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Daily Archives: October 10, 2006
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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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Time, Space and History
Edward Ayers, the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia and Will Thomas, the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities, in the Department of History at the University of … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Social Software, Teaching and Learning
For my pre-conference seminar I chose to attend Bryan Alexander and Barbara Ganley’s seminar on social software, teaching and learning. I’ve spoken with Bryan about social software, and seen him present at NLII (now ELI), but I’ve never had the … Continue reading
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EDUCAUSE 2006 – Uncovering the Science in Computer Science: Challenges for the 21st Century
Brian Hawkins started the conference by telling us that more than 7000 people are attending this year. Vinton G. Cerf was our keynote speaker. Cerf is currently the Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, but he’s had a … Continue reading
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