Learning Design Summer Camp 2008 Schedule of Events
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Please use the "discussion" link above to share thoughts with us related to the Schedule of Events. This is still a work in progress and we intend to find ways to include other topics. Also, please note we are going to have open sessions that will be determined by open participation by the community. Get ready, we hope everyone will contribute!
Day 1, August 12
10:00 AM - Welcome, Introductions, Housekeeping, Agenda in Foster Auditorium
10:30 AM - Community Engagement: How Disruptive Technologies Enabled New Social Learning in Foster Auditorium
- Presenters: Cole Camplese, Scott McDonald, and interested class members
- Description: This past Spring, Scott and I co-taught a graduate course called, Disruptive Technologies for Teaching and Learning that we worked to employ several social tools. We utilized Pligg, a social aggregator with ratings, Twitter, Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasting to help support the conversations we were having related to the three primary themes of community, identity, and design. In this open session we propose to share that salient details related to the course and engage in a discussion of what we learned, how we built community along the way, and how we worked to find new ways to assess the disruption our own design invited.
- Live Question Tool for this session
11:30 AM - Lunch, Birds of a Feather
- Harnessing the power of "backchannel communication" for educational purposes and event enrichment (Robin Smail) - for example, using Twitter so a group of conference attendees can be in a session, but share links and discuss relevant topics that come up. This may also include blogging, collaborative document editing (Google Docs, wikis, subethaedit), and the addition of things like voice-chat to World of Warcraft and Second Life. How do these technologies enhance or detract from the main event? How do they help build community? This topic came up at one of the Brainstorming Breakfasts on June 6th and we had a lively discussion.
- Building Online Communities -- How and Why (Yvonne Clark, Shannon Ritter) -- basic introduction to building and growing online communities. Discussion of how to get started and how to grow the community; what works, what doesn't, and feedback we have gotten from the Penn State Adobe Connect online community users. Incorporate World Campus work in social medias like Second Life to engage community. Discussion of how to apply lessons learned to the Learning Design online community. Maybe even a panel discussion of current community owners would be useful.
- Accessibility for Courseware and Tools (Elizabeth Pyatt) -- This would be a review of common accessibility issues with some concrete examples from a course with videos, images and charts and we can also discuss new tools like blogs, Second Life and podcasting. Ideas and solutions from outside ETS more than welcome.
- Games in Higher Ed (Brett Bixler) Why do this? Let's discuss the pedagogical implications behind gaming and how we can work together to build educational games.
- Competencies for Online Teaching Success (Larry Ragan) In light of the changing dynamics of the online teaching and learning space, what skills and competencies are necessary for online teaching success?
- Understanding our Students, their Thoughts, and Exploring how to Create new Learning Environments Cwc5 20:36, 1 July 2008 (EDT) Let's explore who it is we are trying to motivate and look at both PSU and national data that can help us make new decisions about the approaches we are driving towards with our faculty partners. What should we be proposing that captures the attention of both of these key stakeholder groups? How do we help with the balance between doing new and innovative things with providing rigor, solid design, and encouraging authentic assessment? These are just some topics for us to explore as we attack new and interesting "disruptive technologies" in our classrooms.
- Digital Literacy (Ellysa Cahoy) How are emerging technologies and new modes of sharing and publishing information changing our definition of digital literacy? Helping students become responsible yet inventive content creators, evaluative researchers and knowledgeable technology users presents innumerable challenges in and out of the classroom. We'll discuss the current state of digital literacy, strategies for helping students achieve digital fluency, and forecast what's to come in the future.
