Month: April 2006

The 2006 TLT Symposium is Over!

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Wow, what a day! Less than eight total hours, but what a day. The Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium is over. Looks like we ended up with over 90 posts in the blog, over 120 pictures taken by the community in Flickr, 14 podcasts, and 5 streaming videos of sessions — all in one day! That doesn’t include the pictures of all the people who stopped at the iMac with PhotoBooth running on it.

I can’t thank all the people who worked so hard to pull this off! I also can’t thank all of you out there who helped with ideas, sent me encouragement to try something different, and dropped links to it yesterday. Now the fun starts — how do we build on an event like that? That is what my team will start to look at immediately. No matter how you carve it up, it was a great day with all sorts of new things going on.

Penn State TLT Symposium

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The Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium kicks off in the morning.  I just had dinner with Henry Jenkins, our keynote speaker, and if he tells the same types of stories tomorrow, it’ll be amazing.  Smart guy.

Do me favor, join us tomorrow via the event blog.  We are doing live blogging and podcasting all day long — from every session.  It is the first event at PSU to take advantage of these types of spaces, so it will be interesting to see how it all goes down.  Either way, stop by.

BootCamp … Winderz on a Mac, for Real

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I was just pointed to BootCamp (code name) for a new technology Apple will release with 10.5 … this little utility/app/technology will allow you to install Windows XP on your Mac without running all over the Internets looking for stuff. Sort of makes me giggle that people worked so hard to do this the last several weeks. At any rate, think of how this can impact market share … the people who say they can’t get a Mac because of a handful apps, shouldn’t have any real excuse anymore. I wonder how it works … I guess we’ll just have to download it and see. From Apple’s BootCamp page:

Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows.(1) Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them.

The times they are a changin’ … I would tag this with interestingness. Now, will I run this? Nope, it goes on to say that you need to beware of the typical issues on Windows — you know viruses, trojans, and all the other ugly stuff my Windows using friends deal with. I have lived the last 22 years of my life with a Mac and I’ll stick to that for now. But, if in the future this becomes important, I now have an option that won’t make me feel all dirty. XP on a Mac … unreal.

Pachyderm 2.0 Gallery

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About five months ago a small group of people at Penn State were charged to do a review of the Pachyderm project.  They were part of a “Hot Team” that I put together to help inform us its overall potential.  At the time they came back with sort of a mixed bag of results — I believed at the time it had a lot to do with how Pachyderm is designed to help you design … does that make any sense.  Didn’t think so.  Pachyderm has an orientation that is a lot different than what most of us are used to.  I believed then that our team went into it with their own perspectives and previous experiences in front of their eyes.  I felt as though that contributed to the mixed results we got.

Flash forward to today and I just saw that D’Arcy is pointing us to the Pachyderm Showcase.  I took a look through a bunch of the examples and really liked what I saw.  I am still not 100% convinced it is the best tool for really big (course level) designs, but it looks like you can create some killer objects that can help lead some serious learning.  At any rate, we may have to go back and look again now that there are some amazing examples to help us adjust our perspectives.