Notes taken while listening to Allison Rosset, San Diego State University.
This was the third and final keynote of the AECT conference. As always, my notes are in italics. I have to warn you. This one is quite long. See the notes after the jump:
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Learner as the designer: An instructional design and learning model for Web 2.0
Notes and thoughts from listening to Jeremy Tutty, Boise State University
Man, don’t ever start your presentation saying that you’re not sure if what you are saying is correct or not. YIKES!
What can we do to promote effective learning with Web 2.0 tools?
Reflect on our own practice. What do we do that works?
Key characteristics: dynamic, social, collaborative
Analyze learners, devise authentic tasks, provide necessary support and feedback, use self and peer evaluation
Where is this going? Oh, he said you become more a facilitator than an instructor. Interesting. That’s what my master’s thesis said in 1996.
Great. He’s talking constructivism and social learning theory. Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) theory and Connectivism. He’s talking about knowledge existing outside of us. Isn’t that wrong as far as constructivism goes?
Conceptual framework: social/collaborative; learner as designer; knowledge management.
I’m sitting in the wrong spot. This guy is standing RIGHT IN MY WAY, and I can’t see everything on his slides. Kind of funny actually.
I just wonder why people don’t just get to the point. No need to go to New York City by way of San Francisco . . .
How do learners become their own designers? How will they work to design meaningful instruction? As he goes through all this theory I don’t think anyone came to hear, I just wonder where this is going to go.
Phases of Web 2.0 ID:
Analysis
Collaboration and Personalization
Evaluation
I wish you could see this model he has on PowerPoint. It makes Dick and Carey look user friendly. Seriously. Talk about the fog getting in the way of the game. I count 12 circles, three boxes, and three arrows. AMAZINGLY cluttered. I’ll be honest with you here. I’m so put off by just how it looks visually, that I’m not paying much attention to what it is that he is trying to say. This guy seems like a really nice guy, he also seems nervous, and I appreciate the fact that they are working and trying to add to the body of knowledge in the field, but this just isn’t sitting well with me.
How will the learners know how to create an authentic task? How do they know what the best tool for them to use is? Those seem to be big cognitive leaps for learners.
I’m not gonna lie. We’re ten minutes into this, and he’s lost me. I’m not sure that I’m willing to follow him down this road.
Interesting. As he talks about what the students thought when they used it, the students thought it was A LOT OF WORK. But yet, the students seemed to enjoy it.
One of the questions here the presenter is asking is whether or not we think this is a model. One guy here in the audience just responded, “if you think it’s a model, then it’s a model.” Um, I don’t think so.
Overall impression: Needs work.
Man, don’t ever start your presentation saying that you’re not sure if what you are saying is correct or not. YIKES!
What can we do to promote effective learning with Web 2.0 tools?
Reflect on our own practice. What do we do that works?
Key characteristics: dynamic, social, collaborative
Analyze learners, devise authentic tasks, provide necessary support and feedback, use self and peer evaluation
Where is this going? Oh, he said you become more a facilitator than an instructor. Interesting. That’s what my master’s thesis said in 1996.
Great. He’s talking constructivism and social learning theory. Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) theory and Connectivism. He’s talking about knowledge existing outside of us. Isn’t that wrong as far as constructivism goes?
Conceptual framework: social/collaborative; learner as designer; knowledge management.
I’m sitting in the wrong spot. This guy is standing RIGHT IN MY WAY, and I can’t see everything on his slides. Kind of funny actually.
I just wonder why people don’t just get to the point. No need to go to New York City by way of San Francisco . . .
How do learners become their own designers? How will they work to design meaningful instruction? As he goes through all this theory I don’t think anyone came to hear, I just wonder where this is going to go.
Phases of Web 2.0 ID:
Analysis
Collaboration and Personalization
Evaluation
I wish you could see this model he has on PowerPoint. It makes Dick and Carey look user friendly. Seriously. Talk about the fog getting in the way of the game. I count 12 circles, three boxes, and three arrows. AMAZINGLY cluttered. I’ll be honest with you here. I’m so put off by just how it looks visually, that I’m not paying much attention to what it is that he is trying to say. This guy seems like a really nice guy, he also seems nervous, and I appreciate the fact that they are working and trying to add to the body of knowledge in the field, but this just isn’t sitting well with me.
