I attended a couple of terrible conference sessions recently. The topic of interest was higher education uses of Second Life. Before I get into the SL portion of this rant, let me start with another pet peeve. One presenter introduced herself and immediately followed with “By the way, I hate PowerPoint, but it’s the best [...]
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The Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine have selected 31 community colleges as outstanding examples of technology delivery in higher education. The fourth annual Digital Community Colleges Survey identifies and spotlights colleges that provide a high level of service to their students and faculty through information technology. Lake Superior College has been selected at [...]
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I leave Saturday morning for Salt Lake City and the League for Innovation’s 2008 Conference on Information Technology. The League conferences are always quite large and very smoothly run. I am involved in a total of five presentations during the conference, but I wanted to take a look at what else I would be doing [...]
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Minnesota State University, Mankato will be hosting a one-day conference titled Teaching with Technology. Friday, November 7, 2008 at the beautiful Mankato campus. I have the pleasure of participating throughout the day. At their website you can view the rest of the sessions during the day and register to attend. This is a free conference. [...]
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One reason that I haven’t been posting much to my blog lately is that I spend most of my time on Twitter. Microblogging really does take the place of “real blogging,” at least most of the time. So, I’ve posted my last 80 tweets below just so you can get a sense about what I’m [...]
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Today, I was mainly reading a couple of newspapers in Vietnam. Some of the stories just jumped off the page at me. For example: A 65-year-old- Chinese woman was sentenced to death for her role in leading a counterfeiting ring. Over the course of two years she was responsible for the equivalent of about $300,000 [...]
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