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- Lighting Rounds
- Academic Technology Roundtable
- Camtasia Relay, Collaborate, and Bb Learn Voice
- Google is Not God, But She Does Have Nice Apps
- The Mobile Learning Initiative at Boise State
- Lecture Capture at Portland State University
- Live to Internet Video Production
- LMS Analytics – Student Academic Success
- The Path From LMS to Learning Platform
- The Student Technology Center Revisited
- Is your Technology Accessible: Issues and Implications for Higher Ed
- Next LMS Steps
- Simple Augmented Reality
- Digital Conversion and the Analog Sunset
- Lecture Capture Deployment for Higher Education
- Lecture Capture on a Budget Providing Service without the Embedded Infrastructure
- Using Student Interest Groups to Develop, Explore and Test New Technologies
- Lessons Learned Planning and Building an Experiential Collaborative Computing and Technology Center
- The Future of Video Conferencing
Technology’s Impact on Education
June 13th, 2013Here is a recent infographic I came across on edudemic.
Source: http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/how-technology-is-impacting-education/
Call for Submissions – The Journal of Applied Instructional Design
June 6th, 2013Call for Submissions
The Journal of Applied Instructional Design
The Journal of Applied Instructional Design (JAID) is a refereed online journal designed for the publication of scholarly articles in the field of applied Instructional Design. The purpose of JAID is to provide the reflective ID scholar-practitioners and researchers a means for publishing articles on the nature and practice of ID that will support the innovation and growth of our knowledge base. The journal is for practitioners, instructors, students and researchers of instructional design.
Call for Submissions
JAID is for reflective scholar-practitioners, who through documentation of their practice in ID, make significant contributions to the knowledge of our field. Authors are invited to submit articles documenting new or revised approaches to ID; the processes of ID including in-depth documentation of analysis, design and development, implementation and evaluation; design-based research; as well as applied research. Articles must be based on instructional design projects as opposed to pure research projects and focus on documented processes, lessons learned and how to improve the overall process of ID. Articles must be grounded in research and theory connecting the intellectual foundations of the ID field and how these foundations shape its practice.
The journal will establish and maintain a scholarly standard with the appropriate rigor for articles based on design and development projects. A secondary goal of this journal is to encourage and nurture the development of the reflective practitioner in the field of ID. This journal encourages the practitioner as well as collaborations between academics and practitioners as a means of disseminating and developing new ideas in ID. The resulting articles should inform both the study and practice of ID.
Submission Guidelines
Articles must be submitted electronically at Leslie.Moller@Waldenu.edu. Please put JAID –Article in subject line
The journal will focus on in depth applications of the ID process and publish a variety of articles including case studies of the ID process; application articles that go beyond a mere how-to approach that provide implementation insights, guidance and evaluation of a process; evaluation articles that focus on the viability of a product or process; applied research resulting from evaluation of materials, studies of project implementation, articles on ways to improve the ID process from the perspective of the practitioner, and short essays that provide a scholarly debate of relevant issues related to the application of ID and relevant book reviews. When applicable, articles should include supplementary materials including examples of ID products, evaluation instruments, media files and design artifacts.
The articles in the journal will be from the perspective of the scholar-practitioner rather than from the researcher. However, the manuscripts must demonstrate scholarly rigor appropriate to applied manuscripts.
Articles, including tables or figures, must follow APA 6th edition formatting and be submitted in a word or doc format using at least 12 point New Times Roman font. Each article must have an abstract (75-100 words) and a list of key words. While there is some flexibility in the length of an article, 2,000 to 4,000 words is a best guess estimate. If in doubt, contact the editor prior to submitting the article. Identifying information must only be located on the cover page including contact information for the first author.
You may contact the editor, via email, if you have further questions – Leslie.Moller@Waldenu.edu please use JAID – Question in subject line
Internet Trends
May 30th, 2013from my inbox,
Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences
May 9th, 2013From my inbox,
Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences 2013 (and part of 2014)
Original list prepared by Clayton R. Wright, November 12, 2012. I shortened it listing conferences that interest me.
