Rick's Café CanadienEducational Technology and CommunicationSummer graduate student advisement - 6pm Wednesdays- June 30, 2008 Reminder: Summer Graduate Program Advisement Ill repeat this notice as a reminder. Were up to our ears in summer projects now, so our Wednesday evening sessions are the best times to find us at our desks if youre looking for some good advice or a bad cup of coffee. Now that it is summer, we are getting ...http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1184 Information beyond ontologies- June 27, 2008 I&8217;ve thought a lot over the years, as you no doubt have too, about the nature of information and how we make sense of it in a digital world. I&8217;d never once thought of how we have, particularly in the past, objectified information. It is a thing, in a bounded place, that is ...http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1182 K12 Online conference keynote lineup announced- June 26, 2008 Dean Shareski just announced the lineup of keynotes for the K12 Online Conference 2008. This is looking like a whale of a conference&8211;a can&8217;t-miss event for 2008.http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1181 Educational Technology Conference List 2008-09- June 25, 2008 Dr. Clayton R. Wright has once again offered up his list of upcoming conferences that are related to educational technology. This is a very large undertaking, and one that saves me a lot of time. I print out Clayton&8217;s list and post it next to my lamp. Every time I turn on the lamp, ...http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1180 The design of protest- June 25, 2008 I&8217;ve been interested in &8220;other kinds of design&8221; and how they might inform instructional design for a long time. Some colleagues and I, notably Katy Campbell, Elizabeth Boling and Andy Gibbons are deeply engaged in the questions, and have done a little bit of work together on them. We&8217;ve considered how engineers, artists, architects, ...http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1179 U of S appoints Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning- June 19, 2008 When a university administration does something that is in the service of something that doesn&8217;t have immediate payoffs for its revenues or prestige, I think it is worth noting, and maybe even applauding. I&8217;d like to do that for my home institution today.http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1176 Getting in the way of learning- June 19, 2008 Ask yourself a simple question: What do you do that gets in the way of learning Then read this terrific post by Jennifer Jones, and see where you fit. It&8217;s inspiring and humbling, all at the same time.http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1178 New EdTech Posse podcast- June 18, 2008 Rob Wall, Dean Shareski and I got together this afternoon for a relatively impromptu podcast. Heather Ross and Alec Couros were busy working for a living, so we did our best to carry on without them. TLt reflections and edupunk - http:tinyurl.com5lbmxh Shownotes available at http:edtechposse.wikispaces.com4.3http://omegageek.net/rickscafe/?p=1177 |