Brainstorming Breakfasts
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BS Breakfasts are informal gatherings in the basement of Irving's Bagels on College Ave on Fridays from 9am-10am. We talk about Education and Technology and try to come up with some cool ideas.
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September 5, 2008
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Who's Here
- Stevie Rocco
- Dana Carlisle Kletchka
- Megan Marut
- Brian Panulla
- Brad Kozlek
- Emily Rimland
- John Meier
- Erin Long
- Jim Leous
- Kevin Clair
- Anne Behler
- John Patishnock
- Audrey Romano
- Chris Stubbs
- Gary Chinn
- Robin Smail
- Daryl Noye
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Topics
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August 29nd, 2008
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Who's Here
- Allan Gyorke
- Stevie Rocco
- Brian Panulla
- Brad Kozlek
- Robin Smail
- Audrey Romano
- Natalie Harp
- Chris Stubbs
- Jason Heffner
- Chris Millet
- Erin Long
- Shelby Thayer
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Topics
- Issues with Blog comments?
- Blog-a-day challenge
- Professional Development Plans: Adobe Max, PodCamp?
- Discussion of the TLT Talk about the Learning Design Summer Camp
- Web Conference and ideas for combining it with HighEdWebDev next year (and move to October)
- Brad showed Audrey's design for the blog search page (includes an ATOM feed)
- This will be a very nice addition to class blogging and other multiple-blog aggregation issues
- This could be a way for us to aggregate posts about professional development opportunities (what conferences are worth attending, etc...)
- We could set up a wiki for listing and suggesting tags, but actively link those tags to their search pages in the blogs
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August 22nd, 2008
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Who's Here
- Allan Gyorke
- Michelle Panulla
- Brian Panulla
- Elizabeth Pyatt
- Audrey Romano
- Chris Stubbs
- John Patishnock
- Chris Millet
- Hannah Inzko
- Jason Heffner
- Emily Rimland
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Topics?
- Discussions about the Learning Design Summer Camp
- Late June would be the best time
- Too many "get it done by the time students come back" deadlines for August
- College of Business might be a better venue since it would give us space to have break out discussions without totally separating. It would also let us invite more people.
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August 1st, 2008
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Who's Here
- Allan Gyorke
- Stevie Rocco
- Michelle Panulla
- Chris Stubbs
- Robin Smail
- Brad Kozlek
- Audrey Romano
- Jason Heffner
- Shelby Thayer
- Jamie Oberdike
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Topics?
- "Gardening" responsibilities for events like the Learning Design Summer Camp and posts like Jamie's Buzz Lion
- One Post Per Day kicks off today
- Write out a list of 21 topics
- Get down to a blog post in 20-30 minutes
- A group doing this together will be more engaging than posting along
- Stevie may be making one comment per day
- Collapsing under the pressure of Twitter and your RSS feeds
- Twitter may drop off after the Learning Design Summer Camp
- Hopefully new clusters will emerge of people with common interests
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July 25th, 2008
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Who's Here
- Allan Gyorke
- Tim Perry
- Chris Millet
- Chris Stubbs
- Jason Heffner
- Audrey Romano
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Topics?
- Reaction at TLT Talk - some people in the group focused too much on the content of what was being shown instead of what that content represented
- Videos can trigger massive community reactions (hundreds of response videos, thousands of comments, conversations between uploaders and responders, launching points for creative interpretation)
- People are mashing up content. We need to start discussions about copyright, intellectual property, TEACH Act, Fair Use, etc...
- TEACH Act and Streaming Server: there is no specific requirement to stream content. The TEACH Act refers to taking reasonable measures to prevent copying and retention of copyrighted material.
- Brad is thinking about ditching his laptop and getting a MacBook Air and a desktop machine. The Air would be for note taking.
- Evernote being discussed as a way of keeping notes between different devices and its optical character recognition that lets you take pictures and search for words within those images.
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July 18th, 2008
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Who's Here
- Allan Gyorke
- Natalie Harp
- Jason Heffner
- Robin Smail
- Jamie Mundie
- Audrey Romano
- Mike Halm
- Hannah Inzko
- Chris Millet
- Chris Stubbs
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Topics?
