Daniel Quigley's Blog – August 2008 Archive (7)

Hi all,



This is the last blog about the conference. I have covered all the sessions I thought worth covering. What I would like to do is provided a link to the Presentation Page for the conference. If you click on any of the highlighted links in the list of sessions, you can either download the presentational material that was provided or to view a recording of the presentation itself. I would… Continue

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:00 am



Gary Brown



Students are no longer anchored to one institution, but now obtain their education from a variety of sources. Clearly, they have a real need to transport their educational experiences, using Web 2.0 tools that have legs beyond a single campus. But current institution-specific ePortfolio programs fall short of this mark, and students’ future employers are seeking job candidates who know the Web 2.0 and worldware tools that… Continue

Supporting Next-Gen Academic Development in a Web 2.0 World



This presentation was by two people from UT Austin—Robert Bruce and Susanna Herndon. While there was a great deal of information about the processes that their office used to discover, test, and then disseminate new technologies that might be effective in the classroom, what struck me more was the organizational connections that were made to link what are key elements.



Essentially, UT Austin has… Continue

Campus Technology Innovator Awards Presentations



Normally, I am not a he fan of these award presentations. I understand that they can serve as an important spur to other campuses to try new things, but I usually know nothing about the recipients, and, as in this case, they give out 14 awards in an hour session…so how much can you actually gain from listening.



I was therefore pleasantly surprised by the concise, yet very clear presentations. While I am not… Continue

(Brief note: I am not going to blog every session. The one I attended before this one was not very interesting, was disorganized, and, I thought, a bit simplistic. So, the next cool one was "The Next Generation ePortfolio" and that is what I'll be summarizing here.)



This was a panel presentation, with each of the speakers mentioned above getting a little less than a 1/3 of the time. There was a respondent, Eddie Maloney, but he was left so little time at the end of the hour… Continue

(The whole presentation was recorded for streaming and should be available soon. I would recommend everyone see it when ready, I'll put the link in when I get it. My summary is below.)



For those who have attended conferences in the past, it is customary (and hoped for) that the opening Keynote address should excite the audience, be energetic, perhaps be controversial. If this is the case, then the Keynote address this morning was a huge success. The presenter has been the University… Continue

Well, I made it to Boston, checked in, and spent a very interesting afternoon at MIT. Before I go into details about the iCampus initiative, however, I do want to take care of some "housekeeping". I had mentioned in my initial e-mail to you that I would be attaching the .pdf of the conference brochure to my first blog post. However, it seems that I am no able to attach files to blog posts (learn something every day, I guess). I will post the brochure off the main page...probably as a… Continue