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Invisible
Web: How to Move Beyond the First Search
Result
This immensely popular
hands-on webcast with Dan Balzer, Dennis O’Connor
and Carl Heine from the 21st Century Information
Fluency Project unpacked
the "invisible
web". The session defined the invisible
web and looked at core concepts for helping
searchers reach beyond the first search engine
result to the superior content of the invisible
web.
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Podcast
Interview with Phillip Long of MIT on
Community-Owned
Initiatives
A podcast conversation
with Phillip Long of MIT on open source and
community-owned initiatives, including: The
Sakai Project, MIT OpenCourseWare, and the
Horizon Report. Recorded at the recent NMC
regional conference at Yale University. |
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Podcast
Interview with Michael Roy about Academic
Commons
An audio podcast interview
with Michael Roy, founding editor of Academic
Commons, and director of Academic Computing
Services and Digital Projects at Wesleyan University.
Roy discusses the Academic Commons and LoLa
(Learning Object, Learning Activity) Exchange.
Recorded at the NMC regional conference at
Yale University. |
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Learning
by Doing
Host Paul Stacey led this
live webcast dialogue with author Clark Aldrich,
featuring an exploration of games and simulations
from Clark's latest book "Learning by Doing".
Find out how to select, research, build, sell,
deploy, and measure the right type of educational
simulation for the right situation. |
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Educating
the Net Generation: A Podcast with Diana
Oblinger
This the first of several
recorded podcasts produced in support of the "Educating
the Net Generation" live webcast series
within LearningTimes.org. Diana Oblinger, vice
president for the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning
initiatives
and
director
of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative
(NLII), answers questions and concerns raised
by educators from across the globe. Diana is
interviewed by LearningTimes member Allan Carrington
from the University of Adelaide. |
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Creating
a CD Portfolio for Documenting Student
Progress
This live online
session was conducted as a prelude to over
65 presentations by 90 education professionals
from across the globe delivered
during the Illinois
Online Conference 2005 in February 2005. In this session recording,
Dr. Susan Manning of Waubonsee Community College
focused on a
strategy for using audio and video to document
student performance, a strategy that may be
applicable to many settings and courses.
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NECC
2004 Wrap-up with Don Knezek, CEO of
ISTE
This live session provided
a recap of NECC 2004 (National Educational
Computing Conference), which is presented anually
by ISTE (International Society for Technology
in Education). NECC is the largest educational
technology conference of its kind. ISTE CEO
Don Knezek led a panel discussion about
themes
and trends
discussed
by this year's more than 17,000 education professionals
in attendance. Knezek was joined by: Leslie
Conery, Deputy CEO of ISTE, Anita
McAnear,
NECC 2004 Program Chair and Barbara Stein,
National Education Association (NEA) Director
of External Partnerships and Advocacy, who
all discussed major conference themes generated
during this
year's event in New Orleans.
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Hybrid
Live Learning Events or "Multiple
Venue Productions" (MVPs)
This live, online session
focused on the emerging genre of hybrid workshops
and conferences (i.e. live learning events with
both an online and a face-to-face audience) and
explored the possibilities and pitfalls of living
at the confluence of these two modes of interaction.
Jonathan Finkelstein, Executive Producer of the
LearningTimes.org, Randall Kindley, President
of The Performance Group and Dan Balzer, Instructional
Designer for the ILCCO Learning Academy, moderated
this lively exploration with LT members from
around the globe.
The investigation of this topic
began with a case
study by Dan Balzer. A discussion
forum within
the community is home to ongoing questions and
insights among members. The recording
of the informal live roundtable of colleagues,
practitioners and blended facilitation enthusiasts
captures
the sharing of observations, experiences and
the exploration of the great potential for this "hybrid" format
of connecting people. The session begins to uncover
the Hows, Whys, Whens and "best things to
practice" in designing hybrid live workshops
or MVPs ("Multiple Venue Productions"),
a term the moderators of this session use to
describe this genre.
