Location

Moakley Auditorium

Start Time

13-1-2010 9:00 AM

End Time

13-1-2010 10:20 AM

Description

Web 2.0 has brought about a grassroots revolution resulting in a global democratization of access to tools, information, experts, content, and education, and in many ways has begun to change how education is delivered, conducted, and defined. I believe it is my obligation as a responsible netizen and educator in this moment to participate, to evaluate, to document, and to expose and engage students and faculty to and in this process. This presentation will endeavor to challenge and inspire you to think outside your box to consider possibilities for your own instruction. I will demonstrate my “box” and how I am exploring what it really means to be student-centered. I will show you what happens when web 2.0 technologies (twitter, voicethread, diigo, edublogs, jing, meebome, seesmic, youtube, gcast, audacity, polldaddy) are stitched together into one fully online course in moodle. I will talk about how I did it and why. And I will also invite you to explore selected tools for yourself, and to join my networks, so you can share with me what you know, and what you learn.

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About the Presenter:

Alexandra M. Pickett is the Associate Director of the SUNY Learning Network (SLN), the asynchronous learning network for the State University of New York. Ms. Pickett has since 1994 led the development of the instructional design methods, support services used by SLN to support the development & delivery of fully online courses by SUNY campuses & faculty.

Her leadership & direction of this area of the program were recognized in 2001 with the first Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development. In 2002 SLN received the Sloan-C award for Excellence in Institution-Wide ALN Programming, & the Educause award for Systematic Progress in Teaching & Learning for 2001. SLN was also honored with the 2006 USDLA 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Leaning. She and SLN were most recently recognized with the 2009 NUTN Innovation in Distance Learning award.

Over the years, working with 50+ of the 64 SUNY institutions, she has directly supported or coordinated the development of more than 3,000 SUNY faculty & their fully online courses. In addition, Alex has been teaching online since 1995 and is also an online adjunct professor at the University at Albany teaching Introduction to Online Learning, a fully online course, in the Curriculum Design and Information Technology master’s program.

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Jan 13th, 9:00 AM Jan 13th, 10:20 AM

Keynote: Teaching Outside the “Box”

Moakley Auditorium

Web 2.0 has brought about a grassroots revolution resulting in a global democratization of access to tools, information, experts, content, and education, and in many ways has begun to change how education is delivered, conducted, and defined. I believe it is my obligation as a responsible netizen and educator in this moment to participate, to evaluate, to document, and to expose and engage students and faculty to and in this process. This presentation will endeavor to challenge and inspire you to think outside your box to consider possibilities for your own instruction. I will demonstrate my “box” and how I am exploring what it really means to be student-centered. I will show you what happens when web 2.0 technologies (twitter, voicethread, diigo, edublogs, jing, meebome, seesmic, youtube, gcast, audacity, polldaddy) are stitched together into one fully online course in moodle. I will talk about how I did it and why. And I will also invite you to explore selected tools for yourself, and to join my networks, so you can share with me what you know, and what you learn.

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