Department News:
Brown Bag with Rebekah Richards
ITLS Brown Bag, Thursday 5 November at Noon.
Pizza Provided!
Rebekah Richards will discuss how the skills she learned as an instructional designer have helped her frame -- and, more importantly, reframe -- questions and ideas and move in a new and rapidly evolving field: online education.
Rebekah Richards is The American Academy's Chief Academic Officer and School Principal ((http://www.theamericanacademy.com). Rebekah has worked in online high school education since 1999; she has been involved in the early stage planning and implementation of numerous public and private online high schools throughout the country, including Colorado Online Learning, Connecticut¹s Adult Education online program, The Online Latin School, and Insight Schools, Inc.
Click here to read more »MS Student Ernesto Lopez Singing Finalist
Ernesto Lopez, a new MS student in our department, is a singing finalist for “Destapa tu Sueno” – Univision’s online nation wide contest. He is one of five finalist for the online siging contest open to viewers. Voting begins today so please click on the first link below to vote and the second link to read an article about Ernesto on cachevalleydaily.com
http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?secid=26871
http://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/local/65636752.html
The voting website is in spanish so if you can’t figure it out Launa in the main office can help you.
Students Create ITLS Knowledge Base
New MEd students in the Foundations 2009 course finished a wiki-based knowledge base with notes on various topics related to educational technology and the learning sciences, including organizations, people, technologies, and instructional design models. This week they are also blogging about some controversies related to the fields-feel free to weigh in your opinions.
President Obama signs Information Literacy Proclamation
President Obama proclaimed October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness month and by doing so calls "upon the people of the United States to recognize the important role information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact." An information literate person understands when information is needed to solve a problem and knows where to find information and how to evaluate and use the information. Here at the department of ITLS we have been teaching information literacy skills for years as part of our School Library Media Administration endorsement program. Information literacy is beginning to appear in some of our other courses such as INST4010 and INST6870/7870.Click here to read more »
