Category Archives: Education

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 – 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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Info Island in Second Life

I spent some time this weekend going through Second Life.  Most of the time I stay on the NMC Campus, but it’s quiet most of the time and after a while I’m looking for something to do.  So this weekend … Continue reading

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I Read the News Today Oh Boy (Well, Almost)

I want to thank Alan for his comment on my post about leaving Second Life.  It was enough to convince me to give Second LIfe a second chance.  Developments on the NMC Campus lately, like the art exhibit have been … Continue reading

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Preliminary Results of the 2006 ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology

Judith Borreson Caruso and Robert B. Kvavik  are beginning to release the findings of their latest survey of students and technology.  EDUCAUSE has posted a presentation that was given on June 29. 96 institutions participated (52 of which participated in … Continue reading

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