[Crosstalk] Reminder - CrossTalk on Collaboration Tools in Teaching Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 22, 10:30 am 26-152

[Phillip Long]

Don't forget tomorrow at 10:30 am there will be the final CrossTalk  
of spring 2007 focusing on teaching collaboration tools. Mark your  
calendar and join us for a lively discussion.


Using Collaboration Tools in Teaching

Time: 10:30a–12:00p
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Location: 26-152, TEAL1 Classroom


Abstract: The proliferation of network-based collaboration and social  
networking tools brings new challenges and opportunities for teaching.

Wikis provide flexible, easily edited, web-based platforms for  
collaboration that can be used for any number of pedagogical tasks,  
from class projects to lab how-tos to course design. Blogs can  
provide a more individualized platform for student reflection. The  
collaborative environment of the classroom itself can be  
technologically altered through the use of classroom response systems  
and related tools.

What structure or set of practices makes for an effective teaching  
wiki? How can a professor efficiently and effectively negotiate a  
classes-worth of student blog posts? In this seminar we will hear  
from instructors who are currently using collaboration technologies  
in their classes.

After some short presentations, we'll have further discussion of  
collaboration tools in general. This seminar will serve as the  
introduction to OEIT's new Collaboration Tools Program Area, and we  
very much want to solicit your ideas to help guide us as we move  
forward.

Panelists:
# Prof. Donald Lessard, Epoch Foundation Professor of International  
Management, Sloan School
# Dr. Amanda Graham, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
# Jennifer Craig, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies / Dept.  
of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/acs/crosstalk/