Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

In this interview, Pierre Cintas from Penn State Abington, talks about a presentation he saw about a house that records the activity of its inhabitants, the importance of having good content, the intricacies of teaching a foreign language, and transferring ideas from Math instruction to French instruction.

In this interview, Marcela Borge talks about her work with collaborative tools and using them to help people learn to work together online. She is using case-based libraries to provide examples of the though processes of experts in the field.

Amanda Klunk, an undergraduate student studying English talks about her interest in new media as literature. She also talks about the parallels between teaching a course online and tutoring online.

In this interview, Cathy Holsing from the College of Liberal Arts talks about using the Symposium to get ideas from other people from around the university. She also talks about having students participate in collaborative activities to learn from each other and create something better than what an individual can produce.

In this interview, Gregorio Convertino from Information Sciences and Technology discusses the poster that he is presenting on using case studies and collaborative tools to help students work together synchronously.

In this interview, Michael Montalto-Rook and Beth Raney talk about the keynote presentation and the aspects of this year's Symposium that drew them to the event.

In this interview, Scott McDonald from the College of Education, talks about his reactions to the Symposium and the back-channel communication. He's using video in his teaching and was one of the people we profiled in the faculty stories.

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.

Donna DeNoble talks about her participation in the Tag Team, her Disruptive Technologies course, sessions that she is attending, feeling "behind the curve" with social networking, generational differences in using technologies, and the ability to have a distributed conversation at a conference.

[This is one of my favorite of the on-the-street interviews.]

A group of people from World Campus, Information Sciences and Technology, and Arts and Architecture talk about their reaction to the Symposium and what happens when people who only know each other virtually meet in person for the first time: "A social networking reunion with people you've never met". They also discuss the importance of finding out what other people across the university are doing. Reactions to the keynote "A mile long slow motion slam dunk". And conclude with their reaction to the Symposium: "A pinnacle of synergism." My thanks to their group for their creative phrase coining!

The members of the group are:
Shannon Ritter
Robin Smail
Daniel Ritter
Brian Panulla