UVU International Office

Presentation of the Final Report of the Visiting Scholarship José Castillejo to the International Office at UVU.

UVU Meeting

Baldomero Lago, Student Teacher Supervisor of the School of Humanities, Art and Social Sciences (HASS), UVU; Douglas Jensen, Chair of the Department of Languages (HASS), UVU and Mariluz Cacheiro, Visiting Scholar (UNED).

Utah Valley University (UVU)has a long history of international and intercultural exchanges and a positive atmosphere for the research.

Thanks for the opportuniy to be a member of your Faculty from January to August 2008.

IA-Instructional Architect

Utah State University (USU), Logan, USA

The Instructional Architect [IA] main objective is to help educators find online resources in the NSDL (National Science Digital Library), assemble them into classroom activities, and share them with students or other teachers. The tools created for this purpose are: The Instructional Architect (IA) and DL Connect Professional development workshops offered both face-to-face and online. Since 2003, over 2.700 users have registered with the IA, 5.000 projects have been created, and over 21.000 online resources have been collected form the NSDL.

More info: http://ia.usu.edu/takeatour.php

TTIX-Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange

TTIX at UVU, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, USA
http://www.ttix.org/
TTIX is an open conference that encourages free access to presentation information and materials, and facilitates the sharing of knowledge.


Pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26214431@N06/

OER Open Educational Resources

USU Utah State University, Logan, USA
COSL Center for Open Sustainable Learning
http://cosl.usu.edu/


Open educational resources are free educational materials and resources:Learning content, Tools & Implementation resources (Intellectual property licenses, design-principles, etc.).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources


OER Handbook for educators [WikiEducator] http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator

The School of the Future Tour

Nevada,USA, March 3, 2008
Schools:
Northwest Career and Technical Academy, McCool Science Center http://www.lampingelementary.com
McCaw Elementary School of Mines
http://www.mccawschoolofmines.org
John C. Vanderburg Elementary School
http://www.mybiosphere.com

SITE2008 Conference

18th Annual Conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education
Las Vegas, Nevada, March 3-7, 2008
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
http://www.aace.org

Design Research and SCORM

ID+SCORM 2008 Symposium
BYU, Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, USA February 21-22, 2008
http://arclite.byu.edu/id+scorm/
Keynote Speaker: Brenda Bannan-Ritland
Instructional Technology, Graduate School of Education
George Mason University (GMU), Virginia, USA

Higher Learning in the New Global Century

Keynote Speaker: Carol Geary Schneider, President, AACU, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC
UVSC, March 31, 2008

Following Your Dreams. Secrets to Success from a Woman's Point of View

Lisa Bearnson
Founding Editor of Creating keepsakes Scrapbook Magazine
UVSC, School of Business
CAL, Center for the Advancement of Leadership
April 7, 2008

Lead, follow or get out of the way

Michael S. Styles
State Office of Ethnic Affairs
Martin Luther King Commission
UVSC, School of Business
CAL, Center for the Advancement of Leadership
February 4, 2008

Special Education School Dan Peterson

Provo, Utah, USA, April 11th, 2008.
Cultural Activities with the students
Organized by Center for Service and Learning

Web based Tools for Educators

UVSC, School of Education
UNED, School of Education
Orem, Utah, USA
April 29th-June 17th, 2008

Instructional Media Summer Course [WebCourse]
[Presentation]

ICT08_Instructional Technology Conference

David Wiley, PhD

Dr. Mariluz Cacheiro
UNED, School of Education


ITC08, USU, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
FACT, Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching
May 5th-6th, 2008
http://www.it.usu.edu/fact/itc08

David Wiley Presentation: http://opencontent.org/presentations/bcnet07/

Other references:

Google: Search This! by Jared Covili
UEN, Utah Educationa Network
http://www.uensd.org/multimedia/?page_id=101

Introduction to Podcasting, by Kevin Reeve
http://www.usu.edu/kevin/

Finding and using high quality online resources to enhance instruction, by Mimi Recker
http://ia.usu.edu/

Openness, Netwoks, and the Disaggregation of Higher Education, by David Wiley
http://cosl.usu.edu