tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60631995417115031092025-01-29T11:36:16.974-05:00Teaching, Learning, Instructional Design, Information Technology, Learning Management Systems, Web 2.0, Usability, Social Anything, and Everything in Between.Mathieu Plourdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534031928456588171noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063199541711503109.post-60046410743635334702011-12-23T12:27:00.000-05:002011-12-23T12:27:05.165-05:00

(Reposting from my open education blog) As 2011 slowly drifts away, I'd like to come back to a topic that has been on my mind a lot this year, and speculate on some trends for the upcoming decade. That topic is curation. As we have all noticed, information available on the internet is limitless, and the frontier of that universe is expanding exponentially at every instant. People struggle with

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For the three people following this blog, there are good reasons why I haven't been posting here... I've been busy somewhere else! The Sakai@UD team at the University of Delaware now writes on this blog: http://sites.udel.edu/sakai/ And I write about open education and social media on this blog: http://sites.udel.edu/open/ So you're all more than welcome to join the conversation on my most

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[This post was originally written for my open education blog, but I thought it would be appropriate to also post it here on my personal blog. This is definitely one of my new pet peeves ;-)] For her MISY427 class (Information Technology Applications in Management), Andrea Everard, Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and MIS, has started using an open textbook published by Flat

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I have been very quiet on this blog recently, but it doesn't mean I haven't been busy... I have created a new blog centered on open education, electronic textbooks, and the use of social media in education, so you're encouraged to follow it if those topics are of interest to you. I'm also gathering faculty stories around these topics to showcase on the blog, so if you have juicy examples, please

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On December 7, 2010, I am meeting with student’s in Sherry Kitto’s class to discuss marketing and social media. I’m using this post to keep a running list of resources for them to explore further after our discussion. Making your Corporate Website Relevant, Jeremiah Owyang Saxbys Newark Facebook Presence Multi-Channel Social Strategy, Jeff Bullas Googlenomics, Wired Magazine Location-Aware

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Note: I will use this blog post to support a presentation I'm doing for my EDUC638 class on October 19, 2010. It might or might nor be of interest to my regular audience. Short URL to this post: http://bit.ly/EDUC638-blogswikis For those who don't know yet, I've finally decided to start using my fee waivers and enrolled in EDUC638 Learning Technology Across The Curriculum. As a part of my

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On October 5, 2010, I have presented at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware about the use of social media for learning. I don't think I'm an expert in this (anyone who claims to be a social media guru is a poser, in my opinion), but some might see some of the things I have experienced in the past as "social media micro-successes", for lack of finding a better term.

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This is a guest post from Tim Handorf. I don't usually do this kind of things, but I saw what he wrote elsewhere and thought I'd give it a try. Please comment on both content and practice please! BTW, I use TitanPad all the time. Mathieu When I was a student at the university, I was often struck by how out of focus and bored myself and my peers were during lecture classes. It was very rare for

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There, the web has beaten me at coming up with this solution, as it always does... There is a new service called You Can Book Me (http://youcanbook.me/) that allows you to let others see when you are available and set an appointment with your through your Google Calendar. It's from the same guys who manage WhenIsGood.net. Wouldn't it be great if instructors could set up office hours and have

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In the "self-promotion" department, I'd like to invite folks who are interested to join me on Ustream this Thursday July 22 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. I think that this workshop I'll be moderating might be on interest to a lot of Sakai folks who attended my Unsexy LMS session at the Denver conference. The purpose of this workshop is to present a bunch of different ways instructors have used free web

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This week, I had a conversation with a colleague about sharing ideas. I tried my best to explain that blogging and tweeting was about giving a new spin to information, to share with followers stuff that they might find interesting, to open up our minds to the world. We had a conversation that went something like this (this is a very short extract from a longer discussion, the way I somewhat

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This post has been inspired by a lot of different sources and event. As some of you know, I'm the Sakai Project Leader at my higher education institution. And as most of you know, I'm a huge social media and web 2.0 junkie. But something has started to bug me a while ago. It seems to me that as time goes by and that we become more engaged with web 2.0 technologies in our everyday lives, more and

