Abstract: Long before twitter jumped the Oprah-shark, UMW embraced micro-blogging and never looked back. In this presentation, I will talk about a few of the ways twitter has been used on campus to supplement class discussion, prompt cross-campus debate, and keep us all up to date.
Tags: twitter, social media,
Format: Formal Presentation (15 minutes)
Picking up on the theme of ‘openness’ in Dr. Boyles’ talk, we’ll look at some of the projects I’ve been working on to open up information about UMW. One example is the experiments I have been doing to create new ways to discover and visualize the activity within UMWBlogs. (See the project blog at http://semantic.umwblogs.org/about). [...]
This workshop will take you through the steps of creating your own website through UMW Blogs that actually has a unique address, for example http://johndoe.com. It will still be hosted and supported through UMW Blogs, but gives you the additional ability to have your own name space so that you can easily design and develop [...]
Andy Rush, Teaching and Learning Technologies The UMW New Media Center has recently come on‑line and it offers a smorgasbord of resources for using digital media. By integrating mobile technologies, adding some user‑generated content, and utilizing several WordPress installations, we’ll show you what’s possible with the latest technology. We’ll demonstrate a mobile version (using the [...]
In this hands-on workshop, Cole Camplese will lead participants through a conversation about using emerging technologies for course redesign. He will focus in particular on using lightweight, easily accessible tools like Twitter, grassroots video, and blogging in small doses to impact problems of practice. Examples from the PSU and UMW will be shown to focus [...]
During this talk we will investigate key trends impacting educators in their overall design of learning. Focusing on the emergence of user-created content, social spaces, and mobile devices we will take an integrated look at how we can better utilize technology within these areas to meet the needs of our students. We will also explore [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