JANUARY 2013
January 24-25, 2013
e-Learning Symposium, 8th annual, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/
January 25-27, 2013
Educon 2.4, EduCon is both a conversation and a conference about education and technology. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
http://educon24.org/
January 29-30, 2013
Learning Technologies 2013, 14th, Olympia 2, London, UK.
http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/
January 29-February 1, 2013
Australasian Computing Education Conference, 15th, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. http://www.opvclt.monash.edu.au/conferences/ace2013/
January 30-February 1, 2013
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) TechKnowledge, San Jose, California, USA. http://www.astd.org/Events/TechKnowledge
FEBRUARY 2013
February 4-6, 2013
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2013, online and Denver, Colorado, USA.
http://www.educause.edu/eli/events
February 5, 2013
E-Learning Symposium, hosted by the E-Learning Council, Houston, Texas, USA.
http://www.elearningcouncil.com/
February 12-14, 2013
EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference, online and Austin, Texas, USA.
http://www.educause.edu/conferences-events/regional-conferences
February 13-15, 2013
Canada MoodleMoot: From Coding to Networking – Building Moodle on a Human Scale, sponsored by BCcampus, Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33
February 17-20, 2013
eLearning, organized by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), Hyatt Regency San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.itcnetwork.org/
February 21-22, 2013
eLearning Instructional Design: Best Practices, Tips and Techniques, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
February 27-28, 2013
International Conference on Education and Educational Technology, sponsored by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET),Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.waset.org/conferences2.php
MARCH 2013
March 6-7, 2013
E-Learning Summit, 3rd, Sydney, Australia.
http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/e-learning-summit
March 6-8, 2013
New Learning Technologies Conference, organized by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), Caribe Royale Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA.
http://www.salt.org
March 8-17, 2013
South by Southwest (SXSW – Music, Film, Interactive), 27th, Austin, Texas, USA.
http://sxsw.com
March 18-20, 2013
EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
http://www.educause.edu/conferences-events/regional-conferences
March 26-27, 2013
Open Educational Resources (OER13): Creating a Virtuous Circle, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. http://www.oer13.org
March 27-29, 2013
The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/2013/index.htm
March 28-29, 2013
Scholarship of Teaching and Engagement (SoTE) Conference, Orem, Utah, USA. http://www.uvu.edu/facultycenter/sote/index.html
APRIL 2013
April 9-11, 2013
Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium, 6th annual, organized by Sloan Consortium and MERLOT, Planet Hollywood Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
http://sloanconsortium.org/conference/2013/et4online/welcome or http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
April 12-17, 2013
International Performance Improvement (ISPI) Conference: Many Approaches – Discover What Works, 51st, Reno, Nevada, USA.
http://www.ispi.org
April 14-16, 2013
Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Annual Conference, 87th annual, InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html
April 27-May 1, 2013
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Education and Poverty – Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis, San Francisco, California, USA.
http://www.aera.net
April 27-May 2, 2013
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI): Changing Perspectives, 32nd, sponsored by ACM SUGGHI, Paris, France.
http://chi2013.acm.org/
April 28-May 1, 2013
United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) National Conference, 6th, location to be announced, USA. http://www.usdla.org/2013-usdla-national-conference/
MAY 2013
May 15-16, 2013
International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2013/amsterdam/ichci/
May 19-21, 2013
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Academy: Collaborative Engagement, 5th, annual, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
http://www.gvsu.edu/stla/
May 19-22, 2013
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Conference and Exposition, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://www.astd.org/content/conferences/
May 21-23, 2013
Thinking Digital: Technology, Ideas and Our Future, 6th, The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, UK.
http://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk/
May 22-24, 2013
Innovations in Online Learning, 9th, Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
http://iolconference.org/ or http://iolconference2013.eventbrite.com/#
May 14-16, 2013
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), 7th, organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-772.html
JUNE 2013
June 2-5, 2013
Distance Learning Administration, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/dla/
June 3-6, 2013
Emerging Media Conference (EmMeCon), Seattle, Washington, USA.
http://wappow.com/emerging-media/
June 4-7, 2013
New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA.
http://www.nmc.org/events/2013-summer-conference
June 5-7, 2013
European Association for Distance Learning (EADL), 29th, Hamburg, Germany.
http://www.eadl.org/
June 7, 2013
Emerging Learning Design: Learning as Disruption, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA. http://eld.montclair.edu
June 12, 2013
E-Learning Symposium, hosted by the E-Learning Council, Austin, Texas, USA.
http://www.elearningcouncil.com
June 12-14, 2013
International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), 6th annual, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA.
http://www.icelw.org
June 12-15, 2013
European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Annual Conference: The Joy of Learning – Enhancing Learning Experience and Quality, 22nd, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
http://www.eden-online.org
June 15-19, 2013
International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 10th, sponsored by the International Society of the Learning Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
http://www.isls.org
June 20-22, 2013
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE): Learning to Live, Learning for Life, 33rd, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
http://www.stlhe.ca/conferences-events/stlhe-annual-conference/
June 21-24, 2013
Emerging Technologies Forum organized by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), San Antonio, Texas. USA.