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Professional
Development in K-12: Trends & Opportunities
This interactive online
roundtable explored current trends and opportunities
in
Professional Development (PD) for K-12 educators.
In particular, the focus was on school districts
looking to third party resources for PD services
and materials. This session featured a discussion
with Eric Bassett, Director of Research Practice
at Eduventures, and author of a recent
report entitled: "Uncovering
K-12 Professional Development Opportunities".
Co-hosting with LearningTimes Executive Producer
Jonathan
Finkelstein was
Mark Gura, who has been an educator for over
three decades. Before taking on his current
role as Professional Development Specialist
at Fordham University's Regional Educational
Technology Center (RETC), Gura spent 18 years
as a classroom teacher before becoming the
Director of the Office of Instructional Technology
of the NYC Board of Education.
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An
e-Portfolio Project Pilot in Europe
This live online session, produced by BCCampus.ca, featured a discussion
with David Tosh of the University of Edinburgh about his work on
e-portfolios within a European Union funded project on adult basic
skills certification. |
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"Beginning
the Third Decade of the IT Revolution in
Higher Education"
"Much as the past two decades have been marked by academe's great aspirations
for the role of technology in instruction and operations, this decade may be
marked by efforts to make institutions accountable for the continuing (and rising)
investment in IT," says Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus
Computing Project in a recent "Digital Tweed" column in Syllabus Magazine. |
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The
Connexions Project with Richard Baraniuk
These webcast recordings
explore "Connexions" -- an open source,
collaborative, community-driven approach to authoring,
teaching, and learning that offers custom-tailored
electronic course material, adaptable to a wide
range of learning styles. Connexions provides
tools that encourage students to explore the
links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. |
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RSS,
Blogging and What it Means for Teaching
and Learning
The recording of an international
live interview with Alan Levine of Maricopa Community
College and Garry Putland of EdNA Online (Australia).
Michael Chalk (Australia) conducted the interview,
supported by LearningTimes member Michael Coghlan. |
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ICT
Literacy & E-Government with Mike McCurry
and Andrea Taylor
A live online interview with
Mike McCurry, former White House Press Secretary
to President Clinton, and Andrea Taylor, Vice
President, Education Development Center (EDC),
and Director, EDC Center for Media & Community.
This session explored ICT literacy and the impact
of the Internet on the civic process, e-government
and e-voting in the upcoming elections. Mike
McCurry is currently a partner in Public Strategies
Washington and Chairman of Grassroots Enterprise.
As former President of the Benton Foundation
and in her current position Andrea Taylor dedicates
significant efforts to achieving equity in e-government
access. The topic of this live interactive webcast
is ICT literacy and the impact of the Internet
on the civic process, e-government and e-voting
in the upcoming elections. |
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Online
Mentoring
This member-led session explored "online
mentoring". What is it all about? Session
participants discussed the basics of online mentoring
and how this process can help employees, students,
clients and co-workers reach their highest potential.
The pitfalls and barriers to successful implementation
of online mentoring were also discussed. This
session was be led by Carole McCulloch and Kevin
Hartford. It was organized by LearningTimes member
Angelo John Lewis, on behalf of the LearningTimes "Virtual
Communities Working Group". |
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Sen.
Hillary Clinton and Panel on "Non
Traditional Students"
Senator Hillary Clinton (NY)
made her first ever interactive webcast appearance
as a keynote speaker within LearningTimes. Senator
Clinton's remarks were part of a panel discussion
on the "Non-Traditional Student". Other
panelists included Mark David Milliron, the President
and Chief Executive Officer of the League for
Innovation in the Community College, an international
consortium dedicated to catalyzing the community
college movement; Abe Lackman, President of the
Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities;
Joyce S. Tsunoda, Emeritus Chancellor for the
Community Colleges, University of Hawai'i and
Senior Distinguished Visiting Scholar, East-West
Center; and Thomas Flynn, President, Monroe Community
College, SUNY.
