Category Archives: Attending

Executive Summit

Attending, Speaking

Ron Danielson, CIO of Santa Clara University, will be giving a panel discussion on “Impactful Technologies” for the College Campus” at the Campus Technology Executive Summit in Boston on Monday, July 19.

Despite our different backgrounds (Ron, in learning space design, and mine in using software tools and technologies in the classroom), we identified several common themes and concerns from our varied experiences that we will share:

  • new possibilities emerge in collaborative software and spaces
  • student generated content, and its impact
  • students create their own physical or virtual learning spaces 
  • given all this, what happens to authority? role of instructors change from teacher to coach

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Web 2.0 and Multifaceted Learning

Attending, Speaking,

Trent Batson, Evan Leek, Ben Aslinger, and I are presenting on Web 2.0 and Multifaceted Learning at NERCOMP on Thursday.  Slides after the jump. Or search for #nercw2 on Twitter.

Web 2.0 creates a culture for both creating and consuming knowledge, both of which promote learning. Web 2.0 literacy, in one respect, is about learning to use collaborative tools to solve complex problems; in another, it is about managing and interpreting a broader, authentic, set of student work. The presenters will share their experiences and current thinking regarding the much larger chain of evidence, and about technologies that can assist students and faculty to technically manage the evidence. This includes creating activities using Web 2.0 tools that engage college students and promote learning in a variety of styles and capturing learning evidence through the use of e-portfolio systems. We will share samples of student work, lessons learned, and technologies used. Participants will discuss the effect of media and multimedia on learning, as well as how to use a variety of web 2.0 tools in an academic context.

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Two Legs of the Elephant

Attending, Teaching, ,

At the Web 2.0 Expo conference, there was a lot of talk this week about sensors, data, and the Internet of Things, and very little about “Web 3.0” or the Semantic Web. I asked Tim O’Reilly about the relationship between Internet of Things and the Semantic Web as  we walked from the Moscone Center to the Marriott. This was one of the questions on my CS 299 final exam, so it was good to hear Tim’s perspective.

Web 2.0 Expo

Attending


Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010
I’m going to San Francisco next week for the Web 2.0 Expo conference.  This is the schedule of sessions I hope to be attending. There are several that meet at the same time, so I’ll decide at the time.   The session whose title intrigued me the most was The ABCs of APIs: Why Not Having an API in 2010 is Like Not Having a Website in 2001. Real World Case Studies of API Success   because the title hinted at the change in how people use the Web over the the past ten years, from a tool for personal comunication to one where businesses can communciate and share data and processes with each other.