Tag: Conference
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Have PDAs in schools missed the boat?
I remember, as many of us do, when laptops were too heavy to truck around all of the time and phones were amazing when they had a 100 slot phone book. It was in this environment that PDAs seemed to emerge. They could do the basic note taking that many people wanted laptops for and…
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SITE 2006 – Final Post
Well, it usually is the case that the last day of the conference can be a real hit or miss proposition, and usually there are a greater number of misses because everyone – including the person determining hit and miss – are so tired at the end of it all that they are starting to…
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SITE 2006 Early Thursday
Well, the majority of the sessions that I went to yesterday afternoon blew proverbial “buzz word based” chunks. But there was one good session offered, Comparison of Nursing Student Perceptions and Attitudes toward Hybrid & Online Courses (Patti Urso, Bill Chen and Robert Chi). They found that there is a variation in the appeal of…
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Wednesday Morning – Storytelling
I was in a number of sessions this morning, and a couple of them dealt with storytelling. The keynote of course (Digital Storytelling – Giving Purpose to Pixels – Joe Lambert) and Video Storytelling (Patricia Kougar-Melton). There is a is a really mass of people working with storytelling in some way, shape or form here.…
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The rest of the day Tuesday
The first session was Ranting and Raving to Applauding and Praising: Chronicles of a Technophobe (Rice, Johnson, Ezell, Johnson and Houston) that talked about transitioning from traditional instruction to online instruction. It was good to hear that many of the things that we are doing at the U of A when we are working with…