Inventive Uses of Media and Tools in Online Learning

A wide range of media and tools are being designed and deployed in online education with varying degrees of success. This group seeks to explore effective emerging technologies that improve instruction and learning and increase satisfaction among students and faculty.


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This track is chaired by:

San Jose State University LogoJeremy Kemp - Login to see Biography
Full-time Lecturer
Second Life Director
San Jose State University
School of Library and Information Science

New Mexico State UniversityBethany Bovard - Login to see Biography
Instructional Designer;
Adjunct Faculty
New Mexico State University
College of Extended Learning

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Blocking Spam in Forum Discussions

We had a spam attack earlier this morning on this website. If you are subscribed to the "Inventive Uses of Media" group, you probably received the email with about 100 links. Please don't click on any of those links! This may be pertinent to the symposium though, especially if you are interested in utilizing web 2.0 functionality on your campus websites and bringing in larger communities to participate in online discussions.

Guerilla video techniques with big impact

Back in the old days (say 2001) it was very expensive to create instructional video.

iPod Touch: Web Instructional video Goes Mobile

iPod Touch: Cheap web video, browsing and apps.

Mashups coming quickly

A new class at Stanford teaches the underlying concepts that make Facebook applications engaging: http://captology.stanford.edu/facebook/overview.html

Virtual Worlds Conference headlines

Several announcements came out of this week's Virtual Worlds Conference which closed today in San Jose.

Helpful resource for Second Life Presentations

Kathleen Ives, Events Producer for Sloan-C, pointed me to this helpful resource that may help provide some references for presentations that are pertaining to the popular Second Life virtual world.

What is the latest research on podcasting?

Podcasting has been around for a couple years now. Is there any clear research that shows if it can help improve learning outcomes? IF not, perhaps people could share their own experiences and we could tie it into a discussion about how you would do this research.