tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175898252011-04-21T23:58:15.527-04:00Walking the surface tension between now and what's next.Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.comBlogger801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-36220564929951995322009-02-03T11:06:00.003-05:002009-02-03T11:10:58.257-05:00

I attended the eTech Ohio conference yesterday where it was announced that Ohio has created an iTunes U portal for free educational content. Ohio took the somewhat unique step of populating the site with content from community organizations along with educational institutions. eTech is soliciting more content and you can read the criteria in this pdf file.The project is so new there are not yet

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-11178061512004899332009-01-19T16:52:00.003-05:002009-01-20T16:56:59.248-05:00

I am making a presentation on wikis to the local chapter for the Society for Technical Communication this coming Wednesday. My draft slide deck is here. Comments welcome:Wiki for the Workplace: Beginners GuideView more presentations or upload your own. (tags: wiki collaboration)I'll get the Creative Commons credits added by Wednesday. Interesting how some edits appear here while others do not.

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Anyone else underwhelmed with digital television? OK I admit I will never be confused with an Engadget blogger. For someone who works in educational technology and was a TV producer I am oddly a relic when it comes to television consumption. I am not a cable subscriber. I want to retire someday and I would rather pay myself a $100 a month than a cable company (I suspect the economy will drive

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The Dispatch reported today on some creative urban design ideas developed by OSU students. These include:• Seasonal beach: Greg Grippa suggested setting up a sandy retreat at North Bank Park for a month every summer. Boat rentals and a pool could accompany the beach. • Bus alerts: COTA already posts live information on the Internet about where buses are, but it also could send text messages to

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Could it be that the right combination of crisis and consciousness will create the will to build passenger rail in Ohio? It seems every economist agrees that massive infrastructure spending is needed to get the economy growing again. The debate is over what to build or repair. As noted in the previous post, a likely candidate is broadband infrastructure.But rail could be a beneficiary too. The

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No, it is not a moment of on screen performance but the opportunity to redirect media and internet policy in the United States. Media reform activists are energized by Obama's clear positions on preserving network neutrality, reversing policies promoting media consolidation, and rebuilding public media for the digital age.The reform group Free Press just released a policy paper filling in some

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Well the Crew gave me an excuse to resume blogging and we'll see if few posts fueled by fan exuberance jump starts a wider range of reflection. As a segue, here is one more point on the Crew.Andrew Miller, at Elephants on Bicycles, expressed what has been haunting the back of my mind: The Crew kind of blew it with the MLS Cup victory celebration.Why did the Crew only announce the statehouse event

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Technorati Tags: Schelloto. Columbus Crew, MLS

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Congratulations GBS! You are the 2008 MLS MVP!Catch the game with fellow fans this Sunday at Studio 35 in Clintonville.

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Columbus company sues Facebook, claiming that " it created the platform that Facebook uses to manage and store information. Leader said it applied for a patent on the technology in 2002, two years before Facebook was founded."Any merit? One analyst says it is weak but may result in some fine paid by Facebook.Technorati Tags: Columbus, facebook

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Bicycling magazine recently named Columbus as one of the five "Cities to Watch" for bicycling accommodation. Monacle, an international design magazine that annually ranks the world's most livable cities, referenced a high expectation for Columbus' plans to become "one of the United States most bikable communities." Much of this is owed to the work of Advocacy bu the organization Consider Biking.

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That is what Crew Striker Alejandro Moreno tells his teammate before every game. What they do lately is win, and that is what they did last night to win the Eastern Conference Championship and advance to the MLS Cup next weekend. Here are some sites captured by the Columbus Dispatch. (Go here to see it at proper scale.)The goals:Technorati Tags: Columbus Crew, Crew, Columbus

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The Columbus Crew are raking in season awards and powering their way through the playoffs. The Crew faces the Chicago Fire Thursday night for the conference championship. Chad Marshall has won defender of the Year.Sigi Schmid has won Coach of the YearRobbie Rogers is a candidate for goal of the year.And Guillermo Barros Schelloto is a favorite for league MVP.

