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NERCOMP EVENT
Emerging Trends for Teaching & Learning
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This SIG will introduce and discuss a variety of emerging and cutting edge technologies for the attention of educators and academic support service providers.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Bryan Alexander and Shel Sax of Middlebury College
Date/Time:
Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
The International
159 Ballville Road
Bolton, MA
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Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $93
Non-Members: $193
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Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am - 9:30am Introduction & Overview
Speaker: Bryan Alexander, Director for Emerging Technologies, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
Web 2.0 or social software: new developments and practices in microcontent, web services, blogs, wikis, and social software applications.
9:30am – 10:30am Videogames & Learning
Speaker: Joel Forman, Associate Professor English Department, George Mason University
Gaming: the pedagogical and student cultural implications of computer games, including massively multiplayer online games, simulations, tutorials, and alternate reality games.
10:30am - 10:40am Break
10:40am - 11:25am Mobile Learning
Speaker: Bryan Alexander, Director for Emerging Technologies, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
Mobile and wireless technology: new developments in curricular delivery, pedagogical practices, content development, and student behavior.
11:25am - 12:10pm Ipods and Podcasting:
Speakers:
Bryan Alexander, Director for Emerging Technologies, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
Alex Chapin, Educational Technologist, Middlebury College
Shel Sax, Director of Educational Technology Services, Middlebury College
iPods and podcasting: a look at the first generation of pedagogical implementations of digital sound players and web-syndicated publication.
12:10pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control - Social Software in the Academy
Speaker: Brian Lamb, Learning Objects Coordinator, University of British Columbia
Weblogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarks and a new generation of online meta-tools. They're not just about easy, inexpensive means of personal publishing. They're about creating networks of expert peers, and riding out raging flows of information. They're about the culture of remix, liquid media and pattern recognition. Attention will focus on the dirty realities of supporting emergent media in the academy, and on lessons learned from ongoing examples.
2:00pm - 2:15pm Break
2:15pm - 3:00pm Scientific Visualization Software
Speaker: Dave Guertin, Educational Tech Specialist, Middlebury College
Three-dimensional software: 3d applications in teaching and learning, including science visualization, spatial recreation, modeling, and creative composition.
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Alex Chapin
Alex Chapin is an Educational Technologist at Middlebury College. He is currently directing the development of a number of open source curricular systems including the Segue Collaborative Learning System and systems for managing digital assets, assessments and knowledge bases as well as a standards-based application framework for building web applications. He has a keen interest in Tibetan Buddhism, is a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee (which translates Tibetan texts), and is the multimedia designer of "Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues," a CD-ROM for learning Tibetan.
Speaker:
Brian Lamb
Brian Lamb in an instructor and project coordinator for the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia, where he supports weblog and wiki efforts by faculty, staff and students. He periodically make ill-tempered observations on social software in higher education on his weblog, Abject Learning (http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian).
Speaker:
Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander is Director for Emerging Technologies at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and works from the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College, where he researches and develops programs on the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts colleges . A PhD graduate of the University of Michigan, he taught English and information technology studies as faculty at Centenary College of Louisiana. His primary research interests concern mobile and wireless computing, digital gaming, and social software. Other interests include digital writing, copyright and intellectual property , information literacy, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He maintains and contributes to a series of weblogs, including NITLE Tech News (http://www.nitle.org/tech_news) and Smartmobs (http://www.smartmobs.com), when not creating digital learning objects (like Gormenghast: http://www.centenary.edu/~balexand/gormenghast). Committed to exploring computer-mediated pedagogy, he continues to research and write on the critical uses of computers and teaching in terms of interdisciplinary liberal arts and the contemporary development of cyberculture.
Speaker:
David Guertin
David Guertin is an Educational Technology Specialist at Middlebury College, and works with the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research and the Computer Science Department. His primary focus is in the use of technology in science instruction, and he works closely with faculty from all of the college's science departments to develop instructional materials. He has a particular interest in the use of scientific visualization techniques to enhance understanding of science concepts. Dave did his undergraduate work in natural resources at Cornell University, and his graduate work in biology at Colorado State University. He has been with Middlebury College since 1996.
Speaker:
Joel Foreman
Joel Foreman an Associate Professor in the English Department at George Mason University has been studying the diffusion and impact of the electronic media since 1980. He spent several years during that decade writing about the evolution of computer-generated graphics for broadcast television. As a practitioner of video journalism, he produced a number of documentaries for public television, the Arts and Entertainment Network, the Discovery Channel, and other outlets. Foreman started building web based learning environments in 1996 in order to support his own distance courses on the subject of "virtual organization." Now he teaches all his courses online. His most recent research in networked and distributed learning environments was performed for the National Security Agency, for which he co-directed a 2-year project to design, construct, and assess learning modules for virtual problem-solving teams. His recent publications include articles on game based learning, digital writing courses, and virtual organization.
Speaker:
Shel Sax
Shel Sax is currently the Director of Educational Technology Services at Middlebury College and has worked for the college for many years in the technology field. Recently, Shel has joined the College's Center for Teaching, Learning and Research. His current focus is the interface of pedagogy and technology and its implications for curricular integration.
Shel did his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto and graduate work in economics at Simon Fraser University. He worked as a economic consultant in White Rock, British Columbia in the field of natural resources until moving to Middlebury Vermont. In 1985. he joined the economic department at Middlebury College. Becoming increasingly interested in the uses of technology to enhance teaching, Shel joined the Academic Computing Department in 1989. His main interest is working with faculty to introduce and incorporate appropriate technology into the curriculum in order to improve teaching. Maintaining his ties to the classroom, he team teaches a technologically intensive winter term course on innovative technologies.
Shel is a former Treasurer and member of the Board of Trustees of NERCOMP and was the conference chairman for the 2001 annual conference.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
Hotel Information:
Hotel Reservations: Rooms are available for $159 per night. Please call The International directly at 978.779.6911
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