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EDUCAUSE Live! January 27, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning ContentSpecial Guests
Mark C. Marino holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Notre Dame and a PhD in English: Electronic Literature from UC Riverside, where he focused on chatbots, electronic literature, games, and other new media. Along with his critical work, he has written electronic narratives including "Marginalia in the Library of Babel," featured in The New River Journal, and his machinima, "22 Short Films about Grammar." He blogs about educational technology and digital character art at Writer Response Theory. He is also the founder and editor of the new media satire site Bunk Magazine. Currently, he teaches writing at the University of Southern California and is the Director of Communication for the Electronic Literature Organization. His latest work, "a show of hands," is an adaptive hypertext novella. (For his portfolio, see http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mcmarino/.)
Susan E. Metros is Associate Vice Provost for Technology Enhanced Learning and Deputy Chief Information Officer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She also holds professorships in USC's Roski School of Fine Arts and Rossier School of Education. She leads the academic community in integrating new and emerging educational technologies into teaching, learning, research, outreach, and business practice. In her role as educator and designer, she teaches courses on new literacies and has served as principal designer on several international award-winning multimedia and Web-based projects. She also is active on numerous international and national boards, committees, and task forces including the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Advisory Board, which she chairs. She has published and presented widely on innovative leadership, knowledge management, visual and digital literacy, and the role of technology in transforming education to be engaging, interactive, and learner-centered. Metros holds a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Michigan State University. SummaryYour host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Mark Marino and Susan Metros, and the topic will be "Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content." Educators have been searching for ways to modularize and share educational content since the inception of online learning. However, for reasons both cultural and technological, the academic community has been slow to accept past attempts to support learning through the use of reusable, stand-alone, digital assets. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, widgets, along with a new generation of web-based and mobile content aggregators, provide the key to successfully packaging and delivering web-based educational content. In this Webinar, Marino will share how the production of portable course content in widgets has opened his writing course, and Metros will discuss ways to work with information technology leaders and university administration to deploy and promote widgets as an innovative and supportable learning technology. Related EDUCAUSE Resources
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