How will the learners know how to create an authentic task? How do they know what the best tool for them to use is? Those seem to be big cognitive leaps for learners.
I’m not gonna lie. We’re ten minutes into this, and he’s lost me. I’m not sure that I’m willing to follow him down this road.
Interesting. As he talks about what the students thought when they used it, the students thought it was A LOT OF WORK. But yet, the students seemed to enjoy it.
One of the questions here the presenter is asking is whether or not we think this is a model. One guy here in the audience just responded, “if you think it’s a model, then it’s a model.” Um, I don’t think so.
Overall impression: Needs work.
Technology Integration Showcase: Strategies and Tools Worthy of Discussion
Thoughts and notes listening to Drew Polly, UNC-Charlotte; Tonya Amankwatia, Lehigh; Clif Mims, Memphis; Lloyd Reiber, UGA
Lamb from GA Southern: making movie trailers in foreign language instruction.
Movie maker? That’s a web 2.0 tool? Cool examples, though. She has these posted on her high school web page, but she hasn’t given us the URL . . .
www.vamosalososcars.com
Lloyd Reiber UGA: Google Forms, Zamzar
UGA requires a gmail account in their intro class and they use the Google Suite as their standard.
In Google Docs, go to create new form . . . ?
Holy Cow. I can’t wait to use this. This is incredibly easy. I can’t wait to use this! Didn’t I already say that? I don’t know why I’m so surprised. Google’s stuff is so much better than most anything else. I’ve got to show this to Jesse. He’s going to flip. This is so much easier than SharePoint. Man, this thing even takes the data and throws it right into a spreadsheet! Lloyd also suggest SurveyMonkey, which I know that Jesse has used.
Clif Mims U Memphis: Diigo
Clif uses Diigo in his classes. How could I do this and make it effective? I need to use the groups better. I also need to annotate and use tags better. That’s it. I’m a slacker once again.
Overall impression: YOU'LL NEVER KNOW ALL THE 2.0 TOOLS. I knew MovieMaker (which I don't consider web 2.0), Zamzar, and Diigo, but Google Forms is a revelation. YIPEE!
Lamb from GA Southern: making movie trailers in foreign language instruction.
Movie maker? That’s a web 2.0 tool? Cool examples, though. She has these posted on her high school web page, but she hasn’t given us the URL . . .
www.vamosalososcars.com
Lloyd Reiber UGA: Google Forms, Zamzar
UGA requires a gmail account in their intro class and they use the Google Suite as their standard.
In Google Docs, go to create new form . . . ?
Holy Cow. I can’t wait to use this. This is incredibly easy. I can’t wait to use this! Didn’t I already say that? I don’t know why I’m so surprised. Google’s stuff is so much better than most anything else. I’ve got to show this to Jesse. He’s going to flip. This is so much easier than SharePoint. Man, this thing even takes the data and throws it right into a spreadsheet! Lloyd also suggest SurveyMonkey, which I know that Jesse has used.
Clif Mims U Memphis: Diigo
Clif uses Diigo in his classes. How could I do this and make it effective? I need to use the groups better. I also need to annotate and use tags better. That’s it. I’m a slacker once again.
Overall impression: YOU'LL NEVER KNOW ALL THE 2.0 TOOLS. I knew MovieMaker (which I don't consider web 2.0), Zamzar, and Diigo, but Google Forms is a revelation. YIPEE!
Podcasting and iTunes U
Thoughts and notes from listening to Ann Barron and Luis Perez from teh University of South Florida.
As always, my thoughts are in italics.
How can we use podcasts to create authentic, engaged learning?
http://itunes.usf.edu
Why doesn’t OSU have something like this? I know that there has to be enough faculty to merit this.
Can be authenticated through the CMS. Really? That’s cool.
WOW! These guys have ~7000 downloads a WEEK!
Here we go: How to do this:
University Level players:
Provost office (contract), Academic computing (setup), Public relations (design)
THERE ARE CONTRACTS TO BE SIGNED.
Issues: who is the target audience? What would they be interested in? what content do we have? What content can we produce? How will we manage the production and administration? What policies need to be established?
