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I’m giving a presentation at the 2008 Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning on the topic of socially constructed self-paced learning environments. In particular, I discuss the implementation of CMUOnet, an instance of the Elgg open source social application engine, for fostering organic, informal interaction among participants in an online self-paced professional development [...]

Free Webcast: New Features in Blackboard 8.0
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (CDT)
With the upgrade of the Blackboard course management system to version 8.0, faculty can expect to see a number of new and enhanced features when they log in to Blackboard. The new version introduces significant changes in the functionality [...]

My department at NIU has been working on a new endeavor we are calling “Quick Tips for Effective Instruction” in which we are putting together short multimedia presentations (5-8 minutes) to introduce faculty to different resources and methods for teaching and learning. The presentations are made available in a variety for formats, for viewing [...]

As an AECT member, I attended a great webinar by Ross Perkins on Second Life (SL). It offered a basic introduction to the virtual world of SL and gave a glimpse as to how AECT and its members are leveraging SL.
Ross was kind enough to record his talk and make an archive available. It’s a [...]

Stephen Downes shares this presentation he gave at e-Fest in Wellington, New Zealand. It’s his first extended discussion of groups and networks. Slides and audio are also available, along with the original diagram he drew comparing groups vs. networks and his initial video explanation.

This series of posts from Stephan Ridgway summarizes, and even better, provides audio from, the mLearn 07 conference. Stephan Ridgway, Talking VTE Podcast
http://talkingvte.blogspot.com/search/label/mlearn07
One session in particular that caught my eye is the session entitled, “Studywiz: A Big Platform in a Small World”. I hope to download the mp3 file of that session to [...]

Lisa Dawley from Boise State University offered a webinar entitled, Persistent Social Learning: An Emerging ID Model for Virtual Worlds. I wasn’t able to attend the session but stumbled across the link to the archive from the MailBucket aggregation of the Second Life Researcher’s List and Second Life Educator’s List.
http://edtech.acrobat.com/p17101188/
Thanks to Lisa for posting the [...]

Stephen Downes provides this response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark’s paper entitled, Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work: An analysis of the failure of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry based teaching.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6353305476431305581

Downes makes a thorough critique of the assumptions espoused by Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark and argues with the core debate of cognitive [...]

Stephen Downes shares this presentation in summary of his reflections from the 2007 AECT Convention. I’m hoping to be able to attend and present at the 2008 conference.

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Anyone else attend the convention and care to share your impressions?

Here’s a great presentation by Alexander Hayes rethinking what it means to use RSS as “glu” for an open teaching/learning environment. As Nancy White notes, Alex isn’t just suggesting a new educational environment, but a new way of living for educators.

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George Siemens posted this presentation discussing how the future of education needs to be based on deep understanding, not shallow awareness…and the “disciplines of understanding” needed to achieve this.

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This past week I gave a presentation at the 2007 SLATE Conference on the topic of Web 2.0 tools and integration with learning management systems.  Below is the citation for my talk along with links for the handout and audio recording of the session.
Citation:
Rhode, J. F. (2007, Oct. 5). Web 2.0 gizmos and gadgets: Moving beyond [...]

Terry Anderson shares his presentation at the 2007 European Conference on E-Learning entitled, “Effective Educational Social Software: Getting the Correct Granularity”

The model proposed of social learning 2.0 to include groups, networks, and the collective is intriguing and is certainly a existing dynamic of online learning approaches that integrate social web tools.

I’ve been wanting to give VoiceThread a try, so using the model of a socially-constructed self-paced learning environment that I developed some time ago, I created the following narrated presentation using VoiceThread. This by no means exibits the full potential of this tool, but it is my maiden voyage using this technology. To [...]

I put together this presentation as part of a larger initiative to train NIU faculty on the use of a new podcasting building block in Blackboard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQFKNcdCdLM

For the highest quality version of this tutorial, view the flash version. Also, this presentation is posted in .mov, .m4b (enhanced podcast), and on YouTube.