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WCRS will be airing an hour and a half special on Tuesday Feb 5th and Thurday Feb 7th at 4pm on WCRS 102.1/98.3 LPFM. Hear the Mayor Coleman's speech on his vision for Columbus' 200th Birthday in 2012, keynote clips, and commentary by ColumbusUnderground.com’s Walker Evans and Get Urban America’s Kyle Ezell.Tune in Feb 5th and 7th WCRS 102.1/98.3 LPFM

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Perhaps equally important as the solutions favored by the most participants in the Bicentennial Summit is the possibility of ongoing conversation about them. I think much of the energy that was in the room Tuesday night came from seeing so many people who cared about the same things and were willing to act on it. This civic spirit will be worth at least as much or more than the $1billion bond

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The citizen summit held last night at the convention center was an interesting reading of the pulse of Columbus. Through anonymous voting on strategies to address key priorities -- such as education, transportation, business development and the arts --1500-plus attendees got to steer the civic agenda for at least one night.We patted ourselves on the back and said very clearly we can do better.

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I created a wiki that I hope will gain some energy and contributions in the wake of the bicentennial citizen summit coming up on Tuesday.Wiki business is tricky business. It is a great tool fueled by great vision for group collaboration. Unfortunately, other than wikipedia, they rarely catch on. Let's see what happens.Technorati Tags: Columbus2012, Wiki, columbus

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A few more thoughts on the bike plan occurred to me on the way home tonight (while riding my bike no less!).One is that a City-wide bike program has to link with COTA. The COTA Bike 'n Bus program is a great way to facilitate adoption of biking. Bike 'n Bus provides infrastructure where either none exists or is perceived by novices as too daunting. This connection can be leveraged by building and

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My intent was to comment here on the proposed Columbus bike plan in parts. The massive 212 page document is impressive in its scope and a lot to digest. I only focused on what appeared to be the meat of it: sections 4 through 7. Life got in the way and I only got around to submittingmy comments toady.Others have blogged their opinions (Columbus-ite and X-ing Columbus) and have some pointed

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WCRS (operated by the local non-profit Simply Living) has been on the air for a few months now broadcasting syndicated programming (much of it from Pacifica) and working out the engineering puzzle to make this low-power station receivable in most of Central Ohio. Now WCRS is trying to implement its intended purpose: to be a source for local news and dialog about a sustainable and democratic

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-20275048035623433372008-01-07T11:52:00.000-05:002008-01-07T12:05:39.133-05:00

After a long layoff I am going to try to get back to more waterbugging. I am going to keep most all of the ed tech blogging on Learning Curve, my work blog. My intent is to to give Waterbug a more local focus in 2008. There are two immediate events that can drive the dialogue: the bikeways plan and the Columbus Bicentennial Citizen Summit coming up January 29th.Over the next few weeks I'll share

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Bill Callahan reports that legislation has been introduced that effectively eliminates local control and public interest requirements video franchises in the State of Ohio. Ohio Senate Bill 117, modeled after AT&T-backed legislation passed in Michigan, is intended sweeten the return on phone companies video over broadband services by eliminating local franchising. Cable companies are OK with that

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-65572993608192571392007-03-10T17:17:00.000-05:002007-03-10T17:19:54.076-05:00

"We cannot solve the problems climate change is making manifest simply by cutting emissions and building sea walls. That's because climate change is not an issue, it is a symptom: it is not a discrete problem to be solved but part of the warp and weave of problems that define and worsen our civilization's inability to sustain itself. If we want to stave off the collapse that will inevitably come

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Sentiments such as the one above were common last night as a couple hundred citizens gathered in Columbus to provide testimony at the Future of Media hearing attended by FCC Commissioners Michael Copps, Jonathan Adelstein and Robert McDowell. Hear is bit of what I heard:Panelists and citizens alike told stories of how minority-owned broadcasting was central to bringing attention to injustices in

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Michel Coconis has posted some instructions on how prepare and present testimony at the hearing. You can read it at the FreePress.org (local organization) site. There are also tips posted on the StopBigMedia site.Technorati Tags: FCC, Media Ownership, Columbus, Free Press

