Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and Social Bookmarking: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and Social Bookmarking

Saturday February 24, 2007
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Phoenix College , Coronado Rm

Thursday March 1, 2007
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Rio Salado College, Rio Tower Rm. 515

Instructional Goals

The goals of the event are to make faculty comfortable with, and knowledgeable about, a variety of interactive Web 2.0 technologies:

Introducing faculty, and staff, to emerging web-based technologies.
Engaging in discussion about how and why these various technologies can better facilitate teaching and learning.
Offering the knowledge and experience of faculty who have designed, developed and incorporated different types of emerging technologies into their classes, or work processes.
Encouraging individual faculty, or staff, from all disciplines to critically select, review, and possibly adopt emerging technologies to incorporate into their classes, or work processes.

Rationale

Although the Maricopa Community College District is known nationally for its innovative practices, especially with teaching technologies, new technologies are emerging at an exponentially increasing rate. The object of the Research and Development arm of Ocotillo is to try and find and experiment with these new technologies. However, these technologies also have to be shared with faculty. The primary rationale for this workshop is to inform faculty, and staff, of emerging technologies so that they might critically evaluate them for their own teaching, and work processes.

This workshop, presented in the spring 2007 semester, will give faculty the opportunity to experiment with these new technologies while also dialoguing with one another about how they might incorporate them into their classes. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to engage in "hands-on" activities with the various new technologies to better understand them. The participants will also use these same technologies to help further explore and reflect upon the other technologies presented. .

Benefits to Faculty

Whether or not faculty participants immediately go back to their offices incorporate one of the emerging technologies into their courses, after the workshop faculty will have critically reflected on the design of their current courses and think about how different technologies might better facilitate learning. This workshop will give faculty a variety of examples, guidelines, and activities to help start revising their own courses to offer technologically enhanced lessons.

For more information, contact Veronica Diaz.