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Hello colleagues: Do you tweet? Have you wondered how it might be possible to use Twitter with your students? Are you interested in some innovative approaches to Distance Education? Would you like to see the pecha kucha (20 slides in 6 minutes) style of presentation demonstrated? Then grab your mobile device and come join us on Thursday morning, Jan. 19th, at 8:30 for an interactive and informative session sponsored by the Distance Education SIG. See the official session description below for more information. [And BTW if you really like this stuff come to breakfast at 7:30 on Wednesday and be a part of the SIG planning for next year.] CU there. Nora Bird *Session Title: Creating New Distance Education Opportunities with Expanded Technology Use (1.5 total hours)* * * An innovative session will combine a 15-minute workshop on pedagogical uses of visualizing twitter data with 3 pecha kucha (20 slides in 6 minutes) presentations on innovative uses of technology in distance education. [The phrase Ignite talks also describes this presentation style.] Participants will be encouraged to tweet during the 3 presentations and discussion that follows each will focus on the tweets and other questions that emerge. A wrap-up at the end will assess the use of the twitter visualization and the implementation of these technologies in distance education. Participants will learn and practice twitter data visualization. The presenters will experiment with pecha kucha style presentations. Interactivity will be encouraged during the presentations, between them, and following them. The session will be technology intensive because it will require two presentation set-ups, one for the presenters and one for the twitter feed monitoring. The SIG convener can supply one of the projectors but a second screen would be necessary or a very large single screen. Additionally, it would be ideal if a good wifi connection were available in the presentation room, since many tweet using that technology. If it is not, only those with smart phone connections could participate. *Workshop Presentation: 15 minutes* *Title: *Social Media, Education, and the Language of the Eye: Visualizing Twitter Data to Enhance Student Learning * * *Presenter: *Sharon Stoerger, Ph.D. Instructional Design Consultant and Adjunct Instructor: School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *Pecha Kucha Presentations: 6 minutes each presentation, 10 minute discussion* *1) **Title*: Building a Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) for Online Education in LIS *Presenters*: Susan W. Alman and Christinger Tomer, University of Pittsburgh * * *2) **Title*: Student Research Presentations in a Virtual World Environment *Presenter*: Valerie Hill, Doctoral Candidate, Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Studies *3) **Title: *From Consumers To Creators:Collaborative Digital Preservation Projects In A Graduate LIS Setting *Presenters: *Bernadette G. Callery and Christinger Tomer, University of Pittsburgh *Discussion and Wrap-up: 20-30 minutes* * *Moderator will lead a discussion of the effectiveness of twitter visualization for discussion facilitation and learning. -- Nora J. Bird, PhD Assistant Professor University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Education Dept. of Library and Information Studies 1300 Spring Garden St., P.O. Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 [log in to unmask] 336-541-6571