She keeps saying, “this isn’t to be entered into lightly.” Finally, she followed up with something: “It’s much different to do this than having one faculty member recording podcasts for their class and posting them up.”
iTunes initiatives awards at USF. 27 iPods for writing up an abstract on how they would implement podcasting into instruction—much like the online course creation workshop at OSU.
Dr. Michael Berson—David Bucker might be interested in what this guy does.
Other issues: intellectual property, releases (permission to publish, etc.), how should the podcasts be divided? By department or topics?
I wonder if OSU should have some faculty podcasting group or something like that . . . I need to get from Mark Jones the name of that guy at OSU who is big on podcasting and start swapping information with him.
Right now they are going through a lot of the administrative side of iTunes U, which, you know, almost NO ONE in this room will ever do. So why show it?
Man, it’s HOT in this room. I’m nodding off . . .
Production: script, record, edit, export
If you are doing something to actually add value to the instruction, then you’ll have to take time planning ahead of time.
Longer podcasts need chapters.
Tools: iSquint (free for Mac! Yeah!), videora iPod converter (free for windows), Metadata Hootenanny
Does D2L have a podcasting module? Lee uses D2L, and it sounds like you just have to use raw .mp3 files. That’s horrible.
Look for the Techies podcast Luis does.
Overall impression: Interesting information, but they spent more time talking about the specifics of how to use iTunes rather than how to do the podcasts themselves.
As always, my thoughts are in italics.
How can we use podcasts to create authentic, engaged learning?
http://itunes.usf.edu
Why doesn’t OSU have something like this? I know that there has to be enough faculty to merit this.
Can be authenticated through the CMS. Really? That’s cool.
WOW! These guys have ~7000 downloads a WEEK!
Here we go: How to do this:
University Level players:
Provost office (contract), Academic computing (setup), Public relations (design)
THERE ARE CONTRACTS TO BE SIGNED.
Issues: who is the target audience? What would they be interested in? what content do we have? What content can we produce? How will we manage the production and administration? What policies need to be established?
She keeps saying, “this isn’t to be entered into lightly.” Finally, she followed up with something: “It’s much different to do this than having one faculty member recording podcasts for their class and posting them up.”
iTunes initiatives awards at USF. 27 iPods for writing up an abstract on how they would implement podcasting into instruction—much like the online course creation workshop at OSU.
Dr. Michael Berson—David Bucker might be interested in what this guy does.
Other issues: intellectual property, releases (permission to publish, etc.), how should the podcasts be divided? By department or topics?
I wonder if OSU should have some faculty podcasting group or something like that . . . I need to get from Mark Jones the name of that guy at OSU who is big on podcasting and start swapping information with him.
Right now they are going through a lot of the administrative side of iTunes U, which, you know, almost NO ONE in this room will ever do. So why show it?
Man, it’s HOT in this room. I’m nodding off . . .
Production: script, record, edit, export
If you are doing something to actually add value to the instruction, then you’ll have to take time planning ahead of time.
Longer podcasts need chapters.
Tools: iSquint (free for Mac! Yeah!), videora iPod converter (free for windows), Metadata Hootenanny
Does D2L have a podcasting module? Lee uses D2L, and it sounds like you just have to use raw .mp3 files. That’s horrible.
Look for the Techies podcast Luis does.
Overall impression: Interesting information, but they spent more time talking about the specifics of how to use iTunes rather than how to do the podcasts themselves.
The Future of Education and IT
Thoughts listening to Dr. George Strawn CIO of NSF
Oh, man, the guy is hyping Obama. Can we please just get to the presentation?
OK, so I had a HUGE list of comments here, but of course, this is AECT which means GARBAGE for a wireless connection. When this presentation was over and I went to save, it timed out on me. Now, the whole presentation it had been saving drafts (or at least looking like it had been), but since I had lost my connection, no drafts saved. What you see above is what I got.
The good news? You didn't miss anything. He didn't say anything new or exciting. I'm not sure he knew who his audience really was. I was sitting next to Atsusi Hirumi (2c) and he leaned over to me about 3/4 of the way through and asked, "Has he said anything I don't know?" I responded, "I don't think so." This presentation was eerily similar to a presentation I've seen 2c give many times when he's recruiting graduate students.
