Returned yesterday from a very fun and very enlightening AAPT conference at Coastal Carolina University (SC). Made some new friends with whom I had some great discussions. The workshops and presentations were all impressive. I learned much.

Our workshop on Social Technology and Teaching Philosophy succeeded in streaming John Basl's live presentation in Twitter and Wave to the group. We used Wimba. My part of the presentation (Teaching in the Cloud) really required more time than I had, but I had a chance to introduce colleagues to what I do in HNR 101 and share a few resources (like Diigo and Netvibes). My links can be found below. My pictures of the weekend can be found on my Picasa site. The indoor shots of beer drinking and arm wrestling are poor because I refused to use a flash and I was beer drinking. The outdoor shots are more sober and clear.

I posted my presentation at SlideShare. Because of overlap with others' and time constraints I didn't talk about it all at the session.



HNR 101 is the class I described as partly in the cloud. To create a social bookmarking and annotation site I used Diigo. Netvibes provided the platform on which the students create and then present online "posters" of their course projects. I also created a YouTube playlist for the class.

For more information about these technologies and others I refer you to Technologies for Teaching and Learning. I update this site regularly and welcome ideas from others.

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