Summary 

Ideas

1. Use wikis to let students create study guides

2. Google Spreadsheets and maps are interesting and could help more with research

3. Should we have a TEDx event for freshman where we can seed ideas from videos , many of which are from MIT

4. Sakai 3.0 shows a lot of promise

5. Mixed Reality - Could be used effectively for students in D-Lab and PSC when they travel to developing countries. India always seem to cause a shock for the first time visitor and using the mixed reality idea to get a better sense of the place would be useful. (more than a travel to mars or to see paintings in italy)

6. Distance education tools like WIMBA could be used by faculty to present to students when they are away. (not sure if there is such a need at MIT)

7.  Mobile course material delivery -- or cloud delivery now..

8.  twikkir as a plugin for Confluence so Tweets could be sent to student from Wikis. 

9. Xythos looks good.

10. There is a company that outsources all help. Universities like Arizona state is using it where is there is one help number for all telephone answered help calls - so medical and IT would be one call. Then the call is triaged from there. Sounds like a great service to enhance the student "experience"

Questions

1. Google Wave needs to be understood better

2. Does MIT have a cloud strategy ?

3. Lecture capture seems to be all the rage. With Annotation it could be a very useful tool.

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Notes from the conference


Monday


1. Getting up to speed on Sakai - Attended the overview. Has come a long way since 2.0 in terms of robustness, though the Portfolios (OSP) are now integrated into Sakai Average staff numbers needed to manage Sakai without using a complany support - 5 .. Sites with Rsmart as support needs 2

. PPT from the presentation

 2. Google Sites /Using Wikis to teach

PPT form the presentation

 Ideas

  • Write papers.. -- Teachers can comment along the way.
  • Unknown macro: {twikkir}
    as a macro for sending tweets from the wiki
  • Watch the process happen
  • More work to support the writing
  • Use it to create an exam  review guide
  • Let the students put up the questions and answers(
    • Shows the instructor what the students have understood
    • Answers to the study guide questions are very enlightening to the professor.

3.  Google Sites -- Quite powerful.

  • Enable you easily include blogs wikis etc.
  • An easy way to create a quite and dirty website with a lot of power
  • Google Wave.. - Joint notes
  • coverit live
  • Knol
  • Google Sense in the spreadsheet
  • Google Lookup in the spreadsheet

4. Google Reader to bundle RSS feeds. Can RSS bundles be created out of google reader.. Feed Reader Lite ,

5. Web 2.0 collaboration.

      Interdisciplinary Collaboration Fund (2.0) rji.missouri.edu  iifund.missouri.edu

      newzie

TAKE AWAY FROM THE DAY FOR ME --

Check out Google Wave and many other Google Tools!

Investigate wikis that create cognition  audit trail (Eg ask the students to create  a study guide)

Tuesday

A good summary of the talk

Digital Life - Outside of the class -- Emerging Technologies in Education Technology

Web 2.0 

Frontend - is interesting

  • Sharing(social bookmarking, photo/video sharing, social networking, Writers workshop)
  • Thinking (Blogs, Podcasts,on-line discussion)
  • Collaborating

Backend - is the opportunity

  • Allows us to create maps to see how knowledge is created.
  • http://edtags.org
  • Can now have a cognitive audit trail

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Henry Jenkins - Framework for New literacies, Leu's Charecteristics of New Litaracies

Web 2.0 redefines What, How and With Whom we Learn

Web 2.0 is easy to use but difficult to use "well"

  • Effective use of Web 2.0 media requires fluency in their rhetoric.
  • A good web 2.0 based teaching will need to help students understand difference between data and information.. understanding inconsistencies and inaccuracies...
  • Thanks to Web 2.0 Epistemology of knowledge has changed.. How you get to knowledge has changed

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"Overlay Devices"

Augmented reality for entertainment and learning - Combining real world and virtual world. 

Download video Rukus reward.

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HARP - Handheld Augmented Reality Project

Alien Contact --

Dependent augmented reality rather than independent augmented reality

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Next Generation - Immersive Learning. 

Virtual ecosystem (MUVE) - Multi User Virtual Environment

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Situated Learning

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A difference model of pedagogy -  Teaching Higher order things..

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Assessment --NSES Model of Inquiry.

 -----Back End Architecture to support active learning

  http://wws.nsf.gov/crsprgm/i-team/



Sakai CLE

Check out teach with Sakai innovation awards. 

  • Overall control in hands of space hands
  • Embrace today's participatory culture
  • Simple integration of common academic functions.

 Approach to content Authoring

  • WYSIWYG
  • Blank Slate or Templates
  • Wiki-like collaboration

Integrating interactive widgets

Academic Workflows often cross boundaries

Tools become more of an aggregate view

Academic Networking

Around Content (flickr del.icio.us) Around People (facebook, linked in)

Around activity --what will this be??

Future

  • Instructor Connects with Colleague
  • Students in each instructors courses given option to connect
  • Project Teams are cross institutional

  http://sakaiproject.org\\

Five elements of successful technology enhanced learning
Styles

Design

Context

Community

Adaptability


Learning styles -- Multiple Learning Styles at different times..

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Sun - Wonderland Immersive learning

Social learning exchange

http://blogs.sun.com/vw/entry/mirtle_a_mixed_reality_teaching

TEDx interesting idea to seed ideas especially during freshman orientation

Wednesday

 Keynote

Augmented reality

Evidence - Learning

Distance Education

WIMBA

Faculty travel  -- Good way to keep in touch with

St.Francis University

Centra,Click-to-meet Horizon Wimba, Learnlinc, Microsoft live meeting

Mobile Delivery -Towards Portable Cloud Computing.

Mobile, Cloud -- Thomas Edison College 

mLearning difference from eLearning

Develop,Track,Deliver  - Hot Lava

 Author once - Publish for everyone. 

Multiple Delivery modes.

(FYI.Zimbra, Zoho, Googledocs) 

 The cloud environment

 (ex: googledoc)

1. Access to information 24/7

2. Device agnostic

3. Serves the multi-tasking students

4. Must provide accountability

5. Tracking and integration

Independent study courses .. 

Content to be mobilized

Standard quizzes for 20 courses

all same format

all multichoice

Hot Lava content converter

immediate reporting of score to Black board Environment

Thursday

Cloud Computing in Education

Everything in the cloud

SIMtone - a delivery platform

Any services to any platform on any network - No VPN etc.

Education Thunder

2009 -

Untethered Students 

Access to everything from everywhere..

Final Keynote - Phil Long -- Speaks a little about ACIS..

Wants to Build new things not make it a service.

So perhaps that is what distinguishes FSX from OEIT?




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