I would have liked to have had his suggested readings, though. I do remember a couple of titles: ROBOT, DISRUPTING CLASS, and PHANTOMS IN (OF?) THE BRAIN? I'm not sure on that last one. But he talked about the Disrupting Class one more than anything.
Was is worth my time? I guess. It was okay for a keynote, but nothing revelatory for me.
Oh, man, the guy is hyping Obama. Can we please just get to the presentation?
OK, so I had a HUGE list of comments here, but of course, this is AECT which means GARBAGE for a wireless connection. When this presentation was over and I went to save, it timed out on me. Now, the whole presentation it had been saving drafts (or at least looking like it had been), but since I had lost my connection, no drafts saved. What you see above is what I got.
The good news? You didn't miss anything. He didn't say anything new or exciting. I'm not sure he knew who his audience really was. I was sitting next to Atsusi Hirumi (2c) and he leaned over to me about 3/4 of the way through and asked, "Has he said anything I don't know?" I responded, "I don't think so." This presentation was eerily similar to a presentation I've seen 2c give many times when he's recruiting graduate students.
I would have liked to have had his suggested readings, though. I do remember a couple of titles: ROBOT, DISRUPTING CLASS, and PHANTOMS IN (OF?) THE BRAIN? I'm not sure on that last one. But he talked about the Disrupting Class one more than anything.
Was is worth my time? I guess. It was okay for a keynote, but nothing revelatory for me.
"Live from Orlando, it's AECT!" or "Why do I attend to conferences?"
So I'm sitting in the convention center lobby of the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida right now. I've got Anne Leftwich on my left, and a German speaking couple in front of me. I snagged this spot for the comfy chairs and the ability to kick my feet up on the big stone table and work. I could sit in my room and work, but then that would be ridiculous. Seriously, who wants to come to Orlando and sit in a hotel room? Not me. So I'll sit in a lobby. Like that's a big difference. I was supposed to be helping present a workshop right now, but I'm not helping with it after all. So I came a day earlier than I needed to. I was also supposed to help with another workshop today, but it got accidentally cancelled, so still I came a day early.
So why do I come to these things? As anyone who's read much of what I've written will know, I'm a graduate of Utah State University. And USU is a big AECT school. Now, for those of you who don't know what AECT is, it is the Association for Educational Communication and Technology, which is basically the academic organization for educational technology. It has divisions for each domain in the field, and I primarily participate in the design and development and teacher education divisions. I also have done things with distance learning, training and development, and multimedia production. But Design and Development and Teacher Ed are my homes. At any rate, I can remember being in graduate school and our department head, Don Smellie, telling us, "If you're not a member of the club (AECT), then it doesn't matter . . ." And so I became a member of AECT, and I guess I have been for around ten years now.
But why do I come? Well, first of all, I enjoy the relationships. There are certain people that I look forward to seeing that I don't get to see anywhere else. Some of them are Trey Martindale, David Wiley, Brad Hokanson, and Atsusi Hirumi. I also get the chance to meet others. I'm giving a presentation with Clif Mims on Thursday, and other than GChat, Twitter, and the like, we've never met. I can't wait to meet him in person.
I also come to learn something. Now AECT isn't actually known for loads of brain-busting presentations, actually, it is a wonderful conference for graduate students to present at, but I genrally try to steer clear of a lot of those. But I ALWAYS leave AECT with ideas, and that alone makes it worth the trip.
But I miss my family, and I'd much rather be at home with them.
So at any rate, what am I going to do to make this trip worthwhile? Well, I'm going to "live-blog" my presentations, that is, all but the one I'm actually presenting. I'll just jot down my notes so others can see what I think. I know that I can do it with Twitter and the like, but I would rather do it this way.
What about you? What conferences do you attend? WHY do you attend them? What do you get from attending?
Talk amongst yourselves . . .
