Community of Educational Technology Support (ComETS): 

Emerging Trends in Educational Technology

Thursday, February 19, 2009, 11a-1p,

401B Teacher Education Building [map]

225 North Mills Street

Enter through room 301, Center for Instructional Materials and Computing (CIMC); 401B is upstairs. 

Brownbag lunch. Cookies provided.

Program: http://ComETSET.pbwiki.com/ 

 

THEME

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

including the updates about active campus projects.

 

PROGRAM

 

11:00a-11:05a

Ron Cramer, ComETS Steering Committee member, Introduction

• Meeting room, building, logistics
• Introductions of new members or special guests

• Revisiting del.icio.us tagging with "uwcomets" and using the Teaching and Learning Excellence website at https://tle.wisc.edu/

11:10-11:35

Ron Kraemer, CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology

Teaching and Learning Component of the Information Technology Service Strategic Plan  [PRESENTATION HANDOUTS]

The campus Strategic Plan and the way IT work folds into it is coming together.

The campus plan will be the basis for launching new ComETS Emerging Trends projects.

 

11:35-11:45

Alan Wolf and Catherine Stephens 

The NMC Horizon Project and New Media Consortium Conferences

The horizon project charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression and produces the NMC’s annual Horizon Report.  www.nmc.org/horizon and two venues for discussing emerging technologies and their application are the spring online conference www.nmc.org/2009-nml-symposium and the NMC annual conference www.nmc.org/2009-summer-conference

 

11:45-11:55

Catherine Stephens

Teaching and Learning on the UW-Madison Island in Second Life [PRESENTATION PDF]

comets.wisc.edu/sims_games/virtualworld/index.html

 

11:55-12:20

Timmo Dugdale [PRESENTATION PPT]

Click-through Contracts

This topic is a continuation of energetic discussion at the last ComETS Emerging Trends event

about when and how best to use off-campus resources such as Google presentations.

Timmo will facilitate a conversation about the use of third-party applications

and present examples that highlight the overall issues and the path to solutions and answers. 

 

12:20-12:45

Jeff Bohrer 

Personal Learning Environments [PRESENTATION URL]

 

12:45-1:00

Joyce Tikalsky, ComETS member, Epilogue

• Pinging other topics:
  • ChemPaths by Justin Shorb. Toolkit for the Department of Chemistry:

    Joomla! for textbook presentation, MediaWiki for content building, Diigo for social tagging, Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) for essay writing, and Alfresco CMS for a digital library. http://wiki.chemeddl.org/index.php/ChemPaths

  •  "Assessing Curriculum Goals and Student Outcomes," business needs for curriculum mapping/outcomes tracking tools, by Moira Lafayette, College of Engineering Academic Affairs

 

 

ComETS Steering Committee Liaisons: Ron Cramer

Event planners: Joyce Tikalsky, Catherine Stephens, Jude Bloom

Room Contact: Catherine Stephens

Multimedia Contact: Circulation/Equipment staff at cimccirc@education.wisc.edu

 

PAST ComETS EMERGING TRENDS EVENTS

 

2007-2008 

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

1610 Engineering Hall

The 2007-2008 Emerging Trends event is archived on Mediasite through the generous support of Engineering Professional Development.

 

2006-2007 

Thursday, April 25, 2007, 11a-1p

Room 228  Educational Sciences

 

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