Emerging Technologies Consulting

Building your Personal Brand Online
Drexel University, July 29, 2009

This workshop, hosted by the Career Services Department, covered ways that students can develop a professional online profile.  We explored Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and other resources for building an online profile.  We also discussed strategies for networking with people through these online venues.

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Beyond Fear 2.0 with Leslie Madsen-Brooks and Barbara Sawhill
New Media Consortium Summer Conference, June 12, 2009

We led a conversation about how to manage student, faculty and institutional fear surrounding web 2.0 technologies.  We discussed what fears were out there and how different institutions and individuals were moving past those fears.

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Fear 2.0 and Language Learning, with Barbara Sawhill and Ryan Brazell, IALLT 2009, May 28, 2009

I created a video for this presentation, which I attended virtually. The idea behind the video was to spark conversation and lead into the discussion that Barbara and Ryan facilitated.

My video:

Video of the actual presentation:

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Any Moron Can Write a Blog
University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy, May 12-15, 2009

In this presentation, I discussed how blogs and wikis were challenging the monopoly of peer review.  Students, when faced with a myriad array of choices, often go with what is easiest.  I discussed how faculty can take advantage of the availability of good academic blogs and use blog writing as a way for students to engage topics more critically and deeply.  I also showed examples of collaborative writing taking place on wikis and explained how that kind of collaborative work can enhance critical thinking and cooperative skills.

Original Prezi
Video of actual presentation

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Building a Personal Learning Network
University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy, May 12-15, 2009

This hands-on workshop explored different tools for building a learning network, one that includes access to resources and people that can help you advance your research or your learning.

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Doing the Limbo: Navigating the Space in Between with Barbara Ganley and Nancy White
Northern Voice 2009, February 18-22, 2009

In this presentation, Nancy, Barbara and I discussed the opportunities and challenges of building relationships on and offline and bridging those two worlds.  Increasingly, we are all maintaining networks online with people we know offline.  Virtual tools can facilitate the building of those relationships, but we need to make sure we create connections and not distance through the use of those tools.

My video for the introduction:

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Social Software in Education, Gettysburg College, January 20, 2009

This day-long workshop sponsored by NITLE explored a wide variety of social tools that can benefit learning in higher education.  We looked at blogs (both reading and writing), wikis, Flickr, YouTube, social bookmarking, Twitter, and more.  We discussed the best practices of these tools in a variety of disciplines.