Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Welcome to HigherEd 2.0 at LTU!

Welcome! This workshop is about the HigherEd 2.0 project, and it focuses on using web 2.0 tools and strategies in higher education. The goal of the workshop is to inspire you: (i) to learn from each other about web 2.0 tools, and (ii) to employ these technologies in your education setting.

You can participate in this workshop in several ways.
  • First, you can use this back channel as a way to discuss the workshop content, and, frankly, anything else that comes up. The discussion will be rich and meaningful only if you participate. Don't be shy! Comment on some of the existing threads I've set up, or start your own thread.
  • Second, you can download and work with the workshop notes. Perhaps you would like to annotate the PDFs in Acrobat? Maybe you could use your tablet PC and Windows Journal to write on them? What if you made some comments and added some of your own ideas, then re-posted them to share with the group? You might also consider downloading the demo version of Quick Screen Recorder so you can create tablet-based videos at lunch.
  • Third, you can discuss your own experiences during the collaborative parts of the workshop, share your insights, and even share your creations. This is all about collaboration and sharing of ideas.
Many thanks for your participation!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do you deal with FERPA and ADA issues?

Javiwwwebgrl said...

Hi there,
I thought you may be interested in the Digital Ethnography Project out of KSU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

(it makes a good point for forcing us to envision DIFFERENT ways to engage the digital natives!)

CMK said...

These issues about ADA are really difficult...we have wrestled with this a bit but don't have a really good answer for how to meet our obligations here. We can add subtitles and things, but of course that costs us in terms of time and maybe money. So I'm not sure what the answer is here, particularly a SCALABLE answer. Any ideas?

Anonymous said...

cognitive overload is one of the primary reasons that faculty should expand their presentations. Using these tools helps organize faculty thinking and allows modeling of the thinking that is needed in the specific field. Modeling expert thinking is usually one of the least pedagogical strategies used.