‘Educause2008’ Archives
The best layed plans….
I had great plans to post summaries of all of the sessions that I attended at the EDUCAUSE conference. Unfortunately, reality set in when I got back to campus.... for the next two months I will need to dedicate all of my time to developing training materials for a new version of our course management system. If all works according to plan I [...]
Mashups, Remixes, and Video Culture: Engaging the YouTube Generation in the Classroom
Presenters: Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor, English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Renee Hobbs, Founder, Media Education Lab, Temple University; Susan Simon, Senior Learning Technologist, Dartmouth College; Anu Vedantham, Director, Weigle Information Commons, University of Pennsylvania My [...]
Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge
Presenters: Christine L. Borgman My Review: During this session Dr. Borgman provided a vision developed by the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning for how educational institutions should prepare learners to be successful in the environments in which they live and work. The vision notes that the ideal learning environment will assist students [...]
Teaching Nurse Anesthesia in a Second Life Operating Room Simulation
Presenters: David M. Antonacci, Director of Teaching & Learning Technologies, The University of Kansas MedicalCenter;Stephanie Gerald, Educational Technologist, The University of Kansas Medical Center My Comments Based on the abstract for this session I thought the presenters would be providing a set of tools that could be shared with the [...]
Blogging the 2008 Educause Conference
I am attending the EDUCAUSE conference again this year and will be dedicating the next several postings to reviews of sessions attended and vendors spoken to at the conference. The postings will concentrate on presentations and vendors that address web 2.0 tools and their ability to enhance teaching and learning. Hope that you find some of the [...]
