Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Keith Bailey from the College of Arts and Architecture talks about his reaction to the keynote and his presentation on open educational resources (which was rather popular from what I saw -- standing-room-only). He also talks about his group's work to develop open source tools and use Drupal (an open-source content management system) to share educational content.

The theme of this year's Symposium is "Social Computing and the Culture of Teaching and Learning" and we actually used quite a few social computing tools to plan and execute this year's Symposium. It wasn't intentional -- it's just the way that the planning group has been doing business these days. When you look at the list, it's pretty impressive, so here it is.

Drupal - This web site is running Drupal, which is essentially the software that lets you make blog posts, comments, group-editable pages (like a wiki), surveys, attachments, RSS feeds, etc... It's an open source product and has a lot of modules that you can install to extend its functionality.