Thanks to one of the many folks I follow on Twitter.com, earlier today I was able to listen live to most of an interview with Sir Ken Robinson, whom I've posted about before on his Ted talk. The program link is here:
KUOW 94.9 Public Radio
And here is the recorded Podcast file
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Another January 2009 Faculty Workshop Presentation
Ed Walton gave a presentation about Library Tips and Tricks, and afterwards asked for me to share it via my blog. So, I've used this as an opportunity to use two different methods; Slideshare.net and Google Docs.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
January 2009 Faculty Workshops
I am presenting two topics during the workshops:
Instructional Design with ANGEL = a look at the pedagogical why and how for what you can do with your ANGEL course, for supporting your face to face class, or a hybrid class, or even a fully online.
http://prezi.com/4627/
Reports and Automation in ANGEL = Wish you had a graduate assistant for your classes? Wanting to save your self some time and effort? Wish you could provide a more interactive course? We'll take a look at how you can check on things in your class with Reports, and how that same information can work for you by making Agents do the work automatically.
http://prezi.com/4643/
And these are my second and third Prezi.com presentations.
Instructional Design with ANGEL = a look at the pedagogical why and how for what you can do with your ANGEL course, for supporting your face to face class, or a hybrid class, or even a fully online.
http://prezi.com/4627/
Reports and Automation in ANGEL = Wish you had a graduate assistant for your classes? Wanting to save your self some time and effort? Wish you could provide a more interactive course? We'll take a look at how you can check on things in your class with Reports, and how that same information can work for you by making Agents do the work automatically.
http://prezi.com/4643/
And these are my second and third Prezi.com presentations.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
And now for something, completely different
To say that TED talks are a great way to have a guest speaker for your class might be an understatement. Having watched a few clips from the TED site earlier, I'd like to share this one on the topic of how schools kill creativity:
You can always find great food for thought at http://www.ted.com
(updated the embeded video code 1/1/2009)
You can always find great food for thought at http://www.ted.com
(updated the embeded video code 1/1/2009)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
SBU ANGEL News
Well, it has been way too long since the last blog post here. I want to get back in the habit of getting information about SBU Instructional Technology out to you, the reader. And a recent bit of publicity seems to be a good way to get the ball rolling again.
ANGEL has been kind enough to work with us on the following press release:
http://www.angellearning.com/media/news/2008-11-19.html
Our thanks to Nancy Schmutzler, Sr. Marketing Communications Specialist, for her time and efforts.
Stay tuned for more news about ANGEL, and other areas of Instructional Technology at SBU!
ANGEL has been kind enough to work with us on the following press release:
http://www.angellearning.com/media/news/2008-11-19.html
Our thanks to Nancy Schmutzler, Sr. Marketing Communications Specialist, for her time and efforts.
Stay tuned for more news about ANGEL, and other areas of Instructional Technology at SBU!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Another Summer 2008 IT Update
Time to give SBU another blog post on how things are going for Instructional Technology this summer. Picking up from the last post, and going week by week...
During the week of July 7th, quite of bit of Electronic Classroom install work was done. The Blackboard login page was updated to provide some details and links to more information. ANGEL released their ePortfolio version 2.1, which we've added to our testing server. This week saw the end of ITV classes which ran from 7am to 6pm, and the first day of sales for the new iPhone 3G were on the 11th, which made for some interesting Twitter reading. People standing in line for hours, authorizing systems overwhelming, etc.
The week of July 14th started with the availability of the new Palm Treo 800w; while it starts with Sprint only, it will most likely be available on Alltel soon after. Now that Bolivar has the faster EV data service, my older Palm Treo 700wx feels even more useful than before, and the built-in features like GPS and Wi-Fi for the 800w would be a nice step up. Beyond dreams of a newer cell phone, this week had three days of Datatel training in the ITS computer lab, continued Electronic Classroom install work, and another ANGEL meeting. We started talking about Configuration details for our ANGEL server, and the abilities and features highlighted in those discussions were exciting and well-received. Another two week set of ITV classes started this week, but they are both start time of 1pm, so the workload is much lighter than the previous two weeks.
To close, how about a peek into the week of July 21st? We've just had the last of the full new Electronic Classroom installs for the Bolivar campus completed today. I'll still need to revisit them all for fine tuning and such well before August 25th. Work on the Salem campus is scheduled to begin on Wednesday this week. The last week of Summer 2008 ITV is underway, and another ANGEL meeting is scheduled for Thursday. At this meeting, we'll start applying the ideas discussed last week to our testing server.
