A couple of weeks ago, I was reflecting on something written about lectures when I paraphrased a definition/description of the lecture. I paraphrased it as...more...
I've just completed a presentation which included an experiment with some different technologies for lectures and a talk I gave at EDUCAUSE09. The slides, video and other related resources are available from the main presentation page....more...
This Wednesday I'm involved with an experiment and presentation that is seeking to test out some alternatives for lectures/presentations. As it happens, the last week has brought a couple of events that are (so far) helping the case for the experiment. These are described below....more...
In the next couple of weeks I'm going to be giving a presentation that will also serve as an experiment in alternate technologies for presentations. One of those technologies will be Votapedia.com - an Australian-based, free SMS/Web audience response system. This post is meant to capture the process I went through in learning about how to use Votapedia....more...
This post stores information about an experiment/presentation seeking to examine alternatives for both the lecture and the LMS. Information available below includes:...more...
As part of this project I'm looking at playing with "clickers" that work via the web, twitter, mobile phones or some other medium that removes the physical limitations of traditional devices (i.e. you have to be in the room with the lecturer)....more...
As part of the experiment in presentations I'm planning for later in this month involves the use of alternate types of clickers or audience response systems. The aim of this part of the experiment is two-fold:...more...
Sometime in the next month I have to develop the presentation I'll be giving at EDUCAUSE'09. The plan is to give this presentation at my host institution before EDUCAUSE and also to try some new technologies to make the spread of the presentation greater in terms of breadth and interaction. This is the start of some reflection and planning for that event....more...
In a previous post I outlined some broad ideas of how to understand "lectures". At the crux of it was an initial stab at a "taxonomy/framework" for understanding characteristics of lectures. In this initial stab there were three main dimensions: participants, physical space, and time. Each had some additional sub-points....more...
All the brilliant breakthroughs in modern medicine and in communication technologies have developed via this process. You only get this type of education in class. -- Professor Tor Hundloe...more...
A local Sunday paper had an article last Sunday titled "Is this the future of our universities?" and with a sub-heading of "Attending lectures is 'old school'. This post is a first attempt to gather some thoughts about how the whole thinking about lectures in universities, including the notions around e-lectures in articles like this, are just so 'old school'. So much so that what passes for "digital lectures" is pretty limited....more...
I've just been listening to this podcast of a keynote by Dr Phil Long. Apart from the content of the talk, this is interesting because Dr Long has just recently started work at the University of Queensland (which is just down the road from here) at the Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology....more...