This afternoon’s presentation is (drum roll please) The Language Lab That Never Closes: Accessing Specialized Lab Software Virtually (Harold Hendricks, BYU).
The problem: students want 24-hour access to specialized language software so they can, for example, write their Chinese papers whenever they want. Is there a way to do that without hiring more employees and staying [...]

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Hi folks! I finally found a wireless connection here and will be liveblogging Claire Braden Siskin’s presentation on Runtime Revolution. Joining the presentation in progress ….
RR is not contained within a browser but you can run a browser within it. You don’t –have– to depend on the intartubes [woo-hoo!] but you can integrate the two. [...]

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UPDATED! I just figured out how to add [annoying] music to the slideshow! Turn down your sound!

With thanks to my (now former) student Ariana, I learned about this nifty little slide show program called, appropriately enough, Slide. I am playing with it here to show some the pictures of my drive [...]

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Barbara Lafford, Peter Lafford and Michelle Petersen, Arizona State University
Wow…this presentation was chock-a-block with information about types of eportfolios, definitions, purposes, types of “artifacts” to be collected and selected, assessment….thankfully they had an extensive handout. I will fill in the blanks this evening over a refreshing beverage
Great quote: “We do not [...]

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(updated June 3)
Sharon Scinicariello (University of Richmond) did a wonderful presentation on things we don’t often hear about at conferences: No matter how much you plan, there are projects that sometimes just don’t work. And sometimes saving those projects from the brink of disaster is more work than originally creating them
The tools being [...]

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