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Southeastern Innovate (www.innovateonline.info) is published bimonthly as a
public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at
Nova Southeastern University and is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft. The
articles in the December/January issue illuminate how to work and teach
more effectively in a digital world; our Innovate-Live webcasts, produced
by our partner, ULiveandLearn, allow authors to discuss their articles with
readers in a synchronous format.
We open the December/January issue with an exciting new development in
bibliographic technology. My interview with Trevor Owens explores Zotero,
an open-source bibliographic tool that runs as a Firefox plug-in and has
the potential to reshape the way research is done and how it is shared.
[See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=540&action=article]
This webcast is scheduled for January 10, 2008 at 2:00 PM EST.
Our second offering describes another kind of tool for organizing and
sharing information and materials. Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton,
and David Wiley describe their efforts to create and sustain a wiki to
collect and organize online resources related to educational gaming and
argue that a resource-sharing wiki can become a self-sustaining enterprise,
especially if it is adopted by an online community committed to maintaining
it. [See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=423&action=article]
Their webcast is scheduled for January 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM EST.
Our next three articles address the challenges and rewards of taking
education online. Evelyn Knowles and Kathleen Kalata open the discussion
with a description of Park University’s redesign of its course
development and management processes. Given the number of online courses
offered by the university, the Park model may offer important lessons and
insights for other institutions. [See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=456&action=article]
Their webcast is scheduled for January 10, 2008 at 12:00 PM EST.
Blase Scarnati and Paula Garcia describe the reincarnation of a music
history class as a media-rich online course. By reordering the units of the
course, providing materials suited to both majors and non-majors, and
supplementing these materials with audio and video clips, they fostered a
much more engaging and nuanced appreciation of jazz among their diverse
cla. [See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=328&action=article]
One of the challenges Scarnati and Garcia faced in their
redesign--copyright compliance---is the primary focus of our subsequent
feature. Christine Greenhow, J. D. Walker, Dan Donnelly, and Brad Cohen
recount efforts at the University of Minnesota to move copyright education
online where there is a comprehensive discussion of the fair use clause of
copyright law, as well as an online tool for assessing whether a proposed
use of copyright material constitutes a fair use under the law. [See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=443&action=article].
Their webcast is scheduled for December 11, 2007 at 4:00 PM EST.
Finally, we offer two commentaries on bridging the gap between tech-savvy
Net Generation students and their instructors. Jennifer Summerville and
John Fischetti describe what they call "the loophole generation" and offer
strategies for combating online cheating, bullying, and excuse making. [See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=343&action=article].
Their webcast is scheduled for December 11, 2007 at 2:00 PM EST.
Lynn Zimmerman and Anastasia Trekles Milligan team up to offer perspectives
from both sides of the technological and generational divide, discussing
how technology has changed the way students view both linguistic
conventions and the etiquette of instructor-student relations. [See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=338&action=article].
Their webcast is scheduled for December 11, 2007 at 1:00 PM EST.
You may register for webcasts at
http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/. Webcasts will be archived and
available in the webcast section of the article and in the Innovate-Live
portal archive shortly after the webcast. All times are Eastern Standard
Time (New York). You may use the world clock at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate with your time zone.
We hope that you enjoy this issue of Innovate. Please use the discussion
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Thanks!
Jim
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James L Morrison
Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
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Fischler School of Education and Human Services
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