Blogs

This year the Evolving Technology Committee is adopting the theme of “You 3.0" and is exploring the relationship between evolving technologies and individual career development. For our 2010 annual presentation, we want to present five 5-minute Ignite-style presentations which describe deploying a new technology or managing technology change in the context of its impact on your career, management style, and/or professional development.

See our Google spreadsheet for more information and to sign up: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlHNjhzemRjNGFXNlJvaWg...

Please keep in mind that our time limit is fixed and allows for just five presentations. If we have a lot of volunteers, we will select a handful which represent diverse institutions and speak to different levels of technological sophistication. Thanks!

Many great peacemakers have faced significant challenges on their mission to promote peace. These challenges have led to truly inspiring success stories, reflecting their determination and motivation towards achieving their aim.

Peace One Day aims to bring these individuals to young people’s attention, examining figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Wangari Maathai, Rosa Parks and others, while exploring the difficulties they encountered on their journeys.

Register for our free online Resource (http://www.peaceoneday.org/en/education) and access our lesson plan & resource which looks at a selection of leaders, the characteristics they share and how anyone has the ability to make a change for the better. The DVD The Day After Peace, is an excellent accompaniment to the lesson as many of the relevant topics are part of the story; once you have registered you will have free access to the 32 minute version of this film.

Several times, the project managers of IT projects act as if the most important part of a project is the technical part, but forgets the change management.

At the Politecnico GranColombiano we implemented a very creative strategy to make sure that students, teachers and staff gets involve in our NeoCampus project, a big project that involves the change of all the finance and academic systems.

Some of the things that we have made are the following:

- a very simple video explaning with postits and without technology what is cloud computing, and the project goals and rules. Its in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsQ2q405rE 

This next phase in our series examining how blogs are being used in education today looks at how school administrators are using them.

For the last few weeks we’ve been looking at current examples of blogging in an educational setting. We’ve looked at teachers blogging individually and in the classroom context, then we looked at student blogs. This week we’ll look at some examples of how school administrators are utilizing blogs to communicate with their consistituents.

Continuing our multi-part series on the use of blogs in education today, we look at various examples of Student blogging efforts.
 

Over the last two weeks we’ve looked at various ways in which today’s teachers are using blogs. This week we continue our review of the educational blogoshpere by looking at different ways in which students are using blogs in education-oriented applications.      

There are various reasons why students blog in an educational context. Some examples include blogging as part of a classroom effort involving other students, blogging on their own simply because they enjoy it, and blogging as part of a “sharing the experience” blog on a college web site.

A key component of the CDS Redesign project has been obtaining input from EDUCAUSE members about their use of the service, critiques and suggestions for enhancements, and, in some cases, reasons why CDS has been underutilized. As anticipated, given EDUCAUSE's large and diverse worldwide membership, feedback -- via focus groups, interviews, an online survey -- provides a broad range of perspectives. Let me summarize key themes that have emerged to guide the system redesign.

Still a useful tool – Perhaps most striking for a service that was introduced in 2002, only 2% of the 335 respondents to our survey hold the view that "CDS is a concept that has outlived its usefulness." Since this year's survey has been completed by 895 member campuses, and since over 1,500 campuses have participated since CDS was launched in 2002, we see a strong mandate to continue this annual survey and benchmarking service.