Podcasting and Google Apps at Educause SW Regional 08

This week I attended the Educause Southwest Regional Conference in Houston, TX. At the start of the conference, I presented with Dr. McGee on Blended Learning: Implementing the Instructional Model of Tomorrow.

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Our presentation covered all the essential components of implementing Blended Learning on an institutional level: faculty development and support, student support, costs, blended learning models, marketing, and course redesign processes. 25 faculty members, CIOs, IT professionals, and faculty development professionals attended our session. This is a much needed area of support as our attendees spanned the spectrum in their involvement and awareness of Blended Learning.

Also attended a podcasting session presented by the University of Southern Mississippi: http://podcastpilot.blogspot.com/. They have a nice site supporting podcasting with video tutorials. This session was packed.

Yesterday, I attended a session on Google Apps. At the end of the session attendees started asking questions (and also sharing their interpretations) about copyright and web 2.0 technologies. I was struck by how much poor information is out there. Perhaps there is a need for another session: Copyright 2.0: How to navigate web 2.0 without violating copyright...