Mark Frydenberg

Here’s my presentation from the NBEA Conference in Boston. I was asked to talk about teaching Cloud Computing. I had some fun writing the description of my session.

Foggy about the Cloud? Clear up your understanding of software, infrastructure, platform, and data as a service in an easy lesson you can teach using familiar Google productivity tools. Learn how the Cloud precipitates from consumer apps to the enterprise. The forecast also calls for a flurry of cool applications to share in your classroom.

I’m leading a workshop at ISECON 2011 in Wilmington  on Creating Windows Mobile Phone Apps.  The workshop will be held on Friday, November 4, from 9:30 am to 11:55 a.m.  This post is primarily intended for participants, as it contains instructions on what to bring, read, download, sign up for, and do to prior to the workshop.

Learn how to create mobile applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform using Visual Basic and C# in just a few hours. By the end of this workshop, you will create and customize a phone app template developed by the presenter that combines information from your school’s Web site, RSS feeds, and other online sources to create a phone app for your school. Best of all, you don’t need to write a single line of source code to do this! You will also learn how to submit your apps to the Microsoft Marketplace. For those with some programming experience, we will review application code to interact with RSS feeds, display maps, and invoke Web services. We will also introduce Silverlight markup for designing a mobile application’s user interface. For those with no programming experience, we will also present web-based development tools to create mobile applications on iPhone, Droid, and Windows Phone 7 platforms.

Details about software and setup after the jump.
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I’m presenting today at NERCOMP’s WordPress in the Liberal Arts workshop in Norwood, MA organized by Baynard Bailey of Vassar College. My topic is “Teaching and Learning with WordPress” and more generally, blogging in the classroom.

Here’s my presentation.

The July 2011 issue of Campus Technology Magazine has a panel discussion on the future of Learning Management Systems.  

Here’s a summary of the Campus Technology Conference Panel on Learning Management Systems.

My response on what LMSs can learn from Facebook after the jump.

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My colleagues Diana Andone and Radu Vasiu from Romania were visiting me in Boston this weekend. We spent July 4 at Microsoft NERD. Here are some photos of the fireworks and the view.

A stitched photo of the Boston skyline:
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John Miko and I received a distinguished paper award at ISECON for our paper, “Taking it to the Top: A Lesson in Search Engine Optimization.”

This paper , presented on Halloween eve in Nashville, focused on the technology concepts students learned while completing the SEO Contest exercise in CS 299.  The abstract follows.

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I presented a paper  at CELDA entitled “First on the List: SEO Contests as Authentic Learning.”

The paper was co-authored by Prof. John Miko of St. Francis University. The abstract follows:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) describes a set of techniques applied to a Web site over time so it achieves a desirable position with a search engine’s rankings. SEO is an important strategy for organizations and individuals in order to promote their brands online. This paper describes an online learning activity that mimics a popular real-world event known as an SEO Contest. SEO Contest participants make use of a variety of techniques in order to compete for the top position in a search engine’s results when searching for a specified word or phrase. Results from this study show that teachers can leverage an SEO Contest as an authentic learning environment to effectively develop college students’ competence in implementing SEO techniques.

Slides after the jump.

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I gave my keynote yesterday morning, then spent the afternoon attending other sessions. In anticipation of my keynote, I was interviewed by Romanian Television about the future of the web, limits of social networking, and changes in how people use the web.In anticipation of my keynote, I was interviewed by Romanian Television about the future of the web, limits of social networking, and changes in how people use the web. The University celebrated its 90th anniversary this year, so they invited the conference participants to a banquet in the evening in honor of the occasion.  The evening was filled with elegant food, and Romanian music and dance.

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Here's where I am!

I arrived yesterday in Timisoara, Romania for the IADIS Internet/World Wide Web Conference.  I was supposed to be one of two keynote speakers, but my co-keynote, Molly Holschslag (@mollydotcom) went through an ordeal with customs and wasn’t able to make it, so I start the conference this morning.

Prof. Diana Andone from the University of Timisoara Politechnica met me at the airport yesterday. She and I had collaborated on a few papers last year, so it was nice to have a conversation in person and in the same time zone!

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Michael  Jernigan of Microsoft and I were asked to fill in at the SALT conference this morning to give  presentation on Social Media.  After Michael spoke about policies at Microsoft about sharing corporate information on social networks, I spoke about current trends and future possibilities in social media.

Shawn Rosler gives a summary on his blog.