Innovate! 2012
Los Rios Colleges Educational Technology Conference
May 17 & 18, 2012
Drexel University Sacramento
degreed – jailbreak your degree
Inside Higher Ed article about ds106
Welcome to Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success – Curtis Bonk’s Mooc
http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/2012/04/close-up-look-at-upcoming-may-mooc.html
Mark your calendars for April 19th at 3PM PST for a live hangout with our colleagues from the Program for Online Teaching. Details to follow.
Join the Program for Online Teaching Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101863643236562/
What technologies our students use, own and want.
LRCCD Student Communication Survey 2011 – Executive Summary : EdTech2011_ExecSummary
Frequency distributions – All LRCCD: LRCCD_FREQ_EDTech2011
Frequency distributions – FLC: FLC_FREQ_EDTech2012
Frequency distribution by college, in case you want to see how our sister colleges compare (Note – This link will only work from “inside” the network): http://irweb.losrios.edu/do_esearch/EDTech_CommunicationsSurvey_2012/CommunicationsSurvey2012_cover.htm
The Flipped Classroom infographic: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com
Smithsonian 3D Initiative: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57384166-52/smithsonian-turns-to-3d-to-bring-collection-to-the-world/
Quadrotor Swarm: http://youtu.be/YQIMGV5vtd4
Great first meeting of the semester! Here are links to the various things we discussed:
D2L Text/Email Notifications – http://d2lresources.losrios.edu/welcome/news–home-page/notifications
D2L Intelligent Agents – Intelligent Agents Information Sheet v9
Remind 101 (send texts to students) – http://www.remind101.com
Library Pilots
Embedded Librarian – http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6317224.html
Bolt-on library modules for import into LMS courses
On-demand synchronous librarian presence in online courses
Mira Costa Program in Online Teaching (POT) – http://www.pedagogyfirst.org
The plan is to join this MOOC and associated network as a cohort. The syllabus is here.
The initial task is to create a blog (for recording observations and posting responses to the various prompts and activities). You can use http://blogger.com or http://wordpress.com or http://tumblr.com or http://posterous.com. Then register that blog at pedagogyfirst.org and tag all related posts #potcert11
-Zack
On Friday, November 4th from 9am – 4pm, the FLC Online Educators will host our 3rd annual FLC Innovation in Ed Tech Unconference. This is an informal, unconference-style, lunch-on-your-own, collaborative, grassroots, on-the-fly, bring-your-own-mobile-device event – basically a supportive atmosphere in which to nerd out and talk about teaching and technology. All Los Rios faculty are invited to attend – beginners and experts, adjunct and full-time.
Additional details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G1hJX1XPhtG2ZBJY_mNrhXLW-0eC0Up_cH6j5MMsp_A/edit
Notes:
We talked to Bryan Alexander (NITLE) about Pearson’s and Blackboard’s flirtations with “openness.”
Pearson OpenClass – http://youtu.be/W8Bm2o-pHWQ
Blackboard’s Press Release – http://www.blackboard.com/About-Bb/Media-Center/Press-Releases.aspx?releaseid=1618654
Google+ Hangouts
Wed. Oct. 12, 1:30 PM
Thurs. Oct. 13, 10 AM
Fri. Oct. 14, 2:15 PM
From the comfort of your own home, or the Innovation Center
Social Media w/PISO
Fri. Oct. 14, 10:30 AM, FL1-8
FLC Online Educators
Fri. Oct. 21, 10 AM, Innovation Center
Prezi
Fri. Oct. 28, 10:30 AM, FL1-35
Here are the links from today’s meeting:
If you think of anything else, please add it to the comments.
Here is a list of the notes that I made. If I’ve forgotten anything, or if you have other ideas, please stick them in the comments and I’ll update the post.
Potential date for Unconference – November 4
Dave’s D2L Lessons for Faculty:
http://wserver.flc.losrios.edu/~cooper/D2L/D2L Lessons.html
Feedback? cooperd@flc.losrios.edu
Screen Capture:
iShowU (Mac)
Jing (Cross platform)
Ideas for next meeting (Friday, September 16th):
1st and 3rd Fridays, 10 – 11:30 AM in the Innovation Center
September 2 and 16
October 7 and 21
November 4 and 18
December 2
Hope to see you there!
This is an interesting background document on the MOOC phenomenon. I find the “stages in online education evolution” particularly interesting. The MOOC instructor is no longer “sage on the stage,” nor “guide on the side,” but “snoop in the group!”