HigherEdCamp Philly

Look for information in the coming weeks on the plans for #HEC 2010. If you are interested in volunteering, please send an e-mail to info@higheredphilly.com.

Let’s continue the conversations that we started during HigherEdCamp by discussing one of the popular topics from HigherEdCamp:The Future of eLearning Platforms. Speakers will be on hand to discuss the direction eLearning may be taking in the next few years.

When:
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 6:00 PM (ET)

Where:
Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Room 109
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Register for this event now at:
http://higheredcamp-rss.eventbrite.com

Panelist Bios:

Steve Fabiani
Steve has been Executive Director of Academic Computing at La Salle University in Philadelphia since March 2007. Prior to that he served as Director of Classroom Technology Services and Technology Training at University of Pennsylvania for nearly eight years. His undergraduate work was in broadcast communication at Temple University and he also holds a master’s degree in educational technology from St. Joseph’s University.

George Kroner
George oversees Blackboard’s community of developers who create add-ons, plugins, integrations, and customizations for Blackboard’s learning platform to extend its base functionality. His efforts ensure that third-parties receive the support they need to develop educational tools and utilities that can scale successfully to thousands of users. An avid developer himself, he continues to contribute code to open source Blackboard plugins, encourage the development and dissemination of new educational tools, and manage a yearly global professional development program for Blackboard developers.

Julie Meyer, M.S.I.T.
Julie is the Instructional Designer at Penn State Great Valley. She earned a Master of Science Degree in Instructional Technologies from Bloomsburg University’s Institute for Interactive Technologies. Her interests include instructional design, using technology to improve the teaching and learning environments in classrooms, eLearning, social networking, social media, web 2.0 technologies, podcasting/vodcasting, microblogging/blogging, virtual learning environments, digital photography/video, and web design.

What’s your name? School?

Robyne Turner

Rutgers, Camden

What’s your interest in higher education?

I’m learning to integrate web 2.0 into my courses and pedagogy (I’m a professor of public admin)

If you led a HigherEdCamp session, what would the title be?

How do you we match higher ed course learning objectives with web tech/social media tools?

What do you do to have fun?

Politics, movies, conversation, blogging/twittering

Find Robyne Turner online:

Twitter: robyneT

Blog: http://imhereru.blogspot.com

We’re going to give away two 8gb iPod nanos at HigherEdCamp Philly tomorrow. Two lucky camp attendees will be drawn at random to take home one of these shiny, new toys.

Nick Floro of Sealworks Interactive Studios will be using a Wii in his camp session. And at the end of the day he’ll be giving that Wii away to a lucky, random camper!

Make sure you arrive in time to register to be eligible. Doors open at 8:30am tomorrow. Sessions will start promptly at 10am. And you must be present when we draw the names to win.

Check out the Where & When page for a detailed schedule and directions to get to Huntsman Hall.

Don’t forget to bring a photo ID to get into the building. See you tomorrow!

What’s your name? School?

Mark O’Neil
OSCELOT – Open Source Community for Education Learning Objects and Tools
President

OSCELOT is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit which provides services and support to a community of educational open source software developers and users.

Dartmouth College
Curricular Systems Engineer

What’s your interest in higher education?

Open Source Software

If you led a HigherEdCamp session, what would the title be?

OSCELOT: a community in action; using community collaboration to provide open source solutions for education.

What do you do to have fun?

Work on my MG Midget and paint vintage Games Workshop miniatures.

Find Mark O’Neil online:

@mark_oneil
www.oscelot.org
projects.oscelot.org

What’s your name?

Scott Hemmons
I work at The Training Center For Sales & Business Development (Adult Education-Long-Term Sales & Management Training)

What’s your interest in higher education?

I don’t teach. I’m responsible for marketing the company.

What do you do to have fun?

Biking, cooking, go to concerts

Find Scott Hemmons online:

http://www.scotthemmons.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthemmons
http://twitter.com/hemmons
http://www.thetrainingcenterinc.com

What’s your name?

Jenn O’Donnell, Web Communications Manager, (middle) and Sebastianna Skalisky, Web Producer (right). We both work at Haverford College and represent 2/3 of the web staff in the Communications Office. Our other partner in crime, David Moore, will be with us in spirit.

What’s your interest in higher education?

Web communications!

If you led a HigherEdCamp session, what would the title be?

How to put the whammy on a bag of hate website without being so spendy you bleed out.

What do you do to have fun?

We like good music, good food, getting our Dance Dance Revolution on, and having the most combined tattoos of any office on campus.

Find the Haverford College Communications Office crew online:

http://www.haverford.edu

What’s your name?

Len Lipkin, Senior Product Manager at Oracle

What’s your interest in higher education?

Interested in supporting the mission of higher education through technology. Specifically, I am interested in Learning Management Systems, Student Information Systems, and integrating them togetherand with social media technologies.

If you led a HigherEdCamp session, what would the title be?

Technology Benefits and Pirtfalls in the Admissions Process

What do you do to have fun?

Cycling, Photography, film, general techie stuff

Find Len Lipkin online:

Twitter @L3n
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lenlipkin

What’s your name? School?

Julie M. Meyer, M.S.I.T.
Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies (Malvern, PA)

What’s your interest in higher education?

I am an Instructional Designer. I am interested in ID, Web 2.0, Social Networking.

If you led a HigherEdCamp session, what would the title be?

I could lead the session 1 – “Connect, Communicate, Contribute: Facebook is NOT just for kids anymore!” 2 – “The RSS Spider” 3 – “What is the Backchannel? (Using Twitter for Discussions.). I could also do lightning talks on these also, delicious, mobile technologies, flickr, google docs, to name a few.

What do you do to have fun?

For fun I like to dance (Line, East Coast Swing, Balboa Swing, Soul Line, Ballroom), I also enjoy taking photos, walking/jogging, taking my dog for walks.Cooking/Baking and photographing through the process.

Find Julie M. Meyer online:

http://twitter.com/dancinjul or www.dancinjul.com

What’s your name?

Frank Taney

What’s your interest in higher education?

As a lawyer, I am interested in the legal issues arising from the application of technology to deliver education and instruction.. I represent a number of clients using virtual worlds and other web based technology for these purposes.

If you led a HigherEdCamp session, what would the title be?

Legal Issues from the Education Technology Frontier

What do you do to have fun?

Playing tennis, listening to music, staying involved with local tech and entrepreneurial groups, and spending time with my family and friends.

Find Frank Taney online:

Firm website: www.bipc.com
Twitter:@scarylawyer