1:00 PM - Lightning Talks in Foster Auditorium
- Wikis & Google Docs - Allan Gyorke
- Twitter - Robin Smail
- Blogs - Chris Stubbs
- Podcasting - Tim Perry
- Digital Commons - Chris Millet
- Educational Gaming Commons - (Brett Bixler, bxb11@psu.edu, Twitter, Educational Gaming Commons)
- Flickr & del.icio.us - Stevie Rocco
- Zotero - Ellysa Cahoy
- Adobe Connect - Mark Heckel
- Bringing Social Media Together: Custom YouTube Channels, Twitter, and the ETS Blog - Cole Camplese
3:00 PM - Break
3:30 PM - Copyright, Digital Media, TEACH Act, Fair Use, Creative Commons in Foster Auditorium
- Presenter: Matt Jackson, College of Communications
- Description: Matt will discuss the complex intellectual property issues regarding digital media including legal consideration, special exemptions for educational use, sampling, mashups, court rulings, and examples.
- Link: LDSC08_Intellectual_Property_Issues
- Live Question Tool for this session
4:30 PM - Discussion "Pitch Session" in Foster Auditorium
If you are running a session on Day 2 or have an idea for a good topic that isn't already covered, pitch your idea during this half-hour session to get people interested.
6:30 PM - Food for Thought Dinners (Optional) at various restaurants
We have picked three restaurants for optional evening gatherings, where we can informally discuss topics related to the Summer Camp or just catch up with what each of us have been doing. Sign up for the restaurant of your choice and suggest a topic or two for discussion.
Day 2, August 13
7:30 AM - MacKinnon Cafe and Gathering in Foster Auditorium
8:30 AM - Blogs as Portfolio in Foster Auditorium
- Presenters: Carla Zembal-Saul & Chris Stubbs
- Description: Let's explore and expose the work being done by TLT Faculty Fellow, Carla Zembal-Saul. This session will discuss how we are looking at Blogs as an ingredient in life long learning and personal development. Carla will share the teams' ideas on how the social component of blogs adds a new dimension to this conversation.
- Link: Blogs as Portfolio
- Live Question Tool for this session
9:30 AM - Small Group Discussions in various locations
- Tour of the Assistive Tech Lab in Pattee (Elizabeth Pyatt) - The University Libraries is open to giving a tour of the Assistive Tech Lab in Pattee This could be combined with a brainstorming or showcase session on accessibility.
- Educational Podcasting (Allan Gyorke, Robin Smail) In this discussion, I'd like to have an open discussion between people who are new to podcasting and people who are experienced podcasters. We will disucss questions like: What is the difference between asking students to record and submit an audio assignment versus making a podcast? Should podcasts be scripted? Outlined? Free-form? What is the ideal length of a podcast? How does the dynamic change between students recording on their own, with friends, and with a randomly assigned group? What can we do to make the podcasting process more fun - or make it more likely that students will try it again?
- Digital Storytelling: Dynamic Integration of Video Segments in Instruction (Chris Millet and April Sheninger) -- April has been working on a series of video scenarios related to sexual assault awareness education required for all incoming Freshmen. In this instruction, students read a brief overview and back story for a scenario that they chose before jumping into a short video depicting that scenario. The video is followed up with questions that use the scenario to help students learn the content. Students advance by answering questions correctly or by reading additional information. In this module, audio and video are used as an alternative to traditional text instruction. This may be a model for other types of online instruction.
- Why I'm on Facebook (James Endres Howell) As faculty, every semester we may in the classroom teaching, advising a huge roster of students, generating administrative communication to students, and keeping up with enrollment and retention of outstanding students, both within and outside the University. Facebook can be an indispensable tool for reaching students. How are individual faculty and staff, academic units, administrative units, and the University using Facebook and similar tools to reach students? What are the pitfalls and opportunities? What is coming over the horizon?
- Bridging Distance Virtually (Nikki Massaro Kauffman, Beth Raney, Shannon Ritter, other panel members TBA) - How do we engage a geographically dispersed group of learners? Panel members with different roles, and a with different target audience--students, library faculty and staff, extension offices, etc., will discuss the approaches they took toward the same goal: to overcome distance virtually. We'll use an informal Q&A/discussion format to discuss what worked, what didn't, and current projects, like Twitter groups, traveling mini-conferences, "maverick" subcultures, and more...