So why do I come to these things? As anyone who's read much of what I've written will know, I'm a graduate of Utah State University. And USU is a big AECT school. Now, for those of you who don't know what AECT is, it is the Association for Educational Communication and Technology, which is basically the academic organization for educational technology. It has divisions for each domain in the field, and I primarily participate in the design and development and teacher education divisions. I also have done things with distance learning, training and development, and multimedia production. But Design and Development and Teacher Ed are my homes. At any rate, I can remember being in graduate school and our department head, Don Smellie, telling us, "If you're not a member of the club (AECT), then it doesn't matter . . ." And so I became a member of AECT, and I guess I have been for around ten years now.
But why do I come? Well, first of all, I enjoy the relationships. There are certain people that I look forward to seeing that I don't get to see anywhere else. Some of them are Trey Martindale, David Wiley, Brad Hokanson, and Atsusi Hirumi. I also get the chance to meet others. I'm giving a presentation with Clif Mims on Thursday, and other than GChat, Twitter, and the like, we've never met. I can't wait to meet him in person.
I also come to learn something. Now AECT isn't actually known for loads of brain-busting presentations, actually, it is a wonderful conference for graduate students to present at, but I genrally try to steer clear of a lot of those. But I ALWAYS leave AECT with ideas, and that alone makes it worth the trip.
But I miss my family, and I'd much rather be at home with them.
So at any rate, what am I going to do to make this trip worthwhile? Well, I'm going to "live-blog" my presentations, that is, all but the one I'm actually presenting. I'll just jot down my notes so others can see what I think. I know that I can do it with Twitter and the like, but I would rather do it this way.
What about you? What conferences do you attend? WHY do you attend them? What do you get from attending?
Talk amongst yourselves . . .
Teaching Preservice Teachers Online: Pitfalls and Practices
Today was my presentation for the AECT Teacher Education division's WAG (web-based brown bag). They had me present on our efforts to put the preservice teacher technology course online here at Oklahoma State University. Angel Kymes and I taught it the first time together (different sections of the same class), and she and I presented it at last year's AECT conference. So the Teacher Ed division had me do an overview of that presentation and update it so everyone could see what we are doing. It was well received, and the feedback makes me think we're really doing good work here.
Here's a link to the Teacher Education divison's blog, The Playground. You can see Dr. Peter Rich's comments on the presentation there.
You can see my Slideshare presentation (we actually did it using BYU's Adobe Breeze server) after the jump.
Here's a link to the Teacher Education divison's blog, The Playground. You can see Dr. Peter Rich's comments on the presentation there.
You can see my Slideshare presentation (we actually did it using BYU's Adobe Breeze server) after the jump.
Blogs, RSS feeds, and Del.icio.us
I remember last October giggling as I read Trey Martindale's blog post stating (follow the link to read the whole thing):
My friend John Curry reminded me that I’m not posting very often on my blog these days, and he’s right. It seems I’m taking a shorter route–kind of “mini-blogging”. Basically I’m just saving and tagging interesting net resources in my delicious bookmarks account. I now have over 1000 items in that account, and it’s been useful for me, and for students–sort of like my external long-term memory. So, if you would like to know what I’m reading about, investigating, or find interesting, that’s the place.
AECT wrapup, Podcasting, and more . . .
What a week it was in Dallas. I saw a lot of people, but I'm glad to be back at work this week. I'm worn out! Never mind the fact that Andrew (my youngest--15 months old) slept in 20 minute increments last night. Yech.
I'm enjoying the podcasting thing, but I've got to be honest. I see how people can really overuse it. It can be the new PowerPoint. You know what I mean: "It's so easy that even I do it!" I did a podcast today as a guest lecture for Jennifer Summerville's students at UNC-Wilmington on podcasting in education, and I talked about podcasting and technology for technology's sake. I see a danger here.
A big thanks to Trey Martindale, Anne Leftwich, Chris Essex, Mark Jones, Peter Rich, Drew Polley, Preston Parker and the others who helped with the podcast recording at AECT. We have something like 40 sessions. Oh yeah, and a HUGE thanks to my major professor, David Merrill, for his interview on AECT and the field. Cool stuff.
When I got back and began working on the editing of the audio, I realized that all the files were in .wma format and Garage Band doesn't like that. So after a search, I ran across EasyWMA, a fantastic donate-ware tool that converts .wma to .mp3 slicker than slick. I mean that program was EASY to use, and it does batch conversion!