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What is the real life impact of media consolidation? Journalist Eric Eric Klinenberg has some powerful stories to tell in his book Fighting For Air.Listen to this interview with Klinenberg on WILL's Media Matters (listen to Feb 11th episode) hosted by Free Press cofounder Bob McChesney. In the interview he tells some compelling stories and tells how media consolidation has destroyed a

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From what I have red about other hearings, it seems a common practice by broadcasters in attendence is to tout their support of local charities. And they will bring leaders of local charities to publicly thank them for their support by reporting on fundraisers, sending anchors to act as Masters of Ceremony, occasionally running a PSA. Typically these efforts are done in support of a children's

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Here is profile of the Columbus media market prepared by Free Press. For a detailed profile of who owns what in Ohio, see the Center for Public Integrity's Media Tracker.The Columbus, Ohio, area is the nation’s 32nd-largest TV market and 37th-largest radio market. Columbus is dominated by a handful of media firms. Just four companies control 75 percent of the Columbus area's local news market.

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Common Cause has a page of example citizen testimony that reveals the direct impact of media consolidation our communities and nation.Some examples:Studies have shown that there are significant disparities in the treatment of African-Americans in local and national news. In addition, African-Americans still face a lack of quality programming in the media focused on their needs, interests and

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There will be two local workshops on media issues to help citizens understand and prepare for the FCC Forum on March 7. Here is the info: Learn how media policy affects ownership, content, and the information we need to participate in democracy. Workshops will give you the chance to consider your own hopes for media that meet your community’s needs, and to prepare a two minute testimony to

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Some argue -- Michael Powell did when he Chaired the FCC -- that the rise of the internet has created a media abundance that makes ownership limits and public interest provisions unnecessary. It is certainly true that the old communications model is being upended. There was a night last summer when, during the typical TV viewing lull, there were more YouTube hits than there were TV viewers. The

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The FCC held one of its six “official” hearings on media ownership yesterday in Harrisburg, PA. Despite little public notice, 300 people attended and 150 spoke for over 5 hours. A summary and links are below, but first, I have to add how surprised I was to do a Technorati Search on “FCC, Harrisburg” and find a paltry few blog posts on the hearing, much less the FCC ownership proceedings.

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Does media monopoly serve you?Tired of local "News" that is anything but?Tired of outrageous campaign ads replacing real campaign coverage? Tired of not seeing your community represented in media?Tired of bland radio formats that you can hear anywhere?Tired of absent or poor children's programming?Tired of offensive and outlandish content at every hour of the day?Media is THE issue. Our media are

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I'll have more to say on this later but it is time to start spreading the word that Columbus will host an FCC hearing on Media Ownership on March 7th.You may recall the tremendous public backlash in 2003 against proposed rules to weaken ownership rules. Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein led the way by holding informal hearings around the country to get public input. Well, the FCC

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[Update: this hearing was postponed. More info TBA.][Cross-posted to OneOhio]The House Commerce & Telecommunications Subcommittee is scheduled to hold a hearing today, Thursday, Feb. 15th, to review the FCC. Among the many issues of concern is the FCCs December 20th FCC Ruling on Video Franchising. The ruling:(1) imposes a 90-day shot clock for new entrants with existing rights ofway;(2)

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-21525264001759693682007-02-13T07:55:00.000-05:002007-02-13T08:27:39.811-05:00

Radio Open Source hosted a fabulous discussion on the excesses of copyright enforcement and the creative process of appropriation and modification. They were inspired by Johnathan Lethem's brilliant essay in Harper's called "The Ecstatsy of Influence," in which he exposes creativity as a gift economy by plundering ideas and phrases right and left to make his case.Lethem is a guest on the show

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Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has piece in The Hill entitled affordable broadband for everyone. He writes:there is significant concern that our ranking, by whatever measure, in the global information economy is less than it should be. While the overall number of United States households adopting broadband is growing, our relative position in the world is worsening. Consumers in other countries

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-26414716059893725212007-02-04T08:12:00.000-05:002007-02-04T09:09:31.850-05:00

The change over in the US Congress and Ohio Governorship are fueling already passionate interest in media reform. On Friday Feb 2nd that passion manifested at the One Ohio gathering at he State Library of Ohio. See my full post at the One Ohio Blog for a summary and more information on Governor Ted Srickland's Broadband Ohio proposal. The key issues are that in Ohio:communities struggling to keep