- iPhone Applications and the freakiness of location-aware applications
- Podcast production
- What is the ideal length of a podcast? It really depends on the application. Anything from 5 minutes to 1 hour seems to be the consensus.
- Student podcasts tend to be 3-15 minutes. Digital Commons recommends scripting or at least an outline. Digital Commons staff is mostly focused on teaching students how to use the recordings.
- VERY different dynamic between a person podcasting by themselves and with a partner
- NPR is scripted, but we're used to that format
- How do we help students make better sounding podcasts (read scripts sound stiff)
- Jamie's idea: one student as a leader with an outline to help facilitate a discussion
- Robin: talking points versus scripts and outlines
- Students who are asked to create a podcast typically haven't listened to them before
- Hannah: Jingles and Garage Band work can make podcasting more fun and make it more likely that they will try it again
- Students are very sensitive to being overheard while recording
- Interview format can be a lot easier for first time recorders, especially if interviewer is experienced
- Typical podcast assignments are single audio recordings and students can't listen to each other's recordings. It's more like a recorded assignment.
- A single assignment doesn't give students the opportunity to really learn and be comfortable with the recording/podcasting process
- WE SHOULD ADD THIS AS A DISCUSSION AT THE Learning Design Summer Camp
- Podcasting via Skype can be a problem if people can't see the visual cues that indicate that someone wants to speak, has a question, disagrees, etc...
- When students click and do a good podcast, they can get excited about sharing it. People who are friends first may make it easier since they have established social relationships.
- Students who don't give themselves enough time can't enjoy the editing process (music integration, etc...) that other students like.
- Hannah's Cupcake Blog
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July 11th, 2008
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Who's Here
- Allan Gyorke
- Cole Camplese
- Stevie Rocco
- Robin Smail
- Emily Rimland
- Kitt Camplese
- Brad Kozlek
- Mike Halm
- Erin Long
- Brian Panulla
- Michelle Panulla
- James Endres Howell
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Topics?
- iPhone 2.0
- What apps are people installing so far?
- Twitterific seems popular. Brad replaced Mail with it.
- TypePad only works with TypePad
- Most of the crew with current iPhones are not upgrading yet (although it may only be a matter of time)
- FreeCycle (on Yahoo Groups) seems to be a popular site for getting rid of old stuff
- ANGEL 7.2 non-upgrade discussion
- Had to do with slower overall performance in version 7.2 and last year's stability issues
- Course mail tool was particularly slow
- We will be upgrading to 7.3 next May
- Learning Design Summer Camp Meeting at 10:00
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June 27th, 2008
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Who's Here
- Allan Gyorke
- Cole Camplese
- Stevie Rocco
- Chris Stubbs
- Christian Vinten-Johansen
- Brian Panulla
- Jenn Bray
- Yvonne Clark
- Robin Smail
- Elizabeth Pyatt
- Anne Petersen
- Michelle Panulla
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Topics?
- Re-discussion of the Brainstorming Bookclub
- Reactions to "No Invitation Required" blog posts
- Wiki as a model for University 2.0? Philosophy of the collective as the new approach to business as usual in the University community.
- Related Resource (courtesy @pckletchka): Software was made for people
- Overstock.com and our reading list for BS Bookclub
- Has several books on sale that are on our list
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June 20th, 2008
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Who's Here?
- Hannah Sloan
- Allan Gyorke
- Robin Smail
- Nikki Kauffman
- Stevie Rocco
- Chris Stubbs
- Chris Millet
- James Howell
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Topics?
- Outfits for the "camp counselors" at the Learning Design Summer Camp (whistles and shorts may be involved). We'll discuss further at the volunteers meeting today.
- Consequences of the IST Solutions Institute closure.
- Whether it is appropriate to be Tweeting during a child's birth. Jumping Monkeys
- How long should children be able to use video game systems while they're on summer vacation? Child claims that's how he connect to his friends -- he sees it as his social network.
- Thoughts about the First Thirty PSU-produced show about four students coming to Penn State. Also Go Ahead. Authenticity of first-year experience versus the image that Penn State wants to present to the world.
- Showing the First Copyright Video. Ideas about a future video where things that are copyrighted disappear or are stolen by a rival student (i.e. I have an idea for a paper/invention and someone else stands up with the same idea)
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June 13th, 2008
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Who's Here?
