We are now accepting session proposals for TTIX 2010 until March 1.
This year’s TTIX conference will be held on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City June 10 & 11 2010 with a pre-conference workshop on June 9.
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More details–including featured keynote speakers, travel info, and 2010 sponsors will be up soon!
This 2-part session introduces participants to the popular Web 2.0 collaborative tool, the wiki. After we’ve discussed how wikis may be useful to educators, we’ll have a full hour of hands-on activity setting up your own free wiki, and learning to edit, cultivate, and maintain it.
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This presentation will (1) introduce the open education movement and, specifically, open educational resources; (2) explain work done to identify and match OER to Open High School of Utah curriculum needs; (3) describe implications and recommend directions for instructional designers and teachers interested in working with and creating OER.
Purpose of the Presentation
A significant movement in education concerns the use of open educational resources. By “open” it is generally meant that the resource is available at no cost to others for adaptation and reuse in different contexts. These resources could include books, lesson plans, syllabi, slide shows, etc. There are several examples of individuals and institutions providing open educational resources. The open education movement is introduced, and we discuss how to find and organize open educational resources, specifically within the context of the Open High School of Utah.
In addition, some frameworks for those interested in creating OER will be provided. The “open” in “open educational resources” is not a simple dichotomy; rather, there is a continuum of openness. We discuss four separate aspects of reuse and demonstrate how these describe different levels of openness. Licensing and technical aspects of open educational resources are also discussed
Presenter
John Hilton III is a doctoroal student in Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University.
Do the implications of digital media turn our educational institutions inside out? Can educators learn to stop worrying and love the remix? Is originality overrated? What’s the difference between reuse and plagiarism? Is openness our only hope? Where’s the RSS feed? What does “data literacy” look like? Are Web 2.0 companies a teacher’s best friend, or a bunch of creeps converting our work, our relationships and our private data into marketshare? Has the Web 2.0 bubble popped, and if so now what? How do we teach our students, our colleagues and ourselves to be technology strategists? How many copyright violations can be jammed into one presentation?
Brian Lamb’s presentation and discussion will review the opportunities and initiatives resulting from the convergence of open source, free culture, open access and open educational resources.
Collaboration between different disciplines, age groups, genders, ethnicities is a must when creating a program that appeals to the demographics emerging in our education system. Building educational tools which do not recognize our differences and similarities are incomplete tools when providing a full education to a young audience. Read the rest of this entry »
