Educational Technology Conferences for June to December 2011

Dwayne Harapnuik —  June 14, 2011 — Leave a comment

Clayton R. Wright has released his the 24th edition of the conference list. The list below covers selected events focused primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Only listings until December 2011 are complete as dates, locations, or URLs are not available for a number of events held after December 2011.

Clayton writes:

This potpourri of educational technology conferences includes gems such as “Saving Your Organization from Boring eLearning” and “Lessons and Insights from Ten eLearning Masters”. And, if you wish, you can “Be an Open Learning Hero”. You will also find that the number of mobile learning conferences (and conferences that have a mobile learning component) have increased significantly. Countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand have shown a keen interest in mobile learning.

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Minute.io & Saving Time

Dwayne Harapnuik —  June 9, 2011 — Leave a comment
http://minutes.io/#

mınutes.io — take it easy! via kwout

With so much to do and with so little time finding something that can help you save a few minutes in every day is extremely valuable. Therefore, I am forever in pursuit the the right app, web-app or piece of software that will make me moire efficient. Minute.io is a web-based service that simply enables you to record your meeting minutes, assign tasks/outcomes and then send those task out to meeting participants in an email. The meeting minutes can also be shared through a secret URL.

While these features are enough to entice me to use the service it is the coming or advance features that should make the service even more effective. Being able to send out a custom email with grouped ToDo is one feature that I am looking forward to but I am really looking forward to the integration of this service with my project management tools. If Minute.io will allow me to push my ToDos to Evernote, Things or Getitdone then this service will be even more valuable and could save me even more time. I will be watching this closely….

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Innovative & Improvisational Preparation for Team Teaching

Dwayne Harapnuik —  June 8, 2011 — Leave a comment
http://chronicle.com/article/With-Antic-Improvisation/127761/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

With Antic Improvisation, Professors Learn to Share the Classroom Stage – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

Ms. McGowan says, to help students prepare for a fluid business climate in which “within five years, they’ll probably be in a job that didn’t even exist when they started college.” That approach, she says, will require improvisational skills among instructors and students alike.

Philadelphia University plans to blend design, engineering and management into a new undergraduate program. Team teaching preparation is only part of the work that 12 faculty have undertaken over the past six months.

Read the full article…

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Creating Significant Learning Experiences Workshop

Dwayne Harapnuik —  June 8, 2011 — Leave a comment

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Thirty ACU faculty and staff attended this exceptional workshop. It is exciting to imagine the hundreds or thousands of students who will benefit from Dee Fink’s leadership in helping faculty at ACU learn how to systematically design their courses and to ultimately create learning environments that are learning centered and outcome based.

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College Conspiracy

Dwayne Harapnuik —  June 1, 2011 — Leave a comment

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This documentary makes the argument that the college bubble is the next big bubble that is about to burst. Student debt is well over $830 billion dollars which exceeds the credit card debt in the US. Lots of information to consider and validate.

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