Thursday, November 15, 2012

Top Technology Trends and 50 Education Innovators


2012 Yearbook
Technology Innovation in Education


Yearbook cover photoThe 2012 Yearbook aims to support and inspire education leaders on their paths to a more digital education. The first part of the Yearbook provides education technology market awareness by taking a look at IT spend, funding opportunities and top trends of the 2011-2012 school year. This will shed some light on what technologies are top of mind and how to fund them.

The second part highlights 50 education innovators that have led the way and provided best practice models to imitate. This look at what was done, who is doing it and where we are going is intended to provide guidance to education leaders on their own innovative quests in education.

Read the full Yearbook

Yearbook Webinar

This complimentary webinar will cover the top trends with research and survey data from the Center for Digital Education and will highlight some of the who's who in education and what they have been doing to transform their schools.

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Jobs Postings #ETC655 #ETC545

Listed below are the most recent Job Postings that have been added to the SALT Web Site (http://www.salt.org/).


1. Graphic Designer

Sylvania, OH
Root is a strategy execution company that engages people as the catalyst and driver for change. The company connects people with complex strategies using creative/visual methods, transformative insights, and consulting know-how. With more than 20 years of capabilities developed from partnering with the world's largest businesses, Root has created a proven framework that consistently achieves clarity, ownership, and results. Based in Sylvania (Toledo, Ohio), Root has been recognized as a Great Place to Work for eight consecutive years.

2. Training Instructor

Washington, District of Columbia
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is seeking applicants for a training instructor/facilitator position in the Office of Human Resources to support a comprehensive Leadership and Supervisory Development Program. The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing, instructing, and assessing learning in Leadership, Organizational Development, and Interpersonal Skills. The candidate has experience and is certified to use a variety of assessment tools to deliver training.

3. Business Systems Trainer

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
Montgomery County Community College is currently seeking applications for a Business Systems Trainer.  This position provides support for College employees in the effective use of new and current technologies.  Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Instructional Design or related field; at least three years' experience in training on administrative systems, and extensive technical writing experience creating standard operating procedures, manuals and training materials.

4. Learning/Instructional Designer

Sylvania, Ohio
Root is a strategy execution company that engages people as the catalyst and driver for change. The company connects people with complex strategies using creative and visual methods, transformative insights, and consulting know-how on strategy execution. Partnering with the world's largest businesses, Root has created a proven framework that consistently achieves clarity, ownership, and results. Root has been recognized as a Great Place to Work for eight consecutive years.


To read the full job descriptions on the web site paste the following link into your browser.

http://www.salt.org/index.htm?salt.asp?pn=joblistall


 

 

 

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research

Sponsor: American Educational Research Association
Program Number: 64531
Title: Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research                                                                                                                                                                                                        
E-mail:
Web Site: http://www.aera.net
Program URL: http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAMinorityFellowshipProgram/tabid/10243/Default.aspx
SYNOPSIS:  In 1991, the Council of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA) established the AERA Minority Dissertation
Fellowship in Education Research to provide support for doctoral
dissertation research. The purposes of the program are to advance
education research by outstanding minority graduate students and to
improve the quality and diversity of university faculties. This
program offers doctoral fellowships to enhance the competitiveness of
outstanding minority scholars for academic appointments at major
research universities. It supports fellows conducting education
research and provides mentoring and guidance toward the completion of
their doctoral studies.
Deadline(s): 11/30/2012


Link to full program description: http://www.infoed.org/new_spin/spin_prog.asp?64531


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Research opportunity for students

As new director of the Martin-Springer Institute, I hope you can help spread the word regarding a research project that might interest your students. The attached flyer details our search for motivated students to actively and collaboratively participate in researching, planning and designing a travel exhibit on the history of the Bedzin ghetto in Poland.

 

The Martin-Springer Institute is seeking up to 10 interested students (advanced undergrad and grad) from different disciplines to start working in the spring as a Independent Study, supervised by Martin Kalb (HISTORY) and myself.

 

Of this group, we will choose 4 students who will receive a stipend to work on this project in the summer for 2-weeks at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

Please help to disseminate the information among your students and colleagues.

 

We prefer nominations by faculty, but students can also self-nominate by contacting me directly.

 

Björn Krondorfer

Director of Martin-Springer Institute &

Endowed Professor of Religious Studies

(Department of Comparative Cultural Studies)

Martin-Springer Institute

Northern Arizona University

P.O. Box 5624

Flagstaff, AZ  86011-5624

(o) 928-523-5029

 

Monday, September 10, 2012

Call for Presentations: ICEM Graduate Students Panel Presentations in Emerging Technologies: Gamification at AECT 2012, Louisville, KY. #AECT #SICET #ETCCommunity #ETC645 #ETC655

Goals
This panel discussion is a collaborative session that provides a forum for graduate students from all over the world to share their research and practices in emerging technologies.
Up to six panelists will be selected. Each student would have 8-10 minutes to present their current research or practices on the annual emerging technology theme.
An ICEM-USA professional member will facilitate this panel discussion while ICEM-USA professional members will serve as commentators at the end of the discussions to support graduate students panelists to continue and improving their professional growth in the theme topics.

