I’ll be presenting at a couple of SUNY conferences during the first week of October. Both of them are Conferences on Computing in the Disciplines (COCIDs) sponsored by the SUNY Faculty Access to Computing Technology (FACT) Council.
The first one, on Monday, October 3rd, is called Application of Mobile Technology Tools in the Online Learning Experience and will be at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. My particular talk will be called “A Movable Feast: Teaching and Learning When the World is Your Classroom.” I honestly don’t know much about the conference details beyond what is on the web site, but the speaker list looks interesting.
The second one, on Friday, October 7th, is called Small Tools/Big Ideas and will be at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in lower Manhattan. I know a bit more about this one. The focus is on teaching with digital images, and the structure is to look at digital content/image repositories in the morning (hence the “big ideas”) and specialized content tools that sit on top of those repositories in the afternoon (hence the “small tools”), with a session of case studies and general conversation to wrap up the day. I’ll be moderating the “small tools” session in the afternoon. The speaker list looks absolutely stellar (pun intended; one of the speakers is Ben Brophy, a programmer who works on MIT’s STELLAR, the DSpace content repository, and Sakai , and who occasionally comments here on e-Literate). The panels will be covering some extremely interesting projects; I expect to learn a lot from the day.
It’s possible that one or both of the conferences will be webcast. If I find out that they will, I’ll post the URL(s) here.
