Monday, April 30, 2012

SUNY Technology Conference - STC 2012

STC 2012: STC 2012: June 25–June 27, Rye Brook, NY
Mobile Technology in Higher Ed Learning, Living, and Management

The annual SUNY Technology Conference is the foremost forum at which SUNY’s technology communities join together to grow as professionals, to learn about advances in the marketplace, and to discuss approaches for addressing common issues.

Keynote Address: David Pogue
Disruption in Higher Education – What Going Mobile Means to Tomorrow’s Learners

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Exploring Spaces for Learning: HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING & LEARNING ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, JANUARY 13-15, 2013, ORLANDO

HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING & LEARNING ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
JANUARY 13-15, 2013, ORLANDO

You are invited to submit a proposal for a presentation on emerging pedagogic or administrative technologies, approaches and issues in higher education. Although the meeting is structured into thematic tracks, we are open to the gamut of topics on new developments in higher education. This Higher Education Teaching & Learning Association conference is being held, January 13-15, 2013 in Orlando, in partnership with the University of Central Florida, whose campus will be its venue. A proceedings book of abstracts will be produced and best papers will be published in the HETL

Saturday, April 28, 2012

- Eight ways to create screencasts and slideshares

Eight ways to create screencasts and slideshares: An investigation of a growing array of mostly free web-based tools for projecting and archiving instruction, screenshots, storytelling, and personality. These web-based programs fit into two large buckets–slide narration tools and screen capture tools.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Twenty-Five Years of Presenting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | International Alliance of Teacher Scholars

13th Annual
Faculty Learning Community
Developers’ and Facilitators’
Summer Institute
June 20-23, 2012


Twenty-Five Years of Presenting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | International Alliance of Teacher Scholars: The International Alliance of Teacher Scholars is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching – West in 2013. We invite you to join colleagues from all disciplines and types of colleges and universities in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) discussions and presentations at the Conference.

Grants and Proposals: If you write it, they will fund! - Event Summary | Online Registration by Cvent

Grants and Proposals: If you write it, they will fund! - Event Summary | Online Registration by Cvent: Based on the book, Writing Successful Science Proposals, this virtual workshop outlines the components of a successful proposal and the steps to get there. Learn how to improve your chances of getting funded through fund sourcing, proper planning and organization, concise writing, collaboration, and proposal submission. Participate in interactive and relevant discussions and activities with faculty from the comfort of your home or office. Although the course is based on a book about scientific proposals the lessons are applicable to all proposals.

Ujam

An amazing site for creating your own music and vocal tracks. It has a huge, high quality bank of sounds and instruments. There are template compositions for beginners and everything is editable so advance users can be in control of their creativity. A free signup is required.

Middlebury College Candidate - Multimedia/Curricular Technologist

Middlebury College Candidate Self-Service: Job Title: Multimedia/Curricular Technologist
Department: Library & Information Services
Location: Middlebury, VT

Responsibilities:
Multimedia/Curricular technologists are responsible for creating graphic design: interpreting requirements, designing layouts, researching information, deciding which multimedia tools to utilize, product development, and story creation. Multimedia/Curricular technologists consult with faculty to help provide the appropriate technology for pedagogical use. Multimedia/Curricular technologists will create classroom courses, educational tutorials, quizzes, learning games, and/or interactive classroom tools, with an emphasis on technology use for language teaching and learning. He or she will work directly with faculty, staff and students. He or she must stay up to date on the latest technology and trends within the multimedia industry.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

nsf.gov - Funding - Cyberlearning: Transforming Education - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Funding - Cyberlearning: Transforming Education - US National Science Foundation (NSF): Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to

- better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used productively to help people learn, through individual use and/or through collaborations mediated by technology;

- better use technology for collecting, analyzing, sharing, and managing data to shed light on learning, promoting learning, and designing learning environments; and

- design new technologies for these purposes, and advance understanding of how to use those technologies and integrate them into learning environments so that their potential is fulfilled.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Online Courses from World's Experts | Udemy

Online Courses from World's Experts | Udemy: Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online.

Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world's experts.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Moving Beyond Technology -- Campus Technology

Moving Beyond Technology -- Campus Technology: Most Significant Metatrends for the Next 10 Years

1. The world of work is increasingly global and increasingly collaborative.

2. People expect to work, learn, socialize, and play whenever and wherever they want to.

3. The internet is becoming a global mobile network--and already is at its edges.

4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and delivered over utility networks, facilitating the rapid growth of online videos and rich media.

5. Openness--concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information--is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world.

6. Legal notions of ownership and privacy lag behind the practices common in society.

7. Real challenges of access, efficiency, and scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success.

8. The internet is constantly challenging us to rethink learning and education, while refining our notion of literacy.

9. There is a rise in informal learning as individual needs are redefining schools, universities, and training.

10. Business models across the education ecosystem are changing.

Excerpts of the 10 top metatrends identified in A Communiqué from the Horizon Project Retreat, January 2012, an NMC Horizon Project publication under Creative Commons attribution license.

Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums Grants – FY13 Guidelines

Learning Labs Guidelines: Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums Grants – FY13 Guidelines
Application Deadline: June 15, 2012
(Projects must begin January 1, 2013)

Date Posted: April 13, 2012
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 45.312

What are Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums grants?

Grants for Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums will support planning and design activities for spaces that foster experimentation and creativity for middle- and high-school youth in library- and museum-based, out-of-school-time settings. The labs should be grounded in evidence-based research on youth, and should be designed to support youth learning in such 21st century skills as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).

