ComETS Emerging Trends

 

2007

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Community of Educational Technology Support (ComETS):

Emerging Trends and Cool Class Cases

Thursday, December 13, 2007, 11a-1p,

1610 Engineering Hall

Program: http://ComETSET.pbwiki.com/

This presentation is archived on MediaSite through the support of Engineering Professional Development.

Live feed link: http://mediasite.cae.wisc.edu/Mediasite/Viewer/?peid=71c82191-ac04-4d01-bbee-5091c14cc774

 

THEME

The focus is on instruction rather than the tools for supporting instruction.

Breakout discussions include identifying problems where tools can play a role, new modes of teaching with technology, emerging trends, and reflections on student engagement with "new tools."

 

PROGRAM

 

11:00a-11:05a

Catherine Stephens, Introduction

 

  • Meeting logistics
  • Introductions of new members or special guests
  • Next events:
    Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 11 AM-1 PM, ComETS Membership Meeting, Room 110, 445 Henry Mall (old genetics building)
    March 28, 2008, ePedagogy, Room 314, Pyle Center

Each month, the Teaching Academy, DoIT-Academic Technology, and the Community of Educational Technology Support (ComETS) presents a live online session to disseminate, share, and demonstrate pedagogical practices and strategies. Each session features an instructor-led presentation on the pedagogical strategies they have employed in an actual course, and a talk about the technology involved in the strategy by a campus learning technology consultant. All sessions are on the

Wednesday, April 23, 2008, Carl Berger (tentative date)

In April, we plan to bring Carl Berger to Madison to speak about the Millennial Student and the Millennial Instructor. Carl Berger is Professor and Dean Emeritus at the University of Michigan. and Director of Advanced Academic Technologies in the Collaboratory for Advanced Research and Academic Technologies (CARAT) in the Provost's Office.

He is the National Research Fellow for the Apple Digital Campus program with Apple Computer Inc. In 2006 he was honored being named as an NMC (New Media Consortium) Fellow.

 

Supporting open source

 

11:05-11:20

Dorothea Salo

From MINDS@UW (http://minds.wisconsin.edu) to speak about tool choice, problem-solving, and interaction planning in online education, using "Five Weeks to a Social Library" (http://sociallibraries.com/course) as a case study.

 

11:20-11:35

Alan Wolf

Presentation Free and Open Source Software for Science Education

Supporting faculty in the sciences, ~free and open source tools (not all open source is free of license costs - especially for enhanced versions) that apply to teaching and learning, such as open source versions of statistical tools ( R ), Mathematica (Octave), biomolecular modeling (PyMOL), solving crystal structures (xfit), Blender (3D modeling) how and where do we find these tools, what are the costs and the benefits of these packages, and how we support these tools in common computer labs.

 

11:35-11:50

Doug Worsham Portfolio Project, Fall 2007. L&S Learning Support Services

comets_collabtools_lss.pdf (Presentation Slides)

is deploying the open source content management system Drupal

    • for a wide variety of administrative and teaching and learning solutions. See how this flexible tool can be used to build custom, media rich collaborative environments, course portfolios, easy to update department web sites, and a social repository of lesson plans and teaching materials.Breakout discussion based on suggested questions.

 

11:50-12:10

Match problems in work, class, and research with tools

How do these trends and cases affect your work?

Can you share something you're doing that's similar, or where you're using a different approach?

Can you adapt some of these topics to apply to your situation?

 

Online Delivery of Instruction

 

12:10-12:25

Amy Shenot

Cases at Engineering Professional Development; current conditions for developing a usable toolset for multiple needs -- short courses, distance degrees, DocuShare)

ComETS.ppt

 

12:25-12:40

Dirk Herr-Hoyman

A ComETS discussion about Berkeley at YouTube -- relationship with iTunesU, near futures, impact on courses.

 

12:40-1:00

Match problems in work, class, and research with tools

How do these trends and cases affect your work?

Can you share something you're doing that's similar, or where you're using a different approach?

Can you adapt some of these topics to apply to your situation?

 

Related resources

 

"Social Networking Technologies: A 'Poke' for Campus Services," by Joanne Berg, Lori Berquam, and Kathy Christoph (March 28 ComETS listserve posting by Dirk Herr-Hoyman from Educause Review, March/April 2007, volume 42, number 2, http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0721.asp)

Web 3.0: The Semantic Web and Twine

Collaborative Tools (Wikipedia)

http://www.wikimatrix.org/ - a resource to help choose a wiki tool.

Teaching Foreign Languages with Moodle

Second Life overview - shared at 06 Teaching and Learning Symposium

Digital Storytelling - CIMC workshop (Chris Blakesley)

Web topics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Gartner Group

O'Reilly Radar Emerging Tech

Slashdot

A List Apart

 

ComETS Steering Committee Liaisons: Joyce Tikalsky and Catherine Stephens

Collaborators: Amy Shenot, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, Doug Worsham, Alan Wolf, Dorothea Salo

Special thanks to Amy Shenot and Wayne Pferdehirt, Engineering Professional Development, for the archival presentation on MediaSite.

Room Contact: Jeff Stevens, College of Engineering, 263-3163

Multimedia Contact: Jeff Stevens, College of Engineering, 263-3163

An event planning checklist is available by viewing the page source.

 

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