Web Symposia for November

ATC will host the New Media Consortium's 12th Virtual Symposia:
Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning!
in building 37, room 127 (ITS Training Room) Wednesday, Nov. 5th and Thursday, Nov. 6th from 11:00 am to 7:15pm.
Drop in as your schedule allows.

Rock the Academy, the twelfth in the NMC's Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the kinds of ideas and activities that are changing the shape of education today. Revolutionary practices are breaking apart old models of teaching and learning; students are using new tools to construct meaning and contribute to the design of their own education; teachers are sharing the power that has traditionally been theirs alone. Examples of unconventional, yet highly effective, methods of teaching and learning may be found in pockets all over the world, at all levels of education. When the multitude of examples are taken together, we begin to sense a profound change in the making that will alter our concept of education itself. Symposia program details are available at: http://www.nmc.org/2008-fall-virtual-symposium

Free Archived Webcasts

By creating a FREE account you can view archived webcasts in the Innovate-Live portal archive.

Register for the webcasts at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/.

• September 11 at 1:00 PM CDT "Why Johnny Can't Read: Understanding the Net Generation's Texts"
  Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley argue that the blogs, social networking sites, and other interactive venues favored by these students reflect cognitive differences wrought by a lifetime of technological immersion and suggest that instructors can benefit by learning to read these electronic texts, which must be understood differently than the paper texts of previous generations, and by leveraging them as pedagogical opportunities. [See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=510&action=article ].
  
  
• September 16 at 11:00 AM CDT "The Interactive Syllabus: Modifications and New Insights"
  Scott Windham offers a practical discussion of a tool designed to accommodate students' varied learning preferences. Adapting Sylvie Richards's interactive syllabus, Windham discusses the opportunities and challenges presented by his own use of an online, resource-rich assignment guide in German-language classes. [See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=515&action=article ].
  
  
• September 16 at 2:00 PM CDT "An Enterprise Simulation Platform for Education: Building a World Game..."
  David Gibson and Susan Grasso describe a virtual environment designed to teach environmental and physical science through informal learning. The Global Challenge World Game is a simulation-based game in which they will explore the issues of climate change and energy, teaming with other players from around the world to work out solutions to complex scientific problems. Inexpensive simulation technology from Microsoft makes the game flexible, scalable, and affordable. [See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=586&action=synopsis ]
  
  
• September 17 at 10:oo AM CDT "The Net Generation Cheating Challenge"
  Valerie Milliron and Kent Sandoe focus on a more troubling difference: the apparent indifference of Net Generation students toward cheating. Detailing their own experience with a pattern of cheating on online quizzes, Milliron and Sandoe describe the Net Generation's "culture of cheating" and describe ways to detect or, even better, deter cheating. [See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=499&action=article ]
  
  
• September 17th at 12:00 PM CDT "Mediating the Tensions of Online Learning with Second Life"
  The September series closes with Nancy Evans, Thalia M. Mulvihill, and Nancy J. Brooks who argue that Second Life and similar multiuser virtual environments can provide a sense of presence and community that satisfies these needs while offering all of the benefits of online education. [See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=537&action=article ]