Academic Technology Reads--must have!

Hello,

As you are putting together some interesting reading for the academic year, might I suggest a few books I read (am reading) over the summer and past spring? Can't say as I have read a fiction book in years, except Harry Potter books! The recent Harry Potter movie was great too!

--The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. Curtis Bonk
--Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, home, and School. John Medina
--iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind. Gary Small
--Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation. Don Tapscott
--Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and more Miserable than ever before. Jean Twenge
--A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the World/Future. Daniel Pink
--Five Minds for the Future. Howard Gardner
--Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation will Change the way the World Learns. Clayton Christensen, Curtis Johnson and Michael Horn

The majority of these books are available for check-out through the Hennepin County Library System. I currently am working my way through Generation Me and Growing up Digital, courtesy of the library system. Some of them, I just had to buy too! Disrupting Class is amazing. I wanted to bury myself in that book! Generation Me is great and it really helped me understand students point of view and even my own views on why technology should be free.

Just some light reading for you! Enjoy!

eFolio World Newsletter

Here is the summer edition to the eFolio World news. Hope to see you at the conference in August.

EAT IT 09 New Media Conference

The schedule is posted and the conference is on. EATIT 09 Emerging Technologies. Looks to be a good session. August 12 & 13. See you there.

Faculty Development Day Presentations

August 20, 2009, 11:00 am and 2:00 pm two sessions on eFolio and Peer Review. CBT 167.
These are hands-on classes. Bring materials you may want to upload to your eFolio.

EFolio: eFolioMinnesota is a free resource for Minnesota residents, students, and workers provided by the Minnesota State College and University system. Many institutions are having students create portfolios of their work throughout their program of study. Use eFolio for professional development or student competency tracking. Migrate your current EFolio account to the new and improved EFolio too. In this session, we will briefly get you started with a new eFolio account or migrate your account.
eFolio should be in a computer lab.

Peer Review: Teaching online is different than teaching in the regular classroom. A group of NHCC faculty and Online Learning staff adapted the Quality Matters rubric to the working culture of NHCC. In this session, you will learn about Quality Matters, the process to get your online course Peer Reviewed, and the best practices behind having a Quality Matters program at NHCC. See the latest Quality Matters rubric and test drive it for yourself.

eFolio Summit August 5 & 6

The deadline for registering to attend the August 5 & 6 or just 6, 2009 eFolio Summit training is rapidly approaching. July 24 is the deadline. Join me in learning about the new eFolio Minnesota!

Using Google Docs Training

Using Google Apps for Colleges and Universities training session August 6.
** Goggle Docs Essentials: Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms & More
** Tools to Create, Edit, Publish, & Share Your Google Docs
** Using Google Templates- Fast & Easy Ways to Enhance Your Docs
** Drawbacks to Google@School- Limitations & Lessons Learned

D2L Conference Starts today

The Desire2Learn, D2L, conference is July 13-15 at the St. Paul River Center. We are so fortunate to have this event here! Join me at a session I am presenting on Tuesday at 8:30 am.