Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Synchronous Communication Tools

Bummer OSU isn’t going to offer Elluminate as a synchronous communication option to OSU faculty any time soon. They do, however, offer webmeeting. Webmeeting seems to be DimDim lite. In webmeeting only the host and 3 others can communicate via audio. However, the host can pass the mic to other participants. It is possible to [...]

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

EDPL 791

I’ve been teaching EDPL 791 and am really enjoying it. This course perfectly intersects with my role as Director of Instructional Technology for the college. As I prepare for and teach the course I necessarily dig deeper into learning about digital media and technologies that enable me to help my team provide better instructional [...]

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

What’s out there

I’ve been thinking of what’s out there in terms of Web 2.0ish tools that might hold potential within teaching and learning. So… I made a quick version 1 list. Some of the items are centrally hosted by OSU, at least as a pilot if not completely. The rest are free. This list is by no [...]

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Digital Media in a Social World Conference

The Center for the Study of Teaching and Writing sponsored the Digital Media in a Social World February 20, 2009. I had agreed to participate in a faculty panel on using technology in the classroom. However, just days before the conference, D’Arcy Oaks and I learned that we were the only ones who were actually planning to [...]

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Communities of Practice: livemocha

I have been trying to teach myself Turkish through online tutorials. Recently, I found an interesting language learning site that i really like http://www.livemocha.com/. The site sets up an infrastructure for building digitally-mediated communities of practice. They have courses in many languages (unfortunately not Turkish). The lessons are “graded” by humans rather than a computer [...]

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Elluminate

TELR recently announced that faculty may request an Elluminate vroom for winter 09 and/or spring 09. Form to request Elluminate vRoom:
https://telr.ohio-state.edu/apps/telr_forms/index.cfm?form_id=64&auth=E40
For several years I taught both onsite and online at a small private university. The focus of the first course I taught online was collaboration in cyberspace. Interestingly, at that time the university offered few [...]