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

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Kevin

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

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Kevin

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

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Kevin

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

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Kevin

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

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Kevin

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

Posted on June 7, 2006 by Kevin

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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Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Kevin

The May 19th edition of The Chronicle Review has an article entitled “Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?” by Bill Ivey and Steven J. Tepper. The idea is that prior to the 20th century, culture was local. But media made it … Continue reading →

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Bb World ’06.006: Blackboard Academic Suite Roadmap

Posted on March 10, 2006 by Kevin

This session was Blackboard’s chance to tell us all about what’s coming. Lots of marketing, a little information, and not too much about a timeline. Let me start by saying that I’m getting a little tired of everyone piling onto … Continue reading →

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Bb World ’06.005: Benchmarks and Maturity Models for e-Learning

Posted on March 8, 2006 by Kevin

Brigham Young University has been doing their homework on how Blackboard is being used. By mining the information in Blackboard they can tell us that 3/4 of the school’s courses are in Blackboard, the system contains 360 GB of course … Continue reading →

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More Bb World 06 Summaries Coming…

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Kevin

Today's my day to catch up in the office, but I'll be adding more summaries of sessions from Blackboard World '06 over the next few days. Thanks to Greg Ritter for pointing readers of Blackboard's Educate Innovate blog to my … Continue reading →

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