I have been invited to do a keynote presentation at Stevenson University focusing on harnessing the power of disruptive technologies in teaching and learning. I'll be speaking primarily to faculty from Stevenson, but I am told staff from across various offices will also be present. My talk will be titled, "Enabling the New Campus Conversation" and will cover some of the points I have been working to extend in the last year or so. I plan to integrate some new data from our freshly released 2009 FACAC student survey to help highlight how our students are adopting the services we are implementing on our campus. It should be a fun and engaging event that I have been looking forward to for quite some time.
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Keynote: 11/13/2009: Youth Connect
I have been invited to keynote the Youth Connect Summit in Pittsburgh, PA. An audience like this will present a new challenge to me and one that I am very much looking forward to. Youth Connect is a community run organization that was begun as a result of grass roots efforts to help young people avoid risky behavior. It has become a community-wide effort that involves adults and students from our local and private schools, churches, and other community organizations. I've been asked to provide a baseline of education related to teens use of technology and to help parents and community leaders be better prepared to have conversations related to their use of social networks.
Keynote: 11/03/2009: Maryland Distance Learning Association
I have been invited to give the keynote talk at the MDLA fall conference. I plan to spend time following their theme — Social Mania — by focusing energy on the social web and its impact on teaching and learning. I am going to spend time talking about social environments, user created content, and the emergence of the One Button Web. I am looking forward to making new connections and meeting some new friends.
Keynote: 10/29/2009: Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators Conference
I have been invited to keynote the annual Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators conference, which is the state organizational affitliates of ATE and AACTE. It is also the state convening for PERA, the state affiliate of AERA. I will be speaking to representatives from all 93 institutions of higher education in PA who prepare teachers. I've been asked to speak about where students spend their times as it relates to social computing. I'll touch on social networks, user generated content, and the one button web.
Featured Speaker: 06/10/2009: Alumni Association Conference
This morning I talked to a large group of Alumni Association staff about ideas related to connecting communities. The talk was titled, Emerging Trends for Connecting Communities, and focused on the emergent opportunities within social environments, content creation spaces, and with the rise of mobility. It is always quite a bit of fun getting to talk to people outside my specific area of focus and I always discover that we have far more in common than I expect going in.
Keynote: 04/29/2009: Annual One to One Computing Conference
I have once again been asked to participate as a keynote for the 2009 Annual One to One Computing Conference to be held April 27-29 here at Penn State. I have been involved the last three years, keynoting two years ago, and participating in an informal conversation last year. It is always a great time! My good friends Kyle Peck and Catherine Augustine make this amazing event happen and I am honored to be a part of it once again.
This year I did a talk titled, "If that's scholarship then we are all doomed."
I enjoyed this very much. Great questions from the audience and I found that we are all dealing with the same set of issues for the most part. David Warlick was there and wrote an overview of the session.
Download a PDF of my Slides.
Keynote: 03/27/2009: Penn State Harrisburg
I've been invited to keynote the instructional technology event at Penn State Harrisburg on March 27th. It sounds like a good event to spread awareness of the things we are promoting for teaching and learning with technology at Penn State. I'll share thoughts on how students are participating in emerging online spaces and thoughts on how we should work together to meet them there. I'll post slides and follow up notes after the event.
1/9/2008: Keynote Presentation: Maricopa Mesa Community College
On January 9th, 2008 I will be giving a keynote talk I am titling, Building a Platform for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. I was an invited featured speaker at Maricopa's Teaching and Learning with Technology conference this past year and have been invited back to open one of their events this year. I am really looking forward to it! Below is the description for my talk.
During this talk we will discuss strategies for realistically achieving innovation in teaching and learning by understanding your environment, leveraging existing infrastructure, and tapping the power of your community. We’ll explore how Penn State University has worked to utilize existing tools to create new opportunities and achieve an IT culture based on agility and with an eye towards innovation. One of the other things we will look at is the ETS Engagement Process and our Hot Teams approach. I've included a PDF of the Engagement Process here as well.
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