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CIC TechForum and Catching Up

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I just got back last night from Indianapolis, IN where I attended the CIC TechForum 2007. The TF is an event sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation — essentially the Big Ten schools, but with a focus on academics and administration. I was lucky enough to present and Allan Gyorke and I shared a presentation related to using Web 2.0 technologies and philosophies to support innovation. It is a talk I have been trying out lately, only compressed into the short 20 minutes we were given. I really think it has some potential. The talk essentially covers the steps we’ve been taking in ETS to create a culture of innovation. We discussed only a couple of the things we are doing — namely the Hot Team process, the Engagement Process, and the Community Hubs. We had lots of great questions and spent quite a bit of time after the fact talking to people in the halls and at the bar. A good trip … I have posted my slides over at my PSU Updates blog. I’ll be recording some audio over them and will post those as well.

Going away always leads to pain and suffering upon return. Having to catch up on the hundreds of emails that come in while attending sessions is insane. Today I got through about half of it all — if you are waiting on something from I swear I’ll get to it very soon. The trip was a pain as usual — a 4 hour delay heading out and a delay induced sprint from one gate to the next on the return wore me down. Travel is not exotic and it is not fun … what happens in between is great, but if the airlines don’t get any better conferences better start investing in better web-based conference systems b/c I am staying home. Speaking of home, now that I’m hear, I am heading back into the other room to start the weekend with the family!

9/25/2007: Presentation: Technology In Business Schools Online Talk

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On September 25, 2007 I will be presenting and leading a session titled, Implementing Disruptive Technologies into the Learning Process to members of the Technology In Business Schools. This is a follow-up session I gave face to face at the annual meeting hosted by Penn State's Smeal College of Business. This is a totally online experience, so it should be fun and interesting.
I am delivering the same slides as I did with only a few small modifications. Find them here.

8/15/2007: Presenation: Penn State World Campus ID&D Group

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Day before yesterday my colleague, Allan Gyorke, and I gave a talk to the Instructional Design and Development group at the Penn State World Campus related to Digital Expression. It is a talk I’ve done before and it really focuses on the platforms PSU has been working to deliver for the last 18 months or so. The talk frames the need by looking relatively deeply at the changing characteristics of our undergraduate resident population — they are very mobile, very smart, and very plugged into social spaces (read, Facebook). I use a bunch of PSU statistics gathered by our assessment team as well as numbers from the Pew Internet and American Life Project team. It is a talk that provides an overview of our goal to create a platform that can support digital expression.
Slides and more thoughts can be found at my Learning & Innovation blog.

Talking Design with Designers

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Day before yesterday my colleague, Allan Gyorke, and I gave a talk to the Instructional Design and Development group at the Penn State World Campus related to Digital Expression. It is a talk I’ve done before and it really focuses on the platforms PSU has been working to deliver for the last 18 months or so. The talk frames the need by looking relatively deeply at the changing characteristics of our undergraduate resident population — they are very mobile, very smart, and very plugged into social spaces (read, Facebook). I use a bunch of PSU statistics gathered by our assessment team as well as numbers from the Pew Internet and American Life Project team.

After the warm-up I tend to dive into the tools we are highlighting — Blogs at Penn State, Podcasts at Penn State, Wikis at Penn State, as well as the Digital Commons initiative and a few others. What made this conversation different was the fact the audience was a group of instructional designer and technologists — certainly a fun group to talk to. I was struck by how interested most of them seemed to be in the tools and how willing they were to discuss how we might think about using them. I was also struck by how excited many of them got as we continued to talk. It was a very fun hour and a half … it left me thinking two things — I would very much like to spend more time with groups of interested designers who are in the midst of creating lots of learning spaces and that I have now done this presentation for about a dozen audiences at Penn State but have failed to deliver it to my own staff. That last point hit me last night as I sat on the back patio with a glass of wine — talk about having one of those reality check, “duh” moments. That is obviously something I have to do.

The thing about the talk is that it really tries to define one of my core strategies — enabling opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage in the art of digital expression within the context of higher education. One of my goals is to create a platform that provides for supported use of digital tools to not only enhance teaching and learning, but that can creep into everyday life. The other thing it does is illustrates how quickly we are all moving … two years ago these platforms didn’t exist in a coherent way on our campus. The talents of many people have made it a reality.

At any rate, my slides are available as a PDF — it is big. I have learn how to shrink these things down a bit! I’d love to talk more about this with any of you.

8/14/2007: Presentation: Academic Computing Centers Embrace Web 2.0 and the Digital Generation

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On August 14th, I've been asked to present to an online audience about PSU's use of iTunes U. I plan to discuss how iTunes U (and podcasting in general) has sparked the imagination of faculty and staff across Penn State. The webcast is sponsored by SABA … it should be an interesting event for me as I have never participated as a presenter at one of these types of events. Here's the program:
“Pressures on Higher Education IT: How we Move Forward to Embrace Web 2.0 and Beyond” Matthew Jett Hall; Assistant Vice Chancellor, Information Technology Services and Associate Chief Information Architect; Vanderbilt University
With society's mass adoption of the digital life style in North America, Europe, and Asia, higher education must address both the ways in which it provides commodity IT services and embraces new tools for mobile learning and social networking of the digital generation. Matt will discuss some of the pressures facing central IT organizations in this context.
"Penn State on iTunes U: Driving Adoption through Innovation” Cole W. Camplese,
Director, Education Technology Services, Penn State University
In this session, Cole Camplese will discuss Penn State University's use of iTunes U as the centerpiece to providing scalable podcasting infrastructure at a large university. We'll look at how faculty, staff, and students have quickly adopted podcasting as a way to share academic content anytime, anyplace.
“Web 2.0: Re-inventing Learning” Ben Willis, Senior Manager, Learning and Collaboration Product Strategy, Saba Software
Ben will introduce the seminar with an overview of Web 2.0 and how collaboration technologies are changing the way students – and adults – learn. Ben will walk us through the shift that is taking place in how we collaborate, connect and capture information in today’s digital and connected world.

7/12/2007: Presentation: Platforms for Digital Expression PSU College of Agricultural Sciences

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I will be presenting on Web 2.0 and PSU's Platform for Digital Expression to faculty from the College of Ag Sciences here at Penn State this week. This came out of the talk I did for the College of Education a couple of months back on a similar topic. This session will be broadcast across the State to faculty and extension agents via Adobe Connect. I also believe they will be recording the session. Having a chance to talk with faculty at the College level is always an important opportunity — these are the kinds of sessions that lead to increased visibility for the work we are doing and helps foster new relationships. I am looking forward to it and I will post slides after the fact.