After several months of careful planning, the day of the 20th (whew, talk about pressure) Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference finally arrived. Just about 200 Maricopa faculty came to listen to the over 25 sessions--also put on by Maricopa faculty. We heard an informative and entertaining talk on Net Gen learners from Joel Hartman from UCF--blended learning guru. Over lunch, Cole Camplese from Penn State spoke to us about students' uses of emerging technologies and web 2.0 tools and school 2.0--an interesting concept.
Biggest compliment: "Wow, there are lots of new faces here." We suffer from "serial attenders," the usual suspects (often few) who show up to all things technology. How do we reach out to newbies?
Biggest criticism: "I feel like I needed a glossary to understand all the terminology here, I needed a beginner's conference before coming to this." How do we offer enough "emerging" stuff without leaving behind those that are new and want to sample a few things? And...how can we help faculty navigate through the sea of technology? What could/should guide them?
Overall, this was a great day and a wonderful way to kick off the summer for many faculty members.
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2 comments:
I enjoyed the day and the event very much! You and the rest of the MCLI staff did a great job organizing a well run conference. We see a lot of the same issues on our campus -- how do we encourage new faces, how do we continue to connect with existing partnerships, how do we go forward without leaving the stability of today, etc ... It is always difficult to figure those things out.
As far as a glossary goes, we put one together for our TLT Symposium. The other thing we've tried to do is keep the website running throughout the year and keep it updated so people come back. Again, I had a great time and it was an honor to be a part of the event!
It was a great day!
Glossary? Maybe. Creating a culture within the event that embraces 'new ideas, new terms' might take care of the confusion.
Embrace confusion!
Perhaps a workshop in the first break-out session "New technology overview for newbies"?
Like Cole, I loved the event, it was an honor, a great day.
Colleen
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