ETT21 #130: Matt Montagne and Jason Ramsden on Online Education

ETT21 #130
April 27, 2010
Matt Montagne and Jason Ramsden on Online Education



 

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14:01:07  alex.ragone -> Room 1: Hola Gents!
14:01:13  dave bill -> Room 1: hola
14:01:22  alex.ragone -> Room 1: had to restart my machine...
14:01:46  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: Hey... @alex restart? Don't you use a Mac? ;-)
14:02:08  dave bill -> Room 1: he's a pc guy. 
14:02:09  alex.ragone -> Room 1: hehehe!
14:02:49  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: Fine with me.. I'm invited Windows 7 ;-) My commercial should air soon..
14:03:18  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: And clearly I can not type today.
14:04:01  Jim Beeghley -> Room 1: Hi
14:04:26  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: Today's topic is.....
14:04:36  alex.ragone -> Room 1: ....
14:04:47  alex.ragone -> Room 1: We're doing an internal covo.
14:04:57  matt montagne -> Room 1: hey again
14:05:05  alex.ragone -> Room 1: Hi Matt!
14:05:30  alex.ragone -> Room 1: Open mic day.
14:05:34  alex.ragone -> Room 1: skype alex.ragone
14:05:40  alex.ragone -> Room 1: Going with the flow here!
14:05:44  matt montagne -> Room 1: I'm happy to skype in
14:05:49  alex.ragone -> Room 1: come on by.
14:05:54  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: http://www.ncaisvirtual.org/
14:05:56  alex.ragone -> Room 1: we can talk earthcast.
14:06:05  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: Would love to chat but have class in about 20 mins...
14:06:09  matt montagne -> Room 1: sure
14:06:33  matt montagne -> Room 1: starting now
14:06:40  mrsdurff -> Room 1: hey there!
14:06:48  mrsdurff -> Room 1: hi matt
14:07:36  dave bill -> Room 1: fine by me
14:07:41  mrsdurff -> Room 1: good
14:08:00  dave bill -> Room 1: don't hear matt.
14:08:17  mrsdurff -> Room 1: my room to the right is not listing people who are here
14:08:40  mrsdurff -> Room 1: good idea!
14:08:57  mrsdurff -> Room 1: take 2
14:10:00  mrsdurff -> Room 1: hi sarah
14:10:19  sarah H -> Room 1: Hi!  Thanks for delaying the show a few minutes for me when I'm running late :)
14:10:24  mrsdurff -> Room 1: we
14:10:33  mrsdurff -> Room 1:  can;tt hear anyone but alex
14:10:35  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: http://www.ncaisvirtual.org
14:10:44  dave bill -> Room 1: was about to say, i can't hear matt or jason either
14:10:46  mrsdurff -> Room 1: hello alex
14:10:52  sarah H -> Room 1: nope--we can't
14:10:59  mrsdurff -> Room 1: we cannot hear anyone but alex
14:10:59  matt montagne -> Room 1: can't hear our audio??
14:11:02  dave bill -> Room 1: no
14:11:06  sarah H -> Room 1: just Alex
14:11:10  mrsdurff -> Room 1: he isn't seeing this
14:11:10  dave bill -> Room 1: exactly
14:11:21  mrsdurff -> Room 1: i think he did
14:11:22  dave bill -> Room 1: ha
14:11:26  sarah H -> Room 1: I think he just got it!
14:11:35  matt montagne -> Room 1: alex is on it!!!
14:11:42  mrsdurff -> Room 1: not hearing arvind
14:12:06  matt montagne -> Room 1: any luck??
14:12:36  jramsden (raventech) -> Room 1: Alex reports a ustream issue... he's working on it...
14:12:39  mrsdurff -> Room 1: now we hear the pros
14:12:45  dave bill -> Room 1: yep
14:12:47  dave bill -> Room 1: all set
14:13:05  mrsdurff -> Room 1: or the 3 stooges
14:15:58  arvind -> Room 1: I am logging into my home computer so I can use the chatroom. Doesn't work for me inside school anymore. Argh, firewalls
14:16:11  arvind -> Room 1: love an alternative solution!
14:16:36  mrsdurff -> Room 1:  Italian coffee is good
14:17:23  mrsdurff -> Room 1: it was awesome
14:19:46  arvind -> Room 1: anyone involved here in online teaching or learing?
14:22:31  arvind -> Room 1: I know that dave bill teaches  acourse that is mainly online, but I wonder how his course could be leveraged to other disciplines
14:23:14  dave bill -> Room 1: my class has blossomed over the past month
14:24:42  dave bill -> Room 1: the students who had been looking at 5 human rights are now in the process of producing some projects online and they are really engaged. by using different onine tools they are working to produce everything from a one day event dedicated to public health to a PSA video.
14:26:57  dave bill -> Room 1: i'm sorry i missed that. sounded like a great event.
14:31:40  dave bill -> Room 1: students understand the potential for meeting up and extending relationships it's now up to us to help them see the academic value.
14:32:09  alex.ragone -> Room 1: @dave giving them non-social online spaces. 
14:32:15  alex.ragone -> Room 1: or non-social centric.
14:33:04  dave bill -> Room 1: wow!!!!
14:33:32  dave bill -> Room 1: tedx has embraced posterous.
14:33:40  dave bill -> Room 1: http://tedx.posterous.com
14:33:50  arvind -> Room 1: http://sachin.posterous.com
14:33:51  dave bill -> Room 1: just put up a post about tedxnyed today
14:33:58  matt montagne -> Room 1: posterous is awesome, Dave. I love how it integrates with so many other social spaces.
14:34:30  dave bill -> Room 1: yeah. been using myself. great hearing about earthcast. have a great day, matt
14:35:43  arvind -> Room 1: see you all next time!