Thoughts on this week's KMDI Technology in Support of Learning and Teaching lecture.

Wednesday's webcast had some audio problems.

Thankfully the series offers a synchronous chat, so participants were able to communicate with the moderator, while watching the video. She was able to let us know that they'd "lost audio in the hall." I'm happy to report that audio was eventually restored.

Audio problems are most acute for viewers of the series' archive. No audio or chat means that archivists only have access to the video and the presenters slides.

I think the KMDI is doing a great job with this series. I've impressed with the way that sessions are presented and moderated and I'm enjoying be part of educational "history in the making."

Today I attended a great presentation by David Martin, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of SMART Technologies, Inc. I have the good fortune to work as Training Developer for SMART.

Dave talked to us about his trip to the Intel Developer Forum Conference last month in San Francisco. There were many great takeaways. My favourite is the "assignment" he gave participants. Consult the keynote below and then be prepared to explain "beach ball as wireless network device."

Pat Gelsinger's keynote, in which he demonstrated just how "Moore's Law is alive and well and keeping pace with an expanding digital universe," is great.

Click here for an HTML transcript of the keynote.

Click here and select Mr. Gelsinger's keynote from 28 February, 2002 to view the webcast.

Yesterday I participated in three "synchronous chats" with:

• the moderator at a webcast by the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)
  
• Afra at the help desk of the ASTD
  
• Colleagues in OISE/UT course CTL1602
  

I asked the moderator at KMDI for links referenced by Dr. Gregory Abowd during his lecture -- If a classroom could listen, would anyone care? Experiences with eClass -- of course he provided them himself at the end of his lecture. The moderator, to her credit -- acknowledged my initial inquiry and then confirmed that I'd gotten the URLs from Dr. Abowd's slide.

Afra helped me get into the "Members Only" section of the ASTD's site. Afra was great -- very efficient and helpful. Another neat feature of this chat was that an e-mail containing the chat's transcript was in my e-mail inbox minutes after the chat's conclusion.

I joined classmates in a discussion regarding how best to apply chat for educational purposes -- with an eye to continuing to do just that over the remainder of the term. Being a member of an academic knowledge building community using technology to learn how to educate with technology, is exciting and powerful stuff.

As I said in a post to a course conference for CTL1602:

The power of electronic/ICT/online learning for me comes from the epiphanies along the way.

I was out searching the web for an article called -- Is ISD Really Dead?

I'm not sure who the author is -- or if I even have the right title (if you recognize the title, or can point me to the author, I'd love to hear from you).

While I haven't been able to find this article, I have found articles and papers that pick up this theme, to one degree or another; however, I want to share something I found during my search.

eCLISPSE
~ the e-Learning Centre's e-Learning Intelligence Service
- People, Systems and Environments ~
for learning professionals in higher education, corporate training
and continuing education


Produced by Jane Knight, eCLISPSE is one of the most comprehensive sites of its kind that this student of e-Learning has seen.

It definitely ranks with Jay Cross' internetTime as a "must see" resource for those interested in the theory and practice of e-Learning.

Man, what a week.

Tons of catching up at work and at school.

Next time I travel, I'll be lugging a laptop.

I managed to stay reasonably current while away, but the webmail thing gets old pretty quick.

Besides, now that there's no food or movies on planes, you need a laptop w/ DVD for those 4+ hr flights.