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Cole Camplese

Currently, Mr. Camplese serves as the Director of Education Technology Services at the Pennsylvania State University.

Deck Wars Returns!

Join us at Faculty Academy for the second annual Deck Wars competition. What is Deck Wars? Glad you asked! Deck Wars is a competition in which the presenters deliver a short, impromptu, three-minute presentation based on a deck of PowerPoint slides they have never seen before. Each presenter’s work is judged by the audience for [...]

Death of the CMS?

Join us at Faculty Academy for a mock debate between DTLT’s Jim Groom and Director of Distance and Blended Learning, John St. Clair. Jim and John will discuss the future of the course management system on college campuses. Is the CMS dead? Have we graduated to a new kind of understanding and integration of technology [...]

Get Ahead of the FA Curve

As Faculty Academy approaches, DTLT would like to invite anyone at UMW (or elsewhere) to join in a reading group of Dr. Boyle’s latest book, “The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind.” We’ll be discussing the book on this Web site virtually as well as trying to arrange a few face-to-face book group [...]

James Boyle

Professor James Boyle will deliver his keynote address Cultural Agoraphobia: What Universities Need to Know About Our Bias Against Openness at 11:00 am on May 13th. Dr. Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University and founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons and the co-founder of Science Commons.

Registration and CFP Are Open

We’re pleased to announce that the online registration and call for proposal forms for Faculty Academy 2009 are now open! Registration We hope you’ll join us at Faculty Academy and register today! The conference is a wonderful opportunity to hear more about what colleagues at UMW are doing with teaching and technology, listen to a [...]

Keynote Address Details Announced

We’re pleased to announce that the title and abstract for Dr. Boye’s keynote address are now available. The address, Cultural Agoraphobia: What Universities Need to Know About Our Bias Against Openness, will be held at 11:00 am on May 13th at UMW’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies. You can find out more about Dr. [...]

Deadlines Extended

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve extended the registration and proposal deadlines for Faculty Academy. Registrations will now be accepted through May 8th. You may submit proposals through May 4th. We had hoped to move these deadlines up a bit this year so that we could provide the conference program earlier than ususal. However, in [...]

If Any Moron Can Write a Blog, Then All Blogs are Written by Morons, Right?

The title of my talk is one phrasing of the general strategy employed by many faculty (and increasingly, students) when it comes to approaching material on the open web. Faculty not only discourage, but often outright forbid the use of blogs, wikis, or other online resources that are not peer-reviewed. Doing so does a disservice [...]

Creating a Personal Learning Network for Yourself and for Your Students

A Personal Learning Network or Personal Learning Environment is a term used to describe a way of organizing and accessing information that helps you do your work. It’s usually applied to those people who work in an information-rich environment where it’s important to keep up with the latest research and where one might be contributing [...]