[edtech] Boston Area Ed Tech SIG

[Peter Hess]

Hi,

If you were at the last ETPartners meeting, you may recall that I talked 
briefly about the possibility of forming a Boston area interest group 
composed of people working in educational technology.  Vijay made the 
suggestion to use NERCOMP as a base for developing such a group.

As an early step in pursuing this, I'm trying to assemble a list of people 
at NERCOMP schools doing ed-techie things whom I can contact to find out 
whether there's sufficient interest to go on.

I'm hoping that Ed Tech Partners can help reach people elsewhere who might 
either be interested in participating themselves or who could direct us to 
others on their campus more involved with educational technology.  If you 
know of such, you could send names to me and I'll follow up, or you could 
contact people yourself and let me know what you find. (If you send email 
to others and can cc me, I'll have a sense of how things are progressing.)

Some of the initiatives that might arise out of a group like this are:
- an inter-campus email distribution list.
- formation of sub groups around specific topics like classroom technology, 
learning management systems, simulations, instructional design...
- invitations to ongoing or special events on other campuses  (We could 
invite colleagues to Crosstalk Seminars and the Ed Tech Fair as they might 
let us know about events of interest on their campus.)
- simple programming, like tours of interesting facilities elsewhere.
If it got going, I suspect more interesting things would emerge.

Thanks for your consideration.

Best regards,

-Peter

Peter Hess
Faculty Liaison, Singapore-MIT Alliance
617-253-6435
phess at mit.edu