[ed-tech] Ed Tech Partners meeting - May 3, 2004, 11:30 - W20 West Lounge

[Jean Foster]

Hi,

Our next meeting will be on Monday, May 3 and our guest speaker will be 
David Kahle from Tuft's University who will be discussing his Visual 
Understanding Environment (VUE) project.  The abstract and bio are 
below. Hope you can make it.

WHAT: Educational Technology Partners meeting (with lunch)
WHEN: Monday, May 3, 11:30 - 1:30
WHERE: W20 West Lounge
RSVP: by Thu, Apr. 28 , 2003 to jfoster at mit.edu

Looking ahead to our June 7 meeting, Katie Vale will be presenting on 
her doctoral research titled "A History of Early Courseware Development 
at MIT and Brown: Lessons from Project Athena and Intermedia".  BTW, 
she successfully defended her thesis a few weeks ago, so 
congratulations Dr. Vale!
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May 3 Presentation: The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE):Moving 
from Data to Meaning
	Abstract:  David Kahle, Dir. of Academic Computing at Tufts University 
and PI of the Virtual Understanding Environment project will discuss 
some of the challenges of teaching and learning with digital resources 
that stem from a lack of tools for making digital information visible 
and meaningful. He will present recent work on the Visual Understanding 
Environment (VUE), an application designed to provide a concept mapping 
interface to digital materials. Using VUE, faculty and students may 
visually structure, organize and annotate digital content to better 
understand and communicate how ideas and digital content are related.  
For further information see: http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/

	Bio:  David Kahle is the Director of Tufts Academic Technology and 
oversees Tufts' central AT initiatives which include technology 
education for faculty, curricular technology design and development and 
research computing administration. David’s research and development 
focus is the design of information systems and Internet-based 
technologies for learning and teaching. His experience includes the 
planning and development of networked learning environments in support 
of higher education, informal adult learning, and public outreach 
initiatives. David serves on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School 
of Education, teaching courses on the design and development of online 
environments for learning.

-jean-
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Jean Foster
MIT Academic Computing
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