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CIT Closing Session 10/26 (October 26, 2005 09:18 AM)
Today, I attended the closing session of the CIT conference Demanding Technology: Understanding the New Student by John O'Brien, Chief Academic Officer at Century College in Minnesota. The session will be available on the League's iStream portal and I highly recommend that you take an hour out of your busy... more» »
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CIT Sessions 10/25/2005 (October 26, 2005 09:07 AM)
I went to a number of sessions today at the League's CIT conference. Got RLOs? was a presentation discussing what they were, how they can be found and created and discussed some of Florida's efforts at definind and using RLOs. For more details read below. Sakai: An Open Course CMS... more» »
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CIT session 10/24/2005 (October 24, 2005 06:40 PM)
I attended a number of sessions at the League's CIT conference today. Here are some highlights of some of those session, including: * Harnessing the Power of Technology to Enhance Educational Achievement Opportunity * 3dh HoloProjection * Enabling Teamwork and Collaboration with Windows SharePoint Services... more» »
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RWLO'ing at the CIT conference (October 24, 2005 01:37 PM)
The RWLO team presented to a crowded room today at the CIT conference. It was a great way to start out the morning. The presentation aimed to answer the questions: • What are RWLOs? • How are they being used in community colleges? • Who are developing RWLOs? • How... more» »
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Exhibitors at the League For Innovations’ Conference on Information Technology Conference (October 23, 2005 06:45 PM)
This evening I attended the opening reception of the League's Conference on Information Technology and got to learn about a number of products that were exhibiting at the conference. Some I was already familiar with, others I had hoped would be there. This certainly is not a comprehensive list and... more» »
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The RWLOs are rolling (October 22, 2005 12:41 PM)
Hi! We are still in Dallas involved in the Pathways project. We were involved in a training session providing information on unique and compelling internet resources that can be incorporated in Real World Learning Objects (RWLOs). I taught the session on using Real-time data.... more» »
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Howdy! from Dallas Texas (October 21, 2005 07:08 PM)
Hi Y'All. Donna and I are reporting in from Dallas, Texas. We are here to work on the PT3 PathWays project that we've been working on at Maricopa for the development of Real World Learning Objects aka RWLOs and we will be attending the League for Innovations Computers on Information... more» »
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RLO101 - Going strong (October 17, 2005 09:34 AM)
We have 10 faculty participating in our completely online RLO101 LearnShop. Faculty from 6 of the Maricopa Colleges have been learning about Reusable Learning Objects.... more» »
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RLO of the Month -October (October 17, 2005 07:05 AM)
One of Maricopa's own, David Weaver, physics faculty at Chandler Gilbert Community College, created a Real World Learning Object (RWLO) on Relative Velocity and Vectors. The goal is to have students access real time flight data from aircraft over the United States in order to determine air velocity from ground... more» »
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Kartoo.com +Learning Objects vs. RLO Repositories (October 10, 2005 09:46 AM)
"Kartoo is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, Kartoo launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm..." What happens when you use Kartoo.com to "find"... more» »
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Using RLOs: A Real-life Story (October 6, 2005 03:41 PM)
I have been moonlighting as a part-time E-Learning Coordinator at the Center for Teaching and Learning at GateWay Community College. It has been exciting to work with faculty on pedagogical issues in using technology. This week, I had an adjunct faculty member come in and I was able to help... more» »
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RLO Repository of the Month - October (October 3, 2005 07:14 AM)
Miami Dade College's Virtual College has a learning object initiative in which they are developing RLOs in the area of Medicine. Their initial pilot includes faculty members from Nursing, Physical Therapy, Radiography, and Vision Care. These initial 16 Learning Objects are being primarily implemented using Macromedia Flash MX.... more» »
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