Streaming Video – Soup to Nuts
Many campuses are not ready for streaming video because they don’t know how to manage it. It’s like making soup. To make a good soup, avoid too many cooks in the kitchen. If you try to cover it all, your soup becomes inedible. The cauldron is yo...
Pressure Points: What You Should Know about Higher Education in an age of Scrutiny, Accountability and Austerity
With state budgets shrinking and concerns mounting about whether the business model for public and private colleges is sustainable, higher education is at a crossroads. Public scrutiny of colleges is at a level not seen in decades, forcing president...
Learning in a Networked World: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone
Welcome to a moment of huge change in the ways we can learn, thanks primarily to the Web and mobile technologies. The implications of access for education at every level are huge, and the better we understand them for ourselves, the better we’ll b...
Learning through digital storytelling: interdisciplinary findings
Presentation Abstract: Learning is most effective when students can insert unfamiliar material into a known frame of reference. Telling digital stories does this by injecting students' popular culture into the classroom, and by allowing them to use ...
The Artist's Electronic Source Book
Technology has never made it easier to create Source Books. This talk shows how. The Source Book is a primary tool for planning, introspection, and expression. My presentation is a method for students to become aware of the ideas they are using and ...
Integrating Web 2.0 into your online course
Presentation Abstract: Web 2.0 tools such as podcasts, blogs, wikis, and online video have exploded in popularity. Students often use YouTube, Wikipedia and their favorite blogs and podcasts as their primary sources of information. These Web 2.0-dri...
Multiple Intelligences and Technology in the Classroom
This paper maintains that the students of the school of the present havebecome a digital culture; thus, to succeed in the contemporary classroomconsideration must be given to the unique constitution (MultipleIntelligences) of those being educated, t...
Bridging the Divide: Transitioning from the Classroom to the Internet
College students today need to be proficient in using the latest technological tools that are available. Although most have mastered how to use the popular social network sites there are many students who are intimidated by the thought of taking an ...
The center can not hold: living, learning and leading in a networked world
Keynote Address. Web 2.0 technology has underwritten a radical redistribution of expertise. Have a question about an ailment? The cost of an automobile? Comparative mortgage rates? Competing theories of religious freedom? Approaches to reading the ...