- Anne Petersen
- Cole Camplese
- Brian Panulla
- Chris Stubbs
- Michelle Panulla
- Robin Smail
- Audrey Romano
- Jamie Oberdick
- Keith Bailey
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Topics?
- Recapping the PSU Web Conference - thoughts and impressions
- http://camplesegroup.com/blog/?p=922
- "We can do whatever we want - all we need is help"
- People dating themselves with talk of old school television
- Why arent we pushing the notion of embeddable content more as a means to stop PSU from duplicating, triplicating, quadruplicating content?
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June 6, 2008
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Who's Here?
- Brad Kozlek
- Anne Petersen
- Brian Panulla
- Chris Stubbs
- Stevie Rocco
- James Howell
- Jeff Swain
- Allan Gyorke
- Robin Smail
- Audrey Romano
- Jenn Bray
- Jamie Oberdick
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Topics
- Backchannel - will this be the theme of innovative teaching and learning for the next years? I still think it will be integration. Backchannel can be one way of integrating online and in-class communication. The innovations in backchannel interaction that are happening outside of the formal teaching and learning space has tremendous potential for use in the classroom.
- Backchannel as community building. think how we have all been using twitter.
- public blogging, wikis, personal learning networks (http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams) - the culture of life long learning
- "multithreaded" conversation during events.
- twitter is great for communities of people you in real life. Other online communities like blogging communities may be more suited to communities that are primarily online.
- Discussion of privacy and keeping Tweets protected. There are different reasons people do this: jobs, children, divorce issues, etc.
- How do these issues of community and privacy work out in the classroom? They may help college students, esp. freshmen, make the transition to adulthood.
- growing the person from the myspace high schooler to the professional online participation
- some may still see backchannel like passing notes in class. The lack of control.
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May 30, 2008
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Who's Here?
- Bill Rose
- Robin Smail
- Chris Millet
- Brad Kozlek
- Chris Stubbs
- Audrey Romano
- Jenn Bray
- Justin Miller
- Jason Heffner
- Allan Gyorke
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Topics for this week
- Discussion of the Learning Design Summer Camp
- Designers may not have time for professional development because they are working so hard on course content creation
- How can we shift focus to make content creation easier and have the designers focus on DESIGN of activities
- Alternative methods for faculty content creation:
- accommodate many learning styles easily with capture lecture video/slides, publish slides, mp3 podcast, transcribe lecture
- use of wikis and community-developed content
- Example faculty success story from Bill Rose: faculty member had problems writing weeks of course content, but was able to knock out 2-3 lectures at a time through recorded Adobe Connect presentations
- Faculty success stories should include things like:
- The problem being addresses
- Options that were explored (even rejected ones)
- Various process attempts
- Lessons learned along the way (mistakes, insights)
- Equipment/facilities needed
- Costs, time (value added versus increased or lowered costs?)
- Promoting back channel the Learning Design Summer Camp:
- Part of the wiki to share communication tools
- Set up a hashtag for the event and common tags for various social tools
- Dinners at conference-related events
- People may be reluctant to sign up for a dinner session if it is based on the type of food instead of the people or a topic to be discussed
- Berkman's wiki was used to help people organize around topics and people they wanted to network with.
- Transition to the book club/book swap idea
- Chris Stubbs will post this in the wiki
- We can list books that we have and books that we want to read
- Use one BS Breakfast meeting per month to hold the book club
- (May want to expand this to other kinds of communication as well -- recently found blogs, wikis, and such)
- New Tools Mentioned:
- Flare - tool for bringing in a lot of media into a central presentation - lets you keep editing content in PowerPoint and such
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May 23, 2008
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Who's Here?
- Cole Camplese
- Hannah Sloan
- Chris Millet
- Brad Kozlek
- Chris Stubbs
- Keith Bailey
- Jason Heffner
- Robin Smail
- Tim Perry
- Stevie Rocco
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Potential Discussion Topics?
- Walled gardens makes things so hard to interoperate. Do you really need to hide your content behind a wall? Think about it.
- What are the ideal models for producing an effective backchannel for an event or a class?
