eLearning Conference--Featured Presentation "For Who Hath Despised the Day of Small Things"

Jim Groom, Instructional Technologist, University of Mary Washington

"Students lives are somewhere else." "They have digital lives before and will have after the attend class"

Examples of using free tools/open resource in schools:
NC State on Twitter

Khan University (using Youtube)

MOC (Massive Online Course) aggregated, blog, write "Commune"

RSS Syndication-Oriented Architecture (Feed-Frenzied Learning) Seamless Sharing

Sitewide Tag Pages Plugin (FeedWordPress Plugin) Allows do work in own space, pulls into course blog (Blog in own space--aggregating with tag and then it comes to determined site to (umw.blog)

Currator function in flickr (project where they pulled pictures of flowers used by ??HD in poems)

Zach Whalen uses droggle?

UMW Blogs is first and foremost an educational publishing platform

Follow conference on Twitter: #ITC10

"Triangulating learning in and out of the course classroom/institution/world"

Electronic Portfolios through UMW Sites: Department Sites, Professional Sites, Student sites, Student Portfolios, Club ands Organizations, Presentations

"Universities need new ways of sharing"

http://chronicle.com/article/Blogs-Instead-of-Blackboard/44412/

"Domain one's own" based off of Virgina Wolf's "A Room of One's Own" The work you do in your own space, you'll take pride in and have respect for, a sense of consitancy" (And can keep moving out to continue transformation)

Prof. Jeff McClurken's Mapped Domain (project based class) His information is like blog within blog. History 101 under Jeff McClucken.org History 102 under same .org

Buy a domain for a dollar? Worked a deal for $10 a month for 4 months

Then you can have that go with you. "LIFE LONG LEARNING"

"If you dream it or will it, it is no dream"

Bring it back to the community--alumni. How do you know what they are doing after they leave?

Digital Storytelling--Jim Groom (Student doing the Lost "Extra" story) . Chasinglilly.net (suggest that he continue the writing of the story after it ends)

He starts with what get a space. Remember your space reflects YOU. Do what the web was made to do, get obsessed about something and the DO (and reflect).

A resource that isn't going to "DIE" after 15 weeks. Makes you think about pedagogy and course differently.

"We don’t need to own and control their data. What we need to do is to manage the flow as it comes into our space and leaves"

"Generative Effect of Sharing"

"Crazy Google Juice" Power in community

Word Press Multi User

"Reimagine Collaboration"

"Mobile-Revolution Preparedness"

We can Do without having to be a programer because we AREN'T

"We're at a moment in history where we can reimagine relationships"

Depends on each of us to work together to "reimagine eduction".

Will stream presentation and acces through ITC site.

Network effects. We have power. Remain excited.