What We Learned at FUSION, Part II

This week continues our discussion of lessons learned at FUSION.

Lisa Marie Johnson, Cultural Science Instructor, contributes:

“I attended many useful sessions at Fusion 2011, but the one that gave me the most pause for thought was 'The Future of Mobile: Insight and Vision from Desire2Learn' presented by David Kruis.

David discussed how the first internet experience for most developing nations' citizens is mobile technology. He examined the difficulty for educators in design and delivery of mobile due to the different definitions of ‘smartphone’ in the USA and abroad. Some phones are merely web enabled while others do truly mimic a personal computing experience.

Following that discussion, David explored a framework for understanding what mobile computing and learning means. . .”

Lisa Marie continues a summary of the framework in the CCCOnline Community. As always, please feel free to join in the conversation!

What We Learned at FUSION

We asked CCCOnline staff what they learned from last week’s Desire2Learn FUSION conference. Responses follow, and we’ll continue to showcase them next week!

• David Chatham, Dean of Academic Technology, commented on Jonah Lehrer’s keynote, in which Mr. Lehrer discussed the marshmallow kids experiment* and the possibility of predicting factors for success:
  
  “That is the key to our interest in analytics. If we can determine the key factors for keeping students progressing in their college career, then we’ve accomplished something additionally worthwhile with our D2L installation by mining the data that provides us with the clues.”
  
  *See “Don’t! The Secret of Self-Control,” Jonah Lehrer, The New Yorker, 5/18/2009.



• Natalie Jeremijenko, another keynote speaker, discussed the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU and its use of emerging technologies for social change. Sean Renner, Instructional Designer, found Prof. Jeremijenko’s keynote to be the most inspirational part of the conference:
  
  “I thought it was an amazing way to combine activism with art, and was an incredible example of thinking way outside the box making a difference in an area you care about in some of the most creative ways possible. For me, and I think for all of us working to provide new and creative opportunities for education, there’s a lot there that inspired me.
  
  The most useful thing I learned was the current, and upcoming features in the ‘insert stuff’ tool, allowing users to directly embed videos almost anywhere in D2L, and soon add youtube and flickr videos via a direct connection with D2L.”
  

CCCOnline Library Database Access

Mary Cash, CCCOnline Librarian, is our guest today with a special library announcement and question for you. As always, please feel free to join the conversation in the companion Community thread!

IMPORTANT! CCCOnline students will no longer be able to access the online article databases at the FRCC College Hill Library. CCCOnline students and faculty now have access to CCCOnline’s subscriptions to the EBSCO article databases and the FirstSearch (WorldCat) databases!!!

To access CCCOnline’s article databases, log on to your CCCOnline D2L account. Once you're logged on, locate the Helpful Links widget on your MyHome page or one of your Course Home pages. Look for the Online Library heading and then find the link to the EBSCO Article Databases or First Search and click on the link. That will take you right in to where you can begin your search. With EBSCO, you'll want to click on the top icon to get to the different databases. See the Library Article Databases Tutorial (http://at.ccconline.org/students/wiki/Academic_Resources_-_CCCOnline_Library_Resources_-_Library_Article_Databases_Tutorial) for more information.

You can also check out the CCCOnline Library Resources (http://at.ccconline.org/students/wiki/Academic_Resources_-_CCCOnline_Library_Resources) on the Student Wiki for information on evaluating sources, online reference resources, finding your local library and Ask a Librarian.

Have questions? Contact the CCCOnline Librarian: http://www.blogger.com/cccolibrarian@ccconline.org

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Now that we have our own library article databases, how can we help you work them into your classes, or how can we help your students learn to use the databases better?

-Mary Cash

Note: since next week is the Desire2Learn FUSION Conference, we will not be posting here; however, we will be back the week of 7/18!