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-1163177365190180042006-12-07T11:48:00.000-05:002006-12-07T16:29:42.810-05:00

"Leapfrogging" is a term used by economic development specialists to describe strategic decisions by the developing world to sleap over the industrial, fossil fuel-driven technologies and practices of the industrialized world to modern, green, and information technologies. Given the strain on the planet's natural resources and the resulting environmental crises, this strategy may be the only

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I had to chuckle when I read this item at Podcasting News:British-Russian online audiobook publisher AudioBooksForFree says that “Podcasting is Dead,” predicting that in the next five years downloading, podcasting, P2P and other forms of on-demand delivery will be superseded gigantic compilations of thousands hours of digital entertainment in one single and relatively cheap boxset. The company

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I have not written much about politics in this blog but with the change in power in Congress and in the State of Ohio there are some new legislative opportunities that will impact education and educational technology.Barring some backhanded moves during the lame duck session of Congress, the COPE Act appears to be dead. This act would have given IP and cable video providers national franchises

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The title of this post is a paraphrase of David Reiff, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute at The New School and author, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention. Reiff was a recent guest on Open Source radio. The conversation was intended to be about a recommended reading list for Congressional democrats, a canon of fundamental ideas that will be the backbone of a

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I am coming up on a year since I started "seriously" blogging. I have to laugh at the thought. Seriousness is measured on a sliding scale in the vast blogging sea. My on again off again postings are mere dips into the pond compared to others who swim 24/7 in the networked waters of the blogosphere. Some can post -trackback-mashup-tag their way through every day as if there minds were a fishbowl

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Lately I feel I have been living this blog's tagline.A couple weeks ago I spent a day with Alan November at an Ohio Dept of Education workshop. Alan is a sought after consultant to the international K-12 arena. He convened the Building Learning Communities conference I attended last summer. He is one of those people who can see the forest and the trees on the frontiers of change. Through a

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Inside Higher Education reports that Yale willbe starting a version of an open access online tool for those seeking to gain from its courses. But the basis of the Yale effort will be video of actual courses — every lecture of the course, to be combined with selected class materials. I predict that over the next 3 to 5 years higher ed will be grappling with the idea of open courseware and open

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This is not big news but another piece of evidence confirming the trend toward lifelong learning. A recent survey comissioned by Capella University reveals enormous demand for adult education. The Degrees of Opportunity report indicates that:Just over half the respondents indicated they would like to pursue additional education. This extrapolates to the equivalent of more than 70 million

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-1154783246422014292006-08-05T08:33:00.000-04:002006-08-05T18:39:00.346-04:00

Don't look now but some storm clouds are brewing around networked learning. First the assault on net neutrality. Then the DOPA Act. Now Blackboard, makers of a widely used course management system, has recently been awarded a patent for the very idea of a course management system. Immediately, Blackboard sued competitor Desire2 Learn for patent infringement.Now I am no patent law expert, but the

Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858411615099317547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589825.post-1154373428025562202006-07-31T15:16:00.000-04:002006-07-31T15:17:08.053-04:00

Will Richardson's post on a bit of media news is the latest in mounting evidence that educators need to incorporate multimedia literacy into general education.Apparently TV ratings hit record lows a couple weeks ago, caused in part by the exploding popularity of online video sites like YouTube. A remarkable thing about YouTube is the success of ostensibly homegrown video. While much of YouTube is

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eSchool News online - MSBA debuts online TV network for educationAs Columbus public trims time from the school day and teachers and staff from the payroll, I have heard no consideration of efficiencies and improvements that could be gained from online learning. This project in Missouri is just one example of consolidating and disseminating instructional material for on demand use.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists just released a national study of school bus pollution. Ohio, as usual, is average with a grade of "C" for soot pollution and "average" marks for effort to move to cleaner technology. According to the UCS website:The exhaust from diesel fuel, which powers about 95 percent of the more than 505,000 school buses on U.S. roads today, is linked with asthma, heart

