Maribeth’s World
Maribeths hub for thoughts, people, places, interests and other things…Archive for Higher Education
Attending AACTE this Weekend
I’m participating at AACTE in Chicago this weekend. Glad to be able to particiapte.
Livetext Colloboration Conference
Thursday and Friday I was downtown Chicago participating at the Livetext Colloboration Conference . Now I need to implement everything I learned! I’ll post some of my notes after I relax a bit.
Day 2 at GSU FSI-Maribeth’s Notes
Today’s first speaker is Dr. Jason Rhode from NIU who addressed Media Mashups. He shared the following ways to view his information:
feeds.feedburner.com/rhodetalks
- Jason’s Twitter
- Jason’s Tumblr
- Jason’s Blog jasonrhode.edublogs.org
- twitter.com/jrhode
- jrhode.tumblr.com
More wonderful links for me to learn about and share!!!!
- Proliferation of technology
- Ubiquitous connectivity
- Participatory nature of the Web
- Age of user-generated content
- Interoperability of data
- Rise of social learning
- LMS limitations
- Networked learning
- Personal learning environments (PLE)
- Formal vs. informal learning
- Emerging trends in media usage (2008 Horizon Report)
- Mashup definitions
- Video remix defined
- “Social Media in Plain English”
- Embedding media
- “RSS in Plain English”
- RSS is the Web 20 “Pipe”
- Tumblr
- Teaching with Technology Institute tumblelog
- Jason’s tumblelog
- “Twitter in Plain English”
- Faculty Summer Institute Twitter feed
- Jason’s Twitter feed
- 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter [PDF]
- FriendFeed
- Jason’s feed
- Jaiku
- Ning
- LearningTown
- Teaching with Technology Institute
- 7 Things You Should Know About Ning (PDF)
Jason’s views on Social Bookmarking:
web-based sharing of Internet bookmarks
- “Social Bookmarking in Plain English”
- Introduction to Social Bookmarking
- CiteULike
free online service to organize academic papers - Jason’s CiteULike library
- Connotea
free online reference management for clinicians and scientists - del.icio.us
popular social bookmarking service by Yahoo! - Jason’s del.icio.us bookmarks
- Bookmarks tagged “mashups”
- diigo
social annotation: seamless integration of social bookmarking, web highlighter, sticky-note & clipping - EndNoteWeb
free web-based research tool - Listible!
social bookmarking / listing combined with ranking / voting of resources - Listphile
create and share community-powered lists, databases, and atlases - education journals
- educational psychology journals
- educational technology journals
- Scholar
free social bookmarking tool from Blackboard - StumbleUpon
discover and bookmark sites, videos, pictures and more — all according to your interests - Zotero
free, easy-to-use Firefox extension for collecting, managing, and citing your research sources
Remixing RSS:
creating customized RSS feeds and information content from multiple source feeds
- Yahoo! Pipes
powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. - Feed Informer
create customized RSS digests combining multiple RSS feeds - Feed2JS
free service for building javascript command for embedding the contents of an RSS feed in a website - Google News
search and browse news sources; create custom news RSS feeds - Yahoo! News
aggregated news feeds from Yahoo! - WebRSS
free service for generating code to publish RSS feeds to your site
- 7 Things You Should Know About Mapping Mashups [PDF]
- Google Maps
- Map to Waupaca
- America’s Highway: Oral Histories on Route 66
- Myanmar Cyclone
- Chicago traffic & photos
- St. Louis sights
- Adding content to Google Maps
- NIU Huskie Bus Tracker
Jason’s Presentations+Audio:
presentations shared online with synchronized audio
- SlideShare
create slidecastsJason’s SlideShare presentationsSlidecasting 101 - Technology…it’s all around us
- Kaltura
- First found Kaltura in January ‘08
- About Kaltura
- History of the Internet
- Scenes from Myranmar
- JumpCut
- Elgg Presentation
- Nemoa Spring 2008 Rimm-Kaufman Talk
- Viral Education Teaser
- Eyespot
- The Riots of 1968 in the US
- The Difference Between Stocks and Bonds
- Dabble
- Motionbox
- Viddix
- Demo of Viddix
- Sample tutorial
- Sample lecture
- Viddler
- The Future of Higher Education
Next today was A New Look At the Library of Congress by Luci Sweder and Sandi Estep
Then Shirley Comer on Podcasting
And Thinkfinity and Edsitement by Luci Sweder
GSU Faculty Summer Technology Institute
Today I am participating at the GSU Faculty Summer Technology Institute. The first presenter’s were great! Jeff Hunt and David Jakes.
The Future Narrated
This is the same text as in the previous post… With visuals instead of music…
Pay Attention
Pay Attention
I think all teachers should see this and ponder it as they prepare for each day’s lessons. Personally, I find this motivational and affirming. What do you think?