[Portfolio] [DG: Teaching & Learning] Conference Follow-up > Plans for This Week's Teaching and Learning Call

[Nate Angell]

During the Sakai Product Council meetings, we make great use of the
various versions of the original etherpad application, as they provide
a text backchannel AND a realtime collaborative document.

like:
http://typewith.me/
or
http://etherpad.org/etherpadsites.html

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On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Kenneth Robert Romeo
<kenro at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Would it be useful (and possible) to have a text back-channel for the weekly
> call going on meebo.com, Gtalk or something else?  That way we could
> probably be a little more organized about accommodating a larger number of
> people and have a text record of what went on there.  I am not sure what the
> pros/cons of the available services are.
> Of course, as Patrick Lynch pointed out at the conference, the really
> logical thing to do would be to use, um, Sakai for documenting what we are
> doing - resources, wiki, chat, forums, etc.
> Just an idea,
> Ken
> p.s.  And recording it to .mp3.  I use skype, so I'll try to get it recorded
> using Audacity running in the background, but it might be good if we had
> more than one attempt going, just in case.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Baron" <Josh.Baron at marist.edu>
> To: pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org, portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org,
> sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 10:08:36 AM
> Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Conference Follow-up > Plans for This
> Week's Teaching and Learning Call
>
> Greetings Exhausted Colleagues,
>
> WOW! That was my thought as I boarded my plane Friday and reflected on
> what was a tremendously exciting and eventful 11th international Sakai
> Conference. Of all of the great outcomes one of the most significant for
> me was evidence that our teaching and learning community has clearly
> grown over the years and now represents a large portion of those in
> attendance. Although I was not able to get to all of the T&L sessions
> the feedback I got from attendees was very positive, my thanks to
> everyone who contributed to this track and the Teaching with Sakai
> Innovation Awards this year.
>
> Given the range of teaching and learning topics and ideas that surfaced
> last week, I thought it might be useful to use the call this week to
> debrief a bit and discuss which of the many interesting conference
> outcomes we all want to focus on and put energy towards this coming
> year. At this point, there are at least three topics that have surfaced:
>
> (1) 2011 Teaching with Sakai Innovation Awards - Planning for next
> year's program
>
> (2) Sakai Learning Capabilities Design Lenses - Refining these and
> beginning to apply them to Sakai 3 work
>
> (3) Collaborating on Distance Learning Topics - There is growing
> interest to work together across institutions on training and other
> resources on this topic
>
> If you have other topics to discuss please let me know so that we can
> add them to the agenda and make sure we have time to discuss everything.
>
> What I would like to suggest is that we have some broad discussions on
> these topics so that we can map out, at a high level, what they are
> about and will entail. This will then help us decide how to best begin
> working on them. We may not be able to complete this discussion on one
> call so we may need to dedicate more time to fleshing these out.
>
> ** IMPORTANT ** > We are CHANGING THE TIME for the call this week to
> allow for greater international involvement. In particular, a group from
> Charles Sturt University in Australia who are also actively involved in
> Sakai 3 will be joining the call. Our new START TIME will be Wednesday,
> June 23rd 21:00 UCT or 5 PM EDT (2 PM local time in Los Angeles and 7
> AM, Thursday, local time in Sydney, AU). We will discuss the regular
> start time moving forward on the call.
>
> Dial in information is below and I will post a reminder on Wednesday.
>
> Thanks, Josh
>
> Calls are currently taking place every Wednesday at 5 PM ET (New York,
> USA). To participate:
>
> * Dial 1-888-447-7153 (International callers: 1-719-387-1138)
> * Enter in passcode: 917798 (the hit #)
> * Listen to music until "moderator" starts the call
> * Need help? Call tech support at 1-877-807-0970
>
>
> ----------------------------- Joshua Baron
> Director, Academic Technology and eLearning
> Marist College
> Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
> (845) 575-3623 (work)
> Twitter: JoshBaron
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