Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

During the Symposium, we had a crew go around and interview people in an "on the street" style. The results really give you a feel for what it is like to attend the Symposium. The crew made 26 of these interviews throughout the day with a hand-held recorder.

The first "on the street" interview of the day was done with our keynote speaker, Lawrence Lessig. It's attached to this note. All of the rest of the interviews are being posted now and include a lot of insightful commentary about topics like reactions to the keynote presentation, students' use of new media, social networks, open education, stickers, and the feel of the Symposium. This stuff is gold.

In this podcast, we explore students' feelings about Facebook including how they got started, the kind of content they upload to the site, whether they have privacy concerns, what they would feel about finding their professors' profiles in Facebook, and whether Facebook is a passing fad or here to stay.

This student interview, conducted by the staff at Studio 204, explored students' experience with and opinions on YouTube, a social computing site with user-contributed content. In this interview, the topics included reasons for using YouTube, what students watched, the differences between YouTube and television, whether students would contribute content to YouTube, and whether YouTube is a passing fad or here to stay.

Before the Symposium, the staff at Studio 204 took a trip to the HUB to interview some students about their experiences using wikis. Topics that came up: user-contributed content, questions about the quality of the information, the ability to find information quickly on nearly any topic, and the staying power of wikis.