Workshop News, Notes, and Sounds

With the growth of podcasting and other user created content at Allegheny, I thought this article from NITLE's Liberal Education Today.

Here is an excerpt of the post -

Notes on a presentation about student podcasting from University of British Columbia (UBC), given at the ELI 2008 annual conference.

The Prototype of an Educational Podcasting Initiative (PEPI) project involved multiple UBC offices, including Land and Food Systems, journalism, the library, public relations, and instructional technology. The goal was to support podcasting in a different way than profcasting, which was seen as very often done. A second goal was to move somewhat away from dependence on Apple's iTunes. Pedagogical goals: improving communication skills, engaging academic content in a new way, adding digital fluency, and reaching a larger audience.

We would like to invite everyone who has used WebCT in the past or is
currently using it to attend a lunch discussion on EITHER Monday,
February 25, 2008 at noon or Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 12:30 pm.
Both sessions will be held in the Campus Center, Room 301/302 and
lunch will be provided.

The main purpose of this discussion is to tell you more about Sakai,
the new software that will be replacing WebCT beginning Fall 2008,
and to talk about the transition from WebCT to this product.

If you are able to join us, please sign up for one of these lunch
sessions at the following page:

http://training.allegheny.edu/ACCS_Forms/fac_reg/workshopreg.php

So that we are sure to order enough food, please sign up by February
15, 2008.

Julie Evans, Chief Executive Director for Project Tomorrow - NetDay, spoke again at this year's Educause Annual Conference on expectations of K-12 students in regards to technology use and ways they wish to learn.

Tomorrow's Students: Are We Ready For the New 21st-Century Learners?

If this sparked your fancy you might also be interested in these workshops being offered May 15 and 16 for faculty, technologists, librarians of Allegheny College and NITLE colleges.

• May 15: Teaching Digital Natives: Strategies for Digital Immigrants (Registration Deadline: April 4, 2008)
• May 16: Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning (Registration Deadline: April 4, 2008)

Allegheny participants can register online for these workshops. Interested participants for NITLE colleges should contact their campus liaison for registration details.

Faculty are invited subscribe to the Instructional Technology Workshop Announcement Feed. You can subscribe to the feed as a live bookmark in Firefox and have access to the most recent workshop announcements in your browser.

Find out more about news feeds and how they are used at Allegheny.