- We talked previously about the use of subethaedit and wiki for collab note taking.
- BS Breakfast FB group ... good for anything?
- Good for inviting people to the breakfast, if nothing else.
- Wikipedia as a model for curricular content creation across PSU
- Resources fromthe Berkman@10 session on cooperation moderated by Yochai Benkler and Jimmy Wales:
- Brief notes of the session
- Wikipedia has become the icon of a different way of looking at how we can be productive and collaborative. Peer production has emerged as a defining feature of the networked information economy and the networked public sphere. Can we seriously begin to imagine that these practices should change our understanding of the possibilities of cooperative human relations? What are the forces pushing against cooperation, and how can they be addressed? What can we learn from life online about how better to design systems, both technical and institutional that will foster cooperation?
- Resources fromthe Berkman@10 session on cooperation moderated by Yochai Benkler and Jimmy Wales:
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May 16, 2008
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Who's Here?
- Brad Kozlek
- Chris Stubbs
- Allan Gyorke
- Robin Smail
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Todays Discussion Topics
- Feeling our way around Google Friend Connect
- The Instructional Design/ Instructional Technologist Summer Camp
- The "Broccoli in your Mac&Cheese" theory of technology and education; effecting change within the confines of the environment. The idea being that by adding small and appropriate bits of technology into different educational situations, it will remain palatable for instructors and students.
- Usually in education technology is seen as the mac-n-cheese - something to help the broccoli go down, a motivator.
- But couldn't the practices of life-long learning and culture participation (facilitated by blogging, for example) be broccoli. That is to say, even if students aren't interested in blogging, they should still practice this as part of higher education.
- Even if students prejudge blogging as being not interesting, they do find it motivating once they start.
- The role of instructional technologists in Higher Ed - should social technology be stressed as an overarching part of the curriculum in the same way teams, or writing currently is? Seminar class on the technological landscape of the world?
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May 9, 2008
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Who's Here?
- We are on iChat
- Cole Camplese
- Jamie Oberdick
- Chris Millet
- Allan Gyorke
- Tim Perry
- Chris Stubbs
- Brad Kozlek
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What should be talked about?
- Faculty Fellow Program
- Preliminary thinking and seeking feedback on the concept
- Apture -- http://apture.com/
- AG - This is the most useful feature I have ever seen
- What about for eLearning content?
- Can you tell it to target your own stuff? As an example, can you tell it to search your own sites before youtube?
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May 2nd, 2008
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Who's here?
- Stubbs
- Perry
- Millet
- Kozlek
- Cole joined via SubEtha and iChat AV for a time
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Todays Discussion Topics
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Digital Commons Research
- Study to be conducted in BA 302 - Intro to Supply Chain Management
- Idea is to determine effect of video project in this class (vs. sections that don't assign video projects)
- Exploratory study this Fall to identify questions such as weaknesses in instruction which can be addressed with alternate instructional treatment
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What is the effect of games like guitar hero on music education?
- EGC meeting with music faculty yesterday
- Will guitar hero create motivation for students to learn actual instruments? Will the instant gratification of guitar hero hinder interest in playing real? instrument because guitar hero gives more instant gratification.
- Guitar hero for basic music appreciation - meter, song structure.
- special guitar hero-esque game designed specifically for education - songs, buttons, goals, designed to teach specific concepts.
- potential research opportunities for the future: do these sorts of games aid in music appreciation? Basic concepts? Multihand/foot coordination? Real time pitch analysis?
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SubEthaEdit
- http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
- Real time text editing using Bon Jour. Allows us all to take notes simultaneously using the same document. Document can be pasted into wiki when meeting is done.
- Totally awesome!!!! I think we need to buy a license for this for every ETS staff member right now.
- benefits of both Google Docs's real-time editing and Wiki page's instant findability (i.e. no invitations necessary)
- This would be great for taking notes in meetings.
- Great for collaborative note taking during a class. Imagine everyone in the class and the instructor all have the same document open. Total read/write "overhead projector"
- Use SubEthaEdit to jump start the collaboration synchronously, then let it continue on afterwards asynchronously with a wiki.
- We had multi user video ichat and subethaedit session going with Cole back in the office. Immense remote collaboration potential.