http://setda.org/web/guest/events
June 23-26, 2013
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), San Antonio, Texas, USA.
http://www.iste.org/conferences/iste-conference
June 24-28, 2013
ED-MEDIA 2013: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
http://aace.org/conf/
June 27-28, 2013
International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL), 8th, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. http://academic-conferences.org/icel/icel2013/icel13-home.htm
June 29-July 2, 2013
International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 6th biennial, Munich, Germany.
http://www.ct2013.cnss.de
June 13-14, 2013
Supported Online Learning for Students Using Technology for Information and Communication in Their Education (SOLSTICE) eLearning and Centre for Learning and Teaching Research (CLTR) Teaching and Learning Conference: Enhancing Learning, Teaching and Student Success, Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK.
http://ehu.ac.uk/sol2012
June 13-15, 2013
Online Teaching Conference: The Many Faces of Online Teaching, Evergreen College, San Jose, California, USA. http://www.onlineteachingconference.org
June 26-27, 2012
Social Media in Higher Education Conference, 2nd, Sydney, Australia. http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/social-media-in-higher-education-conference
JULYE 2013
July 8-9, 2013
Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop, 10th annual, Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
http://sloanconsortium.org/blended
July 8-11, 2013
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 7th, organized by Microsoft Research, the MIT Media Lab, and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
http://www.icwsm.org/2013/
AUGUST 2013
August 5-7, 2013
College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA.
http://www.cluteinstitute.com
August 7-9, 2013
Distance Teaching and Learning, 29th annual, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/
August 15-16, 2013
Collaborative and Social Learning: Best Practices for Learning with Others, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online.
http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
August 26-27, 2013
International Conference on Education and e-Learning (EeL), 3rd, Singapore.
http://e-learningedu.org
August 27-30, 2013
International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2013), 15th, Munich, Germany.
http://www.mobilehci2013.org
August 27-31, 2013
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction: Responsible Teaching and Sustainable Learning, Munich, Germany, 15th, biennial, http://www.earli.org/conferences/EARLI_Biennial_Conferences/Future_Biennial_Conferences
SEPTEMBER 2013
September 2-6, 2013
Interact Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2013: Designing for Diversity, 14th International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.interact2013.org/Home
September 10-12, 2013
International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT-C 2013): Building New Cultures of Learning, 20th, Nottingham, UK.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2013
September 10-13, 2013
European Conference on Educational Research, Bahçe?ehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
http://www.eera-ecer.eu/
September 11-13, 2013
Designs on E-Learning International Conference, 9th, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. http://www.designsonelearning.net/, http://uncw.edu/ or c.webb@arts.ac.uk
September 19-20, 2013
mLearning: Tips and Techniques for Planning, Analysis and Design, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
September 23-25, 2013
International Conference on e-Learning and e-Technologies in Education (ICEEE), 2nd, Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/iceee2013/
September 26-27, 2013
European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning (EFQUEL) Innovation Forum: Learning for Open Innovation, Barcelona, Spain. http://efquel.org/
OCTOBER 2013
October 2-6, 2013
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Le Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
http://www.asist.org/conferences.html
October 7-10, 2013
World Congress on Access to Postsecondary Education: Connecting the Unconnected, 1st, initiated by the European Access Network (EAN), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
http://www.ean-edu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205:world-congress-2013&catid=41:future&Itemid=91 or www.eanworldcongress.org
October 13-15, 2013
Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Fall Workshop, The Windsor Court Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html
October 15-18, 2013
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, also offered online, Anaheim, California, USA.
http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=1352&bhcp=1
October 16-18, 2013
International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference, 25th, hosted by Tianjin Open University, Tianjin, China.
http://icde.org/
October 21-25, 2013
E-Learn: World Conference on e-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
http://www.aace.org/conf/
October 23-25, 2013
DevLearn, sponsored by the e-Learning Guild, Aria Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.24#more
November 2013
November 14-16, 2013
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Hyatt at the Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
http://www.ashe.ws
November 19-22, 2013
California Educational Technology Professionals Association (CETPA), 53rd, Pasadena, California, USA.
http://www.cetpa-k12.org
November 20-22, 2013
Sloan Consortium Online Learning, 19th annual, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.
http://sloanconsortium.org/aln
December 2013
December 12-13, 2013
Graphics and Animations for eLearning: Best Practices, Tips and Techniques, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online.
http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
March 2014
March 7-9, 2014
T3 – Teachers Teaching with Technology International Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.t3ww.org/ or http://education.ti.com/calculators/pd/US/International/About#2013
March 17-21, 2014
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) 25th, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
http://site.aace.org/conf/
March 19-21, 2014
Learning Solutions Conference and Expo, organized by the eLearning Guild, Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA.
