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Category: workshops

  • Engage Me or Enrage Me: Educating Today’s “Digital Native” Learners

    Marc Prensky shared this presentation with educators at TCEA 2006. I recorded this for a later podcast, but Marc wants to review it before I share it online. These are my notes from his session. Marc’s company: Games 2 Train – works in K-12, higher ed, business, military I’ll be going at twitch speed Our…

  • Extreme Technology Makeovers

    A workshop by Chris Moersch at TCEA 2006. Chris is all about helping teachers elevate the level of their teaching on Bloom’s taxonomy, and thereby make teaching and learning more engaging and worthwhile activities. These are my notes from his session today. Chris’ blog: http://lotination.blogspot.com/ Makeover models – Experiential-based Action model (Moersch) – Enrichment Triad…

  • Coach Ken Carter on Education

    Coach Ken Carter shared the opening TCEA 2006 keynote presentation. The movie “Coach Carter” is about his life! We have technology going wild at this conference. The coach is about go wild today! You all can be in trouble giving a coach a microphone Preso today will like a lady’s dress: long enough to cover…

  • Podcast19: Thinking Big as the World is Small

    This podcast is a rebroadcast of Hall Davidson’s keynote address at the TechForum in Austin today, sponsored by Technology and Learning. The title of Hall’s keynote was “Thinking Big as the World is Small.” Hall is now the executive director of the Discovery Educator Network. Program Length: 1 hour, 7 min File size: 15.4 MB…

  • Thinking Big as the World is Small

    Technology and Learning TechForum: Breakthroughs and Best Practices for Technology Leaders Welcome and Opening Keynote: “Thinking Big as the World is Small” by Hall Davidson The cameras in their cell phones make them citizen journalists. The web is their personal library and media center. They communicate in real time with the ends of the earth.…

  • Research and the Internet

    These are some notes from a shortcourse I attended entitled “Research and the Internet” today at the Texas Tech ATLC. It was taught by Monica Wall Matzner. Identify all the synonyms that you are using, use those also when googling Try the “similar pages” link on Google search results Ask reference librarian for help in…

  • Creating Sustainable E-Learning Infrastructures

    Creating Sustainable E-Learning Infrastructures – Moving Beyond the Course as the Unit of Instruction an eLearning 2005 keynote presentation by David Porter Executive Director BCcampus.ca dporter at bccampus.ca Presentation is available as both: PDF: www.sfu.ca/~davidp/ecosystem.pdf Breeze preso: present.bccampus.ca/ecosystem (I GOT STARTED TAKING NOTES LATE, ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE PRESO) Harnessing community effectively BC Campus has…

  • Technology for Advanced e-Learning

    Technology for Advanced e-Learning an eLearn2005 presentation by Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA Abstract: In 2001-2004, the InterLabs Research Institute at Bradley University (Peoria, IL, USA) hosted the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CCLI-EMD grant # 0196015 on design, development, and testing of advanced online educational materials (OEMs) in Information Technology (IT) area. This paper describes…

  • The Use of Blogs in Teaching, Knowledge Management, and Performance Improvement

    The Use of Blogs in Teaching, Knowledge Management, and Performance Improvement an eLearn2005 presentation by Minjuan Wang, San Diego State University, USA Abstract: The number of web logs (‘blogs’), or online personal journals, is on the rise. While this trend may reflect a human propensity for self- indulgent introspection, it may also be propelled by…

  • Strategies for Converging Learning and Work

    Never Worry About Transfer Again: Strategies for Converging Learning and Work an eLearn2005 Wednesday keynote presentation by Allison Rosett, San Diego State University arossett@mail.sdsu.edu http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/ARossett/Arossett.html I want to talk about our work in a way that is a little bit different Transfer is everything (my belief) – also believe when you are doing a keynote…