Here’s the presentation I gave this morning at Campus Technology 2012 in Boston. Thanks to Matt Somma for assisting!
Category Archives: Conference
ImageSpike
I’m preparing for my workshop at Campus Technology in a few weeks. One of the applications I may show is imageSpike, which lets you create interactive graphics such as this one, taken from the web page announcing the update to my Web 2.0 Concepts and Applications text book.
Teaching about the Cloud is a Breeze
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.
Text, Touch, Swipe, Learn
I’m speaking at the Cengage Chicago and St. Petersburg Forums on the topic “Text, Touch, Swipe, Learn” – showing some cool ways to include cell phones and tablets in your classroom. The session description:
Students today are constantly on their cell phones—texting, browsing, or updating their Facebook pages. Learn about the difference between native and web-based mobile apps, find out how to turn your class blog or Web site into a mobile app, explore cool phone and tablet apps with which to create learning activities, find out how to build your own phone apps using Windows Mobile Development tools, and web-based platforms that require no coding. Be prepared to tell us your favorite apps and how you use them in class.
And here are the slides. What’s missing are the stories that I told about some of these applications.
ISECON Social Media and Cloud Computing Presentations
Pat Sendall, Anthony Serapiglia, and I are presenting on Social Media: Beyond Facebook and Twitter at a panel at ISECON 2011.
Earlier at ISECON I presented a paper on The Silver Lining: A Teaching Case Using Google Docs to teach Cloud Computing Concepts.
Slides and a Mind Map on Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools after the jump.
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ISECON Windows Mobile Phone Development Workshop
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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