The Summer semester has gone past very quickly, it will be Fall 2008 before I know it!
During the week of July 7th, quite of bit of Electronic Classroom install work was done. The Blackboard login page was updated to provide some details and links to more information. ANGEL released their ePortfolio version 2.1, which we've added to our testing server. This week saw the end of ITV classes which ran from 7am to 6pm, and the first day of sales for the new iPhone 3G were on the 11th, which made for some interesting Twitter reading. People standing in line for hours, authorizing systems overwhelming, etc.
The week of July 14th started with the availability of the new Palm Treo 800w; while it starts with Sprint only, it will most likely be available on Alltel soon after. Now that Bolivar has the faster EV data service, my older Palm Treo 700wx feels even more useful than before, and the built-in features like GPS and Wi-Fi for the 800w would be a nice step up. Beyond dreams of a newer cell phone, this week had three days of Datatel training in the ITS computer lab, continued Electronic Classroom install work, and another ANGEL meeting. We started talking about Configuration details for our ANGEL server, and the abilities and features highlighted in those discussions were exciting and well-received. Another two week set of ITV classes started this week, but they are both start time of 1pm, so the workload is much lighter than the previous two weeks.
To close, how about a peek into the week of July 21st? We've just had the last of the full new Electronic Classroom installs for the Bolivar campus completed today. I'll still need to revisit them all for fine tuning and such well before August 25th. Work on the Salem campus is scheduled to begin on Wednesday this week. The last week of Summer 2008 ITV is underway, and another ANGEL meeting is scheduled for Thursday. At this meeting, we'll start applying the ideas discussed last week to our testing server.
The Summer semester has gone past very quickly, it will be Fall 2008 before I know it!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
On the eve of the 4th of July 2008
I ran out of time and gumption to make a post last week, so I wanted to review the past two weeks in SBU Instructional Technology before enjoying a three day weekend.
On the LMS front, we have a testing ANGEL server running now, which has been of great use for the Administrator training. I just keep finding more and more reasons to like ANGEL, from both the Instructor and Administrator perspectives. For Blackboard, I did receive confirmation from the vendor for our previous My Courses module (with the red push pins and courses organized by semester) that it will not work on our downgraded server. So, I will soon need to make a post here dedicated to working with the original My Courses module. Basically, you can modify the list of courses it will show, that way you are not looking at courses from Fall 2005 if you don't want to.
Summer ITV started June 30th, and with a class that starts a 7am, and another that ends at 5:45pm, I've had rather long days in the office. Working towards a three day weekend has helped, and the classes themselves have all run very smoothly. It can be kinda quiet here without some students going in and out from ITV classes. And I always enjoy seeing communication technology making it possible to deliver face-to-face learning in a convenient-for-many way.
And today marked the first major installs for new Electronic Classrooms this summer. Jester Learning and Performance Center's 244 room now has all the equipment it needs. There are some minor issues to resolve, otherwise the room is nearly done. The list I have made to keep track of all the efforts is fairly long, such that I have to scroll up and down a fair amount in OneNote to see it all. But getting this room, and the projector mounted in the Art Department's computer lab, serves as a great way to start checking items off the list.
On the LMS front, we have a testing ANGEL server running now, which has been of great use for the Administrator training. I just keep finding more and more reasons to like ANGEL, from both the Instructor and Administrator perspectives. For Blackboard, I did receive confirmation from the vendor for our previous My Courses module (with the red push pins and courses organized by semester) that it will not work on our downgraded server. So, I will soon need to make a post here dedicated to working with the original My Courses module. Basically, you can modify the list of courses it will show, that way you are not looking at courses from Fall 2005 if you don't want to.
Summer ITV started June 30th, and with a class that starts a 7am, and another that ends at 5:45pm, I've had rather long days in the office. Working towards a three day weekend has helped, and the classes themselves have all run very smoothly. It can be kinda quiet here without some students going in and out from ITV classes. And I always enjoy seeing communication technology making it possible to deliver face-to-face learning in a convenient-for-many way.
And today marked the first major installs for new Electronic Classrooms this summer. Jester Learning and Performance Center's 244 room now has all the equipment it needs. There are some minor issues to resolve, otherwise the room is nearly done. The list I have made to keep track of all the efforts is fairly long, such that I have to scroll up and down a fair amount in OneNote to see it all. But getting this room, and the projector mounted in the Art Department's computer lab, serves as a great way to start checking items off the list.
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