Path – Mobile social networking
http://www.path.com
Ingress – Google’s Alternate Reality Game
http://www.ingress.com
MentorMob – Curate playlists
http://www.mentormob.com
Popcorn Maker – Mozilla’s new content creation thang
https://popcorn.webmaker.org/
Self-Check
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGhaTlZsWVNoeVd3YkRUU3Z0bnBjUVE6MA#gid=0
DoLookDown
http://dolookdown.org
Join colleagues from across the district for an Epic 24 Hour EdTech Jam. Pick an edtech project that you’ve never been able to find the time for – learn a new tool or technology, convert an onground course to hybrid or online, create audio/video lessons or OER resources – and commit to working it out in an all night grueling marathon of innovation, creativity, and productivity. Embrace adversity!
November 2 – 3, noon to noon NONSTOP
FLC Innovation Center (FL1-130)
Wear comfortable clothes.
Bring your own device.*
Come prepared to work on a weighty project.
If you need Zack’s help with anything, let him know ahead of time – he’ll try and help you out.
*A limited number of desktops/laptops/netbooks will be available, if you don’t have your own.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whawicjQdSDh1ohWF4-CDnSrrpkjfFtnpc6632vGBvg/edit
QR Code Generator – http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hunterd/zombie-based-learning-geography-taught-in-zombie-a
https://www.zombiesrungame.com/
Dan Ross and I are co-advisers of the newly-chartered FLC Robotics Club. It’s a long story, but the club met today, and we got the Parallax Quadrover working. Nice.
I got the blog up and running for a new project that Jason Pittman (Geosciences) and I are working on.
http://dolookdown.org and @DoLookDown on Twitter
The project will help FLC students develop technical geospatial analysis skills and learn contemporary applications of geospatial imaging, and the images will be used for spatial analysis; evaluating landscape changes, hazard analyses, and investigating rural and urban development.
Thanks to LRCA for having me out to speak!
Link to the presention (CC BY-NC-SA): http://prezi.com/ty7smcrvex0b/trends-in-ed-tech-lrca-spring-2012/
Research citations:
Mobile Access 2010 – Pew Internet, July 2010
Teens and Mobile Phones – Pew Internet, April 2010
Project Tomorrow – Speak Up 2010 Report
Mark your calendars for April 19th at 3PM PST for a live hangout with our colleagues from the Program for Online Teaching. Details to follow.
Join the Program for Online Teaching Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101863643236562/
What technologies our students use, own and want.
LRCCD Student Communication Survey 2011 – Executive Summary : EdTech2011_ExecSummary
Frequency distributions – All LRCCD: LRCCD_FREQ_EDTech2011
Frequency distributions – FLC: FLC_FREQ_EDTech2012
Frequency distribution by college, in case you want to see how our sister colleges compare (Note – This link will only work from “inside” the network): http://irweb.losrios.edu/do_esearch/EDTech_CommunicationsSurvey_2012/CommunicationsSurvey2012_cover.htm
The Flipped Classroom infographic: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com
Smithsonian 3D Initiative: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57384166-52/smithsonian-turns-to-3d-to-bring-collection-to-the-world/
Quadrotor Swarm: http://youtu.be/YQIMGV5vtd4
Great first meeting of the semester! Here are links to the various things we discussed:
D2L Text/Email Notifications – http://d2lresources.losrios.edu/welcome/news–home-page/notifications
D2L Intelligent Agents – Intelligent Agents Information Sheet v9
Remind 101 (send texts to students) – http://www.remind101.com
Library Pilots
Embedded Librarian – http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6317224.html
Bolt-on library modules for import into LMS courses
On-demand synchronous librarian presence in online courses
Mira Costa Program in Online Teaching (POT) – http://www.pedagogyfirst.org
The plan is to join this MOOC and associated network as a cohort. The syllabus is here.
The initial task is to create a blog (for recording observations and posting responses to the various prompts and activities). You can use http://blogger.com or http://wordpress.com or http://tumblr.com or http://posterous.com. Then register that blog at pedagogyfirst.org and tag all related posts #potcert11
-Zack
MOOCs are gaining traction in EdTech circles. Here’s a brief from Educause:
