Recent Presentations

E-Learning 2006 - February 11-14, 2006, Savannah, Georgia.  Title of presentation was "Using RSS to Facilitate Learning Communities"

• PowerPoint presentation
• Sample class blog (MBA 5670 at Eastern Illinois University) - Look at this if you want to see a sample course blog.  It is a real, working blog, so only students may post to it, but anyone can view it.  It may give you some ideas for setting up a class blog.
• Sample class wiki (MBA 5670 at Eastern Illinois University) - Look at this if you want to see a sample course wiki.  It is a real, working wiki, so it is password protected so that only students may post to it, but you can get some ideas of how to set one up.

    Software Links

• SharpReader (RSS aggregator)
• FeedForAll (Commercial RSS feed generator)
• ListGarden (Freeware RSS feed generator)
• pmWiki (Wiki server software, php-based)
• Wordpress (Blog server software, php-based)
• FeedPublish.com (Internet-based feed generator ... free ... excellent site if you don't want to use FeedForAll or ListGarden)
• Google Reader (still in beta, but a good Internet-based substitute for SharpReader)

    Questions/Answers

There were several good questions asked after the session concluded.  I share those with you here so that if you attended, but did not hear these questions, you can get my response.  Click on this link:  Q&A Page.

Instructional Technology Council (ITC) Webinar - Using RSS to Facilitate Learning Communities.  This discussion was an audio webinar based on the presentation given at E-Learning 2006.  To listen to the archived version of the discussion, contact  ITC.

Faculty Summer Institute 2006 - May 22-25, 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.  For details, go to my conference resources website.

• Conference Resources

ELearn 2006 - October 13-17, Honolulu, Hawaii.  The topic of the presentation was "RSS Technologies and Collaborative Student Learning Communities."

TECNet Workshop - October 5, 2006, Eastern Illinois University.  This workshop was entitled "Creating Blogs 1"

TECNet Workshop - October 31st, 2-4 p.m., Eastern Illinois University.  This workshop is entitled "Creating Podcasts 2" and is open to  EIU faculty/staff only. 

• PowerPoint slides for this workshop

Building Learning Communities with RSS Feeds, Wikis, and Blogs - This is a Magna Publications webinar that will originate in Madison, WI, but be available internationally.  It will take place on January 25th, 2007.  If you are interested in participating in this presentation, visit the Magna Publications website.

Illinois Online Conference 2007 - (Feb 14 & 15, 2007) This is an online conference and I am contributing a web poster session that can be viewed here.

Future Presentations

Faculty Summer Institute 2007 - (May 14-18, 2007).  This is an annual conference held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  I will give a workshop entitled Augmenting Classroom Content Using Yahoo Pipes as well as a forum presentation entitled Pipes, Feeds and Flow:  Plumbing Your Classroom with RSS.

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