- "Being Able to Responsibly Decipher New Technology/Information" (John Patishnock)-As this conference clearly illustrates, there is a wealth of new technology available to us, and there is more information available to share than ever before. Though this new technology enables us to connect with the people around us in many positive ways, I wonder how this new information will be channeled, and if there are any negative consequences? For example, blogging is a great way for somebody to express their thoughts and desires on what is going on with their personal and professional lives, but students must understand that bloggers are not held to the same standards as journalists. Bloggers can write whatever they want, and not everything that is written on the internet is positive. You and I are able to decipher the new information out there, but what about 6th graders who read blogs on the internet? Or the 16 year-old girl who has her own Facebook/Myspace page? I think certain examples clearly exist where this new age of technology can have negative side effects if it is not used wisely. It's important for people to think about how their information will be received by someone on the other end, and in this day and age of computer technology, that someone could be anybody.
10:30 AM - Open Learning in Foster Auditorium
- Presenters: Ken Udas, David DiBiase, Keith Bailey
- Description: How do we encourage designs that are open? Let's work to think about how this can stretch beyond the conversations of open educational resources. We'd like to see how we can help encourage those we work with to embrace the notion of openness.
- Link: Open Learning
- Live Question Tool for this session
11:30 AM - Lunch, Birds of a Feather
- Pimp That Course (Jeff Swain)-- The idea behind this session is to create a structure for introducing social media into existing courses in a quick and effective manner. Imagine if a faculty member has 5 minutes to explain to a panel of experts (an designer, a technologist, a media specialist)what was lacking in their course. Could be a communication issue, could be a collaboration issue, whatever. Then that panel had 15 minutes to brainstorm and offer up a re-design plan that the instructor could apply practically immediately.What would that look like? What tool are out there and what issues do they address? Is Twitter an option? Or is Ning better? What about blogs? Or Facebook? Or Google Docs? What could we come up with to enable an instructor to redesign their course on the fly?
- No Invitation Required (Chris Stubbs) -- The social web does not follow the same conventions as the face to face world. No invitation is required to participate. Take this to heart, because you may not always receive one.
- Personal Learning Environments (Stevie Rocco, Nancy Hallberg) How do we harness new technologies to enable us to create personal learning environments for students that are individualized, yet scale to the needs of a large institution? How does course design, delivery, teaching, etc., change as a result of utilizing PLEs? How do microformats, RDF, content management systems, and other technologies help/hinder this process? Or--should we be doing it at all?
- Learning Spaces 2.0 (Emily Rimland & Ellysa Cahoy) We'll talk about designing and developing new campus learning spaces. The Digital Commons, the Libraries' planned Knowledge Commons, Teaching & Learning with Technology (TLT), the University Learning Centers, MediaTech and other campus units provide technology-rich, collaborative learning spaces for content creation. We will discuss new (and upcoming) 2.0 learning spaces at Penn State, along with strategies for collaboratively designing and developing new learning spaces and related services, current and future student and faculty learning space needs, and more.
- Intellectual Property (continuing disucssions with Matt Jackson from Day 1)
- New Opportunities for Professional and Staff Development Cole Camplese & Shannon Ritter
1:00 PM - Open Conference Sessions: Driven by the community in Foster Auditorium
This is an opportunity for the Day 2 groups to take 10 minutes each to summarize their discussion and recommend future directions for the Learning Design community.
Live Question Tool for this session
3:00 PM - Onward! in Foster Auditorium
Where do we go from here? What do we need next? What other opportunities are on the horizon?
6:00 PM - Food for Thought Dinners (Optional) at various restaurants
Newly Proposed Topics
Have a new discussion idea? List it here and we'll find a place for you.
- "Telecom Tour" (John Balogh) - If you would like a quick tour of geek hardware stuff in TNS we can walk over after camp.
