Last Post from Madison
I attended three keynote addresses and eight workhshops at the Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison, Wisconsin. In this blog I am only going to report on the best ones.
On Wednesday I attended a half-day workshop on blogging and podcasting. That is when I set up this blog. This workshop reinforced my desire to learn more about these two technologies so I can assist faculty who want to use them. I am so enthusiastic about podcasting that I plan to buy a video iPod as soon as I can afford to.
The outstanding keynote address was Dr. David Metcalf's talk on "Learning for the new Mobile Society," which reinforced everything covered in the workshop I attended Wednesday.
On Thursday morning I attended Dr. Rod Riegle's workhop "The Learning Guild: MMORPGs as Educational Environments." It reinforced everything I learned about MMORPGs in our recently completed Summer Institute on educational gaming at Austin Community College.
On Friday morning I attended a very interesting workshop on podcasting and other new technologies taught by professors from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. I also attended a workshop on "Developing Visual Fluency," that was presented by William Horton of William Horton Consulting. Mr. Horton presented it as a series of exercises for the audience to do. He was the best presenter I heard at the conference, he gave us a great handout, and the material he covered will be of great use in my job as an instructional designer. This was the bestg of the forty-five minutes workshops I attended. I suggest you google him and check out his website.
On Wednesday I attended a half-day workshop on blogging and podcasting. That is when I set up this blog. This workshop reinforced my desire to learn more about these two technologies so I can assist faculty who want to use them. I am so enthusiastic about podcasting that I plan to buy a video iPod as soon as I can afford to.
The outstanding keynote address was Dr. David Metcalf's talk on "Learning for the new Mobile Society," which reinforced everything covered in the workshop I attended Wednesday.
On Thursday morning I attended Dr. Rod Riegle's workhop "The Learning Guild: MMORPGs as Educational Environments." It reinforced everything I learned about MMORPGs in our recently completed Summer Institute on educational gaming at Austin Community College.
On Friday morning I attended a very interesting workshop on podcasting and other new technologies taught by professors from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. I also attended a workshop on "Developing Visual Fluency," that was presented by William Horton of William Horton Consulting. Mr. Horton presented it as a series of exercises for the audience to do. He was the best presenter I heard at the conference, he gave us a great handout, and the material he covered will be of great use in my job as an instructional designer. This was the bestg of the forty-five minutes workshops I attended. I suggest you google him and check out his website.
posted by Jimmy in the Hills | Saturday, August 05, 2006
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