Monthly Archives: June 2006

Ending My Second Life

I've tried to get involved in Second Life. The NMC Campus is great – I enjoyed being a virtual participant during the NMC Summer Conference. But there have been bumps in the road and the most recent one is sufficient … Continue reading

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Getting Started with Ecto

When I attended the recent NMC conference in Cleveland, one of my goals was to blog the event better than I blogged Bb World '06. At Blackboard World, I wrote out my notes carefully for every session I attended. I … Continue reading

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ATS Presents: Blogging in Education

On Tuesday, June 27th from noon-1pm ATS will be holding a Blogging in Education Breeze presentation. The presentation went very well. You can view an archive of the session here.

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NMC 2006: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Information: Learning by Immersion

Mary Alice Ball, from the School of Library and Information Science at the Indiana University at Indianapolis presented. She teaches information policy there, which includes issues, stakeholders and influences. She wanted future librarians to understand that technology is a catalyst … Continue reading

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NMC 2006: Stream It! Download It! Podcast It!

It was a big audience for this session, presented by Michael Beahan and James Bartholomew at the Jones Media Center at the Dartmouth College Library. The Jones Media Center has 17 multimedia creation stations, and 2 project rooms. It seems … Continue reading

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NMC 2006: Teaching a New Elephant New Tricks

Richmond looked at Pachyderm just before I joined ATS in 2003. We decided to pursue other technologies instead of Pachyderm. As a result I never really understood what the application is like. While NMC has presented several sessions on Pachyderm, … Continue reading

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NMC 2006: Creating Games for Education Revealed

There was a group of 8 people who attended a pre-conference workshop to make games. For the first day they learned about game theory, the second day they worked on narratives, and on the third day they created games. This … Continue reading

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NMC 2006: Mobility and Community

Arlene Krebs presented on how CSUMB was able to use wireless technology in projects that gave back to the community. Hewlett-Packard gave CSUMB two mobility grants, for $236K and $130K to purchase mobile equipment to be used across the curriculum. … Continue reading

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NMC 2006: Faculty Certification in Technology: A Certifiable Success

Laura Gough from Houston Community College presented this topic. She's had lots of experience in training in addition to her academic background. This began with a Title V grant but is now sustained by the school. The session began with … Continue reading

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NMC 2006: New Media in Higher Education: Students Looking Forward

After some general introductions and thanks to the institutions sponsoring this year's conference, we started off with our keynote, which was given by Brenda Laurel of Sun Microsystems. Brenda is a “designer, researcher and writer” according to the program notes. … Continue reading

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