webinar with Barry Dahl, Todd McCann, Brett Kopf, and Jason Rhode that explored the reasons and tools for safely communicating with students via sms

Do you struggle to keep track of all your favorite Web sites and other online resources? Would you like to share the links to your favorite online resources with your colleagues or students? Using Diigo, you can both easily bookmark your favorite online resources in the cloud and annotate, share, and collaborate in new ways! This archive of the Faculty Summer Institute 2010 hands-on session will introduce the Diigo collaborative research tool and explore several practical applications for implementing collaborative resource sharing in the classroom.

Have you gotten started with Twitter but now wondering what else is possible? What are hashtags? What are Twitter lists and how do get started using them? How can you easily post photos, videos, and links? What additional online tools and 3rd party apps can be integrated with Twitter to streamline posting of resources? This archive of the advanced hands-session at Faculty Summer Institute 2010 explores the answers to these questions. Bring your own Twitter account.

Twitter is an online application that is part blog, part social networking site, and part cell phone/IM tool. It is designed to let users describe that they are doing or thinking at a given moment, in 140 characters or less. This archive of the hands-on session at Faculty Summer Institute 2010 introduces the Twitter microblogging tool and discusses its mobile collaboration potential in the learning environment.

This archive of the Wimba Distinguished Lecture on 4/30/2010 shares Northern Illinois University’s journey offering live online faculty development workshops using Wimba Classroom as well as making online workshop archives available for on-demand viewing either online, in iTunes, or on a mobile device. Emphasis is placed on NIU’s step-by-step workflow for using the MP4 archive download capabilities in Wimba Classroom 6.0 to deliver archived online faculty development programs in podcast form. The presentation includes considerations for hosting archives outside Wimba Classroom as well as the steps necessary to create a podcast RSS feed, submit to the iTunes store, and update the necessary files when a new MP4 archive from Wimba Classroom is available. Slides are available for download at jasonrho.de/wimba2010

During the second half of the presentation, Rasmussen College shares their use of breakout rooms for faculty development and collaboration.

experiences of incorporating instructor and student blogs into an online course as well as recommendations for those considering utilizing blogs in online learning

Blogs have become common tools for communicating and collaborating online. While setting up a blog takes only a matter of minutes, effectively incorporating blogs into online teaching requires purposeful planning and structuring of activities to leverage the power that blogging brings to the learning environment. This session will share the experiences of incorporating instructor and student blogs into an online course as well as practical recommendations for those considering utilizing blogs in online learning. Sample instructor and student blogs as well as activities designed specifically for blogs will be reviewed.

Rhode, J. F., & Richter, S. L. (2009, Oct. 16) Blogger beware: Teaching with blogs best practices. Presented at the 2009 SLATE Conference, Chicago, IL

2008 AECT Convention presentation

The RSS Revolution: Using Blogs and Podcasts...

Web 2.0 Gizmos and Gadgets - 2007 SLATE Conference