innovation
I need examples I can replicate please
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010I recently attended a regional conference on Mobile Learning in higher education and came away with some conflicting emotions.
First, it was a little curious that the two presentations and mLearning panelists were exclusively from large private institutions. Don’t misunderstand me, I have nothing but respect for the institutions that shared their mLearning projects, which, by the way, were pretty impressive. [...]
Academic Affairs Technology Plan at Keene State College
Thursday, December 18th, 2008After laboring over the academic affairs technology plan for over a year, through many iterations, we’re finally done. Or at least done until its annual review.
Have a peek. You might be surprised to learn that it’s not about technology. Really, it’s not. It’s about learning, teaching, and work.
Go on, have a look.
Keene State College Academic [...]
Practice, practice, upload
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008You too can join the symphony orchestra mashup! YouTube and Carnegie Hall are holding online auditions for the world’s’ first collaborative online orchestra.
“The YouTube Symphony Orchestra revolves around two main goals: the creation of a mash-up performance of a symphony from video submissions; and second, a live performance of the same symphony (written for the [...]
One-on-one with Tim Berners-Lee
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Okay, so it’s not really one-on-one but YOU do have an opportunity to get involved and ask questions to experts such as Tim Berners-Lee about net neutrality, democracy and the role of the web. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is hosting a June 11th ‘08 interactive debate on the future of the web in which YOU [...]
The audience is taking to the stage
Monday, April 14th, 2008I found this great clip on YouTube from Charles Leadbeater about the intersection of innovation and community and how one nourishes the other. While creativity and new ideas can certainly happen in isolation it’s not until people come together as a group and allow themselves to think big, listen, and think differently that innovation [...]
Principle of flexibility
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
I just had a 50 minute phone conversation with Dan Gilbert of Stanford University about the design of new and flexible learning spaces. Dan is an academic technologist at Stanford and is well versed in how to promote excellent teaching through innovative classroom design. I came away from the call energized and enthusiastic about what [...]