EdTech Innovation conference in Calgary in May 2103

The EdTech Innovations conference will take place in Calgary this year.  Go to their website at http://edinnovation.ca/ for more information and to sign up.

I signed up and look forward to attending. It runs May 1-3, 2013.

Speakers include:

• John Baker
• Deborah Quazzo
• Jose Ferreira
• Dean Shareski
• Heather Payne
• Audrey Watters
• Dan Pontefract

TCC Online Conference 2013

I just registered for the 18th Annual TCC Online Conference for 2013. Although this conference is based in Hawaii, it is online so no one has to travel there. :(

I have attended this conference several times before and it is a very good conference with the cost, which isn't much ($99 before April 2).

One of this year's keynote speakers is Dr. Terry Anderson, who is a former mentor of mine. We worked together in Grouard Alberta, a long time ago.

The conference runs April 16-18, 2013

Adult Learning Principles

Here is an interesting little video that teaching basic Adult Learning Principles in less than 3 minutes.

Enjoy.

Classroom Response System - Home - Top Hat Monocle

Yesterday, a few professors and I participated in an online demonstration of the Top Hat Monocle classroom response systems. I was impressed.  Currently we are using the i>clicker systems here at MRU and we are quite happy with it, but the Top Hat "clickers" offer some very interesting advantages. If you are shopping around, you may want to consider them.

Sharing Content on SlideShare.net

I signed up for a SlideShare.net account yesterday so I can explore if we can use this web app with instructors to help them post their slideshows and documents for their students to access.  Before checking further, I thought this was just like the other Slidedeck sharing sites, which are many, but I was pleasantly surprised that you can add an audio narration to the powerpoint slides, if you wish. You do this by uploading a MP3 file with your narration and then adjust your slides to synchronize on the time line.  I haven't actually tried this yet but it is very promising.

You can also add other documents to your account and distribute them to others, while tracking the number of accesses.

This is a free service that has a Pro level of server that is a for-fee service. They claim to be the largest sharing site for presentations.

I did notice that they are using Flash technology, which is becoming old and obsolete, especially since Apple mobile devices can not open them.

 Check it out at http://slideshare.net. 

If you are using this, please share your comments about it.