[Webpub] free mini conference at northeastern

[Lisa Mayer]

Hi everyone,
I'll be going to this conference, hope you can too.  Its open to  
people outside of Northeastern.  Registration is now open.




Teaching with Technology Mini-Conference
Tuesday, April 29 from 8:30 - 4:00
Curry Student Center ballroom
Free Registration http://www.edtech.neu.edu/TWT

Please join us for Northeastern's fourth annual Teaching with  
Technology mini-conference on Tuesday, April 29, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00  
p.m., beginning in the Curry Center Ballroom.

Our keynote speaker will be Katie Salen, well-known game designer,   
Executive Director of the Institute of Play and Associate Professor in  
the Design and Technology Program at Parsons School of Design. Co- 
author of Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, a textbook on game  
design, as well as The Game Design Reader, she is currently working as  
lead designer on a digital game intended to teach game design to  
middle school and high school youth. She recently served as editor for  
the volume The Ecology of Games for the MacArthur Foundation series on  
Digital Media and Learning, and is co-editor of The International  
Journal of Learning and Media. Her presentation is entitled "Systems  
to Think With: Games and the Architecture of Persistence."

Following Ms. Salen's presentation, Northeastern faculty will offer  
presentations on effective uses of personal response "clickers" in  
large and small classes and ways they are using media-based  
assignments to encourage students to create content for their classes.

After lunch, faculty and staff are invited to explore interactive  
poster sessions on a range of technology related to effective teaching  
strategies. Topics include new technologies for teaching including  
educational uses of wikis, blogs, YouTube and Webcasting as well as  
Mashups, citizen journalism and collective intelligence. Participants  
can also enjoy a YouTube film festival, take a tour of the Library's  
Digital Media Design Studio and tour a virtual world in Second Life.

Teaching with Technology Day is co-sponsored by The EdTech Center, The  
Center for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CIETL),  
Information Services, SPCS and University Libraries.

Plan to spend the day and enjoy refreshments, a light lunch, and a  
chance to win an iPod Nano!

For more information, a complete schedule, and to register for this  
free event, please visit:
http://www.edtech.neu.edu/TWT






Lisa C. Mayer
Web and Database Consultant, DCAD
Information Services and Technology (IS&T)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room N42-240C
Cambridge, MA 02139

tel   617-452-4225
fax  617-258-6875
lmayer at mit.edu



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