These grants will enable grantees to develop comprehensive plans for programs, space, staffing, and budgeting for their Learning Labs. The awards may also be used to prototype certain lab activities or experiences. In addition, the grants may be used to support emerging learning labs that are already in the process of serving middle- and high-school youth with innovative digital media and learning and need additional funds to enhance their efforts, provided that they are aligned with the grant program criteria.

Change - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

About this Course ~ #change11

This course will introduce participants to the major contributions being made to the field of instructional technology by researchers today. Each week, a new professor or researcher will introduce his or her central contribution to the field.

Date: September 12, 2011 - May 2012

A MOOC with each week being facilitated by an innovative thinker, researcher, and scholar.

Technologies Used: Through out this "course" participants will use a variety of technologies, for example, blogs, Second Life, RSS Readers, UStream, etc. Course resources will be provided using gRSShopper and online seminars delivered using Elluminate.

Facilitators: Dave Cormier, George Siemens and Stephen Downes will co-facilitate this innovative and timely course.

AACE - E-Learn - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education

AACE - E-Learn - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education: E-LEARN 2012 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education
Montréal, Québec: October 9-12, 2012

E-Learn--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and co-sponsored by the International Journal on E-Learning.

This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in the Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education sectors.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

FLC Institute | International Alliance of Teacher Scholars

FLC Institute | International Alliance of Teacher Scholars: 13th Annual
Faculty Learning Community
Developers’ and Facilitators’ Institute
will be held
June 20-23, 2012
Kellogg West Ranch at California Polytechnic State University
Pomona, (Southern) California




Institute Information

Read about Western Washington University’s experiences
in their General Education Focused Faculty Learning Community.

Community is often missing in higher education, where connections across disciplines and institutional units are overlooked. Faculty and professional learning communities (FLCs) help establish these connections and achieve most of the outcomes of student learning communities: increased interest in learning, retention, active learning, rate of intellectual development, and civic contributions to the common good. The safety and support engendered in a community enable risk taking and the achievement of both individual and team objectives. Evidence shows that FLCs provide effective “deep learning” that encourages and supports faculty to investigate, attempt, assess, and adopt new methods of teaching.

The TLT Group, A Non-Profit Organization - FridayLive! April 27 Building a Sense of Community Online

The TLT Group, A Non-Profit Organization - FridayLive! April 27 Building a Sense of Community Online: Building a Sense of Community in an Online Environment: Boldly Going Where You May Not Have Before...

April 27, 2011 at 2:00 pm ET - free to all.

Leader: Theresa A. Beery, Nursing, University of Cincinnati, and Dustin Shell, College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati

Building community online can be challenging. We “quickly” put a course online that we thought would be face-to-face with two major goals: (1) Create the sense of community that we have in the classroom and (2) facilitate students constructing knowledge together. Participants will share in discussion of using technology (blogs, wikis, video introductions, audio comments, a synchronous class) to build community. We will offer lessons learned: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

eLearning DevCon 2012 - The Original eLearning Developer's Conference

eLearning DevCon 2012 - The Original eLearning Developer's Conference

Keynote Event

Art
Know the Mind. Know the Learner.
Maximizing the factors to improve memory and performance.
Scientists have made amazing strides into understanding how our brain controls our thinking, emotions, and behavior. In this highly interactive presentation, neuroscientist Dr. Art Kohn provides dramatic examples of factors that increase (and sometimes decrease) our learning and memory.
Using a series of demonstrations, he will reveal powerful cognitive principles that game designers, advertisers and even politicians incorporate into their campaigns. In turn, he will show how you can use these same principles within your eLearning modules to maximize memory and behavior change.
Come prepared to have fun... and learn.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

New E-Book on Faculty Development - Faculty Virtues and Character Strengths Reflective Exercises for Sustained Renewal

by Thomas V. McGovern
Photographs by J. Gerard Smith
Available now at: http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/fvcs2012/index.php

Faculty Virtues and Character Strengths is a trans-disciplinary faculty handbook to enhance the quality of learning and teaching.  The author applies six multicultural virtues and 24 character strengths from Positive Psychology research to the tasks of course design, managing critical incidents, and evaluating areas for development.  The downloadable (5 MB), visually attractive text can be used in face-to-face workshops and online educational
programs conducted by the author, or as a self-study guide for reflection. Faculty probe enduring values of excellent teachers and discuss or
contemplate open-ended questions designed to stimulate authentic professional and personal commitment. 

Tom McGovern is a Professor of Psychology and Integrative Studies at Arizona
State University, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, and a
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Charter Fellow of
the Association for Psychological Science (APS). He authored Memory's
Stories: Interdisciplinary Readings of Multicultural Life Narratives (2007) and
edited the Handbook for Enhancing Undergraduate Education in Psychology
(1993), in addition to 50 book chapters and articles on undergraduate
teaching and learning across the disciplines. Recipient of the CASE / Carnegie
Foundation Professor of the Year (in Arizona) award and Distinguished
Teaching, Faculty Service, and Cross-Cultural Education awards at ASU and
at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Contact at thomas.mcgovern@asu.edu

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Minute Physics

A superb YouTube channel with animations explaining physics ideas in simple terms. Great and introduction to a lesson or new topic.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

EdMedia 2012 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

EdMedia 2012 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

Denver, CO, USA: June 26 - 29, 2012


The EdMedia World Conference on Educational Media and Technology is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.

http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/