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"Syndicating the Learning Process: Pods, Blogs, Wikis and Writely" Webcast
Wednesday, June 21st, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
1080 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff
Please join us for a local viewing on Wednesday, June 21st, of a live national web conference about "Syndicating the Learning Process: Pods, Blogs, Wikis and Writely." This event, sponsored by Technology Enhanced Learning & Research (TELR), begins at 1 pm in room 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff Avenue. Parking is available in the Tuttle Garage (for more campus map information go to www.osu.edu/map). There is no cost to attend this webcast in person at the Physics Research Building location. Please RSVP to Tom Stone (stone.177@osu.edu).
Overview:
By disseminating learning materials through technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and Writely, institutions deliver learning materials directly to students' desktops, laptops, and even iPods. The "Syndicating the Learning Process" web conference will demonstrate these new technologies. See examples of how they facilitate online collaboration, and how other learning institutions are using them to enhance their classes. Instruction sheets on how to use each of these technologies and links to free resources to help you get started will be shared as part of the session. You will leave with the essential tools and techniques to immediately begin implementing these emerging tools at your institution.
Who Should Attend:
Faculty and staff interested in starting to use collaborative technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and Writely in support of teaching efforts will receive the introduction they need to get started. This will not be an advanced discussion of any of these technologies, but will supply attendees with enough information and resources to immediately implement the basics of each technology as part of the learning process.
Agenda:
- Introduction to web 2.0
- Engaging the millennial student
- Interactive and collaborative technologies
- RSS dissemination and aggregation
- Blogs
- Nature, reach, and impact
- Creating a blog - demonstration and free tools
- Examples of uses in classes
- Team blogging and responses
- Interinstitutional blogging
- Podcasting
- Nature, reach, and impact
- Creating a podcast - demonstration and free tools
- Examples of uses in classes
- Instructor podcasting
- Student podcasting
- Wikis
- Nature, reach, and impact
- Creating a wiki - demonstration and free tools
- Examples of uses in classes
- Collaborative student projects
- Tutoring
- Writely
- Nature, reach, and impact
- Creating a Writely document - demonstration
- Examples of uses
- Team projects
- Multiple author projects
- Monitoring term paper, thesis, and dissertation progress
- A look ahead to future technologies
- Next generation technologies
- Open source solutions
- Access
Instructors are:
Ray Schroder, Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois at Springfield, recipient of 2002 Sloan-C award for "Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual," who is dedicated to faculty development and pedagogical support of online initiatives.
Shari McCurdy, Associate Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois, Springfield, who directs grant projects that examine the assessment of learning outcomes and the use of synchronous technologies in online learning.
More details are available online at: https://www.academicimpressions.com/web_conferences/0606-syndicating-learning.php
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