Check out today's top story by Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor at eSchool News, "how young students in one Oregon school district are taking advantage of what mobile learning, specifically Apple's iPod, has to offer: math tools and curriculum to increase test scores, 24/7 access to learning, and increased student engagement."
Ed-tech leader continues to embrace mobile learning devices, even amid budget restrictions.
With a furrowed brow and a deep breath, 9-year-old Dallis Engel pressed down on the screen of her iPod touch.
Then, she began to read.
“My brother William is a fisherman,” she said, using a finger to trace words in Patricia MacLachlan’s book, Sarah, Plain and Tall.
The fourth-grader stumbled over pronunciations and skipped words as an application recorded her voice. When she finished the passage, she glanced over at her teacher, Kelly Turcotte, and explained her next step.
“I have to listen to it and make sure it’s perfect,” she said. “If you sound like a robot, you have to do it again.”
In Oregon’s Canby School District, it’s a familiar scene. While other school systems across the nation have banned personal cellular phones or mobile internet devices, the Canby School District is one of a growing number of districts that is fully embracing mobile learning technology. Read more...
Check out today's top story by Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor at eSchool News, "how young students in one Oregon school district are taking advantage of what mobile learning, specifically Apple's iPod, has to offer: math tools and curriculum to increase test scores, 24/7 access to learning, and increased student engagement."
Ed-tech leader continues to embrace mobile learning devices, even amid budget restrictions.
With a furrowed brow and a deep breath, 9-year-old Dallis Engel pressed down on the screen of her iPod touch.
Then, she began to read.
“My brother William is a fisherman,” she said, using a finger to trace words in Patricia MacLachlan’s book, Sarah, Plain and Tall.
The fourth-grader stumbled over pronunciations and skipped words as an application recorded her voice. When she finished the passage, she glanced over at her teacher, Kelly Turcotte, and explained her next step.
“I have to listen to it and make sure it’s perfect,” she said. “If you sound like a robot, you have to do it again.”
In Oregon’s Canby School District, it’s a familiar scene. While other school systems across the nation have banned personal cellular phones or mobile internet devices, the Canby School District is one of a growing number of districts that is fully embracing mobile learning technology. Read more...
Managing Remote IT Systems from Your Office: Five Tips for Education IT Directors
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Time: 2:00 pm EST Duration: 60 minutes
School districts today are charged with doing more with less. Expectations include collecting, managing, and applying data for assessment and decision-making as well as providing Web 2.0 tools and robust Web access from classrooms. In order to address the goals and needs of administrators, educators, and students, districts must have the most effective management systems in place. How does it work? Attend this webinar to find out the challenges, the solutions, and the results from IT administrators just like you who have automated key IT tasks, developed solid business processes and implemented best practices that they will share.
The speakers will showcase 5 tips that make a difference:
How to protect endpoints
How to eliminate data loss
How to patch
How to install/distribute new software
How to discover and manage assets
Presenters Jared Henry, Network Engineer, Wills Point Independent School District Gary Frenkel, IT Support Specialist, The Wharton School – Graduate Division Gerald Beaulieu, IT Automation Expert, Kaseya
For all its hype, e-learning will never be successful without a supportive climate for learning, strong management support, a defensible business case and a training organization that isn't reticent about learning online. Learn why e-learning succeeds only when it is backed by an organization-wide e-learning strategy.
This overview presentation will give you an understanding of the essence of a sound e-learning strategy, and you’ll be able to define its key components. In addition, this session will introduce the growing importance of “learning 2.0,” and how it relates your emerging strategy, plus the value of building a sound learning culture to ensure your strategy is sustainable.
Finally, you’ll have the background to analyze your organization to determine where its e-learning strategy is faltering, and identify opportunities and priorities for enhancing it.
Key Topics Covered:
What is an e-learning strategy and why do we need one?
Basic sources and techniques for creating an e-learning strategy
E-learning strategy mistakes and benefits.
Key focus points for an e-learning strategy.
Make your e-learning strategy sustainable.
