ESU Presentations at SIDLIT 2009

Below is a list of ESU presentations (lead presenter names) at this year's SIDLIT 2009 Conference. I also know that several IDT individuals are co-presenters. (Note to those students/alumni listing other organizations as their affiliation - Once ESU IDT, Always ESU IDT :)

Emporia State University Presentations at SIDLIT 2009
*- ESU IDT Faculty/Student/Alum. #- ESU Staff

Delivering Custom Apps Using Rapid Application Frameworks
Aaron Sumner*

100 Ways You Can Use Google (besides Searching)
Marziah Karch*

Twitter, Tumblr, Yammer, Huh? - How to Navigate Massive Information Streams and Have a Life
Marziah Karch*

Tweaching: Teaching and Learning in 140 Characters or Less
Stephanie Gerald*

Tired of Long, Boring PowerPoint Presentations? Try Pecha Kucha!
Marcus Childress*

Captivate 4 Essentials
Terry Dicken*

Community Outside the Online Classroom
Dan Spurgin*

Digital Storytelling: How to Bring Your Stories to Life
Tracy Newman*

Using WordPress as a Content Management System
Yvonne Ballester#

Social eLearning? Social Networking Meets eLearning
Rob Gibson#

The eLearning Institute: Combining Faculty and Academic Support Expertise to Develop Online Faculty
Jozenia Colorado*

Demographics, Self-Regulated Learning Characteristics and Academic Performance of Online Graduate Students
Jozenia Colorado*

iTunes U and You: Implementing Podcasting at Your School
Rob Gibson#

Second Life Build Charades
Marziah Karch*

WolframAlpha math engine

A realy cool math engine - http://www.wolframalpha.com/ A great learning tool. Some math professors/instructors will hate this. What do you think?

Japan tests cell phones to stop pandemics

A few years ago, there was a small simulation about virus transmissions that could be conducted with Palm handhelds. This takes it to another level - those brilliant Japanese!

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=59117

2009 Horizon Report on emerging technologies

Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5612.pdf

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). The areas of emerging technology cited for 2009 are:
• Mobiles (i.e., mobile devices)
• Cloud computing
• Geo-everything (i.e., geo-tagging)
• The personal web
• Semantic-aware applications
• Smart objects
Each section of the report provides live Web links to examples and additional readings.

So this is how they do it!

An interesting article from The Chronicle detailing how the RIAA uses Limewire to detect music pirates.

How it does it: The RIAA explains how it catches alleged music pirates

Simroid - robotic dental patient

Very cool.....and a little bit creepy! Be sure to watch the video.

From http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/11/simroid-dentistry-in-the-uncanny-valley-video/

Simroid, a robotic dental patient with an eerily realistic appearance, has been spotted at the 2007 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. Designed primarily as a training tool for dentists, the fembot patient can follow spoken instructions, closely monitor a dentist’s performance during mock treatments, and react in a human-like way to mouth pain. Because Simroid’s realistic appearance and behavior motivate people to treat her like a human being, as opposed to an object, she helps dental trainees learn how to better communicate with patients.