Overall, I'd say that AECT was beneficial for me personally (I saw some old friends and attended some good sessions--as well as the whole podcasting thing--I'm glad to help and it will look good on the vitae), our grad students (good reviews and next year they'll help with the grad student lounge), and our program at Oklahoma State University (applicants for our position and good visibility).
Biggest highlights that don't have anything to do with the conference? Chipoltle Grill with Bruce Spitzer and the massage therapists on the last day!
I'm enjoying the podcasting thing, but I've got to be honest. I see how people can really overuse it. It can be the new PowerPoint. You know what I mean: "It's so easy that even I do it!" I did a podcast today as a guest lecture for Jennifer Summerville's students at UNC-Wilmington on podcasting in education, and I talked about podcasting and technology for technology's sake. I see a danger here.
A big thanks to Trey Martindale, Anne Leftwich, Chris Essex, Mark Jones, Peter Rich, Drew Polley, Preston Parker and the others who helped with the podcast recording at AECT. We have something like 40 sessions. Oh yeah, and a HUGE thanks to my major professor, David Merrill, for his interview on AECT and the field. Cool stuff.
When I got back and began working on the editing of the audio, I realized that all the files were in .wma format and Garage Band doesn't like that. So after a search, I ran across EasyWMA, a fantastic donate-ware tool that converts .wma to .mp3 slicker than slick. I mean that program was EASY to use, and it does batch conversion!
Overall, I'd say that AECT was beneficial for me personally (I saw some old friends and attended some good sessions--as well as the whole podcasting thing--I'm glad to help and it will look good on the vitae), our grad students (good reviews and next year they'll help with the grad student lounge), and our program at Oklahoma State University (applicants for our position and good visibility).
Biggest highlights that don't have anything to do with the conference? Chipoltle Grill with Bruce Spitzer and the massage therapists on the last day!
AECT, Day 3 or Prepare to Podcast
Another long day at AECT, but yet it was a good one. The first day before all the sessions really get going is a tough one for me, because if there isn't something I really want to go to, I have a hard time just attending anything.
Well thanks Trey Martindale for solving that problem. I've known Trey now for something like eight years, and he's a guy I truly look forward to seeing every year at the conference. So when he sees me and asks if I can help him for ten minutes, there's no question. Of course I will. So Trey asks me if I'll use one of the AECT digital recorders and record different sessions for podcasting. Sure, no problem. So I start helping him put batteries in them and setting the dates and times on the recorders, and before I know it, he's turned the whole AECT podcasting thing over to me. And then he sends an e-mail to Ward Cates (convention planner) telling him I'm in charge. No pressure there. So I set out to pass out eight recorders today.
I passed out six. So far I've given recorders to me, Atsusi Hirumi, Tom Hergert, Scott Adams (not the Dilbert one), Bruce Spitzer, and Mark Jones. Mark has already had to dump some audio, and they sound great. We've got a total of 14 recorders, so there are eight more to assign out. We'll see how this goes. I know that Susan Stansberry, John Nelson, Chris Essex, Anne Leftwich, and Trey are also carrying recorders.
I just got an e-mail that Chris has recorded the following: Marco Torres' Keynote for ISMF; interviews with 2 groups of parents, teachers and kids that were in ISMF; ISMF Guidelines Presentation; John Couch's keynote for AECT. Extremely cool.
I like to kid Trey about sticking me with this, but truth be told, I'm excited about it. I need to get more involved, and this is definitely going to do it.
Design and Development membership meeting was good--interesting. Afterwards Trey introduced me to Anne Leftwich. Apparently one of us (Anne or I) will be heading up the podcasting next year with the other as the lieutentant. We haven't decided yet.
I have two presentations tomorrow. One I think will go really well, and the other, well, let's just say the study didn't go well--data corrupted, just a big we stunk it up. That one should be interesting.
Went to lunch with Susan, Bruce, Mark, and Alan Foley. It was an OSU lunch. Dinner with Bruce and Mark again. Afterwards I went to the AECT mixer, and Mark and I spent some time talking to Dr. Merrill. He's going to do an interview with me about AECT for the podcasts. I'm looking forward to it.
I'm tired now. More tomorrow.
I miss my wife and kids.