About Marc Rosenberg Dr. Marc J. Rosenberg is a leading management consultant, speaker and educator in the fields of training, organizational learning, e-learning, knowledge management and performance improvement. He is the author of the best-selling books, E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age (McGraw-Hill), and Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Performance (Pfeiffer). His monthly column, "Marc My Words," appears in the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions online magazine. Marc is a past president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and holds a Ph.D. in instructional design, plus degrees in communications and marketing. He also holds the Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) designation from ISPI.
Dr. Rosenberg has spoken at The White House, debated the future of e-learning at Oxford University, keynoted numerous professional and business conferences, authored more than 40 articles and book chapters in the field, and is a frequently quoted expert in major business and trade publications. He is an elected member of his local community's Board of Education. More information about Marc is available at http://www.marcrosenberg.com
Session Description: This session explores business and, in particular, training uses for popular social media tools. We'll look at compelling real examples of tools like Twitter, Facebook, blogs and wikis used by businesses and government, discuss strategies for choosing and using particular tools. We'll also take a look at ways workplace learning professionals can reskill to support the use of new technologies in training as well as, more broadly, in organization-wide social learning.
About Jane Bozarth Dr. Jane Bozarth has been a training practitioner since 1989. In her years with North Carolina, USA state government she has served as Staff Development Specialist for DHHS, the Training Director for the Department of Justice, and the E-Learning Coordinator for the NC Office of State Personnel. Jane's specialty, finding low-cost ways of creating or purchasing quality e-learning solutions, led to publication of "E-Learning Solutions on A Shoestring" and "Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint". Her third book, "From Analysis to Evaluation", was published in 2008. Her newest book will be out in the Fall of 2010.
Managing Remote IT Systems from Your Office: Five Tips for Education IT Directors
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Time: 2:00 pm EST Duration: 60 minutes
School districts today are charged with doing more with less. Expectations include collecting, managing, and applying data for assessment and decision-making as well as providing Web 2.0 tools and robust Web access from classrooms. In order to address the goals and needs of administrators, educators, and students, districts must have the most effective management systems in place. How does it work? Attend this webinar to find out the challenges, the solutions, and the results from IT administrators just like you who have automated key IT tasks, developed solid business processes and implemented best practices that they will share.
The speakers will showcase 5 tips that make a difference:
How to protect endpoints
How to eliminate data loss
How to patch
How to install/distribute new software
How to discover and manage assets
Presenters Jared Henry, Network Engineer, Wills Point Independent School District Gary Frenkel, IT Support Specialist, The Wharton School – Graduate Division Gerald Beaulieu, IT Automation Expert, Kaseya
For all its hype, e-learning will never be successful without a supportive climate for learning, strong management support, a defensible business case and a training organization that isn't reticent about learning online. Learn why e-learning succeeds only when it is backed by an organization-wide e-learning strategy.
This overview presentation will give you an understanding of the essence of a sound e-learning strategy, and you’ll be able to define its key components. In addition, this session will introduce the growing importance of “learning 2.0,” and how it relates your emerging strategy, plus the value of building a sound learning culture to ensure your strategy is sustainable.
Finally, you’ll have the background to analyze your organization to determine where its e-learning strategy is faltering, and identify opportunities and priorities for enhancing it.
Key Topics Covered:
What is an e-learning strategy and why do we need one?
Basic sources and techniques for creating an e-learning strategy
E-learning strategy mistakes and benefits.
Key focus points for an e-learning strategy.
Make your e-learning strategy sustainable.
About Marc Rosenberg Dr. Marc J. Rosenberg is a leading management consultant, speaker and educator in the fields of training, organizational learning, e-learning, knowledge management and performance improvement. He is the author of the best-selling books, E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age (McGraw-Hill), and Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Performance (Pfeiffer). His monthly column, "Marc My Words," appears in the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions online magazine. Marc is a past president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and holds a Ph.D. in instructional design, plus degrees in communications and marketing. He also holds the Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) designation from ISPI.
Dr. Rosenberg has spoken at The White House, debated the future of e-learning at Oxford University, keynoted numerous professional and business conferences, authored more than 40 articles and book chapters in the field, and is a frequently quoted expert in major business and trade publications. He is an elected member of his local community's Board of Education. More information about Marc is available at http://www.marcrosenberg.com
Session Description: This session explores business and, in particular, training uses for popular social media tools. We'll look at compelling real examples of tools like Twitter, Facebook, blogs and wikis used by businesses and government, discuss strategies for choosing and using particular tools. We'll also take a look at ways workplace learning professionals can reskill to support the use of new technologies in training as well as, more broadly, in organization-wide social learning.
