SUNY Learning Network Instructional Design Summit ...watch the livestream

This is a great way to recharge your batteries regarding teaching and learning and all aspects of Instructional design within the SUNY system.
Join Us!
The three ways to tune in are:

1. via channel link http://www.livestream.com/slnsolsummit2010

2. via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://livestream.com/slnsolsummit2010

3. via summit blog page: http://slnsolsummit2010.edublogs.org/2010/02/06/summit-livestream/

The best one for your watching station will be via the channel link page. #1 above.

Adobe has come along with a product to rival Google docs

Buzzword is often compared with Google Docs, so it might be useful to discuss the relationship between them - both the similarities and the differences. The short version goes like this:

Similarities:
Free web apps. Buzzword and Google Docs are both driving the move to on-line applications, and are rapidly gaining popularity and market share.
Comments and Collaboration. Ubiquitous access to your documents enable better collaboration, and both tools have useful commenting functionality to support this.


Buzzword vs. Google Docs

Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters

book innerds to look at 
Book to read ...Tancer, a search-engine data miner, takes a look at our culture by evaluating the millions of search queries on the Internet. He crunches the numbers to quantify our desires, our fears, our quest for knowledge, and our aspirations. From porn to prom dresses to politics, the content of our search queries reveals much about our private thoughts that we would not reveal to loved ones, friends, or a stranger taking a survey. His lists include the top “fear of” searches; fear of intimacy and fear of rejection were ranked high, while the fear of public speaking, usually sited as number one, came in at number nine. “How to tie a tie” just beat out “how to have sex” in the how-to category, with “how to levitate” clocking in at number six! For businesses, searches can reveal surprising information that dispels assumptions about customer behavior, such as the seasonality of clothing purchases. Tancer brings humor, clarity, and insight to the trends that are revealed by the ways we seek out and consume information on the Internet. --David Siegfried
more info on Amazon

Heutagogy: we really interact in this class. in my other class the professor just talks and talks and talks ...

When you take on learning you come to own it.

In education, heutagogy, a concept coined by Stewart Hase of Southern Cross University, is the study of self-determined learning. The notion is an expansion and reinterpretation of andragogy, and it is possible to mistake it for the same. However, there are several differences between the two that mark the one from the other.[1]

Heutagogy places specific emphasis on learning how to learn, double loop learning, universal learning opportunities, a non-linear process, and true learner self-direction. So, for example, whereas andragogy focuses on the best ways for people to learn, heutagogy also requires that educational initiatives include the improvement of people's actual learning skills themselves, learning how to learn as well as just learning a given subject itself. Similarly, whereas andragogy focusses on structured education, in heutagogy all learning contexts, both formal and informal, are considered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heutagogy

Latest info from SUNY Learning Network

General SLN Update

View more presentations from Alexandra M. Pickett.

International Online Collaborating mentioned in Campus Technology !

Online Education

Collaborative Learning Across the Miles
American college breaks down the barriers to create online distance learning courses with an exiled Lithuanian university

By Bridget McCrea02/03/10
Establishing ties between domestic and international colleges is one thing, but when the overseas institution has been forced into exile by its home country, the situation becomes a bit more complex.

SUNY Ulster of New York learned this about a year ago when it first collaborated with European Humanities University (EHU). The latter is a Belarusian university that was founded in Minsk in 1992 but was, according to the school, "forcibly closed" by the government in 2004. According to the EHU Web site, the school reopened in Vilnius in 2005 and was granted the status of a Lithuanian university in 2006. Read on...

Livescribe ! The pen that records what you are writing and saying

Nicoline Kiwiet got a mini-grant to use these Live Scribe pens with her Chemistry class and she brought one by to try. It is a pen with a camera that watches what you write and it has a mic that captures what you are saying. You are instantly recording a short animation Here is a little trial run I did.

Live Scribe practice run with a pen!

http://www.livescribe.com/education/

Met Fun! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has great tools for the online course space and the classroom

The Met has a huge website with a Timeline feature, a Map feature...YOu can store images you like of theirs in your own collection within their site.

Digital Nation on Frontline...see what has happened to us...

Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained?
Click here to go to the movie