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Podcast: An Interview with Barbara J. Hoskins, Clemson University

gbayne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:39:23 -0500

This podcast features a 9 minute interview with Barbara J. Hoskins, Assistant Dean for the College of Health, Education & Human Development at Clemson University. In this conversation, recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Dean Hoskins discusses the session she presented at the conference entitled, "Effective Online Program Models from Faculty and Student Perspectives".

From the session description:

With online learning, we have moved beyond the early adopter phase and find ourselves seeking effective models and best practices to ensure we are delivering a quality educational opportunity. This presentation will identify nationally accepted criteria for effective online programs and evaluate the success of delivery models from all viewpoints.

An Interview with Marc Smith at CNI's 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting, Part 2

gbayne — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:27:11 -0500

This is part two of a two-part podcast featuring an interview with Marc Smith at the CNI Spring 2007 Task Force Meeting. This 2nd half of our interview lasts approximately 30 minutes and focuses on the future of social networking, and mobile devices. Marc discusses his theory that we are "moving from an ephemeral society to an archival society".

Marc Smith is a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research (MSR) specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. He leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR, and he is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity, interaction and social order develop in online groups.This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with Marc Smith at CNI's 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting, Part I

gbayne — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:35:23 -0500

This is part one of a two-part podcast featuring an interview with Marc Smith at the CNI Spring 2007 Task Force Meeting. This first part of the interview lasts approximately 22 minutes and looks at online communities and collective action. We also discuss some of the projects he and his colleagues are researching. Many of the software programs he mentions in the podcast can be downloaded at the Microsoft Research Website. Part two of our interview will focus on the future of collective action, social networking, and mobile devices.

Marc Smith is a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research (MSR) specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. He leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR, and he is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity, interaction and social order develop in online groups.

Smith's research focuses on computer-mediated collective action: the ways group dynamics change when they take place in and through social cyberspaces. Many “groups” in cyberspace produce public goods and organize themselves in the form of a commons. Smith's goal is to visualize these social cyberspaces, mapping and measuring their structure, dynamics and life cycles.

This research offers a means to gather historical data on the development of social cyberspaces and can be used to highlight the ways these groups differ from, or are similar to, face-to-face groups. Smith is applying this work to the development of a generalized community platform for Microsoft, providing a web based system for groups of all sizes to discuss and publish their material to the web.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Triple A Lecture - Global Team Meeting... NOT!!

slister — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:37:53 -0600

Last night the Triple A Lecture Intervention team attempted our first online global meeting - Let me say, right off, it didn't work - HOWEVER, it was definitely worth the energy. We will try again!

I used the Meeting Planner at the Time and Date website here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to figure out a suitable time for our team members who live in United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland/Ontario/Manitoba Canada. The most suitable time seemed to 2am GMT (Luckily, we have no one on our team from Europe!).

We were planning to use an Elluminate meeting room. Here are a few things I will do the next time I organize such a meeting:

Provide the illuminate "first time user" link so that everyone can trouble shoot prior to the meeting date/time - (I believe some members may have experienced a Java plug-in problem).
Provide a "back up" chat area link so that if the meeting room doesn't work we can jump into the chat room and still 'talk' - ( Last night there were three people in the meeting room but we could not talk to each other... but hey, it was fun playing with the icons!).
Have ready a group email so that I can fire off an email to all attendees explaining what is going on.

Well, I'll chalk it up to experience, take a deep breath, follow my own advice and then, plan another global team meeting!