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Issue Contents Virtually
Carefree John
Bourne, The Sloan Consortium, Babson College, & F.W. Olin College of Engineering
The Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning (also known as Sloan-C West) is designed to bring together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning. Experts, intermediate users and novices are welcome to participate in Symposium activities that will include face-to-face and virtual components. Symposium tracks will highlight and demonstrate research, application and best practices of important emerging technological tools for social networking, assessment, open educational resources, new media and support services. Research that explores the impact of emerging technologies on access, learning and cost effectiveness, institutional commitment, and faculty and student satisfaction is desired. A call for papers will be available in September, 2007. Before the Symposium in Carefree, Arizona May 7-9, 2008, we invite you to learn about emerging technologies via this fall's online workshops and to help design Symposium activities. The online workshops will begin in November 2007, seven months before the Symposium; and the workshops will use Second Life. Five independent two-week online workshops will engage the Sloan-C community in a year-round exploration of the educational possibilities of virtual reality. Before, during and after the Symposium, a conference center on the Washington State University Island in Second Life will be the main hub for the five workshops and for virtual events during and after Sloan-C West. The University of Illinois at Springfield and other Second Life teaching islands will also work with WSU and Sloan-C. The voice-enabled Sloan-C/WSU conference center will permit small groups to work both asynchronously and synchronously in private meeting spaces. Teams will explore issues, help organize the Sloan-C West sessions and ultimately create materials for dissemination. Then, teams will converge at Sloan-C West (virtually and physically) to discuss their work with other attendees, presenting and providing stimulating new information. Following the physical event, teams can continue in the virtual teaching and learning spaces at the virtual conference center. We plan to engage noted researchers, authors and futurists in exploring the art-of-the-possible in these workshops. Each workshop will include research opportunities, collaborative projects, and information dissemination leading up to Sloan-C West and feeding directly into the face-to-face Symposium. When you sign up for the workshops at Sloan-C, we will discount the registration fee for the Sloan-C West Symposium in Carefree. Sign up to join track teams on emerging technologies by emailing Gail.Sullivan@olin.edu to indicate your interest in:
If you have a Second Life account, you are welcome to visit Sloan-C Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching/74/152/22. To create a free Second Life account and download the software, visit http://secondlife.com/. Also see developing information about the conference at http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org.
Monroe College Second Life Western Hoe Down The Monroe College Second Life campus is hosting its grand opening and open house on Sunday, July 22, 2007 from noon to 8 pm in Second Life. We invite you to celebrate with us the ongoing work of the Monroe Office of Online Learning Internships. Enjoy an old fashioned hayride. The Monroe College hay wagon and horse will start around NMC's Teaching Island starting at Monroe College every hour on the hour, starting at noon with the last ride beginning at 7 pm. It will make stops at the following locations on the island where you can disembark or embark before returning to the Monroe SL campus. Start: Monroe College Hang out with Monroe College interns, faculty, and staff. Go into the Monroe College Online Learning Internship office and be greeted by our interns, who will give you lots of information about Monroe and the Online Learning Internship program. Sit around in the Student Union or the Interns' Lounge (upstairs) and chat all day. Visit the Office of the Internship Director and leave your calling card. Read welcome notes from:
Other activities include square dancing and a Texas barbecue. Come enjoy yourself and bring some friends! To visit or to attend the hoedown, go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching/149/186/21.
Learn From the Experts - The Sloan-C 2007 Workshop Series Workload Management Strategies for Online Educators* - July 11 - 20 There's still time to register! Instructors need to develop new time management skills when transitioning to online teaching. Online teaching can redefine faculty members' teaching schedules. While the advantages for participating in online education include flexibility; the reality of the 24/7 classroom can prove daunting due to the investment in curriculum development and planning as well as the need to be responsive to student inquiries. This workshop offers strategies enabling online educators to manage time demands while teaching online courses. Topics include: course planning, information presentation, frequency of interaction, and scheduling. *This workshop is part of the Select Series and College Pass Members must use their additional 50 seats provided to take advantage of this workshop. Click here for details and registration. Visual Pedagogy, Collaborative Learning, and Meaning-Making in Online Environments - July 11 - 20 Visual Communication and Interactive media are transforming teaching, knowledge production, and learning in 21st Century learning environments. Facilitators Martinez and Feinblatt have been collaborating on theory, research and best practices related to the use of the mediated image in learning. This workshop will provide participants with a brief introduction to theory, strategies, and examples of visual pedagogies that promote collaborative learning, followed by conversation and activities designed to illustrate the meaning-making; deeper levels of learning; and dynamic interaction elicited within visual approaches to the curriculum. Click here for details and registration. |
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