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Toolsday:
Moodle Creator Martin Dougiamas - An Online
Discussion
This is the recording of
an informal live conversation with creator and
lead developer of the Moodle platform, Martin
Dougiamas. Moodle is a course management system
(CMS) - a software package designed to help educators
create online courses. One of the key attributes
of Moodle is a strong grounding in "social
constructionist pedagogy". Moodle is Open
Source software, which means one can freely download
it, use it, and modify it.
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Internet-Mediated
Communities of Practice
A presentation by Bronwyn
Stuckey of her methodology developed for an almost
finished Ph.D study comparing ten online Communities.
What are the conditions sufficient for development
of successful Internet-mediated communities of
practice (IMCoP) and what part do community initiators
play in developing those conditions?
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Toolsday:
Introduction to Moodle as a Collaborative
Device
"Toolsday" is a
member-led, live online "show and tell" session
in which a collaborative tool or activity is
showcased. This Toolsday was led by LearningTimes
member Robert "Elderbob" Brannon and
explored Moodle, an open source course management
system.
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ICT
Literacy For All, Essential 21st Century
Learning Strategies
This provocative program
featured Ferdi Serim, author of "Information
Technology for Learning", Dr. David Thornburg,
Director of the Thornburg Center and Senior Fellow
of the Congressional Institute for the Future,
Ellen Nelson, CEO of Decision Development Corporation,
the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and
participants from around the globe, discussing
21st Century ICT learning strategies.
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"Online
Interaction & Community" with
Nancy White
Nancy White, a pioneer practitioner
and teacher of online facilitation, joined LearningTimes
members live online for a conversation about "online
interaction and community". The event, organized
by the LearningTimes "Virtual Communities
Working Group" took place in their virtual
LT office.
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The
Virtual Classroom and Creating Community
Jonathan Finkelstein led
this session introducing the use of a live audio-based
virtual classroom in building communities for
learning online. The session was part of a multi-week
hands-on workshop called "Becoming a Webhead" which
is part of the "Elecontronic Village Online
Sessions" by TESOL. The workshop was focused
on how to use Web communication tools for language
teaching and learning. Webheads in Action is
a community of language teachers worldwide.
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Thiagi
Presents Techniques for the Live Virtual
Classroom
This engaging event with
Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan provided
an overview of some practical, creative and effective
techniques or "frames" -- adaptable
to your own instruction (online or offline) --
that maximize engagement and learning in the
live online environment.
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Palloff & Pratt
on the Virtual Student
Drs. Rena Palloff and Keith
Pratt returned to LearningTimes to interact with
members online. The focus of this webcast was
on practical ideas for working with online students.
Palloff and Pratt answered member questions on
issues like: learning styles, evaluation, retention,
technical readiness, and the challenging problems
of plagiarism and cheating. All of these are
topics they cover in their latest book, "The
Virtual Student".
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Scenario-Building
Online 101
Wondering what all the buzz
is about scenario-based elearning? Here's your
opportunity to explore the process of creating
a scenario. This recording of a live session
by Dan Balzer and Randall Kindley features a
hands-on taste of scenario-building and a thought-provoking
investigation of how scenarios enhance learning.
This session concluded with a discussion of the
pros and cons of traditional learning versus
scenario-based/experiential learning in the online
environment. The live online session also aimed
to identify the key pedagogical dimensions of
scenario-based elearning. Dan Balzer is an Instructional
Designer at Waubonsee Community College. Randall
Kindley, Ph.D., is President of The Performance
Group, and author of "Scenario-Based E-Learning:
A Step Beyond Traditional E-Learning" (ASTD's
LearningCircuits, May 2002).
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ICT
Literacy Summit - Global Collaboration & International
Standards
Don Knezek, Ph.D., CEO
of the International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE), and David Saedi, President & CEO
of Certiport joined ICT Literacy Community
members from across the globe for a an interactive
discussion on international Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) Literacy Standards
and Certification. The session was moderated
by Brenda Kempster, President of the KEMPSTER
GROUP, and John Walber, CEO of LearningTimes.