Well thanks Trey Martindale for solving that problem. I've known Trey now for something like eight years, and he's a guy I truly look forward to seeing every year at the conference. So when he sees me and asks if I can help him for ten minutes, there's no question. Of course I will. So Trey asks me if I'll use one of the AECT digital recorders and record different sessions for podcasting. Sure, no problem. So I start helping him put batteries in them and setting the dates and times on the recorders, and before I know it, he's turned the whole AECT podcasting thing over to me. And then he sends an e-mail to Ward Cates (convention planner) telling him I'm in charge. No pressure there. So I set out to pass out eight recorders today.
I passed out six. So far I've given recorders to me, Atsusi Hirumi, Tom Hergert, Scott Adams (not the Dilbert one), Bruce Spitzer, and Mark Jones. Mark has already had to dump some audio, and they sound great. We've got a total of 14 recorders, so there are eight more to assign out. We'll see how this goes. I know that Susan Stansberry, John Nelson, Chris Essex, Anne Leftwich, and Trey are also carrying recorders.
I just got an e-mail that Chris has recorded the following: Marco Torres' Keynote for ISMF; interviews with 2 groups of parents, teachers and kids that were in ISMF; ISMF Guidelines Presentation; John Couch's keynote for AECT. Extremely cool.
I like to kid Trey about sticking me with this, but truth be told, I'm excited about it. I need to get more involved, and this is definitely going to do it.
Design and Development membership meeting was good--interesting. Afterwards Trey introduced me to Anne Leftwich. Apparently one of us (Anne or I) will be heading up the podcasting next year with the other as the lieutentant. We haven't decided yet.
I have two presentations tomorrow. One I think will go really well, and the other, well, let's just say the study didn't go well--data corrupted, just a big we stunk it up. That one should be interesting.
Went to lunch with Susan, Bruce, Mark, and Alan Foley. It was an OSU lunch. Dinner with Bruce and Mark again. Afterwards I went to the AECT mixer, and Mark and I spent some time talking to Dr. Merrill. He's going to do an interview with me about AECT for the podcasts. I'm looking forward to it.
I'm tired now. More tomorrow.
I miss my wife and kids.
AECT, Day 2
Well, here we go. Yesterday was a pretty good day. Susan Stansberry and I gave a workshop on blogs and wikis (to see the materials click here). Thanks to all the attendees. I think we had fun and learned something.
I had dinner with two of my doc students, Mark Jones and Amy Johnson. We ate at Landry's seafood house. It was OK, but it took FOREVER. So far, the undeniable winner goes to Bruce Spitzer for introducing me to the Chipotle Grill. Amen, brother! I got to introduce Mark and Amy to Charlie Reigeluth (who they read in last week's class). Kind of fun . . .
I'll try to post my thoughts on each presentation I attend.
I had dinner with two of my doc students, Mark Jones and Amy Johnson. We ate at Landry's seafood house. It was OK, but it took FOREVER. So far, the undeniable winner goes to Bruce Spitzer for introducing me to the Chipotle Grill. Amen, brother! I got to introduce Mark and Amy to Charlie Reigeluth (who they read in last week's class). Kind of fun . . .
I'll try to post my thoughts on each presentation I attend.
AECT Conference
Well, here I am at AECT, and already I'm enjoying it. I must admit. I like "being a member of the club." When I was in graduate school, our department chair at Utah State was Don Smellie, a former president of AECT. He used to tell us, "You've got to be a member of the club. If you're not a member of the club, then it doesn't matter."Â
So I do like being a member of the club and the social aspect of this conference.
So far I've run into some people I've known for a while and it's been good to catch up. I had breakfast with David Merrill, chatted with Andy Gibbons and Don Descy, caught up with Brad Hokanson, Lauren Cifuentes and Jennifer Summerville, and I SAW Trey Martindale, but I haven't talked with him yet.
I plan on posting throughout the week.
So I do like being a member of the club and the social aspect of this conference.
So far I've run into some people I've known for a while and it's been good to catch up. I had breakfast with David Merrill, chatted with Andy Gibbons and Don Descy, caught up with Brad Hokanson, Lauren Cifuentes and Jennifer Summerville, and I SAW Trey Martindale, but I haven't talked with him yet.
I plan on posting throughout the week.
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