron’s Keynote
League for Innovation in the Community College 2007 Conference on Information Technology 11 May 2007 Mark David Milliron Blog: catalyticconversations.blogspot.com President & CEO, Catalyze Learning International side note: attended Mesa CC (hoooh ha!)! My discussion of this presentation will start at the end! After I had already closed up my laptop preparing to grab my partner and run to dinner, the presenter flashed his last slide with the following information (in the following …
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Gabcast to the Rescue?
This past weekend Devon and I presented about Google Apps at the Arizona English Teachers’ Association. The first sign that we were the technogeeks at the conference was that we were happily typing away during the keynote address. I’m sure people were irritated by us; however, we were productive. I got my blog about the keynote up by the end of the keynote itself. And by the time we walked over to the building where we were presenting, we had figured out a way …
...Continued | October 10 2007 | CommentsPosted in AETA