Archives for the tag "educause conference"

Miscellaneous thoughts on Educause 2004

The best place to blog and recharge a battery, away from the hustle and bustle and whoring in Vendor Hell: the ground floor, far end by the Mac email stations. No table and chairs, just quiet. Number of sink "interfaces" encountered in restrooms at the Convention Center: 4 auto detect single push ...

Wiki-ing Educause

I'm attempting to use Instiki as a note-taking tool for today's Educause conference session tracks. I'm not very good at taking notes and listening to a presentation at the same time; I think I prefer to listen and write a summary after the fact. Anyway, have a look ...

Wrapup of Wednesday afternoon at Educause

I attended a couple of sessions, Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? and At the End of the Day We Will Have Given It All Away: The Convergence of Open-Source CMS and Open Courseware. All in all I was impressed with ...

Who else is blogging Educause?

A quick search of Feedster turned up Alan, Gardner, Dale, Futurestep, and Oren.

The digital divide and culture

I wanted to reflect a little bit on something I've had floating around my head since this morning's sessions. I felt out of place at Dunderstadt's morning session because his audience was the research institution. Zane State is a small technical college located in Appalachian Ohio. Most of our students ...

Finding a gap in the digital divide

The Appalachian College Association has done some things to attempt to bridge the digital divide: trained student technology assistants and instructional technology assistants, and created a central library. If I understand correctly, the technology and instructional technology assistants attend training and the return to a home campus. The central library ...

Notes on morning general session

Duderstadt got things rolling this morning, and a few things he said struck a chord. The idea of students moving from passive students to active learners to demanding consumers. This may be true but is, like many of the ideas in the session, dependent on other factors such as SES. Our ...

People going down to the ground, buildings going up to the sky

I suppose I should write some John Denver lyric for the title of this post, but this line from Bob Dylan's Talkin' New York is the one I always think of when I'm in a city. Denver looks like a pretty cool city from what I could tell from the ...