Theme for 2011: Gamification/Badge-Based Learning
Any topics on gamification.
The topics can be research based, practices, technology demonstration, case study etc.
Submission
Proposal Due Date: September 15, 2012
Author Notification: September 22, 2012

Proposal: One-page in length. E-mail to Chih-Hsiung Tu at: Chih.Tu@nau.edu
For more information see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kB-dx--GYZ2mp5DE52hMfR14YMdaaL_dpih13D1yWCA/edit?hl=en_US

Any questions and comments, contact Chih Tu at chih.tu@nau.edu

 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Want to learn how to integrate Web 2.0 tools? Come to ETC647's students' network training sessions

All training sessions can be accessed at ETC Community's virtual space on Elluminate at: ETC Virtual Space.

ETC647 Training Sessions are sponsored by ETC Community. These sessions are open for all to attend.  Fell free to share these events with others.
Access previous recorded training sessions at: http://delicious.com/chihtu/ETCNAU+Elluminate+recording
  1. April 4, 2012, Wednesday 6-7 pm: Web Sharing Tools (Glogster, Museum Box, Voice Thread)
  2. April 4, 2012, Wednesday 7:15-8:15 pm: iTunes University for mobile learning 
  3. April 5, 2012, Thursday 6-7 pm: Google Docs/Forms/Sites for network collaboration
  4. April 5, 2012, Thursday 7:15-8:15 pm: Diigo a Social Annotation Tool

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy

Anderson,T.&Dron,J.(2011),InternationaRevieoResearciOpenanDistancLearning. 12(3),80-97http://goo.gl/j3mRF

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Sunday, December 25, 2011

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

ICEM2012 - 1st Call for Papers


1st CALL for PAPERS

62nd Annual conference of the International Council for Educational Media 2012

In conjunction with the 5th Innovative Learning Environments 2012

 


CONFERENCE THEME: Design Thinking in Education, Media, and Society

DATE AND LOCATION: 26-29, September 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus

ORGANIZERS: CARDET, ICEM, UNIC

 

 

 

For details, see the attached call.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

USA TODAY: Adobe kills Flash Player on mobile devices

Check out this article that I saw in USA TODAY's iPad application.

Adobe kills Flash Player on mobile devices
http://usat.ly/spXwSp

To view the story, click the link or paste it into your browser.

To learn more about USA TODAY for iPad and download, visit: http://usatoday.com/ipad/


Sent from my iPad 2

Monday, August 1, 2011

Skype for iPad Makes Its Debut

http://mashable.com/2011/08/01/skype-ipad-2/?utm_source=iphoneapp&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=textlink&utm_campaign=iphoneapp


Sent from my iPad 2

Call for Presentations: ICEM Graduate Students Panel Presentations in Emerging Technologies: Mobile Learning at AECT 2011, Jackosnville

Goals

  1. This panel discussion is a collaborative session that provides a forum for graduate students from all over the world to share their research and practices in emerging technologies.  
  2. Up to six panelists will be selected.  Each student would have 8-10 minutes to present their current research or practices on the annual emerging technology theme.  
  3. An ICEM-USA professional member will facilitate this panel discussion while ICEM-USA professional members will serve as commentators at the end of the discussions to support graduate students panelists to continue and improving their professional growth in the theme topics.  


Theme for 2011: Mobile learning
  • Any topics on mobile learning.
  • The topics can be research based, practices, technology demonstration, case study etc.
Submission
  • Proposal Due Date: August 31, 2011
  • Author Notification: September 15, 2011
  • Proposal: One-page in length.  E-mail to Chih-Hsiung Tu at: Chih.Tu@nau.edu

Any questions and comments, contact Chih Tu at chih.tu@nau.edu 

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Tu, C. H., Yen, C. J. &, Blocher, M. (2011). A study of the relationships between gender and online social presence. International Journal of Online Pedagogy & Course Design, 1(3) 32-48.

Abstract

CMC has been considered a "democratizing" technology; however, research indicates that CMC does not automatically result in social equality, and points to the importance of social and cultural factors surrounding

the adoption of technology. Research suggests that CMC may impose a disadvantage to females, demonstrating lower levels of social presence. This study assesses the predictive relationship between gender and online

social presence. A total of 395 graduate students participated by responding to the Computer-Mediated Communication Questionnaire. Quantitative research designs and analyses were applied. This study concluded that online social presence is not related to gender; therefore, gender cannot serve as an effective predictor for online social presence. A female's online social presence can be as high as a male's. Effective strategies to improve online social presence for both genders are suggested. Additionally, this study raises the importance on gender equity in emerging social media.