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NERCOMP EVENT
Personal Learning Environments Within the Institution
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The explosion and continued development of web 2.0 tools, coupled with the growing acceptance of Social Constructivism and Connectives as learning theories, has resulted in an embarrassment of teaching and learning riches that somehow, seem to be slightly out of reach. The dilemma is that user-friendly tools, which are typically browser-based and often open source, are almost by their very nature, antithetical to playing well with institutional learning management systems (LMS).
LMSs provide structure, standardization, and control. A combination of web 2.0 tools chosen by the individual as his or her preferred means to interact with the electronic world (PLE) offers flexibility, independence, and a sense of personal creativity and empowerment heretofore not generally available to the masses.
Can the two coexist? If so, how? Or is it simply that institutional PLEs are oxymoronic?
Workshop Organizer/Host: Elaine Garofoli of Suffolk University
Date/Time:
Monday, November 09, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
UMASS Amherst
Campus Center
First Floor
Amherst, MA
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Special instructions:
Getting to the Campus Center Parking Garage… From Massachusetts Avenue (after exiting from Route 116) At the second set of lights turn left onto Commonwealth Avenue – Boyden Gymnasium is on the corner of Commonwealth & Massachusetts Avenues. At the next set of lights turn right onto Campus Center Way and proceed up Campus Center Way – The entrance to the Campus Center Parking Garage is at the top of the hill on the right.
Parking is available in the Campus Center Garage, pick up your parking pass at the registration desk and pay $5 when leaving.
Park on the 2nd floor of the parking garage and walk thru the hallway into the Student Center and go down to the first floor.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $110
Non-Members: $235
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Registration is closed for this event.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
Please know that tweeting the session with the code #nercomp09 is highly encouraged by all who feel so inclined.
9:00am – 10:00am What is a PLE?
Speaker: Elaine Garofoli, Educational Technologist, Suffolk University
This session will begin to uncover the many different definitions of Personal Learning Environments, as well elucidate some of the issues raised as a result of trying to integrate them into an existing instructional delivery platform. You will be very much involved in this introductory session in order to establish our communal current knowledge base, and to create questions to serve as a focal point for the day.
The Networked Student (from the Connectivism course. this clearly lays out the new learning environment via networking)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA
10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:15am A PLE Evolution Story
Speaker: Caleb Clark, Director, Master of Arts in Teaching with Internet Technologies (MAT), Marlboro College Graduate School (VT)
Caleb will share the trials, tribulations, and recommendations garnered as a result of using PLEs in the MAT curriculum. This will include the conception of the original use of a PLE, the current implementation, and lessons learned.
11:15am – 12:15pm Embedding a PLE in a Portal
Speaker: Wendy McGrath, Instructional Systems Designer, Antioch University
The extension of portal functionality into the realm of 'social networking' opens possibilities for templating emergent personal learning environments and personal work environments through and within them. This session explores a set of approaches for using a portal for as the foundation for a PLE structure for a PhD program that is embedded both in the program's community, and in its content field. Come with your own thoughts and ideas to add to the mix.
12:15pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm PLEs and the Challenge of Assessment
Speaker: TBA
TBA
2:00pm - 3:00pm Panel Discussion
The speakers from today's sessions will combine to address your questions concerning
Institutional PLEs.
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Caleb Clark
Caleb Clark is the program director and an adjunct professor in the Teaching with Technology Masters Program. He has been an educational technologist since 1997 and a Web geek since 1993. His focus is the creation and management of humane Web media, specifically social networking, video, and photography for higher education.
Caleb has been involved in Web development since the dot.com boom in California’s Bay Area. He has worked as a Webmaster in advertising, an online community manager for Netscape, an instructional designer for Maxis and Blip.tv, and a consultant and manager for Antioch New England Graduate School, High Tech High School, Keene State College, and World Learning. Caleb regularly publishes articles, tutorials and Web 2.0 media.
Caleb has an MPS degree from the Interactive Technology Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. At ITP he focused on new formats of online documentary Web video, physical computing and sustainability, and worked on grants teaching video blogging to non-profits in New Orleans and environmental documentation in Panama. He has an MA in educational technology from San Diego State University where he focused on usability and online community. Caleb’s BA is in journalism and broadcasting from Arizona State University.
Speaker:
Elaine Garofoli
Elaine Garofoli is the Educational Technologist for Suffolk University's Sawyer School of Business, and has been since February 2009.
Prior to Suffolk, Elaine was President and owner of SparkFireLearning, an elearning and distance education company that targeted higher education and specialized in instructional/learning design, faculty development, and the integration of teaching, learning and technology in general. It was during this time that she was also Director for the Master of Arts in Teaching with Internet Technologies (MAT) program at the Marlboro College Graduate School.
Elaine brings more than 30 years combined experience in pedagogy, training, education, and computer technology; a history of national and international conferences presentations and workshop engagements; and experience working in a variety of educational institutions, with students, faculty, staff, and administrators to all work in which she is engaged.
Speaker:
Wend McGrath
Wendy McGrath is a former Education Department Core Faculty and Director of Academic Technology at Antioch University, New England. Currently redesigning a virtual campus for the PhD in Leadership and Change low-residency program for the university.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Campus Center Hotel located right on campus.
Rooms are reserved under Block Number NER09C, the rate is $107 per night. The room block will be released on October 23.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-413-549-6000 ext 78047
For additional information go to:
http://www.aux.umass.edu/hotel/
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