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TalkTech guest for Thursday – Joseph Ugoretz

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We are looking forward to our guest on Thursday, Joseph Ugoretz. He gave a great presentation at WordCamp 2009. His email signature follows:

Joseph Ugoretz, PhD
Director of Technology and Learning
William E. Macaulay Honors College (CUNY)
35 West 67th St.
New York, NY 10023
http://macaulay.cuny.edu

At WordCamp, he spoke articulately and passionately about the use of WordPress as an ePortfolio system at Macaulay. Check them out here http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/

Vassar’s current ePortfolio system is more traditional product that the college leases. I was impressed by the model at Macaulay where students ccan use WordPress to document their work as part and parcel of their experiences as undergraduates. Instead of the ePortfolio being something you suddenly undertake as you enter the job market, it could be something that is built into your experience year to year. This seems like an excellent way for students to share their work.

Dec. 10th TalkTech Preliminary Links

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Since I’m continually behind schedule regarding posting links after the show, I’m employing a new strategy of posting links beforehand. Sorry for the “notes-ey” quality of this post. These are literally my notes.

We have a special guest today, Dr. Mikhail Gershovich, who works for Baruch College, which part of CUNY.
He is the director of the Bernard L Schwartz Communication Institute, Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum

Some of these fine sites from CUNY may be part of our discussion:
CUNY WordPress Applications
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/fro/guide-to-blogging-for-freshmen/
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/fro/
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/all-the-eportfolios/
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/showcase/

Big TalkTech
AT&T dissuade data users
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/companies/10iphone.html?ref=technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/technology/internet/07cities.html
Opening up of data sets

Google Apps leads in University Emailhttp://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/appsatschool.html#utm_campaign=gonegoogleuni&utm_medium=oa&utm_source=en-oa-na-us-gonegoogleuni-chronicle-it&utm_term=chronicle-it-CPCC

PICKS
Social GO –
http://www.socialgo.com/
cable freedeom

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?em
Talk Tech in Social Netorking:

Facebook Rolls Out New Privacy Settings
Facebook Sting
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Untagged-or-Under-Arrest-/9103/?sid=wc

Faux Friendship
http://chronicle.com/article/Faux-Friendship/49308/

Edu Tech
Computer Labs on the wane
http://chronicle.com/article/Computer-Labs-Get-Rebooted-as/49323/

Lost University Opens
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Lost-U-New-Multimedia-Web/9126/

Online School going underhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/Online-University-Struggling/9148/

Mobile Tech
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/technology/06apps.html?bl

Music / Entertainment:
Cable freedom
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?em
Guy Finishes WoW
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10613422

Literacy class employs WordPress and Social Networking

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I attended a presentation this week in an Education class where several Vassar students presented how WordPress sites could be to augment the educational experience.
The links:
http://pages.vassar.edu/elcunningham/
http://pages.vassar.edu/niengelhardt/
http://education-through-discussion.socialgo.com/
http://pages.vassar.edu/sajones/

Write!
http://pages.vassar.edu/elcunningham/
Blogs to encourage writing workshops for students.

Every Day Biology
http://pages.vassar.edu/niengelhardt/

Goals:

  • increase vocabulary
  • increase concept mastery and confidence in subject
  • increase parent child interaction
  • break out of teaching to the test
  • documentation

Challenges:

  • comments weren’t searchable – impeded the dictionary
  • evaluating sources – not covered, assumed


Education Through Discussion Christopher Doscher
http://education-through-discussion.socialgo.com/
Facebook for education
supports video chat

Ethical Issues in Science
 http://pages.vassar.edu/sajones/
Samantha Jones
Students are using internet and computers at home, when they come to school and work on non-networked computers it isn’t as relevant, nearly everyone is on facebook, teachers don’t know what facebook is.
Incorporating new technologies into the class day would connect home and school life
The blog can spark that connection.
The goal was to integrate science, technology, literacy and ethical issues.

Discussion:
How do you think wordpress could be used to improve the Vassar writing program or the experience at Vassar?
Great to make cross disciplinary connections and to archive work (eportfolios), open up the discussion past the “make a post about this topic” in Moodle or blackboard.

Epilogue:

It would have been great if the class had gotten this far halfway through the semester so they could put their theories to the test. It was time well spent and everyone in the class has a greater portfolio of technology tools to dip into should they become teachers.