Hit an early morning panel on Communities of Inquiry, which turned out to be little more than a panel on instrument validation, and not at all what I thought/hoped it would be, which was a demonstration of practical employment of the Communities of Inquiry model.
Now, I am off to a panel I am really looking forward to- “Multiple Applications of Podcasting: Supporting Student Learning in Online, Hybrid, and F2F Courses.” One of the things that is consistently disconcerting and depressing is that much of the use of the new technology of the past few years has been to continue bad teaching practices, but in an online environment (IE- the vendors all have fancy new ways to broadcast a video feed of you talking from the classroom podium for two hours- can you think of anything that you, a student, would like to do less with a laptop with internet access than that?). I think this podcasting panel might be useful (and I am hoping they haven’t done what I just described).
BTW- the new buzzword this year appears to be “iteration.” For some reason, every panel I have been to, the word has been used several times.
Also, I had never seen them before, but Gateway apparently has some laptop with a touch-screen/stylus set-up, and it appears to be very popular with people I normally would assume would be toting around an Apple.
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Nope. Not what I wanted. Ducking out early to a panel on Blogging and the Classroom.