First year seminar on social networking & sustainability: lessons learned
Most first year college students tell stories of "getting caught" on their laptops Facebooking or MySpacing. They are members of multiple social networks, with highly developed online communication and multitasking skill..
Flipped Professional Development Track: Learning & Teaching Innovations
The flipped classroom has been a hot topic in education for a number of years. More recently, the idea of flipping professional development has been experimented at schools and in corporate training. The idea is to rethi..
Florence Hudson on the Internet of Things
The world has become an interconnected Internet of Things....everything from smartphones to Fitbits, computers to smart electronics and appliances all connected and “speaking” to each other. The impact on college cam..
Follow the Five M's to Training and Developing Faculty to Teach Online
Presentation Summary: Faculty who endeavor to teach online at Berkeley College go through a robust, informative training process which prepares them to teach online. This process, the Five M's, are support systems in pla..
For maximum videoconference use: Vidyo connects to and from access points
Connecting from the classroom to personal tele-presence and beyond, iPhone, Android and iPad is commonplace among students. Their smart phones combine phoning, texting, social networking, and getting course notes. Vidyo..
Free iPad Apps for Early Literacy Instruction: What's available? What matters? What happens when preschoolers use them?
Mr. Potato Head and Curious George have joined the digital world via free iPad apps. This presentation provides findings from an ongoing investigation of the potential, possibilities, and pitfalls of incorporating iPad u..
From Connected Campus to Digital City – The Future of Global Research Challenges, Teaching and Learning and Student Engagement
Keynoter Lev Gonick is the founder and CEO of OneCommunity, a non-profit he spun out of Case Western Reserve University more than 10 years ago. OneCommunity is a regional, non-profit broadband network provider that exten..
From Low-Fi to High-Fi and Everything In-Between: Broadening the Scope of the Makerspace at Piscataway Public Library’s Summer of Make
With the continuing push towards Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or STEM, the library must support those literacies for students outside the classroom. Piscataway Public Library launched the first New Jersey ..
From Tech Savvy to Digitally Literate: Apps and Activities for Social Learning
Today's students live in a world where being tech-savvy, constantly-connected multi-taskers is the norm. How can educators incorporate some of the latest social and digital media tools into the student learning experienc..