Keynote: 9/29/2011: Pennsylvania Newspaper Association

I have been invited to speak to the PA Newspaper Association at their annual get together happening in State College, PA. I will be discussing the role of social media in creating new types of conversations as it relates to today and the future of news. I am sure I will have quite a bit to say about the events of Bloomsburg and the notion of the cone of silence surrounding small communities.  It should be a challenging and interesting opportunity.

Keynote: 5/17/2011: University of Missouri Celebration of Teaching Excellence

I am looking forward to making a return trip to the University of Missouri to provide the keynote talk for their annual “Celebration of Teaching Excellence” event. I haven’t been to Columbia since I did the closing plenary for the first Apple Digital Campus Faculty Academy in April of 2005. It will be an opportunity to connect with old friends and get a look at how another University celebrates teaching and learning with technology.

Last year’s event looks like it was really great.

Keynote: 2/20/2011: eLearn 2011

I have been invited to be one of the keynote speakers at next year's eLearn 2011 conference in St. Pete Beach, FL. It is a real honor to be a part of a program that also has Alan Levine and David Wiley. This will be an excellent opportunity to think about how my message plays more deeply within the larger world of eLearning design and teaching.

Invited Presentation: 01/25/2011: Washington International Education Conference

I have been invited to deliver a talk at the Washington International Education Conference in Washington, DC. It looks a great event and am very much looking forward to speaking to this group. I have been asked to share stories of how social and digital media are challenging what we need to think about as educators. Take a look at the event’s program.

Download the PDF of my slides.

Closing Plenary: 01/14/2011: Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

I have been invited to deliver the closing plenary at the 2011 Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, MD. If That is Scholarship, We Are Doomed! New forms of conversations are emerging across the Web that are shaping the nature of our institutional responsibilities. Remix culture is impacting the future of discourse on levels that make many of us uncomfortable. Let’s explore the notion of the “conversation” as it exists across the social Web — to see how we, as educators, can take cues from this emerging dialogue. It is our responsibility – not to dismiss these discussion forms (and forums) as passing fads, but to realize the embedded pedagogies that exist within these emergent spaces — pedagogies we must understand to fully imagine what the future of digital media means to scholarship.

I took the audio from the session and created an enhanced podcast of it that includes the slides.

Find it here.

Keynote: 10/22/2010: College of Southern Maryland

I will be delivering a keynote talk at the College of Southern Maryland for the Mid Atlantic Conference on Student Success. I will attempt to make the case that the move towards cooperative teaching and learning is a factor in longer term retention and student success. Should be fun and challenging.

Keynote: 10/8/2010: Stevenson University

I have been invited back to Stevenson University to deliver another keynote address. This will be for the first annual Faculty Development Conference for Colleges and Universities in the Central Maryland Area. I absolutely loved my last trip to Stevenson and cannot wait to see some old friends and make new ones.

Keynote: 9/14/2010: Marywood University

I have been invited to present a keynote talk at Marywood University to talk about bridging the gap between in and out of school literacy. It will be interesting talking to folks about how the role of digital expression in building continuity between school and personal lives online. I am very much looking forward to the experience.