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Educause 2009

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 [...]

Brown Bag – October 9th, 2009

“Assessment in Online Courses – Part 2.”  This sequel to last week’s session will include a discussion of faculty needs for better assessment infrastructure support.
TIME:  Friday, October 9, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
PLACE:  Room 105 Natural Science Building.
Last week’s session on sharing assessment experiences in online classes drew a crowd of 39 people.  It [...]

Upcoming events in teaching and learning with technology

“Including Quality in Your Online Courses:  The ‘Quality Matters’ Program.”
TIME: Friday, September 25, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: 105 Natural Science Building.
The Quality Matters program was created a few years ago at the University of Maryland with support from the U.S. Department of Education, and it got tremendous play at conferences on online [...]

EduGeoProject.com: The MSU Geo Project is Complete

Thanks to an intense day of photography last weekend and a long week of editing photos, I have completed the first version of the MSU Geo Project. It contains over 250 images from the main portion of Michigan State University’s (MSU) campus. Each photo is geotagged with latitude, longitude, and altitude data, which allows software [...]

Follow-Up: Progress on Geotagging MSU Project

Last month, I wrote about my idea to geotag all of the buildings and other significant landmarks on MSU’s campus. My objective is to create an interactive, visual map of campus that can be shared through Google Earth. Thus far, I have taken over 90 images of approximately 50 campus locations. However, I still have [...]

Geotagging MSU

I recently upgraded to a Nikon D90 camera and with it, I purchased the GP-1 GPS unit. The GP-1 allows for geotagging, which is the process of writing geographical information, such as latitude, longitude, and altitude, into the meta data of a digital image. This information can be used to create interactive maps via software [...]