Getting ready for Educause

The slides are ready and checked for the Midwest Educause Event. The presentation is Tuesday March 22 at 8:30 in the Empire Ballroom (Seventh Floor). Learning Objects, Wikis, & Blogs - Oh My! should appeal to any faculty member interested in seeing some examples of learning objects, our WIKI (Digitizing Inspiration) that we used to work on this project, or looking at how blogs are being used in our courses.

Although we removed some slides and don't plan to visit all the links, our practice presentation was right at 43 minutes (and we have 45 minutes tops!). Oh well, so much for questions. Nicholas and I plan to announce that we will be located in the hallway for awhile if anyone has other questions (at least we hope we can do this). Not sure where Lana is - since her daughter delivered a child this week. Hoping we hear from her soon!

Workshop Proposal Accepted!

A colleague at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Sister Joanne Golding, asked if I was interested in co-presenting with her at the 21st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison, Wisconsin. After we started looking through the objectives of the conference, we decided to submit a workshop idea. If you submit a workshop, the conference registration fee is paid for two presenters and with the budget constraints at our institution – this just seemed like the way to go!

This year’s conference will reflect on lessons learned and how to apply them to improve the design, delivery, and support of distance teaching and learning. The conference is held August 3-5 and I believe we present on the 3rd. Both of us have taught online courses at our campus since 1996, but our latest passion is creating learning objects. We plan to demonstrate a variety of software packages that support the creationof learning objects. I’ll add another post soon that outlines our workshop, but I just wanted to share this with all my blog readers!