Smith College Committee on Educational Technology

CET 2008 SYMPOSIUM ON

TECHNOLOGIES OF THE REAL & VIRTUAL WORLD

The Committee on Educational Technology (CET) and Educational Technology Services (ETS) invite you to a symposium on technologies of the classroom, and real-world and virtual environments for education. Whether you are interested in digital presentations, document cameras, digital slide trays, and ways your students are using technologies, or in gaming, Second Life, Croquet and other virtual worlds, this symposium has something for you.

Symposium events will take place over three days, from May 5th to May 7th, and are scheduled in two tracks: Jazzing up your Teaching with Technology and Exploring Virtual Worlds for Education. Each day, both tracks will offer multiple sessions that introduce various technologies and give you the opportunity to begin adapting them to your own teaching.

Please feel free to register for any portion of the program that interests you. If, however, you are one of the first 25 faculty members to register for three full-day sessions, you will receive a $200 stipend courtesy of the Dean for Academic Development.

An overview of the program is provided below. For a detailed schedule, click here. To register for one or more sessions, click here.

Track 1:

Jazzing up your Teaching
with Technology

Track 2:

Exploring Virtual Worlds
for Education

May 5: Working with Classroom Technology, Digital Slides, Insight, and Moodle

- Using Classroom Technology to Support Teaching and Learning

- Building & Using Digital Slide Trays

- Insight Images and Slide Trays

- The Basics and Beyond with Moodle

May 5: Introduction to Self-Contained and Open Virtual Worlds and Gaming Environments

- A Self-contained Virtual World called Croquet

- An Open Virtual World with Educational Environments

- Exploring Games as Virtual Learning Environments

May 6: Collaborative Work and Digital Media

- Collaborative Work: Discussions, Wikis, Blogs and more

- Doing More with Moodle: Blocks & Activities, Designing your Course

- Using Digital Media: YouTube, Pod & Vodcasts, Streaming

- Bridging Both Worlds: Second Life and Moodle = SLOODLE

May 6: Creating your Avatar and Building in a Virtual World

- Creating your Avatar and Learn your way around Second Life

- Exploring Second Life – Meet where we can’t reach in the ‘Real World’

- Learn to Build on Second Life Land

- Bridging Both Worlds: Second Life and Moodle = SLOODLE

May 7: Creating your own Digital Tools and Media

- Build your Ultimate Moodle Course

- Create your Digital Slide Trays

- Find appropriate Digital Media and Resources

- Create your own Media Resources

May 7: Designing a Lesson in a Virtual World

- Map out Your Lesson in Second Life, a Game or another Virtual World

- Build the Resources for Your Lesson

- Put the Pieces Together and Start Building Your Lesson or World