Missing the FUSION 2008 Conference? You can Hitchhike instead.

Posted by Audrey Williams on June 27th 2008 to D2L, blogging, faculty, instructional technology, online learning, online teaching, teaching, web 2.0

If you are not able to go to the FUSION 2008: Desire2Learn Users Conference next month, here’s something to consider.

There is a Hitchhikr site created now.

Hitchhikr, you say? What is that?

From their site:

we can’t always make it to the conferences we need to attend to mix with the people we need to see — face-to-face. This is why Hitchhikr was invented, to provide you with a virtual space where, thanks to blogs, podcasts, and RSS, we can connect, share, respond, and grow knowledge out beyond the place and time of the event. Here are some tutorials on how to tap into the emerging technologies that make Hitchhikr possible.

So, you can visit the page and see all of the blog postings, images, YouTube videos, etc as folks are at the conference and share what they are seeing and learning in a variety of ways.

Could be a fun experiment!!!

Photo attribution: Next Stop the top by lo2

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Respondus will soon offer “streamlined” integration with D2L

Posted by Audrey Williams on June 27th 2008 to faculty, instructional technology, online teaching

We were so happy to read the latest Respondus Update and see this article:

Respondus Update

In an update that will be released soon, Respondus will be more tightly integrated with Desire2Learn so you can upload your quizzes directly to your courses as well as “pull” them out of D2L for editing, exporting, etc.

Yay! That is great news!!!

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Some more Summer Goodness

Posted by Audrey Williams on June 02nd 2008 to faculty, instructional technology, online learning, online teaching, teaching, web 2.0

Something to add to your summer reading list:

The second edition of Terry Anderson’s Theory and Practice of Online Learning (yes, youc can download the entire book for free – props to Terry for offering this option – entire book in .pdf). The book is also available for purchase. Anderson is a professor and Canada Research
Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University. Topics include

  • social media,
  • philosophies of technology,
  • mobile learning,
  • cost decisions about technology,
  • libraries,
  • learner support
  • and more.

Also, the great folks at the Common Craft Show have posted another “In Plain English” video. This time, they cover Social Media. If you are curious about all this fuss you hear about social media, student created content, etc…spend 4 minutes to get a really great and easy to follow understanding of what Social Media is all about.

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

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