The LT-affiliated ICTLiteracy.info communit
has produced numerous sessions syndicated live
through LearningTimes.org, including the "ICT
Literacy for All" series.
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Online
Pedagogies For Active Learning
Early forms of e-learning
emphasized creation of online content and the
migration of passive old forms of teaching and
learning to the web. This webinar explored active
learning alternatives to traditional lecture,
presentation, and self-study. Learn how to blend
logistics, pedagogies and technologies to create
more engaging online learning experiences. Collaborative
peer-to-peer learning, constructivist approaches
to knowledge creation, and the use of games and
simulations will be featured. The session was
led by Paul Stacey.
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Finding
Your Voice Online - Live from NET*Working
Conference
This session was conducted
in connection with the NET*Working Conference
on "flexible learning and online delivery" in
the Blue Mountains of New South Wales (NSW),
Australia. A group of about 40 conference participants
in NSW joined LT member Michael Coghlan in his
conference session room to explore different
uses of voice technology in online learning.
Over a dozen people also joined the session online
from literally around the globe, including presenters
Michael Coghlan, Jonathan Finkelstein, Jon Baggaley
and Anne Fox. This one of many sessions exploring
the use of voice in online learning organized
and led by Michael Coghlan within LearningTimes.
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Alternate
Funding Sources for Schools and Libraries
This interactive webcast
explored innovative funding models that public
schools and libraries may use to augment shrinking
state and local fiscal budgets. The webcast was
an open forum, allowing all participants to collaborate
with industry experts whose topics include: How
can one person make a difference? Is commercialization
the only option? Do successful funding programs
send the wrong message to state and local government?
Panelists included: Steve Coffman Vice President
of Business Development for LSSI, Inc. and Vice
President of Strategic Development for Tutor.com's
Virtual Reference Toolkit; Elyssa Rosenberg Toomey,
Director of Development for DonorsChoose.org,
a New York City non-profit organization that
matches teacher written proposals and grants
with donors all over the world; and Helen Kennedy
and Jim Lewis, CFRE Partners of Lewis * Kennedy
Associates.
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Simulations
and the Future of Learning
The webcast was based on
the acclaimed book, "Simulations and the
Future of Learning", by e-learning leader
Clark Aldrich. The session provide some perspective
on what is needed to understand, design, build,
and/or deploy computer simulations for the current
generation of learners. LearningTimes was pleased
to have been the first virtual stop on Mr. Aldrich's
book tour.
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Digital
Games in Education with Marc Prensky
This webcast recording of
a live event features Marc Prensky, author of "Digital
Game-Based Learning", and an internationally
acclaimed speaker, writer, futurist, visionary
and inventor in the critical areas of education
and learning. Mr. Prensky was joined by LearningTimes
Editorial Board member and host Paul Stacey.
Playing computer games is the most common way
that all children use computers. Can the principles
that make games so much fun be used to influence
educational software? Can digital games be effectively
integrated into the classroom? What is the learning
potential of technology enhanced play? What role
do digital games play in promoting and enhancing
social interaction?
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Toolsday:
Online Collaboration and Tapped In
Led by LearningTimes.org
member Jeff Coooper, this online "Toolsday" session
helped introduce educators to both the concept
of online collaboration as well as the 'Tapped
In' system in particular. |
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An
Exploration of Active e-Learning for Indigenous
Youth in Australia
Live from the "Deadly
Mob Internet Café" at the Gap Youth
Centre in Alice Springs, Australia, LearningTimes
member Georgina Nou led an in-room session introducing
the use of active e-Learning approaches to connecting,
reaching and engaging Indigenous young people
in Australia. Georgina explored the ICT literacy
goals, activities and outreach efforts of the
Deadly Mob Café, while using the virtual
space to enhance the collaborative experience
among the guests who were present at the physical
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