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/content/1408/
March 30-April 2, 2014
Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Annual Conference and Exhibition, 43rd, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA.
http://www.acuta.org
April 2014
April 3-7, 2014
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
http://www.aera.net/
April 6-8, 2014
Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Annual Conference, 88th annual, Hammock Beach Resort, Hammock Beach, Florida, USA.
http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html
April ? 2014
Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ). The previous conference was held April 11-13, 2012 in Wellington, New Zealand.
http://www.deanz.org.nz/home/index.php/deanz-conference-2012
June 2014
June ? 2014
International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, biennial. Last held June 18-20, 2012 in Aarhus, Denmark.
http://www.catacconference.org/
June? 2014
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), biennial. Last held June 25-29, 2012 at Newcastle, United Kingdom, http://www.dis2012.org/
September 2014
September 30-October 2, 2014
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, also offered online, Orlando, Florida, USA.
http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=1352&bhcp=1
November 2014
November 18-21, 2014
California Educational Technology Professionals Association (CETPA), 54th, Sacramento, California, USA. http://cetpa.net/pub/htdocs/calendar.html
November 20-22, 2014
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, USA.
http://www.ashe.ws
8 Lessons Learned from Teaching Online
May 6th, 2013Here is a project that Joni Dunlap and I worked on while at EDUCAUSE ELI.
You can see the original page about the project on EDUCAUSE Review Online.
Problems Measuring Social Presence in a Community of Inquiry
April 28th, 2013
Our paper can be downloaded at: http://patricklowenthal.com/research/problems-measuring-social-presence-in-a-community-of-inquiry/
Call for Chapters – Online Learning: Common Misconceptions, Benefits, and Challenges
April 24th, 2013Call for Chapters
Online Learning: Common Misconceptions, Benefits, and Challenges
Editors: Patrick Lowenthal, Cindy York, and Jennifer Richardson
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
The deadline for abstracts outlining what you want to contribute is May 5, 2013 and for the completed chapter is July 1, 2013.
Possible areas to be addressed include but are not limited to the following:
• Academic honesty and online learning
• Lurking and student engagement
• Benefits of MOOCs
• The future of MOOCs
• Limitations of MOOCs
• Online learning and class size
• Informal Learning
• Moving beyond learning styles
• Challenges of K12 online learning
• Critical thinking and online learning
• Challenges communicating in online learning environments
• Benefits of synchronous communication
• Limitations of asynchronous threaded discussions
• Assessing asynchronous threaded discussions
• Learning analytics and student performance
• Evaluating online learning
• Mobile computing and online learning
• The role of the teacher
• Instructor workload teaching online
• Assessing student learning
• Online Professional development
• Attrition and online learning
• The future of online learning
• Open educational resources
• Personal learning networks
• Social media and online learning
• Constraints of learning management systems
For consideration to be included in this edited book, please send a 250 – 500 word abstract and a brief bio to patricklowenthal@boisestate.edu.
Send any questions to Patrick Lowenthal (patricklowenthal@boisestate.edu).
Notes from the editors: The contributions for this edited book are intended to range from 3,000 – 5,000 words. This is not a peer-reviewed book. Even if your abstract is accepted, there are no guarantees that your final chapter will be accepted. Finally, please be aware of the aggressive timeline for both the abstract and the final chapter.
Here is a PDF version of the Call for Chapters
Serif vs. Sans Serif [Infographic]
March 21st, 2013I love infograhics. This is one a student shared with me recently!

For free fonts and dingbats, check UrbanFonts.com
Recordings from the 2012 Northwest Managers of Educational Technology (NW/MET) Conference
March 20th, 2013I moved to the northwest about two years ago. I have been impressed with some of the regional organizations such as the Northwest Managers of Educational Technology. You can see a list of recordings from their 2012 conference online (http://nwmet.org/recordings/2012-conf-record/) or below:
Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck, And how you can make them better
March 16th, 2013I have focused some during the last few years on presentation skills.
Here is a recording of a presentation that I wanted to share by Rick Altman, author of “Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck, And how you can make them better”















