News - Events Attended - Miscellaneous

Past Events :

Presented along with Kay Shattuck, Director of Research ...

QM + Research: Updates and a New Web 2.0 Tool for You
This session includes a discussion of current scholarly Quality Matters work related to QM and future QM research emphasis.
We will also introduce an interactive Web 2.0 tool that allows easier access to cited research notes that support specific QM Standards and allows subscribers to interact by academic discipline.

This was an online conference April 2010.

Attended: Here are my notes on the La Follette's Wisconsin in Retrospect Roundtable Discussion

Attended Le Cned et Distances et savoirs session online, France, December 11, 2009. Here is an editorial written by Michael G. Moore (editor of AJDE) related to the special edition collaboration between Distances et savoirs and The American Journal of Distance Education.

25th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Education, Madison, Wisconsin, Aug 3-7, 2009. I worked on providing content for the displays and also interviewed Michael G. Moore, Ph.D. about his experiences working with Charles Wedemeyer. Excerpts from the interview are included in A Glance Back at Charles A. Wedemeyer. Click here for more info on the exhibit. Also, here are some panel sessions and other media from the conference.

AERC 2009 in Chicago Illinois- click here for more info

Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, April 18, 2009. Presenter. (photo above is of my session and taken by Alan Gyorke)

PAACE 2009. February 11-13, 2009. Hershey, PA. Attended. Ian Baptiste, Keynote speaker. (click here for media) attended

US- China Virtual Symposium: Building Virtual Global Communities - November, 2008 (info) attended this virtual conference in Second Life.

AERC 2008. June 4-7, 2008. St. Louis. Presenter: Learning Experiences in Second Life: An Overview . St. Louis: AERC.

The 12th Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning - September 25-28, 2007; New Hall, Cambridge, UK. Presenter: Conference presented by The International Research Foundation for Open and Distance Learning in association with the Open University and The Commonwealth of Learning. Conference Theme: What do we know about using new technologies for learning and teaching? A ten year perspective. attended & presented

Second Life Community Conference (SLCC 2007) - August 25-27, 2007; Chicago, IL. (Poster session) | photos | poster-inworld | attended

EDEN 2007 Annual Conference- 13-16 JUNE, 2007
Naples, Italy | photos | proceedings - attended

AERC Conference -AERC/CASAE 2007 Conference - Learning in Community Conference, June 6 - June 9, 2007 - Nova Scotia - Program. attended.

Second Life International Best Practices in Education Conference - May 25, 2007 in venues all over the Second Life world | blog |

Symposium for Learning and Teaching With Technology - at The Penn Stater, University Park Campus |agenda| April 14, 2007 - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM | (photos)

What Does it Mean to be a Global Land Grant University, Roundtable Discussion Participant, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, December 8, 2006.

On the web

A graduate student (Rebecca Meeder), from U of HI is researching Intercultural Literacy in Second Life and is working on her dissertation on that subject.

Penn State Adult Education and Second Life.