Choosing which sessions & presentations to attend at a conference like EDUCAUSE is a bit like being led to a table for dinner set with 20 times more food than you can eat.
And each dish is hidden underneath a towel.
And written on the towel is only the broad food group that the meal underneath belongs to: Meat, Grain, Pudding — I’m pretty sure pudding is a food group, no?
And you aren’t really looking at the actual dishes, but a black & white photograph of them. [snip...]
Every presenter is required to deliver their talk in the persona of a dead rock star. This was Janis Joplin giving an in-depth summary on methods of digital lab security and monitoring. For the record, she advocates moving toward a “big brother” surveillance approach:
And this was a group of multi-media technologists, demonstrating the Guns N' Roses method of lecture capture:
As you can [snip...]
Dricker’s conference itinerary over the previous two days:
(I’ll be picking out a few sessions that particularly stand out to write about in more detail, but I didn’t want anyone to think all I was doing was napping or playing iPhone Labyrinth.)
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Well here’s what I know: He works for Dartmouth Curricular Computing as an Instructional Technologist. And clearly part of that job description is to be an awe-inspiring one-man blogging tornado. Clearly we will need to organize an Dartmouth Computing blog-off to test each other’s true mettle. Hint: he will win.
Anyway, he’s been at EDUCAUSE 08 all this week, too, and writing up his notes in the CC Blog. His posts are consistently attentive and detailed. & obviously the reason I still [snip...]
Is it fair to give iPhone (& little brother iPod touch) special treatment just because they’re cool?
Well, I bet you can guess where Apple stands on that question. They are clearly engaged in a serious push get their multi-touch mobile devices in the hands of as many students, teachers, and staff as possible.
At EDUCAUSE 08 Apple is quite present, which is not unusual, but what is interesting is that every scheduled Apple-run session implicitly (if not blatantly) tries to bootstrap the iPhone into whatever [snip...]
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