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November 20th, 2009 | Written by: Jessica Knott

Today, I am attending MSU’s inaugural Accessible Learning Institute. Under the cut, I will be live-blogging the event until Noon. I’m excited to be here, as this is a great opportunity to learn more about the broad issues surrounding accessibility and the implications of the accessibility movement on education, especially in regard to online and blended teaching.

Disclaimer: Live blogging begins below, and consists of my notes on the presentations given. They are not verbatim to the words being spoken, nor are they verbatim to the words on the screen.

Caveats aside, I hope you find this useful if you were unable to attend the event!

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| Tags: accessibility, conference, MSU Web Accessiblity Policy | Category: Blended Teaching, News and Events, Online Teaching, Teaching and Learning, Web Technology | Leave a comment

November 19th, 2009 | Written by: Jessica Knott

MSU’s Google Apps for Education implementation is officially live, and can be accessed at http://googleapps.msu.edu. Now, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites can be created using your MSU account. Note that Gmail is not a part of this Google Apps package. For a list of support resources available, read below.

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| Tags: educational technology, google, google calendar, google docs, Google Sites, perspective, support, Web Technology, website | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)

November 9th, 2009 | Written by: Jessica Knott

DATE: November 11, 2009
PLACE: Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th Floor, West Wing
TIME: 8:45am – 10:00am (8:30am for refreshments)

TOPIC: Open Educational Resources (OER)

Presenters:

Cliff Lampe, Ph.D. and Rick Wash, Ph.D.
College of Communincation Arts and Sciences

Christine Geith, Ph.D. and Gwyn Heyboer Sr. Instructional Designer, MSUglobal

Sunnie Kim
Creative Technologist, MSUglobal

MSU faculty are participating in the global trend of Open Educational Resources (OER). Benefits include: building awarness of your unique contributions to your field, fostering connections with colleagues around the world, preserving a record of teaching innovations in a way that enables others to build upon them and saving time by customizing existing digital resources for teaching and learning without starting from scratch. OER is also enabling innovations in higher education such as free textbooks and the potential for federally-funded free and open online college courses.

Learn about the trends, the academic research underpinning this dynamic new field and how MSU faculty are using OER as part of their international research and revenue-based initiatives with MSUglobal.

| Tags: Breakfast Series, copyright, creative commons, oer, opened, perspective, Web Technology | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

November 2nd, 2009 | Written by: Jessica Knott

This post serves as a reminder of the Educause 2009 Online conference that will be taking place in 120 Linton Hall Wednesday, Thursday and Friday courtesy of Libraries, Computing and Technology and the College of Arts and Letters. We hope to see you there for all or part of this experience, including a presentation by MSU’s own Dr. Byron Brown and Dr. Severin Grabski! Click “read more” to see the full schedule.

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| Tags: conference, digital literacy, education, educational technology, educause, events, faculty development, lms, Michigan State University, quality, social networking, Web Technology | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

October 28th, 2009 | Written by: Jessica Knott

This week’s presenter at the “Explorations in Instructional Technology” brown bag seminar series is David Gift, Vice Provost for Libraries, Computing, and Technology.  His topic is “Electronic Texts:  Faculty, Student, and Institutional Issues.”

TIME: Friday, October 30, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.

PLACE: 105 Natural Science Building.
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October 26th, 2009 | Written by: Brendan Guenther

The MSU Libraries will be hosting the following Webinar:

“Music, Movies & Online Media: Fair Use Do’s & Don’ts for Higher Ed”

• How to avoid copyright violations when using DVD’s & CD’s
• Guidelines for applying fair use law to music & movies
• Keys to handling personal & institutional liability issues
• What your rights are for copying DVD’s, CD’s, Movies & Video Clips Fair Use and You Tube Videos in the Classroom

Monday, November 2, 2009 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET

North Conference Room, W449 Main Library

Please email Diane Mayers (mayers a|t mail.lib.msu.edu) to register.

Exercise your copyright rights in the classroom

Hope to see you there.  Refreshments will be served.  Read more for a summary…

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| Tags: copyright, event, fair use, liability, library, online media, teach act, video clips, webinar | Category: News and Events | Comments (3)

October 19th, 2009 | Written by: Jessica Knott

November 4, 5 and 6, Libraries Computing and Technology and the College of Art and Letters will be hosting a live EDUCAUSE 2009 Virtual Conference in 120 Linton Hall.  We have registered for this one location and have selected the presentations that will be shown, primarily focusing on topics for those of you interested in educational technology.

This online viewing and collaborative experience will give us an opportunity to network locally with colleagues who share similar interests while receiving a live broadcast from presenters at the national Educause event in Denver.  Local activities and discussion will be moderated by staff from Virtual University Design and Technology.

You may also want to consider participating in the Educause “Learning Commons” which kicks off with a pre-session event with Diana Oblinger on Tuesday October 27th, 1-2p.

Read more to see our local schedule, and hopefully mark your calendars to join us for some or all of the conference!

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| Tags: conference, educational technology, educause, events, faculty development, lms, social networking, Web Technology | Category: News and Events, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

October 11th, 2009 | Written by: Brendan Guenther

As announced by Byron Brown, the first in a series of presentations examining MSU’s LMS future.

Gerd Kortemeyer, Lyman Briggs College.  Course management system demonstration/discussion:  LON-CAPA.

NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY SESSION IN THE KOO ROOM OF MARSHALL-ADAMS HALL.

This will be the first presentation that is part of MSU’s search for a course management system that we can run in parallel with ANGEL.

Directions to the Koo Room: The Koo Room in Marshall-Adams Hall (home of the Economics Department) is located across from the Olin Health Center on East Circle Drive.  Park either behind Marshall-Adams Hall, or, better still, in the Grand River Avenue Ramp located next to Olin Health Center.  Exit at the Olin end of the ramp and cross the street to Marshall-Adams Hall.  It’s best to enter one of the rear building entrances because the Koo room is located in the rear (east side) of the building.

| Tags: brown bag, educational technology, lms, LON-CAPA, Web Technology | Category: News and Events, Teaching and Learning, Web Technology | Leave a comment

October 9th, 2009 | Written by: Brendan Guenther

MSU Virtual University Design and Technology (vuDAT) invites you to attend the next session in our ongoing Breakfast Series: Conversations on Online Pedagogy and Best Practices.

DATE: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

PLACE: MSU Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th floor, west wing

TIME: 8:45am – 10:00am (8:30am for refreshments)

TOPIC: Using Technology to Facilitate Communication, Connections and Content in an Online Course

PRESENTERS:

Carrie Albin

MSU College of Education

John Bell

MSU College of Education

OVERVIEW:

First place AT&T Award recipient CEP 810 integrates a custom-made portfolio system, calendaring system and assignment structuring rubrics that allow students to easily see what is due and whether they are meeting project requirements. These systems and other technology tools such as CheckDAT, Camtasia and Adobe Presenter integrate with ANGEL to provide a seamless student experience.

Highlights include:

* Custom developed portfolio system

* Rubrics

* Calendaring for assignment progress tracking

* CheckDAT

* Tutorials created in Camtasia

* Adobe Presenter presentations

* Tech labs

Join us as instructor Carrie Albin and portfolio system creator John Bell discuss the development of this blue ribbon course and how you can integrate some of their techniques into your online or blended offering.

| Tags: adobe presenter, angel, AT&T Award Winner, Breakfast Series, Camtasia, CheckDAT, educational technology, events, faculty development, Labs, online courses, Web Technology | Category: News and Events, Online Teaching, Teaching and Learning | Leave a comment