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Berkeley is the latest domino to fall along the path of least resistance leading seemingly well-intentioned colleges and universities to "share" their intellectual capital with the world through Apple's iTunesU. I put "share" in quotes because as a sharing mechanism, iTunesU walks against the wave openness that defines this era of the web.This subject has been tackled thoroughly before so here is

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Congress is in the process of changing the rules of the internet and the consequences could be bad for educators and students. The Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 that recently passed out of the US House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee is one large step toward altering the internet landscape and deeply affect our ability to teach and learn online. (

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Yesterday, on my bike ride home from work, my cycling odometer flipped to 20,000 miles. I was starting my climb up the overpass on Third St. as it leaves downtown over I-670. Seeing that big round number prompted me to consider just where I was in life at that moment and how I had gotten there. Perhaps it is my pre-40 life assessment, a milestone I'll hit early next year. Reflecting on 20,000

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A coalition of community technology advocates, public interest organizations and educators have formed the Ohio Digital Divide Working Group to put the issues of broadband infrastructure and access into the political conversation this election year. The group has met with staff of gubenatorial candidates and was a major influence on the broadband goals proposed by Democratic Candidate Ted

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Check out Burks Oakley's, Burks on Learning podcast on the Sloan-C Quality "Pillars" for distance learning. The Sloan-C pillars (.pdf) provide an excellent rubric for evaluating the value of distance learning to an institution. Of the five pillars -- Access, Learning Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Student Satisfaction and Faculty Satisfaction -- the issue of learning effectiveness...rather,

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Columbus State is about to engage in a strategic planning process that it undergoes once every five years. Several teams of faculty, staff and administrators meet to review current strategic goals and set new ones based on our scan of local and global social, economic, and political forces. I have been lucky enough to asked to participate. One of my tasks is to identify issues and trends we

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Last week I participated in a week-long online discussion called “Real” Ways to Promote Interaction for Effective Online Learning. It was offered through the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an elective in the Distance Education Certificate Program I am taking. It was a nice week of discussion and sharing among educators and instructional technologists and designers from around the world. I

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Back around the new year, several edubloggers were musing on the personal and technological changes they had experienced and revving up for the challenges ahead. Clarence Fisher's post on "Educational Leap - Frogging" got the attention of the guys at EdTechTalk.com and they had Clarence on for a conversation. The gist of the discussion was: how do we break through old habits of education to use

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Earlier I posted about the need for higher education to wake up to looming telecom deregulation that could remove network neutrality requirements for broadband providers. This threatens the very foundation of the emerging model of networked learning that many feel is necessary for the future prosperity of our country. Below is an article from Computer World on what the average person's internet

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Next month WOSU will begin construction of studios and educational facilities at COSI. According to a WOSU press release, "the center will be designed as community space and used as a local gathering place for civic engagement, forums, performances, events, and meetings; an interactive exhibit area; and television and radio studios." It's a compelling vision that has me filled with conflicting

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After blogging for a few months, its about time for me to explain and flesh out the Waterbug metaphor.This blog began as a supplement to a presentation I made at a college in-service. When I decided to continue it as my own professional, sometimes personal, blog, I wanted a theme to my ruminations. I was, and continue to be, both intrigued and wary of the creep of media and technology into my

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Merriam-Webster's word of the year in 2004 was "blog," in 2005 The Oxford American Dictionary selected it was "podcast" as the word of the year. See a trend here? It would not be going out on limb to guess that the word of the year for 2006 will have something to do with personal video publishing and sharing. Public access television stations and media arts centers have been supporting citizen TV

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UC tries out podcasting. The frame of the article below is telling. I think the equivocating over the value of podcasting is probably typical behavior when any new technology is adopted. First, we try to do the same things we've always done, except with the new tools. Then as the technology erodes the conventions of how we have done things in the past, we question the technologies value and

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Despite the expressed urgency to catch up to and serve the learning needs of digital natives and the children of the ubiquitously connected, pervasively proximal generation, we still find that much of our student population lacks the technology savvy to navigate and succeed in an on-line education. When talking about on-line education, I occasionally hear the desire to "keep it simple" so our

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I plan to write more on the benefits of student blogging in the near future. Here is an appetizer.Jon Udell, writing at Info World, is mulling plans to write a book on the professional blog. Not blogging as a profession, but blogging that goes beyond a diary, "as a literary form that grows out of, and extends, two traditional forms: the resume and the autobiography." These blogs would be "

