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Hi all, This is the last blog about the conference. I have covered all the sessions I thought worth covering. What I would like to do is provided a link to the Presentation Page for the conference. If you click on any of the highlighted links in the list of sessions, you can either download the presentational material that was provided or to view a recording of the presentation itself. I would encourage all of yo… Continue

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:00 am Gary Brown Students are no longer anchored to one institution, but now obtain their education from a variety of sources. Clearly, they have a real need to transport their educational experiences, using Web 2.0 tools that have legs beyond a single campus. But current institution-specific ePortfolio programs fall short of this mark, and students’ future employers are seeking job candidates who know the Web 2.0 and worldware tools that they will be using in th… Continue

Supporting Next-Gen Academic Development in a Web 2.0 World This presentation was by two people from UT Austin—Robert Bruce and Susanna Herndon. While there was a great deal of information about the processes that their office used to discover, test, and then disseminate new technologies that might be effective in the classroom, what struck me more was the organizational connections that were made to link what are key elements. Essentially, UT Austin has combined into one divisio… Continue

Campus Technology Innovator Awards Presentations Normally, I am not a he fan of these award presentations. I understand that they can serve as an important spur to other campuses to try new things, but I usually know nothing about the recipients, and, as in this case, they give out 14 awards in an hour session…so how much can you actually gain from listening. I was therefore pleasantly surprised by the concise, yet very clear presentations. While I am not going to summarize all o… Continue

(Brief note: I am not going to blog every session. The one I attended before this one was not very interesting, was disorganized, and, I thought, a bit simplistic. So, the next cool one was "The Next Generation ePortfolio" and that is what I'll be summarizing here.) This was a panel presentation, with each of the speakers mentioned above getting a little less than a 1/3 of the time. There was a respondent, Eddie Maloney, but he was left so little time at the end of the hour that his comm… Continue