About Jane Bozarth Dr. Jane Bozarth has been a training practitioner since 1989. In her years with North Carolina, USA state government she has served as Staff Development Specialist for DHHS, the Training Director for the Department of Justice, and the E-Learning Coordinator for the NC Office of State Personnel. Jane's specialty, finding low-cost ways of creating or purchasing quality e-learning solutions, led to publication of "E-Learning Solutions on A Shoestring" and "Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint". Her third book, "From Analysis to Evaluation", was published in 2008. Her newest book will be out in the Fall of 2010.
In a series of 1990s commercials for AT&T the actor Tom Selleck narrates a series of predictions of what the future will look like. And it's uncanny how accurate a depiction it is. The commercials predict video conferencing, GPS navigation, on-demand media and distance learning. Of course, there also a few baffling things, like why you'd need a phone to video conference?
AT&T You Will Ads From 1993 - Amazingly accurate predictions
In a series of 1990s commercials for AT&T the actor Tom Selleck narrates a series of predictions of what the future will look like. And it's uncanny how accurate a depiction it is. The commercials predict video conferencing, GPS navigation, on-demand media and distance learning. Of course, there also a few baffling things, like why you'd need a phone to video conference?
AT&T You Will Ads From 1993 - Amazingly accurate predictions
"As the new year takes off with a flying start, this is a great time to look forward to what's in store for online learning and learners in 2011", writes Julie Marciel-Rozzi.
Educational applications for smartphones like the BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone (and associated products) will continue to grow in number and variety. Look for more foreign language apps, more apps aimed at all ages (especially younger users), and more apps aimed at learning specific skills "in time". Learning available when you need it. Read more...
"As the new year takes off with a flying start, this is a great time to look forward to what's in store for online learning and learners in 2011", writes Julie Marciel-Rozzi.
Educational applications for smartphones like the BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone (and associated products) will continue to grow in number and variety. Look for more foreign language apps, more apps aimed at all ages (especially younger users), and more apps aimed at learning specific skills "in time". Learning available when you need it. Read more...
Check out this story at Inside Higher Ed. Lev Gonick presents 10 myths for the coming year and what they mean for higher education information technology.
It’s difficult to make sense of changes and dynamics beyond our control. There are seismic shifts under way and many of them have various impacts on the university campus, teaching and learning, the research agenda, and yes, information technology.
While many university CIOs share collective angst and various manifestations of existential crises about our relevance and influence, there are larger contexts and micro-dynamics at play that warrant reference in this annual prognosticating of the year ahead. (For previous years’ versions, click here and here.) A myth is a larger-than-life story that serves to create a narrative filled with symbols, heroes and assertions of truths. Many of our inherited myths are crumbling around us. The challenge is to understand the dynamics leading to change and to be positioned to contribute to the creation and socialization of new myths, relevant for the year and decade ahead of us. Read more...
Check out this story at Inside Higher Ed. Lev Gonick presents 10 myths for the coming year and what they mean for higher education information technology.
It’s difficult to make sense of changes and dynamics beyond our control. There are seismic shifts under way and many of them have various impacts on the university campus, teaching and learning, the research agenda, and yes, information technology.
While many university CIOs share collective angst and various manifestations of existential crises about our relevance and influence, there are larger contexts and micro-dynamics at play that warrant reference in this annual prognosticating of the year ahead. (For previous years’ versions, click here and here.) A myth is a larger-than-life story that serves to create a narrative filled with symbols, heroes and assertions of truths. Many of our inherited myths are crumbling around us. The challenge is to understand the dynamics leading to change and to be positioned to contribute to the creation and socialization of new myths, relevant for the year and decade ahead of us. Read more...
Hello, my name is Helge Scherlund and I am the Education Editor and Online Educator of this personal weblog and the founder of eLearning • Computer-Mediated Communication Center.
I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.
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