[PN] Tools and Attitudes (9 Oct. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Conference Calls for Participation, online and f2f

Baltic-Nordic Network for Exchange of Experiences in Open and Distance
Learning [ODL], International Online Conference from October 27 to
November 21, 2003. The conference theme is: "Online Education and
Learning Management Systems. Global E-learning in a Scandinavian
Perspective. Baltic-Nordic Pedagogy in ODL."
From: Morten Flate Paulsen <morten@NETTSKOLEN.COM>
More information is available at: http://www.nade-nff.no/

LEADING THE WAY THROUGH INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN FOR e-LEARNING:
Conference on Design and Development of Online Instructional Programmes
November 10 - 14th, 2003 : RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.rmit.edu.au/bus/e-learning

* dICTatEd - an online tool for auditing views about educational
technology (ICT)

dICTatEd provides a tool for auditing your students' (and colleagues')
views about the role that new technology (ICT, IT) should play in education.

- want to know where your students are at in their thinking about
educational ICT?
- want 'baseline' data so you can show how their thinking about
educational ICT has changed?
- simply want to get them thinking more deeply about why ICT
might be valuable in their teaching?

Then get them to complete the dICTatEd questionnaire - the url is
http://www.meD8.info/qqa - it takes less than 9 minutes on average
to complete - but can stimulate hours of debate.

If you want to be sent the annonymised data for your students
then you need to let me (P.Twining@open.ac.uk) know the following
information BEFORE your students complete the questionnaire:

o Your name:
o Your institution's name:
o Roughly how many students are likely to be involved:

I will then set up a specific link into the questionnaire for your
students  (like the ones listed on the left hand side of the
questionnaire entry page (http://www.meD8.info/qqa) - I will aim to do
this within 24 hours of you sending me the above info - you need to tell
your students to use that link in order to access the questionnaire.

Simple - I have had very positive feedback from those people who used
the questionnaire with their students last year - I hope it will be
valuable to you this year.

[Thanks to PN subscriber Peter Twining at the UK Open University - Ed.]

* New Book, on paper and online

Dear Friends of Indigenous Languages
Nurturing Native Languages is now available for sale and free on-line
at: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/NNL/
Jon Reyhner, Professor, College of Education
Northern Arizona University  <Jon.Reyhner@NAU.EDU>

* Periodical article on educational technology and culture

Curtailing Online Education In The Name Of Homeland Security: The USA
PATRIOT Act, SEVIS, And International Students In The United States
by Paul T. Jaeger and Gary Burnett, First Monday
"[H]omeland security laws and regulations enacted since September 2001,
including the USA PATRIOT Act, have created serious limitations on the
ability of international students studying in the United States to
participate in online educational opportunities."
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_9/jaeger/index.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
News and Views: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/pdx.html
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
E-mail (including items for Papyrus News): steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp