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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Linkfest 0001
Here are some links I’ve come across this week. They interest me, they may interest you. Second Life’s Must Have Stuff: From Wired. I haven’t bought The Swimmer yet, but I’m thinking about it. The real find is Freebies. Several … Continue reading
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Arden: The World of Shakespeare
c|net has an article, “A Midsummer Night’s Virtual World“. In it they interview Edward Castronova, who has just been announced as a $240,000 grant recipient from the MacArthur Foundation for a game he is developing, called Arden: The World of … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Pioneering New Territory and Technologies
Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth, Salid Ganjalizadeh, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology at Catholic University, Leslie Hitch, Director, Academic Technology Services at Northeastern University, Christine McMahon, Manager, Advanced Technology at Saint Louis University, Pablo Molina, CIO Information … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Information Fluency in the Digital Age
I attended the Gartner session earlier, but it was unremarkable. For this session, Susan Curzon, Dean, University Library at California State University, Chuck Dziuban, Director, Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness, and Martha Marinara, Director, Information Fluency Quality Enhancement Program at … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: The Impact on Education and Society
Brian Hawkins started by announcing the awards for this year. The new Catalyst award went to Course Management Systems. I thought this was especially interesting considering the controversy around Blackboard and their patent suit. I wonder how much EDUCAUSE had … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Evaluating Web Conferencing Systems for Instructional Use
Andrea Eastman-Mullins from Alexander Street Press and Robert Hambrick from North Carolina State University presented. At the time of the study, Andrea was employed by NCSU. The speakers were part of a task force to evaluate four web conferencing systems: … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – EDUCAUSE Learning Inititiative
Diana Oblinger presented, and began by introducing the staff and scholars of ELI. Diana then proceeded to talk about what ELI has done over the last year. ELI is 18 months, having restructured from the NLII. Their mission is “Advancing … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – What’s your ETA? Assessments of Emerging Technologies for E-Learning
Joanne Dehoney, Director of E-LLearning and Victoria Gertis, Special Projects Manager at the Ohio State University presented. We began with everyone in the room listing three technologies (I picked geotagging, clickers, and wikis). As people around the room called out … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – The Changing Place of Space
Alan Cattier, Director of Academic Technologies and Carole Meyers, Senior Director, Facilities and IT at Emory College presented. Space design is something they’ve been working on for seven years and they’d like to show us about what they’ve done for … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Gaming as Pedagogy: Teaching College Economics via a Video Game
Robert Brown, the Dean of Continuing Learning and Nora Reynolds, Assistant Dean at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro presented. Brown began by talking about his son’s passion for gaming. Games are student-controlled, which is very different from your … Continue reading
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