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On April 15, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. EDT, I moderated for the first time my new training session on the use of social media and web 2.0 tools in higher education. I have spent a considerable amount of time preparing for this and hoped to be able to draw some people in from my personal learning network during the event, which did happen. On June 4, during the Summer Faculty Institute, I will moderate

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I recorded a short interview with Anu Sivaraman, Professor, Business Administration, about her use of blogs in her IT in Marketing classes. We tried to keep the video as short as possible and were able to keep it down to 5 minutes. I think this practice is really smart, since marketing graduates tend to get entry-level jobs that requires them to maintain or publish to blogs, and be involved in

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Back at Thanksgiving, I bought a smartphone to replace my dino-phone. Since then, I realized how amazing it is to have all of that computing power in my pocket, and after attending the ELI Spring Focus Session webinar last week, it reinforced my belief that smartphones are going to rule the world in a couple of years. I think the first reason is because of their price. Being relatively cheap

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I'll be doing a dry run this Friday for a new training session I am working on for faculty at the University of Delaware. I'm trying to collect as many faculty practices around the use of social media, including free web 2.0 tools like social bookmarking, video streaming, etc., in the context of course support, in-class, hybrid, or pure distance. I have already found some examples, but it seems

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This blog post is a follow-up to Liz and Lisa's awesome workshop at Educon 2.2 (January 31, 2010). This should be no surprise to anyone who knows me even remotely: I like social media and I like to try new shiny toys on the internet. I try to spread the joy as much as possible about my discoveries, because I'm a Sniff (that's a "Who Moved My Cheese" reference)... But every now and then, I

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You know how we always think of the Internet as a web of facts that are interconnected to one another? Well, here's a story of random interconnected stuff that led me to step out of my comfort zone. Warning: This blog post jumps from one thing to the other a lot. About 2 months ago, I finally got rid of my dino-phone (circa 2007) to make a leap into 2009 and bought a Motorola Droid (I know, the

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This is something that has been on my mind for a while. As more and more people announce the death of the learning management system in higher education and the design work on Sakai 3 moves along, I kinda have to agree in many ways. Here are some of my thoughts on this issue. A Look Back In Time As I look back at some of the primitive course management systems I have been exposed to as a student

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La semaine dernière, j'ai eu le plasir de présenter quelques données sur notre déploiement de Sakai. En effet, j'ai été invité à discuter de ce sujet dans ma langue maternelle avec plusieurs membres de l'Université de Montréal. J'ai traduit un grand nombre de diapositives que vous retrouverez ci-dessous. 11-23-2009 Sakai U de MView more documents from Mathieu Plourde. J'ai été heureux de

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As many of you probably know if you are ready this post, I am the Project Leader of our WebCT to Sakai migration at the University of Delaware. More that two years ago, before I even started working her at UD, the LMS selection process began with an attempt to get faculty involved with the decision making.Below is a slidecast of my November 2, 2009 presentation to the Faculty Senate about our

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For those who didn't know, I was involved with the organization of the 2009 Sakai Conference. I participated in the weekly conference call from the beginning. I had been to two Sakai conferences in the past, and I always learned a lot at them, and now wanted to get involved in some way.Since the conference was in Boston, I thought that a lot of people from Delaware would be able to make it. After

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More than a year ago, I put the final touch on a report called Wikis in Higher Education, an assignment I worked on for some time from when I started working for the University of Delaware and May 2008. Since the release of the report, there has been some success stories using the wiki tool in Sakai at UD. The latest success story comes from Persephone Braham, an Assistant Professor in the

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There has been a lot of speculation on what Sakai 3 will be and how it will dramatically change user experience. There is most definitely a paradigm shift between Sakai 2 and 3. Will this new way to interact with an LMS suit the needs of educators worldwide? You be the judge.I made a short presentation (12 minutes) to the members of our LMS Committee on June 16, 2009. My slides are available on

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I finally completed the 4th part of the presentation Chris Penna, Dawn Fallik, and I gave at the Lilly-East conference back in April 2009. Our topic revolved around using web 2.0 tools in the classroom. We used the Student Multimedia Design Center at the University of Delaware to make the presentation more of a workshop.We created a Google Doc with links to all of our presentation material.Part

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