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A recent story in eSchool News reflects two lingering problems. One, there is still a technology divide between rich and poor schools and communities. The other, is there is still a divide among academics about what this means.Access to a home computer increases the likelihood that children will graduate from high school, but blacks and Latinos are much less likely to have a computer at home than

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I was in bed when the New Year rolled in. Staying up to watch faux sentimentality doled out by celebrities I've never heard of is not my thing. My kids got word that there was a big party in NYC and that a ball drops at midnight so we taped 10 minutes of NBC's New Year's eve show so they could see what it was all about.Carson Daly was the host along with comic Wanda Sykes. In the brief minutes I

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The user-created on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia closed the year with controversy as a couple high profile incidents sparked debate over the credibility of its content. The particulars, though, may be symptoms of a larger cultural disruption.For the uninitiated, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia where anyone can enter content. It is built through a web based tool called a Wiki, which is derived from

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Here are some photos of Columbus State I have taken over the past year. I post these here to show off the power of flicker. Thanks to Paul Stamatiou for the insructions on how embed a Flickr slide show into a web page. If you have not checked out Flickr I encourage you to try it out. For a good overview of what you can do with Flikr listen to Burks Oakley's podcast. Flikr is an on-line

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With the explosion of distance learning in recent years one would think that communications policy that governs the internet would be foremost on the minds of higher education leadership and distance learning advocates. As educators realize the opportunities for student access and enriched teaching and learning that broadband internet access brings, many are mapping a future where ubiquitous

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The current issue of Campus Technology magazine features an opinion piece by Amy Pate of Thunderbird University on the appropriate use of video in an on-line course. She urges instructors to consider what value video adds to a course and if video is really superior to text or still-image based content. "Adult online learners," she writes " have one common goal: learn the information as

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When helping a professor new to distance learning I am often asked how a course should be taught on line, followed quickly by the question “how do other people do it?” It seems tat these questions usually mean “Wow do I make this technology work?” A good question. I think, however, another one should precede it: “What is my theory of good teaching and how can use this technology to do it?” I

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The Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has released a study of the use of technology by students. Data was collected from 18,000 students at 63 institutions. The findings are available to all at Educause. Here are some of the findings:Undergraduates live with abundant technology and networks;Students look to IT for convenience. They like IT in their courses but in moderation;Students

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In a recent article in Community College Week, Edward Leach,Vice President, Services and Programs; Director, Conference on Information Technology, with the League for Innovation in the Community College, summarizes the IT challenges facing community colleges over the coming two years. Here is the article reprinted by Leadership Abstracts.Here is one challenge identified by Leach:...questions

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Here is the video that I was unable to play during the Fall o5 In Service session. This 7 minute video features testimony from four Columbus State faculty members about how web technology has enhanced both in-class and on-line teaching. You will need Quicktime Player to view the video.Here it is: Four Short ProfilesTechnorati Tags: columbus state, columbus, pedagogy, teaching, on-line learning,

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Technological, cultural and economic forces have been combining to push the adoption of instructional technology in higher education. These forces include: ••Growth of student population-- Colleges have limited physical infrastructure•Aging of the student population-- Colleges must be convenient and flexible, students are more outcome-oriented and less "college experience oriented"•Changing

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This is the title of a paper by Thomas Carroll of the U.S. Department of Education U.S., published in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. He argues that technology allows us to move away from what he calls the "the factory-era teaching and learning model ... in which information flows one way from the teacher to individual students, who are expected to learn independently

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Marc Prensky, author and CEO, of games2train.com and Corporate Gameware LLC, is one of a growing number of advocates of gaming technology in education. Prensky asserts that not only is gaming effective but it is necessary to engage today's students who have never known a home without a computer and have lived lives were technology is a constant, seamless dimension of their social and learning

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Educators and tech heads can muse all we want about computer-aided learning experiences but if students chafe against the method of delivery not much learning is going to occur. Columbus State and other community colleges have the added challenge of serving students with the most diverse experiences and learning goals. The technology comfort zone for our students runs the full continuum.During

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